Five Points Arts Center offers a variety of instructed workshops for all ages, skill levels and abilities across a wide range of media and techniques.
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Short workshops on practical skills for artists
Offers essential skills for beginners
Offered by well-known artists, followed by a public lecture
Uninstructed (moderated)
Sundays: August 16 | September 13 | October 11 | November 15
2 – 4:30 PM
Ages: 18+
Members: $13.50 per session / Non-members: $15 per session
Practice your figure drawing skills in this monthly uninstructed workshop. Each session will begin with warm up gesture drawings and will include a variety of longer poses. Artists bring their own preferred materials. All skill levels are welcome!
SUMMER WORKSHOPS
with Macayla Muzzulin
Sundays, July 12 & 26
Saturdays, August 1 & 15
10:00 am – Noon
Ages: K-6
$10 per session
Special Promotion: During June, bring a friend for FREE
Registration deadline: Thursday prior to class date
Everyone has an inner artist! Come explore your potential at Five Points Arts Center. Each week will present a different project and provide all the materials necessary to create your “mini masterpiece” to take home. Children should bring an apron or smock; some art projects can get messy! No experience necessary!
A parent or caregiver must stay for the full duration of the workshop and are welcome to relax in our art library or hospitality room. Coffee and wifi are available!
with Ellen Massee
July 9, 16, 23, 30, August 6 & 13
4:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Ages: 18+
Members: $378 / Non-members: $420
This session will focus on pattern and texture, from building dramatic dimensional surfaces, to creating subtle imprinted textures and experimenting with terra sigillata and oxide washes. Creativity exercises will encourage students to develop their own personal approach to creating unique surfaces for their work.
with Heather Neilson
Tuesdays, July 14, 21, 28, August 4, 11, 18
2:00 – 4:30 PM
Ages: 18+
Members: $202.50 / Non-members: $225
Explore the playful, layered world of gel plate printing and discover how this versatile process can bring new depth and energy to your mixed media work. Using a variety of papers, stencils, texture tools, and acrylic paints, you’ll create richly layered prints filled with color, texture, and unexpected discoveries.You’ll learn how to work with a gel plate, brayer, and an assortment of mark making and texture tools to develop expressive surfaces and one of a kind printed papers. The possibilities are endless and often delightfully surprising. From there, you’ll transform your favorite prints into 1–3 unique abstract collages on wood panels, combining paint, paper, and other mixed media elements to create finished pieces that feel both spontaneous and refined.
with Susan Hoffman Fishman
Saturdays, July 25, August 1 & 8
10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Ages: 18+
Members: $261 / Non-members: $290
Satellite images provide an alternate way of seeing the earth that is profound, often abstract and fascinating. In this workshop, explore a unique process using satellite photos found online, creating cyanotype prints of them and combining these with mixed-media materials to develop innovative landscapes on panel. Instructor, Susan Hoffman Fishman, applies these techniques in her own work, recently exhibited in Five Points Gallery (March 27 – May 2, 2026).
A working knowledge of cyanotype printing is helpful, but not required.
INTRO WORKSHOP
with Kathleen Schroeder
Saturdays, July 25 & August 1
July 25: 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM, August 1:10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Ages: 18+
Members: $81 / Non-members: $90
Momigami is a traditional Japanese technique of creating “kneaded paper,” transforming paper into a fabric-like material which is flexible and durable enough to be sewn. Learn how apply konnyaku paste and knead your own momigami paper, used to create a unique handsewn project. No experience necessary!
MINI-SHOP
with Margaret Liljedahl
Saturday, July 25
9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Ages: 18+
Members: $54 / Non-members: $60
Curious about knitting? Join us for a relaxed, beginner-friendly workshop where you’ll learn the basics and create your first knitted piece. In this three-hour session, we’ll cover essential skills like casting on, the knit stitch, and binding off. You’ll practice as you go and work on a small sampler to take home – a perfect keepsake to the start of your knitting journey. All materials will be provided so show up and get started! No experience necessary.
with Mark Zunino
Sundays, July 26 & August 2
10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Ages: 18+
Members: $184.50 / Non-members: $205
This hands-on workshop introduces artists to the unique and versatile process of offset monotype printmaking using a hand-operated offset press. Combining the immediacy of painting with the reproducibility of printmaking, this technique offers an exciting expansion of traditional monoprint practices. Participants will create images by painting directly onto plexiglass using printmaking inks. Unlike traditional monoprint or monotype methods—where a single strong impression is followed by a faint “ghost” print—this offset process allows for consistent image transfer through a registration system that enables the plate and paper to move in and out of the press with precision. As a result, artists can produce a series or a small edition of closely related prints.
INTRO WORKSHOP
with Linda McMillian
Saturdays, August 1 & 15
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Ages: 18+
Members: $72 / Non-Members: $80
Create a unique mixed-media ceramic artwork that functions as both a sculptural piece and an expressive picture frame. In just two sessions you will learn hand-built clay techniques and expressive surface coloring. This workshop is ideal for begining your ceramic journey!
INTRO WORKSHOP
with Leo Hein
Saturday, August 8
10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Ages: 18+
Members: $81 / Non-Members: $90
Theodore Roosevelt once said, “Walk softly and carry a big stick.” Here’s your chance to create a custom walking stick of your own! Perfect for fall hikes and winter strolls. In just four hours under Leo’s tutelage, you will walk away with a sturdy walking stick and the skills to make many more. Sticks and a shaving horse will be provided by the instructor.
MINI-SHOP
with Fruma Markowitz
Tuesday, August 11
10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Ages: 18+
Members: $117 / Non-members: $130
Lumen photography is a camera-less, sustainable technique creating ethereal, colored images using organic objects and expired black-and-white photo paper. In this workshop, you’ll learn how to create compositions with botanicals, paper negatives, and other textured objects, creating photographic prints with startling color and texture. Experimenting with various non-toxic liquid solutions and common powders will further broaden the color possibilities in these prints. No photographic experience required!
Some prints will be “fixed,” allowing them to be seen and shown in all kinds of environments. Other prints will be saved by protecting them in light-proof bags for transport home, where they can be digitally scanned to preserve their original rich colors.
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