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The Bascom is working towards creating a more integrated and user-friendly experience for our visitors. Please read the following information to familiarize yourself with the process.
How does it work?
Whenever you register for a class or workshop online, you'll be prompted to create a user account during the registration process. The information you provide there can then be used to log in here.
- Register for a Workshop
- Create your username and password during the registration process
- Check your email (Don't see it in your inbox? Check your junk/spam folder and mark it as not junk/spam)
- Click on the activation link in the email and... Voila! You're good to go!
Killer Paintings While Playing and Growing with Bill Davidson
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This comprehensive workshop introduces a structured yet flexible approach to painting that strengthens creativity, decision-making, and confidence. Participants will explore tools for design, value, color harmony, and expressive paint application, encouraging a freer, more playful approach to their work.
Intro to Watercolor I: Learning the Strokes
Artists will have the opportunity to try their hand at watercolor, learning a variety of Watercolor strokes. Guided by your experienced instructor, Caryn Raming, this workshop is perfect for those who haven’t tried watercolor in a while, or those who are brand new to the medium!
All Materials are provided – just bring your willingness to learn. Come ready to paint, explore, and grow your skills in a supportive, creative environment.
Intro to Watercolor III: Practicing Skills
Expand your watercolor confidence in this hands-on workshop designed for adults with beginner-level experience. Guided by your experienced instructor, Caryn Raming, you'll use your foundational knowledge of strokes and washes to create watercolor paintings. This session is perfect if you've painted in watercolor before and are ready to strengthen your technique through practice and guidance.
All materials will be provided—just bring your favorite brushes, paints, or tools, and a willingness to learn. Come ready to paint, explore, and grow your skills in a supportive, creative environment.
3-Day Expressive Painting Workshop with Dmitri Wright
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Join Master Impressionist Dmitri Wright for a three-day workshop exploring the expressive evolution of Impressionist painting, from observation to personal vision. Through plein air practice and artist journaling, participants will deepen creative insight and expand their artistic voice. Open to all skill levels.
Sculpting Stories in Clay
All skill levels are welcome to join ceramic artist Taylor Robenalt for a three-day workshop exploring storytelling through clay. Participants will learn hand-building techniques for creating narrative-driven sculptures, with demonstrations focused on constructing symbolic forms such as flora and fauna, refining surfaces, and assembling complex forms using coil, slab, and pinch methods.
Bark to Basket Workshop with The Primitive Arts' Andrew Lee
Wet Carved Concrete Workshop with Elder Jones
This three-day workshop with Elder Jones of Sandpudding Studio guides participants through the complete process of creating a personalized concrete object, such as a planter or small sculpture. Through hands-on instruction, participants will learn material preparation, casting, wet carving, and finishing techniques. All tools and materials are provided.
Adult Printmaking: Garden Party Monoprints
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.
Contemporary Landscape Painting using Traditional and Abstract Techniques with Chris Groves
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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.
Sculpting Animal Vessels
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.
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Visit: 323 Franklin Road
Highlands, NC 28741 (Map It)
Call: 828-526-4949 (Main)
828-787-2892 (Ceramics Studio)

This project was supported by the North Carolina Arts Council, a division of the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources. Learn more at NCArts.org

Funded in part by a grant from South Arts in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts. Learn more at SouthArts.org.

Funding is due in part to a Tourism Grant with Visit Highlands, NC. Learn more HighlandsChamber.org