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Janurary Pottery Open Studio
January 7 - 29, 2026
Grunewald Guild Pottery Studio
Join us to get your hands muddy at the Pottery Studio! Open studio is great for makers that want to work with clay but don’t wish to buy and maintain pottery equipment. You can use this time to practice pottery technique or work on personal projects.
February Pottery Open Studio
February 4 - 26, 2026
Grunewald Guild Pottery Studio
Join us to get your hands muddy at the Pottery Studio! Open studio is great for makers that want to work with clay but don’t wish to buy and maintain pottery equipment. You can use this time to practice pottery technique or work on personal projects.
February Community Dinner
February 20, 2026
Centrum @ The Grunewald Guild
February 20th. Dinner begins at 5:30pm with dessert and community art making to follow. Celebrate the coziness of the season with our Valentine's Day Community Dinner, a culinary delight crafted by our talented Kitchen Manager, Becca Bay. Savor a delicious meal featuring fresh, local ingredients and homemade treats. Join us for this delightful evening and […]
Workshop | Wheel Throwing: Come As You Are
With Mike Caemmerer
February 20 - 22, 2026
Grunewald Guild
This is a perfect opportunity to get one on one instruction from Potter Mike Caemmerer as you tackle your next, or maybe first, experience on the wheel.
Workshop | Experiential Drawing: Start Where You Are
With Adele Caemmerer
February 20 - 22, 2026
Grunewald Guild
A calm and welcoming entry (or re-entry) into drawing, this class invites students to slow down and see more deeply. Through gentle, meditative exercises, drawing becomes a grounding practice—one that fosters presence, curiosity, and connection to the world around you.
Workshop | Short and Sweet: An Introduction to Short Story
With Ash Sparks
April 16 - 19, 2026
Grunewald Guild
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Got a story you’ve been carrying around? Short & Sweet invites you to quiet the fear, pick up the pen, and start writing for yourself first.
Workshop | Hand Building Clay: Candle Holders, Luminaries & Lanterns
With Pippin Christiansen
April 16 - 19, 2026
Grunewald Guild
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Slow down and work with your hands. This course explores traditional hand-building techniques to create functional ceramic forms that illuminate both space and season.
Workshop | Gesture and Matter : Reclaiming Creative Agency
With Matt Whitney
April 16 - 19, 2026
Grunewald Guild
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This workshop seeks to loosen the grip on preciousness and perfection, to gain a deeper relationship with our creative selves. This rigorously playful workshop invites participants into a way of making that begins in your intuitive knowing and stays connected to the material world.
SSA Week 1 | Drawing with Color and Story: Medieval Miniatures
With Elijah Turrell
May 3 - 9, 2026
Grunewald Guild
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From bestiary animals to sacred scenes, this course invites you to explore medieval miniature drawing as a relaxing, imaginative, and expressive practice.
SSA Week 1 | Encaustic Tile: A Rare Ceramic Tradition
With Roopini Venkatasubramanian
May 3 - 9, 2026
Grunewald Guild
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This hands-on course invites students into the making of encaustic-style ceramic tiles; an endangered craft where pattern, color, and history are pressed into clay.
SSA Week 1 | Palette Knife Painting with Oils
With Nicki Lang
May 3 - 9, 2026
Grunewald Guild
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Add a new dimension to your painting practice by learning palette knife techniques that transform photo references into richly textured landscapes.
SSA Week 1 | Awaken Your Muse: Mixed Media Exploration
With Kim Lande
May 3 - 9, 2026
Grunewald Guild
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Discover the divine spark within and explore mixed media art as a form of listening, visioning, and playful creation. Through journaling, nature walks, and collage, this class fuels joyful expression and deepens connection to your creative self.
SSA Week 2 | Imago Dei: Icons on the Page
With Elijah Turrell
May 10 - 15, 2026
Grunewald Guild
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Discover the spiritual and artistic practice of icon painting. This class blends history, meaning, and technique, offering a hands-on path for prayer, meditation, and creative devotion.
SSA Week 2 | Break & Bake: Fused Glass
With Arden Wren Sawyer
May 10 - 15, 2026
Grunewald Guild
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Discover the magic of kiln-fused glass! Learn to cut, layer, and fire glass to create bowls, plates, and artful forms, while exploring color, texture, and design.
SSA Week 2 | Painting our Inner Landscapes
With Matt Whitney
May 10 - 15, 2026
Grunewald Guild
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Explore the wilderness within, through painting, meditation, and reflection. This course blends playful, free-form techniques with color and composition guidance.
SSA Week 2 | Watercolor Cosmos
With Vonda Drees
May 10 - 15, 2026
Grunewald Guild
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Let watercolor and wonder collide. Watercolor Cosmos invites you to paint luminous galaxies inspired by the beauty and mystery of deep space.
Summer Week 1 | Stained Glass for Beginners
With Kerrie Steffan
June 7 - 13, 2026
Grunewald Guild
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Are you interested in learning the basics of stained glass? Would you like to build a stained glass piece for your home, or to gift to a loved one? Come and learn about stained glass and bring home a piece of your own!
Summer Week 1 | Mandalas in Watercolor
With Vonda Drees
June 7 - 13, 2026
Grunewald Guild
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Through the art form of mandala and the medium of watercolor, step-by-step processes will render beautifully harmonious patterns.
Summer Week 1 | Small Echoes: Prose of Microcosms
With Hannah Bartels
June 7 - 13, 2026
Grunewald Guild
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This writing course explores the idea that the world's whispers are worth writing down. What meaning can we discover by sitting patiently in our shared sea of molecules?
Summer Week 2 | Regroup, Redeem, Revive: Songwriting Retreat
With Jan Krist
June 21 - 27, 2026
Grunewald Guild
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A beloved songwriting course for deep listening, writing, and connection.
Summer Week 2 | Weaving Where You Are
With Suzanne Halvorson and Nancy Marsh
June 21 - 27, 2026
Grunewald Guild
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This weaving course will offer students of all skill levels the opportunity to learn to weave or expend their weaving skills using floor looms under the guidance of master weavers.
Summer Week 2 | The Potters Wheel Goes Round and Round
With Jim Halvorson
June 21 - 27, 2026
Grunewald Guild
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Curious about wheel throwing? Learn the fundamentals of centering, shaping, and creating with clay in this hands-on introduction.
Summer Week 2 | ReWonder: Recycled Sculpture
With Trung Pham
June 21 - 27, 2026
Grunewald Guild
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Re-imagine the world around you by giving everyday objects wondrous new life.
Summer Week 2 | Contemplative Artists in Action
With Carla Erickson Orlando
June 21 - 27, 2026
Grunewald Guild
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This course offers a spacious and grounded invitation to artists seeking to reflect, listen, and respond thoughtfully in a complex civic moment. Guided by Carla Orlando, spiritual director, participants will explore democracy as a spiritual practice.
Summer Week 3 | Plants, Prints, and Place
With Nicki Lang
June 28 - July 3, 2026
Grunewald Guild
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Join ecologist turned artist Nicki Lang on a journey of exploration of the Guild plant communities using the art of printing!
Summer Week 3 | The Art + Craft of Writing Your Novel or Memoir
With Larry Lehnerz
June 28 - July 3, 2026
Grunewald Guild
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This program is part of our Summer Program, beginning on Sunday (June 28) and ending on Friday (July 3). Class runs Monday morning through Thursday morning, with additional programming on Sunday and Friday. During this creative writing class students are invited to build the structural “bones” of a full-length novel or memoir through practical writing […]
Summer Week 3 | Light + Color: Stained Glass with Copper Foil
With Rick Szeliski
June 28 - July 3, 2026
Grunewald Guild
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Spend a week in the Guild's Stained Glass studio, learning about the art of stained glass and creating a piece for you to take home!
Summer Week 3 | Weaving: Open Studio
June 28 - July 3, 2026
Grunewald Guild
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This program is part of our Summer Program, beginning on Sunday (June 28) and ending on Friday (July 3). This Open Studio will run Monday through Thursday, with additional programming on Sunday and Friday. This open studio is a dedicated making space for students and alumni of Suzanne and Nancy’s weaving classes. Designed exclusively for […]
Summer Week 4 | Binding Family Stories: Making Artists Books as Archives
With Sarah Sprouse
July 5 - 11, 2026
Grunewald Guild
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Explore the artist book as a powerful and intimate medium for storytelling, memory keeping, and family history preservation. Whether you're interested in creating a keepsake of a beloved vacation, visually mapping your ancestry, or experimenting with the interplay of personal and collective memory, this class invites you to bind the threads of time into tactile, visual form.
Summer Week 4 | Watercolor in the Sacred Milieu
With Kristen Gilje
July 5 - 11, 2026
Grunewald Guild
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This program is part of our Summer Program, beginning on Sunday (July 5) and ending on Saturday (July 11). Class runs Monday morning through Friday morning, with additional programming on Sunday and Saturday. Come play in the sacred realm of divine color! Let’s pay close attention to our paints, paper, and brushes, to our hand […]
Summer Week 4 | Fun with Jewelry
With Tamzin Darden
July 5 - 11, 2026
Grunewald Guild
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Do you have an old piece of jewelry that you'd like to rehab or repurpose? Would you like to learn the basics of jewelry-making? Join us for a fun week of jewelry-making at the Guild!
Summer Week 5 | Classical Drawing + Painting: Bargue and Zorn
With Cynthia Noyd
July 12 - 17, 2026
Grunewald Guild
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Explore drawing and painting technique using Bargue plates and a Zorn palette!
Summer Week 5 | Brilliant Bits: Exploring Stained Glass Mosaic
With Susan Schneider
July 12 - 17, 2026
Grunewald Guild
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Whether you're drawn to abstract expression or representational imagery, this stained glass course offers a welcoming space to play, make, and shine!
Summer Week 6 | Drawing From Where You Are
With Adele Caemmerer
July 19 - 25, 2026
Grunewald Guild
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This program is part of our Summer Program, beginning on Sunday (July 19) and ending on Saturday (July 25). Class runs Monday morning through Friday morning, with additional programming on Sunday and Saturday. In this course, we will explore drawing as a practice of “being”- being where we are, being with what we notice, and […]
Summer Week 6 | Landscape Tapestry Weaving
With Becky Anne Smith
July 19 - 25, 2026
Grunewald Guild
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This program is part of our Summer Program, beginning on Sunday (July 19) and ending on Saturday (July 25). Class runs Monday morning through Friday morning, with additional programming on Sunday and Saturday. This immersive weaving course invites participants to translate landscape into cloth through small-scale tapestry weaving. Working on tapestry looms, students will create […]
Summer Week 6 | Wearable Art: Sew Your Own Way
With Gloria Dorve
July 19 - 25, 2026
Grunewald Guild
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Make your own wearable art! No experience needed.
Summer Week 7 | Embodied Archetypes: Personal Mythology
With Kayleigh Lang
July 26 - August 1, 2026
Grunewald Guild
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What stories shape you? Explore identity through reflection and hands-on mixed-media art.
Summer Week 7 | Attuned Movement: Listening to Our Bodies & Environments
With Kaia Gilije and Angela Sebastian
July 26 - August 1, 2026
Grunewald Guild
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What stories emerge when bodies move in conversation with place? This movement course invites participants into guided improvisation, reflection, and place-based exploration, welcoming all bodies and experience levels.
Summer Week 7 | Mixed Media Collage and Zine Making
With Abigail March-Graham
July 26 - August 1, 2026
Grunewald Guild
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Play, experiment, and make zines!
Summer Week 7 | Exploring Place-Based Pigments and Papers
With Lila Steffan
July 26 - August 1, 2026
Grunewald Guild
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Gather plants and learn to process them to produce color through demonstrations and experimental practice.
FSA Week 1 | Enameling Glass: A Joyous Riot of Color
With Jean Tudor
October 18 - 24, 2026
Grunewald Guild
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Join Jean Tudor, enamel extraordinaire, in a week-long enameling course
FSA Week 1 | Watercolor in the Sacred Milieu
With Kristen Gilje
October 18 - 24, 2026
Grunewald Guild
Book now and get 20% off listed prices. Offer valid until Feb 14, 2026.
Come play in the sacred realm of divine color!
FSA Week 1 | Building Your Language In Stitch
With Alicia O’Dell
October 18 - 24, 2026
Grunewald Guild
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Explore slow stitching as a contemplative practice. Weaving ideas, inspiration, and introspection into your artwork and everyday garments.
FSA Week 2 | Sacred Geometry
With Elijah Turrell
November 1 - 7, 2026
Grunewald Guild
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Join us as we learn to draw geometric designs from all over the world. As we draw we will discover how these motifs aid in our prayer and meditation, and why the ancients used these designs.
FSA Week 2 | Practicing Presence: Mark, Pause, Breathe
With Laurie Rudel and Adele Caemmerer
November 1 - 7, 2026
Grunewald Guild
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Slow down and experience mixed-media art as a form of active meditation. This course uses simple materials and guided drawing practices to cultivate presence, focus, and interior spaciousness.
FSA Week 2 | Brilliant Bits: Exploring Stained Glass Mosaic
With Susan Schneider
November 1 - 7, 2026
Grunewald Guild
Book now and get 20% off listed prices. Offer valid until Feb 28, 2026.
Whether you're drawn to abstract expression or representational imagery, this stained glass course offers a welcoming space to play, make, and shine!
New Year's Eve Retreat 2026 - 2027
Flexible Dates
Grunewald Guild
A 3 to 5 day lightly programmed retreat in Plain, WA over the New Year's holiday supporting creativity, play, community, spirituality, rest, and renewal in the Cascade Mountains.