Create Your Own Hammered Silver Jewelry!

Join Beth, a talented instructor with a wealth of experience and creativity, as she guides you through the process of making your very own hammered silver jewelry. Get ready to hammer, shape, and shine your way to a beautiful piece you’ll be proud to wear - or gift! Choose your project: earrings, pendants, or a ring - make it personal, make it shine! Please bring a hand towel to work on and any jewelry tools you already have.

A materials fee of $10 due to the instructor at the start of the class. Beth will also have additional jewelry kits available for purchase.

This quilt uses hexagons to form the kaleidoscope pattern without having any Y seams. Using 6 identical panels, strips are cut and then sub-cut into triangles. Choosing a panel that has several different colors works best. This is a fun and interesting technique. Finished quilt dimensions - 68” x 79”. 

Materials and Tools Requirements:
• 6 identical fabric panels at least 24” x 43”
• Coordinating fabrics for border - - Inner border 1 yard
• Outer border 1.25 yards
• Minimum 5” Equilateral 60 degree triangle ruler
• Rotary cutter with new blade
• Large cutting mat 24” x 36”
• 24” ruler
• Flathead pins
• Sewing machine, scissors, seam ripper, thread etc.

Minimum: 6 | Maximum: 8 

All are welcome to this six week class of chess! No prior knowledge of chess is needed, but even experienced players will have fun.

For beginners starting their chess journey, the class will focus on the basic rules of chess, developing playing skills, and introducing strategic concepts that will build to playing full games of chess. For experienced chess players already on the journey, the classes will help refine playing skills. Learn and play the game of Kings!

If you would like your own Chess Sets cost $10 payable to the instructor at the start of the class (if you are signing up to take the class with a partner, you only need to pay for one.) 

Minimum: 4 | Maximum: 12 

Gel Plate Printing is a dynamic and fun way to express yourself through creating monoprints on a soft, pliable gel plate.  Each one-of-a-kind print is as individual as the person creating it and requires no prior art skills to do. In class you will learn what gel plate printing is, how to do it using several different techniques, and be provided with the materials needed to create a variety of prints. 

This class is so much fun & expected to fill up fast so sign up early!

Minimum: 4   |   Maximum: 8

Frustrating to gardeners and arborists, bittersweet is considered a largely useless bane on wildland. Wouldn’t it be nice if it were good for something? We can use ancient harvesting techniques to tend invasive bittersweet in the wild, simultaneously harvesting material for baskets while managing future growth.

Learn to weave a bittersweet basket. We'll employ several different weaving techniques in order to create a strong, beautiful basket for foraging, or use in the kitchen or garden. We’ll shoot for a basket about 9” wide and 7” deep, with or without a handle. This is a class for beginners, but some hand strength and dexterity is required.

Materials fee is included in the cost of the class!

Minimum: 4   |   Maximum: 10

Step back in time and discover the magic of tintype photography! Learn the history and context of wet plate collodion, the 19th century's most popular photographic process which gave working class Americans their first chance to own a picture of themselves or a loved one. Students will also have a hands-on chance to make their own tintype in this darkroom-based class. The instructor will work through each step in the process, from coating, sensitizing, shooting, developing and fixing the plate. Each student will go home with their own, heirloom quality, finished, half-plate tintype. No prior photography experience required.

Materials fee is included in the cost of the class.

Minimum: 4 | Maximum: 6 

MEET TROY!
Troy R. Bennett is an artist, journalist and musician from southern Maine. An award-winning daily Maine newspaper photojournalist for 25 years, Bennett began making wet plate collodion photographs 15 years ago. He lives in Portland. www.themysteryjig.com 

March 8th is International Women’s Day. In celebration of International Women’s Day, author of “17 Women Who Shook the World” Preethi Fernando rocks it, with some of the most amazing women of our time and their criteria for success. The life stories of Eleanor Roosevelt, Mother Teresa, and Wilm Rudolph are filled with obstacles. Yet, they turned them around to become successful life stories. If you are seeking inspiration, storytelling, and history, this is for you. INSTRUCTOR: Preethi Fernando An online link will be provided to you prior to class.

Sip into your cup of spring tea from the comfort of your home, as you are transported into an exotic world of tea. From black tea to hibiscus tea to Sri Lankan tea, today tea is highly valued as a health, energy, and social drink. This is a light hearted, fun class, with visually stunning images of tea fields and mesmerizing story telling. Signing up for this class will shape you to appreciate your daily cup of tea even more. INSTRUCTOR: Preethi Fernando

An online link will be provided to you prior to class.