In conjunction with the Art for Health & Healing Program, the Canton Museum of Art welcomes you to a special mindfulness art series at the Canton Museum of Art that focuses on slowing down, relieving stress, and learning to use creativity to increase awareness of self and be present in the moment. Learn how to paint by only using your breath while learning the basics of alcohol ink painting using yupo paper and clay boards. Join our registered art therapist, Amy Hope, as she helps your ability to de-stress and find mindfulness through the power of art.
In conjunction with the Art for Health & Healing Program, the Canton Museum of Art welcomes you to a special mindfulness art series at the Canton Museum of Art that focuses on slowing down, relieving stress, and learning to use creativity to increase awareness of self and be present in the moment. Join our registered art therapist, Amy Hope, as she helps your ability to de-stress and find mindfulness through the power of art.
Learn beautiful French Cartonnage techniques as you build a 4x4x4" desk caddy and cover it with your choice of provided book cloth and papers. Ooh-la-la! Techniques are simple enough for beginners, yet interesting enough for those more familiar with paper arts.
In this book making class, students will use book board, book cloth and decorative papers to construct a beautiful hard cover journal with pages that you add and remove. Students will leave class with a finished journal measuring 9" tall x 6" wide x 1.75" thick, with basic instructions to repeat the project at home!
Good clean fun! Enjoy them yourself or these make unique handmade gifts for a special someone. The wool covering on the soap cleans and gently exfoliates your skin. Design the soap in your favorite sports team colors, home decor or stay with all natural colors. Make 3 scented soaps.
*Please bring an old bath towel, hand towel and plastic bag to take your artwork home in.
Use a resist, wool fibers, water, soap and friction to create a beautiful 3-D vessel of your choice! Choose to create a bowl or small purse. No sewing, knitting or crocheting and no seams!
*Please bring an old bath towel, hand towel and plastic bag to take your artwork home in.
Can't find your cell phone in your purse or back pack? Tired of rooting around and scratching the screen? Learn how to use a resist to make your own wet felted cell phone case out of wool fibers. It will protect your phone, will be beautiful and easy to find!
*Please bring an old bath towel, hand towel and plastic bag to take your artwork home in.
Have fun and relieve stress while your learn a new way to create art in this intro to needle felting class creating decorative felt pumpkins for the fall. Use orange, white, black or use your imagination! Each person should be able to complete 3 pumpkins in a variety of sizes.
Get in the spirit, whether for a team sports event, Halloween or just for fun festivities! This is an introduction to wet felting technique. Use friction, water, and soap to shrink down wool fibers into long ropes to create dreadlocks into a fabulous head piece. Some hand sewing required. Bring a towel and plastic bag.
Learn to see like a photographer and go from taking snapshots to purposeful, well-composed images that reflect your personal vision. Master the buttons and dials on your camera and shoot in modes other than Auto. This course introduces participants to the creative and technical possibilities of digital photography. Topics include camera operation, shutter speed, aperture, ISO, white balance, and composition. Both new and experienced photographers are welcome.
*Please bring a digital camera that has a manual mode, DSLR, mirrorless, some point-and-shoots and a card reader
