Sawdust Art Festival's all-new 2012 Spring Into Art class schedule begins next weekend! REGISTER before the classes fill!

These popular two-day weekend art workshops offer students one-on-one instruction with Sawdust artists covering a wide range of hands-on art classes in many exciting art mediums including ceramics, glassblowing, jewelry, painting, textiles and much more. Workshops are held weekends: April 14-29, 2012. A continental breakfast will be provided at morning check-ins.

REGISTER for 2012 Spring Into Art before they fill! Check out schedule of classes below:


This is a three-hour class on Digital Photography for beginners.
Learn the art of seeing light, while also having those pesky technical questions answered in plain English! Please bring your digital camera, the manual it came with, and, if you have one, a laptop. Wear shoes for walking. We will spend time in the classroom covering the basics for using your digital camera and some of the "art" of photography. You will also receive a handout to take home with you to help remember all we cover.

Then we’ll get outside and practice what you’ve learned, before returning to the class and uploading the images to a computer for viewing and discussion. Please feel free to make a list of any questions you have about digital photography and email them to Mary, one week prior to the class: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . You may also check out her work at windswept.smugmug.com.

April 14 from 1-4 PM, $85
April 15 from 1-4 PM, $85

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Learn to gather glass from the furnace and shape it into paper weights, shapes, vases, cups and more. With over 20 years experience, our professional glassblowers will teach students how to blow glass and experience the process of turning molten glass into awesome works of art. Hands-on basic and intermediate skills in glassblowing. At the end of the weekend students will leave with artwork they have personally created.

April 14 & 15 from 9AM-4PM, $265 - Christopher Jeffries
April 21 & 22 from 9AM-4PM, $265 - Gavin H/Muffin S
April 28 & 29 from 9AM-4PM, $265 - Jason McQuaid

This two-day workshop introduces students to the basics of creating a realistic and accurate watercolor painting of a natural history subject, such as a bird or a botanical. Day one will begin with fieldwork where students will gain an understanding of how to document specimens in the field in order to be able to accurately depict details of color and form once back in the studio. During the remainder of the workshop, students will work from an instructor-selected photograph to create a watercolor painting incorporating a variety of techniques from applying a graded wash to doing tight drybrush detail work.

April 28 & 29 from 9AM-4PM, $165

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