Events At The Grace

Abstract your holiday décor this year! This class will teach you how to create a unique abstracted and festive holiday painting for your home. Enjoy our complimentary seasonal coffee bar for inspiration while you work! Grace Studio classes are designed to make creating art FUN in a no-pressure, no-experience-necessary environment with step-by-step instruction. Bring a friend or come make a … Grace Studio: Abstract Holiday

Gobble, Gobble! Join us as we have fun exploring and learning more about a simple and easy process of printmaking called Gelli printing. A Gelli print is made by using a soft printing surface. It creates amazing textures and designs that will become the tail feathers of your turkey masterpiece. The turkey head and neck will be created from a … Grace Studio: Turkey Gelli Print

Deck the halls! Come paint a simple holiday design. Enjoy time with a spouse or a friend while learning some basic principles of art. Local artist Nancy Capra will take you step-by-step on this painting journey using palette knives. Explore color, shadow and composition, and go home with a canvas ready for display in the holiday season! Grace Studios make … Grace Studio: Palette Knife Painting with Nancy Capra

Join us in the Grace Studio! We will be learning the basics of a printmaking technique called drypoint etching. This printmaking technique involves using a sharp pointed tool to carve an image into a plate. The process creates a raised, rough edge around the lines called a burr, which holds ink. Feel free to bring a photo to use for … Grace Studio: Printmaking with Lisa Camp

Perfect for fall and winter! Get more bang for your buck with this versatile home décor project. Attendees will paint a reversible wooden sign that instantly flips from autumnal pumpkins to a wintry snowman! Grace Studios make art easy in a fun, no-pressure, no-experience-necessary environment with step-by-step instruction. Bring a friend or come make a new one! BYO snacks and … Grace Studio: Reversible Holiday Sign

Get ready for fall, y’all! Come celebrate cooler temperatures outside as we create unique wreaths and sip on warm drinks. Using an embroidery hoop and felt, attendees will create an autumnal wreath to adorn their home this season. Grace Studios make art easy in a fun, no-pressure, no-experience-necessary environment with step-by-step instruction. BYO snacks and drinks to enjoy while you … Grace Studio: Autumn Felt Wreath

Join us as we celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month! Each participant can paint 4 ceramic tile coasters in the Mexican Talavera style inspired by pottery from the city of Puebla, Mexico, and surrounding cities. These coasters will be a perfect addition to your home decor, or as a gift for a friend. Grace Studio classes are for lifelong learners and lifelong … Grace Studio: Mexican Folk Art

Love your landscape! Create a step-by-step landscape drawing with chalk pastels, inspired by the work of well-known Texas artist Frank Reaugh, now on view in The Grace Museum’s main gallery exhibition, For Love of the Land: Painting the Texas Landscape. Grace Studio classes are for lifelong learners and lifelong artists. Bring a friend or come make a new one! Feel … Grace Studio: Pastel Landscape

Experiment with abstract paint pouring! Participants in this class will get to experience the fun of an acrylic pour!⁠ This freeform painting technique uses tilting as the method for moving paint around your canvas rather than applying it with a brush. There’s NO way to mess up (bonus!) and each person’s painting will be completely unique. Feel free to bring … Abstract Flower Acrylic Pour

Dyeing to get crafty? Shibori is a traditional Japanese dyeing technique similar to tie-dye. Attendees will create beautiful indigo designs on dish towels. No experience necessary!  Grace Studio classes are for lifelong learners and lifelong artists. Bring a friend or come make a new one! Feel free to bring your own snacks and drinks to enjoy while you work. INSTRUCTOR: … Grace Studio: Shibori Dyeing

Experiment with abstract paint pouring! Participants in this class will get to experience the fun of an acrylic pour!⁠ This freeform painting technique uses tilting as the method for moving paint around your canvas rather than applying it with a brush. There’s NO way to mess up (bonus!) and each person’s painting will be completely unique. Feel free to bring … Grace Studio: Acrylic Pour

Bring a bottled beverage & get ready to paint! For our Women’s History Month Bottles and Brushes class, we will be learning about one of the women artists in our collection, Lydia Bodnar-Balahutrak. Drawing inspiration from her style and her process of creating art, we will be creating abstract self-portrait collages. Bodnar-Balahutrak says her “work begins with collecting newspaper and … Bottles & Brushes: Abstract Self-Portraits

Join us in the Grace Studio! Portraiture serves as the artistic intersection between biography and culture, establishing the worth of the individual and contemporary interests and values of our time. Come learn about this unique form in a hands-on way! We will be exploring the fun and creative process of Gelli Plate printmaking. Gelli Plates are reusable printing plates that … Grace Studio: Portraits

Get artsy outdoors! Bring a wine to enjoy while local artist Tamberley Thomas guides you through a watercolor painting, on-location in Downtown Abilene. Attendees will gather in The Grace Classroom before walking a short distance to the painting location. No experience necessary!  Grace Studio classes are for lifelong learners and lifelong artists. Bring a friend or come make a new … Watercolor and Wine: Downtown Plein Air

Uncork and unwind! Join us for a relaxing step-by-step painting class featuring the Texas landscape. Choose your favorite of the two designs or create two smaller paintings as we bring the landscape to life on tar paper. Grace Studio: Bottles & Brushes classes are the perfect way to get creative with your friends. BYOB and we’ll provide the rest! No … Grace Studio: Bottles & Brushes Texas Landscape

It’s easier than it seams! Slow stitching, or meditative stitching, is a fun and simple way to create a unique sewing project of your very own! Our Grace Studio: Simple Stitching classes are accessible to people who have been sewing for decades, and people who have never threaded a needle. Join us to sew a Texas Landscape inspired by the … Grace Studio: Simple Stitching Texas Landscape