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Beginning Basketry with Sara Myrick
Next in EAC’s popular series of online workshops is Beginning Basketry with Sara Myrick, 1-3 pm, Sunday, May 2. Geared for ages 12 and up, the workshop will be a fun and interactive tutorial in making a box-shaped basket using a form and twine. Sara will also show adaptations … [Read More]
Sara Myrick to Teach Beginning Basketry
Next in EAC’s popular series of online workshops is Beginning Basketry with Sara Myrick, 1-3 pm, Sunday, May 2. Geared for ages 12 and up, the workshop will be a fun and interactive tutorial in making a box-shaped basket using a form and twine. Sara will also show adaptations … [Read More]
Lifelong Fiber Enthusiast to Teach Needle Felting Workshop
Next in EAC’s popular online workshop series is Needle Felted Landscapes with Paula Farrar. The class will take place via Zoom, 1-3 pm on Saturday, March 20, and will include a thorough introduction to the techniques of needle felting; participants will create a landcape image and/or a sunflower. Geared … [Read More]
Arts Campers and Creations Captured in Video Recap
EAC’s annual school break week Arts Camp was a colorful February highlight with an eager group of students aged 6 to 12 working via Zoom on a menagerie of paper-craft reptiles. Instructors Sara Myrick and Ann Cannizzaro, both full-time educators in Washington County, shared their school break time with … [Read More]
Needle-felted Landscapes Next for Workshop Series!
Paula Farrar of Done Roving Farms will teach EAC’s next online workshop—Needle-felted Landscapes! The class will take place via Zoom on Saturday, March 20 from 1-3 pm, and include an introduction to needle felting, color-blending techniques, and landscape design pointers for participants to create felt ‘paintings.’ Local participants may … [Read More]
Kraut Makers Brine it Up
Anne Shields Hopkins taught a Sensational Sauerkraut workshop for EAC last month, providing detailed instructions, troubleshooting and an easy-to-follow pdf pamphlet for students. Washington County participants were joined by interested chefs from Canada, Vermont, Pennsylvania and North Carolina to learn the wonders of fermentation. From our past experiences with … [Read More]
School Break Week’s Arts Camp Is Inspired by Reptiles
EAC will offer Remarkable Reptiles, a Vacation Week Arts Camp, on Wednesday, February 17 and Thursday, February, 18, with popular instructors Sara Myrick and Ann Cannizzaro. The camp, held via Zoom from 10 to 11 am each day, will offer an array of hands-on activities, including accordion snakes, dazzling lizards and … [Read More]
Workshop: Sensational Sauerkraut
Join Anne Hopkins and friends in your home kitchen for EAC’s next workshop offering: an afternoon of learning to create the digestive ‘wonder food,’ sauerkraut. The foodcraft class will take place from 1:30-3 pm, Sunday, January 31, via Zoom. Participants will receive a PDF of Anne’s sauerkraut-making pamphlet when … [Read More]
EAC Workshop Students Share ‘Heart-felt’ Creations
After learning a needle-felting technique at a July 2020 EAC Zoom workshop, Lauren Koss, a longtime student of wet felting, began engaging with the dry-felting in earnest in winter 2020, and also taught her 7-year-old son (also a frequenter of EAC workshops) the technique. As taught by Audra Christie, … [Read More]
Festival of Ornaments a Bright Spot for Holiday 2020
Attracting more than 50 students, with several double- or even triple-dipping by attending more than one of the series’ workshops, EAC’s Festival of Ornaments allowed many community members to spend meaningful time together while making handcrafted ornaments. Presented via Zoom November 29 through December 13, the workshop trio—Tassel Tree … [Read More]
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