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2-DIMENSIONAL ARTS CAn Artist Book Project: 2 1/2 Decades The Art of Trees and Nature Byzantine Gilding and Egg Tempera Colored Pencil Illustration Commotion of Motion in Photography Digital Painting Drawn to Music The Open Road: Photography The Painted Screen: A Baltimore Folk Art A Painting a Day - Clouds, Sky, Atmosphere Telling Your Neighborhood Story 3-DIMENSIONAL ARTS Beadmaking for Beginners Garden and Backyard Mosaics Introduction to Hand Carved Signs Josephine Knot Rib Basket Mosaics for Everyday Life Nantucket Lightship Baskets Sculptural Mold Making Ukrainian Egg Decorating: The Art of Pysanky Vinegar Graining and Faux Finish on Furniture THE ART OF MAKING INSTRUMENTS Ceramic Percussion Instrument Making: From Clay to Play FIBER & WEARABLE ARTS Beaded Chains and Balled Wire Accessories Beadmaking for Beginners Beginning and Intermediate Sewing Braided Indigo Magic Jewelry Fabrication Techniques: Basic Through Advanced Sawing Recycled Renaissance Rya Rug Making: Painting with a Needle and Wool Sculpting Flowers and Leaves in Metal Trio of Beaded Earrings TRADITIONAL & NATIVE SKILLS Beaded Leather Possible Bags Cooking Over Coals Native American History, Art and Culture Primitive SKills: Making a Green Wood Bow Traditional Blacksmithing ​ ​​	2-DIMENSIONAL ARTS AThe Art of Birds and Wildlife Exploring Gouache Illustration iPhone Photography Mastering the Basics of Geometric Origami Printmaking The Open Road: Photography Regaining Creative Control in an Age of Automated Photography (Un)Conscious Drawing Watercolor Monoprints 3-DIMENSIONAL ARTS All About Mugs Beadmaking - The Next Step Beautiful Origami Containers Cat's Head Baskets Creating Complementary Hand-Built Forms Glass Camp with Ragtime Opening Doors Southwest Mosaics Stained Glass Sun Catchers THE ART OF MAKING INSTRUMENTS Ceramic Percussion Instrument Decoration and Finishing Didgeridoo Making Native American Flute Making FIBER & WEARABLE ARTS All Tied Up Silk Painting Beadmaking - The Next Step Creating Your Own Fabric Using Dyes and Paints Jewelry: Forever Funky Junque! Make an Earring or Two a Day Natural Dyes for Natural Fabrics Ndbele Vined Bracelets Salvaged Steampunk Working the Wool and Introduction to Hand Spindles   TRADITIONAL & NATIVE SKILLS Blacksmithing: Need a Tool, Make a Tool Building Thoreau's Cabin Contemporary Native American Philosophy and Religion Cooking Over Coals Native American Flute and Flute Playing Native American Flute Making Natural Dyes for Natural Fibers Primitive Blacksmithing ​Primitive Skills ​	2-DIMENSIONAL ARTS Classic Geometric Origami Expressive Painting with Acrylic Media & Collage How to Produce Professional Video Interviews The Open Road: Photography Photoshop 101 Portraits with Bombastic Color Watercolor Painting on Site ​Weatherscapes Workshop in Abstract Painting Your iPhone May Be the Best Camera You Own 3-DIMENSIONAL ARTS CCreating Wall Mounted Masks Intro to Wheel Thrown Ceramics and How to Alter Them by Hand Sculpture Progression: Wood Carving Southwest Mosaics Splint Woven Basketry ​Spoon Carving Sweetgrass Basketry Yunomi and Chawan Tea Bowls FIBER & WEARABLE ARTS Artistic Tie Dyeing—Japanese Style Creating a Personalized Amulet Creative Reuse Hats and Fascinators Torch Fired Enamels: Glass, Metal and Fire Weave Bands, Belts, Bookmarks, and Moree TRADITIONAL & NATIVE SKILLS Building an Economical Row Boat Native American Flute & Flute Playing Native American Shell Carving Pizza Oven Building Stories, Customs and Traditions of the Woodland First Nations Traditional Blacksmithing ​ ​ ​ ​