Cyanotype Photograms for Beginners
Oil & Acrylic Painting: Creating Harmony Through Color and Composition
Simple Handmade Papermaking
The Ways of Water: Exploring Abstract Media
Zines are mini art journals made from a single sheet of paper that can be collaged, stenciled, painted and customized in a variety of shapes. Combine your art-making and journaling skills! No experience required!
Supplies need:
• glue stick
• watercolor or acrylic paints
• apron
• watercup
• other supplies provided
About the instructor
Kirah is a lifelong artist and adventurer at heart. Her early years set a foundation for travel, exploration and the fundamentals to visual storytelling. Her paintings and mixed media works are deeply personal expressions of memory and dreams, inspired by nature and geological forms. In addition to her studio practice, Kirah is a dynamic instructor, lecturer, mentor and coach, leading custom studio and plein air courses directed to both beginner and professional artists. She also creates custom international art and cultural history travel workshops. Kirah brings rich insight to materials and traditional and contemporary processes. She is an award-winning illustrator, graphic designer and studio artist, a certified Golden Artist-Educator and Silver Brush Artist-Educator. She is active in community arts programming and passionate about preservation of cultural and natural resources.
Kirah is a staff instructor at the Museum School at Cameron Art Museum, and adjunct instructor at Cape Fear Community College and Johnston Community College.
You will find her splitting time between her home in the Cape Fear region of NC and Umbria, Italy.
Zines! Mini Art Journal Intensive
Meditative Drawing: From Stress to Calm
In this 3-hour workshop, teaching artist Loraine Scalamoni introduces a meditative drawing process that blends psychology and art to help transform stress into calm. Participants will learn the “rounding” technique, a gentle, repetitive drawing method that mimics neural pathways and supports quieting the mind and releasing tension
The workshop begins with black-and-white drawing to build focus and awareness, then gradually transitions into color as the process deepens. No prior art experience is required—just a willingness to slow down and explore.
Beginning Stained Glass – April 18 Workshop
SUPPLIES: All supplies for the workshop will be provided.
This is a 3-hour workshop for beginners to learn the “Tiffany foil method” of stained glass taught by glass artist, Marcy McAninch. The Tiffany method employs thin copper foil wrapped around each piece of glass, which is then soldered together. This allows for more intricate and delicate patterns, enabling artists to create more detailed glass panels. Using pre-cut pieces of glass, learn to foil and solder your own stained-glass flamingo garden stake to take home with you.
All supplies will be provided. Participants will be required to sign a safety waiver, wear provided eye protection, and wear long pants with closed-toe shoes.
Marcy McAninch of Riverwalk Glass was born and raised in southwestern Pennsylvania and has always had a fascination with colored glass. Drawn towards the many antique stained windows glass seen in salvage and vintage stores, she decided to try her hand at making stained glass by taking a class in 2017. She was immediately hooked and moved to Wilmington in 2018, where she took more classes to further her knowledge. She loves making glass art and recently focused on making 3-D stained glass pieces. She’s inspired by the colors and beauty of our coastal town and by the many artists that call Wilmington home.
Beginning Stained Glass – April 19 Workshop
Discover the Art of Joomchi
Join teaching artist Jan Wutowski for this unique paper medium workshop to learn an Asian technique, called Joomchi. Discover the beauty of Joomchi, a traditional Korean method of transforming hanji (mulberry paper) into a richly textured, fabric-like surface using only water and your hands. Through rubbing and gentle agitation, multiple layers of hanji fuse together to create a strong yet lightweight material that can be shaped, stitched, and formed into unique objects.
In this hands-on workshop, you will create your own textured Joomchi sheet and transform it into a finished piece such as jewelry or a small functional objects such as boxes or trays.
No prior experience is necessary. All materials are included.
Adventures in Ink and Watercolor Illustration
Introduction to Collage-May Workshop
Some supplies will be provided by instructor. Students are also encouraged to bring their own collage materials if desired.
Teaching artist Pam Toll invites you to learn basic techniques for making collages through making 5-10 collage portraits. This workshop is a good introduction to collage materials, adhesives, transfer techniques, pattern making and design. It will be of interest to beginners as well as students who already have experience making collage.
Collage compositions find inspiration in quilts, illuminated texts, early tribal and folk clothing, old, discarded objects, fibers and papers. Collage art works are sometimes aesthetic, utilitarian, communicative; or all of these things at once.
In this class students will use their knowledge of design principles in a process similar to painting—creating artistic statements of color, shape, texture, and line with a multitude of media. Emphasis will be on making the different materials work cohesively to convey an idea.
Supplied by the instructor:
• scissors
• painting tape
• adhesive
• brushes and magazines and other collage elements
• tracing paper
• cardboard
• wood supports
Student Supply List:
• pencil, sharpener
• eraser
• brush for glue
• colored pencils or watercolors or acrylic paints
• sketchbook
• 3-5 small grounds for collage like canvas, watercolor paper, cardboard or panel
• exacto knife and blades if preferred to scissors
• (optional) magazines or other found collage elements.
About the Instructor
Pam is a Wilmington-based painter and mixed media artist, and works at Acme Art Studios which she co-founded in 1991. Four years after a life changing painting experience at an international artist colony St. Joakim Osogovoski, Macedonia, she partnered with Gayle Tustin and Dick Roberts to establish No Boundaries International Art Colony on Bald Head Island, NC. The artist residency program’s mission is to lay aside national boundaries in favor of cross-cultural exchange. Toll has participated in 18 Artist residencies abroad since 1994, the latest in Certaldo, Italy.
As a professor in studio art, Toll led study abroad trips to Macedonia and Ireland. In 2017, she led a student painted mural at the Good Shepherd Center in Wilmington, NC. In 2014, Toll designed ten stained glass windows for B’nai Israel Synagogue in Wilmington, NC and, in 2019, designed doors for the Synagogue’s Ark. Cypress, a painting commissioned for the city of Clinton, was installed in 2025. Pam retired from UNC Wilmington faculty in 2026, after decades of teaching.
Toll’s work is represented in numerous museum collections around the world along with many private collections in the US and abroad. Through the years, she has also created or loaned work for 17 film productions.
Meditative Drawing: From Stress to Calm-May workshop
