Designed especially for those with busy schedules, this "Wine-down-Wednesday" offers the perfect opportunity to decompress, connect, and unleash your inner artist. Settle in with a complimentary glass of wine, meet new friends, and share a laugh. This session is all about Mixed Media heART Making, a joyful class where we’ll take inspiration from the bold and playful works of artist Jim Dine. Together, we’ll experiment with layers, textures, and vibrant colors to create expressive heart-themed artworks that are uniquely our own. No experience needed, just come ready to create from the heART! All participants must be age 21+.
 
Location: Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
Instructor: Debi West
Cost: $50
Sponsor: Art League of Hilton Head
Website, email, (843) 842-5738

This workshop is designed to guide students in transforming their works on paper—including drawings, paintings, and prints—into dynamic mixed media pieces, with a particular emphasis on collage techniques. Instruction will be tailored to each student's individual interests and skill levels, making the workshop suitable for everyone from beginners to advanced artists. Former students are encouraged to bring in previous work that they consider unfinished or unsuccessful to use as a starting point for their mixed media experiments and creations. Printing Methods Covered: Monotype, Collagraph, Frottage and Image Transfer.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Christine Stoughton
Cost: $240
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553

This workshop is about the line, its weight and use as means of structure and expression, the power and significance of color, but more importantly, how perception in art is a dynamic interplay between the artist's intentions and the viewer's individual interpretation as well as the advantages and acceptance that in the process "everything can change," that ideas, marks and colors are fluid.
 
Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico
Instructor: Jorge Luis Bernal
Cost: $695.00 Tax & Materials included
Website, email, 301-821-3999

Join us for a fun, hands-on workshop exploring color, texture, layering, and monoprinting techniques using gel plates. You’ll create a collection of unique painted papers that can be used in collage, added to acrylic or watercolor works, or even framed as standalone monoprints. Each session offers new opportunities to explore techniques, experiment with different materials, and expand your creative toolkit. This workshop is designed for all skill levels and encourages playful experimentation. Come ready to get messy and make some magic!
 
Location: Jupiter, Florida
Instructor: Patricia Lappin
Cost: $75
Sponsor: The New Studio for the Visual Arts
Website, email, 561-295-5712

Designed especially for those with busy schedules, this "Wine-down-Wednesday" offers the perfect opportunity to decompress, connect, and unleash your inner artist. Settle in with a complimentary glass of wine, meet new friends, and share a laugh. Come join us for a Mini Art-Making Class where we’ll create a playful series of small works! You’ll take some pieces home to enjoy, and we’ll leave a few to share in our Community Art Gallery Box for everyone to experience. It’s a fun way to make, connect, and give back through creativity! No experience needed! All participants must be age 21+.
 
Location: Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
Instructor: Debi West
Cost: $50
Sponsor: Art League of Hilton Head
Website, email, (843) 842-5738

On a small canvas, you’ll create a beautiful seascape featuring the shimmering ocean, and a tree with lush greenery along the shoreline—using your own choice of colors to make it uniquely yours! We’ll explore a variety of fun materials including torn papers, napkins, stencils, glue, paint, glitter, and more. Through layering, painting, and stenciling, you’ll bring depth and texture to your scene, resulting in a stunning 3-dimensional landscape. Unleash your creativity and enjoy the process of making this vibrant mixed-media artwork! 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: $50
Sponsor: Art League of Hilton Head
Website, email, (843) 842-5738

Join Minnesota-based artist Julie Schroeder for a relaxed, hands-on workshop exploring watercolor in fresh and expressive ways. You’ll create spontaneous, colorful landscapes using mono printing techniques and experiment with watercolor pencils to add depth and texture. Julie will demonstrate a range of approaches while encouraging you to work at your own pace and follow your artistic instincts. You’ll have the option to finish your pieces with pen and ink for added definition and contrast. Choose to focus on traditional watercolor or combine materials for a mixed-media effect. This class offers a supportive environment to explore, experiment, and enjoy the creative process. $30 cash supply fee. Students are still responsible for bringing a few items (see website).
 
Location: Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
Instructor: Julie Schroeder
Cost: $230
Sponsor: Art League of Hilton Head
Website, email, (843) 842-5738

Value, edges, and color are fundamental elements of art that work together to create form, depth, and visual interest. Value refers to the lightness or darkness of a color. Edges define the boundaries between shapes and are described as sharp or soft, influencing how we perceive form and depth. Color, determined by light frequencies, adds another layer of visual information and can evoke emotional responses.
 
Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico
Instructor: Jorge Luis Bernal
Cost: $695.00 Tax & Materials included
Website, email, 301-821-3999

Join us for a vibrant and inspiring workshop with talented local artist Joan Moreau McKeever, and explore the endless creative possibilities of washi tape collage art! Discover how this beautifully patterned or solid-colored rice paper tape can be transformed into stunning landscapes, vivid florals, expressive portraits, and imaginative abstracts. Under Joan’s expert guidance, you’ll learn techniques to turn this simple crafting material into captivating works of art—whether your style leans toward realism or abstraction. No prior experience is needed—just bring your curiosity and creativity! This workshop is perfect for both beginners and seasoned artists eager to experiment with a fresh, colorful medium. Students should bring $30 cash for materials, all of which will be provided for you.
 
Location: Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
Instructor: Joan Moreau McKeever
Cost: $150
Sponsor: Art League of Hilton Head
Website, email, (843) 842-5738

Immerse yourself in the expressive world of color and form! This dynamic half-day workshop invites artists of all levels to explore the bold, joyful spirit of Henri Matisse through the art of paper collage. Participants will begin by creating contour drawings of real-life objects, then transform them into vibrant compositions by cutting and arranging colored paper on Bristol board. Guided by Joyce’s expert instruction, students will discover how shape, color, and design work together to create harmony and movement. By the end of the session, each participant will take home a striking, Matisse-inspired collage—a celebration of creativity, color, and personal expression. This class is appropriate for students of all levels. Bring $10 cash to pay for materials.
 
Location: Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
Instructor: Joyce Nagel
Cost: $50
Sponsor: Art League of Hilton Head
Website, email, (843) 842-5738

Discover the limitless potential of mixed media in this dynamic workshop led by acclaimed artist Rose Cofield. Designed to spark your imagination, this session invites you to experiment with texture, color, and form as you blend a variety of materials into cohesive, expressive works of art. Draw inspiration from captivating themes—faces, stairs, doors, flowers—and explore the art of layering to add depth and meaning to your creations. With Rose’s expert instruction and creative insight, you’ll gain fresh techniques and the confidence to push your artistic boundaries. Bring $20 cash for materials, most of which will be provided for you. Students are still responsible for bringing additional items (see list on website).
 
Location: Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
Instructor: Rose Cofield
Cost: $100
Sponsor: Art League of Hilton Head
Website, email, (843) 842-5738

Abstract Collage is a captivating art form that combines various materials, textures, and colors to create visually striking compositions. This is a fun, creative experience using your own Painted Papers from my class, purchased paper from the art store, tissue paper, old book pages, sheet music, junk mail, etc. Each session offers new opportunities to explore techniques, experiment with different materials, and expand your creative toolkit. This workshop is designed for all skill levels and encourages playful experimentation. Come ready to get messy and make some magic!
 
Location: Jupiter, Florida
Instructor: Patricia Lappin
Cost: $75
Sponsor: The New Studio for the Visual Arts
Website, email, 561-295-5712

Simplicity is the philosophy and practice of creating only what is necessary within a work of art, and more important is keep in mind that the fewer cues to objective reality there are, the more abstract we say it is. Constraints, rather than hindering artistic expression, can act as a catalyst for unique ideas and problem-solving.
 
Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico
Instructor: Jorge Luis Bernal
Cost: $695.00 Tax & Materials included
Website, email, 301-821-3999

Intuitive Painting with Stan Kurth in watercolor and gouache. Join Stan in this experimental workshop and learn to shift from the fixed mindset that separates traditional representational painting from abstraction to one that incorporates both. This workshop will help you learn to paint intuitively. Instruction will start with random mark making and color application, working transparent to opaque, building layers using a variety of mark making tools with watercolor and gouache. The finished painting may be representational or non-objective, but the criteria will be no reference and letting the process guide the outcome.
 
Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan
Instructor: Stan Kurth
Cost: $550
Sponsor: Artensity Workshops
Website, email

Designed especially for those with busy schedules, this "Wine-down-Wednesday" offers the perfect opportunity to decompress, connect, and unleash your inner artist. Settle in with a complimentary glass of wine, meet new friends, and share a laugh. Join us for Layers of Life, a creative class inspired by Debi West’s current exhibit at the Art League Gallery. Together we’ll explore how the elements of art, merged with drawing, painting, and text, can unfold into powerful visual stories. Come create your own layered artwork and let your story of life emerge on the canvas! No experience needed! All participants must be age 21+.
 
Location: Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
Instructor: Debi West
Cost: $50
Sponsor: Art League of Hilton Head
Website, email, (843) 842-5738

“A Sense of Place” is often described as connections and emotions between people and places that develops based on the place, meanings, and attachment a person has for a particular setting. This class will explore through abstract painting and conceptual expression (main emphasis on ideas over traditional aesthetic values), at scales ranging from the home to the nation. It includes lectures, presentations, art critiques plus lots of painting time.
 
Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico
Instructor: Jorge Luis Bernal
Cost: $695.00 Tax & Materials included
Website, email, 301-821-3999

Nature is a great source of inspiration for all kinds of art, and abstract painting is no exception. Take a walk outside and look for shapes, colors, and forms that catch your eye. We will demonstrate that by simplifying natural elements, manipulating color, form, and using bold color palettes, and layering techniques we can convey a feeling or emotion rather than a realistic depiction of a specific object.
 
Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico
Instructor: Jorge Luis Bernal
Cost: $695.00 Tax & Materials included
Website, email, 301-821-3999

Exploring abstracts on a larger scale in the medium of your choosing, this 5-day class will push you into new territory where growth lives… only upsized, because bigger risks equal bigger rewards. You will be shown a system for developing your artistic voice, with a focus on design principles and the language of abstraction. The emphasis is on creative process, exploring new ways to develop and build paintings, create inventive compositions, and build authentic intent in your work. The class is as much a challenge for the experienced as it is for the developing artist, but it’s not for the rank beginner. Bring a sense of humor, a fearless creative spirit, and an open mind.
 
Location: Wayne, Pennsylvania
Instructor: Larry Moore
Sponsor: Wayne Art Center
Website, email, 610-688-3553

A visual exploration of composition and the artistic principles through collage art. Collage most often suggests an idea as it helps develop a narrative, but when combined with CWM/oil paint, it allows for much experimentation through transparencies, opacity and texture. Presentations, art theory discussions and pin-up critique will allow for everyone to understand and develop their design narratives. Participants learn to create different layered abstractions and dynamic works by combining various elements and techniques.
 
Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico
Instructor: Jorge Luis Bernal
Cost: $695.00 Tax & Materials included
Website, email, 301-821-3999

Abstract geometric art is about hidden meanings, analogies, protests and deliberate simplification to prove that everything complicated is simple. We will discuss how, by looking inwardly, we can create personal narratives. Geometry plays a significant role in art and design, often carrying symbolic interpretations beyond its visual form. Geometric shapes and patterns are not just aesthetic elements but can also evoke specific emotions.
 
Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico
Instructor: Jorge Luis Bernal
Cost: $695.00 Tax & Materials included
Website, email, 301-821-3999

Monochrome painting is art composed in a single color. It utilizes various shades or tints, so the images become incredibly evocative and most importantly what you lose in not using color you’ll gain in quality of composition and contrast. Color is no longer a distraction. The focus is on the overall composition. Also mark-making is improved by enabling the discovery of different forms and shapes with subtle tones. Painting with a single color can improve your art because it makes you concentrate on elements such as line, value, lighting and form.
 
Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico
Instructor: Jorge Luis Bernal
Cost: $695.00 Tax & Materials included
Website, email, 301-821-3999