Week 2: August 9-15 

Floral Painting in Oil
Instructor: Trish Harding

Painting with oils is like painting with butter — sweet, rich, and gloriously tactile. In this immersive weeklong retreat, we’ll dive into the vibrant muse of the flower: uplifting, brilliant, and bursting with life. Using fresh blooms cut directly from Trish's gardens, we’ll explore how to translate their fragrance, gesture, and color into paintings that tempt the viewer to lean in and breathe deeply.  This workshop is designed for artists with some oil painting experience who are ready to deepen their practice in a supportive, mythic, and joy-filled environment.  This is more than a painting class — it’s a celebration of the floral spirit and the magic of adult art camp. Expect laughter, transformation, and the joy of creating in community. 

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Explore Cyanotype Prints
Instructor: Claudia Hollister

Deep dive into the magic of cyanotype printmaking with artist Claudia Hollister. This immersive workshop takes you from crafting strong digital negatives to creating richly layered, expressive cyanotypes using painting, stencils, double prints, toning, and natural fixatives. Through hands-on experimentation, daily critiques, and collaborative discussion, students refine both technique and vision — transforming tests into fine prints and process into personal practice.

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The Serial Image in Monotype & Monoprint
Instructor: Robynn Smith 

Explore the way in which monotype techniques can be used to create related images resulting in a united series of works. These images can be narrative or abstract, tell a story or create a mood, reference the natural world or explore the world of the mind. Absolutely anything works as a reference point to begin a series. Through the use of ghost printing, offsets, multiple drops, trace monotype, chine colle, sandwiching of plates on the press and other experimental monotype techniques, participants will create many prints that can then be collaged, stitched or framed together in a variety of ways, creating a complex visual feast of related imagery. 

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Waxed Powder Painting
Instructor: Corey S. Pressman

This workshop offers an immersive introduction to Waxed Powder Painting, a luminous medium combining powdered pigments and beeswax on paper. Participants move through a creative arc that begins with sharpening perception and developing abstraction and leads into full waxed-powder expression.

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Woven Expressions
Instructor: Angela Riggs

This workshop uses weaving as a medium to explore an unplanned approach to making art, with a focus on enjoying the creative journey over the pursuit of specific outcomes. We’ll work with a variety of weaving techniques and forms - including fringe weaving, off-loom weaving, and weaving on frame looms-  and review examples from contemporary artists. The instructor will support beginners in learning new techniques while encouraging more experienced students to expand their practice and challenge themselves.

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Your Intuitive Art Practice
Instructor: Lettie Jane Rennekamp 

This class will use a variety of 2 dimensional media (watercolor, ink, acrylic paint, collage, and colored pencil) to explore art making through intuition. Artists can expect to find insight, inspiration, and confidence through concrete exercises that emphasize play, letting go of the outcome, and positive feedback.

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Open Studio
Instructor: Bonnie Paisley

Open Studio is a week of independent work with support from an instructor. Use this class to begin, return to, or develop your individual creative projects. The instructor will provide specific support as needed, tailored to your skill level, style, and goals. This is a unique opportunity to focus on you, your practice, and sustaining your creativity throughout the week and beyond.

Starting with Stencils
Instructor: Linda Berkley

Join an exploration of image-making beginning in stencil designs. Develop and create your own stencils applying dynamic positive and negative shape relationships. Discover unique motifs and expand your creative process. Work with layers and repeat patterns to build depth and complexity of color, design and meaning. Discover the potentials of shape and pattern. 

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