St. Louis Park Community Education

Learn how to make basic knit stitches and how to read a pattern. You will complete a hat and learn how to make a square that can grow into a scarf, afghan, or whatever you want! Please click here for the material list.

Open to anyone wanting to work on their cigar boxes or other crafts. Bring your materials and enjoy the community at Lenox! $2/day, Non Member $1/day, Member

Whether writing a poem, delivering a monologue, doodling, or getting lost in a meandering conversation, creativity is all about trust, courage, saying yes to life, and following your heart! Yet, why is creativity so hard to access? Why do we fear our most authentic self and voice? Why and how do we get in our own way? What cuts us off from our creative flow, our life force? Please join us for: Creativity As An Act Of Love; heart-centered creative work-outs to explore the relationship between love and creativity, including the common blocks and obstacles to its natural flow and rhythm and how to cultivate your own heart centered creative practice. Combining intuitive painting and on-spot writing with simple creative warm-ups guaranteed to open your heart and blow your mind, this workshop will help you reconnect, remember, and befriend your inherent creativity in order to keep it close to your heart and flowing for a lifetime. Dress comfortably! This workshop takes you through a series of simple, present moment practices to revitalize, recharge, recognize, and embody your inherent creativity as a source of abundance, vitality, and love. We’ll also discuss intentional and inherent creativity and how to nourish both through practice and creativity prompts across the genres to explore on your own.

Join in an evening of self-discovery, artistic expression, and empowerment; learning the method of making and consulting SoulCollage® cards. This workshop is for anyone who wants to engage in a fun, transformative, empowering process in which you create your own personal deck of collaged cards using recycled images, your intuition and your imagination, SoulCollage® is innately satisfying for the soul, which is eager to create and express its many facets. In our time together you’ll make 2 cards, briefly learn about the four suits (based on SoulCollage® founder Seena Frost’s method) and delve into the practice of reading your cards to support and guide you in daily life. Surprise, synchronicity and the sacred will emerge from these self-created allies, mentors, and challengers.

Students will learn how to arrange compositional shapes, use brilliant light and color, use confident brushstrokes, and choose appropriate techniques. This class is best for beginners or students who want a refresher.

Enjoy the spring weather and learn to paint - when the weather is nice, we will paint on the patio at Lenox! Gain confidence in your ability to translate your subject to canvas as you strengthen your observational skills, build a reliable process for planning and developing your unique voice. Whether a beginner or more experienced painter, this workshop will help to identify a focus in your painting practice. Suzi will demonstrate a variety of topics including setting up a composition using design protocols, then leaving the rest of the class for your own work. Open to oil, water soluble oil, acrylic, or even pastels. A supply list will be sent with your course confirmation.

Students will learn how to make changes to make better paintings. Focus will be on staying away from copying, and instead simplify and emphasize shapes and values. Class Level: Beyond Beginners Supply List for Fun With Watercolor Classes NOTE: Buy brushes, paints/pigments and papers at BLICK’S. You can also buy papers at Micheal’s. PAPER - 140lb Strathmore cold press watercolor paper with dark brown cover, 9x12 or 11x14. WATERCOLOR BRUSHES - (Dot buy cheap sets) ask staff for help 1 small round #10 or 12, 1 large round bush #14 or 16, 1 3/4 or 1 inch flat brush PAINTS: (Professional Gradetube watercolors. Brands: Windsor Newton, Holbein, Daniel Smith, Blick, Sennelier… Look for sales. Recommended pigments. You will build your palette gradually Cobalt Blue and/or French Ultramarine Permanent rose and Winsor Red Aureolin Yellow and Yellow Gamboge Payne’s Grey Burnt Sienna Sap Green Quinacridone Gold OTHER Palette with larger wells, mixing area White or clear plastic container for water Paper towel Pencil Kneaded eraser Regular beige masking tape Board to tape down loose paper (don’t need if using pad or block)

These earrings are made from metal- you will have silver (enough for one pair of earrings), copper and brass to choose from. We will stamp a design or texture on a metal disc, dome them, and hang them on handmade earring hooks. Students should have time to make 2-3 pair of earrings. No experience necessary. Make sure you bring magnification or readers if you need them (you will need them). A $25 material fee is not included in the cost of this class and will need to be paid to the instructor at the beginning of class. Only cash will be accepted.

Bring your project or start a new one! We meet weekly to work on knitting, crocheting, felting and other needlecraft projects in community with each other. We donate items to support the Senior Program. This group is free to join - we hope to see you there! No registration needed!

Enjoy yourself and learn to paint - when the weather is nice, we will paint on the patio at Lenox! Gain confidence in your ability to translate your subject to canvas as you strengthen your observational skills, build a reliable process for planning and developing your unique voice. Whether a beginner or more experienced painter, this workshop will help to identify a focus in your painting practice. Suzi will demonstrate a variety of topics including setting up a composition using design protocols, then leaving the rest of the class for your own work. Open to oil, water soluble oil, acrylic, or even pastels. Please have these supplies for class: - Windsor Newton Oil Painting Color Pallet (basic set of colors) - Paper towels - Non-smelly brush cleaner - Small glass jar with a cover (she recommends a small jelly jar) - Squirrel hair brushes - #2, #4, #10 (she suggests Robert Simmons squirrel hair brushes) - Walnut oil for thinning the paint - Pre-prepared canvas boards to start (6x10 or 10x12)

This Open Woodshop is for all ranges of ability from beginner to advanced craftsmen. Lenox has a shop with a variety of power and hand tools for your use. Prerequisite: Previous woodworking experience. Pay at the door $2/day for members or $5/day for non-members. Please bring exact change, or check, payable to ISD 283 or register online on a monthly basis to use credit card.

Do you have a sewing machine that is gathering dust because you’re not comfortable using it? We will cover basic maintenance and cleaning techniques, then sew simple tote bags. Confident beginners should also have time to choose and sew an accessory such as a scarf or bag with a zipper. Before class begins, please make sure that you have 2 yards of cotton fabric, at least 2 bobbins, at least 2 sewing machine needles, the power cord and foot pedal for your machine, thread, a seam ripper, and the manual for your machine. If you don’t have a manual, we may be able to find a downloadable version online. If your machine has extra feet or tools, make sure you have them ready. If you don’t have a machine, please contact the instructor before class for advice on how to find one.

Learn the method of making SoulCollage® cards, or continue making a deck you have started. No previous experience needed. Please bring a journal. SoulCollage® is a transformative, empowering process in which you create your own personal deck of collaged cards using recycled images, your intuition, and your imagination. As you get to know your cards, you cultivate a practice of consulting them about your life questions. Surprise, synchronicity and the sacred will emerge from these self-created allies, mentors, and challengers. SoulCollage® is innately satisfying for the soul, which is eager to create and express its many facets. In our three sessions, we will be able to go in-depth, learning about the 4 suits, and special companion cards, following creator Seena Frost’s methodology. Each session will include time for card making, reflections and card readings. We gain insights sharing from our own decks as well as listening to others.

St. Louis Park Senior Program Members are invited to use power and hand tools in the Lenox Workshop. Cost is $2/day for members, $5/day for non-members. Please pay at the door with exact change or check made out to ISD #283.