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Hold your own specialised series of classes, workshops, board/community meeting/movies, craft show, art exhibitions etc.
Our 650+sq ft Community Room and our 4 smaller work studios/mini galleries can facilitate your successful events.
We can host up to 30 people seated at tables for crafts, 50 in rows for presentations/movies,
15-20 standing with easels & more in break-out rooms simultaneously, for dynamic class/event ideas.
Located a few doors from Danforth & Woodbine subway, very convenient for all your creative teaching and more!
Contact us for information on our hourly and longer class rates, event rates, full day rates and more.
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Our Regular Classes & Specially Booked Workshops
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Weekly Life Drawing or Painting Sunday Sessions
September to June
Sketch or Paint (no solvents please)
1 &2 min warm-ups followed by 30min and longer poses, depending on the artists' choices
Sunday mornings
$65/calendar month or $18 drop in
Tables, easels, chairs provided.
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Dias de los Muertos: A Community Altar
Saturdays in September information sessions 11am
Saturdays in October: Free Workshops 11am-1pm
Come and see if your family would like to participate in our Community Window Installation to honour our passed family members & loved ones.
Finished by October 30th, this will be an annual special event. Our front window will be covered for the week before unveiling.
Come in to see what is involved. Take a free workshop during October. Learn how to commemorate in this special way.
Take part in your community this fall at Artisans At Work.
Mexican volunteers welcome, please enquire.
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Date n' Paint!
Want something really fun to do with your hot date?
Want to be unique, or just create together?
Any Saturday night, come here! Reservations required to: artisans(at)work@yahoo.com
We will order your dinner from nearby Signature Kitchen Sushi, or The Thai Room, or wherever you like...Bring a picnic dinner!
We will set you & said hot date up with an easel each, paints & brushes!
$35/person (dinner not included)
Up to 6 folks (3 couples)
6-9:30pm Saturdays
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Outdoor Floral & Plant Sketching Class with Laurel Angeloff
Sept or Oct class TBA
Please email us at artisansatwork@yahoo.com
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Encaustic Wax Art Workshops
Using natural beeswax and pigments, with Graham Curry. She's the best!!
TBA: please enquire
Learn sgraffito, image transfers, painting & collage!
Pick one or all days.
$75 + $15 materials fee/ day
10% off if you take all four.
Please email artisansatwork@yahoo.com for more info.
Deposit is required to reserve your space.
Minimum of 5 students required to go ahead, so please reserve your spot to avoid dissappointment!
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Wood Burning Art Classes
Learn the art of burning designs and scenes into a wood surface. Panels, boxes & other wood objects.
Ongoing. Sundays: 11am-1pm.
Each class: $35 or 3 classes for $90. All materials & tools supplied. Ages 14 and up. Small classes of up to 4.
No drop in. Please book your time.
email to reserve a spot: artisansatwork@yahoo.com
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Oil Painting with Julie Glick
For Youth:
4pm-6pm
$175 for 8 sessions
Materials not provided
Easels, tables, chairs & snack provided.
Minimum of 5 students is required for these classes to operate, so reserve your spot w/ deposit to avoid dissappointment!
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Wax Carving for Lost Wax Casting: Miniature Sculpures & Jewellery with Tara Shelton
Any time (scheduled between 2pm-9:30pm) any Wednesday
$20/hr including nearly all materials(casting charges,metal costs, gemstones not included)
This class is limited to 2 students at any one time. Bring a dream project, and we will work towards that goal, and the techniques needed to get there.
Alternatively, you can start from scratch and learn all the carving skills you will ever need to accomplish many types of projects of your own in the future.
This class is suitable for beginner and intermediate levels, wanting to produce their own sculpture or jewellery, whether it is sculptural or complicated with structural elements. Casting can be in any metal: silver, gold, brass, (at extra cost to students).
A variety of skills will be taught, from design, rendering, using & care of the tools, measuring, filing to completion of your project.
Students will need to apply in person to Tara. Please make an appointment: artisansatwork@yahoo.com, or drop in on Sundays to find out more details!
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