Mercer Island Community and Events Center   

This 3-course package allows you to select 3 spring courses for $200. This applies to 3-, 4- and 5-week courses. Add this package to your cart and sign up for courses in the same transaction or later. Sign up one at a time or all 3 at once. Package cannot be applied retroactively. Limit 1 package per person per quarter. 
*Osher Online courses and field trips are not eligible with this package. 

This 6-course package allows you to select 6 spring courses for $400. This applies to 3-, 4- and 5-week courses. Add this package to your cart and sign up for courses in the same transaction or later. Sign up one at a time or all 6 at once. Package cannot be applied retroactively. Limit 1 package per person pre quarter. 
*Osher Online courses and field trips are not eligible with this package. 

The history of polar exploration is commonly understood in terms of the dramatic, romantic, and oftentimes tragic exploits of intrepid mariners such as Ernest Shackleton, Roald Amundsen, and Sir John Franklin. And while such stories abound in the literature and will be a significant part of the course, humankind’s connection to the Arctic and Antarctic touches on deeper historical themes such as nationalism, colonialism, science, geographical misconceptions, Indigenous cultures, racial theories, and the biological impact of cold. This course will trace the evolution of polar exploration in the 19th and early 20th centuries, focusing on the quests for the Northwest Passage and the North and South Poles.

Beeswax is a fantastic medium to allow us to transfer any art medium, including family photographs, travel photographs, painting, drawing even ceramics, woodworking and sculpture onto wood, stone and tile. This allows a range of display options on the wall or on a shelf for simply enjoying, but also gifting and even selling as an alternative to a single original. Learn about the materials and the process, watching a demonstration and leaving with the knowledge and a handout on how to do it on your own.

For all skill levels working in any art medium, from casual or more serious photographers to painters, potters and woodworkers.