Upcoming Classes
With over twenty years of experience teaching art, it is still one of the things I enjoy most! I teach students from 3 years old to adults a wide range of media and subjects. See the list of classes, workshops, and events below. Please note the location as well as the schedule listed for each class/event.
Adult & Teen Classes
Art 101: From the Beginning
Worcester Art Museum
adult & teen class
Schedule: Thu, 2–5 pm, 5/8–6/12,
05/08 - 06/12, (No class 5/29)
Description: What exactly is art? Come find out in this class designed for adults of all ages. Learn different ways to view and talk about art, and explore various media such as graphite, charcoal, watercolor and acrylic paint, clay sculpture, block printing, and felting. Materials included.
Price: $200
Discovering Bookbinding
Springfield Museums | adult & teen class
Schedule: Tue, 2:30 pm - 5:30 pm, 7/15
Description: Learn several different ways to create your own blank book to use for drawing, writing, painting, collage, or more! Learn about the tools, materials, and techniques of this craft while making your own books using accordion, meander, and signature binding methods.
Price: TBA
Registration Link Coming Soon
Workshop: Pigment to Paint
Worcester Art Museum
adult & teen class
Schedule: Sat, 10 am–3 pm, 6/14
Description: Get back to the roots of painting (sometimes literally, using beets and carrots)! Learn to source pigments from natural and local materials and create hand-made watercolor paints—no special lab required! Materials provided.
​
Price: $100
Experimental Weaving Intensive
Worcester Art Museum
adult & teen class
Schedule: Mon-Fri, 10 am–1 pm,
7/14–7/18
Description: Inspired by the special exhibition, From the Vault: Collecting Tapestries at WAM, this week-long intensive will explore weaving forms from throughout time. Create a mini tapestry using a traditional cartoon; explore bead weaving; and design, build, and weave on your own experimental loom. Materials included.
​
Price: $200
​
Image: Tapestry Depicting Godfrey of Bouillon, possibly Flemish or French, about 1500, dyed wool with later repairs, The John Woodman Higgins Armory Collection, 2014.100
Youth Classes
July 7-11
Summer Programs
Worcester Art Museum | youth classes
Schedule: Mon-Fri, 9 am-3 pm
Description: The Worcester Art Museum runs day-long programs for six weeks of the summer. I am teaching parts of the programs this week - you sign up for the full week and will have different teachers as part of the schedule. Click the class titles to learn more and register.
5-7 years - Sketch It!, Artist Explorations, Villains and Monsters
(I am teaching Sketch It!)
​
8-10 years - Drumming, Sculpting, & Magical Garden
(I am teaching Magical Garden)
​
11-13 years - Symmetry, Landscapes, Etching
(I am teaching Landscapes)
​​​
Price: $310 (for 5 days, 9am-3 pm!)
Dancing Dragons Workshop
Springfield Museums | youth workshop
Schedule: Thu, 7/31, 1-2 pm
Description: In connection with the special exhibition Here be Dragons, create your own poseable mythical beast! Draw your fur, scale or skin textures, add pizzazz with sequins and beads, then assemble your dragon or creature!
​
Price: $TBA
Registration Link coming soon
July 21-25
Summer Programs
Worcester Art Museum | youth classes
Schedule: Mon-Fri, 9 am-3 pm
Description: The Worcester Art Museum runs day-long programs for six weeks of the summer. I am teaching parts of the programs this week - you sign up for the full week and will have different teachers as part of the schedule. Click the class titles to learn more and register.
​
5-7 years - Clay Pets, Art Outside, Wacky Wearable Art
(I am teaching Wacky Wearable Art)
​
8-10 years - Art Outside, Abstract Figure, Sculpture
​
11-13 years - Drumming, Feature Focus, Painting
(I am teaching Feature Focus)
​​​
Price: $310 (for 5 days, 9am-3 pm!)
Beginning Bookbinding
Springfield Museums | youth workshop
Schedule: Tue, 8/5, 9:30 am-12:30 pm
Description: Learn several different ways to create your own blank book to use for drawing, writing, painting, collage, or more! As you get to design your own covers and make your own book, learn about the tools, materials, and techniques of this craft! Make three new books, then finish up the class doing some drawing from observation in the galleries!
​
Price: $TBA
Registration Link coming soon
August 11-15
Summer Programs
Worcester Art Museum | youth classes
Schedule: Mon-Fri, 9 am-3 pm
Description: The Worcester Art Museum runs day-long programs for six weeks of the summer. I am teaching parts of the programs this week - you sign up for the full week and will have different teachers as part of the schedule. Click the class titles to learn more and register.
​
5-8 years - Fossil Fun, Animal Art, Wonderful Watercolors 5-8 y
(I am teaching Fossil Fun and Animal Art)
​
9-12 years - Move It!, Cardboard Creations, Express Yourself
(I am teaching Express Yourself)
​​​
Price: $310 (for 5 days, 9am-3 pm!)
Dancing Dragons Workshop
Springfield Museums | youth workshop
Schedule: Thu, 8/7, 1-2 pm
Description: In connection with the special exhibition Here be Dragons, create your own poseable mythical beast! Draw your fur, scale or skin textures, add pizzazz with sequins and beads, then assemble your dragon or creature!
​
Price: $TBA
Registration Link coming soon
Events
Paint Night: May Flowers
Mimi's Coffeehouse, Hardwick, MA
| for everyone!
Schedule: Sat, 6-8 pm, 5/10
Description: Come have a fun evening creating art with family and friends! This month's theme is May Flowers - paint a wreath of flowers in acrylic paint on canvas board. Perfect as a gift for mother's day, or to attend with your mother! Materials included. Drinks and snacks available.
Price: $20
Visit Mimi's Coffeehouse of Hardwick or contact them at 413-477-1144
Upcoming Paint Nights
​
June: Sea Shells - Mimi's Coffeehouse, Hardwick, MA
6/14, 6-8 pm
​
July: Farm Life - Mimi's Coffeehouse, Hardwick, MA
7/12, 6-8 pm
​
August: Inspired by Kandinsky - Mimi's Coffeehouse, Hardwick, MA
8/9, 6-8 pm
​
September: Back to School - Mimi's Coffeehouse, Hardwick, MA
9/13, 6-8 pm
​
October: Ghostly Graves - Mimi's Coffeehouse, Hardwick, MA
10/11, 6-8 pm
​
November: Cornucopia - Mimi's Coffeehouse, Hardwick, MA
11/8, 6-8 pm
​
December: The Fireplace - Mimi's Coffeehouse, Hardwick, MA
12/13, 6-8 pm