This class explores portraiture beyond likeness through observation, imagination, and expressive mark-making. Using mirrors and transparent Lexan plates, participants will create drypoint self-portraits by drawing directly into the clear surface, then transform their printed images through monotype, drawing, and painting. Layers of color, texture, symbolic imagery, and invented settings allow each portrait to move between the observed self and an emotional, imagined, or fictional self. No class 1/18.

Printmaking & ceramics come together in this class taught by both artists-in-residence. Offered annually, this class is always a new adventure.

This all-levels class explores identity through animal, plant, and hybrid forms. Using drawing and printmaking, students will create expressive portraits shaped by emotion, memory, instinct, personal symbols, and imagined worlds. Through monotype, transparent Lexan drypoint, relief printing, collage, and hand-drawn intervention, participants will develop chimerical images that may be part human, part animal, part landscape, or entirely invented.

This visual and pictorial journaling class combines writing, drawing, found textures, plant material, printmaking, memory, fiction, and play to create a series of layered works on paper. Students will use short written prompts, observations, altered memories and dream fragments as starting points for experimental prints and drawings.