Art Classes

I really enjoy teaching art to both adults and kids and helping people discover their art! Because my classes are focused on process – exploring tools, media and techniques you can play with and carry forward into future art projects – both beginners and experienced artists will find something to enjoy. Want to make art with me? Here’s where I’ll be teaching in 2025 (and please reach out to me if you’re interested in hosting an arty class, team-building event or party!):

January 8: Mark-Making & Meditation | 6-7:30pm at Piedmont Avenue Library
Learn how to create patterns, lines, textures and shapes – and how you can use it in your art and crafts as well as how it can help you relax and loosen up your creativity. We’ll experiment with various tools and found objects and different media, including pens and paint. Audience: Adults | Details

January 21: Draw a Bird! | 6-7:30pm at Montclair Library
At our first class of 2025 we’ll be learning to draw birds! Whether you’ve been inspired to draw birds after reading Amy Tan’s The Backyard Bird Chronicles or you just want to draw cute “birbs,” come learn how to look at birds, recognize their unique features and break them down into simple shapes to draw realistic or stylized birds. For extra fun, you can take note of the first bird you see this year (a tradition many birders follow) and draw it to preserve the memory. Audience: Adults | Details

February 12: Plant Drawing Party! | 6-7:30pm at Piedmont Avenue Library
Take a break from winter by making some fresh botanical art! We’ll learn how plants are constructed so we can break them down into simple shapes using ink. Learn how to sketch from life or your imagination, practice some contour drawing and have fun! Audience: Adults | Details

February 18: Art from the Heart | 6-7:30pm at Montclair Library
Paint and print fantastic colorful custom tissue papers in the style of Eric Carle and turn them into collage art. Audience: Adults

March 12: Papercut & Collage an Inspirational Message | 6-7:30pm at Piedmont Avenue Library
Inspired by the work of Lynn Giunta, we’ll spend some time thinking of positive messages that are meaningful to us and then decorating papers and creating a fun papercut collage to share your reminder with yourself or others. Audience: Adults | Details

March 18: Blotted Line Ink Drawing: Draw Like Andy Warhol | 6-7:30pm at Montclair Library
If you can trace a picture, you can make cool retro art reminiscent of Andy Warhol’s drawings! We’ll use nib pens and tracing paper to transfer an image to watercolor paper. Warhol used this easy technique to create advertising art early in his career. Audience: Adults

April 15: Flower Power: Easy Tricks to Draw Beautiful Flowers | 6-7:30pm at Montclair Library
April showers bring colorful flowers! Whether you want to draw realistic flowers or draw from your imagination, we’ll practice looking at flowers, learning their parts and breaking them down into simple shapes for easier drawing and painting. Create a reference page, a plant portrait or an entire bouquet! Audience: Adults

May 20: Collaborative Paintings: Making Art Together | 6-7:30pm at Montclair Library
In this fun community-building exercise, each participant gets one color and we all work together to create a series of paintings, as you add your color to the painting in front of you and then move on to the next one. Everyone will get to take home an artwork or two made by the entire group. Audience: Adults

June 17: Play with Watercolor | 6-7:30pm at Montclair Library
Learn watercolor basics and then how to create some fun special effects in your art using various tools and household objects like salt, string and rice. Audience: Adults

July 15: Make a Seed Packet Illustration | 6-7:30pm at Montclair Library
Celebrate summer and Montclair’s seed lending library by designing your own seed packet-inspired art. Paint, collage or stamp flowers or plants and add lettering with handwriting, stamps or collage. We’ll look at the components of seed packets and learn some plant-drawing tricks (and a few ways to create art without drawing, like collage or stamping). Will you feature your favorite flower, a poisonous plant or a magical herb from your favorite story or your imagination? Audience: Adults

August 19: Paint Your Pet | 6-7:30pm at Montclair Library
With a simple tracing technique (no drawing experience required!) and pop art inspired colors, create a one-of-a-kind portrait of your pet (or the pet you wish you had) and capture their unique personality. Bring in a clear, close-up photo of your pet or another animal you want to draw, or use one we provide. Audience: Adults

September 16: Embellishing Photos with Embroidery | 6-7:30pm at Montclair Library
Learn how to enhance photos with fun hand-stitched details using embroidery floss and simple stitches! Bring your own photo (that you don’t mind poking holes in) or use one of ours. Audience: Adults

October 21: Little Collage Houses | 6-7:30pm at Montclair Library
We’ll cut out simple shapes from made and found papers and photos and collage them together to create little houses, greenhouses or other structures (maybe even a library?) – or a whole village of them! Audience: Adults

November 18: Found Object Printing | 6-7:30pm at Montclair Library
Turn trash into treasure by using string, cardboard, buttons, bottle caps, rubber bands, bubble wrap, kitchen tools and other found objects, plus a little imagination, to print beautiful patterns. You’ll never look at your recycling bin the same way again! Audience: Adults

December 16: Design Your Own Mini Art Calendar for 2026 | 6-7:30pm at Montclair Library
Use our template and some of the art techniques we’ve explored this year (like collage, printing and drawing) to make an illustrated or abstract personalized 2026 calendar, and learn some ways to copy, share and display it throughout the year. Makes a great gift! Audience: Adults