Beginning Weaving - No experience necessary! You will learn to weave on a floor loom from beginning to end! Step by step instructions will be given to teach you to warp and weave your project. Think stripes! You will design and execute a unique kitchen towel using a fiber that is part cotton, part linen … Continue reading "Beginning Weaving"

Working with Plastalina Clay (stays soft), students will learn basic hand sculpting techniques. We will begin with a simple still life and progress to easy-to-do wildlife figures. Class meets in the kitchen at Goodyear Cottage. First timers and repeats welcome.

Working with Plastalina Clay (stays soft), students will learn basic hand sculpting techniques that are more advanced than those taught in the Beginning Class. You will create three dimensional figures of your choosing. Class meets in the kitchen at Goodyear Cottage. This class is designed for those students who have previously taken the Beginning Class … Continue reading "Sculpting Clay for Intermediates"

This course is for those with little or no experience in fly tying. We'll start out learning the basics about the types of insects that inhabit trout waters, the stages of their life cycles and various behaviors and how trout are attracted to feed on them. From this knowledge we will determine what insect patterns … Continue reading "Fly Tying for Beginners"

Participants will learn the process of linocut print making using design, carving and printing techniques. Each participant will create two linocut prints.

Bet you thought you left history behind when you left school . . . Here's an opportunity to join this discussion class and learn more in depth about the place we call home, and the families who helped Jekyll Island become a Millionaires' winter paradise. No genealogy experience required! Come to this class and learn … Continue reading "The Millionaires of Jekyll Island"

The richness of one's whole life is difficult to capture on a plain piece of paper. Instead, we will take specific moments from our own personal histories, add some reflection, toss in a dash of insight, and produce brief, vivid pieces that can stand alone or be combined with others. Writers of all levels are … Continue reading "Memoir Writing"

Many of us have read this play in high school. A close reading of it now will let us bring more enlightened views to this problem play. It is an early Shakespeare comedy and the main plot depicting the attempts of a suitor to win a bride is dominated by a disturbing subplot involving an … Continue reading "The Merchant of Venice"

Ready to take your pine needle baskets to the next level? Learn how to make floating coils, bridges and faggotting in this class. You must have taken a prior Beginner Pine Needle Basket Class to enter. Please bring your favorite needle, a small pair of sharp scissors and a pair of pliers.

Participants will make a 28x40 rag rug. Students will choose and buy their own fabric (or use rags they have collected). Students will learn to warp their loom, cut the rag strips, join rag strips, and weave these to make a beautiful rag rug.