Tag: learning about art

Centre for the Arts and Artists 501 W 3rd St N, Newton, IA 50208 Instructor: Sophie Parker Learn the fundamentals of creating armatures and working with paper clay! Students will leave with a finished project (with the option to pick their creations up after drying time). If desired, dried sculptures can be painted or left as…

Are you taking yourself and your art too seriously?  Have you become obsessed with perfection? Has painting become hard, or worse, a chore? Do you ever feel your work isn’t “good” enough? Have you lost that “spark” when approaching a blank canvas? Let’s work on that together! New to acrylic (or any) painting? This is a great…

Join us Friday, March 20 from 1-3pm as Maureen Larsson guides us through a special creative printmaking workshop designed to help explore the art of TetraPak printmaking. We will use recycled TetraPak cartons for intaglio etching plates in which the focus will be on etching, scoring, and peeling the foil liner to form a design. From there…

What: A 3-day weekend of artistic community, workshops, talks, and exploration When: July 24-26, 2026 Where: Waterloo Center for the Arts Full details and registration info here

Join us as Hannah Claire leads us through a mindset and creativity workshop, because what is art without creativity?! Hannah will guide us through approaches to mindset and tapping into our creativity through guiding everyone through a simple acrylic painting of beautiful Aurora Borealis. Register by 9/20/25: https://forms.gle/rHGh8JRyZGiuXJSW6 Find additional details here