Courses

This fall, let’s celebrate the power of our sun with baking! Through stories, songs, and hands on baking practice, students will learn all about what it means to be a baker…and even make their own Sun Bread (as featured in the book by Elisa Kleven) and butter. By the end…

Join fiber artist and botanist Sarah Nassif to explore the magic of organic indigo to dye a variety of fibers shades of blue. Using water from Lake Superior in the process, we will learn how water plays a role in fabric production traditionally and nowadays, and how this affects the…

Creating family traditions is all about getting together to do something fun: and when you can eat the results, it's even better. Spend a day in the kitchen creating fall treats from scratch, learning baking techniques and new recipes. You'll make pumpkin bread from real pumpkins, dipping caramel and a…

Join performer and song writer Claudia Schmidt  in an exploration of the craft and art of songwriting. Discover how to weave a thread an idea into the full tapestry of song. This course welcomes anyone with a song to sing and a story to tell, regardless of level, age or…

Storyteller Kevin Kling is back with a new workshop exploring our oldest folk art! Tall tales, myths, folktales and poems came over the ocean with waves of immigrants to a land where a powerful storytelling culture already existed. How did our family narratives bring comfort, community and resiliency?  How did…

Ever wanted to appear on stage at Unplugged? This is your chance! Performers Dan Chouinard and Bradley Greenwald invite anyone who loves to sing to join their pop up choir. In this short workshop, you’ll learn a four part arrangement of a popular song and perform it on stage on…

Become an architect for insects! Come learn about pollinators and their importance to ecosystems. Using this new knowledge, students will use design and woodworking skills to build a beautiful house for mason bees to take home and put up in the yard. Mason bees are one of nature’s most gentle…

Printmaking is a very old and very fun way of producing multiple copies of an image. Kids will design a pattern, maybe an animal or landscape, or even a fantastic creature! Then using simple tools they’ll carve that picture into a piece of linoleum. Then, roll that block with different…

Start strumming! Build your own sustainable stringed instrument by repurposing what you already have (ahem, some might call it junk) into a tool for joyful noise-making. By constructing simple instruments out of commonly found objects, we will explore recycling, lutherie, and community by working together and playing together. There will…