BreckCreate Calendar

This class would engage the youth from ages 6-12 in a focused art medium each week. Emphasizing and enhancing their focus and visual artistic skills. For ages 6 and up. To ensure a spot, register online. Parents must register at Old Masonic Hall for first-time participants. 

Instructor: Paige P. Scheuermann

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

Participants will be introduced to a variety of techniques in reusing and recycling found and everyday objects to create new works of art. From sculpture to wall hung works, we’ll explore a variety of mixed media and assemblage techniques while using materials such as cereal boxes, soda cans, bottle caps, old t-shirts, plastic bags, and so much more. Through creative experimentation, teens will explore expression through the medium of what essentially would be “trash”.

Participants must be 12 or older to participate. The cost of the class includes materials.

Instructor: Kia Neill

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 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 kiln. 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

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

Learn the art of lampworking (a form of glassblowing) by developing and honing your skills. Work with a torch and flame to melt glass rods into works of art and explore the possibilities of Borosilicate glass. Your creativity will blossom as you craft pendants, beads, marbles and so much more. Safety is an extremely high priority in this class. Please wear natural fiber clothing (such as cotton or wool) and if possible, we encourage student with glasses to wear contact lenses. Glass pieces must be kiln fired overnight.  Completed pieces can be picked up the next day.

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

Instructor: Jared Clauer

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

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. 

Nature has long inspired writer and artist alike.  In this workshop, combine words and visuals to create your own nature inspired work of art!

Class include use of tools and cost of materials.  Recommended for ages 6+.

Instructor: Kimberly Nicoletti

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

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

Come learn how to size, sand, embellish and seal natural branches to create a personalized hiking stick.

Class includes the use of tools and cost of materials.  Recommended for ages 15+.

Instructor: Allen Schapansky 

Edible wild plants are the best kind of food—free, organic, and delicious. What edible plants can be found in Breckenridge? Join Wild Food Girl (Erica Davis) for a walk and talk on edible wild plants in the area—including identification, harvest, use, and sustainability—followed by hands-on food preparation and a tasting back at the Arts District. Erica has been eating wild plants for more than 20 years and is currently working on a book about the subject. Find her at www.wildfoodgirl.com.

Class includes the use of tools and cost of materials.  This class is recommended for ages 15+.  

Please note that this class starts at near the river at Colorado Mountain College Breckenridge Campus for foraging and resumes at Old Masonic Hall for the cooking.  Participants will need a vehicle.

Join artist, educator and activist, Calder Kamin to turn trash into spider brooches, inspired by Ben Roth’s trail mix installation.  Recommended for ages 6+.

Class includes the use of tools and materials.

The time is now to speak up and take action about environmental sustainability.  Inspired by Justin Brice Guarglia’s We Are The Asteroid, make your own signs with ecological messages using paint on reclaimed wood.

Class includes use of tools and cost of materials.  Recommended for ages 10+.

Instructor:  Paige P. Scheuermann

Let’s make beautiful music together by create homemade instruments from varied materials. 

Class includes the use of tools and the cost of materials. Recommended for ages 1-6 (Parental supervision required).

Instructor: Paige P Scheuermann

Using permanent markers and a toaster oven, you’ll learn how to turn plastic waste into miniature artworks!

Class includes use of tools and cost of materials. Recommended for ages 6+.

Instructor: Kia Neill

Upcycle old mirrors and CDs into a reflective mosaic composition.  

Class includes the cost use of tools and cost of materials.  Recommended for ages 15 and up.

Instructor:  Tracy Bligh