Visual Arts Workshops

Upcoming Visual Arts Workshops at the SCA

Folk Night
Thursday, March 6, 2025 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm @ Art’s Cafe
Calling all folkies! Curated by Ben Collier, Folk Night will focus on folk and traditional music hosted by a constellation of players. March and May TBA

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Art Night: Women As Artist & Subject
Friday, March 7, 2025 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm @ Art’s Cafe
Learn about female artists throughout history, women as represented in art, the intersection of women as both Muse and Master, and the modern context of feminism in art. Speakers include: Ellen Owens, Adjunct Professor at Niagara University and Director of Castellani Museum;  Heather Gring, Archivist of Rare Books at Buffalo + Erie Co Public Library, artist’s model; Biljana Petreska, Roycroft Artisan in Photography, artist specializing in alternative photography and female identity centered self-portraiture; and Tami Fuller, Executive Director for the Roycrofters-at-Large Association, weaver and fiber artist using traditional women’s textile work as a medium to explore the female experience.

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Herbal Sachet Making: Fragrance & Function
Saturday, March 8, 2025 10:00 am - 11:00 am @ Art’s Cafe
Add a touch of nature to your home with handmade herbal sachets! Join Mary Hermans of Nexus Botanical Arts for this aromatic workshop, where you’ll blend dried herbs and flowers to create fragrant sachets for drawers, under your pillow, or to give as thoughtful gifts.

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NEEDLE FELTED MARCH HARES
Friday, March 14, 2025 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm @ Springville Center for the Arts
Learn to sculpt with wool. In this beginners 3D needle felt class students will use a special felting needle and superfine wool to sculpt a handheld March Hare as a perfect introduction to needle felting figures and a celebration of Spring. With Tami Fuller. 

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Growing Native Herbs
Saturday, March 15, 2025 10:00 am - 12:30 pm @ Art’s Cafe
Have you ever planted seeds and had nothing sprout? Many perennial and native seeds require special treatment to germinate. In this beginner-friendly class, Sarah Sorci of Sweet Flag Herbs will spotlight her favorite culinary and medicinal native herbs for the garden.

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POWER | PERSONAL SUNS | GOUACHE ENSO
Wednesday, March 26, 2025 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm @ Springville Center for the Arts
This session will dive into “I Can,” the Solar Plexus Chakra, which governs our personality, ego, personal power, authority and authenticity. You will explore this center and tie in the concept of vitality, strength, discipline and enlightenment with a color meditation in yellow using gouache and sumi ink.

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SPRING BLOSSOMS WITH WATERCOLOR
Saturday, March 29, 2025 9:30 am - 12:30 pm @ Springville Center for the Arts
Experiment with watercolor’s unique transparent color mixing and mingling properties. Bring your favorite flowers or plant leaves for inspiration, or use the instructor-provided blossoms. With Jennifer Koury.

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Handmade Seed Paper: Craft & Plant For Spring
Saturday, March 29, 2025 10:00 am - 11:30 am @ Art’s Cafe
Welcome spring with creativity and sustainability! Join Mary Hermans of Nexus Botanical Arts for a hands-on seed paper making workshop where you’ll transform recycled paper into beautiful, plantable creations. Learn how to blend, shape, and embed wildflower seeds into custom sheets, perfect for cards, gift tags, or planting in your garden. Attendees will leave with 3-5 sheets of handmade seed paper and DIY instructions to continue the craft at home.

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Folk Night ft. Ol' Paint
Thursday, April 3, 2025 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm @ Art’s Cafe
A visit with Ol’ Paint is sure to set your mind at ease and your toes tapping. Band members Neia, Phil, and Tom are all skilled musicians trained in a variety of instruments, including: guitar, banjo, ukulele, harmonica, and vocals. They’re known for their great stories, nice harmonies, and pleasant accompaniment.

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MARKET BASKET
Saturday, April 5, 2025 - Saturday, April 12, 2025 9:30 am - 12:00 pm @ Art’s Cafe
In this two-part workshop, create a medium size handled basket that is perfect for the farmers market or storing things at home. Participants should plan to bring an old towel, bucket, tape measure, straight end screwdriver, and sharp scissors. With Ellen McCarthy.

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GYOTAKU: JAPANESE FISH PRINTS
Thursday, April 10, 2025 2:30 pm - 5:00 pm @ Springville Center for the Arts
Gyotaku is the traditional Japanese method of printing fish, used by fishermen to record their catches. In this class, we will use latex molds of a variety of sea creatures and plants as our printing plates. With Janet Vedder.

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HEART | THE HEART AS A GARDEN | SUMINAGASHI & UNSTRUCK SOUND
Friday, April 11, 2025 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm @ Springville Center for the Arts
This class will focus on “I Love,” the Heart Chakra, associated with our capacity to love, the seat of our compassion and connection, and transcendence of fear, also referred to as the gateway to our inner gardens. You will use traditional Suminagashi marbling and Ebru paint techniques to work through a comparison contemplation of grayscale and the traditional Heart Chakra color of green to create our own complex gardens.

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BEGINNING FIGURE DRAWING
Saturday, April 12, 2025 9:30 am - 12:30 pm @ Springville Center for the Arts
Enjoy beginning figure drawing based on a live model. Experiment with several charcoal techniques to develop a beginning understanding of the figure and proportions. With Jennifer Koury. 

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David's Hidden Places: Off the Beaten Track Photography & Hiking Adventures
Saturday, April 19, 2025 8:00 am - 1:00 pm @ Franklin Gulf County Park
A guided tour through Erie County’s Franklin Gulf Park’s scenic highlights as seen through the eyes of professional photographer David Reade. This excursion will feature gorgeous views, beautiful creek vistas with plentiful picturesque small waterfalls; and impressive old-growth trees.

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PAINTING EXERCISES
Saturday, April 19, 2025 - Saturday, May 3, 2025 9:30 am - 12:00 pm @ Springville Center for the Arts
This three-part painting workshop will set the groundwork for better paintings over time. Geared for intermediate students, the focus will be the planning and design steps that result in more masterful paintings. The lessons will emphasize where and how you put paint down, shapes used, values arranged, and colors selected. The aim will not be on a single wonderful painting but rather smaller size paintings that allow for easy corrections. Participants will select their own media and subject matter to work with. With Judson Brown.

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Folk Night
Thursday, May 1, 2025 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm @ Art’s Cafe
Calling all folkies! Curated by Ben Collier, Folk Night will focus on folk and traditional music hosted by a constellation of players. March and May TBA

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David's Hidden Places: Off the Beaten Track Photography & Hiking Adventures
Saturday, May 3, 2025 8:00 am - 1:00 pm @ Sprague Brook Park
This excursion will feature commanding views of the park and surrounding hills; beautiful creek vistas; intriguing pond reflections; monstrous old-growth trees, and the first exquisite forest wildflowers of spring.

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LEARN TO WEAVE
Saturday, May 10, 2025 10:00 am - 2:00 pm @ Springville Center for the Arts
In this full 4-hour workshop, learn weaving basics and get a taste for modern fiber art. With Tami Fuller.

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David's Hidden Places: Off the Beaten Track Photography & Hiking Adventures
Saturday, May 17, 2025 7:00 am - 4:00 pm @ Allegany State Park
This hike is a guided wilderness bushwhack through some of Allegany’s mostly unknown and seldom visited old growth forests, a couple of which are among the largest remaining intact ancient forests in the Northeast. Amble through enchanting landscapes where you’ll see some of the largest and tallest trees in the region, picturesque mossy-bouldered creeks featuring many small waterfalls, intriguing root formations and much more. These areas are unique and wondrous, a world left to it’s own devices, largely unaltered by man.

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Bonsai
Saturday, May 17, 2025 10:00 am - 12:00 pm @ Art’s Cafe
Learn the history of Bonsai, several popular styles of trees, and how to turn a hand selected nursery plant into a bonsai tree of your own. All of the supplies that you need to create your own bonsai including a hand selected nursery plant, bonsai pot, wire, soil, and pocket guide are included. With Trenton Lutes.

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