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May Pottery Open Studio

May 6 - 28, 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.

Artists in Community: Memorial Day Weekend Retreat

May 21 - 25, 2026

Grunewald Guild

As spring blossoms into summer, join us by the river for creativity, play, and community over Memorial Day Weekend!

Summer Week 1 | Stained Glass for Beginners

With Kerrie Steffan

June 7 - 13, 2026

Grunewald Guild

FLASH SALE! Register by 5/20 and receive 15% off the total price! 8 days left!

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

FLASH SALE! Register by May 20, 2026 and receive 20% off the total price! 8 days left!

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

FLASH SALE! Register by May 20, 2026 and receive 25% off the total price! 8 days left!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

With Ann Hinz

June 28 - July 3, 2026

Grunewald Guild

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Play, experiment, and make zines!

Summer Week 7 | Exploring Place-Based Pigments and Papers

With Lila Steffan

July 26 - August 1, 2026

Grunewald Guild

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

June Volunteer Work Week

Flexible Dates

Grunewald Guild

This event starts Monday, June 1st and ends Friday, June 5th and is open to returning community members of the Grunewald Guild. Lodging and meals are provided as thanks for your time and care. As the light returns and the earth begins to soften, we gather to tend the spaces that hold us. Our Volunteer […]