There are few things more rewarding than wearing a beautiful garment you’ve created with your own two hands. This course will introduce the beginner sewer to fashion sewing, fabric selection, and techniques for garment construction from start to finish using one of three patterns from the instructor’s fashion line. Students will learn how to follow a pattern, properly cut fabric, fit a garment to their body with basic alterations, and construct clothing using efficient, time-saving techniques from the fashion industry.  Leave the course with a garment that fits you perfectly and the skills to take your sewing to the next level. Basic sewing machine skills are required, and students should bring a sewing machine to each class. Students should bring their own supplies; a materials list will be provided prior to the first class.

In this two-day creativity workshop, students will go through a variety of activities to energize, re-focus and gain insight into their own unique practice. The schedule will balance introspective and collaborative projects to help trigger or charge perspective. Participants of all disciplines are welcome and should come ready to write, sketch, collage, reflect, move and discuss. Students should bring a journal or notebook and a bag lunch.

This writing-based course uses interdisciplinary prompts and workshops to document our sense of place. Whether mining personal memory or public monument, recording the Nashville soundscape or photographing stereotype, we’ll ponder history, myth and culture while compiling a written dispatch of our surroundings and our relationship to them. All levels welcome.

Do you want to write characters as captivating as Katniss Everdeen or Harry Potter? Do you have an idea for the next young adult bestseller? This class will explore the techniques and skills that help writers get their best stories onto the page and into the hands of an editor. Instruction will include reading and discussion of award-winning young adult novels to gain insight into the secrets of their success as well as workshop time to gain valuable feedback from peer readers. You’ll emerge from the course with a polished manuscript and a repertoire of techniques for creating characters and stories for younger audiences. All levels welcome. A reading list will be provided.

Personal narrative, family history, memoir—write your own story while you explore techniques that make these popular forms of creative nonfiction compelling. This class, designed for writers of all skill levels, examines the work of contemporary nonfiction writers and allows you to bring your own ideas to the page by using writing triggers and prompts. Participants will receive feedback on their work.