Upcoming Classes

Materials: Supplies will be provdided with the opportunity to purchase additional supplies from the instructor. Supply discussion will be held on first day of class.

Prerequisite: No experience needed

Duration: 6 weeks

Ages: 16+

Cost: $250.00

Materials: Supplies will be provdided with the opportunity to purchase additional supplies from the instructor. Supply discussion will be held on first day of class.

Prerequisite: No experience needed

Duration: 6 weeks

Ages: 16+

Cost: $250.00

Instructor: Robert Jones (He/Him)

Description: Take your jewelry making skills to the next level with this advanced metal smithing course. Complex techniques of fabrication, soldering, and stone setting to improve you skills in forming and finishing. With whatever metals and gems you choose, intricate and stunning or elegant and simple, we'll collaborate to make it happen!

Materials: Supplies will be provided with the opportunity to purchase additional supplies from the instructor. Supply discussion will be held on first day of class.

Prerequisite: Some Previous Experience in Jewelry Making

Duration: 6 weeks

Days Off: 1/24

Ages: 16+

Cost: $250.00

Arrival Time: Please arrive 15 minutes before the start of class to check in.

Instructor: Robert Jones (He/Him)

Description: Take your jewelry making skills to the next level with this advanced metal smithing course. Complex techniques of fabrication, soldering, and stone setting to improve you skills in forming and finishing. With whatever metals and gems you choose, intricate and stunning or elegant and simple, we'll collaborate to make it happen!

Materials: Supplies will be provided with the opportunity to purchase additional supplies from the instructor. Supply discussion will be held on first day of class.

Prerequisite: Some Previous Experience in Jewelry Making

Duration: 6 weeks

Days Off: 1/24

Ages: 16+

Cost: $250.00

Arrival Time: Please arrive 15 minutes before the start of class to check in.

Description: Three projects will be designed especially for students who have completed the Beginning Fused Glass class and would like to explore projects that apply the basic skills of glass cutting, color selection and project design. You will receive a detailed syllabus and list of supplies prior to the first day of class.

Materials: Expect to spend between $10 and $25 on glass and kiln shelf paper every class. You are also welcome to bring your own COE 96 glass if you need specific colors for your projects.

Prerequisite: Beginning Glass Fusing

Duration: 6 weeks

Ages: 18+

Cost: $210.00

Description: Ready to take your metal clay skills to the next level? This intermediate workshop is designed for makers who are comfortable with the basics and are eager to explore more sophisticated construction techniques.

Move beyond simple forms as you learn how to build dimensional pieces, join components, and create more complex structures using metal clay. Through guided demonstrations and hands-on practice, you’ll experiment with layering, hollow forms, and methods for strengthening connections while maintaining elegant design.

This class encourages creativity and problem-solving while helping you refine your craftsmanship. By the end of the session, you’ll gain the confidence to design and construct more intricate pieces on your own.

Perfect for students who have completed a beginner metal clay class and want to expand their technical and artistic possibilities.

Materials: Student should purchase clay for the class. Email the instructor for specific type required for class at mccollumyvette7@gmail.com. Instructor to provide all basic tools.

Prerequisite: Beginner Clay Class/knowledge of basic skills required

Duration: 4.5 hours

Ages: 18+

Cost: $75.00

Description: Join Victor Contreras for a 5 week raku firing experience. There will be firing every week. Several smaller pieces of bisqueware will be needed. Please do not bring anything larger than 5” X 5” and no flat pieces like trays and such. Vessel oriented pots only. Some throwing and making will also be done. Wearing appropriate clothing and closed toed shoes is required. You will be working with open flame!

Materials: Clay is available for purchase.Please bring cash! Student will also need their own hand tools. Expect to spend at least $50 depending on skill level and projects.

Prerequisite: Throwing/Clay experience required. Raku experience

Duration: 5 weeks

Ages: 18+

Cost: $150.00

Description: Drawing by measuring and comparing. Line drawing, and shading. Drawing from imagination v drawing from life. Thick and thin lines. We will explore several types of drawing tools, Pencils, pens, charcoal, erasers, and smudge sticks, etc.
We will work on basic drawing skills. To draw well is to see well. As you learn to draw better, you will see the world around you differently. Seeing like an artist means the world becomes bigger, more vivid, and you notice things you may have missed before.

Materials: No special tools needed. If you have drawing materials bring them otherwise we will cover materials in the first session

Prerequisite: No Experience Required

Duration: 3 days (Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday)

Ages: 16+

Cost: $100.00

Description: "This eight-week course is designed for writers, poets, and journal-keepers who are ready to take the next step toward authorship. Together, we’ll transform raw writing into polished, publishable work and collaboratively create an anthology that highlights each participant’s unique voice. Through creative exercises, editing workshops, and guided discussions on theme, structure, and submission, students will gain both the artistic and professional tools to see their words in print.

By the end of the course, participants will have a curated selection of their own work prepared for inclusion in a class anthology and a concrete plan for their next steps as emerging authors.

Preferred Schedule: 8-week block (Winter/Spring 2026)

Ideal Class Size: 6–12 students (allows for individual feedback and group cohesion)

Supplies Fee (optional): $10 per student to cover anthology printing costs

Facility Needs: Classroom with whiteboard, tables/chairs, and projector or screen (for sample materials)

Final Output: Collaborative anthology (digital or printed chapbook) produced by the class

Public Component (optional): End-of-session reading or open mic event hosted at Phoenix Center for the Arts"

Materials: Laptop, Journal, Pen and any place to keep dedicated works together for the anthology.
Access to digital documents (Google Docs or Word)
Optional: past writing or journaling entries

Prerequisite: None required.

Duration: 9 weeks

Ages: 16+

Cost: $225.00

Description: Take your jewelry making skills to the next level with this advanced metal smithing course. Complex techniques of fabrication, soldering, and stone setting to improve you skills in forming and finishing. With whatever metals and gems you choose, intricate and stunning or elegant and simple, we'll collaborate to make it happen!

Materials: Supplies will be provdided with the opportunity to purchase additional supplies from the instructor. Supply discussion will be held on first day of class.

Prerequisite: Some Previous Experience in Jewelry Making

Duration: 5 weeks

Days Off: 4/2, 4/4

Ages: 16+

Cost: $230.00

Description: This workshop is designed for returning students who want to continue practicing and refining the skills they've learned in previous classes. With access to a supportive, creative environment, students can work on personal projects at their own pace while receiving guidance and supervision from the instructor. Whether you need a refresher on techniques, troubleshooting assistance, or just a space to create, this session offers the perfect opportunity to enhance your craft with personalized support.

Materials: Students must bring all necessary materials for their projects, as supplies will not be provided. Please ensure you have everything you need to make the most of your workshop time. This class is about practicing a technique you have already learned and not learning a new one during class. However, full access to the workshop and its tools to support their work during the session will be provided.

Prerequisite: Must have taken a prior class

Duration: 4 hours

Ages: 18+

Cost: $90.00

Description: This class will be a 4 week exploration of the basics of collage. We will explore famous collage artists and art works, and create landscape, portrait, and abstract pieces using our learned collage skills. No collage experience is required; we will start from the beginning! Cutting and gluing techniques, layering, spacial awareness, colors scheming, and more skills will be covered throughout the course.

Materials: "All materials provided.
Encouraged materials: your favorite scissors, magazines, scrapbook/colored paper, washi tape, stickers"

Prerequisite: No Experience Required

Duration: 4 weeks

Ages: 16+

Cost: $120.00

Description: Explore a unique silversmithing technique by weaving strips of sterling silver sheet into a beautiful cuff. This class introduces students to the art of metal weaving, where flat strips of silver are carefully shaped and interlaced to form a striking basket-weave design.

You’ll learn how to measure and cut sheet metal into uniform strips, anneal and prepare the silver for weaving, and use proper techniques to achieve even spacing and tension. Once the weaving is complete, we will focus on shaping the bracelet into a cuff, finishing the edges, and finishing the surface with filing, polishing, and optional textures for a professional look.

This workshop is beginner/intermediate friendly, though some comfort with basic jewelry tools is helpful. By the end of class, each student will leave with a custom sterling silver woven cuff and the skills to explore weaving techniques in future metalwork projects.

Materials: Materials provided

Prerequisite: No experience is required but very helpful.

Duration: 3 weeks

Ages: 18+

Cost: $200.00

Description: Using spray paint we will learn to paint colorful otherworldly scenes. We will discover methods used by “Street Artists” all over the world. This amazing technique is FUN and FAST! Let your imagination be the limit! This is great fun for “Parent and Child” Young Adults, and Adults! Materials will be supplied.

Materials: Materials will be provided

Prerequisite: No experience needed

Duration: 3 weeks

Ages: 16+

Cost: $75.00

Description: Learn to paint with oil paints! The subject is the landscape. Working from photos we will focus on the basics. Color mixing, Drawing the landscape and tools for successfully starting and finishing landscapes.
This class is for beginners, and anyone that’s returning to painting, that wants a little inspiration, and motivation! We will discuss best materials used. We will paint from photos. Photos will be supplied but please bring any photos you would like to paint.

Materials: Please bring any oil painting materials you already have otherwise we will cover supplies in the first class.

Prerequisite: No experience needed

Duration: Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday

Ages: 18+

Cost: $100.00

Description: "BodyMind Dancing™ is an anatomically informed, somatic movement experience that weaves together somatic inquiry, improvisation, and accessible follow-along movement phrases. Rooted in the understanding that awareness emerges through the body in motion, classes invite participants to investigate sensation, perception, and expression while engaging the art of dancing itself.

Participants are guided through cues that encourage introspection and self-awareness and then supported in bringing that awareness into relationship with space, music, and others. Each participant has the freedom to respond to prompts in ways that are safe, adaptive, and honoring of their own body, capacity, and lived experience.

Classes balance inner listening with outward connection, integrating best practices in dance education: strong social-emotional intelligence, community building, self-care informed by dance science. Improvisation and skill-building coexist, allowing participants to build confidence, clarity, and creative agency over time.

Taught by Certified Teacher of BodyMind Dancing™ (CTBMD), Molly W. Schenck, this practice draws from over 40 years of BodyMind Dancing™ pedagogy, integrating somatic approaches with contemporary dance and various movement modalities and traditions. Classes may include playful anatomy exploration and reflection, while moving to a range of rhythms - from instrumental music to silence, nature, and the internal rhythms of the body itself.

BodyMind Dancing™ offers a compassionate, expressive, and deeply human space to move, feel, and connect."

Materials: Participants should dress in loose comfortable clothing, light layers and knee pads recommended

Prerequisite: No Experience Required

Duration: 1.5 hrs

Ages: 18+

Cost: $25.00

Description: Want to learn to paint with Watercolors? Or just get better at it? In this fast and fun class we will focus on the basics. Color mixing and blending, Drawing, and tools for successfully starting and finishing watercolor paintings with FUN watercolor techniques.

Materials: If you have supplies bring them, otherwise we will cover supplies in the first class.

Prerequisite: No experience needed

Duration: Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday

Ages: 16+

Cost: $100.00

Description: "Let's paint dreamy and ethereal clouds and skies!
In this magical painting class, students will have fun and learn how to paint a fantasy clouds and skies landscape on canvas using acrylic paints. The sky is the limit!"

Materials: Please bring the following materials to class with you:

Pink warm toned paints such as apple barrel paradise pink
White acrylic paint
Craftsmart purple acrylic paint
Paint palette/wells
Small canvas of your choice: recommended size 4x6"" or 8 x 10""
Taklon set of brushes
Apron / old paint clothes
Optional but highly recommended!! Folkart glitterific acrylics and Folkart Color Shift acrylics of your choice
Students should expect to spend around $40 for supplies.
I will be providing a fun assortment of glitters, newsprint, paper towels and a paint water jar/cup

Prerequisite: No experience required, all skill levels welcome

Duration: 3 hours

Ages: 16+

Cost: $50.00

Description: Drawing by measuring and comparing. Line drawing, and shading. Drawing from imagination v drawing from life. Thick and thin lines. We will explore several types of drawing tools, Pencils, pens, charcoal, erasers, and smudge sticks, etc.
We will work on basic drawing skills. To draw well is to see well. As you learn to draw better, you will see the world around you differently. Seeing like an artist means the world becomes bigger, more vivid, and you notice things you may have missed before.

Materials: If you have drawing tools bring them otherwise we will cover drawing supplies in class

Prerequisite: No experience needed

Duration: 3 days (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday)

Ages: 16+

Cost: $100.00

Description: "Let's paint dreamy and ethereal clouds and skies!
In this magical painting class, students will have fun and learn how to paint a fantasy clouds and skies landscape on canvas using acrylic paints. The sky is the limit!"

Materials: Please bring the following materials to class with you:

Pink warm toned paints such as apple barrel paradise pink
White acrylic paint
Craftsmart purple acrylic paint
Paint palette/wells
Small canvas of your choice: recommended size 4x6"" or 8 x 10""
Taklon set of brushes
Apron / old paint clothes
Optional but highly recommended!! Folkart glitterific acrylics and Folkart Color Shift acrylics of your choice
Students should expect to spend around $40 for supplies.
I will be providing a fun assortment of glitters, newsprint, paper towels and a paint water jar/cup

Prerequisite: No experience required, all skill levels welcome

Duration: 3 hours

Ages: 16+

Cost: $50.00