Upcoming Events & Gallery Features

Out-N-About in Hartland
Friday May 30th 5pm - 9pm

Enjoy the crisp fall air while out and about in Hartland. Hartland area businesses and merchants are hosting a night out on the town for families to come and explore the many unique shoppes, galleries and restaurants.

*Music will be provided by Hartland Music faculty members

*Bubbling potions will be provided by Mad Science.

*Area restaurants will be ready to satisfy many appetites, whatever the craving.

*Midwest Twisters will provide an inflatable moonwalk.

Glass Workshops (Lamp Working)
3 hrs. $75 (14 yrs of age and up) all materials provided.
Choose from 35 different colors of soft Italian Moretti glass while learning to safely use a propane and oxygen torch.

Beginners: Prerequisite to all other lampworking. 3hrs, $75 dates and times TBA; Create beads with a variety of decorating techniques covering hearts, shamrocks, herringbone, and yin yang designs.

Dates TBA; 1pm-4pm Projects to be anounced from the following:

Marbles: Learn to create a variety of color designs and patterns both on the surface and inside your smooth round marble. A wide assortment of Moretti glass in different colors combined with punties and molds let you shape your marble into a smooth, round ancient art form. Lost yours? make some more

Pendants: 1pm-4pm $75 Start with a simple random design and then increase the difficulty by creating a mushroom, heart, and sunburst embeded in clear Moretti glass.

Sculpture: Use Moretti glass to make swizzle or muddle sticks with simple glass figurines on top; Make a dancing person pendant to wear on a necklace; and an animal or fish.

RAKU WORKSHOP

Spring 2008 TBA 10:00 a.m. $120.00

Raku is a firing technique from 16th century Japan. The actual translation of Raku in Japanese is: happiness by chance. To potters around the world it means temperatures of 1850 degrees Fahrenheit, the glow of red-hot pottery and the flash of fire. The pieces are fired outside, removed from the kiln while glowing hot and placed in a nest of combustible material which bursts into flames, engulfing the pottery. This procedure allows the surface to crackle and creates lustrous copper colors Up to 25lbs. of clay, bisque firing, glazes, kiln diagrams, all supplies needed for the workshop, food all day and more. Take the clay with you and make the pots at home or make your pots at our studio. You will glaze all the pots at the workshop and take them home that day.

If time is tight just come that day, buy a pot, glaze it, fire it and take it home that day.

RESERVE YOUR CLAY OR YOUR POT NOW!

2008 SUMMER CAMPS:

 

Discovering the Masters
Ages 7-12
August 18-22 12:30-2:30 p.m.
$100 per child, supplies included

During this one-week camp, children will use a wide variety of media while creating original artworks based on themes and examples from art history.  Topics to be covered include: Cave paintings, sand paintings, Egyptian tomb art, stained glass window designs and abstract watercolor.  All projects are made with safe and child-friendly materials!

 

Teen Painting Camp
Ages 13-18
August 11-15, 2008 3-5pm
$100 per student, all supplies included

Choosing from watercolor or acrylic paint, students will create an original painting suitable for framing.  Students at all levels of experience are welcome.  Instructor is a Registered Art Therapist who also teaches at VSA Arts, and Donna Lexa Community Art Centers.

 

Beginning Hand Building and Sculpting with Clay
Ages 5 and up
June 16 - 27, 2008 12:30-2:00
$175 per student, all supplies included

This summer camp is for kids who just want to have fun squishing, smacking and rolling the clay into wonderful works of art.  For 2 hours every day each child will learn clay sculpting techniques and be encouraged to use their imagination while forming dinnerware safe dishes, picture frames and sculptures.  Each project will stimulate creative energy, enhance problem-solving skills and exercise fine motor skills such as eye hand coordination.

 

Intermediate Hand Building and Sculpting With Clay
Ages 10 and up
July 21 - Aug 1 12:30pm-2:00pm
$175 per student, all supplies included

This summer camp is for kids that already feel serious about their artwork and want to take it to the next level with clay.  The students will learn to fine-tune their sculpting and hand-building techniques.  They will learn to constructively critique their own work and the work of professional artists in order to challenge themselves in the future.