All Skill Levels, All Ages, this is a Family Class, Ages 5 & Up
Open to Active Duty, Retired, Veteran, and Family and Care-givers to Military

Instructors will vary

These workshop experiences are deigned to be fun-filled, art-making, experiences for the whole family. This is not a class where you drop off the kids- in this experience, the family joins and journeys into the creative world together! Join our talented Art Instructors as they guide you through painting and mixed media exercises where you’ll create a unique work-of-art ready to take home at the end of the workshop. Topics will vary but one thing is for sure – you WILL have fun! These experiences, supplies, facilities and art instruction are made possible through generous donations, fundraising, and grants. Please consider supporting this Initiative to allow us to continue offering these experiences! Due to the high demand of these workshops, they often fill up fast, so please register early. If the workshop is full, we can place you on a waiting list in case a family must drop the course. If you are enrolling a child (Ages 5 and up) it is required that a parent or guardian take the course with them. Please email registrar@workhousearts.org for more information.

Winter Quarter: One day, all workshops run 11am-1pm

Saturday February 29 - Artist Denise Phalan, Topic- Paper-making, located in building W-5
Saturday March 7 - Artist Wendy Anderson, Topic- Origami, located in building W-10

Saturday March 14 - Artist David Vickers, Topic- Collage, located in building W-5
Saturday March 21 - Artist David Vickers, Topic- Model-Magic Sculpture, located in building W-5
Saturday March 28 - Artist Denise Phalan, Topic- Circle Book-making, located in building W-5

Tuition: FREE for Active Duty, Veteran, Retired Veteran, and Family of Military
Special Note: Students MUST register 72 hours in advance! Please register as early as possible to ensure your seat! You can register for any one workshop day or as many as you like.

Materials: All Provided by the WMAI

All Skill Levels, Ages 10 through Adult
Instructors: Marilyn Peppers-Citizen and Erin Clarke
If you are a Veteran, Active Duty or Retired, caregiver, or family member you have a spot in Artistic Innovation. Get ready to take your yoga off the mat and into the art studio. Quiet the mind to get in touch with your intuition. Inspire creative ideas. Your instructors are wellness professionals dedicated to helping individuals achieve their wellness goals. Each workshop contains 55 minutes of Yoga, multiple breaks, an artistic activity and time for reflection. If you are enrolling a child (Ages 10 and up) it is required that a parent or guardian take the course with them. All workshops run 2pm to 5pm, contain a yoga sequence followed by an artistic expression activity that are designed with a specific theme.

Winter Series - With winter here, the natural world is withdrawing, going dormant, and embracing a long, dark, season of slumber. Winter is characterized by stillness and a subtle invitation to redirect our own energies. This time is an antidote for the fast-paced mobility of the summer and fall. It is time to rest, reflect, hold space, vision, hibernate, withdraw some of your outwardly-focused energy and redirect it inward.

Saturday, January 11– Theme: Wisdom
Saturday, February 8 – Theme: Courage
Saturday, March 14 – Theme: Temperance

All workshops run 2pm-5pm
Tuition: FREE to all Active Duty, Veteran, Retired Veteran and Family of Military

Special Note: Students MUST register 48 hours in advance! Please register as early as possible to ensure your seat! You can register for any one workshop day or as many as you like.

Materials: All Provided by the WMAI, wear comfortable clothing.
Location: W-11

Beginner to Advanced Skill Level: Ages 18 and older
Open to all Service members whether retired, active or Veteran.
Not open to family members.
Instructor: Hadrian Mendoza
The class is designed to be a component to the Military in the Arts Initiative here at the Workhouse. This class is appropriate for anyone with beginning through advanced hand-building and/or wheel-throwing skills or the complete newbie that would like to try working in clay. Even military members already possessing skills in working with clay will be able to engage themselves in increasing their technical, firing and surface decorating knowledge. General focus will be on the continued development of design, with either functional or non-functional forms, as well as construction, glazing and firing processes to bring forth their own ideas, influences and personal style.

Spring Quarter: 6 weeks
Begins Sunday April 19, 7pm-9:30pm
Registration through Wait List only.
To be placed on the wait list for this class, please email debrabalestreri@workhousearts.org

Tuition: FREE to Active Duty, Veteran, Retired Veteran (Not open to Family Members)

Materials: All Provided by the WMAI

Location: W-8

NOTE- NEW COURSE POLICY:

Military students can register for the free Sunday night ceramics class up to two consecutive times. After their second quarter in the class they are not permitted to re-enroll in this free class for at least two quarters. This will allow new Military students a chance to take the course.

Due to the popularity and demand for help through this program: student(s) must commit to attending all 6 meetings for these 6 week classes.  We ask that if anyone thinks they will be  unable to attend two or more classes that they wait until their schedule is amenable to attend for all 6 weeks. This will allow another individual on the wait-list to attend these special classes.

Beginner Skill Level: Adults
Open to all Service members whether retired, active or Veteran.
Not open to family members.

Instructors: STAFF

Would you like to learn basic flameworking and to give it a try before taking a more in-depth class? Don’t know if you’d like to learn bead making or sculptural work? Don’t know what flameworking, soft glass or boro glass means? This may be the class for you. We will explore the very basics and get you started on the flameworking torch with an introduction to both main types of flameworking glasses. Learn how to safely operate a torch and annealing kiln. Learn the difference between soft and hard glass. How to make basic beads and some basic shapes in Borosilicate glass work. Students will make a variety of objects that will gain them knowledge in glass types, glass terms, and starter techniques. This class is intended for complete beginners who have never been on a torch or taken a flameworking class.

Spring Quarter: 6 weeks

Begins Sunday April 19, 10am -12:30pm

Registration through Wait List only.
To be placed on the wait list for this class, please email debrabalestreri@workhousearts.org

Tuition: FREE to Active Duty, Veteran, Retired Veteran (Not open to Family Members)

Materials: All Provided by the WMAI

Location: W-7, 711

NOTE- NEW COURSE POLICY:

Military students can register for the free Sunday night glass class up to two consecutive times. After their second quarter in the class they are not permitted to re-enroll in this free class for at least two quarters. This will allow new Military students a chance to take the course.

Due to the popularity and demand for help through this program: student(s) must commit to attending all 6 meetings for these 6 week classes.  We ask that if anyone thinks they will be  unable to attend two or more classes that they wait until their schedule is amenable to attend for all 6 weeks. This will allow another individual on the wait-list to attend these special classes.

All Skill Levels, Ages 14 through Adult
Instructor: Adam & Donna Porras
The Workhouse Arts Center has partnered with Recovery Forge for Metal Forging! If you are a Military Veteran, Active Duty or Retired, every weekend from Spring through Fall join Adam Porras of Recovery Forge for free open studio time in forging. Recovery Forge's main mission is to teach blacksmithing and bladesmithing to Wounded Warriors, Active Military, Veterans, and First Responders. Learn more about Recovery Forge and "like" their Facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/recoveryforge