ART NEWS, EVENTS, CLASSES and WORKSHOPS
Fall, Winter and Spring terms I am honored to be teaching art classes to children and teens at Village Home Education Resource Center. Village Home is a non-profit that offers both full-day programs and ala carte' classes and clubs in a very wide variety of subjects to elementary, middle school and high school-aged students to supplement enrollment in a formal school program or a homeschooling curriculum.
The winter term has just ended for 2025-26 at Village Home. Here is some work from my "Guerrilla Artists" class, in which students create art and DIY tools and materials they make themselves from stuff they might have around the house. This project is the "broken-toy sculpture" assignment and students this term were 8-14. I collect broken toys for this all year and it's always fantastic to see what students do with them.
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Stuff That Already Happened
DONE! July 26-27, 2025, Boise, ID, USA - Encaustic and Gel Plate Weekend Workshop
A joint workshop weekend with encaustic artist, teacher, and Boise City Arts and History Department Cultural Planner, Tilley Bubb, at her Boise studio, for more info on her studio TilleyBubb@gmail.com
This was a fantastic and fantastically fun workshop with a bunch of great people, making beautiful art and exploring gel plate all afternoon. We had a variety of ages and experience and everyone made wonderful pieces.
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My partner and I were very lucky get to stay in our host's Craftsman Treehouse Sanctuary, which is apparently usually booked, a cozy and quiet space above the studio, packed with her art and art by her friends. It was the most comfortable and calming space I've ever stayed in, surrounded by art and quiet. Added bonus to my mind, flock of roaming wild turkeys who live in the neighborhood. In the days before the workshops, Tilley took me to The Common Well, to see an exhibit by Margaret Pope. The Common Well is a fantastic artist community and space in Boise that offers studios, exhibit and meeting space, and many other programs and partnerships with other organizations to foster art and artists. This seems like a great, supportive model for other cities.
Boise is surrounded by arid high desert in rolling hills under the big sky. We went out about dawn the morning of my workshop to glean botanical elements (weeds!) for people to print with. The scenery is amazing and we brought back a bucket of wild grasses, leaves and flowers from the roadsides outside the city. That particular prairie sunflower I left right where it was, alive and well.
Tilley has more encaustic workshops and classes planned in the future, and maybe some gel plate down the line, too. I hope I can come back and do something else as this was a really great collaborated weekend of learning, exploring and creating.
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