Upper School Intersession 2025

Create beautiful art on canvas, using melted beeswax, mulberry paper, tissue, sewing patterns, and found images.
You will complete one canvas with the option to do a second one, time allowing. Participants are encouraged to bring a photocopy of a personal drawing, photo, or quote which they can incorporate into the composition Fun process and accessible technique!

Create your own hot glass experience in this hands-on hot glass class. Blow, shape, and color your project. Explore the technical and the artistic basics of glass working in this fast-paced beginner's class.

Design, create and apply your own zombie makeup. Learn from Film FX Makeup Artist Elizabeth Fox how to make scary and gore heavy zombies. We’ll be using the same products used in feature films and television. You will learn the tips and techniques used by professionals. Not for the squeamish, this is Zombies like the pros make. We will be using non-latex prosthetics and build ups, fx makeup and work on zombie character creation. Up your halloween game, improve your short zombie films and scare the pants off your friends! A small makeup FX kit will be provided.

Students will learn the techniques of screen printing including screen preparation, using a manual printing press, printing a single color. Students will take their completed T-shirts home as well as their screens. Students will need to have an image ready in advance of class; image specifications to be provided.

In this 5 hour intensive, you'll walk away with a solid grasp of the knowledge you need to make jewelry! You'll get lots of practice soldering, shaping, and polishing metal to create little pieces of wearable art!

No experience whatsoever is necessary, but come with some idea of what you want to make, closed-toed shoes, and no flowy sleeves! Or, if you DO have experience from a past Jewelry Intersession or a WoW Workshop, you'll have the freedom to explore techniques you already know, get instruction on anything more advanced, or ask for advice on anything you're working on!

Interested in a shorter, less in-depth course where we'll just cover some basics? Check out the 2.5 hour Intro version of this class!

Students will learn the fundamentals of stained glass to create a small stained glass suncatcher. In this all-day intensive, students will learn how to:
- use glass cutting tools and glass grinders
- cut specific shapes out of art glass
- choose from a dozen design templates
- choose from a large assortment of colorful art glass
- cut each shape to the pattern
- copper foil each piece
- solder pieces together to complete pattern

Please note, students will be cutting glass and creating lots of shards. Also, they will be using hot soldering irons. Safety protocols will be addressed at the start of class. Safety goggles, bandaids and gloves will be provided. Please note: we will be using leaded solder (tin 60%, lead 40%) and chemicals such are flux and patina.

Students will take home their project at end of seminar.

Guests will learn to spray paint and exercise their freedom of speech by designing and painting a group mural. Students will also create an individual artwork using custom stencils and spray paint. A presentation of the process of making a mural and QnA will accompany the hand on art activities.

Just like in college-level art school, we will spend our part of the day screen-free. We will start by learning about sticker culture, looking a great sticker art, talking about the importance of art in public spaces, and discovering what happens when we democratize our art for all to see. We will then start the design process by sketching multiple ideas, talking through our process, doing a real live art school critique, and choosing one idea to develop.

Then we jump off the paper. We will take an idea from part one, and bring it into the digital space. We will start by going over the basics of Adobe Illustrator software on your laptops. Then students will have the remaining time to work freely on their own projects. At the end of the class finished art will be "submitting to the printer" aka Christina. Finalized work will be printed by a professional printer and returned to the school when completed. Processing usually takes up to 2 weeks but ultimately students will have 25 die-cut vinyl stickers to give away, trade, or just have fun with.

Create your own hot glass experience in this hands-on hot glass class. Blow, shape, and color your project. Explore the technical and the artistic basics of glass working in this fast-paced beginner's class.

Learn how to create realistic wounds for Film and Television. Join Makeup Artist Elizabeth Fox as we use professional grade products to make cuts, bruises and multiple other gore and wounds. Elizabeth will show you how to navigate using the correct product for the job. We will use silicone build ups for scaring and cuts, bruise wheels and tattoo palates to make burns and bruises and learn on set blood techniques, using multiple fake blood products. A small makeup FX kit will be provided.

This session is perfect for students of any grade who are looking to build an art portfolio, especially for applications to college or art school. If you want to study fine art/studio art as your major and become an artist, having a solid portfolio is an essential. However, regardless of whether art is what you want to study in college, an art portfolio can be a great supplement to applications. I’ll be talking about how to approach building a portfolio and the process of it. I’ll also cover practical skills like documentation of art work and writing about your art.