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UPCOMING
WORKSHOPS
TEEN + ADULT
September 30th | 6:30–8:00 PM | $55
The Sheboygan Collective
As summer begins to fade and the garden prepares for a new season, join us for an evening of preserving a little piece of what made this time of year special.
In this hands-on workshop, you’ll learn how to create botanical plaster casts using flowers, leaves, grasses, and other natural elements. We’ll explore how to capture the delicate textures and shapes of plants in plaster, creating dimensional pieces that preserve the beauty of the season long after the blooms have faded.
We’ll have a beautiful selection of flowers and botanicals available for you to work with, or you’re welcome to bring something from your own garden—a favorite flower, a climbing vine, a leaf from a meaningful tree, or anything else you’d like to remember.
There is something special about preserving the things that surround us. The garden that became your sanctuary. The flowers you planted in spring. The little corners of your outdoor space where you spent slow summer mornings and warm evenings.
Rather than simply photographing those memories, you’ll create something you can hold onto—and eventually bring into your home.
What to Expect:
An introduction to botanical plaster casting
Guidance on selecting and preparing botanicals
Hands-on instruction for creating your own plaster casts
A selection of flowers and greenery to choose from
The opportunity to work with botanicals you’ve brought from home
What You Will Love:
Preserving a meaningful piece of the season
Learning a unique and tactile art-making process
Working with natural textures and organic forms
Creating artwork you can display in your home
A slow, peaceful evening of making and connection
Materials Included & What to Bring:
Materials Provided: Plaster, casting materials, tools, and a selection of seasonal flowers and botanicals.
What to Bring: You’re welcome to bring a few flowers, leaves, or other botanicals from your own garden if you’d like to create something especially personal. Otherwise, we’ll have plenty waiting for you at TSC.
No previous experience is needed. All skill levels are welcome.
Come preserve a little piece of summer with us—and carry it into the season ahead.
Our Studio is located on the second level with stair access only
October 7th | 6:30–8:00 PM | $45
The Sheboygan Collective
You may have noticed Whitney wearing her appliqué pants around town—and if you’ve been wondering where she got them, the answer is: she made them herself.
Now it’s your turn.
Join us for a playful evening of turning something already hanging in your closet into something completely your own. In this hands-on appliqué workshop, you’ll learn how to embellish a favorite pair of pants, button-down shirt, tote bag, jacket, or just about anything else made from fabric.
Bring a garment or accessory from your closet and we’ll provide the rest. Choose from a collection of TSC-designed appliqué shapes and patterns, or create your own design for something truly personal. We’ll walk you through the basics of arranging, layering, securing, and stitching your appliqué pieces so you can leave with a one-of-a-kind piece you’ll actually want to wear.
This is part craft, part fashion, and entirely about making something ordinary a little more interesting.
What to Expect:
An introduction to appliqué techniques
A collection of fabrics, shapes, and designs to choose from
Guidance for creating your own design
Hands-on instruction for attaching appliqué to fabric
Time to transform your own garment or accessory
What You Will Love:
Giving something already in your closet a whole new personality
Creating wearable art that feels completely your own
Choosing from playful designs or making something from scratch
Learning a technique you can continue using at home
Leaving with something you’ll actually want to show off
Materials Included & What to Bring:
Materials Provided: A variety of fabric scraps, appliqué designs, templates, thread, needles, and other supplies needed to embellish your piece.
What to Bring: One garment or fabric item from your closet. Think pants, a button-down shirt, denim jacket, tote bag, sweatshirt, or anything else you’d like to give a little creative attention.
No sewing or art experience necessary. All skill levels welcome.
Come make your clothes a little more you.
Our Studio is located on the second level with stair access only
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
youth 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 14 | 5:30–6:30 PM
$25 | Middle School + Up
With Ms. Lola
A creative hour just for teens.
For our first Teen Studio, we’re breaking out the polymer clay to create custom chapstick covers. Sculpt, shape, add tiny details, go colorful, weird, cute, or completely your own—you’ll leave with a one-of-a-kind cover made to fit your favorite chapstick.
Bring your own tube of chapstick so you can create your cover to fit. We’ll have the clay, tools + everything else you need.
Teen Studio meets every other Wednesday at TSC with a new project to try each time. Come make something, hang out, experiment with new materials + meet other creative people your age.
No experience needed. No long-term commitment. Just show up and make.
Tuesdays | 5:00-6:00pm
October 6th, 13th, and 20th. Open Studio October 31st 10-2pm
This month, we’re exploring paper—not simply as something to make art on, but as an art material itself.
Across three weeks, young artists will learn traditional paper making techniques while experimenting with color, texture, shape and form. We’ll make handmade sheets of paper, use colorful paper pulp to create imagery and patterns, experiment with delicate paper lace, and explore sculpting with paper pulp.
As always, we’ll introduce the techniques, provide plenty of inspiration and fill the studio with materials to explore. From there, students will be encouraged to experiment, make their own creative decisions and see where their ideas take them.
3-week series
Enrolled students are also invited to attend our monthly Community Open Studio complimentary, where work from the month’s program will be displayed and celebrated.
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.
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