This is an open studio art class designed for adults and teens with special needs, physical limitations, developmental disabilities and/or any neurodiversity. Art making topics are tailored to new and returning students and include drawing, painting, sculpting, mixed media, and fiber arts. Students are encouraged to express their own vision in this fun, supportive class.  An exhibition of work and a celebration highlight the final class.  

We offer supervised lunchtime for summer campers in-between, before, or after their camp sessions. LWTB is directed by camp staff and volunteers. Activities include games, drawing with chalk, and nature walks. Please bring a nut-free bag lunch.

Adult workshop at Hoffman's Crossing 

This is class is for beginners and those seeking to build on a little experience.  Students will explore core concepts while building confidence and skills in drawing and painting from observation.  Artist Oscar Peterson provides guidance and demonstrations inspired by his own practice.

This is a fun and relaxed class designed for students of all levels. There’s no need to be afraid if you are a beginner. All students can work at their own pace and will receive individual instruction. This course will introduce and build upon fundamental drawing concepts that translate across mediums, as well as basic through advanced techniques to take your talents to a whole new level. We will be working from a still-life or photos and if weather permits, we will go outside and paint on the beautiful museum patio overlooking the river.

Please note: This hybrid class provides students the freedom to attend their session either in-person or via Zoom. Lena Shiffman will be in-person interacting with students in-person and virtual alike.

We will be working on learning how to see differently, understand what's important (this may surprise you), simplify what's there, and understand color and how it creates depth and drama. This workshop will take place outdoors, rain or shine, under a covered tent on the Museum's terrace.

Please bring a minimum of 1-2 canvases, small to medium 8 x 10, 10 x 10, 11 x 14, 16 x 20, 12 x 20, or whatever what you feel comfortable with.

If you would like to paint large, please email 4 jps of your work to [email protected] and include your phone number.  And PLEASE PLEASE bring images that you want to paint or that inspire you.

The context of this 3 session Saturday Teen/Young Adult workshop is to educate, challenge, and inspire. Art Educator Julie Swenson will guide teen participants through community building exercises and engage in dynamic conversations centered on art. Teens will reflect on current issues allowing themselves to explore and constructively discuss relevant topics that our nation is facing. Gallery discussions will highlight the work of contemporary artists who are on view at the Museum.

Through informal conversations and hands-on art activities together students will raise awareness around diversity through art. 

Our open studio time, designed for teens 14-18, is an opportunity for students to come into the museum and utilize our materials and resources to work on independant and collaborative projects at their own pace. 

Summer 2025

This weekly class is designed for children ages 7-12 to engage in fun and interactive yoga practices. Through simple postures (asana), breath work, mindfulness, and meditation, students will explore practices that cultivate embodiment, increase concentration, and enhance self-awareness in a supportive group environment. These practices support physical and mental well-being while encouraging students to carry these skills beyond the mat, fostering relaxation and mindfulness in their daily lives. 

Why work with one medium when you can Mix it Up? Explore paint, drawing materials, soft materials, and found materials in this class designed for kids ages 4-7.  Kids will learn techniques in a variety of media and make both two and three-dimensional works of art.  

Students will be able to explore and create unique works of art out of air-dry clay! We will be exploring different sculpting techniques, shapes, and designs to create functional or decorative pieces. Students will be given the choice: What do you want to make?

Pack your imagination — we’re traveling through time to explore how artists across history have expressed their worlds! From prehistoric caves to the colorful motion of modern sculpture, students will uncover the stories behind great works of art and bring them to life through hands-on projects. Each week, we’ll experiment with new materials and techniques inspired by artists of the past: painting with natural pigments like early cave artists, designing Roman mosaics, printing waves in the style of Hokusai, painting vibrant still lifes like Van Gogh, and crafting mobiles inspired by Alexander Calder. By the end of our journey, students will have their own mini “timeline of art” — a gallery of works that show how creativity connects us across time.

Week 1 AM camp ages 5-9

Week 1 AM camp ages 10-14

Week 1 PM camp ages 5-9

Week 1 PM camp ages 10-14

Week 2 AM camp ages 5-9

Week 2 AM camp ages 10-14

Week 2 PM camp ages 5-9

Week 2 PM camp ages 10-14

Week 3 AM camp ages 5-9

Week 3 PM camp ages 10-14

Week 3 PM camp ages 5-9

Week 3 PM camp ages 10-14

Week 4 AM camp ages 5-9

Week 4 AM camp ages 10-14

Week 4 camp ages 5-9

Week 4 PM camp ages 10-14

Week 5 AM camp ages 5-9

Week 5 AM camp ages 10-14

Week 5 PM camp ages 5-9

Week 5 PM camp ages 10-14

Week 6 AM camp ages 5-9

Week 6 AM camp ages 10-14

Week 6 PM camp ages 5-9

Week 6 PM camp ages 10-14

Week 7 AM camp ages 5-9

Week 7 AM camp ages 10-14

Week 7 PM camp ages 5-9

Week 7 PM camp ages 10-14

Week 8 AM camp ages 5-9

Week 8 AM camp ages 10-14

Week 8 PM camp ages 5-9

Week 8 PM camp ages 10-14

Week 9 AM camp ages 5-9

Week 9 AM camp ages 10-14

Week 9 PM camp ages 5-9

Week 9 PM camp ages 10-14

This five-day camp is designed for students ages 10–15 to explore art as a collaborative, social process. Each day begins with sustained work on a shared, large- scale collaborative painting that evolves over the week. Additional projects emphasize teamwork, negotiation, shared decision-making, and the experience of creating art for public and semi-public spaces within a museum environment. Students will work individually within group structures, learning how their personal ideas contribute to a collective whole. The week culminates in multiple collaborative artworks and installations that reflect both individual identities and group cohesion.

Learn to weave with different textures and color! You will create your own unique drawing using yarn! Experimenting with different types of weaving, you will play with inventing your own landscape!

This is a crash course in sculpture focused on teaching students how to create basic shapes using clay and how to create small “trompe l'oeil” objects-
a.k.a. Little clay shoes you can use as flower pots. The course is designed to teach students how to apply different properties of form when sculpting with air dry clay: shape, proportions, and surface texture.

In this class we will be weaving on a frame loom! We will begin the class with some basic breathwork to center us before we begin. You will be taught how to warp a loom as well as some weaving techniques to create beautiful personalized pieces with fibers, beads and more. You will then learn how to remove a weaving from a loom and create a wall hanging.

Come celebrate Spring and rebirth as we create and discover beautiful spring time projects through art .  Students will be painting, using clay, and collage.

Join the adventure with Huntr/x, Saja boys, Derpy tiger and Sussie to protect the Honmoon. The class is designed to learn how to sketch, color with different media the beloved characters from Kpop Demon Hunters with Kawaii Japanese art style.

No experience needed.

During class we will learn about heroes, villains, sidekicks, friends, and enemies, exploring different media (alcohol markers, ink, color pencils, and graphite pencils), young artists will explore multiple ways to write a story and how to bring it to life with amazing and colorful drawings.

Create a Seasonal Scent Inspired by New Beginnings.

Please join us in honoring Mother Nature’s renewal with a hands‑on workshop where you’ll craft a beautiful, one‑of‑a‑kind natural perfume using pure botanical aromatics.

You’ll explore the scents and symbolism of spring botanicals and be guided step‑by‑step to blend a fragrance that reflects your personal intention for the season.

Your finished perfume makes a unique gift for someone special — or a meaningful treat just for you.

This is a subtractive technique used an illustration project. Using rub-out technique on the illustration board, still traditional way to express images
but the result comes out yield fresh, interesting results on its own. This lesson makes students not only for learning one of an illustration technique but also develops advanced and unique way of expression.

Get a new view on the world with solargraphy, one of the slowest forms of analog photography!

Solargraphs are long-exposure pinhole photographs that reveal not only the landscape, but also the passage of the sun across the sky. Familiar places look otherworldly, time is stretched, space transformed. No experience necessary, all materials provided. Join us for a two-part workshop, make your own cameras, and discover!

This hands-on workshop introduces participants to the basics of Chadō, the Japanese tea ceremony, exploring its history, philosophy, and key etiquette. We’ll begin with a  "hataraki” - an adaptation of a tea ceremony that highlights the values of mindfulness, harmony, respect, and simplicity at the heart of the practice. (The tea experience will be "ryurei" (table-syle) rather than using an authentic tea space on tamami mats).

After the tea ceremony introduction, participants will transition into a clay session, creating their own tea bowls using the pinch pot method. This approachable hand-building technique emphasizes touch, intention, and the beauty of subtle imperfections—echoing the spirit of the tea ceremony itself.

Once the bowls are formed, participants will decorate their work with Porcelain slip, adding surface details and patterns inspired by traditional and contemporary tea ware. Finished pieces will be fired after the workshop and available for pickup at a later date.

No prior experience is necessary; all materials are provided.

Explore the unexpected graphic and narrative characteristics of one single letter form using printmaking and bookarts. We will make one, 8-page accordion handprinted book using a letter of your choice. 

Letters are glyphs representing ancient archetypes. In this workshop we explore peculiarities of a single glyph/letter using type, stamps and/or stencils. We will print using water based inks into an accordion book we will first construct for the purpose or printing directly into.  Both the book and the print are in the service of expanding the graphic possibilities inherent in the repetition of one single letter form through placement, scale and color.  

It’s a little book arts, a little printmaking combined with a 2D design lesson all rolled into one deceptively simple project.  By isolating one single letter, the familiar can be seen with a fresh set of eyes giving permission to explore meaning through a narrative structure. We will explore ink rollout, viscosity, application as well as discussing type face, historical context and graphic form.  The accordion book lesson addresses paper grain and a fail safe folding technique. 

Adaptive Art Lab will feature reduced lighting and sound, limited enrollment, predictable session structure, and flexible pacing. 

Visual clutter will be minimized, transitions will be clearly communicated, and participants will be free to engage quietly and independently, if preferred. Through an intentionally-designed environment and guided, self-paced instruction, the program aims at providing conditions in which creative engagement is possible, rather than overwhelming, and where participants can engage alongside peers in a supportive, non-judgmental setting.

Gouache is an opaque water-based paint that combines the fluid versatility of watercolor with the rich, matte coverage of acrylic. It is not only highly beginner-friendly but also for all level learners because it dries rapidly and can be easily reactivated with water to make corrections. Using the specific techniques, flat wash, wet on wet blending, dry brushing, layering, on the water color paper, sketch book, canvas, and illustration board, still a traditional way to express images but also from graphical and simplified to more illustrative and expressive for portrait, still life, and landscape painting. This lesson makes students learn illustration techniques with Gouache and develops a different and unique way of their own expression.