Upcoming Events

Indigo: The Fascinating World of Blue, Brown, and White Elin Noble, Instructor Dates: Monday, June 27th – Thursday, June 30th, 2022 (9am-4pm) Tuition: $725 Registration: $25 Materials: $0 This four-day class will engage indigo dye from two vantage points. We will begin by applying indigo on cellulose cloth (cotton, linen, hemp, ramie). After that we will selectively remove indigo through a series of resist techniques. The first day of the course we will make an indigo vat and dye cloth creating…

Whidbey Art Gallery Happenings July 2022   Summer, here we come! Whidbey Art Gallery on Second St in Langley is open daily from 10-5. There are so many fine artists in the gallery, and it is teeming with treasures of all sorts. Please join us for Art Walk on Saturday, July 2 from 5-7pm. Meet many of the artists and hear about their creative endeavors. For the first time in a long while, we have a guest artist showing work…

INFO Join us for a Paint-n-Sip at Wicked Teuton Brewing Company! Enjoy food and drinks as we paint with acrylics, stencil provided so we can get started faster!   DETAILS 14″ x 14″ White, Stretched Canvas Acrylic Paints Cityscape Pre-Stenciled This is a guided paint party, no experience is needed – you’ll get step-by-step instruction along the way; anyone can do this! Please arrive up to 10 minutes early to meet, greet, and pick a seat – each painting session…

Announcing the first annual art show at Willows Orchard to showcase beautiful Pacific Northwest art throughout a spectacular setting on Whidbey Island. Please join us as over a dozen amazing artists showcase their work across a variety of art mediums. Clear some space for this art! Saturday & Sunday July 9-10, 2022 11am-4pm both days Free to attend, family friendly and plenty of parking!

Dancing with the Wall Irene Roderick, Instructor Dates: Tuesday, July 12th – Saturday, July 16th, 2022 (9am-4pm) Tuition: $725 Registration: $25 Materials: $0 Improvisational quilting means letting go of all expectations and preconceptions of what you are going to make. Come spend five days with me and learn how to let your sub-conscience and creativity drive you to make a unique expression of your individual aesthetic and process. Relax, play, let it happen and see what comes out.Expect to have a…

The Book of Letting Go Beatriz Helton, Instructor Dates: Friday, July 15th – Sunday, July 17th, 2022 (9am-4pm) Tuition: $525 Registration: $25 Materials: $0 This 3-day class is about having fun while creating a 5″X 5″ book, as I believe having fun with a sense of play is important in making authentic art. The intent is to help you let go of your inner critic while creating meaningful pages to serve as reminders to let go of self judgment and expectations.…

Stunning Abstracts and Soft Pastels Mira White, Instructor Dates: Saturday, July 16th – Monday, July 18th, 2022 (9am-4pm) Tuition: $675 Registration: $25 Materials: $0 We are going to have a great time working with soft pastels in a variety of experimental ways: under-paintings with acrylics, watercolors or pastel diluted with rubbing alcohol.( No petroleum-based solvents in this workshop.) We will be layering both dry and wet processes. Lots of exuberant mark making on several surfaces! Open to continuing artists of all levels…

Introduction to Hand Papermaking Jane Ingram Allen, Instructor Date: Monday, July 18th, 2022 (9am-4pm) Tuition: $165 Registration: $25 Materials: $0 Introduction to Hand Papermaking: Explore techniques of hand papermaking including sheet forming, pressing and drying as well as techniques of laminating, embedding and watermarking. Learn how papermaking can be used for a variety of art creations and make an array of handmade papers using Western and Asian papermaking with cotton, abaca and other local plant fibers. The instructor will introduce…

Animals through the Lens Traer Scott, Instructor Dates: Monday, July 18th – Friday, July 22nd, 2022 (9am-4pm) Tuition: $700 Registration: $25 Materials: $0 Creating profound and inspired images of the animals that we share our world with is a challenging yet deeply rewarding endeavor. This workshop is intended for photographers who want to make artful, evocative images of animals that reflect both the ethos of the photographer and the intelligence and individuality of the subject. The goal of the workshop is…

Paper-making from Scratch with Local Plants Jane Ingram Allen, Instructor Dates: Tuesday, July 19th – Friday, July 22nd, 2022 (9am-4pm) Tuition: $625 Registration: $25 Materials: $15 This workshop will cover how to make paper from scratch (starting with the local plant materials such as leaves and bark) with minimal equipment and facilities. The emphasis will be on creative problem solving and creative use of materials to make unique handmade paper art, using sustainable methods and materials that do not harm the…

Making it and Painting it: Collage, Construction, and Paint Holly Roberts, Instructor Dates: Tuesday, July 19th – Friday, July 22nd, 2022 (9am-4pm) Tuition: $750 Registration: $25 Materials: $0 Master the elusive art of transferring images to create striking works in this unique workshop, which combines the arts of painting and applied imagery. We cover the basics of working with acrylic paints to establish powerful substrates (underlying layers) that allow you to build images through collage and different transfer techniques. Students learn…

Nihonga 1 & 2, Then and Now Judith Kruger, Instructor Dates: Monday, July 25th – Friday, July 29th, 2022 (9am-4pm) Tuition: $825 Registration: $25 Materials: $180 NIHONGA: Then and Now-Levels 1 and 2* This workshop is a Nihonga (traditional Japanese mineral pigment painting) class. Students will make water-based paint and grounds from Japanese pigments, pine soot (sumi), indigo, cochineal, and gofun (shell white) with natural glue binders. Varied colors and particle sizes will be explored through a traditional layering system on…

Mixed: Inside Vintage Book Covers Orly Avineri, Instructor Dates: Tuesday, August 2nd – Friday, August 5th, 2022 (9am-4pm) Tuition: $750 Registration: $25 Materials: $0 Practices of mixed media art making cultivate insight into the nature of the creative process and its multiple relations to emotional stories of loss and mend. Enriched by self trust and acceptance, images, photos, paper, paint, words, pen, line, thread, and many unconventional tools and materials entwine to make expressive, complex and extremely personal creations. It’s all…

Long Exposure Sharon Tenenbaum, Instructor Dates: Friday, August 5th – Sunday, August 7th, 2022 (9am-4pm) Tuition: $850 Registration: $25 Materials: $0 Long Exposure Photography changes the way we that we see reality, It eliminates the unnecessary details and creates more of an emphasis on art. It can distort time and transform an everyday scene into something otherworldly. For Vancouver professional photographer Sharon Tenenbaum, this mystical quality is a big part of what makes the technique appealing. While normal exposures typically take just…

Imaging Paradise Keith Carter, Instructor Dates: Monday, August 8th – Friday, August 12th, 2022 (9am-4pm) Tuition: $1,200 Registration: $25 Materials: $0 This workshop is designed to help you discover or renew your creative spirit, and broaden the way you think about photography. Its purpose is to help serious amateur or professional photographers reconcile practical and creative lives, to re-examine your own creative process exploring the narrative, aesthetic, and emotional aspects of image making, and find new paths to creative growth. Our…

Fabulous Felted Hats Flóra Carlile-Kovács, Instructor Dates: Thursday, August 11th – Saturday, August 13th, 2022 (9am-4pm) Tuition: $425 Registration: $25 Materials: $0 Instructor Bio: Flóra Carlile-Kovács Bio

New Nouveau Andrea Matus deMeng, Instructor Dates: Thursday, August 11th – Sunday, August 14th, 2022 (9am-4pm) Tuition: $525 Registration: $25 Materials: $0 I remember being absolutely mesmerized the first time I saw a print of “Lady with a Fan” by Gustav Klimt. It was stunning and I was captivated by the way all of the different patterns co-existed strangely harmonious and providing such a feast for the eyes. In fact, if I had to name one of my most significant art…