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UPCOMING
WORKSHOPS
TEEN + ADULT
October 17th | 11:00 AM–1:00 PM | $65
At Tributary Beer Garden
Join us for another beautifully styled Crafty Brunch at Tributary Beer Garden, where good food, creative making, and community come together around the table.
This month, we’re exploring Kinusaiga, a traditional Japanese fabric art technique sometimes called “patchwork without sewing.” Using small pieces of fabric, you’ll create a dimensional textile artwork by carefully layering and tucking fabric into a prepared design.
You’ll choose from a selection of designs and fabrics, then work piece by piece to create your own finished artwork—playing with color, pattern, texture, and composition along the way. The result is a tactile, beautiful piece ready to display in your home.
And, of course, we’ll make a morning of it.
Enjoy a thoughtfully curated menu from Paradigm, delicious donuts from Sunday Dough, and a beverage from Tributary Beer Garden while you create and connect with the people around you.
What to Expect:
An introduction to the Japanese art of Kinusaiga
Guidance through the fabric layering and tucking technique
A variety of fabrics and designs to choose from
Time to create your own finished textile artwork
A beautifully styled brunch experience at Tributary Beer Garden
What You Will Love:
Learning a unique art form with a fascinating history
Playing with color, pattern, and texture
Creating a piece of art you’ll want to display
A relaxed, social creative experience
Delicious food, donuts, and drink alongside your making
Materials Included & What to Bring:
Materials Provided: Prepared Kinusaiga base, fabric, design options, and all necessary tools and materials.
What to Bring: Nothing! Just yourself and your creativity.
Your ticket includes the creative workshop, brunch menu from Paradigm, donuts from Sunday Dough, and a beverage from Tributary Beer Garden.
All skill levels welcome. Come hungry, come curious, and come ready to make something beautiful.
October 21st | 6:30–8:00 PM | $45
The Sheboygan Collective
What happens when a photograph becomes a canvas?
Join us for a creative evening that blends photography, embroidery, and a little bit of whimsy. In this hands-on workshop, you’ll transform a photograph into a one-of-a-kind piece of stitched art by layering colorful cross-stitch details over the image.
Bring a photograph that means something to you—a favorite place, a person you love, a moment you want to remember—or choose from a collection of photographs Whitney has taken over the years.
We’ll guide you through the basics of stitching onto a photograph, including how to plan your design, choose your colors, and add embroidery details without losing the story already captured in the image. You can follow one of our suggested designs or let your imagination take over.
The result is part photograph, part textile, and entirely your own.
What to Expect:
An introduction to cross-stitching on photographs
Guidance on choosing colors, placement, and stitch patterns
A selection of Whitney’s photographs to choose from
The opportunity to bring your own meaningful photograph
Time to create a finished stitched photograph
What You Will Love:
Giving a favorite photograph an unexpected new life
Combining photography with the tactile beauty of embroidery
Adding tiny details, color, and personality to an image
Creating artwork with a story already built into it
Learning a technique you can continue experimenting with at home
Materials Included & What to Bring:
Materials Provided: Printed photographs from Whitney’s collection, embroidery floss, needles, and all necessary materials.
What to Bring: You are welcome to bring your own 5x7 photograph to embellish. A high-contrast image with some open areas works especially well. We’ll also have plenty of Whitney’s photographs available if you’d rather choose one when you arrive.
No previous cross-stitch or embroidery experience is needed. All skill levels welcome.
Come stitch a little something unexpected into a memory.
Our Studio is located on the second level with stair access only
Saturday, October 10
Monday, November 9th
Wednesday, December 9th
Join Megan under the new moon for a circle experience with other women. Held in the tradition established by The Wild Women Project, we will use the tools of meditation, journaling and intention setting to check in on ourselves, witness each other, and establish a clear direction for the month ahead. Each ceremony integrates seasonal influence and moon placement to guide you into a space of connection with your own intuition and wisdom. Stick around after for drinks, snacks and interesting conversation.
Our circle welcomes women from all walks of life, fostering a community built on respect, confidentiality, and sharing of experiences with the intention to connect deeper with the wisdom that lives within each of us and the wisdom that lives collectively among us.
This event is on the second level with only stair access.
Upcoming youth + Family
Studio Programs
At The Sheboygan Collective, we believe art is a powerful way for young people to build confidence, curiosity, resilience and a sense of belonging.
Our programs aren’t designed around twenty kids making the same thing. Instead, our educators introduce techniques, share a variety of examples, and provide an abundance of materials to give young artists a place to begin—then we leave room for their ideas to take over.
Over time, we’ve watched students move from asking, “Is this right?” to walking into the studio saying, “I have an idea.”
That’s the growth we’re after.
Wednesday, October 28 | 5:30–7:00 PM
$20 | Middle School + Up
With Ms. Lola
LEGO minifigures. Smiski. Tiny animals. Cars. Dinosaurs. Game pieces. Trinkets. Random little objects you’ve collected and love.
Bring them to the studio!
In this Teen Studio workshop, we’ll turn your favorite little things into a one-of-a-kind plaster cast collage.
You’ll arrange your collection into a composition, create a mold, and cast your design in plaster. Then we’ll break out the paints to bring your piece to life! Go bold and colorful, highlight your favorite details, keep it monochromatic, or leave some of that beautiful raw plaster showing.
What to Bring:
Bring 5–10 small toys, figures, or trinkets that represent what you’re into right now. Choose objects you’re comfortable using in the mold-making process and leave anything especially valuable or irreplaceable at home.
We’ll provide the plaster, mold-making materials, paints, tools + everything else you need.
No experience needed. Just bring your favorite little things and come make something cool.
Space is limited for this workshop, so be sure to register early to save your spot!
$20 per person | Middle School + Up
SOCIAL SATURDAY AT TSC
Community + Creating Come Together
Día de Muertos: Nichos + Marigolds
Saturday, October 31 | 10 AM–2 PM
$10 per person | All ages welcome
In collaboration with Sheboygan with Kids
This October, Social Saturday is a celebration of Día de Muertos—a day to gather, create, remember + celebrate the people we love.
We’ll be making nichos, small decorated boxes found in Mexican folk art that can be used to honor and remember someone meaningful to us. Fill yours with color, flowers, decorative details, and a photograph of someone you’d like to remember.
Please bring a 3×5 or smaller photograph or printed copy of a photo of a loved one who has passed away to include in your nicho. We’ll provide the rest of the materials.
And while everyone creates something of their own, we’ll also make something together.
Throughout the day, we’ll be building a large community marigold arch, with each guest invited to create tissue-paper cempasúchil and add their flowers to the installation.
Marigolds are an important part of Día de Muertos celebrations. Their brilliant orange and yellow color and distinctive fragrance are traditionally used on ofrendas and along pathways to help welcome and guide the spirits of loved ones. Arches are also used as part of ofrendas, creating a symbolic passage and welcome for those being remembered.
Our arch will grow throughout Social Saturday—many individual flowers, made by many different hands, becoming one community piece.
Come for the full four hours or stop in for a while. Kids, teens, + adults are all invited to create alongside one another.
No art skills needed. Whether Día de Muertos is part of your traditions or you’re learning about it for the first time, everyone is welcome. Come make something, learn a little, and celebrate with us!
SÁBADO SOCIAL EN TSC
Comunidad + Creatividad se Unen
Día de Muertos: Nichos + Cempasúchil
Sábado 31 de octubre | 10 AM–2 PM
$10 por persona | Todas las edades son bienvenidas
En colaboración con Sheboygan with Kids
Este octubre, Social Saturday será una celebración del Día de Muertos, un día para reunirnos, crear, celebrar y recordar a nuestros seres queridos.
Vamos a crear nichos, pequeñas cajitas decorativas de arte popular mexicano que se pueden usar para honrar y recordar a un ser querido que ha fallecido. Puedes llenar el tuyo de colores, flores, detalles decorativos y una fotografía de la persona que estás recordando.
Trae una pequeña fotografía o una copia impresa de una foto de un ser querido que haya fallecido para incluirla en tu nicho. Nosotros tendremos el resto de los materiales.
Y mientras cada quien trabaja en su propio nicho, también crearemos algo juntos:
A lo largo del evento, trabajaremos en construir un gran arco comunitario de cempasúchil, y cada participante podrá hacer su propia flor de papel y agregarla a la instalación.
El cempasúchil es una parte importante del Día de Muertos. Su brillante color naranja y amarillo y su distintiva fragancia se usan tradicionalmente en las ofrendas y a lo largo de los caminos que se preparan para recibir y guiar a los espíritus de nuestros seres queridos. Los arcos también simbolizan un pasaje y una bienvenida para aquellos a quienes queremos recordar.
Nuestro arco irá creciendo a lo largo del evento: muchas pequeñas flores, hechas por diferentes manos, convirtiéndose en una sola creación comunitaria.
Acompáñanos durante toda la sesión o ven solo un rato. Niños, adolescentes y adultos, todos están invitados a crear juntos.
No necesitas tener experiencia en arte ni necesitas tener herencia mexicana o haber celebrado antes esta hermosa tradición. Ya sea que el Día de Muertos sea parte de tus tradiciones o que sea algo completamente nuevo para ti, todos son bienvenidos. Ven a crear, aprender algo nuevo y celebrar con nosotros.
For Everyone
Tuesdays | 5:00-6:00pm
November 3rd, 10th, and 17th. Open Studio November 28th 10-2pm
This month, we’re diving into the wonderfully hands-on world of printmaking.
Across three weeks, young artists will explore linocut, drypoint and monoprinting—three very different ways of creating an image and transferring it to paper. We’ll carve, scratch, layer, ink, press and experiment with the wonderfully unpredictable things that can happen when you make a print.
Rather than working toward one identical finished project, students will learn each process, explore examples and then use the techniques to develop imagery and ideas of their own.
Printmaking naturally invites experimentation: change the color, add another layer, adjust the pressure, make another print and see what happens. Along the way, students will practice creative decision-making, problem-solving and learning from the unexpected.
3-week series • Grades 2–5
Enrolled students are also invited to attend our monthly Community Open Studio complimentary, where their work from the month will be displayed and celebrated.
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