CLASSES AND EVENTS
These activities are made possible by the voters of Minnesota through grants from the Region 2 Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund.
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Needle Felting with Ruth Ann Nordlund
CLASS IS FULL
Date: December 7, 2024 Location: Bagley Public Library Community Room Time: 10:00 AM – 1:30 PM Cost: $35 Class Size: 10 Age: 14 and up Bring your own lunch and beverage Needle Felting uses special barbed needles to mat wool roving. Join us as we work on a fun beginner needle felting class where you will create a Nisse Gnome. Needle felting is a dry felting technique, which employs one or more specially designed needles to manipulate wool fibers. Artists and craftspeople who sculpt objects and embellish textiles with wool use this technique. All supplies will be provided. If you have your own needles or wool, you may bring them along. |
Acrylic Landscape Workshop With Rick Paulin2 Class Opportunities
Option 1: Bagley Dates: January 24 & 25, 2025 Location: Bagley Public Library Community Room Option 2: Park Rapids Dates: March 14 & 25, 2025 Location: Armory Arts Time: 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM Cost: $100 (includes supplies) Class Limit: 8 for each location Bring you own lunch and beverages In this two-day workshop, you'll learn how to use color for emotional impact and scenic clarity. This workshop will give you an opportunity to explore color from a new angle. We will discuss how color is used to create depth, atmosphere, and mood and how it can unify and harmonize a painting. Composition, shadow, negative space, color mixing and layering are just some of the skills you will go home with.
The instructor will have an image to draw from. The instructor will also bring all supplies needed. Materials are included in the class fee. |
MAKE YOUR OWN MOISTURIZING LOTION
Date: January 18, 2025
Time for AM Class: 9:30 – Noon Time for PM Class: 1:30 – 4:00 Location: Bagley Public Library Community Room Cost: Free Class Size: 10 per session Instructors: Bellefy’s Local Bubbles All materials are provided. Goat Milk Lotion employs all the wonderful benefits of goat milk to soothe and moisturize your skin. Packed full of goat milk nutrients, only using all-natural ingredients, our Goat Milk Lotion gives your skin the nourishment it craves. This lotion is thick and creamy, yet never greasy, and leaves your skin silky smooth.
The instructor will provide the oils, goat milk and a container to take your lotion home with you. Also included will be a recipe so you can make your own product at home. If you have a stick blender you should bring it with you; we will have some to use for those who may not have a stick blender. |
Mandella Class
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Make Your Own Lotion Bar and Lip Balm
Date: February 22, 2025
Time for AM Class: 9:30 – Noon Time for PM Class 1:30 – 4:00 Location: Bagley Public Library Community Room Cost: Free Class Size: 10 per session Instructors: Bellefy’s Local Bubbles All materials are provided The Goat Milk Lotion Bar is packed full of goat milk nutrients, using only all-natural ingredients. It will leave your skin silky smooth.
The Lip Balm is made with fresh natural ingredients. Easy to apply and goes on smooth. The instructor will provide the oils, goat milk and containers to take your product home with you. Also included will be a recipe so you can make your own at home. If you have a stick blender you should bring it with you; we will have some to use for those who may not have a stick blender. |
FUN WITH ABSTRACTS USING ALCOHOL INKS WITH DAVE CHRISTENSEN2 Class Opportunities
Option 1: Bagley Dates: February 20, 2025 Location: Bagley Public Library Community Room Option 2: Park Rapids Dates: February 27, 2025 Location: Armory Arts Class Time: 10:00 AM – 2:30 PM Cost of workshop: $50 Class Limit: 10 for each location Bring you own lunch and beverages. Join us in an Alcohol Inks class with local artist, Dave Christensen of Bagley, MN. Participants who come to this class will learn about alcohol inks and how they can be manipulated by using air, straws, brushes, moving the paper in any direction or by using old credit cards.
Dave will quickly put everyone at ease while allowing students to come up to get their supplies to create their masterpieces. The class will be focused on creating abstract paintings. Some of the items/techniques that are used in this art project are: a type of paper called Yupo, isopropyl alcohol, and a blending solution. This is challenging to most students until they stop trying to control what is happening. It is very much a “let go and see what happens” type of art experience. Some comments from previous participants who have taken a similar class ranged from: “Loved this class! Wonderful, Something everyone can enjoy, to I have found my jam!!” The instructor will bring all tools and materials needed. Materials are included in the class fee. |
Fun with Yupo Workshop
CLASS IS FULL.
SIGN UP FOR WAITING LIST BELOW. Instructor: Jim Turner Dates: March 18, 19 & 20, 2025 Time: 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM Location: Bagley Public Library Community Room Class Size Limited To: 8 Cost: $125 Click Here for Materials List This workshop is for anyone interested in exploring the unique characteristics of YUPO. YUPO is a smooth inorganic (plastic) surface that accepts paint in a very different way than paper. Because the paint sits on the surface instead of being absorbed, it flows, mixes and can give a very fluid abstract “liquid” look to washes that can be very appealing (and frustrating, if you are trying to “control” it.) The surface also allows colors to be more intense, giving a stained glass look that is amazing, and makes lifting easy, allowing a push-pull method of composition similar to working with opaque paints.
This workshop is intended to give you a variety of ways to approach the unique characteristics of YUPO. We will take advantage of the abstract, flowing ‘liquid’ look of wet in wet application and experiment with stamping, texturing, lifting and even texturing with foam rollers. We will talk about design and how to go from the crazy accidental abstraction of YUPO to finished work. We will also talk about “taming” YUPO to do representational work, flattening washes, graded washes etc. Come if you are a beginner and want to have fun playing with paint, if you are an accomplished watercolorist who wants to explore a new surface, or anyone in between who wants to expand their horizons and try something new. I turn to YUPO when I want to “play” with watercolor and just have fun. The participant can expect to finish at least a couple completed or nearly completed paintings in the three days. |
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Mixed Media Portraits in Golden Open Acrylic and Prismacolor Pencil with Pamela Edevold
Location: Park Rapids at Armory Arts
Dates: May 16-18, 2025 Time: 10 AM - 4 PM Cost: $100 Class Limit Size: 12 Bring your own lunch and beverage Pamela Edevold will combine the techniques she taught in her Golden Open Acrylic and Prismacolor Premier workshops to create highly detailed portraits with lots of texture. Students who have not taken her previous classes are welcome and will learn the basics in the class as well as how the two mediums work together.
The class will work from an image supplied by the instructor, and students may also bring an 8x10 photo of their own to work from when finished with the class image (any type of portrait image is fine, including 3⁄4 poses or those where the eyes are not fully visible). A supply list will be provided. |
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