Lifelong Learning

  Each month, the Holland Center offers an afternoon Open Studio in our art room.  Art instructor, Larry Charles, will be on hand to provide helpful advice about art materials and techniques as you work on a project of your own choice.  Feel free to create with your oil paint, acrylics, colored pencils, watercolor, gouache or drawing pencils. Ask for helpful tips or color combinations while the Open Studio instructor [...]

          Create Collage Papers on a variety of paper using Inks, Paints, Gesso, Coffee, Watercolors and other surprise items! We will also learn how to coffee dye papers to get a vintage look. Mimi will show you how to use media in a different way that is easy and fun. You will leave with a huge stack of a variety of papers to use in your [...]

Preserve our beautiful desert in glass!  You will be doing a large curved piece of glass, with a Sonoran Desert theme. Kathy Nelson, our premier glass artist, will be showing you how to create this work of art using pre cut cactus pieces, frit (ground glass), stringers and noodles to create a cactus garden like no other!  It should be fun. You will work on your piece in class, and [...]

Get ready for the vacation season with this four-session series of Tuesday morning watercolor workshops in June.  Instructor Larry Charles says the workshops are ideal for both beginners and those interested in expanding their watercolor techniques. Capture travel vistas while learning the tips for quick sketching, perspective, color-mixing, and realistic people scenes.  Also included will be sessions on creating watercolor postcards, travel journals, and "plein air" realism.  Each of the [...]