Past Events

Create and Refine Your Photo Book! From Keron: This is such a great way to deepen our relationship to our photography. Making a book demands that we look critically at our work, refine our message, learn the fine art of sequencing, and delve into supportive design. We’ll look at favorite books (bring one of yours with you), we’ll discuss personal choices in layouts that support your vision. We’ll talk about fonts and front matter and paper and bindings. Whether you…

This 3-day intensive abstract art workshop in acrylics is open to all levels! Through many unique guided exercises you will explore the most fundamental element that makes for bold, dynamic paintings: Dividing Space / Composition / Eye Flow. In this workshop, you will: Take risks as fundamental to play and pushing your edges Break though stuck ways of painting and trusting your own intuition Learn exciting and fresh ways to start your abstract paintings Learn how to create layers and…

In this process-oriented workshop you will learn methods for constructing form with rattan and mold-making. Methods will include lashing techniques and mold building with wire and plaster stripes. Handmade paper with kozo and flax fiber will be applied onto these structures. Demonstrations and problem-solving challenges will lead to a focused personal project. All levels welcome! Instructor provides the following materials: Kozo, flax, window screen, PVA glue, rattan, waxed linen thread, wire mesh, plaster cloth, resource list. This workshop is well-suited for…

Brush up your Lightroom skills and Photoshop layering techniques with Keron Psillas.  Keron will offer a three-day workshop for students interested in deepening their understanding of the power of Lightroom, and broadening their abilities in Photoshop by working with texture layers, adjustment layers and masks. Keron will offer easy to understand concepts that apply to all of your work. It will be an intense course, but filled with fun and laughter. Bring two images that you will want to see…

Gather with Roxanne Evans Stout on Whidbey Island in the Fall and create a book inspired by the landscapes and seascapes of the Pacific Northwest! Roxanne will teach you her very favorite mixed media techniques and guide you in filling page after page with textures and colors that you love that symbolize simple landscapes. You will be working on watercolor paper as our your pages, but also be glazing and mark making on deli-paper and using these colorful creations for…