In four (4) Tuesday morning classes, Larry Charles -- a nationally-recognized, exhibiting artist and expert instructor -- will help you improve your drawing skills. Learn techniques for capturing more realistic scenes of your travels, family, and the world around you including how to achieve better proportions, realistic shading, and lifelike sketches.
Beginners welcome! With step-by-step guidance, learn how to reveal the hidden glow of breathtaking desert sunsets using color layering and brush strokes. Also learn about materials, brush styles, paint mixing, palette layouts, composition, and values. Bring your favorite drink and snack for a relaxing session, and leave with a captivating piece of art for your home or to give as a gift.
Experience more energy, better balance, better sleep, less stress, and LESS PAIN with Reiki energy and sound healing -- led by Sallyann, a 7th generation Reiki Master from Dr. Usui.
Don’t let heat, humidity, or long days ruin your flawless face! Join celebrity makeup artist (and local favorite!) Charlie Green—fresh off her win as Best Makeup Artist of Our Valley 2025—for a lively lecture packed with pro tips to keep your makeup fresh and meltdown-proof.
Learn how to live in the quantum, where all possibilities exist. We are far more powerful than we have been led to believe, and we all have the ability to create what we want in our lives. The challenge, however, is to figure out -- or "remember" -- how to do that. Learn tools and exercises to get you there from a certified hypnotherapist and civil engineer.
In just 4 sessions, feel confident speaking and understanding basic sentences and phrases in Spanish with friends, neighbors, co-workers, and home services workers. This will be a fun and interactive class. No prior Spanish knowledge required.
James K Polk, the 11th President of the United States, was an Andrew Jackson protégé, and the leader of Jackson’s Democratic Party. Polk waged war with Mexico that resulted in the securing of the entire Southwestern United States, he annexed the Oregon Territory, and the assimilation of the Republic of Texas into the Union -- all in one four-year term. He also built the Independent Treasury, separating the US Treasury Department from the Central Bank. But Polk was a Southerner, and like his predecessors and successors, made little progress on the issue of slavery. We will examine the remarkable successes of James K Polk, and how he changed America during his short tenure.
Beginners welcomed! With step-by-step guidance, learn how to paint breathtaking cactus flowers from nationally exhibiting and published artist Beth Zink. Pick your flowers from several choices to complete an 8x10 canvas masterpiece that will be ready for framing.
Create either a panel for an LED stand or a lantern with fairy lights. Work with pre-cut blank panels of fusible glass, and materials such as stringers, vitrigraph, frit (crushed glass), and murrine -- plus a variety of colorful sheet glass to adorn your panels. Items will be available for pickup within two weeks after kilning.