Get your art on with the Create & Make Workshop Series in September

Jealous of all the creative outlets your kids have access to? Wish you could pull up and give way to creative abandon from time to time too? Look no further!! The Create and Make Workshops are here and are guaranteed to be tons of adult-creative fun!

All workshops are $25, and will start at 7pm at 18560 1st Ave NE, Shoreline WA 98155 (the Senior Center Craft Room). All supplies and materials will be included, so bring yourself (or round up a bunch of friends) and your sense of fun!

Love all the workshops? Then don’t miss out: get the season pass for only $100, and get access to all five workshops and save money at the same time. Tickets available here 

Join us for one of the following workshops and Get Your Art On!!

September 3 -  Encaustic Painting with Leslie West

The workshop will provide a brief introduction to encaustic painting (painting with pigment and wax) including safety and basic techniques.

Students will be provided with prepared 5" x 7" boards and all materials needed to create and complete encaustic paintings using oil pastels on boards surfaced with heavy duty watercolor paper. We will learn how to apply encaustic and experience fusing to complete the process.

September 17 -  Monoprint with Valerie Willson

In this workshop, printmaker Valerie Willson will spend the first half hour demonstrating monoprint techniques and then will help students make small prints of their own on her table-top press. Come learn about oil-based printmaking and have some fun getting messy with your friends!

About the Instructor: Valerie Willson received her BFA from PNCA in Portland Oregon. She has taught at Maryhurst College and also teaches extension classes for the Portland Art Museum. Currently living on Vashon Island, Ms. Willson runs a printmaking co-operative.

October 1 - Fused Glass with Theresa Novion

In this workshop, students will learn the basics of fused glass by working on a hands-on project. Participants can work on a plate or wall hanging, a vase, or jewelry using the slumping, sagging and drop out methods of glass fusing. No experience required.

All materials and tools supplied. Finished works will be taken to Theresa Novion's studio for firing, and will be available for pick-up at a later date at the Arts Council office.

October 15 - Upcycled Journals with Amy Duncan

Construct your own journal! The book covers will be upcycled and given a new binding with mat board and book binding tape. The interior pages will be a mixture of recycled paper stock and the entire journal will be bound with steel paper fasteners. Students will be encouraged to add their own signature style to the journal by creating a front cover collage with found objects as well as adding specialty pages crafted from envelopes, paper bags, tags, stickers, stamps and vintage ephemera. Each participant will leave with a complete journal, ready to record their thoughts, words, musings and inspirations.

October 29 - Hands-on Henna with Antoinette Hippe 

In this workshops participants will learn the history of henna from ancient uses to modern applications. And then? We play! Henna is a hands on art. Each participant will be provided with a cone of fresh, natural, handmade henna and paper to practice on, a few design ideas to practice copying, and then good posture and technique will be demonstrated.

Got questions?  We got answers! More info available on our website or check out our facebook page  . Want to talk to a human?  Email Lorie Hoffman at publicity@shorelinearts.net or call the Art Council office at 206-417-4645.

The Shoreline-Lake Forest Park Arts Council is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to nurture all of the arts in the community through programs and events, arts education, advocacy, and support for artists and arts organizations.