Pottery classes with David Dahlstedt next session is March 5- April 23

Learn to throw on the potter’s wheel, to hand build, fire and glaze or spend this time improving your techniques under the guidance of a master. David’s work may be found in numerous public and private collections around the country, including the permanent collection of the Arkansas Arts Center, where he received the purchase award in the Regional Craft Biennial.

Make your Easter exquisitely special by learning to make Ukrainian Easter eggs with Bob Byers March 21-22.

The process “writing Pysanky” is simple – similar to batik using beeswax and dyes on an eggshell. The results are fascinating and can be stunningly beautiful. You will be surprised and delighted when the hidden designs beneath the wax is revealed.

The story and myth behind this ancient origin of the Easter Egg is rich and delightful. Created by women in the night, these colorful gifts would be taken to the church Easter morning to be blessed before giving them away. Pysanky held powerful magic, and were said to protect households from evil spirits.To give a pysanka is to give a symbolic gift of life.

The Arkansas Craft School is a center for craft education, dedicated to helping aspiring and practicing craft artisans gain the skills they need for success in the creative economy. Located on Main Street in Mountain View, in the beautiful and serene Ozark Mountains of North Central Arkansas, the Arkansas Craft School offers weekend and week long workshops in clay, glass, metal, fiber, wood, and other craft related media. The School also offers workshops in marketing and management practices geared specifically for artisans, crafts for kids, and community craft programs

. Supp ort for the Arkansas Craft School provided, in part, by the Arkansas Arts Council, an agency of the Department of Arkansas Heritage, and the National Endowment of the Arts.