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For Ages 16+

Designed for students with prior painting experience, this course offers a deeper dive into painting fundamentals while encouraging experimentation. Working in oil, participants will explore color, value, scale, and composition through intentionally designed still life setups.

Each class blends guided exercises with individual feedback, helping students strengthen what they know and try new techniques with confidence. While the class focuses on oil painting, concepts can apply to any color medium! Perfect for painters ready to refine their skills and develop a more intentional, expressive style.

Topics include:

• Creating form through color and value
• Building strong compositions with scale and perspective
• Managing tools, materials, and color palettes effectively

Painting Class Materials List

Erica Magnus Instructor Bio

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**Dairy Barn Members at the Individual Level or higher enjoy a 10% Discount**

For Ages 16+

This workshop is perfect for any teen or adult who is curious about screen printing as a hobby or possible business venture.  Learn different screen printing techniques from artist Sara Severns, a freelancer who designs and prints shirts for local bands to sell at their shows. 

This 4-week series begins with learning simple and accessible DIY printing methods (perfect for those with home studios) and builds into a brief exploration of more professional processes and materials.

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Family Friendly! Ages: 8-100 (Those under age 18 must be accompanied by an adult.) Please register all participants.

Join us for a hands-on, creative experience where you can make a difference! We invite community members of all ages and skill levels to come together and create handbuilt ceramic bowls that will be donated to support local charitable events. Whether you’re an experienced ceramicist or new to clay, this workshop is a wonderful opportunity to learn, create, and give back.

Teaching Artist Chip Wagner will guide participants through the process of shaping slabs into bisque-mold forms, then stamping, carving, and personalizing the details of their bowls. Your unique creations will then be fired in The Dairy Barn's kilns and donated to local charitable initiatives including Athens Area Mediation Service's Souper Bowl and Amesville Elementary's Empty Bowls event benefiting the Athens County Food Pantry. This series of making and glazing events is available at no cost to participants, though pre-registration is required to ensure we have space for everyone. By participating, you’ll not only learn new artistic techniques but also contribute to a cause that helps strengthen our community. Come with your friends, family, or just yourself, all are welcome!

Teaching Artist Chip Wagner, is the recipient of the Foundation for Appalachia Ohio's Growing Home Fellowship. Instructor Bio

The Dairy Barn's Create to Donate events are supported, with gratitude, by the Columbus Clay Company.

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For Ages 16+

To celebrate the incoming spring, we will be painting some beautiful, fresh spring landscapes in the style of Wassily Kandinsky.

Kandinsky was a pioneer of abstract art. His landscapes are bright, bold, and colorful. The goal is less about capturing exactly what a place looks like, and more about capturing how those places feel.

Think about things like bold colors, simplified shapes, and expressive lines rather than perfect realism. Hills might become flowing shapes, trees might become patterns of color, and the sky might be brighter or more dramatic than real life.

We will talk a bit about some of Kandinsky’s landscapes, discuss what makes them successful, and then use those ideas and techniques to imagine and create our own unique works of art.

Participants under 18 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. The Neon Cow Bar will have wine, and beer available for purchase by participants over age 21. (Outside alcohol prohibited.)

Alix Rondy Instructor Bio

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For Ages 16+ 

Paper Resist is a hands-on ceramics class focused on the paper resist technique—a method for applying graphic designs to the surface of pottery. Students will learn how to create both simple and layered compositions, exploring how placement, color, and contrast can be used to establish perspective and depth.

Throughout the workshop, students will practice essential surface-design skills, including basic glazing and painting techniques, gestural mark-making, and approaches for creating movement within a piece. By the end of the course, students will be able to confidently use paper resist to enhance their pottery with dynamic, visually engaging designs. 

*This workshop is suface and glaze application only and requires no previous throwing experience! Participants will recieve a hand-thrown vessel, created by Carol, to decorate and keep.

Carol Dawson Instructor Bio

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For Ages 16+

Happy Mother’s Day! In celebration of mothers and artists across time and cultures, we will be studying flowers.  This workshop's theme is inspired by the almond blossom paintings of Vincent van Gogh, as well as similar works by artists who may have influenced him, including John Russell and Katsushika Hokusai.

 A bouquet of live flowers will be provided. (Or you may bring your own! Real fresh flowers are ideal!) Each person (or pair, as applicable) will select a flower to study from.

Students will look closely at their flowers and practice drawing different parts of them—observing their shapes, lines, and patterns. These small studies help explore a subject and get to know it better before turning those observations into a finished piece. By the end of class, you’ll combine what you’ve discovered into your own completed blossom painting.

Participants are welcome to work individually or collaborate. If you attend as a pair—mother and child, partners, or friends—you can observe the same flower together and share ideas as you build your artwork."

Participants under 18 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. The Neon Cow Bar will have wine, and beer available for purchase by participants over age 21. (Outside alcohol prohibited.)

Alix Rondy Instructor Bio

Family Friendly! Ages: 8-100 (Those under age 18 must be accompanied by an adult.) Please register all participants.

Join us for a hands-on, creative experience where you can make a difference! We invite community members of all ages and skill levels to come together and create handbuilt ceramic bowls that will be donated to support local charitable events. Whether you’re an experienced ceramicist or new to clay, this workshop is a wonderful opportunity to learn, create, and give back.

Teaching Artist Chip Wagner will guide participants through the process of shaping slabs into bisque-mold forms, then stamping, carving, and personalizing the details of their bowls. Your unique creations will then be fired in The Dairy Barn's kilns and donated to local charitable initiatives including Athens Area Mediation Service's Souper Bowl and Amesville Elementary's Empty Bowls event benefiting the Athens County Food Pantry. This series of making and glazing events is available at no cost to participants, though pre-registration is required to ensure we have space for everyone. By participating, you’ll not only learn new artistic techniques but also contribute to a cause that helps strengthen our community. Come with your friends, family, or just yourself, all are welcome!

Teaching Artist Chip Wagner, is the recipient of the Foundation for Appalachia Ohio's Growing Home Fellowship. Instructor Bio

The Dairy Barn's Create to Donate events are supported, with gratitude, by the Columbus Clay Company.

Dairy Barn Education Policies and Info (refunds, inclement weather, etc.)

Family Friendly! Ages: 8-100 (Those under age 18 must be accompanied by an adult.) Please register all participants.

Join us for a hands-on, creative experience where you can make a difference! We invite community members of all ages and skill levels to come together to glaze handbuilt ceramic bowls. The finished bowls will be fired and donated to support local charitable events. Whether you’re an experienced ceramicist or new to clay, this workshop is a wonderful opportunity to learn, create, and give back.

Teaching Artist, Chip Wagner, will guide participants through the process of using brush-on ceramic glazes to give vibrant colors, designs and decoration to bisque-fired ceramic bowls. Your unique creations will the be fired in The Dairy Barn's kilns and donated to local charitable initiatives, including the Athens Area Mediation Service annual Souper Bowl fundraiser. This series of making and glazing events are available at no cost to participants, though pre-registration is required to ensure we have space for everyone. By participating, you’ll not only learn new artistic techniques but also contribute to a cause that helps strengthen our community. Come with your friends, family, or just yourself, all are welcome!

Teaching Artist Chip Wagner, is the recipient of the Foundation for Appalachia Ohio's Growing Home Fellowship. Instructor Bio

The Dairy Barn's Create to Donate events are supported, with gratitude, by the Columbus Clay Company.

Dairy Barn Education Policies and Info (refunds, inclement weather, etc.)