Only Open to Active Duty, Retired, Veteran, and Family and Care-givers to Military
Skill Levels: Beginner

This workshop is deigned to be fun-filled, art-making, experiences for the whole family. Join our talented Art Instructors as they guide you through mixed media exercises where you’ll create a unique work-of-art by the completion of the workshop. Topics will vary but one thing is for sure – you WILL have fun! These experiences 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. Please email registrar@workhousearts.org for more information.

Due to current COVID operational guidelines, space is drastically limited to only 9 students. All members of the family must register for a seat. We can not allow drop-ins. Students must register 48 hours in advance.

One Day Workshop

Saturday November 21, 11am -1pm - Instructor David Vickers - Let’s sculpt with Model Magic to create from a choice of fun holiday themed items including mini-cornucopias, small flower arrangements , and cookie refrigerator magnets! 

Tuition: FREE 

Location: W-3, 304

WMAI provides free, weekly therapeutic and/or fine arts Open Studio opportunities that are exclusive to the military community for veterans to explore their creativity through structured and open-ended art experiences such as painting, sculpture and drawing. Open Studio sessions are intended to foster creativity and encourage experimentation in a safe, communal atmosphere of cultural exchange, conversation, and freedom of expression. Open Studio occurs every Saturday from 12-3PM in Warrior Way Art Studio in Building W-16. The second Saturday in each month is Family Open Studio Day, where veterans bring family members for a day of military family creativity. No previous art experience is necessary.

*Due to COVID-19 safety guidelines, seating will be limited to 6 persons and registration is NOW required.  Please remember to cancel the day before if you cannot attend so others can RSVP.

Start Date:

Saturday November 7, 12pm - 3pm (VETERANS ONLY)

Saturday November 14, 12pm - 3pm (FAMILY & VETERANS)

Saturday November 21, 12pm - 3pm (VETERANS ONLY)

Saturday November 28, 12pm - 3pm CANCELLED for Holiday

Tuition: FREE to Veterans, Active Duty, Retired Armed Forces Personnel and their immediate families.

Materials: All Provided, please review the COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Program at the Workhouse Arts Center website here: CLICK HERE and in your confirmation email.

All children under 18 MUST be accompanied by a parent or guardian during their entire attendance in the Open Studio session time slot.

Open to Active Duty, Retired, and Veteran

Instructor Neil Goodman, Certified Meditation Instructor

This two-session class will examine various approaches that have been successfully utilized to reduce stress which appears to be at an alarmingly high and increasing level in America as well as in our world!  It has been reported that American corporations and businesses are spending upwards of 300 billion dollars every year on injuries, illnesses and absenteeism due to stress. These high levels of stress which have been associated on one hand with military combat Veterans as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), are in some ways, not so different from the levels of stress resulting from the pressures that elderly citizens, surviving spouses, and care givers face from daily exposure to something we call “LIFE”. In addition, the technological complexity, financial pressures of retirement, multitasking, and medical conditions of aging all come under the condition of simply being ‘present’ in today’s environment. In class we will examine the use of several powerful tools, some of which we have come to know as Mindfulness Meditation, Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) and the Heart Coherence procedure from the HeartMath Institute. These are the keys to reducing components of debilitating stress. They will lead us through a greater balance of health and wellness as we experience challenges associated with living in these times.

Neil Goodman is a disabled Vietnam Veteran who has been a corporate trainer, massage therapist, certified meditation instructor, Reiki practitioner, and life coach.  He has developed several curriculums for stress reduction and conducted mindfulness meditation workshops for over 26 years in Northern Virginia and the DC metropolitan area. He currently volunteers with the DC V.A. Hospital, at Fort Belvoir with military and Veteran populations as well as with their mental health clinicians that serve our active military and Veterans. He also volunteers at local Sunrise Senior Centers and The Fairfax County Adult Detention Center, teaching prisoners the protocols previously mentioned

Fall Quarter: Two days, online

Saturday November 28 and Saturday December 5, 10am -11:30am

Tuition: FREE to Active Duty, Veteran, Retired Veteran

Class will meet on Zoom.
After you receive a confirmation email for your class you will receive a second email from your instructor with a private link to attend the special course via the ZOOM platform! Curious how to use Zoom? Click here to learn how to join your class using Zoom. If you have any questions please email registrar@workhousearts.org.

Students MUST register 48 hours in advance! Please register as early as possible to ensure your seat!

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

Instructor: Tracey Howard

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.

Fall Quarter: 6 weeks

Begins Sunday January 17, 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- COURSE POLICY:

Military students can register for the free Sunday 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 one quarter. 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 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.

Fall Quarter: 6 weeks
Begins Sunday January 17, 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- 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 one quarter. 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.