We offer an assortment of lifestyle courses for a wide variety of interests. Bring out your creative side, get active, or stay engaged within your community.
Art Courses
Drawn with History: Corpse Medicine
Take a tour through the gruesome past of corpse medicine. Learn how our ancestors would have healed themselves by ingesting moss growing on a human skull. Ruminate over the lesson while creating ink sketches of skulls, bones, and other materials used in this practice.
NOTE: Physical animal bones may be present as subject matter. No human specimens…
Drawn with History: Oni and Yokai
Journey into Japanese folklore. We’ll explore the roles of these spirits and demons in history and theater, followed by a hands-on mask-painting workshop. Pre-made paper mache masks will be provided. Including a step-by-step “how to paper mache” hand out to take home and reference if participants want to make more.
Drawn with History:Origin of Jack-O-Lanterns
Explore the origins of the Jack-O-Lantern, from carved turnips to modern day pumpkins, followed by painting an acrylic still life painting from pre-carved turnips and pumpkins.
Knots & Pots: Macramé Plant Hanger Workshop
Participants will learn basic macramé knotting techniques while creating a handmade plant hanger sized to fit your own pot. The workshop is designed for beginners and includes step-by-step instruction in a relaxed, creative environment.
Nature Courses
Wild Mushroom Foray
This course will explore the basics of safe mushroom identification for numerous spring species. There are great edible mushrooms in the spring. We will look at velvet foot, pheasant's back, wood corals, and of course morels! The second part of the class is a field trip to the woods to use the identification skills in the real world.