Take your bead making skills to the next level. Students will explore how to embelish the surface of their beads and using silver, reduction colors and dicro. Students will also learn more advanced bead shapes and will learn to create a variety of shapes including teddy bears, bunnies, chickens, penguins and more. Prerequisite: Beginning Beadmaking

NO SESSION on July 26

This class prepares students to become independent glassblowers. Refine skills and methodology as students create using a broad-ranging color application and technique. Students are allowed to request special demonstrations to their instructor to advance their techniques and the way they think about how to get things done, from design to calculations to implementation. Demonstrations will be used minimally to guide students to develop their skills. Professional advice and helping hands throughout the classes will give students more bench time and opportunity to discover breakthrough ways of achieving desired results.

Prerequisite: 

-Understand safety protocol in Hotshop
-Able to gather molten glass safely
-Able to work with a blow partner safely and comfortably (bringing a punti, putting glass work in the annealer) -Able to do color overlay, applying bits, and Lip wrap
-Able to create basic 7 shapes (Bubble, Cylinder, Cone, inverted cone, rondel, bowl and bottle) in different sizes and thickness
-Willingness to learn more about the shapes and techniques they have never done before
-Able to use the equipment properly (Garage, fluffy torches, oxygen torches, and optic molds)

Discover the universal appeal of shaping molten glass. Ease yourself into this art form with individualized instruction that covers all the basics of glassblowing, from gathering glass from the furnace, to blowing and shaping bubbles. Learn to use the marver, shape with jacks, and begin paper shaping. In addition, learn valuable techniques and safety rules that will give you a solid foundation on which to build your skills. In this class, you will have plenty of time to practice.

Prerequisite: None

NO SESSION on July 27

Curious about glass beadmaking, but not sure if you're ready for a 6-week class? This 4-hour, hands-on experience is a great way to try flameworking before you commit to longer class or to simply explore a new art form. In this workshop, students will learn how to manipulate glass by heating it in a torch flame, wrapping the molten glass onto a mandrel, and then using heat and gravity to shape glass to make beads. Tools and eye protection provided. 

Prerequisite: None 

This 4-hour, hands-on glassblowing workshop is a great way to experience the fascinating and ancient art of working with molten glass. Learn to gather, shape, apply color, and make small paperweights, vessels, or flowers with one-on-one instruction from professional glassblowers.

Prerequisite: None

In this immersive 6-week class, Instructors Aubrie Brown (Fabrication) and Jessie Blackmer (Flameworking), will guide you in creating a decorative lamp in glass and steel. Using Borosilicate glass, known for its durability and clarity, you'll learn to manipulate and shape glass with precision, crafting intricate designs that will become the centerpiece of your lamp. You'll also incorporate elements of steel fabrication into the structure of your lamp to complement your glasswork. By the end of the course, you'll have a one-of-a-kind, functional piece that beautifully showcases the harmonious blend of glass and steel.

Prerequisites: Must have some experience with welding and metal shop tools or have taken a beginning welding course. No previous glass experience necessary.

Supply Fee: $100

Learn to pour hotter, faster, and with greater precision using small cocktail ladles. This class focuses on small-scale glass casting with an emphasis on speed, precision, and control. Students will create small finished cast glass pieces and explore techniques for incorporating inclusions that can be used in future work. Whether you’re looking to improve efficiency, refine your pouring technique, or experiment with new casting elements, this hands-on session will help take your skills to the next level.

This 4-hour, hands-on flameworking workshop is a great way to experience the fascinating and ancient craft of working with molten glass on a small scale. Using a tabletop torch, learn to heat, shape, apply color, and make small objects with one-on-one instruction from professional glass artists.

Prerequisite: None

This 4-hour, hands-on glassblowing workshop is a great way to experience the fascinating and ancient art of working with molten glass. Learn to gather, shape, apply color, and make small paperweights, vessels, or flowers with one-on-one instruction from professional glassblowers.

Prerequisite: None

This class is focused around advancing students’ skill sets in order to make thinner, more refined work. Students will be challenged to broaden their understanding of the fundamentals (e.g. managing heat), develop a deeper intuition into how glass behaves, as well as learn how to make more complex shapes and patterns. Tailored instruction will help students build upon their previous experience in order to achieve greater technical mastery and work towards their specific artistic goals. Student interest may contribute to additional techniques explored in class, such as caneworking or stuff cups.

Prerequisite: 

-Understand safety protocol in Hotshop
-Able to gather molten glass safely
-Able to work with a blow partner safely and comfortably (bringing a punti, putting glass work in the annealer) -Able to do color overlay, applying bits, and Lip wrap
-Able to create 7 basic shapes (Bubble, Cylinder, Cone, inverted cone, rondel, bowl and bottle) in different sizes

Curious about glass beadmaking, but not sure if you're ready for a 6-week class? This 4-hour, hands-on experience is a great way to try flameworking before you commit to longer class or to simply explore a new art form. In this workshop, students will learn how to manipulate glass by heating it in a torch flame, wrapping the molten glass onto a mandrel, and then using heat and gravity to shape glass to make beads. Tools and eye protection provided. 

Prerequisite: None 

This 4-hour, hands-on glassblowing workshop is a great way to experience the fascinating and ancient art of working with molten glass. Learn to gather, shape, apply color, and make small paperweights, vessels, or flowers with one-on-one instruction from professional glassblowers.

Prerequisite: None

This 4-hour, hands-on flameworking workshop is a great way to experience the fascinating and ancient craft of working with molten glass on a small scale. Using a tabletop torch, learn to heat, shape, apply color, and make small objects with one-on-one instruction from professional glass artists.

Prerequisite: None

This 4-hour, hands-on glassblowing workshop is a great way to experience the fascinating and ancient art of working with molten glass. Learn to gather, shape, apply color, and make small paperweights, vessels, or flowers with one-on-one instruction from professional glassblowers.

Prerequisite: None

Hammer, twist, squeeze, scratch and dent your way to these slightly funky, off-kilter but charming metal beads. Add a playful, spontaneous touch to your jewelry making by manipulating copper and brass tubing to create unpredictable results.

Prerequisites: Beginning JM and Students including sawing, filing, using the flex-shaft and soldering.

Supply Fee: $45

Designed for beginners and those needing a refresher, this class introduces students to the fundamentals of metalworking. Through demonstrations, individualized instruction, and plenty of practice, you will develop basic skills in sawing, filing, soldering, riveting, texturing, and polishing, as well as in the safe use of tools and studio chemicals. We encourage you to repeat this class with several teachers, not only to strengthen your skills, but also to benefit from the expertise of each instructor. 

Prerequisite: None

Supply Fee: $40

A supply list will be emailed to you upon registration. If you do not receive one, please refer to the link in the website listing.

Have you been bitten by the casting bug? If you got to the end of Introduction to Jewelry Lost Wax Casting and found that eight weeks just wasn't enough, this continuation is for you! Take your modeling, investing, and casting skills to the next level with additional weeks of supportive instruction. Rather than follow a set syllabus, students will chose to focus on those skills that appeal to them most. Students will see increased quality and output.

Prerequisite: at least one session of Introduction to Jewelry Lost Wax Casting.

Supply Fee: $80

Designed for beginners and those needing a refresher at any level, this beginning class introduces you to the fundamentals metalworking through multiple jewelry projects. Through demonstrations, individualized instruction, and plenty of opportunities to practice in and outside of class, you will develop basic skills in sawing, filing, soldering, connections, texturing, and polishing, as well as safe use of tools and studio chemicals. We encourage you to repeat Beginning JM with several teachers, not only to strengthen your skills, but also to benefit from the expertise and individual projects of each instructor. 

Prerequisite: None

Supply Fee: $80

Weekly JM classes grant you access to Student Friday Sessions during the duration of their registered weekly course. This allows time for students to work on class projects and practice newly learned skills outside of class in a supervised studio space with studio monitors. Visit here for more information: https://pratt.org/jewelry-metals-studio.php

In this one day workshop you will learn how to create a pendant or a ring featuring a bezel setting for a flat-back stone. This workshop introduces basic silversmithing techniques like cutting, texturing and soldering as well as measuring and fitting a stone with a bezel. You will take home a finished piece ready to wear or gift to a special someone. Stones will be provided for the project but you may bring your own if you wish; we recommend they be smaller than 1" in diameter and no sharp corners like squares or triangles for beginners (ovals and circles are great to start.

Perquisite: None

Supply Fee: $75

Experience an aromatic and magical form of experimental jewelry making by pouring liquid hot metal into dried bundles of real lavender flowers. You will learn to prep the lavender bundle, melt and pour the metal, and finish the piece to create a one-of-a-kind organic structure that can be used as a pendant or adornment. 

Prerequisite: None

Supply Fee: $45

Learn to add the color and sparkle of stones to jewelry designs without using a torch! In this 2 day class we’ll focus on cold connections instead of solder. If you’re new to setting stones, these techniques are a great introduction. If you’re more experienced, cold settings can expand your design repertoire, or give you the option of working in a studio that isn‘t equipped with a torch. Your instructor will guide you through a progression of capturing stones and setting them using tabs, rivets and tension settings. You will learn a variety of riveting styles for different uses and how to properly set them. Although the class focuses on setting cabochons and faceted stones, these techniques can also be used to capture materials that are heat sensitive as well as enameled elements and other found objects.

Prerequisite: none

Supply fee: $70

In this workshop we will concentrate solely on the portrait. Working with live model to learn basic portrait drawing strategies and techniques.  You will explore the anatomical and structural forms of the head and its features. We will look at the particular proportions of the eyes, nose, mouth and larger forms of the forehead, jaw and cheek bones. You will drawing with charcoals to study form as we examine the composition grid.

Prerequisite: None

THERE IS A SUPPLY LIST FOR THIS WORKSHOP

This Intermediate Drawing class will build on your basic drawing skills. We will take a contemporary and individualized approach to drawing and 'out-of-the-box' approaches. Use line and contour, shape and form, light and shadow, space and depth, proportion and perspective to create realistic images. We will draw from observation then move onto planning a composition, balancing representational elements with abstract, and bringing in your personal voice into the drawing.

Beginning Drawing Experience Necessary

THERE IS A SUPPLY LIST FOR THIS CLASS

Working from a live model is a great way to hone your drawing skills and learn to translate what you see into a drawing. This fun and challenging class demystifies the drawing process by applying techniques also presented in drawing fundamentals classes such as line, form, value, and scale utilizing the figure. Develop a more confident connection between what you see and what you render.

Prerequisite: None

Model fee charged upon registration

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This Intermediate Drawing class will build on your basic drawing skills. We will take a contemporary and individualized approach to drawing and 'out-of-the-box' approaches. Use line and contour, shape and form, light and shadow, space and depth, proportion and perspective to create realistic images. We will draw from observation then move onto planning a composition, balancing representational elements with abstract, and bringing in your personal voice into the drawing.

Beginning Drawing Experience Necessary

THERE IS A SUPPLY LIST FOR THIS CLASS

In this workshop we will concentrate solely on the portrait. Working with live model to learn basic portrait drawing strategies and techniques.  You will explore the anatomical and structural forms of the head and its features. We will look at the particular proportions of the eyes, nose, mouth and larger forms of the forehead, jaw and cheek bones. You will drawing with charcoals to study form as we examine the composition grid.

Prerequisite: None

THERE IS A SUPPLY LIST FOR THIS WORKSHOP

This one day workshop will focus on quick drawing techniques through live demos and lectures. You will learn about lines, light and shade, composition, and draw in your sketchbooks with dry mediums like pencils, charcoal and chalk. We will start by drawing commonly found objects around us in the studio and then proceed to exploring subjects of personal interest using photographs and prints. Drawing on both white and toned paper will be explored in class.

Prerequisite: None

THERE IS A SUPPLY LIST FOR THIS WORKSHOP

Looking to create bowls that are as stunning as they are functional? This class is perfect for you! Over the course of three sessions, you'll explore the art of bowl turning while adding eye-catching details. The first two sessions will focus on turning beautiful, simple bowls with subtle surface additions-perfect for highlighting color later on. In the final session, you'll bring your pieces to life with texturing techniques and the vibrant pop of milk paint. By the end of the class, you'll walk away with two gorgeous, one-of-a-kind bowls that will steal the show in any space. Don't miss out on the chance to craft functional art with a creative twist!

**Prerequisite: Beginning Woodturning or equivalent.

Supply Fee: $85

Registration Cut Off Date: 7/7/25

Class Description: This classic table design is a perfect exercise in engineering and crafting a piece of furniture using hand tools and machinery. With tapered legs and mortise and tenon construction, you will learn and improve upon many necessary woodworking techniques to take home with you, along with your beautiful table, which has been constructed for centuries. The materials fee includes solid cherry wood, and everything else necessary for successful completion of your project. ** Prerequisite: Beginning Woodworking or equivalent.

Supply Fee: $115

Registration Cut Off Date: 7/8/25

Learn the fundamentals and techniques of woodturning in this beginner's series. In this class you will learn about spindle turning as well as the basics of turning platters and bowls. We will discuss how we take a log and turn it into a functional wood object. Process, proper technique and safety will be the focus in order to give you confidence to create whatever shapes and forms you choose. Leave this class with a strong foundation to build your woodturning journey on and journey down the woodturning rabbit hole. Topics will include: woodturning process, sharpening, spindle turning, bowl turning, cutting techniques, finishing. This is the prerequisite for any of the intermediate/advanced turning classes.

Space is limited to 5 students so sign up early!

Required experience: None.

Supply Fee: $170

Registration Cutoff Date: 7/12/25

Learn the craft of creating an elegant wooden spoon using intuitive methods. This course is designed to be approachable for both beginner and intermediate level students. It will cover how to select wood, design, and use a combination of hand & power tools for carving an heirloom quality kitchen spoon that you will cherish for years to come.

Supply Fee: $45

Registration Cutoff Date: 7/12/25

Want to get your toes wet in the wood turning world and some wood shavings in your hair? Come to this one-day workshop and learn how to turn square pieces round. You will learn the basic cuts for woodturning, put these into practice and leave the class with your very own bowl. This is a great class to get excited about woodturning if you can't commit to a full Beginning Woodturning series or if you just want to test drive your interest in this craft.

Supply Fee: $75

Registration Cutoff Date: 7/13/25

Learn the art of handmade broom making! Students will learn about the materials used in broom making and basic techniques to create two handbrooms: a whisk and a hawktail with handle. Additional broom material will be provided so students can apply their new skill and create a third broom on their own time.

Supply fee: $50.

Registration Cutoff Date: 7/14/25

Take your furniture ideas from imagination to paper with this introduction to hand drafting for woodworkers. Learn how to draw scaled, accurate, and detailed shop drawings using simple layout tools - no software required. We'll cover various projections, dimensioning standards, and how to translate sketches into buildable plans. Students are encouraged to come to class with their own furniture ideas, although a pre-designed furniture piece can be provided, and used by those without. It would be very helpful for all students to have rough knowledge of how to use an Architects Scale ruler before coming to class.

Supply Fee: $15

Registration Cut Off Date: 07/21/25

Craft a beautiful hardwood serving board in just two classes, along the way, you'll learn safe tool use, wood movement basics, and finishing techniques, as well as bandsaw, table saw and router techniques. A great introduction to woodworking, and a perfect handmade gift.

Supply Fee: $40

Registration Cut Off Date: 7/17/25

Build a classic keepsake box while learning the foundations of woodworking. From milling wood and safe tool operation to joinery, glue-ups, edge treatments and applying a finish, this course covers a wide range of essential skills. You'll leave with a completed box and the confidence to tackle more ambitious projects in the future.

Supply Fee: $55

Registration Cut Off Date: 7/19/25

Learn the basics of turning wood on a lathe. In this class we will learn about spindle (between center) turning as well as the basics of creating bowls. Proper technique and safety will be the focus in order to give the students the confidence to create whatever shapes and forms they choose. Also covered will be the fundamentals of finishing and sharpening. This is the prerequisite for any of the advanced turning classes. Supply Fee: $60

Cut Off Date 7/28/25

In this workshop,  Jess will teach you how to transform abundant plant material into beautiful lengths of cordage. You will work with hand-harvested material like daffodil, dandelion, and reed canary grass. Jess will talk all about how to gather your own materials around your neighborhood and will give you optional instruction on starting a small weaving using the techniques learned in this workshop. This is a beginner-friendly workshop with no experience required.

Supply fee: $30

Registration Cutoff Date: 8/2/25

Turn rough lumber into a gallery-worthy picture frame in this comprehensive workshop. Students will learn how to mill wood, measure and cut precise miters, reinforce joints, and apply a finish. We’ll also cover mounting artwork and hardware installation, including glass work, so you leave with a ready-to-hang piece. Participating students are encouraged to bring in a piece to be framed (or have knowledge of the size), to design a frame around. Frame sizes can be NO larger than 11x14. The instructor will work with each student individually to create a design that suits the piece being framed – from minimalistic to sculptural. Material Fee includes cherry wood for the picture frames, and necessary hanging materials. All skill levels welcome.

Supply Fee: $60

Registration Cut Off Date: 8/2/25

In this workshop, Jess will teach you how to transform invasive plant material into basketry. You will learn how to process hand-harvested Black Locust bark and work with bindweed to weave a small square basket. Jess will discuss how to ethically gather your own plant materials around your neighborhood. This is a beginner-friendly workshop with no experience required.

Supply fee: $55.

Registration Cutoff Date: 8/3/25

In this beginner-friendly class, you’ll build a wine display, which rests on the neck of any wine bottle, and holds a glass on either side. Learn to work with templates, drill accurately, cut curves on the bandsaw, and operate a router safely. By the end of class, you’ll have a functional display piece and new foundational skills.

Supply Fee: $30

Registration Cut Off Date: 8/4/25

In this class, you will safely learn how to operate a handheld router, fixed based router, plunge router, edge guide router, and table router. You will learn how to set up routers for a variety of cuts, learn what a climb cut is, and how to prevent danger kickback. This class is a chance to gain confidence using the ever versatile router.

Supply fee: $55.

Registration Cut Off Date: 8/6/25

Unique class hours: 6-9 pm

In this two-session workshop, students will be making a sushi serving board and complimenting candle holder. A set of design templates will be provided for students to follow, or your own personal design can be made. Students will learn table saw safety and functions as well as bandsaw, sanding, and hand carving skills. Material fee includes Sapele and maple wood for the sushi board, and a variety of woods to choose from for the candle holder. Chopsticks and Dish are not included in the Material Fee.

Supply Fee:

Registration Cut Off Date: 8/7/25

Learn the craft of creating an elegant wooden spoon using intuitive methods. This course is designed to be approachable for both beginner and intermediate level students. It will cover how to select wood, design, and use a combination of hand & power tools for carving an heirloom quality kitchen spoon that you will cherish for years to come.

Supply Fee: $45

Registration Cutoff Date: 8/9/25

Slow down and sharpen your technique in this focused dovetail joinery session. You’ll practice cutting and fitting traditional hand-cut dovetails using just a saw, chisel, and marking tools. Ideal for woodworkers with some experience who want to refine their precision, improve their layout, and develop confidence in classic joinery. Please note, this class does not construct a finished piece, and is intended for practice only, where students will be making sample dovetailed corners.

Supply Fee: $20

Registration Cut Off Date: 8/11/25

Build a sturdy, three-legged milking stool while learning traditional woodworking skills like wedged tenon joinery, angled drilling, and shaping curved edges. You’ll work with solid wood and leave with a finished stool that’s strong, beautiful, and full of character. A fun and satisfying project for students ready to go beyond the basics. All skill levels welcome.

Supply Fee: $60

Registration Cut Off Date: 8/12/25

Excited to announce upcoming Master Artist class!! This class will go live Sept 2025. This class listing is up early to start building interest in this class.

Supply Fee needs to be double checked. It is just a placeholder. Class dates are also a place holder as they have yet to be confirmed.

Learn to make a vernacular two-board chair in an Alpine vernacular. This class is centered around joinery, relief carving, and design. Students will use hand tools to create components and joints, including tapered sliding dovetails and through-tenons. Each student will also develop a vocabulary in pattern carving throughout the week. Finally, students can either work from a template and carve their chair or compile their own practiced patterns onto a chair back of their own design. All levels are welcome; elements of this class may be physically strenuous.

Charles Thompson makes chairs and carvings in a humble workshop on a hill in western Massachusetts. His work reflects on vernacular forms, and uses a mixed vocabulary of techniques, patterns, and materials that speak to the efficacy of hand work. He typically works straight from the log, splitting, bending, manipulating, then rejoining wood in a process that leverages personal intention and celebrates common materials. He senses, in the back of his mind and now in his work, a deepening curiosity as to what could count as his own tradition. Charles teaches at venues including Snow Farm, North Bennet St. School, and John C. Campbell Folk School. He is the recipient of the 2024 John D Mineck Fellowship. Social Media: @charles_thompson_would

Enrollment Cutoff Date: 1/26/2026

Supply Fee:

Continuing welders and fabricators: take this class to expand your skills. Finish projects you started in Beginning Class or start something new. Learn TIG welding for stainless steel, aluminum, and bronze. Learn how to design and plan a project, including layout, preparing cost estimates, purchasing materials, and troubleshooting fabrication problems. Bring your own ideas and learn processes to help you complete your project.

Required experience: Beginning Welding and Metal Fabrication or Equivalent.

Supply Fee: $85.

In this immersive 6-week class, Instructors Aubrie Brown (Fabrication) and Jessie Blackmer (Flameworking), will guide you in creating a decorative lamp in glass and steel. Using Borosilicate glass, known for its durability and clarity, you'll learn to manipulate and shape glass with precision, crafting intricate designs that will become the centerpiece of your lamp. You'll also incorporate elements of steel fabrication into the structure of your lamp to complement your glasswork. By the end of the course, you'll have a one-of-a-kind, functional piece that beautifully showcases the harmonious blend of glass and steel.

Prerequisites: Must have some experience with welding and metal shop tools or have taken a beginning welding course. No previous glass experience necessary.

Supply Fee: $100

Introduce yourself to the useful and versatile skills needed to begin working with steel. In this two day weekend intensive, you will learn MIG welding and metal fabrication, as well as equipment including the bandsaw, chop saw, drill press, grinders, shears, and benders. This class is designed for anyone looking to incorporate metal into their artistic and technical vocabulary. 

Required Experience: None

Supply Fee $65

A supply list will be emailed to you upon registration. If you do not receive one, please refer to the link in the website listing.

In this single day, all levels workshop you will be introduced to the malleability and organic nature of forged steel. We will create leaves, petals, and stems in metal, covering the transition from a flat plane to volumetric form through folding, hammering, and dishing metal while it is in a malleable state. Forging techniques and different hammer styles will be used to create different surface textures. There will be a variety of pre-cut sheet metal blanks of your favorite petal shapes and leaves to choose from. Although this is primarily a forging class there will be a quick demo on how to MIG weld all your components together.

Supply Fee: $70

Required Experience: None

Learn the basics of TIG (Tungsten Inert Gas) Welding, commonly used to produce clean, high strength welds on steel, stainless steel, aluminum, and copper alloys. This class wil cover basic tig welding on various materials, as well as basical metal fabrications tools such as grinders, saws, shearps, and plasma cutters. This class is designed for anyone looking to incorporate metal into their artistic and technical vocabulary. 

Prerequisite: None

Supply Fee $75

A supply list will be emailed to you upon registration. If you do not receive one, please refer to the link in the website listing.

In this class, we'll use the creation of small lidded boxes as a way to learn techniques for precise layout, sheet metal forming, and fine finish work. We'll start with making paper templates of our designs, and then we'll cut, score, and bend sheet steel to create our forms using a variety of tools. We'll then use MIG and TIG welders to join everything together, and use angle grinders and sanders to prep the surfaces for finish. Finally, we'll explore patinas and other finishes that we'll make our boxes uniquely our own.

Required Experience: None

Supply Fee: $100

Note: this class provides a lunch during class days

Get ready for spring barbeque season by making your own grill tools! This class will cover the fundamentals of blacksmithing, while making a small set of functional, beautiful, and long lasting tools for cooking at a grill, on the stove, or over a roaring campfire. This class is open to interested students of all experience levels. 

Supply fee:60$

Required Experience: None

Learn to forge a beautiful and useful utility knife, able to serve in the kitchen, around the home and garden, and out in any circumstance you may find yourself in. Students will learn the basics of knife design and material selection, and forge for themselves a full sized utility knife, as well as learn to rivet and shape a wooden handle for their knife. Forging, grinding, heat treating, as well as finishing and sharpening, will all be covered. 

Required experience: Beginning Blacksmithing or equivalent

Supply fee: $90

Spend an evening forging. This class is designed as a short, fun blacksmithing experience and demonstration of basic forging processes. It is a great opportunity to explore what the Pratt forging shop has to offer. If you're not sure if you want to take a full length forging class this is an entertaining way to try it out before registering.

Required experience: None.

Supply Fee: $25.

Learn the fundamentals of forging in Pratt's fully equiped blacksmithing studio. Using basic techniques such as hammering, twisting, tapers, bends, chiseling, and punching, you will have the opportunity to create sculptural and functional objects. Everyone is welcome, whether you're interested in taking more advanced blacksmithing classes or you just want a basic understanding of the process.

Required experience: None.

Supply Fee: $70. 

Spend an evening forging. This class is designed as a short, fun blacksmithing experience and demonstration of basic forging processes. It is a great opportunity to explore what the Pratt forging shop has to offer. If you're not sure if you want to take a full length forging class this is an entertaining way to try it out before registering.

Required experience: None.

Supply Fee: $25.

Spend an evening forging. This class is designed as a short, fun blacksmithing experience and demonstration of basic forging processes. It is a great opportunity to explore what the Pratt forging shop has to offer. If you're not sure if you want to take a full length forging class this is an entertaining way to try it out before registering.

Required experience: None.

Supply Fee: $25.

Learn to forge one of the most useful and versatile tools, one with particular ties to the industries that built the pacific northwest. Students will learn about axe design and steel selection, followed by forging, grinding, heat treting, and handling their own hatchet. Students can expect to work with hand hammers, and co-operatively with sledge hammers to finish their hatchet.

required experience: no required experience

Supply Fee: 90$

Learn traditional watercolor techniques such as wash, wet into wet, dry brush, and much more. Combine watercolor with drawing media and materials such as ink and graphite. You will be encouraged to work with subject matter ranging from still lifes and photographs to abstraction and imagination. 

No experience necessary

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Explore traditional watercolor techniques as well as composition and color. Combine watercolor with drawing media materials such as ink and graphite. You will work with subject matter ranging from still lifes and photographs to abstraction and imagination. 

 Watercolor experience necessary

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Explore the incorporation of text and image in artist’s books. Through various book structures, writing prompts, and low-tech printing techniques, you will come away with one-of-a-kind zines, chapbooks, and experimental structures. We will also discuss editioning books and tips for maintaining a daily writing practice, as well as give individualized guidance on concept development.

No experience needed

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Creating textures in linocut block printing can be a challenge. In this one-day workshop, you will learn to create a vast variety of textures from fur, feathers, water, wind…to add to your mark making.

Linocut experience necessary

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This class is specifically designed for people who want to create more elaborate and/or complicated screen prints. This is an opportunity to level up your skills, work on a larger scale and expand your ink mixing abilities. Come to class with some project ideas. While this class is designed for experienced printers, dedicated beginners are welcome.

*You can print on fabric, but we do not have a commercial multicolor garment press.

Students Fridays available

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Explore the timeless art of woodcut printmaking in this one-day introductory workshop led by artist Charles Spitzack. This workshop will guide you through the entire process of creating woodcut prints, from the initial stages of designing an image to the final steps of inking and producing your own unique art. You'll learn how to translate your designs onto wood, safely use the woodcutting tools, and how to successfully print by hand.

This class uses Japanese washi printmaking paper and Cranfield Safe Wash Relief Ink. This ink allows for easy clean-up and eliminates the need for ventilation in your home studio or chemicals often used in oil-based printmaking. You’ll use brayers to apply the ink evenly across the surface of your carved block, and a Japanese Baren to print by hand onto paper. You also will have access to printing on an etching press.

By the end of the course, you will have developed an introductory understanding of woodcut printmaking, enabling you to continue creating prints from the comfort of your own home without the need for a press. All levels welcome!

No Experience Necessary

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In this workshop you will make two types of collograph plates. Collographs have a raised surface which when wiped with ink (similar to etching) can provide a graphic quality. You can also add viscosity relief rolling and selective inking to create complex looking prints. The emphasis will be on learning print techniques for the beginner and experimentation and composition for the more experienced printmaker.

No experience necessary

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This workshop introduces you to woodcut and relief printmaking. Learn to employ safe relief cutting techniques, use printmaking inks, and generate original prints pulled by hand. We will be centering imagery of butterflies, moths, and insects, all while carving into the natural fibers of the wood material (linocut is ok, too) and transferring the image on to printmaking paper. No need to be ‘good at drawing’ to take this course. 

No experience necessary. 

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In this introductory class, you will learn the basics of bookbinding structures and stitches. You will become familiar with binding tools and techniques; as well materials and best practices for completing a book from start to finish. We will cover a variety of folded and sewn structures, including accordion folds, pamphlet stitch, decorative long stitch, and a flat back case-bound book.

No experience necessary

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In this one-day workshop, you will be introduced to two beginner-friendly printmaking techniques: Screen Print Monotype and Watercolor Monotype. Learn how to use non-toxic materials, screens, and matrices to create unique, one-of-a-kind prints. The workshop will focus on hand-drawn imagery using water-soluble materials—such as watercolors, watercolor pencils, and wax pastels—applied to specialized surfaces and screens. These colorful prints can be layered to create rich, dynamic compositions.

No experience necessary

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In this workshop you will learn several techniques for multiple color linocuts with just a single pass through the press.   Techniques taught include: Rainbow Roll, Chine Colle and Jigsaw method. 

You are welcome to bring any previously carved linoleum blocks. 

Prerequisite: Must have previous Linocut experience (within last few years)

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Join artist Charles Spitzack for a two-day intensive workshop exploring the art of Mokuhanga, Japanese woodblock. This technique, which blossomed during Japan’s Edo period (1600-1868), uses water-based pigments to create vibrant prints on washi paper. Unlike many Western printmaking methods, Mokuhanga is done entirely by hand. Over the course of two days, you’ll learn everything you need to begin your own Mokuhanga journey!

This workshop will guide you through each step of the process, starting with image composition and transferring your drawing onto the woodblock. The instructor will demonstrate essential carving techniques and show you how to efficiently transfer your design onto additional blocks, allowing for multi-colored prints. You will also learn about proper tool maintenance, including sharpening carving tools to keep them in excellent condition. The class will cover paper selection and preparation, ensuring the best results when you start the printing phase. Using traditional hand-printing tools, you’ll have the opportunity to create your own unique prints without the need for a press.

By the end of the workshop, you will have gained a solid foundation in Mokuhanga and leave with your own set of completed prints. This hands-on course is perfect for both beginners and those looking to expand their printmaking skills into the world of traditional Japanese woodblock printing.

All levels welcome

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Join children's book illustrator Olivia Sua for a Plein-Air Floral Illustration Workshop! In this workshop, we'll take inspiration from vibrant floral bouquets arranged in class and explore techniques to collage whimsical, fresh floral illustrations.

No experience necessary

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Zines are small booklets often illustrated with imagery and poetry. Dating back to the 19th century, these charming folded-paper chapbooks were inspired by popular culture and were perfect for mixing visual art and written texts. In the 1970's the zine was coopted by the young punk movement as a way to disseminate information and comment on current events and including poetry and photocopy imagery. In this workshop we will create our own zines starting with prompts and exercises to produce fragments to blend with stamping, drawing, painting, and collage techniques. The zines will be sewn by machine, hand or stapled. This technique is a great way to communicate thoughts and feelings quickly and record your own history.

No Experience Necessary

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Build collages using a variety of techniques and materials including cut paper, vintage ephemera, photos, letters, tissue paper, photo transfers and drawings. We will also learn and discuss the rich history of the art of collage.

No Experience Necessary

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Unleash your creativity at our week-long art camp where art meets adventure! Dive into fun art techniques in Pratt's vibrant youth studio, then head outdoors to explore Pratt Park’s spray park, playground, and creative open-air projects. Campers will discover new art concepts, develop their artistic voices, and build confidence through engaging group activities—all while making lasting friendships. Just pack a lunch and wear clothes ready for creative play; we provide all the art supplies. Join us for a summer of learning, laughter, and unforgettable art camp adventures!

After camp care available after registration! Please inquire with Bailey Zahniser, BZahniser@pratt.org for more details

Tuition assistance available!

Unleash your creativity at our week-long art camp where art meets adventure! Dive into fun art techniques in Pratt's vibrant youth studio, then head outdoors to explore Pratt Park’s spray park, playground, and creative open-air projects. Campers will discover new art concepts, develop their artistic voices, and build confidence through engaging group activities—all while making lasting friendships. Just pack a lunch and wear clothes ready for creative play; we provide all the art supplies. Join us for a summer of learning, laughter, and unforgettable art camp adventures!

After camp care available after registration! Please inquire with Bailey Zahniser, BZahniser@pratt.org for more details

Tuition assistance available!

Unleash your creativity at our week-long art camp where art meets adventure! Dive into fun art techniques in Pratt's vibrant youth studio, then head outdoors to explore Pratt Park’s spray park, playground, and creative open-air projects. Campers will discover new art concepts, develop their artistic voices, and build confidence through engaging group activities—all while making lasting friendships. Just pack a lunch and wear clothes ready for creative play; we provide all the art supplies. Join us for a summer of learning, laughter, and unforgettable art camp adventures!

After camp care available after registration! Please inquire with Bailey Zahniser, BZahniser@pratt.org for more details

Tuition assistance available. Learn more here: Pratt Tuition Assistance

Unleash your creativity at our week-long art camp where art meets adventure! Dive into fun art techniques in Pratt's vibrant youth studio, then head outdoors to explore Pratt Park’s spray park, playground, and creative open-air projects. Campers will discover new art concepts, develop their artistic voices, and build confidence through engaging group activities—all while making lasting friendships. Just pack a lunch and wear clothes ready for creative play; we provide all the art supplies. Join us for a summer of learning, laughter, and unforgettable art camp adventures!

After camp care available after registration! Please inquire with Bailey Zahniser, BZahniser@pratt.org for more details

Tuition assistance available. Learn more here: Pratt Tuition Assistance

Unleash your creativity at our week-long art camp where art meets adventure! Dive into fun art techniques in Pratt's vibrant youth studio, then head outdoors to explore Pratt Park’s spray park, playground, and creative open-air projects. Campers will discover new art concepts, develop their artistic voices, and build confidence through engaging group activities—all while making lasting friendships. Just pack a lunch and wear clothes ready for creative play; we provide all the art supplies. Join us for a summer of learning, laughter, and unforgettable art camp adventures!

After camp care available after registration! Please inquire with Bailey Zahniser, BZahniser@pratt.org for more details

Tuition assistance available. Learn more here: Pratt Tuition Assistance

Unleash your creativity at our week-long art camp where art meets adventure! Dive into fun art techniques in Pratt's vibrant youth studio, then head outdoors to explore Pratt Park’s spray park, playground, and creative open-air projects. Campers will discover new art concepts, develop their artistic voices, and build confidence through engaging group activities—all while making lasting friendships. Just pack a lunch and wear clothes ready for creative play; we provide all the art supplies. Join us for a summer of learning, laughter, and unforgettable art camp adventures!

After camp care available after registration! Please inquire with Bailey Zahniser, BZahniser@pratt.org for more details

Tuition assistance available. Learn more here: Pratt Tuition Assistance

Unleash your creativity at our week-long art camp where art meets adventure! Dive into fun art techniques in Pratt's vibrant youth studio, then head outdoors to explore Pratt Park’s spray park, playground, and creative open-air projects. Campers will discover new art concepts, develop their artistic voices, and build confidence through engaging group activities—all while making lasting friendships. Just pack a lunch and wear clothes ready for creative play; we provide all the art supplies. Join us for a summer of learning, laughter, and unforgettable art camp adventures!

After camp care available after registration! Please inquire with Bailey Zahniser, BZahniser@pratt.org for more details

Tuition assistance available. Learn more here: Pratt Tuition Assistance

Unleash your creativity at our week-long art camp where art meets adventure! Dive into fun art techniques in Pratt's vibrant youth studio, then head outdoors to explore Pratt Park’s spray park, playground, and creative open-air projects. Campers will discover new art concepts, develop their artistic voices, and build confidence through engaging group activities—all while making lasting friendships. Just pack a lunch and wear clothes ready for creative play; we provide all the art supplies. Join us for a summer of learning, laughter, and unforgettable art camp adventures!

After camp care available after registration! Please inquire with Bailey Zahniser, BZahniser@pratt.org for more details

Tuition assistance available. Learn more here: Pratt Tuition Assistance

Unleash your creativity at our week-long art camp where art meets adventure! Dive into fun art techniques in Pratt's vibrant youth studio, then head outdoors to explore Pratt Park’s spray park, playground, and creative open-air projects. Campers will discover new art concepts, develop their artistic voices, and build confidence through engaging group activities—all while making lasting friendships. Just pack a lunch and wear clothes ready for creative play; we provide all the art supplies. Join us for a summer of learning, laughter, and unforgettable art camp adventures!

After camp care available after registration! Please inquire with Bailey Zahniser, BZahniser@pratt.org for more details

Tuition assistance available. Learn more here: Pratt Tuition Assistance

Manipulate hot glass and fire to create marbles, flowers, bugs, burgers and other small objects in this summer class. Discover how to melt rods of glass in a propane-oxygen flame, wrap the molten glass onto a metal mandrel (rod), and use heat and gravity to shape a bead. Safety, creativity and fun are emphasized! All materials included.

Tuition assistance available. Learn more here: Pratt Tuition Assistance

In this summer class, artists will develop and refine their skills in character design, environment and world building, and essential practices for developing sequential art. Through creative practices and prompts artists will learn how to create a unique visual experience by adapting the setting and design to their personal style.

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Textile Upcycle Enthusiasts! Get ready to love, care, repair and re-wear the abundant textiles in your life in this summer class. With just a few simple stitches, textiles paints, and reclaimed fabrics you can transform the clothes you rarely wear into your go-to garments of choice. So, get ready to learn new skills, save money and take actionable steps towards reducing the textile waste in your life! No prior sewing skills necessary.

*Participants are encouraged, but not required, to bring up to three unworn, worn out or damaged garments for upcycle inspiration.

Fiber art techniques we’ll learn in this class:

· Hand sewing basics

· Basic pattern making skills

· Visible mending techniques: Sashiko & Boro

· Invisible mending skills

· How to sew on a button

· Correctly Identify fibers & fabrics

· Embroidery stitches

Tuition assistance available. Learn more here: Pratt Tuition Assistance

Teaching Artist Bio

Paige St-Pierre is a Seattle based Fiber Artist and Educator who refashions post-consumer textiles into one-of-a-kind pieces of art. Her work invites us to envision a post-growth circular model with creativity, textile repair and reuse at its core. Her surface design process embraces the unpredictability of natural dyes and a perfectly imperfect slow stitch practice.

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Aspiring Textile Artists! Join us in this hands-on fiber arts summer camp where you’ll imagine, draw, design and hand stitch your very own textile creatures from reclaimed fabrics, stuffing and trims. What type of creatures will you create? Art dolls, monsters, abstract shapes…. You’re only limited by your imagination! No prior sewing skills necessary.

Fiber art techniques we’ll learn in this class:

· Basic hand stitching skills

· Basic pattern making skills

· Applique & reverse applique

· Tips for attaching ribbons, sequins, buttons, yarns

· Fiber & fabric properties & identification

· Embroidery

· Fabric painting with textile paints

Tuition assistance available. Learn more here: Pratt Tuition Assistance

Teaching Artist Bio

Paige St-Pierre is a Seattle based Fiber Artist and Educator who refashions post-consumer textiles into one-of-a-kind pieces of art. Her work invites us to envision a post-growth circular model with creativity, textile repair and reuse at its core. Her surface design process embraces the unpredictability of natural dyes and a perfectly imperfect slow stitch practice.

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Ready to dive into the dazzling world of jewelry making? This introductory summer class is the perfect starting point for aspiring jewelers and craft enthusiasts alike. We'll cover the essential fundamentals and guide you through the exciting process of creating your own unique pieces. This class focuses on the core skills of soldering, finishing, and polishing.

Experience painting from a portrait model in a supportive environment in this summer class! Discover the art and practice of portraiture as you learn to compose from observation, acquire strategies for organizing visual information and study historic precedent while you work to render convincing and compelling likenesses of the model. Instructor will cover the basics of oil painting, structural anatomy, color theory, and life drawing. Some drawing experience is recommended but not necessary. No painting experience required. All materials provided.

Tuition assistance available. Learn more here: Pratt Tuition Assistance

Teaching Artist Bio

Grace Athena Flott is a Seattle-based visual artist who primarily uses painting to respond to myths of normalcy at the intersection of health, gender, and beauty. She was recognized as a 2024 Neddy Award Finalist and received the public commission for Washington Gov. Jay Inslee’s official portrait. Flott is passionate about student-responsive and inclusive art education and has taught at Gage Academy of Art, Pratt Fine Art Center, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art and independently out of her studio.

https://www.graceathenaflott.com

In this summer class, using photo transfers in the process of creating Acrylic Paintings, we will discuss and cover the fundamentals such as brush strokes, paint application, color mixing, and exploring other various materials. You will learn how to build your compositions by applying layers of paint and photo transfers. We will also present Pop Art and Contemporary artists who have used photo transfers in their practice.

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Teaching Artist Bio

Seattle-based artist Casey Ailes creates works based on the environmental concerns that live at the top of her consciousness. Originally trained as a fine art photographer at John Herron School of Art in Indianapolis, she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts. Casey works as a multidisciplinary artist; her focus continues to bring awareness to human activity's environmental impact on animals, especially penguins. Completing her M.F.A in November 2024, Casey began combining both painting and photographing in her practice, creating image transfers into her abstract paintings. 

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Make a custom box! In this summer class, we will go from a plank of wood to a box with a sliding lid. You can customize your design for a specific object or purpose or make a box that’s so useful almost anything could go in there! Boxes will be limited to under one foot in any direction. All Supplies provided.

Tuition assistance available. Learn more here: Pratt Tuition Assistance

Hang your favorite hoodie on a yak! Or a fish? In this summer class you will make a coat rack in the shape of an animal. We’ll use a combination of hand tools and power tools to execute structural and decorative elements. This class will instruct on mortise and tenon joinery. All Supplies provided.

Tuition assistance available. Learn more here: Pratt Tuition Assistance

Explore and experiment with basic methods for building and printing collagraph plates in this summer class. Learn how to use a variety of materials, including acrylic mediums, tapes, and vinyls, to create interesting textures and forms. Print multiple editions or vary editions to make unique works.

Tuition assistance available. Learn more here: Pratt Tuition Assistance