Beginners will become instant wreath makers with no experience nesessary. Participants will take home a completed fragrant and full 20 inch fresh Balsam Fir Wreath decorated with a red bow. Your Wreath will remain fresh throughout the holidays and beyond. All materials are recyclable. Materials provided: Fresh Balsam fir locally and sustainably harvested, wreath ring, and red ribbon. Additional supplies available for a take home project. Please bring small hand shears, gloves are optional. Please bring $16 (cash, no checks) to the class for supplies.

Discover the art of rug hooking!

Janet will guide you through each stage of this joyful, simple, and uncomplicated art form. Discover how easy it is to add rovings, hand-spun and synthetic yarns, felting techniques, and decorations once you've mastered the fundamentals. Discuss the origins and history of primitive rug hooking, how to gather and prepare materials, and where to look for design inspiration.

Kits, ranging from $41-$60 and payable to Janet in class, include a hook, instructions, binding, burlap, a hoop and a selection of one-of-a-kind heirloom and hand-dyed wools.

Review designs/kits at jconnerhookedrugs.com and email jconnerhookedrugs@gmail.com specifying your kit choice(s). No experience necessary.

Bring lunch and a sharp fabric scissors.

Janet Conner, BS in Art Education from Moore College of Art & Design, is a member of the Saco Valley Fiber Artists, and exhibits regionally and at ME Fiber Arts Center. Her hooked designs, as well as those of her students', have been highlighted in Finishing Hooked Rugs and Rug Hooking Magazine. In 2016, Janet co-authored the book Rug Hooking Traditions with James and Mercedes Hutchinson. She released Magnificent Hooked Rugs, influenced by Western art history, in 2020. She teaches both domestically and abroad.

Learn to weave with peg looms, simple in design but with limitless possibilities to make colorful and textured pieces using all kinds of yarns, fabric, strips, fleece, or recycled materials. Bring your own sprical fibers if you want.

For this class, we will take pumpkin pie to the next level by using your pie dough made in class to cut out a decorative cornucopia, fruits, and vegetables that will be baked into the top. We will then paint with your favorite colors to create a show stopping dessert for your Thanksgiving table. Materials fee of $30 is due by cash or check, made out to the instructor, at the start of class.

This Intuit-approved course is an in person, instructor-led advanced course using Windows OS and is suitable for experienced QuickBooks Online users. Prerequisite: QuickBooks Online Basics/Intermediate course or instructor’s permission. This course provides the MOS certification pathway (no expiration) for interested students, and students may elect to take the official exam when ready. Call the Adult Ed office for separate purchase details of the required printed textbook/eBook which accompanies this course (same materials from QuickBooks Online Basics & Intermediate course.) Please note: In class, students will use MCST provided laptops, but all students will need Windows OS operating computers at home in order to do homework assignments.

nterested in gathering your vegetables or apples in a basket this year? A basket that you made? Everyone is welcome to join this class, but if you have never weaved before, Jes will be doing step-by-step directions. The basket will be a square-round basket with leather bushed basket handles. The material is flat and halfround quality reed. We will also add blue, purple, red, green, and brown reed in the basket, if desired.

Begin your painting journey with popular, versatile acrylics.

An estimated 11.3 million tons of textile waste end up in landfills each year in America. Let's keep some clothes out of the landfill by learning basic hand-mending stitches! Explore different stitch techniques and create your own cloth stitching sampler book to take home. All materials provided.

Sara Ottomano has more than 10 years of experience teaching art classes. She enjoys encouraging others to play with materials, explore sustainable artmaking practices, and create stories together.