Handbuilding with Clay with Erik Wold
Saturdays, 10:30am-1:30pm. Class dates: March 4, 11, 25, April 1, 8, 15, May 6, 13.
Cost for the series is $200/$180 for VAC members plus a $28 materials fee for 6 lbs. of clay, which includes glazes and firing for that material along with a facility fee. Additional clay will be available for purchase.
Our open and well ventilated ceramics studio includes a covered outdoor work area in a rainforest setting. Open Studio time will be available to registered students on Wednesdays from 2 – 5pm. Cost is $10 per day, with punch cards available at the Administration Office front desk during business hours, Monday through Friday, from 10am – 4pm. Must be registered for a ceramics class to participate.
Erik Wold studied Art, specializing in Ceramics, at the University of Hawaii at Hilo.
Keiki Drawing Classes with Ken Charon
Tuesdays, 3:30 – 5:00 pm, February 21 – March 28, 2023
A series of 6 drawing classes for children ages 8 to 14 at Volcano Art Center’s Niaulani Campus. Ken’s lessons focus on drawing things from life. Portraits, landscapes, and still-lifes will be encouraged as a way to prepare for more personal imaginary works. Field trips into the Niaulani Rainforest will also be included, weather permitting.
Ken enjoys working with Hawaii’s children and has done so since 1986 with the Artists in the Schools program, as well as in private lessons and summer camps. He has also worked with the developmentally and physically disabled with VSA arts.
Fee: $120/ $110 VAC Members plus a $17 supply fee
Financial scholarships are available for those in need. Apply for a scholarship Here
Join Heather Penfield on Saturday, April, 1, 2023 , from 9am – 11am., for the Cooking with Canoe Plants Part 2 Workshop at Volcano Art Center Niaulani Campus.
In this workshop you will dive deeper into the uses of the first edible plants brought to Hawaii by Polynesians, and explore 5 or more different plants and how to prepare them. You will gain hands on experience making recipes from start to finish, including salad, main course and desert. Heather will discuss the nutritional, social and economical benefits on buying locally grown produce. The class will include: class handout with recipes, and in class samples.
You will be using in season produce which includes:
Ulu (breadfruit), Uala (sweet potato), Olena (turmeric), Kalo(taro), Ko(Sugarcane), Mai’a(banana), Niu (coconut), Ohi’a ai (mountain apple), & Ki (ti)
All New Recipes! Beginners are Welcome!
The class fee is $55/$50 for VAC members plus a $20 supply fee
Handbuilding with Clay with Erik Wold
Saturdays, 10:30am-1:30pm. Class dates: March 4, 11, 25, April 1, 8, 15, May 6, 13.
Cost for the series is $200/$180 for VAC members plus a $28 materials fee for 6 lbs. of clay, which includes glazes and firing for that material along with a facility fee. Additional clay will be available for purchase.
Our open and well ventilated ceramics studio includes a covered outdoor work area in a rainforest setting. Open Studio time will be available to registered students on Wednesdays from 2 – 5pm. Cost is $10 per day, with punch cards available at the Administration Office front desk during business hours, Monday through Friday, from 10am – 4pm. Must be registered for a ceramics class to participate.
Erik Wold studied Art, specializing in Ceramics, at the University of Hawaii at Hilo.
Pen Sketching & Watercolor Washes with Patti Pease Johnson
Saturday, April 8, 2023, from 9 am – 12:30 pm at VAC Niaulani Campus in Volcano, Village.
Learn mixed media line and wash technique on 6 x 9” watercolor paper and create 2 paintings in the 3 ½ hour session. “It’s a great size for journal travel recording for lively illustrative looks,” says instructor Patti Pease Johnson. This workshop is a chance for beginners and intermediate students to experiment with simplified line exaggerations and painting outside the lines. All materials are supplied so it gives a person a chance to see if this is their creativity spark before investing in the materials.
“Simple line drawing for the outside of objects is what it’s about,” says Patti. “Make it a suggestion of the object. Draw and paint loosely. For example, no need to complete the leaf outside edge, have a closed petal on a flower, or a tree with full branches. White space is good, chant it when you begin painting,”
Your intuition and playful attitude are part of this journey. First is a discussion by looking at many samples and asking the question: is it about drawing vs. color? Students then practice the minimal drawing first on newsprint from looking at a simple still-life setup. Then it is redrawn on the watercolor paper, and outlined suggestively with the permanent black fine-tip pen. Students learn a pen hashing technique for the darkest darks and cast shadows; plus learn watercolor techniques of washes, blending, glazing, dry brush, and lift-off. A 4-page handout with a basic 10-step procedure lets you remember the steps.
Patti Pease Johnson has been a working artist for 27 years and a teacher of various mediums including two other watercolor techniques, soft pastel still life, and Plein air landscapes. Her workshops for painting on silk using liquid dye and wax resist. She has had artwork in numerous juried shows and has collectors in many parts of the world through gallery sales around the state of Hawaii.
The cost is $75/$70 for VAC members, plus $10 supply fee, and a $5 registration fee. For more information call (808) 967-8222.
Found Black-Out Poetry is a method of using pre-existing text to search and create new meaning from the words.
During this creative art adventure you will combine a unique form of writing poetry with the Zentangle art form, and view history and variations of the Found Poetry forms. You will also, find and Highlighting words, set them apart from other text, and enhance the page with tangles using the Zentangle method.
Students will learn to visually embellish pages using the Zentangle art method to frame and link their selected poetic words.
Suggested Materials: Assorted Sakura Gelly Roll pens, loose pages of texts from reclaimed books.
This class if open to all levels, no artistic or poetry writing is required. This workshop has been designed for beginners as well as experienced students.
Please bring a simple snack to share with others.
Cost is $35/$30 VAC members plus a $15 supply fee.
Handbuilding with Clay with Erik Wold
Saturdays, 10:30am-1:30pm. Class dates: March 4, 11, 25, April 1, 8, 15, May 6, 13.
Cost for the series is $200/$180 for VAC members plus a $28 materials fee for 6 lbs. of clay, which includes glazes and firing for that material along with a facility fee. Additional clay will be available for purchase.
Our open and well ventilated ceramics studio includes a covered outdoor work area in a rainforest setting. Open Studio time will be available to registered students on Wednesdays from 2 – 5pm. Cost is $10 per day, with punch cards available at the Administration Office front desk during business hours, Monday through Friday, from 10am – 4pm. Must be registered for a ceramics class to participate.
Erik Wold studied Art, specializing in Ceramics, at the University of Hawaii at Hilo.
Keiki Drawing Classes with Ken Charon
Tuesdays, 3:30 – 5:00 pm, April 11 – May 23, 2023
We will skip the week of April 25, due to our Love The Arts fundraising event.
A series of 6 drawing classes for children ages 8 to 14 at Volcano Art Center’s Niaulani Campus. Ken’s lessons focus on drawing things from life. Portraits, landscapes, and still-lifes will be encouraged as a way to prepare for more personal imaginary works. Field trips into the Niaulani Rainforest will also be included, weather permitting.
Ken enjoys working with Hawaii’s children and has done so since 1986 with the Artists in the Schools program, as well as in private lessons and summer camps. He has also worked with the developmentally and physically disabled with VSA arts.
Fee: $120/ $110 VAC Members plus a $17 supply fee
Financial scholarships are available for those in need. Apply for a scholarship Here
Join artist Mary Milelzcik for the “Mixed Media Encaustic” workshop on Saturday, April 15, 2023, from 10 am – 2:30 pm. The class will be held in a unique rainforest setting in a covered outside area at Volcano Art Center Niaulani Campus in Volcano Village. Encaustic is a mixture of beeswax, damar resin, and pigment, which is applied to a solid absorbent surface. Each time a new layer is applied, it must be fused. The layers can be enhanced by carving with tools or drawing with pigment, oil sticks, etc. Photographs can be transferred and other materials embedded to create a variety of amazing results with depth.
You will learn safe studio practices, all the encaustic painting basics, and how to make your own medium. Encaustic techniques, photo transfer, along with wet and dry shellac burns will be demonstrated. After instruction and experimenting, you will have the opportunity to create two encaustic paintings to take home with you.
Mary will provide encaustic paints, panels, and handmade paper to use as substrates and an assortment of marking tools and brushes, interesting papers, photographs, minerals, fibers, and other natural and found materials for students to incorporate into their paintings. Students are encouraged to bring other items they’d like to use. Advanced students may consult with the instructor in advance regarding specific projects. The class fee is $70/$65 for VAC members plus a $55 supply fee. To register, call Volcano Art Center at 808-967-8222 or visit www.volcanoartcenter.org. Space is limited. For questions regarding the workshop content or special projects, Email Mary- at artsasylum@gmail.com.
Handbuilding with Clay with Erik Wold
Saturdays, 10:30am-1:30pm. Class dates: March 4, 11, 25, April 1, 8, 15, May 6, 13.
Cost for the series is $200/$180 for VAC members plus a $28 materials fee for 6 lbs. of clay, which includes glazes and firing for that material along with a facility fee. Additional clay will be available for purchase.
Our open and well ventilated ceramics studio includes a covered outdoor work area in a rainforest setting. Open Studio time will be available to registered students on Wednesdays from 2 – 5pm. Cost is $10 per day, with punch cards available at the Administration Office front desk during business hours, Monday through Friday, from 10am – 4pm. Must be registered for a ceramics class to participate.
Erik Wold studied Art, specializing in Ceramics, at the University of Hawaii at Hilo.
Keiki Drawing Classes with Ken Charon
Tuesdays, 3:30 – 5:00 pm, April 11 – May 23, 2023
We will skip the week of April 25, due to our Love The Arts fundraising event.
A series of 6 drawing classes for children ages 8 to 14 at Volcano Art Center’s Niaulani Campus. Ken’s lessons focus on drawing things from life. Portraits, landscapes, and still-lifes will be encouraged as a way to prepare for more personal imaginary works. Field trips into the Niaulani Rainforest will also be included, weather permitting.
Ken enjoys working with Hawaii’s children and has done so since 1986 with the Artists in the Schools program, as well as in private lessons and summer camps. He has also worked with the developmentally and physically disabled with VSA arts.
Fee: $120/ $110 VAC Members plus a $17 supply fee
Financial scholarships are available for those in need. Apply for a scholarship Here
Liko A’e Keiki + One
The Volcano Art Center is proud to offer the Liko A’e Keiki plus One workshop. The workshop will be held at VAC’s Niaulani Campus, Saturday, April 22, 2023, from 8:30 A.M. – 2:30 P.M. Open to keiki 7-13 years of age and one adult. The deadline to register is Thursday, April 13, 2023.
This one-day workshop gives keiki and their parent, grandparent or any adult, a memorable opportunity to explore the arts together. The classes will include hand-building with clay, hip-hop, drawing, Hawaiian rhythm & dance, & textile art.
Cost: for one adult and one child $100/$92 for members of VAC. If you wish to enroll any additional adult or child, please call the office at (808) 967-8222.
Financial scholarships are available for those in need. Apply for a scholarship Here
Keiki Drawing Classes with Ken Charon
Tuesdays, 3:30 – 5:00 pm, April 11 – May 23, 2023
We will skip the week of April 25, due to our Love The Arts fundraising event.
A series of 6 drawing classes for children ages 8 to 14 at Volcano Art Center’s Niaulani Campus. Ken’s lessons focus on drawing things from life. Portraits, landscapes, and still-lifes will be encouraged as a way to prepare for more personal imaginary works. Field trips into the Niaulani Rainforest will also be included, weather permitting.
Ken enjoys working with Hawaii’s children and has done so since 1986 with the Artists in the Schools program, as well as in private lessons and summer camps. He has also worked with the developmentally and physically disabled with VSA arts.
Fee: $120/ $110 VAC Members plus a $17 supply fee
Financial scholarships are available for those in need. Apply for a scholarship Here
Handbuilding with Clay with Erik Wold
Saturdays, 10:30am-1:30pm. Class dates: March 4, 11, 25, April 1, 8, 15, May 6, 13.
Cost for the series is $200/$180 for VAC members plus a $28 materials fee for 6 lbs. of clay, which includes glazes and firing for that material along with a facility fee. Additional clay will be available for purchase.
Our open and well ventilated ceramics studio includes a covered outdoor work area in a rainforest setting. Open Studio time will be available to registered students on Wednesdays from 2 – 5pm. Cost is $10 per day, with punch cards available at the Administration Office front desk during business hours, Monday through Friday, from 10am – 4pm. Must be registered for a ceramics class to participate.
Erik Wold studied Art, specializing in Ceramics, at the University of Hawaii at Hilo.
Keiki Drawing Classes with Ken Charon
Tuesdays, 3:30 – 5:00 pm, April 11 – May 23, 2023
We will skip the week of April 25, due to our Love The Arts fundraising event.
A series of 6 drawing classes for children ages 8 to 14 at Volcano Art Center’s Niaulani Campus. Ken’s lessons focus on drawing things from life. Portraits, landscapes, and still-lifes will be encouraged as a way to prepare for more personal imaginary works. Field trips into the Niaulani Rainforest will also be included, weather permitting.
Ken enjoys working with Hawaii’s children and has done so since 1986 with the Artists in the Schools program, as well as in private lessons and summer camps. He has also worked with the developmentally and physically disabled with VSA arts.
Fee: $120/ $110 VAC Members plus a $17 supply fee
Financial scholarships are available for those in need. Apply for a scholarship Here
Mother’s Day Edition-Paint Your Own Silk Scarf with Patti Pease Johnson
A great gift! Just in time for Mother’s Day. Big Island artist and instructor Patti Pease Johnson teaches the Paint Your Own Silk Scarf workshop on Saturday, May 13, 2023, from 9:00am-12:30pm at Volcano Art Center.
In this workshop, you’ll paint your own 8” x 53” scarf using three colors of your choice, which will create many more colors on the silk. Pick a main color, then, choose the other two after learning about color theory. You’ll then be ready to mix your desired colors, achieved by pre-mixing the four process colors of dye (cyan, magenta, yellow, and black). Students from previous classes have been amazed by what they refer to as “happy color accidents.”
Johnson will tell you, “It’s all about playing with colors. I supply all materials and guidance, you create. The fun time is your art journey for a few hours.” Beginner and intermediate artists are welcome. Open up your creativity and challenge yourself by learning this fun technique. It’s guaranteed to change the way you look at color.
In the final hour, students will use hot wax with the tjanting tool on Habotai silk to outline your more representational design and create a resist line for the dyes. Then you will paint and mix colors on the 10” x 10” silk artwork.
Cost is $75/ $70 for VAC members plus a $15 fee per person, inclusive of supplies. For more information or to register call VAC at 808-967-8222 or visit www.volcanoartcenter.org.
Handbuilding with Clay with Erik Wold
Saturdays, 10:30am-1:30pm. Class dates: March 4, 11, 25, April 1, 8, 15, May 6, 13.
Cost for the series is $200/$180 for VAC members plus a $28 materials fee for 6 lbs. of clay, which includes glazes and firing for that material along with a facility fee. Additional clay will be available for purchase.
Our open and well ventilated ceramics studio includes a covered outdoor work area in a rainforest setting. Open Studio time will be available to registered students on Wednesdays from 2 – 5pm. Cost is $10 per day, with punch cards available at the Administration Office front desk during business hours, Monday through Friday, from 10am – 4pm. Must be registered for a ceramics class to participate.
Erik Wold studied Art, specializing in Ceramics, at the University of Hawaii at Hilo.
Keiki Drawing Classes with Ken Charon
Tuesdays, 3:30 – 5:00 pm, April 11 – May 23, 2023
We will skip the week of April 25, due to our Love The Arts fundraising event.
A series of 6 drawing classes for children ages 8 to 14 at Volcano Art Center’s Niaulani Campus. Ken’s lessons focus on drawing things from life. Portraits, landscapes, and still-lifes will be encouraged as a way to prepare for more personal imaginary works. Field trips into the Niaulani Rainforest will also be included, weather permitting.
Ken enjoys working with Hawaii’s children and has done so since 1986 with the Artists in the Schools program, as well as in private lessons and summer camps. He has also worked with the developmentally and physically disabled with VSA arts.
Fee: $120/ $110 VAC Members plus a $17 supply fee
Financial scholarships are available for those in need. Apply for a scholarship Here
The Art of Astrology with Uldra Johnson
Astrology is a wonderful tool for self-discovery! By exploring your own natal chart, the map of the heavens at the time you were born, you can gain insights into your character, potentials, and life events! Where are your strengths? Your blocks? How can you find the most meaning in your life?
In this four-hour beginning astrology class, you will learn the fundamentals of astrology that will provide you all the knowledge you need to interpret your own chart, and that of others. You will learn what a natal chart is, what an ephemeris is and how to read it, the symbols of astrology, the four basic components of reading a horoscope, the archetypal characteristics of the planets, and the meaning of the nodes—our guides to who we were and who we can become—our karmic path.
In addition to the basic language of astrology, Uldra will teach how we can use meditation to enhance our interpretive skill, which is what makes astrology an art!
Each student’s astrology chart will be provided. This class will be a fun, inter-active, knowledge-packed introduction to Western Astrology. No previous study of astrology is necessary. The class will be held at the Niaulani Campus on Saturday, May 20, 2023, from 10am – 2pm (with a 20minute lunch break), at Volcano Art Center Niaulani Campus in Volcano Village. The class fee is $80/$75 for VAC members.
Uldra Johnson has been a practicing astrologer for 38 years. Her mentor was the renowned astrologer, Alan Oken. She is also a Buddhist teacher in the Mahayana tradition and a mixed-media artist. For more information or to register call VAC at 808-967-8222
Keiki Drawing Classes with Ken Charon
Tuesdays, 3:30 – 5:00 pm, April 11 – May 23, 2023
We will skip the week of April 25, due to our Love The Arts fundraising event.
A series of 6 drawing classes for children ages 8 to 14 at Volcano Art Center’s Niaulani Campus. Ken’s lessons focus on drawing things from life. Portraits, landscapes, and still-lifes will be encouraged as a way to prepare for more personal imaginary works. Field trips into the Niaulani Rainforest will also be included, weather permitting.
Ken enjoys working with Hawaii’s children and has done so since 1986 with the Artists in the Schools program, as well as in private lessons and summer camps. He has also worked with the developmentally and physically disabled with VSA arts.
Fee: $120/ $110 VAC Members plus a $17 supply fee
Financial scholarships are available for those in need. Apply for a scholarship Here
Enjoy the outdoors and take your painting beyond the four walls of a classroom in the Pastel On-Site Landscape Paintingworkshop with Patti Pease Johnson on Saturday, June 10, 2023, from 9am – 12:30pm at Volcano Art Center Niaulani Campus in Volcano Village.
You’ll receive step by step instruction in a proven rotational method for success, starting with form and fill, moving to value of black and white, then color. Your own natural style is brought to the surface. All materials will be supplied along with guidance and inspiration for your creative journey.
Initial discussion includes pastels types, papers, fixing and mounting. Then, use newsprint to get the flow of arm movements to keep loose. Next, you’ll form shapes, and move into colors on sanded pastel paper. Learn to exaggerate and be bold with colors, and the value of using the lightest lights and the darkest darks. Grow your knowledge of composition, color and correcting problems.
Students will complete one 9×12” project. Weather permitting, the workshop will take place outdoors at Niaulani. Otherwise, the workshop will be held indoors with a reference photo.
Cost for the workshop is $75 and $70 for VAC Members plus a $15 supply fee. Beginner and intermediate artists are welcome. For more information or to register call VAC at 808-967-8222
Patti Pease Johnson’s artwork can be found at galleries and shops across the State and in collections around the world.
Poured Watercolor Floral Contrast
In this workshop, you’ll draw, mask, pour, mask, and pour again, then detail with specific watercolor techniques of gradation, drybrush, negative painting, stencil lifting. Students create an 8 x 10” painting on cold press 140 lb. watercolor paper, by working from light to dark in 4 stages.
A still life floral photo is provided in color and gray tones to show values patterns of light, midtones, and dark. Completion of each stage will be done step by step together with the instructor.
Big Island artist and instructor Patti Pease Johnson says, “It’s about being both free with yourself for the pours, which are always a surprise, then disciplined for the details of the main flower, followed by abstraction qualities to complete the background. I think the final painting is complemented by the contrasts.”
This workshop will be held on Saturday, July 8, 2023, at the Volcano Art Center, Niaulani Campus. Beginner and intermediate artists welcome. Patti supplies all materials along with focused guidance and inspiration for this process along with some handy tips for your creative journey. Cost for the workshop is $75/$70 for VAC Members plus a $15 supply fee per person. For more information or to register call VAC at 808-967-8222
Teen Workshop
The Volcano Art Center is proud to offer the Liko A’e Teen workshop. A one-day workshop will be held at VAC’s Niaulani Campus, Saturday, October 21, 2023, from 8:30 A.M. – 2:30 P.M. Open to children ages 13-18 years of age. The deadline to register is October 12, 2023.
This one-day workshop offers your teen to explore various art forms. The classes are dedicated to visual art instruction in hand building with clay, drawing instruction, mixed media encaustics, and zentangle.
Cost: $50/$46 for members of VAC.
Financial forms are available for those in need. Apply for a scholarship Here