Past Programs
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| Art Medium | Class Title | Faculty | Season | Year | Duration | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fabric Arts | Slow Sitching | Alicia O-Dell | Fall | 2023 | 7 days | This class will cover basic hand sewing techniques, the philosophy of slow stitching, and principles of design. This course invites participants to explore slow stitching as a contemplative practice. Slow stitching is a process of needlework or hand sewing, similar to traditional embroidery or hand quilting, but without restrictions. The practice consists of repetitive strokes and stitches which can create a soothing and comforting sense of calmness. Throughout the course, we will utilize the Guild’s natural setting to both ground and inspire ourselves in our process. At the end of the course, participants will have a foundational understanding of the slow stitch approach, hand sewing techniques, and increased awareness of their unique creative language. Participants will begin with basic stitching techniques and then be given prompts and limitations to develop their unique practice. Class time will include ample project time. Participants will create a collaborative quilt for the guild. |
| Enameling | Cloisonne: The Elegance of Glass on Metal | Jean Tudor | Fall | 2023 | 7 days | “Color! Color! Color! It starts with color. The gorgeous jewel-like colors of glass on metal. The pleasure of looking through transparents to the underlying metal, to what happens beneath the layers of color. Line, pattern, texture, contrasts quickly become an integral part of the whole…” Explore color and the process behind cloisonne wth Jean Tudor. During this class, students will learn about all aspects of making cloisonne enamel works, including: Choosing and making a cloisonne design, color choice, preparing copper + colors, inlaying ground glass, firing the work, finishing + polishing. All levels of skill and experience are welcome! |
| Ceramics | An Introduction to Ceramics: From Hand to Kiln | Shan Wang | Fall | 2023 | 7 days | Are you curious about ceramics, but haven’t had the resources, time, or space to explore? Try a little bit of everything! This 5-day class will delve into the basics of wheel-throwing, hand-building, and glazing pottery. Learn how to sculpt, cut, carve, and imprint objects in clay with your hands and various pottery tools. Build foundations while getting insight into the wonderful world of clay! Students will start with two days of wheel-throwing and trimming, a day of hand-building, a day to finish pieces and ample open studio time to practice. This class is also a great chance for those with prior experience to review, practice, and build upon pottery skills. |
| Ceramics | Hanging Clay: Crazy Pots the Old Fashioned Way | Alexander Karl Vincent Kamola | Fall | 2023 | 3 days | Feel and sculpt with clay in a way never before imagined! Hanging clay is a three-day workshop about hand sculpting pots full of dynamic composition, movement, and life. Participants will get the opportunity to learn and explore a variety of hand-building techniques unique to ceramics. Each day will focus on a different part of the sculpting process. |
| Fabric Arts | The Creative Self: Movement, Meditation + Making | Freia Groves, Domi Davant | Fall | 2023 | 6 days | This workshop will cover the basics of natural dyeing with an emphasis on the design process from inspiration to execution. Participants will learn how to mordant, gain familiarity with different types of plant and natural dyes (some, being local), and explore pattern making, printing, and shibori folding. Participants will also explore movement through yoga and meditation amidst the natural landscape of the Guild campus. This is a course for those interested in reconnecting with their body through gentle movement and meditation, while exploring their own creative expression. All experience levels welcome. |
| Painting | Contemporary Iconography in Egg Tempera | Amy Foster | Summer | 2023 | 7 days | Merging botanical and liturgical art, students will engage in a contemporary icon project featuring St. Francis. Using a traditional icon depiction of the figure of St. Francis, we will learn how interacting with creation was central to St Francis’ relationship to Christ and follow his example through our own “visual foraging” of nature and creation around us. |
| Photography | Portraiture: The Empathetic Lens | Jessica Holleque | Summer | 2023 | 7 days | Behind the lens, we become the storytellers for the people in front of our cameras. This workshop is an opportunity to learn and discuss in community, how to find the place where we weave together our own stories with that of the subjects in front of us to create photographs that feel universal. Together we will explore ways to work from an empathetic lens, empower our subjects, and map a road to honest image-making. The days will include group discussions, self-portraiture exercises, exploration of personal projects, and an invitation to use the tools we’ve learned in your own photo sessions. |
| Stained Glass | Glass Mosaic: Wholeness from the Broken Bits | Jill Ross | Summer | 2023 | 7 days | Participants will learn techniques to create at least one grouted glass mosaic on a framed substrate, or a series of mosaics based on a simple theme. We will explore design by looking at patterns, color, and composition. Participants will be encouraged to focus on the natural world around the Guild for inspiration. They will learn to confidently use tools, adhere their work, and finish their pieces with grout. Together, we will create a collegial and collaborative space to support each other through a week spent expanding our creativity. All levels of experience are encouraged to attend. The materials we will be using will become part of the collaboration and at the end of the course, many small pieces of glass will come together and make a whole. |
| Stained Glass | The Happy Couple: When Glass Meets Grout | Janet Gruman | Summer | 2023 | 7 days | Students will be invited to consider the abstract as a spiritual practice during their design process. They will use color, line, shape, and negative space to create an abstract design with stained glass and grout. What makes this stained glass class unique? The ability, freedom, and challenge of shaping negative space with the interplay of glass and grout is part of the play! Learn about how grout becomes part of the overall design, lending its color and texture in fun and interesting ways. |
| Mixed Media | Leporello Journals + Surface Techniques | Mary McLeod | Summer | 2023 | 7 days | Students will explore a number of mediums during the creation of their leporello book, which will take the form of a hand-sewn journal. Various surface techniques will be created using watercolor, acrylic ink/paint, a variety of inks, drawing tools, and collage. This is a class for those who want to explore a number of different techniques while playing in and with their process. |
| Ceramics | Wallowing: The Joy of Manipulating Mud on the Potters Wheel | Mike Caemmerer | Summer | 2023 | 7 days | There is nothing quite like the feeling of getting elbow deep in mud and manipulating the madness into wonderful forms. Over the course of this class, students will push themselves to create unique work that challenges both their ability to throw larger pieces and their ingenuity to creatively alter those forms. Students will play with fluting, scalloping, cutting, handling, kidding, and otherwise building on to their wheel-thrown work. |
| Cyber Studio | Cyber Studio 3-Day Intensive | Adele Caemmerer | Summer | 2023 | 3 days | Have a project you want to start or finish? Something you have always wanted to explore? Not sure what you want to do, but longing for the time and focus to figure it out? Just love creative company? This Cyberstudio experience might just be for you. Inspired by an ongoing year round program at the Guild, this intensive Cyberstudio will support your creative process in your own space with your own stuff, making it all the more likely to sustain. Each day we will meet on Zoom for both group and individual work time. All creative disciplines are welcome, however you define that. While there is no direct instruction, 1:1 support is available for ideas and direction as needed. Interspersed through out the days will be opportunities to reflect on creative process, how we approach it, and what sustains it in our lives. |
| Ceramics, Drawing, Printing | Family Camp: Art for All! | Nicki Lang, Sarah Sprouse, Shan Wang | Summer | 2023 | 4 days | Join 3 spectacular teachers for this exploratory Family Camp! This program is designed for all ages and all levels of art experience. Participants will have the opportunity to explore three different art processes: block printing, working with clay, and nature drawing. The minimum age of participants is 5 years old. All children must register and attend Family Camp with an adult. |
| Photography | Seeds of Resistance: Photography as Spiritual Practice | Emilie Bouvier | Summer | 2023 | 7 days | This class will explore photographic processes as practice for reflection and resilience. Rooted at the intersections of justice movements, spiritual grounding, and creative expression, we will delve into process-oriented methods for making photographs. Using a variety of techniques, ranging from historic process to cellphones and printmaking to collage, we will explore the interplay of light/shadow, water/material, and digital/analogue. Weaving together photographic processes, stories, and reflective prompts, we will talk of ancestors and watersheds, ash and seeds, civil rights, sacred glimmers, vulnerability, and contemplative resistance. Each day learning a new method for creating or working with photographs, we will cultivate series of small prints, layered elements, and writing. Every technique becomes a practice that invites new exploration and reflection, culminating in a final collage piece that reflects the journey. Together we will approach image-making as a practice to tend our roots and ground ourselves in justice-seeking, contemplation, curiosity, and healing. |
| Fiber Arts | The Wonderful World of Felting | Mary Ann Sinclair, Angela Mietzke | Summer | 2023 | 7 days | This class will be team taught by Mary Ann Sinclair and Angela Mietzke, with assistant Rebecca Sinclair. You will gain exposure to different felting techniques: dry felting (needle felting), wet felting, and a combination of both. A perk for this class ONLY is the opportunity to use some of the wool that belonged to beloved Grunewald Guild co-founder, Liz Caemmerer. Bring some of her spirit and charism into your own creation! Her wool is mostly white and can be a foundational part of your work. Other hand-dyed wools in various colors from Mary Ann’s personal stash will be provided for your works. Simple intro: We’ll start by “playing” with wool, to experience the felting process by felting some wool to felt around a bar of soap (similar to a loofa), or felting a reusable dryer ball which replaces dryer sheets. Then we’ll move right into our first real project. Project #1 is creating a flower in layered felting. Project #2 is making a 12″ x 72″ Nuno scarf by felting wool and silk together for a lightweight scarf. Project #3 per Angela? Felting is a fairly simple process, but time consuming. Expect to spend a minimum of 4 hours creating each project. Your choice of colors and designs will result in your projects being unique to yourself. |
| Painting | Knives Out: Exploring Texture and Light | Shan Wang | Summer | 2023 | 7 days | Knives Out: Exploring Texture and Light, is an acrylic painting class focused on painting with palette knives. This class will cover acrylic painting mediums used to change the texture of paint along with different ways to use palette knives. We will explore how palette knives can shape paint through application, smoothing, pushing, lifting, and scraping. We will observe how changing the texture of paint affects how light interacts with the surface. This interaction influences our perceptions of colors and shades. Participants will begin with looking at some examples of texture in well known paintings then have the chance to observe texture in nature and landscapes. Once participants have played with different techniques there will be time to paint subjects of their choice. |
| Painting | Watercolor in the Sacred Milieu | Kristen Gilje | Summer | 2023 | 7 days | Come play in a sacred realm of divine color! Let’s pay close attention to our paints, paper, and brushes, and to our hand movements as we paint. We’ll attempt deep observation of both our exterior surroundings and our interior emotional and prayer lives, to invite the sacred into our painting time. In this week-long workshop, we will learn techniques to control our medium just enough, while allowing watercolor to do what it does best – to move and mix and be beautiful no matter what we do to it. Each morning will start in the studio with a painting demonstration, followed by time to paint. We will explore the individual character of our paint colors, learning a bit about where each pigment comes from to appreciate their source as part of sacred creation. We will use simple drawing techniques to help us see more deeply the sacred essence of what we observe. And we will use simple watercolor techniques to pull it all together on paper. |
| Ceramics | Ceramics: Intro to Closed Containers and Lidded Vessels | Ron Cole | Summer | 2023 | 7 days | In this class, we will explore wheel-thrown ceramic forms that serve as containers. From the flange of a lid to the shoulder of a jar, students will learn the parts of and how to create a variety of lid types and fit them to their adjoining vessels. We will also discuss the various quirks of creating containers for specific items such as sugar, honey, or tea. There are many ways to throw a pot, and many more ways to fill them! Class time may begin with a small quote or reading to get creative juices flowing! Then the instructor will go into a demonstration/instruction time where he will give a project for the morning. After the demonstration/instructional time, the rest of the morning will be time to work on projects and pieces. Depending on the day, there may be a demo, project time, another demo, and then more project time. The goal will be to provide as much time as possible for the student to create! |
| Writing | Writing Your Cultural Story | Tamisha Tyler | Summer | 2023 | 7 days | In this class we will explore, share, and celebrate our unique cultural stories: the particular blend of influences that have shaped us into the people we are today. Through guided writing exercises, meditation, and class discussion, we will explore the broad theme of “culture” and how our unique experiences have influenced our understanding of ourselves, our faith journeys, and our sense of belonging. |
| Drawing | Connecting Hand, Eye, and Soul Through Nature Drawing | Oriana Sage | Summer | 2023 | 7 days | Learn to unlock your unique drawing ability through observational hand-eye connection, as you create nature ink drawings with freedom, personality, and intentional observation. The exercises used will allow you to let go of what you think you see and capture the true essence of what you are actually drawing. In this class, we will embrace the beauty of imperfection, capture shape and detail with simplicity, let go of drawing frustrations, and transform a simple drawing into a whimsical and meaningful piece of art. We will learn fundamental drawing elements as we explore observation, pattern, color, and design found in nature. |
| Painting | Watercolor Cosmos | Vonda Drees | Summer | 2023 | 7 days | The mysteries of the Cosmos and the magical medium of watercolor come together in this offering! One of Vonda’s secret loves while serving at the Guild was the Perseid meteor shower in late July and August. She describes the experience, “a sacred game of hide and seek with flashes of fire darting across the night sky.” Perhaps you have marveled over NASA’s images of outer space? Some are almost beyond imagination. In this class, we will learn how to paint watercolor galaxies. Watercolors are the perfect medium for this luminous work because depth and vibrancy are created when the paint flows naturally into a dance of cosmic mystery. |
| Drawing | Drawing From Where You Are | Adele Caemmerer | Summer | 2023 | 7 days | In this course we will explore drawing as a practice of “being”- being where we are, being with what we notice, and being with our unique visual language of expression. Using our immediate environment as a source, we will work with the fundamentals of drawing to observe and describe what we see. Through exercises and prompts we will develop our perceptual abilities, and explore techniques, and test expressive possibilities with materials and composition. |
| Writing | Creative Writing for the Self | Magda Manning | Summer | 2023 | 7 days | Is there a story you’ve been longing to write, but something has been holding you back? Maybe you aren’t a writer, there’s a boundary you’re afraid to cross in your work, or you feel stuck worrying about an audience. This class will focus on generative self-reflection, creative risk taking, and an environment where sharing is welcome, but not required, so we can feel comfortable stretching our own boundaries without the risk of crossing them. We will explore how writing for ourselves, and with ourselves, can give us the freedom to write without inhibitions, and create a sense of belonging in our own creative process. We will focus on place building, sensory detail, and memory to bring our inner words/worlds to the page. |
| Ceramics | Creating Differently: Ceramic Hand Building Through the Lens of Neurodiversity | Nathan Himes | Summer | 2023 | 7 days | Neurodiversity describes the idea that all people think, behave and interact in the world around them in different ways. Within the scope of Neurodiversity is “Neurodivergent”, a term used to describe those with neurological or developmental conditions such as ADHD, Autism Spectrum Disorder(ASD), Dyslexia and other mental or neurological conditions. This class will be led by an instructor who was diagnosed with ADHD as an adult, and belongs to a family with a range of Neurodivergent conditions as well. In this class we will create slab and coil based hand built pottery through learning techniques, processes, steps, concepts, and understanding the nature of clay. All while observing how this could be done through the perspective of a neurodiverse and neurodivergent affirming artist. All projects and designs will aim to be mindful of and embrace the fact that all brains and neuro diverse people can share how they think, interact and belong in the world through artistic imagery and expression. All neuro diversities and pottery experience levels are welcome to join this class. |
| Painting | A Sacred Circle of Rhythm | Vonda Drees | Summer | 2023 | 7 days | In this offering, we will practice listening and responding to that inner voice through the art form of mandala and the medium of watercolor. Step-by-step processes will render beautifully harmonious patterns. It is in decorating the patterns that creativity, curiosity, and conversation will come into play. |
| Painting | Everchanging Colors of Art + Faith | Mickey McGrath | Summer | 2023 | 7 days | Half lecture and half hands-on studio time, this four-session class will celebrate the healing power of beauty and prophetic vision through the lives and works of artists and saints. Vincent van Gogh and St. Therese of Lisieux lead us off with their attention to the extraordinary ordinary; Trappist monk Thomas Merton meets Georgia O’Keeffe, both inspired by Buddhist spirituality and the landscape; Einstein and Teilhard de Chardin as well as African-American and Native-American artists and Saints will also be creatively explored. |
| Fiber Arts | The Colorful and the Earthen: Fabric Dyeing with Found Objects | Sara Nordling | Summer | 2023 | 7 days | In this class we will explore a closer connection to the world around us by way of dyeing and eco-printing on fabric. We will use plants both as materials and as inspiration as we work with various methods of re-producing nature on cotton and silk cloth. Time will be spent in walking and gathering, working out designs, experimentation, and production. You will produce at least one piece of cloth and one scarf. Feel free to bring more items (100% cotton or 100% silk) of your own for further use (t-shirts, totes, button down shirts, yardage, scarves are some suggestions). Through this process we will explore our place in the world, our connection to each other and to the special place that is the Guild. |
| Ceramics | Raku Firing Fun! – June | Shan Wang | Summer | 2023 | 7 days | |
| Writing | Finding Your Poetic Voice | Amanda Roth | Summer | 2023 | 7 days | In this course, we will read the work of modern poets who write at the intersections of identity, race, gender, privilege, oppression, and grief. We will also practice writing in a variety of poetic forms, including the sonnet, the abecedarian, the burning haibun, and more. We will participate in guided writing exercises, share our early drafts, and provide positive feedback to our peers. Finally, we will explore various brainstorming practices, including the compost heap and florilegium. Come prepared to write, write, write. |
| Sculpture | Sculpture: Wood + Stone | John Thompson | Summer | 2023 | 7 days | Students will get the opportunity to work with both stone and wood. Local soapstone and possibly some limestone. We will be using mainly hand tools (think Michelangelo) with a few power tools under close supervision. This class can be dirty and dusty but that is what makes it fun! Relief carving and “carving in the round” will be taught, and students may learn how to carve basswood and soapstone (and maybe some limestone and slate, too!). Hand tools and some power tools will be supplied and used. |
| Fiber Arts | Weaving Where You Are | Nancy Marsh, Suzanne Halvorson | Summer | 2023 | 7 days | This weaving course will offer students of all skill levels the opportunity to learn to weave or expand their skills using floor looms. Instructors Nancy and Suzanne have more than a century of weaving and teaching experience between them. Nancy and Suzanne’s longing to pass their legacy onto a new generation of weavers will make this a wholly unique experience. The instructors will provide two projects to choose from their catalog of weave structures. The focus will be on weaving cloth using techniques that will match the skill level and interests of the participants. Students can choose colors from the vast library of yarn available at the Guild. Beginners Welcome. |
| Mixed Media | Art of Discernment | Carla Erickson Orlando | Summer | 2023 | 7 days | This course will introduce a contemplative, creative approach to spiritual decision-making using tools that incorporate topography and layout, visualization, and imagination. Drawn from both Ignatian spirituality and PRH International School of Adult Development, these methods of discernment respect the experience and uniqueness of each person, helping them to make good decisions and to become discerning people. Participants will learn to clarify the various elements and important influences in making a decision, develop the capacity for stepping back from a situation with freedom and experience a greater sense of satisfaction and peace. A different spiritual theme and art medium will be presented each morning, including painting with color, drawing with ink, collage, found objects, and mandala. |
| Songwriting | Songwriting for the Subconscious Mind | Jan Krist | Summer | 2023 | 7 days | Creativity is the mind at play. So often at writers’ retreats, we set out pen to paper, or fingers to keys, with a feeling of anxiousness, hoping we can deliver something out of nothing in the short time we have. Creativity would prefer a less stressful, more playful atmosphere, but too often when the pressure is off, we aren’t listening for the muse, we’re “busy” with other things. For this workshop we’ll look at chords, melody, and words, in playful ways, borrowing cues from some of the most creative writers we know, and managing these materials in childlike ways. We will use the practice of meditation, and morning writing to open ourselves to the creative process, and because so much of that process happens in solitary places, we will spread out and use the whole of the Guild campus; observing, seeing, and recording what the muse has to say. |
| Enameling | Enameling: A Joyous Riot of Color | Jean Tudor | Summer | 2023 | 7 days | The excitement of enameling touches everyone who tries it. There is a joyous riot of color. The strength– and yet pliability–of the metal. The need for control or the need for lack thereof in the manipulation of the materials. The self-satisfaction of learning to handle special tools and materials. The possibility of use of the finished product. The personal satisfaction—the welling up of happiness–when a work comes finished from the kiln. We will be working with the elements of art-making such as line, color, texture, pattern, and shape. By the time we are finished, we will have jewelry and/or small wall pieces. |
| Printmaking | Printmaking: Etching & Drypoint Revealed | John Thompson | Summer | 2023 | 7 days | We will be using “old-traditional” etching processes. You know, the way Rembrandt, Goya, and the masters did their prints. Etching, drypoint, soft-grounds and aquatints will be some of the processes. It is messy! It will be fun. |
| Ceramics | Raku Firing Fun! | Shan Wang | Spring | 2023 | 1 day | |
| Fiber Arts | Mosaic as Fabric Art | Larkin Van Horn | Spring | 2023 | 7 days | Is it mosaic? or is it stained glass? Nope! It’s fabric collage. Come explore a fun and accessible process for bringing your designs to life. We’ll play with color, line and space, and lots of pins! Learn how to work with fusible web and foam core as design tools on your way to a beautiful piece of wall art. Students can choose to bring a sewing machine and complete one piece so it’s ready to hang. Or leave the sewing machine at home and start several designs to be completed later. |
| Mixed Media | Soul Collage® | Laurie Rudel | Spring | 2023 | 7 days | Through the use of images from magazines and calendars, as well as personal images the simple process of SoulCollage® offers us an opportunity to explore the many and varied aspects of our inner lives as well as acknowledge and honor our larger communities of family and friends. Over the course of our week together we will begin to create a “deck” of 5 x 8-inch SoulCollage® Cards that can be used for meditation, prayer, and reflection. |
| Painting | In Conversation: Organics and Geometrics | Scott Burnett | Spring | 2023 | 7 days | Whether we are mindful of it or not, composition is elemental to art-making. This holds true across genres: composition is as essential to abstraction as it is to realism. It is elemental to many other things as well! But our class will focus on acrylic mixed-media art-making. In particular, we will explore the interplay of organic and geometric lines and shapes. Just such a compositional conversation is taking place in the world all the time, and virtually anywhere we might cast our eyes. Sometimes the conversation is marked by clean distinctions and clear contrasts; other times, geometric and organic data interpenetrate one another, yielding contours and forms that evade tidy classification. We will play with these things. And as we play, we will start to acquire a better sense of what delights us, compositionally. |
| Ceramics | Introduction to Ceramics | Shan Wang | Spring | 2023 | 7 days | |
| Ceramics | Raku Week! | Nathan Himes, Shan Wang | Spring | 2023 | 4 days | |
| Painting | Creative Spirits: An Ignatian Retreat for All Saints and All Souls | Joe Orlando, Carla Erickson Orlando and Trung Pham | Fall | 2022 | 2 days | Come away for an enriching fall weekend and in the Ignatian spirit of “finding God in all things” explore how saints and souls, famous and ordinary, have touched and inspired your life. Held in the midst of the beautiful Plain Valley on the banks of the Wenatchee river, this retreat will include times for silent reflection, spiritual direction, and presentations by a three-person team who will share insights on this theme, invite you into your time of quiet, and provide opportunities for creative expression as part of your retreat. See bios below of the presenters, Carla and Joe Orlando and Trung Pham, SJ, who bring a wealth of experience as Ignatian retreat directors and Grunewald Guild faculty members. |
| Drawing, Painting | Mystical Imaginings: Creating Alongside Julian, Hildegard, and Theresa | Kristen Gilje, Ruth Fletcher | Fall | 2022 | 4 days | Although Julian of Norwich, Hildegard of Bingen, and Teresa of Avila lived in different eras and places, all of them encountered the Spirit of God through mystical visions. Those visions comforted and challenged them to live freely and fully within their patriarchal context. We will explore the insights these women mystics shared through their writing, painting, and music, and we will listen to how the Spirit speaks in our own time through nature, art and experiential prayer. In the afternoon studio time we will use watercolor, pen and pencil to respond to the ideas of the morning, and to deepen our own listening for the Spirit through art making. You will make 1-5 finished paintings or drawings, and as many sketches as you like. Beginners through advanced skills are welcome. |
| Drawing | Imaging and Transforming: 2D Design | Adele Caemmerer | Summer | 2022 | 7 days | Explore abstraction through the process of applying “creative triggers” to re-think, re-work, and re-present a subject in fresh and unexpected ways. We will use drawings as our springboard into abstracted compositions. In addition to setting up our projects, and exploring the process of abstraction, attention will be given to alternative ways to develop into a final form. |
| Photograhpy | Thin Places and Photo Creativity | Chuck Kirchner | Summer | 2022 | 7 days | A Thin Place – a place where the veil between heaven and earth, between the sacred and profane, between our creator and ourselves, is lifted and we are at one with the universe. We have all, I hope, felt this once or several or many times in our lives. It could be alone at the ocean, or in the desert, the mountains, or even a cathedral. And, just perhaps, it could be while with another who is in a similar state of seeking – seeking what we may not know but with an openness and experience to seek and commune with our higher power. |
| Painting | Wounded Beauty – Acrylic Painting | Trung Pham | Summer | 2022 | 7 days | Every one of us has been touched or deeply impacted by tragedy. Perhaps the appropriate response to those traumatic experiences is not focusing on the why or what behind the trauma, but the how. How do we transcend our adversity, tragedy and trauma? How do we push forward with our lives after a life-altering trauma? I believe art is a beautiful vehicle that allows healing and transformation to take place. This class will open a space for one to keep in touch deeply with oneself and find meaning through painting. |
| Painting | Mandala as Metaphor: Remembering Ancestors | Vonda Drees | Summer | 2022 | 1 day | Come to this session with an ancestral story to share – just one story that has touched your heart. Receive instructions to create a simple mandala form that can hold names of people, memorable objects, dates/places, etc. During an hour of independent creative time, you will be given the link to an hour-long audio recording called “Rediscovering Our Origins.” MWe will then regather at 11:30am to discuss insights and reflections, as well as share the art we created or have begun to create. In the remaining time, we will continue to work together on our own projects. |
| Painting | Mandala as Metaphor: Becoming Ancestors | Vonda Drees | Summer | 2022 | 1 day | Come to this session with a short summary about the people indigenous to the land on which you now live. (Use the Native Land Digital resource, https://native-land.ca, for your research by entering your zip code into the search bar.) We will work with the mandala in this session as a way to honor future generations. There will be an hour of independent creative time while listening to an hour-long audio recording by Kaitlin B. Curtice, author of Native. At 11:30am we will regather for conversation and continue our creative time together. |
| Ceramics | Glorious Mud: A Pottery Studio Intensive | Mike Caemmerer | Summer | 2022 | 7 days | This week is a chance for potters of all levels to challenge themselves with new forms, styles and sizes of wheel thrown work. There will be daily demos and lessons on a variety of topics including techniques for throwing, handle pulling, playing with form, trimming, altering wheel thrown work and a special session on throwing as meditation. The focus is on the creative process, and not the product. |
| Drawing | Connecting Hand, Eye, and Soul Through Observational Drawing | Oriana Sage | Summer | 2022 | 7 days | Learn to unlock your unique drawing potential through observational hand-eye connection, as you create ink drawings with joy, personally, freedom, and flow. Let go of what you think you see and capture the true essence of what you draw. In this class, we will learn to embrace the beauty of imperfection, capture shape and detail with simplicity and ease, let go of drawing frustration, and transform a simple drawing into a whimsical and meaningful piece of art. We will learn fundamental drawing elements as we explore pattern, color, and design found in nature, and practice translating these into engaging pieces of art. |
| Re-Sparking Your Creativity | Sara Nordling | Summer | 2022 | 1 hour | We all have experienced, at least once, that creative spark–that excitement that keeps us awake at night because we are so enthralled with our new project. Most of us have also experienced times when nothing excites us about our work and no new ideas are coming. This workshop will give you resources for how to approach your work and keep the creative spark. Many ideas will be presented and discussed to give you a wide range of options and a stable of resources for keeping the spark alive. | |
| Architecture | a Spire, a Light, a Door, a Line – Exploring Sacred Space | Paul Barribeau | Summer | 2022 | 5 days | The places and spaces that inspire people of faith share commonalities with built form, have connections to the physical environment of creation, and engage the sensory experience of the arts. Focusing on sacred spaces and religious architecture, but applicable to any spiritual or artistic space, this class will explore 1) how “place” is marked and how symbol provides provide “presence,” “invitation,” and “witness;” 2) the ways in which light animates architecture and art; 3) the importance of threshold for providing transition between and journey through spaces – interior and exterior; and, 4) how spaces are ordered for meaning and aligned to support human communal experience. This class is suitable for anyone of any skill-level interested in how people shape space that supports the celebration of their faith and spirituality. |
| Fiber Arts | All Mixed Up – Weaving Wonders | Sara Nordling | Summer | 2022 | 7 days | In this class you will create a weaving project using a variety of yarns weights and textures in your warp. Tips for combining different yarns will be discussed as well as various methods for designing a project and putting it on the loom. Students will create one project of their choice. Suggested projects include: scarf, shawl, Mobius shawl, table runner, wall hanging, cloth to make a tote bag, or other similar size project. |
| Painting | Watercolor Cosmos | Vonda Drees | Summer | 2022 | 7 days | “When we reach the end of what we know, that’s where we find God.” -The Cloud of Unknowing. The mysteries of the Cosmos and the magical medium of watercolor come together in this brand new offering! One of Vonda’s secret loves while serving at the Guild was the Perseid meteor shower every August. She describes the experience, “a sacred game of hide and seek with flashes of fire darting across the night sky.” Perhaps you have marveled over NASA’s images of outer space? Some are almost beyond imagination. In this class we will learn how to paint watercolor galaxies. Watercolors are the perfect medium for this luminous work because depth and vibrancy are created when the paint flows naturally into a dance of cosmic mystery. |
| Ceramics | The Pottery Wheels Go Round and Round | Jim Halvorson | Summer | 2022 | 7 days | This class will focus on developing students skills using the potter’s wheel. From centering and raising a cylinder to more complicated forms the students will explore the ceramic possibilities. Class demonstrations will also include trimming a foot, handles, lids, and multipart pieces. |
| Mixed Media | Leporello Book Making | Mary McLeod | Summer | 2022 | 7 days | Students will create a Leporello Journal and fill the pages with surface techniques, watercolor color images, collage and hand drawn letters if they desire. We will work the regularly scheduled three hour class. Students are welcome to come and explore/ create in the afternoon if they wish. |
| Fiber Arts | Weaving – Overshot and Beyond | Suzanne Halvorson, Nancy Marsh | Summer | 2022 | 7 days | Overshot and Summer and Winter are weave structures which have been popular in this country since the 1700’s. Most historic textiles are coverlets. The intricacies of both weave structures offer the contemporary weaver with a variety of design options. |
| Songwriting | Songwriting – Songbird Lexicon July 22 One-Day Intensive | Chloe Caemmerer | Summer | 2022 | 1 day | Writing a song is deeper than a simple intellectual exercise. What conditions does a song need to grow from a seed to a full blossoming tune? Join Chloe Grace for a one day crash course in tending the voice, body, mind, and spirit to create a rich and fertile landscape where your musical inspiration can flourish. |
| Songwriting | Songwriting – Songbird Lexicon | Chloe Caemmerer | Summer | 2022 | 3 days | Songs are magic spells. They can start a revolution or lull a baby to sleep. They’ll whisk you through space and time much faster than your standard magic carpet. With a song, you can converse with the dead, pace the halls of Heaven and Hell, and bring those listening along for the ride. In this course, we’ll examine the linguistic mechanisms that make this possible. After all, a consonant can be a mystical thing. A series of open vowels can take your breath away. Meter broken in a precise moment can break your heart, too. We’ll geek out over breathing, explore the human instrument, and journal and free write our pencils to nubs. And at the end, we’ll all walk away with a song or two to whistle on the road home. |
| Drawing | Drawing Close to Nature | Adele Caemmerer | Summer | 2022 | 7 days | This course approaches drawing as a vehicle for witnessing, beholding, “drawing closer.” Using nature as both focus and guide, we will work with the fundamentals of drawing as a way of actively observing and documenting the infinite variety of natural forms. Through exercises and prompts we will develop our perceptive abilities, explore techniques with materials, and test strategies for composition. |
| Ceramics, Photography | Mud and Sunlight: Mixing Clay and Photography | Jessica Holleque | Summer | 2022 | 7 days | Using the mediums of ceramics and photography, we will explore ways to create from a deeply connected place, asking how we can form creative practices rooted in self-exploration and connection to the natural world. Let’s leave our fingerprints in homemade cups molded from mud and river water. Let’s open our gaze to the light dancing around us and photograph the things that stir our heart. |
| Writing | Writing & Telling Your Cultural Story | Tamisha Tyler | Summer | 2022 | 7 days | In this class we will explore, share, and celebrate our unique cultural stories: the particular blend of influences that have shaped us into the people we are today. Through guided writing exercises, meditation, and class discussion, we will explore the broad theme of “culture” and how our unique experiences have influenced our understanding of ourselves, our faith journeys, and our sense of belonging. |
| Fiber Arts | Huck Weaving | Ann Hinz | Summer | 2022 | 7 days | Huck texture is a structure in which small float blocks alternate with small plain weave blocks. You will learn the basics of this structure and then have the option to weave a scarf, mug rugs, or a table runner. More experienced weavers can weave larger projects. Gathering on holy ground to study, process, create, weave, support each other. Every participant will have a beautiful weaving to take home! |
| Stained Glass | Grouted Stained Glass for Beginners | Janet Gruman | Summer | 2022 | 7 days | In this ancient art form we’ll discuss and tinker with the relationship between glass and grout, which, in the art of stained glass is the “negative space”. We’ll also consider light, color, line and shape in the design process of abstract and representational stained glass projects. Although we will flex as needed and be mindful of limitations, class time will focus on Walking the Stations of the Glass: Monday and Tuesday, Station 1: Sketch, Cut, Arrange. Wednesday, Station 2: Glue. Thursday, Station 3: Grout, Wipe. Friday, Station 4: Polish, Seal, Tidy Studio. |
| Sculpture | Sculpture – Wood and Stone | John Thompson | Summer | 2022 | 7 days | Sculpture Class will be carving basswood (the same type of wood we used in the making of the Missoula Carousel). Stone will be local soapstone and possibly some limestone I will have with me. We will be using mainly hand tools (think Michelangelo) with a few power tools under close supervision. This class can be dirty and dusty but that is what makes it fun! Sculpture Class will start out with a safety talk, demonstration and talk about tools. Individual talk about the type of project the student wants to do (see if it is possible and how much can be accomplished in a week). Participants will be encouraged to work with wood or stone or both if that is their choice. I will probably be in the studio all day most days. |
| Mixed Media, Painting, Writing | Creative Image, Reflective Word | Carla Erickson Orlando | Summer | 2022 | 7 days | This quiet, retreat-like class welcomes students at every artistic level. Guided by a humanistic approach that respects the unique experience, cultures, and beliefs of all, students will learn methods of creative expression and reflective writing, detach from performative motivations and interior critiques, live in relationship to the Spirit and become more themselves. A new retreat theme and art medium will be presented each day, including painting with color, drawing, collage, found objects, and mandala. Each morning closes with a facilitated time for sharing new discoveries and observations in the group. |
| Enameling | Squiggly Lines and Brilliant Color – Cloisonne! | Jean Tudor | Summer | 2022 | 7 days | We will work with cloisonné, one of the historical techniques of vitreous enameling. From a basic drawing, preparing copper, wire bending, enamel washing, inlaying ground glass, firing (don’t forget firing–wild and exciting!) to the finished artwork–we’ll try it all. We work with a fixed glass palette–learn how to make it more flexible (bend or maybe break the rules. All’s fair in art! |
| Printmaking | Printmaking: Drypoint and Etching | John Thompson | Summer | 2022 | 7 days | Printmaking Class will be mainly etching and drypoint in the same techniques that old masters have done. Why change a great tradition? It is messy, fun, some work and technique, messy and did I say messy? Old pros and newbies are encouraged to take the class! Printmaking has a lot of technical elements and will take time. Class time will have samples and demonstrations-with a lot of free working time. I am in the class at all times and usually in the studio the rest of the day and late evenings if someone wants to work. We will be using chemicals, solvents, acids and inks. Again it is messy. I have done this type of class with folks 5yrs old to 85 years old. Oh and great results from almost everyone! |
| Fiber Arts | Fabric Shrines for the Personal Altar | Larkin Van Horn | Spring | 2022 | 7 days | A shrine is created to memorialize or commemorate a person, place, or event. It can provide a place of focus on a personal altar, and an inspiration for prayer. In this class we will create three basic shrine shapes, with a view to exploring the design and construction methods, as well as discussing the place of an altar in the home. Students will create three small shrines, while learning the variety of construction methods used. Surface design techniques will also be covered as needed. While working, we will also discuss the use of shrines and personal altars. |
| Writing | Contemplative Writing: Poetry, Presence and Prayer | Mollie Taylor | Spring | 2022 | 7 days | In these isolating, uncertain, and anxious days, spaces in which we can gather in community to intentionally quiet our minds, slow our breaths, and receive the gift of each other’s presence are few. In this class, we will explore contemplative practices in community as entries into presence and the creative writing process. We will listen for the words that already reside deep within us and all around us, and we will graciously give voice to what we hear. Each class will include time spent in contemplation, via a variety of contemplative prayer/meditation exercises, as well as time spent writing. There will be opportunity at the end of each class to share our writing or process. |
| Painting | Unlikely Balances: Playing with Composition in Acrylics | Scott Burnett | Spring | 2022 | 7 days | Balance feels good to us – maybe because it lets us rest from expecting the inevitable return of disequilibrium. But there’s something especially delightful about balances that seem impossible. When disorder should be prevailing but it isn’t, we smile. This class is a chance to explore the wild edges of your personal sense of compositional balance. We’ll employ a variety of mark-making exercises meant to instigate questions of balance. In turn, these exercises will launch us into our paintings. |
| Come Away: A Lenten Retreat | Adele Caemmerer, Susan Kintner | Spring | 2022 | 5 days | I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.” John O’Donohue. Like the transition of late winter into spring, Lent is a season that invites us to pause, notice, and honor what newness is there within us, just below the surface. The Grunewald Guild is offering a 5-day retreat opportunity designed for those of you who yearn for solitude within a community. There will be ample time on your own and some coming together as a group, as well as the opportunity to meet privately with one or both of the spiritual directors guiding the retreat. Basic art supplies will be provided for group activities. You are invited to bring your own materials for open times, if that is part of your retreat. As always the river and forest will be yours. | |
| Fiber Arts | Weaving From Our Souls | Ann Hinz | Fall | 2021 | 7 days | In this weaving class, we will gather each day for some quiet reflection time, and then endeavor to bring our ideas to reality through color and design. We will have a variety of fibers and color available for you to use! Students will explore options to create scarves or table runners. |
| Drawing | Connecting Eye, Hand, and Soul through Contour Drawing | Oriana Sage | Fall | 2021 | 7 days | Learn to unlock your unique drawing ability through observational hand-eye connection, as you create nature ink drawings with freedom, joy, personality, and flow. Contour drawing allows you to let go of what you think you see and capture the true essence of what you are actually drawing. In this class, we will learn to embrace the beauty of imperfection, capture shape and detail with simplicity and ease, let go of drawing frustration, and transform a simple drawing into a whimsical and meaningful piece of art. We will learn fundamental drawing elements as we explore pattern, color, and design found in nature, and practice translating these into engaging pieces of art. |
| Photography | Photo Composition and Creativity | Chuch Kirchner | Summer | 2021 | 7 days | The differences between a “snapshot” and a “photograph” are focused on the two C’s: Composition and Creativity. During this workshop, we’ll explore the elements of composition, photographic rules and the breaking of rules, and ways of sparking and engaging your creativity. The result will be to take your photography to the next level. Through daily assignments, the concepts will be reinforced in a supportive atmosphere. All camera formats welcomed as are all skill levels. |
| Ceramics | Beginning Functional Pottery | Dede Shililng, Gray Lyons | Summer | 2021 | 7 days | Welcome, pottery newbies! In this class, we will explore throwing on the pottery wheel. Together, we will make bowls, drinking vessels, and plates or platters. We will cover the basics of clay wedging, use of various tools, how to pull a handle for a mug, and how to glaze pottery. |
| Enameling | Enameling: Let’s Start at the Very Beginning | Jean Tudor | Summer | 2021 | 7 days | Let see… We need copper, we need powdered glass, we need kilns, we need tools. Liquid flux (what’s that?), gold and silver foil, small chunks of enamel, small copper dots, Fortunately we have all those ready and waiting. How to use all that? Stenciling, sgrafitto, brushing, stamping, inlaying, sifting. So many possibilities, so many ways of using materials, so many ideas in our heads! The first few projects will be 2″ diameter circles which can be used for jewelry pieces (or paper weights or small wall pieces). We will graduate to small bowls or plaques. |
| Let’s Have Fun with Jewelry! | Tamzin Darden | Summer | 2021 | 7 days | Come join us for a fun time making all kinds of jewelry. In this class, we will learn different techniques of making jewelry with an emphasis on earrings with beads, resin, fabric and paper that you can make for yourself or as gifts. We will also be painting porcelain and ceramic earrings. If you have any broken jewelry please bring it with you so you can repair it or use it in another design. There will be plenty of time to finish your work during class time and you’ll have all afternoon to play with jewelry or relax. Be ready to have fun! | |
| Ceramics | Tiles and Tokens | Jillian Blackwell | Summer | 2021 | 7 days | This class will focus on creating decorative ceramic tiles, wall hangings, and small tokens such as buttons or pendants. Ceramic tiles are extremely durable and can be displayed in both indoor and outdoor settings. Tiles may feature a wide range of imagery, including complex abstract patterns, imagery drawn from art history, or contemporary portrayals of plants, landscapes, people, and more. We will work on finding our own personal visual languages to translate to the surface of the clay. In this class, we will learn a variety of techniques for sculpting, carving, stamping, and etching the clay surface to develop intricate designs on clay tiles. We will also explore several different surface decoration techniques to complement and highlight the richly-detailed textures of our tiles. |
| Fiber Arts | Color Meets Texture in Weaving | Suzanne Halvorson, Nancy Marsh | Summer | 2021 | 7 days | Each student will design and weave a scarf or table runner, using a pattern called, “M’s and O’s”. It is an easily manipulated pattern that can be as complex or as simple as one chooses, but it is always striking. It is a block-weave in which one block produces ribbed floats and the other block is plain weave. There will be color study to enhance the design as well as options for the symmetry or asymmetry of the blocks in the pattern. |
| Drawing, Writing | The Spirit at Work: Creative Expression and Reflective Writing | Carla Orlando | Summer | 2021 | 7 days | This class will be a 5-day pilgrimage into the quiet and beauty of the Guild’s campus. Students explore daily themes and meditations, guided by the Spirit in their artistic responses and written reflection. The sketchbook of each student will become a record of their unique journey, the interior landscape of their experience, the discoveries and discernments of their everyday world. Basic art media and techniques for integrating simple, artistic expression methods will be taught and practiced through the week, including black ink drawing, tempera paint, collage, found objects. |
| Fiber Arts | Hand Embroidery – Sinking into Slowness | Courtney Rutzer | Summer | 2021 | 7 days | Participants will learn the basics of hand embroidery to create beautiful, intuitive, and personal threaded pieces. The very nature of hand embroidery invites and challenges the maker to slow their pace— this is an art form that rewards the patient maker. Stitching can be rhythmic and soothing, a marvelous contemplative practice. Sink into the rhythm of the process — body, mind, spirit — and ponder questions like, how does the process of making keep me grounded and attentive? Where might I need to slow down? Be invited to find out! |
| Fiber Arts | Extravagant Beadwork | Larkin Van Horn | Summer | 2021 | 7 days | Add sparkle and texture to a wide variety of fabric related art, including quilts, garments, jewelry, dolls, vessels/bowls, and any other fabric based art form. Students will receive an overview of materials and stitches, and will then design their project accordingly. All work will be done by hand (no need for sewing machines). |
| Painting | Expressive Acrylics | Scott Burnett | Summer | 2021 | 7 days | Scott writes, “Conversation is an art and art is a conversation.” This class is an opportunity to listen to your unique artistic voice, and to explore your personal visual vocabulary. We’ll begin the week with a variety of mark-making exercises, primarily utilizing dry media. The lines, textures, and patterns that emerge through these explorations will launch our paintings. We’ll work with acrylic paint, along with some acrylic mediums. We’ll mix in other media such as water-soluble graphite and charcoal, watercolor pencil, etc.” |
| Painting | Matisse and More | Deborah Doering | Summer | 2021 | 7 days | This studio workshop will use the later-in-life work of Henri Matisse (1869-1954) as an invitation to interact and create/re-create 2-dimensional compositions using organic lines, shapes, colors, textures and tones. |
| Jewelry | Fashion Jewelry: Redesign, Repair, or Replace | Glenn Doering | Summer | 2021 | 7 days | Do you have costume jewelry you are tired of, or some broken jewelry at the bottom of a drawer? Bring those to this class and learn how to redesign them into something new and interesting, or how to repair them, or how to reuse parts of them as components in a new piece of jewelry. |
| Writing | Writing and Telling Your Cultural Story | Tamisha Tyler | Summer | 2021 | 7 days | In this class, we will explore, share, and celebrate our unique cultural stories: the particular blend of influences that have shaped us into the people we are today. Through guided writing exercises, meditation, and class discussion, we will explore the broad theme of “culture” and how our unique experiences have influenced our understanding of ourselves, our faith journeys, and our sense of belonging. |
| Ceramics | Small Ceramics: Closed Forms and Lidded Vessels | Ron Cole | Summer | 2021 | 7 days | In this class, we will explore various methods of creating small ceramic forms that will serve a purpose of containing. Some hand-built, other wheel thrown. Some to be opened, others to remain closed. Some extravagant in carving and design, others simple and elegant. |
| Mixed Media | Leporello Book Making | Mary McLeod | Summer | 2021 | 7 days | Students will create a folded Leporello journal on the first day of class. This is an amazing journal that will give students the opportunity to fill thirty six pages with drawings, watercolor, collage and various surface techniques. As a calligrapher, as well as a mixed media artist, text will be an important focus in this journal. To honor the Guild’s co-founder, we may create some Haiku as text possibilities. Liz loved this poetic form. |
| Writing | Transforming Visions: Finding Words for What We See | Brian Johnson | Spring | 2021 | 7 days | Join this Spring Sacred Arts class with Executive Director Brian Johnson and “Transforming Visions: Finding Words for What We See.” This class will draw on the writing practice of ekphrasis, which involves a close and meditative “reading” of an art work, and then participants will express new visions in description, free verse, journaling, essay, poetry and prose. Valéry acknowledged, “There are important reasons for not keeping silent since all of the arts live by words.” Lingering with art and delighting in creative imagination helps one to see a cherished artwork with new eyes or to make friends with an unfamiliar piece. Art serves as our prompt and tools for looking closely will be cultivated. Art speaks to us and this class will give us help in speaking and writing imaginatively about art. |
| Mixed Media | Soul Collage® | Laurie Rudel | Spring | 2021 | 7 days | Using glue, scissors, found images, your own photographs, and pre-cut mat board we’ll begin or continue to create a “deck” of SoulCollage® cards. Seena B. Frost, the founder SoulCollage,® describes the process this way: “SoulCollage® is a creative and satisfying collage process. You make your own deck of cards—each collage card representing one aspect of your personality or Soul. Use the cards intuitively to answer life’s questions and participate in self-discovery. Joyfully deepen your understanding of the relationships between your personality parts, you and your family/community/world, and you and your dreams, symbols, and Spirit.” The SoulCollage® process can be used as a tool for reflection and meditation. In each session there will be time to reflect on our creative process and learn from one another. We’ll share practical and imaginative ways to help us make room in our hearts for self discovery. |
| Painting | Unlikely Balances | Scott Burnett | Spring | 2021 | 7 days | Previous students call this an “amazing class” and rave about Scott Burnett’s commitment to creating a “safe place & affirming community,” with “lots of creative, expressive energy.” Balance feels good to us – maybe because it lets us rest from expecting the inevitable return of disequilibrium. But there’s something especially delightful about balances that seem impossible. When disorder should be prevailing but it isn’t, we smile. This class is a chance to explore the wild edges of your personal sense of compositional balance. We’ll employ a variety of mark-making exercises meant to instigate questions of balance. In turn, these exercises will launch us into our paintings. We’ll work with acrylic paint, along with some acrylic mediums. We’ll mix in other media such as water-soluble graphite and charcoal, watercolor pencil, etc. This class is appropriate for beginners, and will also be relevant to experienced artists that want to exercise their “beginner mind”. |
| Fiber Arts, Painting | Silk Painting: Nature’s Sacred Moods | Kristen Gilje | Fall | 2020 | 7 days | |
| Sculpture | Clay-Paper High Relief Sculpture | Ruth Sinclair | Fall | 2020 | 7 days | |
| Ceramics | Saggar-Fired Ceramics | Scottie Sinclair | Fall | 2020 | 7 days | |
| Painting | Watercoloring in the Wild | Bethany Wray | Fall | 2019 | 7 days | In this class you will learn the basics of watercolors and apply what you learn to painting your own landscapes by way of pléin air. Short hikes in the surrounding area will offer a new scene to paint each day as we familiarize ourselves with not only our paints, but with the beauty that surrounds the hills, mountains, and lakes of Leavenworth. We will complete at least one painting each day while in class, but students are encouraged to explore the Guild grounds with their brush in hand! Please be prepared to hike up to 3 miles with a light backpack. |
| Enameling | Beginning Enameling | Jean Tudor | Fall | 2019 | 7 days | |
| Fiber Arts, Painting | Silk Painting: Color in the Wild | Kristen Gilje | Fall | 2019 | 7 days | |
| Markers of Visual Expression | Jim Dress, Vonda Drees | Summer | 2019 | 7 days | ||
| Writing | Writing and Telling Your Cultural Story | Tamisha Tyler | Summer | 2019 | 7 days | In this class taught by Guild Faculty Tamisha Tyler, we will explore, share, and celebrate our unique cultural stories: the particular blend of influences that have shaped us into the people we are today. Through guided writing exercises, meditation, and class discussion, we will explore the broad theme of “culture” and how our unique experiences have influenced our understanding of ourselves, our faith journeys, and our sense of belonging. |
| Songwriting | Songwriting: Finding Your Own Voice | Jan Krist | Summer | 2019 | 7 days | Artists are all influenced by those who came before us, but there’s a point at which we must find our own style, message, and voice. Come spend a week in meditation and deliberate seeking, and find your gift; your own voice. The Guild songwriting workshop is a safe and supportive place to share and learn more about the craft we love. |
| Nurturing the Soul of the Contemplative Artist | Matthew Whitney | Summer | 2019 | 7 days | We will incorporate the study of contemplatives and mystics (St Teresa of Avila, Thomas Merton, Thomas Kelly) with artmaking practices – sculpture, painting, drawing, journaling, walking. | |
| Sculpture | Clay-Paper Sculpture | Ruth Sinclair | Summer | 2019 | 7 days | |
| Stained Glass | Stained Glass: Line, Color and Light | Gail Kelly | Summer | 2019 | 7 days | |
| Watercolor in the Sacred Milieu | Kristen Gilje | Summer | 2019 | 7 days | Come play with me sacred realm of divine color! Let’s pay close attention to our paints, paper and brushes, to our hand movements as we paint. We’ll attempt deep observation of both our exterior surroundings, and our interior emotional and prayer lives, to invite the sacred into our painting time. Each morning will start in the studio with a painting demonstration, followed by time to paint. We will explore the individual character of our paint colors, learning a bit about where each pigment comes from to appreciate their source as part of sacred creation. We will use simple drawing techniques to help us see more deeply the sacred essence of what we observe. And we will use simple watercolor techniques to pull it all together on paper. Whether you are a beginning watercolor student or more advanced, my goal is to help you advance in your watercolor skills, as well as develop a tool for sensing the sacred presence in all life. | |
| Calligraphy Inspired by Nature | Mary McLeod | Summer | 2019 | 7 days | To enhance sketches, poetry and quotes with calligraphy inspired by nature. | |
| Understanding, Creating and Encountering Sacred Space | Paul Barribeau | Summer | 2019 | 7 days | The class would explore the features that help to create spaces that are experienced as sacred, whether these places are: indoor or outdoor, historic or contemporary, formal or informal, communal or personal, architectural or environmental. The course would involve presentations on sacred spaces, discussions, personal reflections, and excursions to surrounding places (local church, farm or outdoor areas). The goal is to foster an understanding of how architecture, the arts, and environments foster spirituality and inspiration and facilitate worship and devotion. | |
| Rock-Paper-Scissors: Exploring Bauhaus’ 100th Year | Deborah Doering, Glenn Doering | Summer | 2019 | 7 days | Our idea is to call the class “Rock-Paper-Scissors: Exploring Bauhaus’ 100-year Anniversary.” Media would include “Rocks” (turning river rocks into artworks, plus jewelry-and-wearable-art related media), “Paper” (focusing on making paper boxes to store wearable art, but also some other projects involving paper) and “Scissors” (both “Rock” and “Paper” will incorporate some cutting/pasting techniques for some projects). The conceptual foundation of the class will be to discuss the community art-making principles of the Bauhaus School, begun in Weimar, Germany in 1919. Bauhaus celebrates its centennial in 2019. | |
| Fiber Arts | Weave and Wonder | Liz Caemmerer, Sara Nordling | Summer | 2019 | 7 days | They are offering hand loom weaving for all levels. Two projects will be offered to choose from that will both challenge and excite participant’s creative textile impulses. This class is designed to introduce the new weavers to all aspects of floor loom weaving, and to push pattern and design boundaries for intermediate and advanced weavers. For more class details please contact Suzanne Halvorson at weavesuz@comcast.net. |
| The Art of Healing Herbs | Venice Williams | Summer | 2019 | 7 days | ||
| Writing | Writing Workshop: The Medium of Memory | Brittany Deininger | Summer | 2019 | 7 days | |
| Fiber Arts | Fabric Collage in 3-D | Larkin Van Horn | Summer | 2019 | 7 days | Students will experiment with fussed fabric collage, machine stitching, and embellishments (including bead embroidery) to create 3-D structures such as bowls, vases, boxes, shrines, and anything else they wish to try. All skill levels are welcome, but students should know how to operate their own sewing machines. Supply list will follow. |
| Painting | Expressive Acrylics | Scott Burnett | Summer | 2019 | 7 days | |
| Finding God in Word and Image | Carla Orlando | Summer | 2019 | 7 days | ||
| From Shrine to Divine: Making Home Altars | Fernando Alvarez-Lara | Summer | 2019 | 7 days | Every culture has a palpable sense of the sacred. In this class, we will learn about the spiritual practice of making personal shrines in the Latinx tradition, but also, students will be invited to build their own altarcito (personal shrine) and reflect on the objects they chose for their installation. Students will share the narratives behind their symbols, and through stories shared we will experience a sense of our shared humanity. | |
| Printmaking | Printmaking: An Art of Social Protest | Josef Venker | Summer | 2019 | 7 days | |
| Embracing Mature Womanhood in Visual Form | Carla McConnell | Summer | 2019 | 7 days | ||
| Ceramics | Mini-Sculpture Series in Clay | Eloiese Krabbenhoft | Summer | 2019 | 7 days | |
| Visual Poetry: Mixed Media Encaustics | Lanecia Rouse Tinsley | Summer | 2019 | 7 days | Exploration in a creative process that includes poetry, various mixed media techniques + encaustic painting. | |
| Silky Attention: Calligraphy on Silk | Laura Norton | Summer | 2019 | 7 days | ||
| Enameling | Raku-Fired Enamels | Jean Tudor | Summer | 2019 | 7 days | A week of experimentation with the Japanese pottery method of firing as applied to enamels: which enamels to apply to achieve the most iridescence, some methods of controlling design, the effects of silver nitrate in the process, materials used in the actual raku firing, use of the raku plates in finished work. |
| Painting | Abstract Acrylic: Making the Invisible Known | Lanecia Rouse Tinsley | Summer | 2019 | 7 days | |
| Ceramics | Raku-Fired Ceramics | Scottie Sinclair | Summer | 2019 | 7 days | |
| Stained Glass | Stained Glass Mosaic | Jill Ross | Spring | 2019 | 7 days | The class will begin by making samplers using learned glass cutting, mortar and adhesion, grouting, color and design techniques. From the samplers each participant will create a larger mosaic project that can be finished into a wall hanging, table top or hinged screen. |
| Mixed Media | Soul Collage® | Laurie Rudel | Spring | 2019 | 7 days | Through the use of found images and glue, the simple process of SoulCollage offers us an opportunity to explore the many and varied aspects of our inner lives as well as acknowledge and honor our larger communities of family and friends. Over the course of our week together we will begin to create a “deck” of 5 x 8 inch SoulCollage Cards that can be used for meditation, prayer and reflection. |
| Painting | Acrylic and Mixed Media on Cradleboard | Scott Burnett | Spring | 2019 | 7 days | Making art on a wood surface is a great way to jump into a visual conversation that’s already underway! Wood grain infers kinetic flow and traces shapes, both obvious and implied. Textures vary across the surface, drawing out different responses from our paints, inks, and dry media. We’ll let the grain inform and inspire our creative responses, seeing where it leads us and what discoveries we can make along the way. |
| Enameling | Beginning Cloisonne | Fall | 2018 | 7 days | ||
| Painting | Watercolor: Move with the Flow! | Fall | 2018 | 7 days | ||
| Responding to Mystic Wisdom | Fall | 2018 | 7 days | |||
| Ceramics | Ceramic Masks: Green Woman & Green Man | Arturo Araujo | Summer | 2018 | 7 days | A Green Women/ Green Man is a sculpture of a human face surrounded by or made from leaves, branches or vines that sprout from the mouth, nostrils, or other parts of the face and these shoots may bear flowers or fruit. This ‘mask.” has been commonly used as a decorative architectural ornament. Green Men/Green Women are frequently found on both secular and ecclesiastical buildings. The Green Women/ Green Man may be found in many cultures from many ages around the world, the Green Women/ Green Man is often related to natural vegetative deities. It is primarily interpreted as a symbol of rebirth and the cycle of growth each spring. In this five days’ workshop, we will learn the basic of tile making and tile decoration; and then we will apply these different decorative techniques on the surface of the Green Women/ Green Man |
| Finding God in Word & Image | Carla Orlando, Pat O’Leary | Summer | 2018 | 7 days | Fr. Pat O’Leary and Carla Orlando co-lead this Ignatian journey inspired by the Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius. We travel alongside one another on this 5-day pilgrimage, over the terrain of our individual lives with the Spirit, through guided meditation, artistic responses, and written reflection. Each morning, Fr. Pat will introduce a new theme for our exploration. We will spend quiet, contemplative time in outdoor spaces, as well as focusing on our own rich, interior landscapes. Carla will guide our responses to the theme by sharing techniques for using sketching, color, collage and reflective journaling, allowing us to explore each theme with both visual imagery and the written word. Much like the notebook of St Ignatius, our sketchbook-journals will become a record of our experience. Our patterns and discoveries, and the desolations and consolations we observe will help to bring to light our deep desires, discernments and direction in our everyday world. | |
| Painting Sacred Earth: Telling Our Sacred Stories | Josef Venker | Summer | 2018 | 7 days | ||
| Painting | Ruptured Wonder: Acrylic Painting | Trung Pham | Summer | 2018 | 7 days | |
| Discover Your Story Through Improv | Amardev | Summer | 2018 | 7 days | ||
| Enameling | Visual Poetry: Mixed Media Encaustics | Lanecia Rouse Tinsley | Summer | 2018 | 7 days | This process oriented class will expose participants to a way to engage in creative introspection, as well as a wide variety of tools, process and ideas connected to producing mixed media encaustic paintings. Students will begin by learning about encaustic and the creative process we will utilize the entire week. They will then learn the basics and variables of collaging with encaustic: heat, fusing, paper, tools, pressure, layering and adding other paint mediums/powder to the wax. This will be followed by exploring techniques such as using additive and subtractive process and image transfer by the end of the week. Students can expect to create 4 to 5 mixed media abstract encaustic paintings during this class encompassing a variety of technical and an intuitive process. Students will leave with a working knowledge of mediums utilized, their use, and an awareness of how introspection, exploration and doing it for the process can enhance their current art making practices. |
| Painting | Limited Palette Acrylics: Curing Creative Block | Scott Burnett | Summer | 2018 | 7 days | Acrylic Mixed Media, Limited Palette (Black, White, Ochre). Using acrylic colors, gels, and glazes, along with graphite, charcoal, and ink, we’ll make art with a limited palette of black, white, and ochre. 18×24 canvas (or birch cradleboard). Three 6×6 wood panels (experimental surfaces). How do we stay present to our work when faced with a deficit of ideas? Rather than shrinking from the awkward silence of a dead end, we’ll explore limitation as a potential reservoir of unexpected inspiration. |
| Ceramics | Dysfunctional Stoneware: Thrown & Altered Pottery | Scottie Sinclair | Summer | 2018 | 7 days | |
| Songwriting | Songwriting: Catching the Muse | Jan Krist | Summer | 2018 | 7 days | The Guild songwriting class is a safe and encouraging environment to learn the craft of songwriting. Whether a beginner or a pro you’ll find room to create, and encouragement to excel.This year’s class will focus on ways to “catch the muse”, or more precisely, ways to track the muse down. We will begin with an evening of swapping songs. This is a great way to introduce yourself to your fellow students. You’ll be asked to keep a journal while at the Guild, and to write in it every morning. Each student will be given a song assignment /prompt to work on for the week. Our mornings will start with a creative writing exercise, followed by independent time to write and roam. After lunch class will meet to discuss songwriting in depth and to explore craft, acquire new tools, and hone our songs. At the end of the week students will share the song they have written at a concert for the Grunewald guests and staff. |
| Calligraphy Inspired by Nature | Mary McLeod | Summer | 2018 | 7 days | To enhance sketches, poetry and quotes with calligraphy inspired by nature. | |
| Ceramics | Beginning Pottery: Functional Stoneware | Ron Cole | Summer | 2018 | 7 days | Explore basic pottery techniques in an intimate class setting (maximum of 6 students). This class will cover the creation of functional ceramic items, such as plates, bowls and mugs. We will be learning to use the potter’s wheel as our primary means of creation, as well as other techniques for adding handles, knobs, and ornamentation to our wheel-thrown forms. Participants will explore a range of glazing skills and techniques to complete our finished pottery. We will be working with both red and white stoneware clays fired to cone six in an electric kiln. |
| Creative & Contemplative Journaling | Vonda Drees | Summer | 2018 | 7 days | ||
| Stained Glass | Spiritual Expressions in Stained Glass Mosaic | Anne Mullenniex | Summer | 2018 | 7 days | |
| Writing | Writing Workshop: The Medium of Memory | Brittany Deininger | Summer | 2018 | 7 days | Jean-Marie Roger Tillard reminds us that, “Memory in the biblical sense of the term is not simply storage of the sediment of the past. It is also the humus from which life never stops borrowing.” I love that image of memory as a kind of earthy soil from which life, narrative, and art perpetually grow. We are creatures made of narrative. Great stories, poetry, and art call us back again and again to the humus of memory. This writing workshop will explore how we work with memory in writing whether we are writing poetry, creative non-fiction, memoir, fiction, or private journaling. How can writing about the past impact how we live in the present and anticipate the future? How might working with memory be a sacred part of our spiritual formation? Our memory connects us deeply to culture, place, embodiment, identity, hope, and the sacred. Whether you are new to writing, returning after a long absence, or just need a refresh of your writing practice, this class seeks to help you inhabit your story and your words as part of your spiritual journey. I invite you to risk being witnessed, to play, and to join us as we explore the medium of memory in this writing workshop. |
| Ceramics | Color & Marble Clay | Kira Tippenhauer | Summer | 2018 | 7 days | Are you eager to learn the art of marbling with clay? Then sign up and get your swirl on! Kira Tippenhauer will personally guide you through her hand building approach in making her footed ceramic vessels. This unique pottery experience will not only include instructions on how to use stains to create vibrant colored clays, but will also give you access to the technique behind marbling with clay! Join us on this wonderful journey and walk away with beautifully finished marbled ceramic pieces, handmade by you! |
| Fiber Arts | Weave & Wonder | Liz Caemmerer, Suzanne Halvorson | Summer | 2018 | 7 days | Liz Caemmerer and Suzanne Halvorson have each been weavers for over 40 years. They are offering hand loom weaving for all levels. Two projects will be offered to choose from that will both challenge and excite participant’s creative textile impulses. This class is designed to introduce the new weavers to all aspects of floor loom weaving, and to push pattern and design boundaries for intermediate and advanced weavers. For more class details please contact Suzanne Halvorson at weavesuz@comcast.net. |
| Painting | Watercoloring in the Wild | Bethany A. Wray | Summer | 2018 | 7 days | Nature will be our guide as this class will focus on watercoloring the beautiful outdoors. We will cover basic watercolor technique as we spend time painting in a different location each day. From washes to basic color theory, the beautiful backdrop of Plain and Lake Wenatchee will prompt us to see in new ways and learn to trust the playfulness of our hand. This class will require the ability to walk comfortably up to 1-2 miles and sit between 1-2 hours on a portable chair. |
| Ceramics | Ceramics: Mold-Making & Slip-Casting | Jillian Blackwell | Summer | 2018 | 7 days | |
| Paper-Making & Embossing | Ruth Sinclair | Summer | 2018 | 7 days | ||
| Painting | Watercolor on Yupo: Natural & Invented Textures | Eloiese Krabbenhoft | Summer | 2018 | 7 days | |
| Sculpture | Sculpture: Carving Wood & Stone | John Thompson | Summer | 2018 | 7 days | We will carve in wood(mostly basswood-the same wood used to build the Missoula Carousel). Soapstone and limestone will be the types of stone being carved. |
| Ceramics | Expressions in Clay: Ceramic Sculpture | Sarah Jane | Summer | 2018 | 7 days | This class will focus on techniques for hand-building sculptural forms in clay, including modeling, slab, coil, and hollow-core construction. Lots of one-on-one instruction will guide participants through the process of designing and executing one or more original ceramic sculptures, which may include figurative or abstract forms. |
| Drawing | Drawing for the Terrified — Or Not | Eloiese Krabbenhoft | Summer | 2018 | 7 days | |
| Photography | Cyanotypes: Exploring the Natural World | Gray Lyons | Summer | 2018 | 7 days | Explore creative image-making using a historical, non-toxic photographic process invented in the 1840s. Learn to mix photographic chemicals, and make your own light-sensitive paper. Make photographs using elements of nature combined with your own imagination. Participants will use objects to make photographic impressions, and may choose to incorporate drawing and painting. Optional exercises include photographic toning and creating cliché verre negatives on acetate. |
| Printmaking | Old School Printmaking: Drypoint & Etching | John Thompson | Summer | 2018 | 7 days | The printmaking class will concentrate mostly on drypoint and etchings. We will use the “old method”, not much different than what Rembrandt and Goya used. (They kind of knew what they were doing!) There will be some time for some experimenting with monotypes and maybe a little bit of embossing and soft ground techniques too. |
| Sacred Geometry: Revealing the Divine | Bonnie Klatt | Summer | 2018 | 7 days | ||
| Enameling | Enameling: Pour! Paint! Scrape! Smoosh! | Jean Tudor | Summer | 2018 | 7 days | Participants will be working with various forms of liquid enamels including liquid flux, fine line black, and painting enamels. These materials may be manipulated in a variety of free techniques. We will work with copper tiles and with pre-enameled steel panels. |
| Painting | Wade into Watercolor | Jeanne Whitney | Summer | 2018 | 7 days | My first goal is to chase away fears of “watercolor being so hard.” Using reworkable, decent materials eliminates the majority of the problems. We will be learning several kinds of washes, granulation, glazing, thinking transparently, removal tricks and special effects, the use of yupo, water and pigment proportions and some color theory and composition. |
| Ceramics | Raku: The Magic of Fire & Light | Michael Bennett | Summer | 2018 | 7 days | Students will learn to throw on a wheel and hand build at least three forms which will be fired in view of the entire residents. |
| Photography | Thin Places & Photo Creativity | Chuck Kirchner | Spring | 2018 | 7 days | A Thin Place – a place where the veil between heaven and earth, between the sacred and profane, between our creator and ourselves, is lifted and we are at one with the universe. We have all, I hope, felt this once or several or many times in our lives. It could be alone at the ocean, or in the desert, the mountains, or even a cathedral. And, just perhaps, it could be while with another who is in a similar state of seeking – seeking what we may not know but with an openness and experience to seek and commune with our higher power. |
| Fiber Arts, Painting | Silk Painting: Nature’s Sacred Moods | Kristen Gilje | Spring | 2018 | 7 days | |
| Painting | Acrylic & Mixed Media on Cradleboard | Scott Burnett | Spring | 2018 | 7 days | Making art on a wood surface is a great way to jump into a visual conversation that’s already underway! Wood grain infers kinetic flow and traces shapes, both obvious and implied. Textures vary across the surface, drawing out different responses from our paints, inks, graphites, and other art media. We’ll let the grain inform and inspire our creative responses, seeing where it leads us and what discoveries we can make along the way. |
| Writing | Writing & Telling Your Cultural Story | Tamisha Tyler | Spring | 2018 | 7 days | |
| Stained Glass | A Spiritual Journey in Line, Shape, and Color | Gail Kelly | Summer | 2017 | 7 days | Students will explore the essential techniques for designing and assembling a leaded glass panel. This class will cover various approaches to designing stained glass windows, including translating an original image into a workable stained glass design. Students will learn standard techniques, safety practices and problem solving involved in cutting glass and assembling leaded glass panels. |
| Ceramics | Bas-Relief Ceramic Tiles | Summer | 2017 | 7 days | ||
| Ceramics | Expressive Clay: Ceramic Sculpture | Summer | 2017 | 7 days | ||
| Ceramics | Functional Stoneware: A Beginning Pottery Class | Summer | 2017 | 7 days | ||
| Drawing, Sculpture | Drawing and Sculpting Head to Toe | Summer | 2017 | 7 days | ||
| Fiber Arts | Weave Where You Are | Summer | 2017 | 7 days | ||
| Painting | Acrylic Painting on Wood Panel | Summer | 2017 | 7 days | ||
| Songwriting | Songwriting: The Creative Journey | Summer | 2017 | 7 days | ||
| Stained Glass | Stained Glass Mosaic | Summer | 2017 | 7 days | ||
| Writing | Writing and The Art of Paying Attention | Summer | 2017 | 7 days | ||
| Calligraphic Lettering for Books and Journals | Summer | 2017 | 7 days | |||
| Mandala: Letting in the Light | Summer | 2017 | 7 days | |||
| The Plein Air Watercolor Sketchbook | Summer | 2017 | 7 days |
