adult & family classes & events

Our Staff Art show is on display until Janurary 14th!

Other Activities During Open Studio Hours (often during Camp Meade concerts) include:

  • Paint a Canvas $25

  • Watercolor Greeting Card $10

  • Clay pinch pots $10

  • Sculpey Clay Beads $10

  • Glass Etching $15 or two for $25

  • Friendship Bracelets $10

  • Perler Beads $10

  • Art Yarn $10

  • Glue Gun Station $15

  • Loom Weaving with beginner instructions: $25 for half hour or $40 for an hour

Drone Choir

Sunday January 18th

Sunday January 25th

11:00am-12:00pm.

Penny Harte

Sliding Scale: $5-$25

Join us as we seep into sound and presence with the droning of a shruti box as our backdrop. With eyes closed, we will listen, breath and vocalize, letting our voices blend and shift naturally. No singing experience is required; this is about listening, experimenting and finding connection through sound to ourselves and those around us. Drone Choir offers a calm, focused space to experience singing and music-making as a shared, evolving soundscape rather than a performance. Drop in or scroll down to preregister.

Cyanotype Photography: Make Photographs With the Sun’s Light!

Sunday February 1st.

11:00am-1:00pm

Evie Lovett

$40

Adults and children accompanied by parents welcome.

Learn how to make photographs with everyday objects, the light of the sun, and water! With cyanotype photography, you’ll make photographs by placing objects you choose on specially coated light-sensitive paper, exposing to the light of the sun, and developing the image in water. The resulting image is a deep blue where sunlight fell and white where the object was. Cyanotype, dating from 1840, is one of photography's earliest methods. We are still using the same methods almost 200 years later, for good reason! It feels magical.

A wonderful aspect of cyanotype-making is that it is both simple (paper+object+sun+water=a photograph!) and can be excitingly nuanced (How can I work with the angle of the sun today? How much does light penetrate a translucent object vs an opaque object?). The medium meets you where you are; I’ve seen grandparents, 4 year olds and chemistry majors explore meaningfully in the same workshop.

This in person learning opportunity emphasizes community-building and artistic skill-building in a relaxed and fun setting. Evie Lovett, the Teaching Artist, will provide participants with clear instruction, demonstrations and supplies. No experience necessary. All invited.

Visit Evie Lovett at https://www.creativeground.org/profile/evie-lovett or https://www.instagram.com/evie_lovett/

Sculptural Mask Making

Saturday February 14th

Saturday February 21st

Saturday February 28th

11:00am-1:00pm

Yishay Mercy

$45 for all three days

Adults and children accompanied by parents welcome.

Join us for our mask making workshop led by Yishay Mercy, a multidisciplinary artist from Des Moines Iowa. In this workshop we will be designing and building original masks based on a design of your choosing. We will each build a mask base, coat our designs in plaster cloth, and finish with painting and adding additional details. You can choose to create a wearable mask, or a display mask to be hung on a wall. 

To learn more and sign up for Kids’ Night on the third Friday of the month visit our Kids’ Night Out Webpage.

ONE Arts Studio will be hosting Drone Choir on Sunday January 18th and Sunday January 25th from 11:00am-12:00pm. Leading the session with be Penny Harte a life-long singer who says “I’ve always been drawn to community singing and singing as a form of playing, connecting and improvising with others. I think singing and music making can feel intimidating and foreign to many people. Many people feel they have to be ‘good’ in order to sing, let alone in the presence of others, and I do not see this as the case! Drone choir allows people to sing and express without the pressure that society typically puts on us to be ‘good’ and ‘polished’.” Penny will be using a shruti box. A shruti box Penny explained, is “a traditional Indian instrument used to produce a continues drone. It is similar to a harmonium but uses a set of tuned reeds to produce sound versus piano keys (like a harmonium). It is an aerophone (in the family of wind instruments), a form of musical instrument that produces sound by causing a body of air to vibrate, without strings, membranes or the vibration of the instrument itself. It is often used in Indian classical music, meditation and sound healing (including chanting) and world and fusion music.”