Toronto Craft Alert

GET SCHOOLED: Summer 2010 Art Classes

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3 HOUR INTRO WORKSHOPS

These general interest workshops are suited for artists , teachers, or beginners. These one day summer sessions allow you to explore a variety of mediums while remaining flexible to fit any busy summer schedule. Choose between one, three or all eight workshops offered in encaustic, acrylic painting, collage screen printing, brown printing, papier mache and clay ceramics.

Courses are $65 each or $60 each for 3 or more sessions (plus taxes, materials included)
Choose from a 3 hour [...]

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Fresh Collective has just become an even better place for Toronto designers to sell their wares!  We’re well-established and busy, in a great location and we have an amazing loyal clientele.  We’ve always been a terrific supportive group, but now we offer Fresh Collective University to our members– a well-rounded business development course to totally demystify the business side of things!

FCU is a workbook and study group program based on the wealth of knowledge Laura-Jean has compiled over 16 years of developing her own clothing line, and [...]

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The Art of Selling – a workshop for crafters
with Mary Breen, owner of Wise Daughters Craft Market

• Are you talented with your hands but afraid to “pitch” your product?
• Are you at a loss as to how to price your wares?
• Do you really know your market?

This workshop is for people who want to break into the retail market, or expand sales.

Prepare yourself for the fall craft show season with new strategies for success.

After 18 months of operating Wise Daughters Craft Market (and constantly [...]

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8 week Plastique Fantastique at nanopod: Hybrid Studio!
Learn how to sculpt, make molds, carve, add pigments, found materials, sand and polish polyurethane resins.
6:30-9:30pm, 8 weeks, 1 evening per week
Starts Monday August 16th, $250pp includes all materials! ($100 deposit to hold space) 8 people max.

Participants will learn how to properly create open-face and two-part molds for casting Polyurethane resins.
How-to properly mix and pour resins, add pigments, embed various materials, different finishing/polishing
techniques and health and safety issues will be covered

Resource lists of local suppliers will be [...]

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Time: 2.5 hours (2hrs for past Letterpress Curiosity Workshop participants)
Studio Limit: 2 participants
Investment: $115 per participant (10% discount for past Letterpress Curiosity Workshop participants)

This workshop is for those who are comfortable with the basics of letterpress with a table-top press. Ideally, you’ve taken the Letterpress Curiosity Workshop, but equivalent experience is fine as well.

After a brief refresher on letterpress basics, you’ll print postcards or notecards with images from the studio’s growing collection [...]

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You can learn to make your own unique Kokeshi Doll, or Kanzashi Flower in one of two upcoming workshops hosted by the Momiji Centre in Scarborough, and taught by Maggie K. of Neogami Origami Jewellery.

Kokeshi Doll Workshop:
Tuesday, July 6. 10am – 1pm

Kokeshi Dolls are small wooden dolls often made to resemble Geisha. The dolls we will make in this three hour workshop, will be 2.5″ tall, and will have any look you want from contemporary to classic, with many [...]

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