Have you every got sucked into a beading store and ended up buying pretty beads that you have no idea what to do with them? Using just simple hand held tools, sterling silver wire and all those fascinating beads...Trudy will teach you how to wrap, make rosary chain, make your own headpins and make your own earhooks and simple clasp systems. Et Voila! You will be able to wear those beads homes in a simple, but original necklace, bracelet and/or earrings of your own creation. If time allows, we will also explore the ways and means of making simple jump ring bracelets. Bring any beads/supplies you have. Trudy will supply tools & materials and determine cost dependent on the project, approx. $20-$50

We will begin our day with yoga and some warming energetic breath work instructed by Karen Crane of Inner Balance. Spend the morning with Kathy and Sue Hooper, inspired by the nature work of Andy Goldsworthy, developing 3-dimensional outdoor sculpture using the “art of nature”, stones, wood, leaves, followed by journal writing and a delicious lunch. After our lunch Karen will lead us through a meditation walk to calm yet re-energize the body to help with creativity. We will move into expressive painting in large format from your emotions and feelings from the yoga and nature morning. To wrap up the day join us for an delightful supper of colorful foods.  (Materials included)

Karen is a fitness consultant and wellness coach and is currently working as a nurse in the Cardiac Rehabilitation Health and Wellness Program.
She has been practicing a yoga life style for eight years and was certified in the specialty area of Cardiac Yoga and her further studies include Integral yoga, Hatha yoga and most recent tutelage under Ashtanga yoga teacher trainer Ruth Richman mentored by Beryl Bender Birch.

Join us for a two hour paddle on the Kennebecasis River in the lovely Voyageur canoe with our captain, Rafe Hooper. We will take in the beauty, looking at the “art of nature” with discussion of light, color, form, perspective, line...We will return to the bridge in Hampton, to Osprey Adventures for a snack and then sketching in the area with pencil, watercolor and colored pencils. Bring your sketchbook!

Learn the basic skills of needle felting. This introductory class will demonstrate how to make a three dimensional teddy bear using just wool fibres and a barbed needle. You will go home with your finished 6” (approx.) brown teddy bear. Skill level: Beginner, Not recommended for young children. 
Maryann Jo Sartini graduated from the University of Rhode Island in 1998 acquiring a Bachelor of Science degree in Textiles, Merchandising & Design. Being a late bloomer and Fibre Art her goal, she set out to find that special niche that would combine her love of animals and wool. Felting was a natural leap, in 2001 she began creating needle felted sculptures. Never looking back she had found her “niche”. Today Maryann’s needle felted woolen sculptures, fondly called “Northern Woolie” are a labor of love. Her passion for all creatures great & small allows her to create animals & dolls of her memories & imagination, along with people’s favorite pets.
Maryann and her husband Charlie retired to Canada six years ago to begin the second phase of their lives. They fell in love and purchased a home and parcel of land now called Frog Pond Farm on the Kingston Peninsula with the hopes of raising fibre sheep. Back in New England they owned & raised Romney sheep & all that beautiful fibre followed them north. Sadly the flock had to stay below the border, but after six years their wool continues to flow north.

An artistic collage may include clippings from newspapers, ribbons, coloured tissues, handmade paper,
photographs, stamps or any other material that can be glued to either paper or canvas. Collage is a versatile and interesting medium and above all is fun to work with.  Students will find that they can make some wonderful pieces without a great amount of materials. Many students enjoy making small works to use as greeting cards or notes.
Toby Graser is a well-known Canadian artist who has had over 30 solo exhibitions and is represented in over 70 corporate collections as well as museums and government collections. She has worked in acrylic, collage and mixed media for many years in both figurative and abstract areas, doing whatever is necessary to explore her unique artistic sensibility and to set up the vibrations of response for which her abstract work is noted. Materials fee $10

Bring your lunch. We provide yummy, homemade cookies and tea.

As a child do you remember finding some sticky looking mud on the side of a river or stream? The clay squished between your fingers and you made “things” from it… bowls and bird nests with eggs. In this workshop relive some of that excitement again. In the morning we will start with getting a feeling for the clay...playing with it. Kathy will teach how to create a tile which could become a coaster and two ways of creating small bowls or pots. After lunch the pieces will be ready to finish and decorate in a number of ways with a variety of glazes. After drying and firing with final glazes provided the work will be ready for pick up. (aprox. 2 weeks) Materials fee $10

Bring your lunch. We provide yummy, homemade cookies and tea
Come and join fibre artist Alison Murphy as she introduces you to one and two dimensional needle-felting. This is a dry felting technique that is easy to learn and relaxing to practice. We’ll talk about different animal fibres and blending colours. Alison will also give you some ideas for introducing found materials and objects into your work. You’ll take home a few needles, some dyed fibre and great inspiration for your new fibre projects. A materials fee of $25, will cover the materials for the day as well as small kits for participants to take home.

Most of the time while I’m walking or driving somewhere, I find a stick or a root or something that is saying to me take me home. If this sounds familiar, then do we have the workshop for you!  We will start the day with, some basic sharpening techniques. We will discuss the tools needed and how to use them and how to keep them sharp.  We will talk about how to display your work, how to finish it as well. Then we will be off for some exploring in the forest. If you have a house load of treasures already, bring them along. We will work together throughout the
weekend of carving, filing, sanding and painting to give another voice to that treasured piece of wood that is just waiting to be heard!

To start we will cover some of the basics of mosaics and some of the history of the craft and how creating a good design is an important factor in the finished piece. One of the joys of mosaic, lies in the chance to experiment.  Using found objects such as pebbles, pieces of jewelry and beads, as well as broken china and tiles, can create
wonderful personal mosaics. There is also the beauty of glass and ceramic ‘tesserae’ which we can supply. Your mosaics could be as varied as a piece to hang on a wall, a mirror, a sign for your house or a small table top. Materials cost dependent on the project, aprox. $10 to $30.