Somerset Challenge
2025-12-20 11:30 - 13:00 (America/Chicago)
We’ll take one of the projects included in a Somerset Studio magazine and do it from start to finish – together! A week before each class I’ll send out 3 choices in my weekly letter. You get to vote on which project we do, and I’ll have all of the materials ready for us in the next scheduled class. If you are not already on the email list, click here to join.

December Open Art Journaling
2025-12-20 13:30 - 15:30
The newly EXPANDED Monthly Saturday Open Art Journaling happens one Saturday every month for two hours! If you have a journal you’re working in, bring it with you…I also have starter kits and single art journals here if you want to pick one up.
There is no instruction, just time to work on our journals! If you have some supplies you’d like to bring for a swap, that would be wonderful but not required.
Did you know, you can purchase a pack of 10 Open Art Journaling sessions for $120? That’s like getting 2 free! You can use them anytime, and I’ll keep track with a punch card in the studio.

Wednesday Open Art Journaling
2025-12-24 11:00 - 12:30, 2025-12-31 11:00 - 12:30, 2026-01-07 11:00 - 12:30, 2026-01-14 11:00 - 12:30, 2026-01-21 11:00 - 12:30, 2026-01-28 11:00 - 12:30, 2026-02-04 11:00 - 12:30, 2026-02-11 11:00 - 12:30 and 3 more dates
If you have a journal you’re working in, bring it with you…I also have starter kits here if you want to pick one up.
There is no instruction, just time to work on our journals! If you have some supplies you’d like to bring for a swap, that would be wonderful but not required.

A Simple Abundance Art Journal
2025-12-27 13:30 - 15:30
A classic since 1990s, this book is made up of daily essays that will resonate with a busy woman who is dealing with home, family, work…
This is a two-hour class that will introduce the book to you (if you have not already read it) and how you can use an Art Journal to enhance your reading. More than that, this book and art journal together are a wonderfully positive activity that can lead to a daily practice of creativity. And we know that creativity is so good for us!
The book begins on January 1st, with this title, “A Transformative Year of Delight and Discovery” and here is an excerpt” ” New Year’s Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. Answers to be discovered and then lived in this transformative year of delight and self-discovery.”
The art journal is where you can respond to the reading using collage and incorporating writing. It’s very rewarding!
You can purchase a ticket that includes the book, or if you already have one you can bring that, and purchase the ticket without the book.
What you get:

Hardback edition of Simple Abundance*
Premium art journal
Art Journal Primer
Creativity Bundle
Code to attend one free Open Art Journaling Session in 2026

* If you buy the ticket without the book, you’ll receive everything else listed

Creative Embroidery 101
2026-01-13 11:00 - 13:00
This is a two-part class, Tuesday, January 13 & 20 from 11am-1pm. You’ll learn all about the materials, how to do several stitches, and how to start a project.

This is the perfect class for you if you’ve been wanting to get started in embroidery. Guest teacher, Dezzy Moon, will teach you the very basics and get your started with several stitches, working with the tools, and then how to plan a project. This is fun and no stress! Bring a friend or make new ones in the studio! All materials are supplied.
About Dezzy Moon:
Dezzy Moon is an artist based in Huntsville, Alabama. She graduated with a BFA in Printmaking from the University of Alabama in Huntsville in 2020. In printmaking, she works primarily with screen print and woodblock. She is also dabbles in many crafts, especially textiles. Her biggest loves are music (particularly rock from the 1960s-80s), pop culture, travel, roller skating, and all things vintage.

Vision Board Mixed Media
2026-01-16 11:00 - 13:00
What’s your word for the New Year? We’ll make a creative mixed media board celebrating your word of the year.

The shiny new year awaits! Let’s set the tone for it by making an Accordion Vision Board. We’ll pick one main word or phrase that inspires and encourages each of us, and gather colors, images and quotes that reflect our own mission and goals. These can be personal or business goals, it’s totally up to you. We’ll collage them onto canvas board. You are welcome to bring whatever you want to include in addition to the studio supplies.

Creative Embroidery One and Done
2026-01-17 11:00 - 13:00
This is a two hour class, teaching you some simple yet powerful stitches!

Several people were interested in this class but could not make the first session, so we are going to offer the first session as a one-and-done class on Saturday, Jan 17. You will learn how to create simple stitches in this class. If you are interested in the 2nd session which is Tuesday, Jan 20 11-1, you can buy a ticket for both session, but you don’t have to. All materials are supplied.

About Dezzy Moon:
Dezzy Moon is an artist based in Huntsville, Alabama. She graduated with a BFA in Printmaking from the University of Alabama in Huntsville in 2020. In printmaking, she works primarily with screen print and woodblock. She is also dabbles in many crafts, especially textiles. Her biggest loves are music (particularly rock from the 1960s-80s), pop culture, travel, roller skating, and all things vintage.

January Open Art Journaling
2026-01-17 13:30 - 15:30
The newly EXPANDED Monthly Saturday Open Art Journaling happens one Saturday every month for two hours! If you have a journal you’re working in, bring it with you…I also have starter kits and single art journals here if you want to pick one up.
There is no instruction, just time to work on our journals!

Color Mixing
2026-01-21 13:00 - 14:30
This is a 1.5 hour class on mixing colors in paints, where we look at how colors work together, and why saturation, temperature, and transparency are so important. We’ll work with acrylics but you can apply what you learn to oils and watercolor as well. If you’ve ever tried to mix a color and ended with something you didn’t intend, this is for you. Imagine all the paint when you don’t have to guess!

Word Candy: Poetry
2026-01-22 13:00 - 15:00
Making poems yours
2 sessions, January 22&29 @1-3pm
Learn how to make poems from poems. For each session, we’ll focus on two poems, taking each apart to see how they work. Then we’ll build a recipe for writing our own poems based on the ingredients we discover. This low-pressure intro to writing poetry allows you to discover by doing, learning about the elements of poetry from the inside-out. Have fun, build knowledge, and explore new forms of self-expression. Each session will have plenty of time to write and share during our time together.

LINE, STANZA, IMAGERY: We’ll examine the building blocks of poetry in our first lesson, line and stanza, along with imagery and the ways we use language and figures of speech to establish a mood Poems: William Carlos Williams, “This Is Just to Say”; Mary Oliver, “Sleeping in the Forest.” (1/22)
METAPHOR AND MUSIC: This lesson goes to the next level as we dip into the mood and magic of poetry: in particular, the layers of meaning we find in metaphor and the added dimension of rhythm and rhyme. Poems: Emily Dickinson, “Hope Is a Thing with Feathers”; Seamus Heaney, “Blackberry-Picking” (1/29)

SUSAN DAVIS has taught writing and literature to students of all ages for over three decades. A recent convert to art journaling, she is currently working on her first chapbook of poems.
You can find more about her work at susan-lucille-davis.weebly.com/ .

Stronger Composition in Art
2026-01-28 13:00 - 14:30
In this 1.5 hour class we’ll look at how to design paintings (or art journal pages) that have strong composition, as well as how to fix common issues. You are welcome to bring in a piece you have been struggling with, and get guidance, but you don’t have to bring anything.

Watercolor 101
2026-01-31 11:00 - 13:00, 2026-02-28 11:00 - 13:00
This is a two-hour introductory class for Watercolor. Get to know the characteristics of this type of paint, how to get started, and of course we’ll have plenty of painting time. No experience is needed, and all materials are supplied.

Creative Embroidery 201
2026-02-03 11:00 - 13:00
This is a his two-part class, Tuesday, February 3 & 10 from 11am-1pm. You’ll learn all about the materials, how to do several stitches, and how to start a project.

This is the perfect class for you if you’ve been wanting to get started in embroidery. Guest teacher, Dezzy Moon, will teach you the very basics and get your started with several stitches, working with the tools, and then how to plan a project. This is fun and no stress! Bring a friend or make new ones in the studio! All materials are supplied.
About Dezzy Moon:
Dezzy Moon is an artist based in Huntsville, Alabama. She graduated with a BFA in Printmaking from the University of Alabama in Huntsville in 2020. In printmaking, she works primarily with screen print and woodblock. She is also dabbles in many crafts, especially textiles. Her biggest loves are music (particularly rock from the 1960s-80s), pop culture, travel, roller skating, and all things vintage.

Art Journaling 101
2026-02-07 13:30 - 15:30
If you have been wanting to try Art Journaling, this is for you.
What is Art Journaling? It’s the same idea as a written journal or diary, but instead of writing everything, we use paint, pieces of colored paper, scraps from book pages, tissue paper…and the list goes on. You can write in your art journal…or not. It can have a theme…or not.
In this complete introduction to Art Journaling, you’ll learn some great techniques and have plenty of time to work in your journal. This is a 2-hour class.
Includes a mixed media, lay-flat journal, art supplies to use in the class and a “to-go” bag to fill with creative goodies you can take home. You don’t need any experience with art journaling! Be sure to stop and get a treat from Good Company Café just across the way from the new studio. This is going to be awesome!

Word Candy: Prose
2026-02-12 13:00 - 15:00
What is the story you need to tell?
2 sessions, Thursday, February 12 & 19 @1-3pm
Guest Instructor, Susan Davis will take us through two explorations into prose allow us to uncover the essential elements of voice and narrative. While we will be working in short prose forms, our topics will be wide-ranging, and may be addressed with fiction or non-fiction.

THE WHO AT THE CENTER OF THE STORY: Every story is embodied in a voice. Perhaps that voice is yours, or perhaps it is someone else’s, but it is always grounded in the personal passions and idiosyncrasies of a speaker or character. This session will use familiar forms that can be enhanced by paying attention to voice and perspective, spoken narrative and point of view, in particular the bio or introduction and the personal letter.(2/12)
THE SPIRIT MOVES THROUGH SPACE: Our stories, even the ones that are memories, are grounded in where we come from, where and how we inhabit space, and the ways we connect with others, particularly through dialogue. This session will use the mini travelogue and the 5-minute play to to get at the ideas of setting and plot and how to manipulate them. (2/19)

SUSAN DAVIS has taught writing and literature to students of all ages for over three decades. A recent convert to art journaling, she is currently working on her first chapbook of poems.
You can find more about her work at susan-lucille-davis.weebly.com/ .

Gel Plate Printing
2026-02-13 11:00 - 12:30
So fun and easy! This easy and highly addictive practice is not to be missed!

If you have never tried gel plate printing because it seemed a bit much, then this is for you! And if you just want to come in and make a ton of papers using the studio paints, stencils, stamps and paper, then this is also for you! It’s just a REALLY fun time!

Valentine Painting For Two
2026-02-14 14:00 - 16:00
Share a canvas with your sweetheart, or a friend or family member and create something together. Enjoy your time together as you paint with brushes, sponges and stencils. No painting experience is needed, and you are welcome to bring a favorite beverage. The ticket price is for two people.

February Open Art Journaling
2026-02-21 13:30 - 15:30
The newly EXPANDED Monthly Saturday Open Art Journaling happens one Saturday every month for two hours! If you have a journal you’re working in, bring it with you…I also have starter kits and single art journals here if you want to pick one up.
There is no instruction, just time to work on our journals! If you have some supplies you’d like to bring for a swap, that would be wonderful but not required.

Junk Journal Making
2026-03-07 13:00 - 16:00
This is where you can find a place for all those beautiful old papers and fabrics and bits of things you just can’t throw away. The older and more worn the scrap, the better your junk journal will look. We are going to put our pages together in some kind of tasteful chaotic order, and make it into a book! THEN we’ll have some time to start filling it.

I’ll provide everything you will need, but you are welcome to bring those papers and pages you’ve been keeping (we won’t use the word, “hoarding.”) If you don’t have anything to bring, don’t worry, the studio has PLENTY.

I’ve added an hour to the class, so we’ll use the first 2 hours to make the journals, then have another hour to add paint and start filling the pages. So bring a favorite beverage…this is a GREAT way to spend a Saturday afternoon!

Space is limited to 10.
