Pipe Cleaner Flower Bouquet

Instructor: Luiza McKenzie

Class Limit: 15

Level: ★

Learn how to twist, bend, fold, arrange, and connect pipe cleaners to create a beautiful bouquet of flowers that will last all year long. Choose colors to highlight your homes décor or to give as a gift. This fun and interesting workshop allows you to relax and de-stress as you make flowers.

Instructor: Luiza McKenzie

Class Limit: 10

Level: ★★  & Up

Materials Fee: $25

Students will learn how to hand knit a cozy chunky blanket. This hand-knitting viral technique includes learning the basic hand knitting stitches to make with thick yarn that is knitted by hand. This hands on workshop is perfect for instant success and a lot of fun before fall sets in.

Instructor: David Fox & Todd Hall (Fox Hallow Kitchen)

Class Limit: 6 couples or 12 individuals

Level: ★★ & Up

Teach your tastebuds to do the Mambo Italiano with this fun class guiding you how to make cheese tortellini and a delicious red sauce. Both tortellini and red sauce will be taught from scratch with students completing their own dish to eat at the end of class. This cooking workshop is perfect for an individual, friends, or couple, and is taught by ServSafe certified instructor.

Instructor: Donna Housel

Class Limit: 12

Level: ★★ & Up

This one day workshop will be the perfect way to escape from the hustle and bustle of the day to day, reducing stress and anxiety by engaging in a fun focused and repetitive activity. Each student will receive a coloring book and pack of colored pencils to keep. They will learn the coloring techniques of blending, cross-hatching, hatching, stippling, burnishing, and layering. Coloring activates the part of the brain responsible for creativity and stimulates the production of dopamine, a neurotransmitter associated with pleasure and relaxation.

Instructor: Maxine Cullen

Class Limit: 15

Level: ★★ & UP

This class will focus on low stress watercolor paintings that can be used for gift tags or cards. The workshop will also include basic calligraphy to help embellish the paintings. No prior knowledge of watercolor painting or calligraphy is required.

Instructor: Lida Hood

Class Limit: 12

Level: ★★ & UP

Create a variety of beautiful glass plant stakes to enhance any outdoor or indoor gardening area. This colorful and unique workshop will allow students to unleash their creative juices to make plant and flower identifiers, or fancy up a potted plant. Your completed stakes can be monochromatic or in a variety of colors. Students will be able to choose between a full fuse to blend their creations or a tac fuse to simply adhere everything together.

Instructor: Robert Horowitz

Class Limit: 6

Level: ★★ & UP

Fluid acrylic pour painting allows students to enjoy the freedom of painting in a new way. This is done with squeezable plastic bottles filled with beautiful acrylic colors, creating abstract paintings with no brushes. There are very few restrictions in this creative process. Students will be able to “Just Let It Flow”! Each student will receive two poster sized sheets of sturdy paper and access to bottles of paint, to be able to make two "masterpiece.”

Saturday, June 28, 10:00 AM -  12:00 PM: Join us as we create beautiful, practical works of art together! In this class, you will create a glass mosaic coaster using small glass pieces and grout on ceramic.

Instructor: Queen-Poetri Dozier 

Class Limit: 15

SATURDAY, JULY 12, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM: Learn basic painting concepts, including a variety of ways to texture with paint to develop beautiful beach scene on a bottle. Once completed you will be provided with a special top and wick to turn your creation into an oil lamp perfect for indoors or to keep the bugs away outside. 

SATURDAY, JULY AUGUST 16, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM: Use a variety of mixed media techniques including painting concepts as you incorporate a variety of sand, stones, seashells, and so much more. Each student will receive a light cork to make their bottle into a usable lamp.

Pre-registration is REQUIRED!

Arty Parties are for adults only, unless otherwise stated.

For Arty Parties, there is a $3 registration fee when registering online. To register entirely for free, call CAC at (814) 255-6515 and speak with one of our staff or volunteers to register over the phone!