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  • Art is Therapy: Creativity for Well-Being
  • Fee: $140.00
    Dates: 5/1/2026 - 5/22/2026
    Times: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
    Days: F
    Sessions: 4
    Location: Grays Harbor College
    Building: 800 Building (opens in new tab)
    Room: 802
    Instructor: Rebecca Stephens

    Drawing in pen on paper of a woman's face with her eyes closed. Surrounding her face are abstract mandala-style lines and imagery of rain clouds, waves, leaves, birds, and more.Art is Therapy is a gentle, supportive space to explore creativity as a tool for reflection, stress relief, and personal growth. Each week, you’ll experiment with accessible, expressive practices such as journaling, vision boards, doodle art, and rock painting—using simple materials to reconnect with yourself and your inner voice.

    This course focuses on process over perfection. Through guided prompts and creative exercises, you’ll learn how artistic expression can support mindfulness, emotional awareness, and overall well-being.

    No artistic experience is required. Come as you are, create at your own pace, and leave with meaningful projects—and practices—you can continue using long after the class ends.

    Note: This class is for personal enrichment and is not a substitute for professional therapy.

    Registration fee includes all supplies and materials.

 

  • Art Journaling for Mental Wellness
  • Fee: $150.00
    Dates: 5/7/2026 - 6/11/2026
    Times: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
    Days: Th
    Sessions: 6
    Location: Ilwaco
    Building: Columbia Education Center (opens in new tab)
    Room: 103
    Instructor: Laura Halsey Brown

    Mixed media collage using paint, magazine clippings, can pull tabs, and marker on paper.Reconnect with your creativity and discover the restorative power of making art. In this six-week course, participants will create a personal art journal while exploring a variety of expressive techniques, including mixed media, collage, drawing, and painting. Guided prompts and hands-on experimentation will encourage participants to follow their curiosity, reflect, and develop their own creative process. Designed for both experienced artists and those who may not have made art in years, this class is grounded in the belief that creativity is something everyone is born with. Through regular journaling and creative exploration, participants will discover personal ways to use art as a reflective practice, deepen their relationship with themselves, and cultivate a sense of calm, presence, and renewal.

    Note: This class is for personal enrichment and is not a substitute for professional therapy.

    Supplies

    Supplies should be purchased in advance. The supplies list has links to Amazon, but it is not required that you purchase these items from that specific site. You'll be using the supplies beginning in the first class, so be sure to order early and have the items shipped directly to you.

    Supplies List

 

  • Art Walk: A Creative Exploration of Art Forms and Media
  • Fee: $200.00
    Dates: 4/28/2026 - 6/2/2026
    Times: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
    Days: Tu
    Sessions: 6
    Location: Ilwaco
    Building: Columbia Education Center (opens in new tab)
    Room: 103
    Instructor: Rebecca Stephens

    Scissors, colored pencils, markers, rulers, and paint brushes in canisters, ready to use.Art Walk invites you to explore a new artistic medium each week in this beginner-friendly, hands-on sampler class. Designed for curious creatives and first-time artists alike, this course offers an introduction to hand-building with clay, acrylic painting, watercolor, printmaking, and rock painting. Each session provides guided instruction, time to experiment, and the opportunity to complete a project in that medium. You’ll learn foundational techniques, explore different tools and materials, and discover which art forms spark your creativity. No prior experience is necessary—just bring your curiosity and a willingness to try something new! Walk in ready to explore and leave with new skills, finished pieces, and fresh inspiration.

    Registration fee includes all supplies and materials.

 

  • Art Walk: A Creative Exploration of Art Forms and Media
  • Fee: $200.00
    Dates: 4/29/2026 - 6/3/2026
    Times: 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
    Days: W
    Sessions: 6
    Location: Raymond
    Building: Riverview Education Center (opens in new tab)
    Room: 209
    Instructor: Rebecca Stephens

    Scissors, colored pencils, markers, rulers, and paint brushes in canisters, ready to use.Art Walk invites you to explore a new artistic medium each week in this beginner-friendly, hands-on sampler class. Designed for curious creatives and first-time artists alike, this course offers an introduction to hand-building with clay, acrylic painting, watercolor, printmaking, and rock painting. Each session provides guided instruction, time to experiment, and the opportunity to complete a project in that medium. You’ll learn foundational techniques, explore different tools and materials, and discover which art forms spark your creativity. No prior experience is necessary—just bring your curiosity and a willingness to try something new! Walk in ready to explore and leave with new skills, finished pieces, and fresh inspiration.

    Registration fee includes all supplies and materials.

 

  • Art Walk: A Creative Exploration of Art Forms and Media
  • Fee: $200.00
    Dates: 4/30/2026 - 6/4/2026
    Times: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
    Days: Th
    Sessions: 6
    Location: Grays Harbor College
    Building: 800 Building (opens in new tab)
    Room: 802
    Instructor: Rebecca Stephens

    Scissors, colored pencils, markers, rulers, and paint brushes in canisters, ready to use.Art Walk invites you to explore a new artistic medium each week in this beginner-friendly, hands-on sampler class. Designed for curious creatives and first-time artists alike, this course offers an introduction to hand-building with clay, acrylic painting, watercolor, printmaking, and rock painting. Each session provides guided instruction, time to experiment, and the opportunity to complete a project in that medium. You’ll learn foundational techniques, explore different tools and materials, and discover which art forms spark your creativity. No prior experience is necessary—just bring your curiosity and a willingness to try something new! Walk in ready to explore and leave with new skills, finished pieces, and fresh inspiration.

    Registration fee includes all supplies and materials.

 

  • Digital Shamanism: The IndraNet

  • Fee: $125.00
    Dates: 5/20/2026 - 6/10/2026
    Times: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
    Days: W
    Sessions: 4
    Location: Off-Campus in Grays Harbor County
    Building: Solid Coffee (opens in new tab)
    Room: N/A
    Instructor: Darick Chamberlin

    Collaged image of an old man with cogs and tubes coming from his head in sepia-tone, overlaid with an illustrated symbol in green and white.From tarot cards and chance operations to AI systems and generative text, The IndraNet: Chance, Systems, & Encoded Meaning investigates how artists use structure, randomness, and concealment to create meaning. This studio-based course introduces generative prompts, collaborative text experiments, symbolic object-making, and projects that explore containment, preservation, and transformation. Students will create both permanent and intentionally temporary works using digital and mixed-media approaches. Topics include visual language, memes and logos, embedded messages, and art as time capsule. Dive into deep study of selected works by W.S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Mark Boyle, the FLUXUS Group and others, as well as texts from Tolkien, Rene Girard, The Surrealists, and Jean Baudrillard. Designed for creative thinkers interested in experimentation, reflection, and understanding how meaning circulates in an increasingly automated world. This course can be taken after Accidental Alchemy, or on its own—no prior experience required.

    Course fee includes supplies and materials.

    Course image by Darick Chamberlin.

 

  • Hand-Built Pottery
  • Fee: $150.00
    Dates: 5/5/2026 - 5/26/2026
    Times: 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
    Days: Tu
    Sessions: 4
    Location: Off-Campus in Grays Harbor County
    Building: Grays Harbor Potters Guild (opens in new tab)
    Room: Studio
    Instructor: Michael Beck

    Close-up of hands using a kidney tool on a small coiled clay pot.Explore clay—coil, pinch, carve, glaze, and sgraffito—while developing technical skills and your artistic voice. In this four-week course, presented in collaboration with the Grays Harbor Potters Guild, students will use clay as a medium for artistic expression, focusing on hand-building techniques including coiling, carving, addition/subtraction, pinching and slab construction. The curriculum also covers glazing, underglazes and sgraffito in addition to lectures and demonstrations on the artistic, aesthetic and technical aspects of the sculptural form.

    Students are encouraged to develop their own ideas and artistic voice through the concepts of functional versus abstract in ceramic objects. While the curriculum includes open-ended/guided assignments focusing on techniques, students are encouraged to explore their own interpretation of each exercise. Finished pieces will be limited by the properties of the clay and glazes, the size of the kiln and students themselves.

    Classes are open to all levels. We welcome beginners while providing advanced challenges for the experienced ceramic artist. If you've taken this hand-built pottery course in the past, come back to level up your skills.

 

  • Intro to Photography II: Photographing with Intention
  • Fee: $100.00
    Dates: 4/21/2026 - 6/9/2026
    Times: 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
    Days: Tu
    Sessions: 8
    Location: Grays Harbor College
    Building: 800 Building (opens in new tab)
    Room: 802
    Instructor: Chris Majors

    Woman with Nikon camera held near her faceThis community education course is designed for students who already understand basic camera controls and want to deepen how they approach photography. Building on foundational skills, the class explores photographing with greater purpose through a variety of styles, including portrait, landscape, action, and close-up photography. Emphasis is placed on making thoughtful choices around light, composition, timing, and subject matter. Through hands-on assignments, group discussion, and supportive critique, students will gain confidence, explore what types of photography resonate with them, and develop a more intentional approach to making images.

    Please bring a camera with manual controls.

 

  • Introduction to Permaculture
  • Fee: $25.00
    Dates: 4/21/2026 - 4/21/2026
    Times: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
    Days: Tu
    Sessions: 1
    Location: Raymond
    Building: Riverview Education Center (opens in new tab)
    Room: 110
    Instructor: Brent Naylor
    A variety of plants growing harmoniously in a garden.Design your home or community garden to be in harmony with nature. This two-hour workshop offers a practical introduction to the principles and ethics of permaculture, an approach to land use and living that works with natural systems rather than against them. Rooted in whole-systems thinking, permaculture draws inspiration from the patterns and resilience found in healthy ecosystems to create sustainable landscapes, productive gardens, and thoughtful community design. Participants will explore core permaculture concepts such as observation of natural patterns, efficient use of resources, and designing spaces that support both people and the environment. You’ll learn how these principles and concepts can be applied at home to garden and live more sustainably.

 

  • Italic Calligraphy - Intermediate
  • Fee: $125.00
    Dates: 4/22/2026 - 5/20/2026
    Times: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
    Days: W
    Sessions: 5
    Location: Grays Harbor College
    Building: 800 Building (opens in new tab)
    Room: 802
    Instructor: Tammie Jones

    The word calligraphy written in italic scriptTake your Italic script to the next level! This Intermediate Italic Calligraphy course builds on the foundational strokes, letterforms, and spacing principles introduced in the beginning class. Students will deepen their technical precision while developing greater fluency, consistency, and personal expression in their lettering.

    This class emphasizes a supportive, hands-on learning environment where practice and feedback go hand in hand. You’ll spend dedicated time writing, refining, and asking questions in real time, with individualized guidance to help you strengthen consistency, improve flow, and gain confidence in your work. Whether you’re fine-tuning details or pushing toward more polished results, you’ll be encouraged at every step.

    By the end of the course, you’ll feel confident creating beautiful, refined pieces that add elegance and meaning to life’s special moments, making birthdays, holidays, celebrations, and keepsakes even more memorable with personalized calligraphy.

    Supplies

    Supplies should be purchased in advance. The supplies list has links to John Neal Books, Instructor Tammie Jones' preferred vendor, but it is not required that you purchase these items from that specific site as long as you purchase the exact items required. You'll be using the supplies beginning in the first class, so be sure to order early and have the items shipped directly to you.

    Supplies List

 

  • Mother's Day Cupcake Decorating
  • Fee: $50.00
    Dates: 5/7/2026 - 5/7/2026
    Times: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
    Days: Th
    Sessions: 1
    Location: Grays Harbor College
    Building: tulalW Student Center (opens in new tab)
    Room: Culinary Arts Lab
    Instructor: Suzie Holt

    A plate of cupcakes decorated with rosebuds in blue, yellow, and pink.Sign up with a Mom or surprise one with beautiful cupcakes for Mother's Day. In this two-hour workshop, you'll learn techniques for creating roses and leaves with Suzie's Famous Buttercream Frosting. You'll go home with a dozen cupcakes and new skills for decorating your own cakes and cookies at home.

    All supplies included, including cupcakes to frost and take home.

    Please bring an apron and a kitchen towel.

 

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