All about Wool: Spinning, Felting and Natural Dyeing

Learn what an amazing fiber wool is! Beginning and continuing students who wish to grow totheir spinning skills are invited to join the class. Using vintage spinning wheels learn how to prepare wool, make thread, ply and yield yarn suitable for knitting and crocheting or other fiber arts. Washed and carded prepared wool will be provided. Short introductions about natural dyeing and felting will be interspersed.

Tues April 14-May 5, 5-7pm,Location: Taught at Tink and the Frog in downtown Adrian, 128 E Maumee

Materials: $20 included in class fee

Brushstrokes and Blooms: Painted Furniture

A fun refresh of a gently used end table which is included in your class fee. Your instructor is an experienced artist and an enthusiastic reclaimer having decorated her house entirely with Restore furniture painted in bold colors and patterns creating a house size work of art.  Bring brushes, craft acrylic paints in colors that you favor. ACA will provide a selection of base coat colors and sandpaper. Furniture will be stored in the studio where the class is taught for the duration of the class.

Saturday April 18 and 25, 10am-3pm

Sculpture Studio

Materials:$15 per student included in class fee

Spinner ring

Create a textured flared wide ring with an overlayed half round band using beginning and intermediate techniques.Copper no additional.

Silver additional 20.00

Age 13+

Sunday 1-5 pm

April 19, 2026

Sterling Silver Celtic Ring

No prior expereince needed. You will learn simple solder techniques and use beginning jewelry (shear, patina, rolling mill, filing and sanding) skills to create beautiful wearable art.

All supplies included.

Ages 13+

Tuesday, April 21

4 pm to 7 pm 

Throw it AND Glaze it

In two, two hour sessions learn both the basics of wheel throwing by forming at least one bowl and then glazing it. The second class you will learn about the mysteries of glaze and firing, where art, chemistry and physics intersect. You will chose the glazes of your choice for your fully functional, food, dishwasher and microwave safe bowls. Through out experienced instructors will provide the support and advice you need to be successful. Clay, tools, and glaze firing all provided. Your bowls will ready for pickup at a later date to show off your new artistic skills to all.

Sun April 26 and May 3, 2-4pm

$15 materials included in class fee

Paint and Pour Landscape

Join us for a paint and pour class inspired by the paintings of Shirley VanBenschoten. A fine arts graduate of Siena Heights University she resided in Tecumseh and was president of the Lenawee Council for the Visual Arts when it became the Adrian Center for the Arts.Using acrylic paint mixed with pour medium you will create an abstracted landscape. This class is perfect for those who love nature and thinking outside the box.Shirley’s paintings will be on display in the ACA’s Gallery May 3rd-31st

Date: Sunday May 17, 2-4 pm

 Ages 13 and up

Acrylic Painting

Tues May 19 to June 23, 2026 (6 weeks) 10:00am - 12:00pm

In six weeks learn to control acrylic and your creativity will bloom. Acrylic can be applied several ways. You will be introduced to knife and brush techniques, from impasto to thin as watercolor. Come enjoy the experience.

Bring to class: Sketchbook, tube acrylics, a printed photo reference, apron, paint cloth or paper towels.

ACA will furnish: Canvases, easels, paper palettes.

Age 16 and up

Dorodango: Japanese mud balls

Explore a natural, down- to- earth art that looks beautiful, is surprisingly easy and calms your soul. We will create together a sphere made from dirt which holds together on its own and resembles shiny marble. This class is great for all ages and ability levels. Class participants will create a one- of- a kind meditative mud ball.

May 23, 2026

10:00 to 12:00