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Dyeing for color! with Julie Havener
Dyeing for Vibrant Color! with Julie Havener
10am-2pm
$75.00 • Supplies included
Come play with vivid color during these first muddy days of spring. This is an acid dye workshop designed for beginners or those looking to learn a few new skills Julie will offer instruction on various dyeing techniques and offer guidance as you create your very own one of a kind fiber piece. This project is sure to help brighten up your future fiber projects. Julie Havener is a fiber artist, jeweler, and midwife that lives and works in Northeast Harbor.
Julie will provide all the necessary equipment for this 4 hour workshop. Bring your enthusiasm and wear clothes you won’t be afraid to get a little messy in.
This class has been temporarily postponed until further notice. Please call 207-664-0222 for more information .
Friendly FUNdraiser at Neighborhood House
Please join us on April 9th for an evening of wining and dining, dancing, and a silent auction to benefit Maine organizations in need. All proceeds will be split between Artsworth, The S.P.C.A. of Hancock County, Midwives of Maine, and the Acadia Wildlife Foundation.
If you would like to buy tickets in advance, volunteer at the event, or donate an item to the silent auction, please contact us at 207-664-0222 or artsworthstudios@gmail.com or email Julie Havener at mail@juliehavener.com.
If you are unable to attend, but would like to make a monetary donation to Artsworth please click here.
One Day Website with Nicole Ouellette
One Day Website with Nicole Ouellette
10am-3pm
$200.00
The goal of this workshop is to leave with a basic, functional website that you can keep up-to-date and grow over time.
Participants can expect to learn the different components of a website and how they work together, how to make pages and blog posts, customize your website’s appearance, add features to your website (contact forms, image galleries, and more), track your website data, and understand ecommerce.
The workshop fee includes a domain and one free year of web hosting.
This is an active workshop so be ready to work on your site!
Before this workshop, we’ll have WordPress installed on your chosen
domain (or if you already have a website you don’t want to get rid of
just yet, we’ll make you a space you can work and then we can move
your new site live if you are ready to do so after the class!) Bring a
computer, bring your questions, and, most importantly, bring your
ideas. You are NOT going to want to write your company history or crop
photos in the middle of this workshop so the more stuff you have to
work with, the better your website will be at the end of the day.
If you have an existing WordPress website and simply want training on
it, this is also a good class to attend. You’ll have less to do but
you’ll have more time to look around your current site and understand
how it works better.
10:00 AM– Website Needs and Costs (domain names and hosting)
10:15 AM– Your website options (DIY software like Squarespace, free
stuff like Google Sites, and WordPress) AKA Why this is a WordPress
Class
10:30 AM– Basic Website Principles: Calls to action, where we
traditionally place certain elements like navigational menus, thinking
about mobile experience
11:00 AM– Making Pages on your site (adding links, formatting, adding photos)
11:30 AM– Making a navigational menu
12:00 PM– Lunch
12:30 PM– Choosing your design/theme: What are your options and
figuring out what you like
1:00 PM – Design 2.0: Customizing your design for you
1:30 PM– Adding Function to your website with plugins: Adding dynamic
elements like Facebook like buttons, a contact form, and more. A list
of some of my favorites.
2:00 PM– Tracking your website with Google Analytics
2:30 PM– Q and A, work time to finish website
Example site made in this class last year: http://birchmoonboutique.com/
Call 207-664-0222 to reserve a spot!
Internet Marketing for Artists with Nicole Ouellette
Internet Marketing for Artists with Nicole Ouellette
10am-1pm
$75.00
This workshop will focus on how artists can use social media to boost their online image and presence, make more money, emerge as a leader in the industry, improve customer service, and more. Nicole will help participants understand technical details to make marketing on the internet easier and more accessible for artists that are looking to deeper their business connections online.
The opposite of this class is to overwhelm you. We want you to cross
things OFF your to do list or find quicker ways to do them. You may
leave this class, say, deciding not to do Instagram… and rather than
feeling flustered when someone asks you why you aren’t doing
Instagram, you’ll calmly tell them why you aren’t and be completely
fine with it. So, you can space out during parts of this workshop, if they don’t apply to you. Parts of it, you’ll take mad notes. This workshop is about options and making money more easily, not to make you feel bad about all the things you aren’t doing. Ready to work smarter not harder? Know that online is the ticket to your growing
success? You should be at this workshop.
Not an artist? Come anyway. Nicole isn’t either. We’ll be giving
examples of artists but that doesn’t mean you can’t apply the same
ideas to your accounting practice, etc. Andy Warhol said doing great
business is an art and we couldn’t agree more.
10:00 AM– Goal Setting AKA What can I measure online to see if what
I’m doing is working?
10:15 AM– Who’s Your Customer?- Figuring out who your customer is is a
good way to figure out what things to do/not do.
What are you good at?- Deciding what you like doing in terms of
creation is another good way to figure out what you can do/not do.
10:45 AM– Social Media Guided Tour: Facebook (think of each one of
these as going over demographics of who uses the site, how to post
things, and some examples of good useage. It’s a quick tour but good!)
11:00 AM– Social Media Guided Tour: Twitter
11:15 AM– Social Media Guided Tour: Google+
11:30 AM– Social Media Guided Tour: Pinterest
11:45 AM– Social Media Guided Tour: Instagram
12:00 PM– Social Media Guided Tour: Youtube/Periscope
12:15 PM– Blogging: The Ugly Redheaded Stepchild that’s actually really cool
12:30 PM– Email Marketing: The Grandparent you love but don’t visit as
much as you should
12:45 PM– Some Ways To Put It All Together between your website, blog,
email newsletter, and social media
Nicole is the owner of Breaking Even Communications, an internet marketing and web content creation company in Bar Harbor. Her and her team have worked with hundreds of individuals , companies, and non-profits in Downeast Maine to help them boost their media presence and feel comfortable maintaining their online image.
Music by Chamberlain- March FORTH!
Music by Chamberlain- March FORTH!
Come hear some rad music by Adam Goode bass player, vocalist Kat Johnson, drummer Ryan Tipping-Spitz, and guitarist Christopher Dodd.
According to Emily Burnham of the the Bangor Daily column, Culture Shock- “stomping indie garage-rock, with a bit of a fuzzy, noisy, Sonic Youth-esque edge thanks to Dodd’s stellar guitar work full of zooming, distorted solos, and a punk rock flair via Johnson’s channeling of vocalists like Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Patti Smith.
It’s an opportunity to shake the winter blues off, move your groove thang and support your local arts hang out! No cover charge, but donations of a couple bucks are encouraged and appreciated.
Art Talk with guest jeweler Tom Ferrero
Art Talk with Guest Jeweler Tom Ferrero
Mace by Tom Ferrero
1pm-3pm
Free
On February 19th, Artsworth will be hosting guest lecturer Tom Ferrero for a free presentation about him and his work as a metal artist and jeweler.
Tom is a metal artist and Assistant Professor of Jewelry at Nova Scotia College of Art & Design in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is also the Department Head of a metal arts program at Camp Laurel in central Maine where he has taught students ages 7-70.
He is a first place winner of the Niche Award and the International Saul Bell Design Award Competition. He has also been featured on the cover of Metalsmith Magazine and is published in several jewelry books.
Tom’s lecture will discuss his work, process, and approach to design and construction. He will discuss his early work and its development with a special emphasis on his latest work, The Mace.
We are working with Tom to organize metalsmithing workshops at Artsworth in the future. If you are interested in taking a workshop with Tom someday, this lecture would be a great opportunity for introductions to him and his work.
Make a Glass Bead with Tara
Make a Glass Bead with Tara Parker
Reservations available between 10am-2pm
$40.00
This experience introduces you to the basics of flameworking and offers a focused experience with hot glass. Tara Parker demonstrates how to work with molten glass at the torch, and guides you through the process of making one of your very own glass beads.
You’ll start by turning a mandrel – a metal rod used in beadmaking – in the flame.
Melting colored glass rods in the flame and applying the molten glass to your mandrel will create your bead design. How you wind the glass onto the mandrel makes patterns and beautiful unique glassy designs.
Students should expect to spend one hour in the workshop as Tara makes her way to your turn the actual time spent making a bead is a fairly swift process and usually takes about 20- minutes.
Pieces must cool overnight and can be picked up the next day, or shipped within the US and Canada at no additional cost.
Age requirements- 18 and over
Call 664-0222 to make a reservation
Introduction to the Amazing Mandala
Introduction to the Amazing Mandala
With Susan Aripotch
10am-1pm
$40.00
Winter is the perfect time for this inwardly-focused art form.
The design of the mandala is meant to be visually appealing so as to absorb the mind in such a way that chattering thoughts cease, and a more philosophic essence envelops the maker. In this workshop, you will learn the technique of setting up a mandala, a bit of its history and how to make this type of radiant drawing. No art experience is required, and all materials are provided.
Lunch not included, but snacks will be provided.
Susan Aripotch has drawn all her life, and in 1995, she invented the mandala, or thought she did. Many mandalas later, she learned that countless others had been experiencing their magic for eons. She has welcomed hundreds of children and adults into the self-revealing world of making the circle in workshops such as this.
Call 207-664-0222 to sign up
