Join Catalina for this 2-part class and learn to make little sculptures, using air-dry clay, wire/foil armatures and acrylics to build and paint a mythical Mexican figurine! Learn the skills to create beautiful Mexican folk art with bright colors and patterns.

This is a fun, creative hands-on activity that all ages can enjoy!

Join us for an opportunity learn and/or improve glass painting/enameling (and some screen printing and soldering) skills. We will all be learning and doing together. All materials provided. One kiln firing is also included.

Join us in a class where we will class we will teach you how to make a simple but beautiful stained glass pendant and earrings.  You will leave with a many as you are able to create in the time allotted. 

• Title of Class: Fused Glass Mosaics

• Brief Description: Mosaics that look like stained glass without the caming and soldering. We'll compose pieces of colored glass onto a glass backer sheet and then “grout” them with powdered glass to define and give depth. You might choose to paint an icon or pattern onto the glass with high temperature paint. It all gets fused in the kiln to created a solid piece of art that's suitable for a plate or light catcher in your window.

• All tools, materials, and heat (One kiln-firing included) provided.

This is a great chance to learn mosaic basics: design, tile cutting, adhesives, grouting… You’ll complete a wonderful 8×8 piece ready to display. We provide all the materials, and this class is appropriate for all ages! Beginners and experienced mosaic folk welcome.

This is a great chance to learn mosaic basics: design, tile cutting, adhesives, grouting… You’ll complete a wonderful 8×8 piece ready to display. We provide all the materials, and this class is appropriate for all ages! Beginners and experienced mosaic folk welcome.

This guaranteed-to-succeed method is fast, fun and fabulous! Bring in a color picture of your favorite creature (8x10) and we’ll convert it into a colorful portrait you’ll be proud of!

Come to The Groove and learn how to create a beautiful landscape collage!
In this class you will learn how to glue layers of translucent tissue paper on to a 12x 12 board and create a glowing landscape. You will learn about color combinations and spectral light, to create a landscape with light, depth, and glowing color. Supplies provided.
2 x three hour classes.
$150

Come to The Groove and learn how to create a beautiful landscape collage!
In this class you will learn how to glue layers of translucent tissue paper on to a 12x 12 board and create a glowing landscape. You will learn about color combinations and spectral light, to create a landscape with light, depth, and glowing color. Supplies provided.
2 x three hour classes.
$150

Join us for an opportunity learn and/or improve glass painting/enameling (and some screen printing and soldering) skills. We will all be learning and doing together. All materials provided. One kiln firing is also included.

Creating Space for Grief:

This workshop is an invitation to pause and honor our grief. Artist and therapist, Tina Wolverton will lead a workshop on creating grief bowls. The bowl is traditionally a vessel of nourishment yet it is also a symbol of emptiness. What are you carrying ? What is in your bowl? We will explore how to honor our grief through art, writing and being in safe community together. This workshop is appropriate for adults working through both individual and collective grief. Participants are asked to bring a small bowl that will be used as a mold as well as any personal mementos, collage materials, papers or thin fabric.

Convert a recycled bicycle wheel into a gorgeous, colorful stained glass spinner for your yard. You will cut stained glass scrap, learn to foil and solder. All materials provided.

This is a Zoom workshop - talking, not doing - focused on discussing mosaic design concepts and what works/doesn’t work. We will look at and dissect lots of successful and less successful mosaic pieces, and learn from it all. Free to those in the Mosaic Mirror class and the Advanced Mosaic/Andamento class.

Cut, assemble and fire traditional fused glass but utilizing a variety of non-glass materials and techniques. Using wire and sheet copper embedded in fused glass, we will create an opportunity to collage a variety of materials to glass. The objects created can be, but is not limited, to making a mask.

Includes Design/Andamento workshop! We will custom-cut MDF board and use and glass tiles, found objects, tempered glass, stones and stained glass to craft a gorgeous mosaic mirror for your home. We will learn how to use a circle-cutter for glass and mirror. Make the mirror of your dreams!

Includes Design/Andamento workshop! We will custom-cut MDF board and use and glass tiles, found objects, tempered glass, stones and stained glass to craft a gorgeous mosaic mirror for your home. We will learn how to use a circle-cutter for glass and mirror. Make the mirror of your dreams!

Kids will have creative fun doing all kinds of art: printmaking, mosaic, fused glass coasters and colorful animal sculptures. Five mornings.

Kids will have creative fun doing all kinds of art: printmaking, mosaic, fused glass coasters and colorful animal sculptures. Five mornings.

Kids will have creative fun doing all kinds of art: printmaking, mosaic, fused glass coasters and colorful animal sculptures. Five mornings.

Kids will have creative fun doing all kinds of art: printmaking, mosaic, fused glass coasters and colorful animal sculptures. Five mornings.

Join us for an opportunity learn and/or improve glass painting/enameling (and some screen printing and soldering) skills. We will all be learning and doing together. All materials provided. One kiln firing is also included.

Kids will have creative fun doing all kinds of art: printmaking, mosaic, fused glass coasters and colorful animal sculptures. Five mornings.

Let's play with circles to create a fun art piece!  Join us as we teach you how to cut circles out of glass and make a stained glass art piece. 

Let's play with circles to create a fun art piece!  Join us as we teach you how to cut circles out of glass and make a stained glass art piece. 

Change a cigar box into a gorgeous and functional piece of art! We’ll use a variety of mediums and baubles to decorate in your unique style

The first session will take place at Mitch Berg’s south valley Fuego studio, selecting, designing and welding metal scrap to form a sculptural base for your work. Session 2 takes place at The Groove, where we’ll fuse glass to fit your sculptural vision!

The first session will take place at Mitch Berg’s south valley Fuego studio, selecting, designing and welding metal scrap to form a sculptural base for your work. Session 2 takes place at The Groove, where we’ll fuse glass to fit your sculptural vision!

Join us for an opportunity learn and/or improve glass painting/enameling (and some screen printing and soldering) skills. We will all be learning and doing together. All materials provided. One kiln firing is also included.

1. In this 3-day class you will create a mosaic garden monument using tile, pottery, glass and found objects while learning the techniques to make 3-D mosaic sculptures utilizing a variety of  substrates and adhesives. No art experience, ability or aptitude is required to have fun and create a beautiful, exterior mosaic art piece.

1. In this 3-day class you will create a mosaic garden monument using tile, pottery, glass and found objects while learning the techniques to make 3-D mosaic sculptures utilizing a variety of  substrates and adhesives. No art experience, ability or aptitude is required to have fun and create a beautiful, exterior mosaic art piece.

We will do detailed work based on a photograph of a face (portrait), insect or flower image. We will focus on andamento, color accuracy and design. Includes the Design Workshop zoom session May 26.

We will do detailed work based on a photograph of a face (portrait), insect or flower image. We will focus on andamento, color accuracy and design. Includes the Design Workshop zoom session May 26.

Join us for an opportunity learn and/or improve glass painting/enameling (and some screen printing and soldering) skills. We will all be learning and doing together. All materials provided. One kiln firing is also included.

We will do detailed work based on a photograph of a face (portrait), insect or flower image. We will focus on andamento, color accuracy and design. Includes the Design Workshop zoom session May 26.

1. In this 3-day class you will create a mosaic garden monument using tile, pottery, glass and found objects while learning the techniques to make 3-D mosaic sculptures utilizing a variety of  substrates and adhesives. No art experience, ability or aptitude is required to have fun and create a beautiful, exterior mosaic art piece.

This guaranteed-to-succeed method is fast, fun and fabulous! Bring in a color picture of your favorite creature (8x10) and we’ll convert it into a colorful portrait you’ll be proud of!

Back by popular demand! Learn to cast glass into solid shapes. You'll fill casting molds with sheet glass, crushed glass, frits, noodles, and stringers. You'll learn to layer the colors with clear and dichroic glasses to get brilliant combinations. These castings can be hung on a provided hook, used as paper weights, or just displayed.

All tools, materials, and heat (kiln-firing) provided!

The glass on glass (GOG) class is appropriate for everyone, including beginners, who want to experiment with glass and learn how to make something beautiful. The classes will be small enough for both group and individual instruction (8 people max).

Day 1 is a five-hour block, when we introduce techniques and talk about design, and then give everyone time to work on and (hopefully) complete their project. You can continue your project at home if you wish. Day 2 is a three-ish hour block when we will clean our pieces, grout and and then do final cleaning and hanging prep. You will then be ready to tackle much bigger projects, like glass-on-glass mosaic tables, for example. All tools and materials included, and students will leave with their own silicone adhesive.

The glass on glass (GOG) class is appropriate for everyone, including beginners, who want to experiment with glass and learn how to make something beautiful. The classes will be small enough for both group and individual instruction (8 people max).

Day 1 is a five-hour block, when we introduce techniques and talk about design, and then give everyone time to work on and (hopefully) complete their project. You can continue your project at home if you wish. Day 2 is a three-ish hour block when we will clean our pieces, grout and and then do final cleaning and hanging prep. You will then be ready to tackle much bigger projects, like glass-on-glass mosaic tables, for example. All tools and materials included, and students will leave with their own silicone adhesive.

This is a fun class for all ages (8 and over). We will make 2 pair of earrings, 1 pendant and a set of 2 coasters with kiln-fired glass.

Join us for a fun fusing class using the frit slurry method.  You will design your Tye dye look and we will do a frit slurry to blend your colors.  Frit slurry is a fun way to create your own unique glass. 

You've learned how to make s stained glass piece, now let's go 3-D.  In this level 2 class we will teach you how to cut, assemble and solder these fun little butterflies.  We will attach them to a spinner so that they will turn in the breeze.

Can you include metals in glass art? Yes, you can! Copper works very well. In this class, you'll cut copper sheet using templates and slip them between sheets of glass to be kiln-fired.

• All tools, materials, and heat (One kiln-firing included) are provided.