Celebrate the season by making Holiday Cards with Caryn Ramning, exploring printmaking, collage, and mixed media to create one-of-a-kind handmade greetings perfect for sharing.

Supplies included.

Step into the world of imaginative clay sculpture with artists Christine and Taylor in this four day workshop devoted to creating woodland beings, with special attention to owls and hares. Through demonstrations and guided studio time, participants will explore approaches that foreground gesture, character, and narrative, learning how subtle shifts in posture, proportion, and expression can transform form into story.

Skip the big-box lines and spend Black Friday weekend at The Bascom. The Holiday Market stays open both days with hot chocolate and cookies, a selfie station, and letters to Santa. Children (and the young at heart) are invited to write to Santa and send their letters straight to the North Pole, a playful stop that doubles as a holiday photo opportunity and a keepsake for the season. Free and open to the public.

Fun for all ages! Gingerbread designers will find a buffet of all the sweets and confections needed to decorate imaginative gingerbread houses.  Participants may enter their creations in a contest to be judged by popular vote. The winner will receive a Bascom art by appointment gift certificate!

Each registration reserves one gingerbread house. Please register for how many gingerbread houses your family will require. 

Children must be accompanied by an adult. 

Fun for all ages! Gingerbread designers will find a buffet of all the sweets and confections needed to decorate imaginative gingerbread houses.  Participants may enter their creations in a contest to be judged by popular vote. The winner will receive a Bascom art by appointment gift certificate!

Each registration reserves one gingerbread house. Please register for how many gingerbread houses your family will require. 

Children must be accompanied by an adult. 

Bring your friends along to this paint-along experience with Caryn Raming where you will paint a winter scene step-by-step!

Wine, supplies, and good times included.

Warm up at The Bascom after the Highlands Christmas Parade, presented by Visit Highlands. Stop by for a reception featuring a trunk show, hot chocolate, cookies, and cheese straws while you browse handcrafted gifts from local and regional artists. Free and open to the public.

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.

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.

Various approaches to painting the abstract will be covered throughout these 6 online
sessions, designed to inspire exploration beyond the representational environment. Beginning
with a series of mark-making exercises using graphite and charcoal, the artists will further
explore line, form, and pattern to create spatial relationships within a compositional structure.
Color theory, design, visual and physical reaction, process, and individual taste, will additional
be covered in order to establish a ‘personal’ voice within the language of abstraction.
Approaching abstraction from a ‘pure’ internal vantage point, as well as using a variety of
reference that exists around us, will be explored as a way to develop into the abstract territory.
These methods of approach and reasoning will guide the artists into designing their own process
of working abstractly. Various tools and mediums will also be introduced to help push variety
and expansion toward artists intention of the final painting. While all mediums are welcome, oil
and acrylic will be used during the lecture and demos.
Whether you want to paint purely abstract or not, the foundation and structure to solid
painting is based on simple elements and principles of abstraction. This class will end with
discussion on critiquing your own work, as well as finish and presentation. Each sessions will
have a lecture, various demos, and individual critiques that will be submitted before each online
class. All sessions will be recorded so they can be watch at a future date if needed.