Ages 8-12. Instructor Jyneal will guide kids through creating a unique acrylic painting on a 12 x 12” canvas from start to finish! We’ll work on color mixing, paint texture techniques, and have a blast along the way! Stay tuned for each of the painting subjects to be announced soon! All classes are standalone – register for just one or all of them! Parents can drop kids off and come back or wait in the gallery. Kids only in the studio!
 
Location: Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin
Instructor: Jyneal Radke
Cost: $15
Sponsor: River Arts Gallery
Website, email, 608-643-5215

This class provides an introduction to succulent varieties and how to reproduce and care for them. Everyone will take home their own mini garden that they planted in a pot made by artist Alyssa Martz! Kit fee covers the artist-made pot, succulent cuttings, potting soil.
 
Location: Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin
Instructor: Mary Dickey
Cost: $50 + $25 kit fee
Sponsor: River Arts Gallery
Website, email, 608-643-5215

Learn the basics of beadwork to create a beaded keychain from start to finish. Instruction includes: preparing needle and thread, “wrap stitch” technique, replacing thread, and attaching a key ring. Kit fee includes: Paracord, beads, needle, thread, beesewax, leather and key ring. Instructor Bio: Shekoli, Katsitsya’?tahts niyukyats. On^yote?a.ka.ni?i okhale? wakenyaht^niwaki?talo.t^. Hello, my name is Paige Morningstar Skenandore, and my Indian name roughly translates to, “she extends out a flower.” I am an enrolled member of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin, and I am turtle clan. She has been teaching beadwork for several years and runs a small business, Moody NDN.
 
Location: Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin
Instructor: Paige Skenandore
Cost: $70 + $15 kit fee
Sponsor: River Arts Gallery
Website, email, 608-643-5215

Sharpen your colored pencils for workshop fun in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin- post-summer rush but still during the mild September weather. Kristy Kutch, a supportive, generous teacher, is the author of "Drawing and Painting with Colored Pencil" and "The New Colored Pencil". Kristy is featured in 4 instructional DVDs. Included are many aspects of this medium and its compatible surfaces. Create effects ranging from soft, transparent, and aqueous to dense and dramatic. Harbor Shores Hotel, on Geneva Lake, offers outstanding student discounts. Rooms feature mini-fridges, wet-bars, and microwaves. (Lodging reservations should be made separately. Inquire at 888-746-7371 to receive booking link. Mention this workshop for discount.) Bring an extra tote bag for samples; plan for this memorable workshop!
 
Location: Lake Geneva, Wisconsin
Instructor: Kristy A. Kutch, C.P.S.A.
Sponsor: Kristy Kutch Colored Pencil Workshops
Website, email, 219-874-4688

This class will focus on using screenprinting to create abstract figures, objects, or landscapes as an introduction to screen printing and monotyping. Providing an opportunity to explore an infinite amount of ways to create prints though basic fundamentals of printmaking through a non-toxic process. Instructor Bio: Roberto Torres Mata is first generation artist from Huntington Beach, California, and Rockford, Illinois, currently active in Madison, Wisconsin. He explores the complexities of migration from human and animal movements by using multi-media to further understand the issues of migration at the border. His work has been exhibited at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Figge Art Museum, Chazen Museum of Art, and the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art.
 
Location: Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin
Instructor: Roberto Torres Mata
Cost: $100 + $65 kit fee
Sponsor: River Arts Gallery
Website, email, 608-643-5215