Come gather with us for Be Gay, Do Crafts!—a monthly queer craft night rooted in creativity, connection, and collective joy. Held every 4th Saturday, 6–9pm, this is an open, welcoming space to slow down, make art, and be in community.

Each session offers pearler beads, coloring pages, friendship bracelets and shrinky dinks—easy, accessible crafts perfect for zoning out, chatting, or quietly co-creating alongside others. We’ll be surrounded by music, queer media, and the gentle magic that happens when we make things together.

$10
All genders & identities welcome

No skills required, come as you are
Maximum queer joy!

NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED.

Come make something. Come make friends. Come be gay.

Saturdays, 1-3pm
(dates TBD)
$40-$60 (sliding scale payment)

In this two-hour Batik workshop, participants will create designs on cloth using wax resist and dyes.

Participants will practice using tjantings and brushes to apply melted wax, and learn how to layer color to create effects with transparent dyes. The final batiks will be ironed and can be dry-cleaned to complete the process. 

You can choose to create a set of dinner napkins, a bandanna, or cut our cotton cloth to a custom size for a pillow top, or funky patches for your favorite jeans. If you're a quilter, you can create your own fabric squares to incorporate into your quilting projects!

*Bring a black and white drawing that you’ll use for your design. Anything goes, it can be a nature motif, (fish, snails, plants, or your sweet cat, to name a few). It can also be a scene, a map, portrait, album cover, or graphic pattern. Think about the colors you might use. It can be a 1-color, 2-color or 3 color design.  
  

Optional: bring an apron, embroidery hoop of any size, rubber gloves.
All materials will be provided.

About the instructor:
Wendy Kenigsberg is an art educator and a maker at heart. In her work at the Johnson Museum she designs programs for school groups that link gallery visits to hands-on art-making processes. She enjoys experimenting with new and traditional techniques, and encourages students to explore new materials in their studio work.
Wendy holds a BFA from RIT and a Master of Arts in Teaching from RISD. She’s a member of the Clay School, and can be found there glazing her hand-crafted ceramic buttons.

LIKE A RESTAURANT, ONLY YOU ORDER AN ART PROJECT FROM OUR MENU. THEN SIT & ENJOY WITH FRIENDS AND FAMILY.

EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT (6:00-9:00PM).

FOR ALL AGES*, A FAMILY-FRIENDLY CREATIVE EXPERIENCE.

*ages 15 and under require adult supervision.

No registration required!

ART FEEDS THE SOUL.

LIKE A RESTAURANT, ONLY YOU ORDER AN ART PROJECT FROM OUR MENU. THEN SIT & ENJOY WITH FRIENDS AND FAMILY.

EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT (6:00-9:00PM).

FOR ALL AGES*, A FAMILY-FRIENDLY CREATIVE EXPERIENCE.

*ages 15 and under require adult supervision.

No registration required!

ART FEEDS THE SOUL.

LIKE A RESTAURANT, ONLY YOU ORDER AN ART PROJECT FROM OUR MENU. THEN SIT & ENJOY WITH FRIENDS AND FAMILY.

EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT (6:00-9:00PM).

FOR ALL AGES*, A FAMILY-FRIENDLY CREATIVE EXPERIENCE.

*ages 15 and under require adult supervision.

No registration required!

ART FEEDS THE SOUL.

LIKE A RESTAURANT, ONLY YOU ORDER AN ART PROJECT FROM OUR MENU. THEN SIT & ENJOY WITH FRIENDS AND FAMILY.

EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT (6:00-9:00PM).

FOR ALL AGES*, A FAMILY-FRIENDLY CREATIVE EXPERIENCE.

*ages 15 and under require adult supervision.

No registration required!

ART FEEDS THE SOUL.

Botanical Illustration in Gouache: Composition & Arrangement

Wednesday, April 29th, 6-9pm

How do you take the complexity of leaves, stems, and flowers and arrange them into a visually-pleasing composition? This three-hour class will teach you how! We’ll go over the basics of composing a pleasing image, then dive into techniques for layering different shapes, creating depth in your composition, and guiding your viewer’s eye where you’d like it to go. We’ll balance accuracy with beauty to produce gorgeous botanical compositions in gouache, and touch on some ways to add small lively details to your pieces. Paint, paper, and brushes will be provided. 

NOTE ABOUT WORKSHOP MATERIALS:
Paints, brushes and substrates are provided for use during the course of a workshop. If you find that you love the paint, kits are available to purchase with Julian. Cash or Venmo payments accepted. 

About Julian:

Julian Plum (he/they) is a queer, transmasculine picture book author and illustrator living in Newfield. Working primarily in gouache, his work blends bright colors and warm, tactile brushstrokes. Mostly, Julian's work celebrates our neighbors: the frogs, mice, wood sorrel and mushrooms in our backyards and woods. When he isn't painting, Julian can be found mostly in his garden, negotiating with chipmunks about blueberries.

with Sol Alexandria

When: Last Sunday of the month from Jan. 25th-May 31st.

Where: The ART Room

Time: 2:00-4:00pm

Cost: Pay what you can

To register, email Sol at solfree.connect@gmail.com

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised is a hands-on zine-making workshop rooted in radical imagination, collective truth-telling, and creative liberation. We’ll explore zines as tools of resistance, ritual, and revolutionary storytelling—holding grief, joy, rage, vision, and deep love for our people. Together, we’ll amplify truths not found in headlines, honor DIY publishing lineages, and channel our wisdom into tangible offerings. Come as you are, bring your visions and heart, and let’s make something that refuses erasure and radiates possibility.

The revolution will not be televised; it will be made by hand!

Come gather with us for Be Gay, Do Crafts!—a monthly queer craft night rooted in creativity, connection, and collective joy. Held every 4th Saturday, 6–9pm, this is an open, welcoming space to slow down, make art, and be in community.

Each session offers pearler beads, coloring pages, friendship bracelets and shrinky dinks—easy, accessible crafts perfect for zoning out, chatting, or quietly co-creating alongside others. We’ll be surrounded by music, queer media, and the gentle magic that happens when we make things together.

$10
All genders & identities welcome

No skills required, come as you are
Maximum queer joy!

NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED.

Come make something. Come make friends. Come be gay.

In this two-hour Batik workshop, participants will create designs on cloth using wax resist and dyes.

Participants will practice using tjantings and brushes to apply melted wax, and learn how to layer color to create effects with transparent dyes. The final batiks will be ironed and can be dry-cleaned to complete the process. 

You can choose to create a set of dinner napkins, a bandanna, or cut our cotton cloth to a custom size for a pillow top, or funky patches for your favorite jeans. If you're a quilter, you can create your own fabric squares to incorporate into your quilting projects!

*Bring a black and white drawing that you’ll use for your design. Anything goes, it can be a nature motif, (fish, snails, plants, or your sweet cat, to name a few). It can also be a scene, a map, portrait, album cover, or graphic pattern. Think about the colors you might use. It can be a 1-color, 2-color or 3 color design.  
  

Optional: bring an apron, embroidery hoop of any size, rubber gloves.
All materials will be provided.

About the instructor:
Wendy Kenigsberg is an art educator and a maker at heart. In her work at the Johnson Museum she designs programs for school groups that link gallery visits to hands-on art-making processes. She enjoys experimenting with new and traditional techniques, and encourages students to explore new materials in their studio work.
Wendy holds a BFA from RIT and a Master of Arts in Teaching from RISD. She’s a member of the Clay School, and can be found there glazing her hand-crafted ceramic buttons.

LIKE A RESTAURANT, ONLY YOU ORDER AN ART PROJECT FROM OUR MENU. THEN SIT & ENJOY WITH FRIENDS AND FAMILY.

EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT (6:00-9:00PM).

FOR ALL AGES*, A FAMILY-FRIENDLY CREATIVE EXPERIENCE.

*ages 15 and under require adult supervision.

No registration required!

ART FEEDS THE SOUL.

LIKE A RESTAURANT, ONLY YOU ORDER AN ART PROJECT FROM OUR MENU. THEN SIT & ENJOY WITH FRIENDS AND FAMILY.

EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT (6:00-9:00PM).

FOR ALL AGES*, A FAMILY-FRIENDLY CREATIVE EXPERIENCE.

*ages 15 and under require adult supervision.

No registration required!

ART FEEDS THE SOUL.

Beginner Weaving-Mug Rugs
with Laura Ballard

2 day workshop
Monday, April 13th & Thursday, April 16th, 6-9pm
$140-$180
Sliding scale payment.
Ages 13+

Learn all the basics of weaving on a rigid heddle loom. Students will learn how to plan a project, warp their looms, weave 4 mug rugs or coasters and how to hem stitch and finish their projects. This class will be the foundation for all other weaving classes and must be taken before more advanced classes. 

Laura Ballard has been obsessed with weaving and fiber since taking a class in high school. After receiving her degree in art education, she explored fiber more while working at North Country School in Lake Placid, where she had access to a flock of sheep, spinning wheels, looms and lots of kids excited to experiment. After moving to Ithaca, Laura began teaching art at EAC Montessori with a fiber curriculum including felting, batik, natural dyeing, spinning and weaving. Laura has over 15 years of experience teaching fiber classes and is excited to share her passion for weaving with a new audience at The Clay School!

Beginner Weaving-Mug Rugs
with Laura Ballard

2 day workshop
Monday, April 13th & Thursday, April 16th, 6-9pm
$140-$180
Sliding scale payment.
Ages 13+

Learn all the basics of weaving on a rigid heddle loom. Students will learn how to plan a project, warp their looms, weave 4 mug rugs or coasters and how to hem stitch and finish their projects. This class will be the foundation for all other weaving classes and must be taken before more advanced classes. 

Laura Ballard has been obsessed with weaving and fiber since taking a class in high school. After receiving her degree in art education, she explored fiber more while working at North Country School in Lake Placid, where she had access to a flock of sheep, spinning wheels, looms and lots of kids excited to experiment. After moving to Ithaca, Laura began teaching art at EAC Montessori with a fiber curriculum including felting, batik, natural dyeing, spinning and weaving. Laura has over 15 years of experience teaching fiber classes and is excited to share her passion for weaving with a new audience at The Clay School!

Try-It: Weaving
with Laura Ballard
For ages 16+
$50-$70
(Sliding scale payment)


Dip your toe into the vast waters of weaving with this try-it class! Through a small project, such as a bookmark, participants will learn a quick and easy way to direct warp a rigid heddle loom, experiment with different types of weaving fiber and learn about different weft-faced weaving techniques and patterns to incorporate. Skills from this class can be the foundation for the intermediate weaving classes and projects. 

LIKE A RESTAURANT, ONLY YOU ORDER AN ART PROJECT FROM OUR MENU. THEN SIT & ENJOY WITH FRIENDS AND FAMILY.

EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT (6:00-9:00PM).

FOR ALL AGES*, A FAMILY-FRIENDLY CREATIVE EXPERIENCE.

*ages 15 and under require adult supervision.

No registration required!

ART FEEDS THE SOUL.

LIKE A RESTAURANT, ONLY YOU ORDER AN ART PROJECT FROM OUR MENU. THEN SIT & ENJOY WITH FRIENDS AND FAMILY.

EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT (6:00-9:00PM).

FOR ALL AGES*, A FAMILY-FRIENDLY CREATIVE EXPERIENCE.

*ages 15 and under require adult supervision.

No registration required!

ART FEEDS THE SOUL.

with Sol Alexandria

When: Last Sunday of the month from Jan. 25th-May 31st.

Where: The ART Room

Time: 2:00-4:00pm

Cost: Pay what you can

To register, email Sol at solfree.connect@gmail.com

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised is a hands-on zine-making workshop rooted in radical imagination, collective truth-telling, and creative liberation. We’ll explore zines as tools of resistance, ritual, and revolutionary storytelling—holding grief, joy, rage, vision, and deep love for our people. Together, we’ll amplify truths not found in headlines, honor DIY publishing lineages, and channel our wisdom into tangible offerings. Come as you are, bring your visions and heart, and let’s make something that refuses erasure and radiates possibility.

The revolution will not be televised; it will be made by hand!

Come gather with us for Be Gay, Do Crafts!—a monthly queer craft night rooted in creativity, connection, and collective joy. Held every 4th Saturday, 6–9pm, this is an open, welcoming space to slow down, make art, and be in community.

Each session offers pearler beads, coloring pages, friendship bracelets and shrinky dinks—easy, accessible crafts perfect for zoning out, chatting, or quietly co-creating alongside others. We’ll be surrounded by music, queer media, and the gentle magic that happens when we make things together.

$10
All genders & identities welcome

No skills required, come as you are
Maximum queer joy!

NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED.

Come make something. Come make friends. Come be gay.

Beginner Batik
with Wendy Kenigsberg
ages 16+

$100-120 (sliding scale price). 

In this one-day Batik workshop, we’ll create designs on cloth using wax resist and dyes.

We’ll practice using tjantings and brushes to apply melted wax, and learn how to layer color to create effects with transparent dyes. Our final batiks will be ironed and can be dry-cleaned to complete the process. 

You can choose to create a set of dinner napkins, a bandanna, or cut our cotton cloth to a custom size for a pillow top, or funky patches for your favorite jeans. 

*Bring a black and white drawing that you’ll use for your design. Anything goes, it can be a nature motif, (fish, snails, plants, or your sweet cat, to name a few). It can also be a scene, a map, portrait, album cover, or graphic pattern. Think about the colors you might use. It can be a 1-color, 2-color or 3 color design.  
  

Optional: bring an apron, embroidery hoop of any size, rubber gloves.
All materials will be provided.

About the instructor:
Wendy Kenigsberg is an art educator and a maker at heart. In her work at the Johnson Museum she designs programs for school groups that link gallery visits to hands-on art-making processes. She enjoys experimenting with new and traditional techniques, and encourages students to explore new materials in their studio work.
Wendy holds a BFA from RIT and a Master of Arts in Teaching from RISD. She’s a member of the Clay School, and can be found there glazing her hand-crafted ceramic buttons.

LIKE A RESTAURANT, ONLY YOU ORDER AN ART PROJECT FROM OUR MENU. THEN SIT & ENJOY WITH FRIENDS AND FAMILY.

EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT (6:00-9:00PM).

FOR ALL AGES*, A FAMILY-FRIENDLY CREATIVE EXPERIENCE.

*ages 15 and under require adult supervision.

No registration required!

ART FEEDS THE SOUL.

Botanical Illustrations in Gouache Painting Series
with Julian Plum
Ages 16+
$70-$90 (Sliding scale payment)

Botanical Illustration in Gouache: Fungi
Wednesday, March 25th, 6-9pm
Though not strictly botanical, in our woodland home, we’re surrounded by one of the most interesting fruiting bodies in the natural world: mushrooms! They come in a spectacular array of shapes, sizes, and colors. This three-hour workshop will go over techniques for observational drawing in the field and at home, the shapes & growth patterns of various local mushrooms, and techniques for building interesting colors & textures.  Paint, paper, and brushes will be provided.

NOTE ABOUT WORKSHOP MATERIALS:
Paints, brushes and substrates are provided for use during the course of a workshop. If you find that you love the paint, kits are available to purchase with Julian. Cash or Venmo payments accepted. 

Hand Sewn Doll Workshop
with Julia Gray
Experience level for students: Beginners to Moderate 
Age requirement:  High School ages and up
(A younger student is possible but they might not finish within the 4 hours)

Sunday, March 22nd
12:00-4:00pm
$100-$120

Sewing a doll is therapeutic. All dolls have personality & making one yourself can unlock wonderful feelings. Infusing this doll with an article of clothing from a loved one can bring joy.  Hand sewing slows the heart rate and creates a space for meditation.  I will encourage you to use colors unconventionally, variety is the spice of life.  Materials will be provided, however if you have a fabric stash (wool sweaters in particular) please bring it.  The doll measures approximately 22” & has a wool knit body, wool stuffing and cotton fabric clothing.

LIKE A RESTAURANT, ONLY YOU ORDER AN ART PROJECT FROM OUR MENU. THEN SIT & ENJOY WITH FRIENDS AND FAMILY.

EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT (6:00-9:00PM).

FOR ALL AGES*, A FAMILY-FRIENDLY CREATIVE EXPERIENCE.

*ages 15 and under require adult supervision.

No registration required!

ART FEEDS THE SOUL.

Weaving: Tea Towels
with Laura Ballard
2 part workshop
Level: mixed level (beginner and intermediate welcome)

Wednesday, March 11th & Wednesday, March 18th
6:00-9:00pm
$160-$180 (sliding scale payment)
Ages 13+

It is so satisfying to weave your own towels- a functional piece of decor for your home! In this multi-level workshop, beginner students will have a choice of simpler patterns and will start the first class at 5:15 to warp their looms while students that have taken another weaving class or try-it weaving workshop have the option to create the color and weave patterned towels pictured. Participants get to choose the color and pattern to make their own unique cotton towel. 


Laura Ballard has been obsessed with weaving and fiber since taking a class in high school. After receiving her degree in art education, she explored fiber more while working at North Country School in Lake Placid, where she had access to a flock of sheep, spinning wheels, looms and lots of kids excited to experiment. After moving to Ithaca, Laura began teaching art at EAC Montessori with a fiber curriculum including felting, batik, natural dyeing, spinning and weaving. Laura has over 15 years of experience teaching fiber classes and is excited to share her passion for weaving with a new audience at The Clay School!

LIKE A RESTAURANT, ONLY YOU ORDER AN ART PROJECT FROM OUR MENU. THEN SIT & ENJOY WITH FRIENDS AND FAMILY.

EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT (6:00-9:00PM).

FOR ALL AGES*, A FAMILY-FRIENDLY CREATIVE EXPERIENCE.

*ages 15 and under require adult supervision.

No registration required!

ART FEEDS THE SOUL.

Weaving: Tea Towels
with Laura Ballard
2 part workshop
Level: mixed level (beginner and intermediate welcome)

Wednesday, March 11th & Wednesday, March 18th
6:00-9:00pm
$160-$180 (sliding scale payment)
Ages 13+

It is so satisfying to weave your own towels- a functional piece of decor for your home! In this multi-level workshop, beginner students will have a choice of simpler patterns and will start the first class at 5:15 to warp their looms while students that have taken another weaving class or try-it weaving workshop have the option to create the color and weave patterned towels pictured. Participants get to choose the color and pattern to make their own unique cotton towel. 


Laura Ballard has been obsessed with weaving and fiber since taking a class in high school. After receiving her degree in art education, she explored fiber more while working at North Country School in Lake Placid, where she had access to a flock of sheep, spinning wheels, looms and lots of kids excited to experiment. After moving to Ithaca, Laura began teaching art at EAC Montessori with a fiber curriculum including felting, batik, natural dyeing, spinning and weaving. Laura has over 15 years of experience teaching fiber classes and is excited to share her passion for weaving with a new audience at The Clay School!

Try-It: Weaving
with Laura Ballard
For ages 16+
$50-$70
(Sliding scale payment.)


Dip your toe into the vast waters of weaving with this try-it class! Through a small project, such as a bookmark, participants will learn a quick and easy way to direct warp a rigid heddle loom, experiment with different types of weaving fiber and learn about different weft-faced weaving techniques and patterns to incorporate. Skills from this class can be the foundation for the intermediate weaving classes and projects. 

LIKE A RESTAURANT, ONLY YOU ORDER AN ART PROJECT FROM OUR MENU. THEN SIT & ENJOY WITH FRIENDS AND FAMILY.

EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT (6:00-9:00PM).

FOR ALL AGES*, A FAMILY-FRIENDLY CREATIVE EXPERIENCE.

*ages 15 and under require adult supervision.

No registration required!

ART FEEDS THE SOUL.