Celebrate the colors and textures of summer while exploring monoprinting techniques in a fun, hands-on workshop. Using flowers, leaves, and other garden materials, students will learn the basics of gelli plate printmaking and experiment with printing on one of The Bascom’s presses.

This beginner-friendly class requires no prior experience and results in vibrant prints that can be enjoyed on their own or used as inspiration for future art projects.

Ages 7-12

 Make your own customized toad abode for all your amphibious friends. Student work will be available for pickup or shipping two to three weeks after class.

Suitable for ages 6 and up. 

Celebrate the colors and textures of summer while exploring monoprinting techniques to create unique works in ink. Using flowers, leaves, and other garden materials, participants will learn the basics of gelli plate printmaking and experiment with printing on one of The Bascom’s presses.

This hands-on, beginner-friendly workshop requires no prior experience and produces vibrant prints that can be enjoyed on their own or used as inspiration for future prints and collages.

Supplies incluced.

Try out making pottery on the wheel. Students will practice the basics of learning to center and throwing small bowls, cups and plates. Work will be fired and glazed after the class and be available for pickup or shipping three weeks after class ends.

Suitable for ages 10-18

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This workshop with Chris Groves blends the fundamentals of classical landscape painting with principles of abstraction to encourage a looser, more expressive approach. Through mark-making, color studies, compositional exploration, and demonstrations, participants will push beyond the obvious while developing larger-scale works. Experimentation with oil paint, cold wax, and Galkyd is included, with frequent individual guidance throughout.

Join us for an immersive dive into learning how to transform your pots into sculptural animal vessels! Using techniques of throwing and hand-building, students will form vessels that incorporate animal figures by sculpting, carving, and alteration. Instruction will cover basic sculpting techniques such as the hollowing method and how to give the animals expression and defining characteristics such as eyes, ears, and motion. Katie will work individually with each student to help create a pleasing composition, structural integrity and visual interest in their artworks. Class will also include guidance about different ways to glaze and fire the finished work. A basic ability to throw or hand-build a vessel is necessary, students can be beginners at sculpting.

Square dancing has been part of life on the Highlands-Cashiers Plateau for generations, from Helen's Barn's fifty-plus summers of music and dance to this annual evening on the Bascom campus. Jackson Grimm's Old Time Machine provides live music, and caller Harrison Keely walks dancers of every experience level through traditional squares and reels. No partner or experience required.

The Bascom, in collaboration with Highlands Sotheby's, will present a meet and greet reception with Brad Allyn Jay Friday, August 7th from 4:30 - 6 pm at Highlands Sotheby's. A selection of the artist's work will be available for purchase. Additionally, more works are available at The Bascom.

Learn to make pinch pots and turn them into an animal, real or imaginary. Students can bring a stuffed animal or picture from home to use for reference if desired.  Work will be available for pickup or shipping two to three weeks after class

Ages:

6 and up 

In this 5 day class, we will use the slab roller to create Flower Bricks and Single Stem Dahlia Vases.  We will create templates, roll slabs, use texture pads, rollers, etc and then use the templates to cut the clay pieces to put together for make the shapes.  The class includes Open Studio only on the day of class.  There is no glazing component to this class.  Please see Glazing Class in the Resident Artist Schedule.