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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 | Pitcher This: Ceramic Pitcher-Making
With Alexander Kamola
July 12 - 17, 2026
Grunewald Guild
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Through demonstration and guided making, students will develop an understanding of how coils can be used to create strong, fluid forms that are both sculptural and functional.
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 | Introduction to Closed Containers and Lidded Vessels
With Ron Cole
July 19 - 25, 2026
Grunewald Guild
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From the flange of a lid to the shoulder of a jar, students will learn the parts of and how to create a variety of lid types and fit them to their adjoining vessels.
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.