Art Classes and Workshops

Are you intrigued about cold wax and how to use it?
We are thrilled to have Instructor Patricia Lintner, May 19-22nd, 2025, teaching Creative Layers with Cold Wax. 

In this fun and exciting 4-day workshop, students will explore many techniques on working with cold wax. Dive into this versatile medium and its vast array of possibilities you can do with it. Cold wax can be used for abstract, landscape, still life, portraits, sculptures, collage, and so much more!
Cold wax is made from white unbleached beeswax, alkyd resin, and odorless mineral spirits (OMS). No heat is used with cold wax. Adding oil paint, pigment powders and other particulates is part of the basics with cold wax.
Students will learn how to build layers, use various tools, working with different drying times, using masks and stencils, adding collage elements, learn composition and color and how to create unique one-of-a-kind artwork.
In Patricia’s class you will learn:
How to use basic tools, and surfaces to achieve a feel of history and visual interest in your work.
Techniques for wet in wet and dry surfaces.
Layering and texture.
Incorporate collage and other elements such as pigment powders and other particulates.
Solvent reduction to reveal underlying layers.
Mark making with various tools.
Compositional elements.
Working with color,
And much more!”

Treat your self to four days of fun, community and art-making. You will not regret it.
Cost is $755 for 4 full days (9am-4pm). Sign up here or register below.

Lunch, refreshments and light snacks will provided.

A kit fee of $35 will be collected on the morning of the first day. This includes pigment powders, brayers, newsprint, squeegee, extra cold wax medium, extra paper and surfaces, and paint colors.

A list of a few supplies students will need to bring will be sent to you by email upon registering for class.
Minimum age to attend class is 18.

Learn more about Patricia here.

Join us June 5-7th, 2025 for a mixed media approach to building your own sacred sanctum with Artist and Author, Michael DeMeng.

I have often said that Mexican culture has a lot of heart. They are kind and generous people. Of course, it can also be said that their culture literally has a lot of heart. Everywhere you turn in Mexico you see an image of el Corazón—the heart. Fiery hearts, thorny hearts, wounded hearts, and radiating hearts abound. One thing I started noticing though, was that the depiction of the heart in Mexico can be a bit different. Occasionally you’ll see versions that are more anatomically correct. Perhaps not always accurate to the degree an anatomy book might display, but still, veins, arteries, etc. It is not uncommon to see a naturalistic version of the human heart in pre-Columbian art, and the very first artistic representation of an anatomically correct human heart (not a Valentine’s card style) was by the Olmecs, the first complex civilization in Mexico, on a ceramic vessel dated 3000 B.C.

With all of that in mind I thought it would be interesting to explore the recesses of our hearts and those souls who have made an impact on us. Using the corazon as inspiration and utilizing found objects, paint, clay and collage, we will create shrines to individuals or ideas that have touched us deeply. In this workshop not only will you learn lots and lots about sculpture and paint but you will leave with a very personally sacred sanctum…cross my heart. – Michael

Cost is $645 for 3 full days (9:30am-4:30pm) June 5-7th, 2025. Sign up here or register below.

Lunch, refreshments and light snacks will provided.

No kit fee is required. A list of a few supplies students will need to bring will be sent to you by email upon registering for class.

Michael deMeng is an assemblage artist from Vancouver, Canada, who exhibits and teaches throughout the world. He has three books exploring his methods: Secrets of Rusty Things, Dusty Diablos, and The Art Abandonment Project, published by NorthLight Books. In his art, he addresses issues of transformation. Discarded materials find new and unexpected uses in his work; they are reassembled and conjoined with unlikely components, a form of rebirth from the ashes into new life and new meaning. Often using myth and legends as source material, Michael uses his assemblages as metaphors for the evolutions and revolutions of existence: from life to death to rebirth. These forms are examinations of the world in perpetual flux, where meaning and function are ever-changing.

Please join us June 18th-21st, 2025 to learn from Debbie Maddy the art of shibori and indigo dye. We are very fortunate to have her teaching at ArtHaus!

The class will cover indigo dye from making an all-natural vat to dyeing our creations. Debbie will cover all three types of shibori including fold and clamp (itajime), wrapping on a pole (arashi), and stitch resist. She ends the workshop with teaching how to finish the fabrics to help keep the indigo from rubbing off (crocking) and hopefully make it more light and wash-resistant. The class is perfect for beginners to advanced dyers (mature 16& up).

Cost is $690 for 3.5 days. Sign up here or register below.

Lunch, refreshments and light snacks will provided.

A kit fee of $40 will be collected on the morning of the first day. This is a shared usage fee whichcovers the cost of the all natural indigo vats and the use of all items to do the shibori including one silk scarf.

Class hours are 1-4:30pm the 18th and 9-4:30pm the 19,20,21st.

Debbie has studied Shibori and Indigo dyeing under some of the most prestigious artists in the US, Japan, England, and Africa.  She is the author of Discover Shibori, an in-depth volume about everything shibori and natural indigo. She loves traveling to teach and lecture. She dyes and sells items to wear and decorate with and is thrilled and honored to be a part of the Moda Fabrics designer family.

Join us July 18-20th, 2025 for a mixed media approach to painting abstract art with Artist and Author, Jodi Ohl, of “Abstracts in Acrylic and Ink.”

Calling all fellow creatives! Are you ready to dive into a weekend filled with boundless imagination and artistic expression? Join us for an unforgettable journey into the captivating world of abstract art!

Whether yo are a seasoned painter or just starting to explore your artistic side, our weekend-long abstract art class is the perfect opportunity to unleash your creativity and embrace the power of abstraction.

If you are interested in abstract painting but just didn’t know where to start or you have been painting in acrylics and want to learn some fresh techniques, Exploring Abstract Art with Jodi Ohl could just be the workshop for you.

What Students Can Expect to Learn:
During this fast paced and fun filled 3-day workshop, we will experiment with a variety of warm up exercises that will help guide the students towards their main project, a 20×20 abstract painting.

Over the course of this weekend workshop, students can expect to:

• Explore design principles that will help organize their composition
• Create value studies to work on contrast in their work
• Learn how and when to use a variety of mixed media gel and acrylic mediums in their work.
• Create work that doesn’t have a subject matter but evokes a feeling or experience of the artist’s choice. Use your brush as your voice, your canvas as your stage as you learn to entertain the viewer in the way only YOU can through abstract art.
• Be guided by the instructor in a gentle and nurturing way.
• Participate in robust discussions about art and the creative life.
• Let loose and connect with other like-minded fellow artists!
  Remember, the beauty of abstraction lies in its ability to reflect the essence of who we are. So, let your brush be your voice, and let your imagination soar as you create art that is uniquely, beautifully, and unapologetically YOU.

Secure your spot now, and let’s take this journey of creative exploration together!
Cost is $690 for 3 full days (9am-4pm). Sign up here or register below.

Lunch, refreshments and light snacks will provided.

A kit fee of $40 will be collected on the morning of the first day. This is a shared usage fee which will include Matte Medium, Gel Medium, Gesso, Modeling Paste, A Variety of Paints, Drawing Tools, Stencils, Water Color Paper, Painter’s Tape and More (to use during the workshop). 

A list of a few supplies students will need to bring will be sent to you by email upon registering for class.

Who is this workshop for:
This course is designed for both beginner and intermediate abstract painters who work in acrylic paint. It is helpful to have some basic painting knowledge. Abstracts can be fun and energizing. Are you ready to work loosely and take a ride to a destination unknown? If so, your space is waiting for you in this fun- filled workshop with Jodi Ohl.
Invest in YOU and your artistic journey today by registering for Exploring Abstract Art in the wonderful and inspiring venue Art Haus located in historic New Haven, Missouri.

Learn more about Jodi at:  https://www.jodiohl.com/inperson-workshops

Jodi has published in over 36 international mixed media magazines such as Cloth Paper Scissors, Somerset Studios, Artful Blogging, Artful Journaling, Somerset Holidays and Celebrations, Cloth Paper Scissors Studios, and Acrylic Artist, as well as a contributor to 7 mixed media books. For three years in a row, Jodi’s paintings have been featured in the curated books featuring the best of mixed media, Incite 2, 3 and 4. Recently, Jodi had the distinct honor of being the featured artist in Somerset Studio magazine’s Nov/Dec 2016 issue has been a regular guest columnist for Cloth Paper Scissors. Jodi enjoys writing about her art and sharing the love of healing and motivation through creativity. She is represented by regional galleries in North Carolina and several others along the East Coast. In addition, Jodi is a popular mixed media art teacher online and in person, teaching at both large and small local and national workshops around the US.