Intuitive Abstraction with Jenever Graham 590 Water St, Prairie du Sac, WI 53578 Saturday, August 23, 2025 | 10a-1p | Deadline to register: August 21, 2025 $90 Materials Included: Paint, paper, canvas What to bring: Your imagination! Level: Beginner/No prior experience necessary Ages 18+ Explore the possibilities and rewards of intuitive abstract painting. Connect with your inner creativity through mindful attention to your feelings and imagination. The class will survey various tools and techniques the artist uses to create intuitive abstract expressions on paper and canvas. Enjoy the act of painting for painting’s sake and discover the potential of this art practice.
 
Location: Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin
Instructor: Jenever Graham
Cost: $90
Sponsor: River Arts Inc.
Website, email, 608-643-5215

This 12-week course invites students into the exciting world of abstract mixed media art. Students will explore a wide range of materials, techniques, tools and compositional strategies to create richly layered artwork. Each weekly class will include a clear teaching element, live demonstrations, and handouts to reinforce concepts and spark ideas. Students will receive practical advice, creative prompts, and individualized guidance, while exploring essential topics such as mark-making, texture, layering, contrast, intuitive composition, adding and subtracting, similar but different, balance, and focal points. The course encourages experimentation with tools like brushes, palette knives, color shapers, and unconventional materials. Whether you're a beginner or already exploring abstract art, this class provides a supportive and inspiring atmosphere where creativity thrives.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Birgit Raders-Eichinger
Cost: $570
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553

Explore your creativity, open your senses and sharpen your mind to new realms of art-making with noted artist Mikel Elam. Mikel will help you articulate your vision and bring it to concrete reality in the form of a finished work. Explore techniques new and old with paint, paper, found objects and ephemera to best express both representational and abstract perspectives. Channel ideas of progressive artists from the past and present including Henri Matisse, Romare Bearden, Cecily Brown, Joan Mitchell while finding your own voice.
 
Location: Philadelphia, PA, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Mikel Elam
Cost: $250
Sponsor: Cerulean Arts Gallery and Studio
Website, email, 267-514-8647

In this multi-week class, students will learn various approaches to illustration, both traditional and utilizing new techniques and technologies. Materials explored included pencil, archival inks, watercolor, gouache, alcohol markers, paint pens, and colored pencils. Students will learn various approaches to pattern-making, cross-hatching, and other forms of mark making as well as combining created imagery into collage.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Emily Pellini
Cost: $190
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553

Join the "Working with Mixed Media" workshop led by the talented Rose Cofield. This session is appropriate for students of all levels, and is designed to ignite your creativity and explore endless possibilities in combining various media. Whether inspired by themes like faces, stairs, doors, or flowers, or through layering, this workshop is your perfect opportunity with Rose's expert guidance, to uncover innovative techniques that will elevate your artistic vision. Embark on an inspiring creative journey! In addition to the registration fee, students should bring $20 cash to pay the instructor for materials, most of which will be provided for you.
 
Location: Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
Instructor: Rose Cofield
Cost: $100
Sponsor: Art League of Hilton Head
Website, email, (843) 842-5738

After School Art Club is back! Each week students will study a different art-related idea, then make a project based on their discoveries. Students can share their creations with classmates at the end of each session! All supplies are included each week; no prior experience is necessary. Class sessions: All take place from 3:30-5:00 pm on the following Wednesdays: Week 1 – Sept 24, Week 2 – Oct 1, Week 3 – Oct 8, Week 4 – Oct 15 (early dismissal day, 2:00pm start time), Week 5 – Oct 22, Week 6 – Oct 29.
 
Location: Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin
Instructor: Jyneal Radke
Cost: $75/student (includes all supplies for 6 sessions)
Sponsor: River Arts Gallery
Website, email, 608-643-5215

This workshop will focus on helping students transform their works on paper, including drawings, paintings and prints into mixed media pieces, with a focus on collage. Instruction will be based on a student’s individual interests and skills and thus is appropriate for beginners through advanced level. Printing methods including monotype, collagraph, frottage and image transfer will be taught. Former students are encouraged to bring in previous work that they consider unfinished or unsuccessful as a starting point for their mixed media experiments and creations. Students will have access to the etching press and printing inks to develop new prints to add to their pieces. See materials list for detailed information on supplies.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Christine Stoughton
Cost: $285
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553

Celebrate the fall season with a three-day immersive workshop focused on cold wax and oil painting. Whether you’re new to the medium or looking to deepen your practice, this workshop welcomes artists of all skill levels. With a balance of guided instruction and personal exploration, you’ll have the opportunity to grow at your own pace. We’ll dive into a variety of techniques including layering, working with contrast, veils of color, brayer and transfer techniques, mark-making, masking, stenciling, compression, and blotting. Discussions on composition, color theory, and editing will support you in creating stronger, more personal work. All levels welcome. Cost: $850 (includes all meals) $450 deposit due at registration
 
Location: Kittery, Maine
Instructor: Anne Hebebrand
Cost: $850
Sponsor: Anne Hebebrand
Website, email, 857-930-9849

Join us for an exciting and colorful workshop led by the talented local artist Joan Moreau McKeever, where you'll discover the endless possibilities of creating stunning collages using washi tape! This unique form of art, utilizing beautifully patterned or solid-colored rice paper tape, allows you to craft eye-catching landscapes, vibrant flowers, expressive portraits, and imaginative abstracts. With Joan's expert guidance, you'll master the techniques needed to transform this crafting staple into your own works of art, whether they are realistic or abstract. No experience is necessary, making this the perfect opportunity for beginners and seasoned artists alike to unleash their creativity. Don't miss out on this chance to explore a new artistic medium and take your creative skills to dazzling new heights!
 
Location: Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
Instructor: Joan Moreau McKeever
Cost: $150
Sponsor: Art League of Hilton Head
Website, email, (843) 842-5738

Painting and printmaking go hand-in-hand, not only as adjacent mediums but in combination. This freeing and instructive course presents printmaking techniques as jumping off points to making mixed media work in spirit of experimentation and personal expression. Learn how to make monotypes, drypoints, and screenprints as a foundation for incorporating your choice of graphite, colored pencil, acrylic, watercolor, oil paint, and/or collage. Content includes technical advice from an artist-instructor ideally skilled in a variety of media as well as critiques to expand your creative boundaries. This class is perfect for painters/draftspeople seeking to expand their processes, printmakers seeking to employ painterly and mixed media techniques, and anyone with love of color and experimentation. Open to all levels – no prior experience required.
 
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Justine Ditto
Cost: $315
Sponsor: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Website, email, 215-972-7632

Join us for an exciting and colorful workshop led by the talented local artist Joan Moreau McKeever, where you'll discover the endless possibilities of creating stunning collages using washi tape! This unique form of art, utilizing beautifully patterned or solid-colored rice paper tape, allows you to craft eye-catching landscapes, vibrant flowers, expressive portraits, and imaginative abstracts. With Joan's expert guidance, you'll master the techniques needed to transform this crafting staple into your own works of art, whether they are realistic or abstract. No experience is necessary, making this the perfect opportunity for beginners and seasoned artists alike to unleash their creativity. Don't miss out on this chance to explore a new artistic medium and take your creative skills to dazzling new heights!
 
Location: Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
Instructor: Joan Moreau McKeever
Cost: $150
Sponsor: Art League of Hilton Head
Website, email, (843) 842-5738

On a small canvas, we'll create an amazing beach scene choosing your choice of colors! We will be using torn papers, napkins, stencils, glue, paint, glitter and a variety of other fun materials. By layering paint, papers, and stenciling, you'll create an amazing dimensional piece of art! Come let your creativity loose and have fun making this 3-Dimensional piece of art! No experience necessary! Students should bring $20 cash to pay instructor for materials, which will all be provided for you.
 
Location: Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
Instructor: Julie Schroeder
Cost: $60
Sponsor: Art League of Hilton Head
Website, email, (843) 842-5738