Day Classes
We have a variety of shorter classes that give students unique opportunities to learn. These may range from sewing vestments to Ukranian egg painting. Additional workshops include art for healing or recovery and artist gatherings.
SoulCollage
With Sue Ellen Landwehr
January 18, 2025
Enders Island
SoulCollage® can assist in the journey towards a more felt connection with God. Many in traditional religious settings long for this connection but need more tools. SoulCollage® is an accessible, doable practice that can open up a wellspring of feeling, insight, and connection to the Divine. Many themes have been explored with SoulCollage including […]
Finding Recovery Through Art
With Sue Ellen Landwehr
March 8, 2025
Enders Island
Using a variety of mixed media techniques such as collage, watercolor, and pen and ink, participants will create a 12 step art journal, combining the benefits of art and the exploration of their recovery through the 12 step journey.
Pysanky Workshop
With Father Paul Luniw
April 5, 2025
Join Father Paul Luniw, pastor of St. Michael’s Ukrainian Catholic Church in Terryville, CT. for an exciting day of creativity. Participants will decorate a pysanka (a Ukrainian Easter egg) in traditional Ukrainian folk design using a wax-resist (batik) method - taking home a beautiful masterpiece of their own. Lunch will be provided.
Pysanky Workshop
With Father Paul Luniw
April 12, 2025
Join Father Paul Luniw, pastor of St. Michael’s Ukrainian Catholic Church in Terryville, CT. for an exciting day of creativity. Participants will decorate a pysanka (a Ukrainian Easter egg) in traditional Ukrainian folk design using a wax-resist (batik) method - taking home a beautiful masterpiece of their own. Lunch will be provided.
Finding Recovery Through Art
With Sue Ellen Landwehr
June 7, 2025
Enders Island
Using a variety of mixed media techniques such as collage, watercolor, and pen and ink, participants will create a 12 step art journal, combining the benefits of art and the exploration of their recovery through the 12 step journey.
Panel Preparation and Gesso making for Egg Tempera and Icon Painters
With Marek Czarnecki
July 12, 2025
Enders Island
Egg tempera must be painted onto a stiff, inflexible panel, coated with an absorbent primer called “gesso”. In a one-day workshop, iconographer and instructor Marek Czarnecki will teach students the process of making true artists’ gesso with rabbit skin glue, chalk and marble dust.
Praying with a Brush
With Marek Czarnecki
August 16, 2025
Enders Island
Praying With a Brush is a one-day workshop for iconographers interested in learning the basic brush skills necessary to paint an icon. We start with a repertoire of basic calligraphic brush strokes and practice exercises using only ink and a brush. Using traditional, art historical Orthodox icons as models, students will be taught to make their own drawings. After an acetate transparency is placed over the model, we re-discover line by line, the icon’s inner geometry, balance, order and structure.
Finding Recovery Through Art
With Sue Ellen Landwehr
September 20, 2025
Enders Island
Using a variety of mixed media techniques such as collage, watercolor, and pen and ink, participants will create a 12 step art journal, combining the benefits of art and the exploration of their recovery through the 12 step journey.