Adult Workshop Series

Moscow Contemporary offers several workshops for teens and adults throughout the year including encaustic painting, gold gilding, hand building with clay, geometry drafting and more.

If you are interested in teaching a workshop, or would like to learn more about this series, please email artsed@moscowcontemporary.org

Please note when registering that registration is not complete until you have paid for the class via our payment page or at the front desk.

All workshop classes are held upstairs in our workshop space. Unfortunately, this upstairs space does not have elevator access.

Cancellation Policy: All classes including Adult/Teen Workshops, ASAP, MSAP, and any other paid classes will not be refunded unless in an emergency situation. We regret that we cannot guarantee schedule change accommodations.

Up & coming workshops…

  • Intro to Oil Painting: Six Sessions

    Monday Evening from 6:00-9:00pm

    March 4th-April 8th, 6 Classes Total

    Plus 3 hrs of studio time Friday 6-9pm

    This studio course is designed for a wide range of skill levels interested in developing their oil painting practice. Painting will be explored as a means of expressing our contemporary world via realism, metaphor and abstraction. We will examine contemporary issues in painting through an investigation of techniques of old masters, new methods and how they interact with each other. Painting offers the chance to investigate concepts through application; mark making and the surface of quality of paint with an emphasis on developing ideas and refining techniques.

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PAST WORKSHOPS…

  • Watercolor Class with Bobbi Kelly

    Watercolor Class with Bobbi Kelly

    Sept. 9th

    2:00-5:00 pm

    This is an introduction to Watercolor painting with Teaching Artist Bobbi Kelly.

  • Dream-State: Creating through the body

    July 15th

    3:00-6:00pm

    This multi-sensory movement workshop invites creative people of all kinds to amplify and reconnect with how your physical sensations shape your generative life.

    Co-taught by locally-based and internationally practicing dance-artists Corrie Befort (choreographer, filmmaker, designer) and Hannah Rae (holistic personal trainer).

  • Making pigments from Semiprecious Stones and Animal Bone

    May 27th

    3:00-6:00pm

    This class will teach you the basics of preparing pigments ground from semi-precious stones and bones. Students will be asked to bring 7 small mason or glass jars so everyone can take home a bit of stone pigment that are made in the class.

    *Semi-precious stones are donated in part by Gem State Crystals in Moscow, Idaho.

  • Handmade Watercolors from Pre-ground Pigments

    June 10th

    3:00-6:00pm

    Turn pre-ground pigments into watercolors using a muller and slab and binder medium that you will make in class from honey and gum arabic. You will make 6 colors to take home with you and will get a chance to make a small floral painting in a Middle Eastern style.

Adult Workshops are supported by Idaho Commission on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the city of Moscow ARPA funds.