Past Workshops
Explore past workshops and discover our inspiring alumni faculty and their works, beginning with Shakerag Workshops' inaugural year of 2004 .
2023
- Ann Shayne & Kay Gardiner of Modern Daily Knitting - Knitting Getaway
- Liz Alpert Fay - Traditional Rug Hooking: Designing from Nature
- Lotta Helleberg - Nature Inspired Soft Covered Books
- Darius Hill - Mixed Media Drawing
- Fredy Huaman Mallqui - Classical Wood Carving
- MaPó Kinnord - Clay: Creating Space
- Gunjan Kumar - Introduction to Natural Pigments
- Rashod Taylor - Photography: Connecting with People Through Portraiture
- Katherine Tilton - Sewing: The Artful Shirt
- Ana María Hernando - Listening to the Wind with a Pencil
- Maggie Jaszczak - Object-Making through Material and Process
- Tom Jaszczak - From Beginning to End: Cone 2 Soda Firing
- Stuart Kestenbaum & Susan Webster - Words and Images
- Nathalie Miebach - Sculptural Storytelling with Data
- Emily & Sarah Parkinson - Patterns & Prints & Plants & Play
- Sonya Philip - Crafting a Handmade Wardrobe
- Amy Tavern - Introduction to the Creative Process for Jewelers
- Catherine Tsintzos - Fibers and Colors from the Fields: Book, Paper, Fabric
2022
- Ann Shayne & Kay Gardiner of Modern Daily Knitting - Knitting Getaway
- Susan Brandeis - Stitching: Stitching as Drawing
- Mahwish Chishty - Painting: Minature Painting: Nature
- Bob Ebendorf - Jewelry: Personal Adornment: Treasures from Lost and Found
- Suze Lindsay & McKenzie Smith - Clay: Bowled Over
- Ciona Rouse & Lanecia Rouse Tinsley - Writing and Painting: Kindred: An Experience of Poetry and Mixed Media Painting
- Lesley Patterson-Marx - Sewing For Joy
- Holger Thoss - Photography: Unleash Your Inner Creative Forces
- Rinne Allen - Photography: Observer & Participant: The Dual Roles of the Photographer
- Sunshine Cobb - Clay: Exploring Functional Hand Building
- Dennis Gilbert & Rebecca Goodale - Book Arts: The Illuminated Autobiography
- Sarah Nishiura - Quilting: The Potential of Pattern
- Shaun O'Dell - Painting: The Sublime All the Time
- Laura Salamy - Rug Hooking: Save the Planet
- Blake Vaden - Woodworking: A Study in Joinery
- Ellen Kochansky - Textiles: Gathering Voices / Art of Community
2021
- Ann Shayne & Kay Gardiner of Modern Daily Knitting - Knitting Getaway
- Doug Baulos - Mixed Media, Retracing Nature: Folio, Book, Inspiration
- Peter Beasecker - Clay / Wheel Work: How to Make a Better Pot
- Rebecca Chamlee - Book Arts: The Book Artist as Naturalist
- Kathy Hattori - Dyeing: Natural Dye Surface Techniques
- Allie Olson - Sewing: Highlands Wrap Dress or Blouse
- Billy Renkl - Collage: Some Assembly Required
- Travis Townsend - Sculpture: Volumetric Forms + Expressive Surfaces
- Chris Coleman - Digital Arts: Unreal Figures, 3D Scanning and Rendering
- John Dolan - Photography: Diving Beneath the Surface
- Kathy King - Jewelry: Explorations in Bead Weaving
- Erin McIntosh - Painting: "Poetic" Painting in Water-Based Media
- Christa Parravani & Caroline Randall-Williams - Writing: The Sound of Personal Storytelling
- Barry Rhodes - Clay: Finding Your Voice in Clay: Surface Design, Hand Building
- Jim Sherraden - Printmaking: Cutting Kaleidoscopes
- Jessica Wohl - Quilting: A New Life, Upcycled Quilting
2019
- Ann Shayne & Kay Gardiner of Modern Daily Knitting - Knitting Getaway
- Michael Brennand-Wood - Textiles: Random Precision: 3D Line, Stitch, Structure, and Light
- Donna Brown - Natural Dyes: Can You Dig It? Natural Dyeing and Direct Application of Natural Pigments
- Cora Cohen - Painting: Why Painting?
- Jean Jones - Sewing: Learning by Doing
- Lesley Patterson-Marx - Book Arts: Turning Books into Books: Creative Salvage
- Hannah Perner-Wilson - Digital Arts: Blurring Boundaries: Electronics as Material Practice
- Jeremy Randall - Clay: Pottery for Presentation
- Paul Roden - Printmaking: Multi-block Color Relief Printmaking
- Katja Toporski - Jewelry: Alternative Jewelry Basics
- Michael Brennand-Wood - Textiles: Between Thought and Expression, Imagery for Textiles
- Christel Dillbohner - Mixed Media: Blue Notes, Recording the Creative Process
- Keiko Hara - Printmaking: Expressive Mokuhanga, Water based Woodblock Printing
- Sandra Johnson - Sewing: Creating a Capsule Wardrobe
- Valerie Maser-Flanagan - Quilting: Using Lines as a Design Focus in a Sewn Composition
- Sylvia Plachy - Photography: Where the Thread Leads
- Ron Roy & Liz Willoughby - Clay: Pots That Pour, Glazes That Work
- Jason Schneider - Furniture: Working with Corrugated Cardboard
2018
- Ann Shayne & Kay Gardiner of Modern Daily Knitting - Knitting Getaway
- Paul Catanese - Post-Digital Printmaking
- Jane Dunnewold - Personal Archetypes as Artistic Inspiration
- Catharine Ellis - Natural Dye: A Focus on Protein Fibers
- Claudia Lopez - The Portrait: Gesture and the Intangible
- Lisa Klakulak - Felt Jewelry Techniques: Explorations in Craftsmanship, Composition, and Context
- Ben Potter - Non-Traditional Materials: Working from Imagination and Observation
- Deborah Stevenson - Creating with Collage
- Sandy Simon - Developing an Identity in Utilitarian Clay
- Catharine Ellis - Natural Dye: A Focus on Cellulose Fibers and Printing
- Mary Hettmansperger - Explorations in 3D: Weaving and Basketry, Metals and More
- Jane Harrison - A Bigger Tool Box
- Stuart Kestenbaum + Susan Webster - Words and Images
- Linda Lee - Exploring Fit, Fashion, and Finish
- Christine Mauersberger - The Intuitive Stitch
- Dean Nimmer - Painting in the Mode: Impressionism, Cubism, and Abstract Expressionism
- Steven Valleau - Bird Carving with Knives
- Jerilyn Virden - Sculptural Vessels and Hollow Forms
2017
- Dorothy Caldwell - Human Marks: Drawing, Stitching, Batik, Bookmaking
- Gretchen Hirsch - Vintage-Inspired Dressmaking
- Hiroki Morinoue - Mokuhanga (Traditional Japanese Woodblock Printing)
- Andee Rudloff - From Street Art to Rural Barn Paintings: Telling Our Big Stories
- Amy Sanders - Clay: Handbuilding with Custom Texture
- Jennifer Jacobs - Blending Computational and Manual Drawing
- Terrell James - Line in Painting and Drawing
- Matt Long - Clay: Porcelain and Soda Fire
- Carole Frances Lung - The T-Shirt is the Problem: Rags, Rugs, and Baskets are the Solution
- Joan Liftin - Photography: Making the Interior Visible
- Hiroki Morinoue - Mokuhanga with Monotype Techniques
- Elin Noble - Natural Dyes, New Methods
- Connie Ulrich - Jewelry: Telling a Story Through Layers of Metal
2016
- Pat Bergeson - The Joys of Guitar, Harmonica, and Song Writing for Music Lovers
- Elizabeth Busch - Outside, Inside: Creating a Painted Quilt
- Diane Hall - Sewing: The Art of Making
- HERObike - HERObike DIY
- Mary Hettmansperger - Jewelry: Alternative Surfaces, Expressions, and Designs
- Matt Kelleher - Mosaic Mandala: Spirit and Nature
- Kenneth Parker - Finding Your Voice in Color Landscape Photography
- Danielle Roney - Time-Based Space: Experimentations in Spatial Media Design
- Gasali Adeyemo - Traditional Yoruba Batik, Adire, and Tie Dye with Indigo Dye
- Ilze Aviks - Monoprinting & Handstitching: Your Personal Expression
- Colette Fu - Pop-Up Book Structures
- Brady Haston - Painting: Understanding Composition and Texture
- McKenzie Smith - Clay, Form, Slip, Glaze, Fire
- Maggie Steber - Photography: Daring to See the World in a New Way
- Shoko Teruyama - Clay: Build it, Slip it, Scratch it
2015
- Bernadette Curran - When Animals Go Tactile
- Daniel Essig - The Altered Mica Book
- Ken Kewley - Figures in a Landscape: From the Literal to the Poetic
- Charllotte Kwon - Natural Dyeing
- Tilleke Schwarz - Texts and Flowers
- Jill Solomon - Saggar Firing Techniques
- Marlene True - The Art of Tin Jewelry Making
- Diane Willow - Site - Sound
- Greg Borenstein - The Art and Technology of Illusion: Magic Lanterns, Haunted Houses, and Special Effects
- Akemi Nakano Cohn - KATAZOME with Natural Dyes on Silk
- Hamlett Dobbins - Collaborative Drawing and Painting
- Charles Harbutt - Learning How to See: Photography as a Second Language
- Neil Patterson - Throw, Facet, Stretch, Dart! The Wheel as a Creative Tool
- Sandi Pierantozzi - Flat to Form: Handbuilding Pots
- Tilleke Schwarz - Telling Your Own Story
- Angelika Werth - Garments: Deconstruction/Reconstruction
2014
- Nathalie Miebach - Sculptural Weaving
- Jody Alexander - The Stitcherly Book
- Catharine Ellis and Debra Frasier - Natural Dyes, Natural Words: Dyeing Colors & Inventing Color Language
- Cal Patch - Design (and MAKE!) Your Own Clothes
- Saul Becker - Landscape: An Evolving Exploration of Place
- Béatrice Coron - Cut it out!
- Bob Ebendorf - Lost and Found: Personal Adornment Jewelry
- Linda McFarling - Pots with Sass!
- Connie Norman - Surface and Glaze
- Greg Pond - The Printed Object
- Erica Spitzer Rasmussen - Sculptural Approaches to Handmade Paper
- Mira Gerard - Painting with Source Images
- Yoshiko Wada - Boro Transformed: Patched, Pieced, Stitched, and Dyed in Greenest Indigo [Wait List only]
- Steven Hill - Pouring Vessels and Cups: Atmospheric Effects For Electric Firing
- Lisa Pedolsky - The Handbuilt Pot: Design, Construction, & Decoration
- Roger Vail - Photography One
2013
- Nick Joerling - Clay: Pots & Possibilities
- Dolph Smith - Window, Window On The Book
- Val Cushing - Form and Surface Activation with Plates and Platters
- Andy Saftel - Impressions: Color Collagraph and Relief Printmaking
- Emily Leonard - Painting from Within
- Angelina DeAntonis - Itajime Dyeing with Plants and Insects: From Fundamentals to Innovations
- Jeff Jacobson - Photography: Where Do You Stand?
- Sandra Brownlee and Warren Seelig - Making Words
- Lana Wilson - Clay: Handbuilding plus COLOR!
- Leah Buechley - Crafting Electricity: Interactive Drawings, Paintings, and Sculptures
- Rebecca Burgess - Botanic Color: Sourcing from Native and Indigenous Plant Life
- Hayne Bayless - Clay: If You Hand-Build It, They Will Come
- Carol Shinn - Creating Imagery with Freestyle Machine Embroidery
- Jean Hicks - 3-D Felt Millinery
- Casey Reas - Drawing with Code
- Paul Wong - Paper Pulp Stenciling
2012
- Kent McLaughlin - Kiln Building Simplified
- Shawn Decker - Moving and Shaking the World: Physical Computing for Artists
- Holly Roberts - Paint and Collage/Collage and Paint
- Dahlia Elsayed - Painting: Image and Text
- Nancy Crow - Quiltmaking: Strip Piecing & Re-Structuring
- Natalie Chanin and Diane Hall - Open Design: Sewing and Construction
- Sandy Webster - Boxes and Books: Constructions Around the Found Object
- Stephen Alvarez - Photography: The Visual Narrative
- John Britt - Understanding Glazes and Firing
- Mark Shapiro - Making Pots / Thinking Pots
- Michel Garcia - Dyeing with Plants: Seven Experiments
- Liz Zlot Summerfield - Personal Pots Through Soft Slabs
- Chris Sugrue - Curious Systems: Explorations in Art and Algorithmic Behavior
- Michel Garcia - Printing on Textiles with Plants: Polychromatic Effects
- Jean Cacicedo - Three Dimensional Fabric: Drawn from Nature
2011
- Randy Johnston - Adjusting Volume: Insights into Handbuilding
- Jan McKeachie Johnston - Thoughtful Considerations in the Making of Everyday Pots
- Jeanette Sendler - Felt-making: Collars, Cuffs, and Mantles
- Jeanette Sendler - Felt-making: Hills, Heather, Lochs, and Bogs
- Jane Sisco and Clay McLaurin - Look, Play, Design
- Sara Terry - Finding Your Visual Voice
- Stephen Vitiello - Sound Art Workshop: Field Recording and Electronic Composition
- Linda Christianson - Pottery: Ideas and Making
- Mark Pharis - From Flat to Fat: Function, Context, and Process
- Rowland Ricketts - Local Color: Art, Life, and Local Plants as Dyes
- Connie Ulrich - Wearable Art using Cold Connections
- Jennifer Heller Zurick - Willow Bark Basketry
- Joanna Berzowska - Electronic Textiles and Reactive Garments
- Clare Walker Leslie - Drawing with Nature
- Peter Madden - The Unconventional Book
2010
- Margaret Bohls - Expressive Slab-Built Pottery
- Charity Davis-Woodard - On and Off: Taking Wheel-thrown Work to the Table
- India Flint - A Walk in the Woods
- Marius Watz - Processing Foundation Course
- India Flint - Quiltfelt Landskin
- Daniel Mack - Working Rustic at Shakerag
- Miller Puckette - Interactive Computer Music and Art using Pure Data
- Tom Lundberg - The Eye and the Needle
- John McQueen - Tinkering with Nature
- Daniel Essig - Wooden Books – Mica Pages
- Gay Smith - Vibrant Pots: Form, Surface, and Soda Firing
- Lisa Naples - Handbuilding Pots While Conjuring the 3 Graces: Slabs, Coils, and Pinching
- Joan M. Morris - Natural Dye Extracts and an Indigo Pot: All You Need to Make Shibori Textiles
- Bob Durham - Creating a Monster: Putting Life in a Still-Life
2009
- Ruby Chishti - Contemporary Soft Sculpture: Immortalize Yourself!
- Judy Dominic - Bogolan Fini (Mudcloth) Modified
- Jorie Johnson - Seductive Felts to Wrap Yourself Up In
- Gail Kendall - Growing Up: Vertical Forms From Coil and Slab
- Mary Law - A Passion for Form
- Shanna Leino - Late Coptic Bookbinding
- Susan Shie - Diary Paintings for Art Quilts
- Laura Splan - From Pixel to Print: Digital Imaging + Inkjet Printing
- Charissa Brock - Bamboo Basics
- David Chatt - Achieving Nirvana Through the Fully Realized Beaded Bracelet
- Harrell Fletcher - Art and Social Practice
- Susan King - Developing Ideas for Artist’s Books
- Suze Lindsay - Slab Work: Making Sets and Series for Salt
- Kent Mclaughlin - Tableware
- Greg Niemeyer - Dream and Machine
2008
- Hayne Bayless - Happiness is a Warm Extruder
- Sandra Brownlee and Anne West - Tactile Notebooks
- Val Cushing - Functional Pottery on the Potter’s Wheel: Ideas to Improvisation
- Diane Farris - Photography and Narrative with Digital Tools – and Soul
- Kerr Grabowski - Deconstructed Screen Printing
- Flo Hoppe - Exploring the Woven Form
- Lisa Klakulak - Felted Compositions
- Golan Levin - Digital Media: The Interactive Image
- Ellen Shankin - Useful Pots – Aesthetic Choices
- Joanna and Joe Swayze - Plein Air Photography
- Chris Bucklow - Developing a Visual Language
- Malcom Davis - Clay: Shinos in the Fire
2007
- Nikolai Cornell - Designing Interactive Installations
- Eva Kwong - Clay: The Natural Object
- Andrew Saftel - Mixing Media: Ideas to Images
- Dolph Smith - Books on the Move
- Carol Stangler - The New Bamboo: Tools and Techniques
- Mary Kay Botkins - Clay: Folded Forms with Lids
- Silvie Granatelli - Pottery through the Culture of Food
- Chad Alice Hagen - Resist Shaped Fine Wool Scarves
- Ana Lisa Hedstrom - Fiber: A Passion for Patterns
- Pat Mink - Developing New Traditions: Inkjet Fabric
- Pete Pinnell - The Pouring Vessel
- Joan Schulze - The Illuminated Quilt: Textures, Text and Images
2006
- Michael Sherrill - The Extruder as Work Station
- JoAnn Schnabel - Carved Tiles for the Wall
- Chunghie Lee and Jiyoung Chung - Paper Pojagi
- Hedi Kyle - The Voluminous Page
- Warren Seelig - Constructed Surface: A Metaphorical Textile
- Casey Reas - Stimulus/Response: An Introduction to Computer Programming for Artists
- Kari Lonning - Contemporary Rattan Baskets: What You Didn’t Learn About in Summer Camp
- Leah Leitson - Responding to Touch: Thrown and Altered Porcelain Pouring Vessels
- Sam Chung - Glazing the Pottery Form
- Jean Cacicedo - Working with Wool: Art To Wear
- Akira Blount - Fashioning Figures in Cloth
- Anne Bagby - Acrylic Manipulations
2005
- Wendy Erickson - Threads and Pixels: Digital Textile Printing for Photographers and Textile Artists
- George Harkins - Plein-Air Watercolor
- Jean Hicks - Making Three-Dimensional Felt
- Jim Ann Howard - Watercolor: On Site and Natural
- Pradip Malde - Art in the Digital Realm
- Lynne Vogel - Spinning, Dyeing, Knitting: Hands On Color
- Cynthia Bringle - Clay: Function and Beyond
- Helen Hiebert - Lamps & Lanterns: Creating Innovative Structures that Capture Light
- Nick Joerling - Clay: Pots and Possibilities
- Emily Martin - A Sampler of Handmade Books
- Lana Wilson and Jeff Oestreich - Innovative Pottery
- Sandi Pierantozzi - Clay: Handbuilding Functional Pots
2004
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Photo Credit: Allison Hammond