BreckCreate Calendar

Bring your toddler to the Arts District Campus for a mini-class for mini-artists. Projects are thirty minutes long and will provide parents an opportunity to be creative with their young ones. For ages 1-5. To ensure a spot, register online. Parents are required to attend. Please register for child only. 

Instructor: Paige P. Scheuermann

This class will discuss and demonstrate proper ceramic glazing techniques for mid-range-firing. Perfect for the student who has made ceramic pieces and needs glaze instruction or for experienced students that would like to learn new glazing techniques.

This class is designed for past clay hand-building participants or BCA ceramics open studio patrons that need glazing instructions for their bisque ware. Please make sure your pieces are bisque fired and ready to be glazed before class. *No outside studio bisque ware allowed, only bisque ware made in BCA ceramics studio.

Participants must be 15 or older to participate. The cost of the class includes glaze, use of tools, and other studio equipment.

Instructor: Melissa Michel

For classes taking place on the Arts District campus, participants should check-in at Old Masonic Hall, 136 S. Main St., prior to class. 

This class is designed for the intermediate potter who can center and throw a tall cylinder and is ready to grow and advance to the next level of pottery shape making. This class will explore the process of making different shapes such as vases, bowls as well as mugs and handles. . 

To take this class, participants are required to have previously taken Beginner Wheel Throwing at BreckCreate in the past or to have communicated with the instructor about skill level PRIOR to registration.  Any participants who are not intermediate level will have their registration moved the a future Beginner Wheel Throwing class. You can email the instructor at scumugs@gmail.com

Instructor: Melissa Michel

Class participants, even pre-registered, are required to check-in at Old Masonic Hall, 136 S. Main St., prior to class. 

Enjoy a summer day outside in the kiln yard, firing ceramic pieces in a special gas firing. Students will be hands on during the firing process and firings may last up to 6 hours. Instructions include loading and manning the kiln while firing, taking out molten hot pieces and handling reduction chambers, removing char from pieces as well as any prep work. Participants are allowed up to 5 bisque sculptural or decorative pieces to Raku. Pieces must be larger than 5 inches and Raku glazed no later than the night PRIOR to class.  Check out the Glazing Techniques class to learn about glazing for Raku firings.

Instructor: Melissa Michel

Following in the tradition of Deep Listening pioneered by Pauline Oliveros, students in “Collect – Curate – Craft” will be led to explore in Breckenridge the richness of sound unveiled with nothing more than a microphone. They will then be guided through processes of finding form in the act of listening, labeling, and editing sound (and any accompanying photo/video) as outlined by cinematographer Walter Much in his book, In the Blink of an Eye.

Students will need to bring a cell phone for recording sound and video and preferably a laptop for editing sound and video.  A limited number of laptops will be available for use on campus during the workshop. Please note whether you will need one of ours during registration.

Instructor: Zain Alam

This class would engage the young toddler from ages 3-5 in a focused art medium each week, emphasizing and enhancing their focus, fine motor, gross motor, communication, and visual artistic skills. For ages 3-5. To ensure a spot, register online. Parents are required to attend. Please register for child only.

Instructor: Paige P. Scheuermann

Join us each week for inspiration, collaboration, and guidance in creative writing. We spend time each week writing, discussing a different novel, sharing our work and offering positive feedback for each other’s writing. Free journals are available to all students. For ages 10 and up. To ensure a spot, register online. Parents must register at Old Masonic Hall for first-time participants.

Instructor: Kimberly Nicoletti

This class will experience clay hand building through the method of slab construction and slab manipulation, pinching and coiling to create decorative and also functional pieces. Projects will include cylinder vessels, slab boxes and pockets, tumblers, cups, mugs and plates.

This class will also explore surface decorating techniques using underglazes and sgraffito as well as texture techniques and slip trailing that will make your utilitarian pieces come to life with design.

Please note that ceramics is a multistep process. Projects created in this class will not be completed until they are fired in a ceramic kiln. Kiln firings occur when there is enough work to fill the kilm. To pick up kiln fired pieces, please see a Breck Create team member at Old Masonic Hall.

While participants will not be able to complete a fired project in one class, they are encouraged to take the Ceramic Glazing class or attend a Ceramic Open Studio to complete their projects.

Instructor: Melissa Michel

Class participants, even pre-registered, are required to check-in at Old Masonic Hall, 136 S. Main St., prior to class. 

Each week we will go over tips and tricks to learn how to draw from life. Learning to draw from life is actually about learning to really see. We’ll go over a variety of approaches to starting and completing a drawing as well explore different drawing medium. Some weeks may be focused on meticulous perspective, while other weeks may be all about expressive gestural mark making. Some weeks we’ll play with color, and other weeks we’ll get messy using charcoal. During the warmer months, if the weather is appropriate, we may go outside to draw.

Instructor: Kia Neill

Participants must be 15 or older to participate. The cost of the class includes materials and use of tools. Non-members: $30 Members: $23

This adult class offers an introduction to the comprehensive process of ceramics and pottery, and students will practice both wheel throwing and hand building techniques. Other skills that will be covered include: wedging, trimming, and attachments. Each class will start with a specific skill-focused demonstration, and students can expect supportive guidance from our instructor.

Please note that ceramics is a multistep process. While participants will not be able to complete a fired project in one class, they are encouraged to take the Ceramic Glazing class or attend a Ceramic Open Studio to complete their projects.

Firings occur when there is enough work to fill the kiln.

Instructor: Melissa Michel

Class participants, even pre-registered, are required to check-in at Old Masonic Hall, 136 S. Main St., prior to class. 

Bring your toddler to the Arts District Campus for a mini-class for mini-artists. Projects are thirty minutes long and will provide parents an opportunity to be creative with their young ones. For ages 1-5. To ensure a spot, register online. Parents are required to attend. Please register for child only. 

Instructor: Paige P. Scheuermann

Come mingle with other couples for an romantic evening of entertaining art instruction. Enjoy a drink while you complete an acrylic painting that is uniquely yours and hopefully gain a new talent that you are interested in exploring! Tickets will include 1 drink of beer or wine. Additional drinks are available for purchase. Participants must be 21 or older to attend.

Instructor: Tracy Bligh