Enjoy a relaxed rotation of creative experiences including collage, neurodrawing, paper weaving, mark making, and more. Explore the process and the materials without attachment to the product -- and meet new people along the way. $30 all materials included. 16+ Karisa is really uncomfortable describing herself as an artist and invites you to join her on a creative journey in a safe space. She is a co-founder/co-artistic director of ART House 360 and the owner of Slate Blue Studios.

Did you know that experiencing the arts changes the wiring of our brains? In this class, we'll get in touch with our wiring by setting an intention, expressing it with some scribbling (because play is great for the brain, too!), and softening the sharp bits (visually and metaphorically) with new lines and color. Another thing that's great for the brain is being in community with others! So join us in our beautiful and calming art studio and connect with other brains through creativity. $29 per person. All materials included. Just bring your brain.

Play with paint! Come visit our lab and experiment with paint and found objects! It's chill — we're getting our hands dirty, appreciating color and texture, and maybe even expressing ourselves. There are no expectations — we'll be enjoying the process with no attachment to the outcome. $35 all materials included. Make a joyful mess! Make friends. Hang out at ART House 360. Karisa is really uncomfortable describing herself as an artist and invites you to join her on a creative journey in a safe space. She is a co-founder/co-artistic director of ART House 360 and the owner of Slate Blue Studios.

Meditative Drawing, Doodling, Zendoodles; known by many names, this art practice is a soothing retreat for the mind that offers endless creativity! We will learn a number of techniques ranging from freeform, loose drawing to more patterned and controlled drawing so you can explore different techniques. Then we’ll take time to practice what we learn, using plenty of prompts and tools to guide decision making as we go. Make Creativity a Habit is a workshop series focused on practicing playful art making. Lacking creativity? Don’t feel like a creative person? Need an outlet to cope? Join this workshop series to create an art journal using a new technique each week and practice focusing on the process of creating art! Focusing on the process of making art – rather than the product is a powerful tool to explore playful creativity. We don’t need creative careers, art degrees, or art studios to start a creative practice. We will practice the most important part of creativity – the process of making art – to make being creative a regular and achievable habit in our lives. All workshops in this series provide an abundance of supplies, creative prompts, and plenty of guidance to support open-ended creativity. We will work in a fun, welcoming, and supportive environment, creating community as we go. All supplies for each workshop will be provided, and you will also get supplies to take home with you. At the end of the series, you will have everything you need to continue your playful and creative art practice. Class size limit 10 per session All skill levels welcome. Experience levels from novice to professional will benefit from this series. About the Teaching Artist: Traci McLachlan is a maker and teaching artist in the Verona, Wisconsin area. As the founder of Make Creativity a Habit, she is passionate about making creativity a regular part of life. Traci has been on a creative journey to explore and learn as much as she can about different art techniques. Over the years Traci has realized the greatest satisfaction in making art comes from focusing on the process rather than product. With a deep belief in the power of creativity for wellness, Traci guides people through art workshops that encourage free expression and playfulness to help everyone make creativity a regular habit in their lives. You can learn more about Traci and her creative practice at www.makecreativityahabit.com

Using watercolor paints, we will create colorful and abstract pages. Once dry, we will use a variety of black pens and markers to create doodles and line drawings inspired by the abstract shapes we create. Think coloring book – but in reverse! This is a great way to fight perfectionism and simply focus on marks on a page, letting go of expectations. Make Creativity a Habit is a workshop series focused on practicing playful art making. Lacking creativity? Don’t feel like a creative person? Need an outlet to cope? Join this workshop series to create an art journal using a new technique each week and practice focusing on the process of creating art! Focusing on the process of making art – rather than the product is a powerful tool to explore playful creativity. We don’t need creative careers, art degrees, or art studios to start a creative practice. We will practice the most important part of creativity – the process of making art – to make being creative a regular and achievable habit in our lives. All workshops in this series provide an abundance of supplies, creative prompts, and plenty of guidance to support open-ended creativity. We will work in a fun, welcoming, and supportive environment, creating community as we go. All supplies for each workshop will be provided, and you will also get supplies to take home with you. At the end of the series, you will have everything you need to continue your playful and creative art practice. Class size limit 10 per session All skill levels welcome. Experience levels from novice to professional will benefit from this series. About the Teaching Artist: Traci McLachlan is a maker and teaching artist in the Verona, Wisconsin area. As the founder of Make Creativity a Habit, she is passionate about making creativity a regular part of life. Traci has been on a creative journey to explore and learn as much as she can about different art techniques. Over the years Traci has realized the greatest satisfaction in making art comes from focusing on the process rather than product. With a deep belief in the power of creativity for wellness, Traci guides people through art workshops that encourage free expression and playfulness to help everyone make creativity a regular habit in their lives. You can learn more about Traci and her creative practice at www.makecreativityahabit.com

Learn the fundamentals of linocut printmaking! We will learn and practice carving skills to make beautiful linoleum-style blocks that can be used again and again. Carving will start with pink school erasers and then move to linoleum blocks of different sizes. We will print our designs using ink pads and colorful printing inks. And to further boost the connection to our new creative community, we will share our blocks to create artist trading cards for each other! Make Creativity a Habit is a workshop series focused on practicing playful art making. Lacking creativity? Don’t feel like a creative person? Need an outlet to cope? Join this workshop series to create an art journal using a new technique each week and practice focusing on the process of creating art! Focusing on the process of making art – rather than the product is a powerful tool to explore playful creativity. We don’t need creative careers, art degrees, or art studios to start a creative practice. We will practice the most important part of creativity – the process of making art – to make being creative a regular and achievable habit in our lives. All workshops in this series provide an abundance of supplies, creative prompts, and plenty of guidance to support open-ended creativity. We will work in a fun, welcoming, and supportive environment, creating community as we go. All supplies for each workshop will be provided, and you will also get supplies to take home with you. At the end of the series, you will have everything you need to continue your playful and creative art practice. Class size limit 10 per session All skill levels welcome. Experience levels from novice to professional will benefit from this series. About the Teaching Artist: Traci McLachlan is a maker and teaching artist in the Verona, Wisconsin area. As the founder of Make Creativity a Habit, she is passionate about making creativity a regular part of life. Traci has been on a creative journey to explore and learn as much as she can about different art techniques. Over the years Traci has realized the greatest satisfaction in making art comes from focusing on the process rather than product. With a deep belief in the power of creativity for wellness, Traci guides people through art workshops that encourage free expression and playfulness to help everyone make creativity a regular habit in their lives. You can learn more about Traci and her creative practice at www.makecreativityahabit.com

Create beautifully layered prints full of texture and color! Gel plate printmaking uses gelatin plates and printing inks to capture impressions from found objects to create unique mono prints. This art practice provides endless possibilities for creativity - a great way to explore art playfully! Make Creativity a Habit is a workshop series focused on practicing playful art making. Lacking creativity? Don’t feel like a creative person? Need an outlet to cope? Join this workshop series to create an art journal using a new technique each week and practice focusing on the process of creating art! Focusing on the process of making art – rather than the product is a powerful tool to explore playful creativity. We don’t need creative careers, art degrees, or art studios to start a creative practice. We will practice the most important part of creativity – the process of making art – to make being creative a regular and achievable habit in our lives. All workshops in this series provide an abundance of supplies, creative prompts, and plenty of guidance to support open-ended creativity. We will work in a fun, welcoming, and supportive environment, creating community as we go. All supplies for each workshop will be provided, and you will also get supplies to take home with you. At the end of the series, you will have everything you need to continue your playful and creative art practice. Class size limit 10 per session All skill levels welcome. Experience levels from novice to professional will benefit from this series. About the Teaching Artist: Traci McLachlan is a maker and teaching artist in the Verona, Wisconsin area. As the founder of Make Creativity a Habit, she is passionate about making creativity a regular part of life. Traci has been on a creative journey to explore and learn as much as she can about different art techniques. Over the years Traci has realized the greatest satisfaction in making art comes from focusing on the process rather than product. With a deep belief in the power of creativity for wellness, Traci guides people through art workshops that encourage free expression and playfulness to help everyone make creativity a regular habit in their lives. You can learn more about Traci and her creative practice at www.makecreativityahabit.com

In these days of upheaval, when you are showing up for others, for your values, for the causes that you believe in, it is not selfish to take care of your soul - it’s essential. If you want to show up in this moment in history in a sustainable way, you have to tend to your center. Creativity is one way to do that. Led by coach and artist Theresa Kim, each session will offer a creative practice to help you nourish your soul. Together we will create a space free of judgment, free of noise, free of news. No artistic experience needed. It is not about the art, it’s about what gets created inside us while we’re making the art. We believe that caring for your soul should not be based on your finances. Choose the amount that feels right to you.

Enjoy a relaxed rotation of creative experiences including collage, neurodrawing, paper weaving, mark making, and more. Explore the process and the materials without attachment to the product -- and meet new people along the way. $30 all materials included. 16+ Karisa is really uncomfortable describing herself as an artist and invites you to join her on a creative journey in a safe space. She is a co-founder/co-artistic director of ART House 360 and the owner of Slate Blue Studios.

A fun expression of art through collecting images and text from books and magazines, collage is a familiar art form. We will level-up our collage experience to experiment with mixed media elements. We’ll have access to gel plate prints, block printing, tempera paint sticks, paint pens, and sewing supplies to enhance and embellish our work for a fun twist. Make Creativity a Habit is a workshop series focused on practicing playful art making. Lacking creativity? Don’t feel like a creative person? Need an outlet to cope? Join this workshop series to create an art journal using a new technique each week and practice focusing on the process of creating art! Focusing on the process of making art – rather than the product is a powerful tool to explore playful creativity. We don’t need creative careers, art degrees, or art studios to start a creative practice. We will practice the most important part of creativity – the process of making art – to make being creative a regular and achievable habit in our lives. All workshops in this series provide an abundance of supplies, creative prompts, and plenty of guidance to support open-ended creativity. We will work in a fun, welcoming, and supportive environment, creating community as we go. All supplies for each workshop will be provided, and you will also get supplies to take home with you. At the end of the series, you will have everything you need to continue your playful and creative art practice. Class size limit 10 per session All skill levels welcome. Experience levels from novice to professional will benefit from this series. About the Teaching Artist: Traci McLachlan is a maker and teaching artist in the Verona, Wisconsin area. As the founder of Make Creativity a Habit, she is passionate about making creativity a regular part of life. Traci has been on a creative journey to explore and learn as much as she can about different art techniques. Over the years Traci has realized the greatest satisfaction in making art comes from focusing on the process rather than product. With a deep belief in the power of creativity for wellness, Traci guides people through art workshops that encourage free expression and playfulness to help everyone make creativity a regular habit in their lives. You can learn more about Traci and her creative practice at www.makecreativityahabit.com

Did you know that experiencing the arts changes the wiring of our brains? In this class, we'll get in touch with our wiring by setting an intention, expressing it with some scribbling (because play is great for the brain, too!), and softening the sharp bits (visually and metaphorically) with new lines and color. Another thing that's great for the brain is being in community with others! So join us in our beautiful and calming art studio and connect with other brains through creativity. $29 per person. All materials included. Just bring your brain.

Join us for a watercolor class designed for all ages and skill levels! Teaching artist Kathy Maurer will guide us as we draw and paint small 1.5" x 1.5" paper squares in Spring themes. It's the perfect opportunity for a fun watercolor tutorial, along with an exploration of supplies and color palettes. Choose 1 of 2 Options: $50 Solo Option (frame included) — Paint a seasonal trio of squares and at the end of class, we'll mount them in a single line of a 6"x8" wooden white frame. Hang it for your own enjoyment or make a unique gift! $75 Group Option (frame included) — Bring your people and work together to paint sixteen small paper squares. Then mount them in four rows of four in a 13"x13" frame. It's a wonderful opportunity for each member of the group to showcase their artwork as a whole — and a memento of a special time spent creating together. About the Teaching Artist: Kathy Maurer I've been fortunate to work as a full-time artist my entire adult life. I studied Communication & Art at The Ohio State University, and that dual focus still shapes how I think: I’m always considering both what I’m making and what it’s saying. For 25 years, I worked as a jewelry designer, building my company, Katcando Jewelry, around one-of-a-kind statement pieces. Using sterling silver, found objects, resin, and vintage trade beads, I created wearable compositions balancing craft with storytelling. Each piece was part sculpture, part memory-keeper—where materials carried their own history and meaning. I sold my work throughout the Midwest at juried art shows, including several stops at the Madison Art Fair on the Square. It was during Covid that I permitted myself to explore other artistic avenues. I no longer felt compelled to specialize in a single medium; instead, I welcomed the freedom of moving between disciplines. This shift led me back to my love of painting, collage, surface pattern design, and paper arts—areas that still follow the instincts that guided my jewelry design: layering, texture, and the quiet power of objects brought into relationship with one another. My process remains intuitive and materials-led. I let the work reveal what it wants to become. Whether assembling paper, applying paint, or combining unexpected elements, I’m drawn to the space where structure meets play. Working across mediums is deeply freeing, and it keeps me engaged with what I value most: making art that’s honest and reflective of the world around me.