Art is Life Meetup

Amy Castine will teach you the the peyote bezel shown in Liz Kettle's book, First Time Beading on Fabric, plus two additional Bezeling techniques! A$25 kit fee is included in your registration fee and includes all beading supplies needed. Amy’s previous Beginning Beading class is not a prerequisite for this class, but a beginning knowledge of beading is helpful so you can immediately begin working. If you have previously taken Amy’s class, this new class is an ideal opportunity to bring your in-progress beaded book and add a bezeled cabochon to the cover. If there is a certain type of cabochon you want to bezel in the future, bring it along and Amy can help you plan the best method to do so. Visit the Artistic Artifacts website to learn more and register: https://artisticartifacts.com/products/beaded-bezels-with-amy-castine

Note: due to the size or other requirements of the class or concurrent scheduling, some classes are in our second-floor space: access is via stairs only. Registrations for all Artistic Artifacts classes MUST be paid for through our website at https://artisticartifacts.com/collections/wk, or via a visit to our shop at 4750 Eisenhower Avenue. We encourage you to RSVP here, but to ensure your seat you MUST follow through via our website. View our complete class policies: https://artisticartifacts.com/pages/class-policies

Learn more from mixed media artist Seth Apter about his latest fabric collection from FreeSpirit Fabrics, One Layer Away, and you’ll see it used in gorgeous quilts and artworks during this lecture event. "My mantra has been that an artist is always only One Layer Away from magic. The 18 designs in this collection were created to offer you the tools to find your very own magic,” shares Seth. Purchase your $35 ticket from Artistic Artifacts, which includes: special shopping hours after 5:00 pm, with appetizers and drinks, and extra discounts and attendance his 7:00 pm lecture sharing details on the process of translating his artwork into beautiful fabric, shows his original artwork and more! Learn more and reserve your seat: https://artisticartifacts.com/products/evening-with-seth-apter-one-layer-away

A percentage of the proceeds donated to Food for Others. We also ask those who can to please bring food donations to our shop for donating — Food for Others maintains a list of most-needed items.

Join Seth Apter for a one-day workshop, creating mixed media collages that focus on abstract but meaningful shapes, symbols, and marks. Instead of representational objects or words to express meaning, we will instead use marks and symbols. Beginning by creating backgrounds with the Gel Plate using paint and ink, guided creative exercises to build your vocabulary in mark making and to understand the meaning behind your go-to symbols will take place. From there we move on to adding our marks to the artwork, using many of the core processes of mixed media: stamping, stenciling, mark making, and collaging. The discoveries you experience enhance the artwork created in your own practice, perhaps even providing a new form of language that you can use for creative expression. Visit the Artistic Artifacts website to learn more and register: https://artisticartifacts.com/products/make-your-mark-with-seth-apter

Note: Due to the size or other requirements of the class or concurrent scheduling, some classes — like this one — are in our second-floor space: access is via stairs only. Registrations for all Artistic Artifacts classes MUST be paid for through our website at https://artisticartifacts.com/collections/wk, or via a visit to our shop at 4750 Eisenhower Avenue. We encourage you to RSVP here, but to ensure your seat you MUST follow through via our website. View our complete class policies: https://artisticartifacts.com/pages/class-policies

Join Patti Euler and Dee Gray for three inspiring days at Artistic Artifacts in Alexandria, Virginia, where we'll transform layers of wood, paint, paper clay, and mixed-media techniques into one-of-a-kind works of art. Many materials (and your daily lunch) provided: each participant will receive a custom designed, beautifully crafted 12-inch Baltic Birch wood sun, featuring five dimensional layers that become the foundation for a one-of-a-kind mixed-media assemblage. Visit our website to learn more and to register: https://artisticartifacts.com/products/october-16-18-hello-sunshine-with-patti-euler-dee-gray