Does a dynamic work environment of creativity enable you to thrive? Do you value the process and practice that increases your confidence of mastering specific skills? Are you drawn by the steady and deliberate journey to learn and obtain competence? Explore with The ART Experience and enjoy the satisfaction of gaining visual art skills to creatively solve problems. We offer a variety of extended and POP-UP workshops for your enjoyment and adventure and are eager to align with your organization to bring you community involvement through participation in the arts. Please contact us for availability and to indulge in your artistic passion.
Workshops Classes Events
Join us for a piñata or headpiece workshop! Choose a sugar skull piñata or a headpiece that works for you. We provide all materials and instructions.
Date: TBA, Please contact Ages: 9+ Cost: $30 per item Late Policy: We advise that you arrive on time as we have back to back workshops. You are welcome to start late but you cannot stay past your time slot. Cancellation Policy: Workshops are nonrefundable but they are transferable once if there is availability. 
This course focuses upon the art of calligraphy for personal handwriting, using joined italic. With the advent of writing upon digital devices to facilitate speed in recording information, legible handwriting is becoming more profitable. Add to that the facts that studies have shown that learning cursive not only improves retention and comprehension, it engages the brain on a deep level as students learn to join letters in a continuous flow. It also enhances fine motor dexterity (drawing skills) and gives individuals a better idea of how letters and words work in combinations. Also, learning cursive increases literacy and promotes learning kinesthetically.
Dates: TBD with interested participants Ages: 9-adult Cost: $25 per session $90 per 4 consecutive sessions paid in advance There is additional costs for materials, which must be ordered ahead of time. So please sign up a couple of weeks in advance. 
These sessions lay a firm foundation for all other visual arts processes and focus upon drawing and pastel techniques, studying line, color, shape, form, value, space and texture.
Dates: TBD with interested participants Ages: 8-Adult Cost: $25 per session $90 per 4 consecutive sessions if paid in advance Please bring own supplies or be prepared to pay for needed supplies.
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Putting Color in the Brain
Color plays a vitally important role in the world in which we live. Color can sway thinking, change actions, and cause reactions. This is a color theory class for watercolor medium. Mastering this aspect of watercolor techniques will give one a stronger platform in which to enjoy embracing the ever spontaneous experience of using this medium. Below is a supply list.
Date: Wednesdays, from 10:00-11:30 a.m. at Studio 23. Cost: $25 per session or $90 for 4 consecutive sessions paid in advance
This is an immersive hands-on exploration into the "essential art of composing and decomposing physical things to suit a variety of purposes--from practical to whimsical. Tinkering is both a manual and mental labor..." (Dale Dougherty, Editor & Publisher of Make Magazine) and for some a passion. To discover and rediscover their capacity to tinker and make, participants will be encouraged to meaningfully explore actual objects and interactions with real things and real people. This program intends to stimulate the problem solving minds of participants, who wish to indulge in this process on an ongoing basis.
DATES: TBD with interested participants Ages: 10-adult, limited number of participants Cost: $25 per session or $90 for 4 consecutive sessions paid in advance There may be additional materials fees, depending upon the chosen project of the participants. 
This is a method which recognizes that the trained, practiced, stimulated brain is also more efficient at new learning. If we develop the building blocks of visual perception, visual spatial organization and visual discrimination by learning to draw, our brains cannot help but transfer these skills to such tasks as mathematics, reading and spelling, which require visual attention to detail as well as pattern and organization. This is a universal, systematic way to stimulate the normal human response of drawing, which speaks volumes without words.
Dates: TBD with interested participants Ages: 8-Adult Cost: $25 per session $90 per 4 consecutive sessions if paid in advance Please bring own supplies or be prepared to pay for needed supplies.
Need a creative engagement to amuse and satisfy your guests for birthdays, showers, or hanging with friends or as a fund raiser for your organization or cause? You provide the food and venue The ART Experience provides the instruction and materials. Ms. Boyd will guide the group through painting an image of your choice. Everyone leaves with their own masterful interpretation to display as they wish.
Dates: TBD with interested participants Cost: $25 per participant The cost per participant is $25. If you are fundraising, you put your own price on top of this cost. Please contact The ART Experience at darleneboyd.com for more information. 
...are classes and workshops that are many and available upon request for a series or onetime event. Is there an art or craft you have been wanting to try? Chances are we have the tools and expertise to make it possible. Even classes that are not on our list are possible. Please peruse some ideas at darleneboyd.com or bring forward your own ideas and contact us. We look forward to meeting you. Crea per viviere. Ciao!
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