• Venue: Mennonite Heritage Center
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Portrait Drawing Workshop

Join artist Susan Klinger as she teaches the basics of portrait drawing. You will learn about skull proportions and where many beginners make common errors. Tips for drawing individual facial features will be covered and what to look for to capture a likeness. Students will complete a portrait drawing in pencil from their own photo resource. Tips for handling the pencil to create strong values will be covered for those that need instruction.

Materials needed for the

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• Venue: Mennonite Heritage Center
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Illuminated Letter Fraktur Workshop
by Emily Smucker-Beidler
Emily will supply projector for powerpoint presentation, as well as iPad and
stand to project demonstrations, all supplies relevant to the class, as well as
books and resources for participants to use.
Creating a covid-safe environment: room set up with 2 people per 6 or 8 foot
table, ensuring that each person has a 3 foot bubble around them (as per CDC
guidelines for classrooms.) An additional table at the front for demonstrations
and presentations, 6 feet away from students.

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• Venue: Mennonite Heritage Center
• Categories: Workshop

Easter Basket- Led by Karen Wychock

Easter will be just around the corner and what better way to prepare for the holiday than to weave your own Easter basket!  Keep it for yourself or gift it to a child filled with chocolates and stuffed bunnies!   You can learn to weave this beautiful 10” round basket just in time for Easter.

This basket does not require a mold.  It will be woven using a preformed “D” handle. You will learn to

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• Venue: Mennonite Heritage Center
• Categories: Workshop

** This Workshop is Full

The workshop will focus on the sgraffito technique used by area nineteenth century Pennsylvania German potters to make expressive designs in their folk art pottery. Sgraffito means to “scratch” and workshop participants will draw a design of their choosing in a damp clay coating on a redware plate. You can choose a traditional Pennsylvania German design or create your own design for a special occasion gift.

The class will be led by redware potter Denise Wilz, a

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• Venue: Mennonite Heritage Center
• Categories: Workshop

Fanciful Fraktur Bird Workshop by Emily Smucker-Beidler

Emily will supply projector for powerpoint presentation, as well as iPad and stand to project demonstrations, all supplies relevant to the class, as well as books and resources for participants to use.

Description of class:

Where did Fraktur artists find their inspiration for the fanciful birds we see in their art of the 1700’s? In this workshop, participants will learn what birds were prevalent here in southeastern Pennsylvania and find connections through Fraktur images. Learn where the

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• Venue: Mennonite Heritage Center
• Categories: Workshop

Penn State Extension Master Gardener Sharon Gross  guides us through a workshop.

Make a Mosaic Pot:  In this class participants will decorate a 5 inch pot using paints, adhesive and various pieces of tile, glass, and stone. Materials will be provided, but if you have something you’d like to incorporate, bring it along! If you have another size pot you’d like to use, please bring that with.

This workshop is great for families;Children (5 and 12 years) could do it with a

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• Venue: Mennonite Heritage Center
• Categories: Workshop

The workshop will focus on the sgraffito technique used by area nineteenth century Pennsylvania German potters to make expressive designs in their folk art pottery. Sgraffito means to “scratch” and workshop participants will draw a design of their choosing in a damp clay coating on a redware plate. You can choose a traditional Pennsylvania German design or create your own design for a special occasion gift.

The class will be led by redware potter Denise Wilz, a professional potter who researches

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