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.

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.

Students will explore the fundamentals of basic stagecraft and set design. Each class includes performance opportunities in character studies, scripted scenes, and improvised games. We work on stage combat skills as well as voices and accents. The session concludes with a performance for friends and families presented on the final day.

In this class, you will continue to increase your confidence and build your skills in drawing and painting from observation. The instructor will provide lots of guidance and demonstrations. Please note this class is for those with prior experience.

In this class, you will continue to increase your confidence and build your skills in drawing and painting from observation. The instructor will provide lots of guidance and demonstrations. Please note this class is for those with prior experience.

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.  

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.  

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. 

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

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.

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.

For this workshop, students will learn how to crochet in a round to create colored spiral patterns and then incorporate their spiral forms into a larger wall hanging. We will focus on intuitive free-form crocheting as a group activity, working together to create a creative, flowing, large piece of work.

This workshop is designed for the novice or experienced book arts maker as a refresher course on ‘how-to’ make a variety of small handmade books. Bonnie will share many samples along with a very small bit of history to spark inspiration.  All participants will learn how to create a handful of simple book forms. With a step-by-step process, ordinary materials will be folded, cut, glued and sewed with simple stitching.   At the end of the day, the completed book structures will provide each maker with beautiful surfaces to write, journal, draw, sew, paint, or collage. Perhaps this begins an endless flow of new ideas to come. 

Calling all radical stitchers! 

Our March Radical Embroidery workshop was such a success, and so much fun, we are offering a Part 2. 

Bring your 'work in progress' from class to continue and finish. There is always something else to add to a stitching project to bring it to the next level. Learn new 3D stitches to add texture and dimension. Practice the tried and true embroidery stitches taught in class, alongside others for encouragement, and with step by step, one on one instruction. 

Sign up for this class if you attended Radical Embrioder Part 1 in March.

If you missed the first class, come an hour early to start your own radical embroidery and learn some classic embroidery  stitches, new techniques using India ink markers and fabric swatches, and find out what it means to radically stitch.

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.

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 human figure is a subject that artists have depicted for centuries, and it is at the core of understanding the concepts of form, force, and movement in drawing. This workshop is a combination of the classical constructive approach to figure drawing with the lightness and dynamism of drawing for 2D animation. Students will apply basic drawing skills to learn various principles and concepts in figure drawing- gesture, blocking, measuring, anatomy, line of action, balance, squash & stretch, volumes, foreshortening, combining 2D & 3D observations- and leave with a systemic approach to analyzing and communicating two-dimensional and three-dimensional forms of the human figure.

Discover the joy of drawing and painting in this fun, creative art class. Students will learn the fundamentals of still life by observing objects and developing their drawing skills through line, shape, position, and composition. We will then bring our creations to life with painting on canvas using acrylics and watercolor.

Get ready to trick the eye with optical illusions. Students will explore the fascinating art of illusion through bold colors, patterns, shading, and perspective. Watch your art pop off the page and appear to move! We will use colored watercolor pencils, markers, and micro pens.

Material Magic invites young artists to dive into a world of color, texture, and form! Each week, children experiment with a variety of materials, paint, drawing mediums, textiles, and found objects to create unique works of art. Through guided exploration, kids learn to think creatively, take risks, and express their ideas in both two and three dimensions. Every project is an adventure in making, discovering, and having fun with art!

Material Magic invites young artists to dive into a world of color, texture, and form! Each week, children experiment with a variety of materials, paint, drawing mediums, textiles, and found objects to create unique works of art. Through guided exploration, kids learn to think creatively, take risks, and express their ideas in both two and three dimensions. Every project is an adventure in making, discovering, and having fun with art!

Art tells the story of humanity. Across thousands of years, artists have documented cultures, challenged traditions, explored identity, and transformed the way we see the world. In Project: Art History, students investigate major artistic movements and influential works through hands-on studio projects inspired by artists from prehistoric times to the twentieth century.

Each class combines art historical inquiry, visual analysis, discussion, and studio practice. Rather than copying famous artworks, students will examine the ideas, materials, and techniques that shaped each period before creating original works informed by those traditions. Along the way, they will build technical skills while developing a deeper understanding of how art reflects culture, innovation, and personal expression.

Art tells the story of humanity. Across thousands of years, artists have documented cultures, challenged traditions, explored identity, and transformed the way we see the world. In Project: Art History, students investigate major artistic movements and influential works through hands-on studio projects inspired by artists from prehistoric times to the twentieth century.

Each class combines art historical inquiry, visual analysis, discussion, and studio practice. Rather than copying famous artworks, students will examine the ideas, materials, and techniques that shaped each period before creating original works informed by those traditions. Along the way, they will build technical skills while developing a deeper understanding of how art reflects culture, innovation, and personal expression.

Celebrate the beauty of autumn in this art class by creating fall-inspired masterpieces. Projects and media include painted pumpkins on canvas, pastel turkey drawings, leaf prints, and painted trees in vibrant fall colors. Let's celebrate creativity and build our artistic skills in this fall class!

Get into the spirit of the holidays by creating art projects in mediums of paper, glitter, paints, pencils, and markers. Projects will include festive paper cornucopias, Christmas gingerbread house paintings on canvas, pipe cleaner beaded Christmas trees, and painted Christmas ornaments. Let's build our artistic skills and make beautiful keepsakes!

In this class, students will experiment with a limited color palette to create still life paintings. Using only the Primary Triad -- Cadmium Yellow Light, Cadmium Red Light, Ultramarine Blue, White (for vibrant, broad ranges) -- emphasis is placed on strong color harmony, unity, and a focus on value. This approach fosters masterful color mixing, enhances tonal understanding, and helps achieve cohesion in complex scenes, making paintings feel more intentional and unified. 

In this class, students will experiment with a limited color palette to create still life paintings. Using only the Primary Triad -- Cadmium Yellow Light, Cadmium Red Light, Ultramarine Blue, White (for vibrant, broad ranges) -- emphasis is placed on strong color harmony, unity, and a focus on value. This approach fosters masterful color mixing, enhances tonal understanding, and helps achieve cohesion in complex scenes, making paintings feel more intentional and unified. 

Create a one-of-a-kind artwork from your own memories. Learn collage and découpage techniques while transforming photographs, letters, maps, and treasured keepsakes into a richly layered mixed-media composition. Bring your own meaningful materials and leave with a finished artwork that tells your story.

From combining words and an image to create a single-panel gag to telling a compelling story from start to finish with a sequence of panels, this course is an introduction to the principles of sequential storytelling found in comics, manga, and graphic novels for visual storytellers ages 10 -16. Through a blend of lecture, demonstration, and hands-on exercises, students will learn the vocabulary and anatomy of the comic panel, panel layout, drawing & inking techniques, as well as story structure and flow. By the end of this course, students will apply all concepts and techniques learned to produce their very own comic.

From combining words and an image to create a single-panel gag to telling a compelling story from start to finish with a sequence of panels, this course is an introduction to the principles of sequential storytelling found in comics, manga, and graphic novels for visual storytellers ages 10 -16. Through a blend of lecture, demonstration, and hands-on exercises, students will learn the vocabulary and anatomy of the comic panel, panel layout, drawing & inking techniques, as well as story structure and flow. By the end of this course, students will apply all concepts and techniques learned to produce their very own comic.