Art

ART All workshop materials are provided unless otherwise specified in the event description.

Adventure Journaling: Capturing Moments Art journals are a joyful, creative way to process our daily lives and to capture poetic moments while on big adventures. Join Judith Cassel-Mamet as she offers you the chance to try out a variety of art materials and accessible techniques for art journaling while capturing the beauty of Crested Butte in a personal and meaningful way. Bring your own journal or purchase one at the beginning of class. #A07 / Tuesday, 7/14 / 9am-1pm / Judith Cassel-Mamet / $115

Ceramic Flower Vases & Vodka Join local artist, Mary Tuck, and create a gorgeous, one-of-a-kind vase inspired by local Crested Butte wildflowers. Learn how to apply various painting techniques and simple brush strokes on a pre-made ceramic vase. Your vase will be fired in the Center’s kiln, and you can either pick it up when it is complete, or we will ship it to you for an extra charge. #A17 / Saturday, 7/18 / 4-6pm / Mary Tuck / $85

Felted Wool Flower Art Learn the art of painting with wool! Join us as Megan Hammer of Art Grows Wild shares the needle-felting technique that uses only wool and a needle to create a beautiful and unique piece of art. You will create a 4”x 6” frameable piece. Megan will have inspiration pieces to guide you in creating Crested Butte’s most prolific wildflowers, or you are welcome to bring a photograph to work from, or simply let your creativity run wild! #A04 / Sunday, 7/12 / 1-3:30pm / Megan Hammer / $70

Flower Pressing Arts Spend an enjoyable morning creating your own masterpieces with gorgeous, pressed flowers from the garden. We’ll make beautiful bookmarks, botanical greeting cards, and a dipped floral candle. Discover the best flowers to grow and how to press them for optimal color, durability, and long life. Great for gifts! #A10 / Wednesday, 7/15 / 1-3pm / Susan Evans / $65

Gifts from the Herb Garden Take this fun and easy class and discover how to craft your own beautiful and unique gifts from natural materials in the garden. Make a luscious lip balm, soothing foot soak, lavender facial toner, delicious blossoms tea, and sage sticks for smudging and centering. Take home a sample of each for personal pampering. Recipes included. #A18 / Saturday, 7/18 / 10am-12pm / Susan Evans / $70

crestedbuttewildflowerfestival.com Landscapes in Acrylic We’ll head to the top of Old Kebler Pass to capture one of the most picturesque scenes from above Crested Butte. Students work on a pre-toned 8 x 10 canvas, and Megan helps guide each person to a striking composition and layout, including instruction on how to draw attention to the wildflowers in the foreground. Megan also gives instruction on filling in the background of the painting by making suggestions of shapes through color, value, and line. #A05 / Sunday, 7/12 / 9am-1pm / Megan Craver / $90

Linoleum Block Carving & Printing Learn the classic art of printmaking! Create a wildflower design, carve it into a linoleum block, and then print the image using a vintage printing press. You’ll take home your block and unique, linoleum-cut print so you can make your own cards, stationery, and gift tags. Kids 12+ with supervision. #A12 / Thursday, 7/16 / 1-3pm / Denise Newberry / $80

Mixed Media Wildflowers Create mixed-media masterpieces inspired by wildflowers. Begin by applying paint in layers, and then add texture elements with bubble wrap, netting, grids, stencils, etc. Next add flowers using collage techniques with different papers, and finally glaze with paint to finish. This multi-step process is fun, approachable, and yields an array of beautiful results! #A15 / Friday, 7/17 / 1:30-4:30pm / Ivy Walker / $85

Pastels in the Garden Spend the afternoon capturing the beautiful shapes and colors of Crested Butte’s amazing flowers through drawing with chalk pastels on thick, textured pastel paper. Local artist, Ivy Walker walks participants through exercises and techniques that teach how to depict flowers with form, shape, texture, color, and shadow. Participants will then focus on the creation of one or two final flower pastel drawings. Previous art experience helpful, but not necessary. Bring camp chair and digital camera (optional) to take photo references of the flowers. #A11 / Wednesday, 7/15 / 9am-12pm / Ivy Walker / $85

Plein Air Watercolor along the Woods Walk Enjoy a saunter up Old Kebler Road to Chocolate Drop Hill and the Woods Walk for a morning of wildflower identification, sketching, and watercolor painting. This is a short walk of ½ mile, mostly uphill; moderate fitness required. Bring camp chair and a good hat for shade. Kids 12+ with supervision. #A08 / Tuesday, 7/14 / 9:30am-1pm / Annie Starr / $80 #A13 / Thursday, 7/16 / 9:30am-1pm / Annie Starr / $80

Regenerations: Art, Writing, & Mindfulness in Nature This day-long “mini-retreat” from the modern world is a technology-free experience allowing you to sink deeply into just being in nature and re-establishing your connection to it. Uncover your creative expression through a variety of landscape art, creative writing, and mindfulness exercises designed to establish a relationship to place. #A20 / Sunday, 7/19 / 8am-3pm / Molly Murfee & Ivy Walker / $85

(970) 349-2571 23 Simple Sketch Series Have you always wished you could do a quick sketch of that wildflower but felt inhibited? This “Simple Sketch ©” technique is designed to help everyone find enjoyment in the process of learning to look more closely and work with basic art materials to capture the essence of an object. We will play with pens, watercolor, and pencils and practice developing confidence and coordination! Bring your own journal/sketchbook or purchase one at the beginning of class. Class size is limited to ensure each student receives individualized instruction. #A01 / Flora & Fauna / Friday, 7/10 / 9am-1pm / Judith Cassel-Mamet / $115 #A16 / Iconic Images of CB / Friday, 7/17 / 9am-1pm / Judith Cassel-Mamet / $115 #A21 / Trees: Aspens & Pines / Thursday, 7/23 / 9am-1pm / Judith Cassel-Mamet / $115 #A22 / Sky Dance / Thursday, 7/30 / 9am-1pm / Judith Cassel-Mamet / $115

Flora & Fauna Judith Cassel-Mamet

Wildflower Painting & Prosecco

24 crestedbuttewildflowerfestival.com Sunset Plein Air Watercolor Mary Tuck

Sunset Plein Air Watercolor Watercolor artist Zach Bauer covers skills used in painting the outdoors with changing light. Learn how to create small thumbnail value studies, how to consider and incorporate good composition into your work, and color mixing techniques. Come away with skills in outdoor painting, atmospheric perspective, and capturing the quickly changing light of mountains sunsets. #A09 / Tuesday, 7/14 / 6-8:30pm / Zach Bauer / $85

Watercolor Workshop in the Garden Enjoy a morning of sketching and watercolor painting at Annie’s Crested Butte garden where aspens and blue spruce shelter a plethora of flowers in many shapes and colors. Wear a sunhat! #A02 / Friday, 7/10 / 9:30am-1pm / Annie Starr / $80 #A19 / Saturday, 7/18 / 9:30am-1pm / Annie Starr / $80

Wildflower Painting & Prosecco Join in an evening of creativity and fun with a guided painting session to capture local wildflowers in vibrant hues on a pre-finished black canvas, giving your work a bold background making it really POP! Local artist Mary Tuck guides the class step-by-step through a painting, demonstrating skills and showing painting techniques as she goes, proving that ANYONE can create a beautiful painting. Kids 12+ with supervision. Must be 21 to enjoy the Prosecco. #A03 / Saturday, 7/11 / 5-7pm / Mary Tuck / $85

Wildflower Sandblast Etching Learn to etch a beautiful wildflower design onto a pre-cut piece of circle-beveled glass. Explore the fundamentals of sandblasting glass, using hand-cut and photostencils, which are made by exposing light-sensitive film to an image or design. Once the film is exposed, it’s applied to glass and etched using a sandblaster to reveal the design on the glass. Your final etched piece is ready to hang in your window! #A06 / Monday, 7/13 / 9am-1:30pm / Christina Stillwagon / $125

Wildflower Watercolor & Wine Join local watercolor artist Karen Hill, for a step-by-step watercolor painting class with wildflowers as the subject. Karen guides the group through a watercolor painting from start to finish, giving instruction on setting up to paint, wash and watercolor painting techniques, composition, and more. Wine and wine spritzers are provided to participants 21 and older, so you can relax and create! #A14 / Thursday, 7/16 / 4:30-7pm / Karen Hill / $85