Grow & Learn with Art Classes at UpMarket

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Discover your artistic potential at UpMarket Gallery with our 2025 art classes, designed to inspire creativity and expand your skills. Led by renowned artists, these workshops offer an opportunity for beginners and experienced creators alike to explore innovative techniques and refine their visual language in a supportive, collaborative environment. From gel plate printmaking and abstraction by design to mixed media explorations and personal visual language development, our diverse lineup has something for everyone. Join us as we transform ideas into art and foster a community of creativity.

Upcoming Classes

July 29-31, 2025: Silk and Paper Mixed Media Workshop with Lisa Pressman

This four day workshop is based on prompts and exercises to get to the core of personal meaning. The focus is on exploration, intuition, and pushing out of your comfort zone. We will be experimenting with a variety of media. Directives include formal elements such as line, shape, space, color, and conceptual ideas with fast-paced timing based on discovery rather than finished products. The first three days will be focused on the making. The fourth day will involve the artists curating and installing their work in the studio. That is when the group gets to discover interests, patterns and ideas that have emerged in the process. During class time, participants will receive directions, demonstrations, and cues to populate many works and to let go of the “precious” mentality. The goal is for each participant to work on multiple pieces. refine and embellish their pieces. This workshop allows artists to immerse themselves in the process to experiment with different techniques like layering, excavating, collaging and more.
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August 15-17, 2025: Silk and Paper Mixed Media Workshop with Peg Gignoux

Explore ways to blend color, line and gesture with cloth and paper. We will begin by making a suite of mono printed papers through touch drawing on tissue. We will continue our explorations with translucency by dyeing lengths of silk organza. We will dip lengths of watercolor paper into the dye waste to transform whites into new soft tones of color. Using the visual tools of collage, we will play with silk and papers tolayer, slice and build new surfaces. Workshop will include demos regarding fusing, gluing and stitching materials. Design prompts to include repetition of simple geometric forms to yield a rhythmic mixed media paperscape.
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