Session 1: 3-D Garden Mosaic Obelisk
In this 3 session class you will create a mosaic garden monument using tile, pottery, glass and found objects while learning the techniques to make 3-D mosaic sculptures utilizing a variety of substrates and adhesives. No art experience, ability or aptitude is required to have fun and create a beautiful, exterior mosaic art piece.
Mosaic Horse
Use your glass cutting and design skills to cover our lifesize horse with gorgeous stained glass mosaic. All materials provided.
Session 2: 3-D Garden Mosaic Obelisk
In this 3 session class you will create a mosaic garden monument using tile, pottery, glass and found objects while learning the techniques to make 3-D mosaic sculptures utilizing a variety of substrates and adhesives. No art experience, ability or aptitude is required to have fun and create a beautiful, exterior mosaic art piece.
Mosaic Horse
Use your glass cutting and design skills to cover our lifesize horse with gorgeous stained glass mosaic. All materials provided.
Modeling Glass for Mosaic with Erika
Use this new and fabulous product/process (completely safe and 100% non-toxic) to mold clay-like "modeling glass" into birds, flowers, eyes and many other fun elements for use in mosaics. The elements will then be kiln-fired and available for collection within 24 hours. Easy and fabulous results!
Intro to Glass Casting w/ Willi Haye Session 1
Have you wondered what it’s like to capture light inside a sculpture?
Join Willi Haye for a glass casting course and learn how to transform glass into a luminous sculpture, perfect for beginners and experienced artists alike.
Explore techniques, experiment with textures, and create a luminous one-of-a-kind work of art. No experience necessary, just curiosity, creativity, and a love for exploring new materials.
2 weekends in a row from 9-4pm Saturday and Sunday 8-9 and Saturday and Sunday November 15-16 at the Groove Artspace in Albuquerque.
Intro to Glass Casting w/ Willi Haye Session 2
Have you wondered what it’s like to capture light inside a sculpture?
Join Willi Haye for a glass casting course and learn how to transform glass into a luminous sculpture, perfect for beginners and experienced artists alike.
Explore techniques, experiment with textures, and create a luminous one-of-a-kind work of art. No experience necessary, just curiosity, creativity, and a love for exploring new materials.
2 weekends in a row from 9-4pm Saturday and Sunday 8-9 and Saturday and Sunday November 15-16 at the Groove Artspace in Albuquerque.
Fused Icy Candelas
Brief Description: Make an ice-trimmed glass votive holder which sits on its own LED stand
(included in fee).
Mosaic Horse
Use your glass cutting and design skills to cover our lifesize horse with gorgeous stained glass mosaic. All materials provided.
Session 3: 3-D Garden Mosaic Obelisk
In this 3 session class you will create a mosaic garden monument using tile, pottery, glass and found objects while learning the techniques to make 3-D mosaic sculptures utilizing a variety of substrates and adhesives. No art experience, ability or aptitude is required to have fun and create a beautiful, exterior mosaic art piece.
Intro to Glass Casting w/ Willi Haye Session 3
Have you wondered what it’s like to capture light inside a sculpture?
Join Willi Haye for a glass casting course and learn how to transform glass into a luminous sculpture, perfect for beginners and experienced artists alike.
Explore techniques, experiment with textures, and create a luminous one-of-a-kind work of art. No experience necessary, just curiosity, creativity, and a love for exploring new materials.
2 weekends in a row from 9-4pm Saturday and Sunday 8-9 and Saturday and Sunday November 15-16 at the Groove Artspace in Albuquerque.
Intro to Glass Casting w/ Willi Haye Session 4
Have you wondered what it’s like to capture light inside a sculpture?
Join Willi Haye for a glass casting course and learn how to transform glass into a luminous sculpture, perfect for beginners and experienced artists alike.
Explore techniques, experiment with textures, and create a luminous one-of-a-kind work of art. No experience necessary, just curiosity, creativity, and a love for exploring new materials.
2 weekends in a row from 9-4pm Saturday and Sunday 8-9 and Saturday and Sunday November 15-16 at the Groove Artspace in Albuquerque.
Fused Glass Coasters & Jewelry with Erika
This is a fun class for all ages (8 and over). We will make 2 pair of earrings, 1 pendant and a set of 2 coasters with kiln-fired glass.
Mosaic Horse
Use your glass cutting and design skills to cover our lifesize horse with gorgeous stained glass mosaic. All materials provided.
Creating Space for Grief
This workshop is an invitation to pause and honor our grief. Artist and therapist, Tina Wolverton will lead a workshop on creating grief bowls. The bowl is traditionally a vessel of nourishment yet it is also a symbol of emptiness. What are you carrying ? What is in your bowl? We will explore how to honor our
grief through art, writing and being in safe community together. This workshop is appropriate for adults working through both individual and collective grief. Participants are asked to bring a small bowl that will be used as a mold as well as any personal mementos, collage materials, papers or thin fabric.
Mosaic Coasters! - Session 1
Come Make as many coasters as you can during the first session (and grout the next day). We will be using glass tile as tess and small 4×4 round or square tiles as substrate. A great gift idea - all ages and levels of experience most welcome!!
Mosaic Coasters! - Session 2
Come Make as many coasters as you can during the first session (and grout the next day). We will be using glass tile as tess and small 4×4 round or square tiles as substrate. A great gift idea - all ages and levels of experience most welcome!!
Mosaic Horse
Use your glass cutting and design skills to cover our lifesize horse with gorgeous stained glass mosaic. All materials provided.
12.3.25: Open Mosaic Studio
Bring your own project and supplies (or buy them at The Groove’s mosaic supply shop!) and work on your piece together with others. Use our tools and grinders as needed. Let’s make art in community!!
Fused Glass Ornaments
Join us to make gifts and ornaments for whatever holiday you celebrate! Fun for the entire family!
Funky Art on a Pole: Welding & Fusing with Mitch - session 1
The first session will take place at Mitch Berg’s south valley Fuego studio, selecting, designing and welding metal scrap to form a sculptural base for your work. Session 2 takes place at The Groove, where we’ll fuse glass to fit your sculptural vision!
Funky Art on a Pole: Welding & Fusing with Mitch - session 2
The first session will take place at Mitch Berg’s south valley Fuego studio, selecting, designing and welding metal scrap to form a sculptural base for your work. Session 2 takes place at The Groove, where we’ll fuse glass to fit your sculptural vision!
Mosaic Horse
Use your glass cutting and design skills to cover our lifesize horse with gorgeous stained glass mosaic. All materials provided.
Fused Glass Poinsettas
Hang them on your holiday tree or in a window. You can hang them around your neck as a pendant. Fused glass poinsettias make great holiday gifts.
• In this class, we'll cut glass and compose the ornaments. They get fused in the kiln to create two dazzling pieces which you'll retrieve in 48 hours.
• All tools, materials, and heat (one kiln-firing) provided.
Mosaic Horse
Use your glass cutting and design skills to cover our lifesize horse with gorgeous stained glass mosaic. All materials provided.
12.17.25: Open Mosaic Studio
Bring your own project and supplies (or buy them at The Groove’s mosaic supply shop!) and work on your piece together with others. Use our tools and grinders as needed. Let’s make art in community!!
Beginning Stained Glass Session #1
In the beginning stained glass class, you will make a roughly 6x8 inch piece of art, using any glass and beginner-level pattern that you choose! We will teach you how to cut and grind glass, how to apply copper foil, and how to solder and frame your piece. This is a two day class starting at 10:00 and ending at 3:30, with a lunch break.
All glass and materials you use are included in the cost of the class.
Beginning Stained Glass Session #2
In the beginning stained glass class, you will make a roughly 6x8 inch piece of art, using any glass and beginner-level pattern that you choose! We will teach you how to cut and grind glass, how to apply copper foil, and how to solder and frame your piece. This is a two day class starting at 10:00 and ending at 3:30, with a lunch break.
All glass and materials you use are included in the cost of the class.
Glass Painting, Enameling & FABrication with Joseph Cavalieri
Renowned New York visiting artist Joseph Cavalieri is excited to teach a five-day class encompassing all aspects of making a stained glass panel, from design to production. Many samples will be made in class. Techniques covered include painting, pen-and-ink drawing, air-brushing, atomizing, and silk screening with silkscreens Joseph will provide. You don’t need to be an expert painter, as we will be tracing images in the class.
We work with non-toxic enamels that are kiln fired onto the glass surface. Copper foiling and soldering techniques, lighting and framing will be learned as well. The choice of imagery is totally up to the students’ imagination. Perfect for beginners and students that have some experience working with glass and want to expand their knowledge further.
Cavalieri will help with your design choice, share samples of his work, share a framing and lighting system which he developed, as well as present lectures on ‘Art Residencies’ and ‘Marketing for Artists.’
Drawing Fundamentals: Still Life w/ Light, Shadow & Shape - Session #1
Join us for this 3-session introduction to drawing, focusing on the use of pencils and charcoal to capture the essence of a still life: shape, shadow and light. For beginners through intermediate drawers.
Drawing Fundamentals: Still Life w/ Light, Shadow & Shape - Session #2
Join us for this 3-session introduction to drawing, focusing on the use of pencils and charcoal to capture the essence of a still life: shape, shadow and light. For beginners through intermediate drawers.
Drawing Fundamentals: Still Life w/ Light, Shadow & Shape - Session #3
Join us for this 3-session introduction to drawing, focusing on the use of pencils and charcoal to capture the essence of a still life: shape, shadow and light. For beginners through intermediate drawers.
Mug to Mosaic with Kelly Knickerbocker
The humble mug. Cheery, tacky, heartwarming, playful, snazzy, artful, endearing, or hideous. Each one contains mugtitudes, including the ingredients of an awesome abstract mosaic: surface colors/textures/patterns, claybody color/texture, curves/corners, and raw/finished edges.
Using the the students’ own mugs as context and vehicle, in this 3-day course Kelley unpacks and guides students through each stage of mosaic metamorphosis: inspiration, design planning, palette development, material analysis, precision processing, and execution. Each student will transform their mug into an 8" square mosaic - set directly into cement mortar – in a wood frame. Bring your mug and let's get cracking! Your mug should be large-ish, any color(s)/pattern(s)/texture(s), and a different color on the inside than the outside.
A good understanding of basic mosaic principles and vocabulary is helpful but not necessary.
Andamento as Language (Including Hammer & Hardie and Smalti techniques)
Classical andamento need not be thought of as restrictive or old-fashioned, but rather as the grammar of mosaic, giving definition and clarity to the work. Going beyond the principles of andamento, this course shows you how to develop style and narrative in mosaic, creating your own mosaic language.
Grammar and typography govern how we arrange letters into words and determine how easy or hard a text is to read and understand. In mosaic, the language is seemingly simpler — but texture, spacing, and dimension, layered over the basic principles of andamento can give lines, and therefore a mosaic, very different characteristics.
In this workshop we will also cover cutting with hammer & hardie, using a multitude of materials, and emphasizing proper posture and cutting techniques for different effects. We will then spend a few hours working with smalto to understand its properties, characteristics and how to cut it to achieve different effects. After these two basic topics, we will launch fully into developing language, now with tesserae that are intentionally cut for exploring andamento as language.
Previous knowledge of andamento rules is a pre-requisite. Hammers and hardies will be available, along with nippers and all other mosaic tools.
Andamento as Language (Including Hammer & Hardie and Smalti techniques)
Classical andamento need not be thought of as restrictive or old-fashioned, but rather as the grammar of mosaic, giving definition and clarity to the work. Going beyond the principles of andamento, this course shows you how to develop style and narrative in mosaic, creating your own mosaic language.
Grammar and typography govern how we arrange letters into words and determine how easy or hard a text is to read and understand. In mosaic, the language is seemingly simpler — but texture, spacing, and dimension, layered over the basic principles of andamento can give lines, and therefore a mosaic, very different characteristics.
In this workshop we will also cover cutting with hammer & hardie, using a multitude of materials, and emphasizing proper posture and cutting techniques for different effects. We will then spend a few hours working with smalto to understand its properties, characteristics and how to cut it to achieve different effects. After these two basic topics, we will launch fully into developing language, now with tesserae that are intentionally cut for exploring andamento as language.
Previous knowledge of andamento rules is a pre-requisite. Hammers and hardies will be available, along with nippers and all other mosaic tools.
10.25.25: Optical Illusions: Fusing with Delfie
The optic dish uses volume control displacement to distort a pattern of stringers into a repeatable shape giving the dish an optical illusion. Each student will make a 5 inch and a 3-inch optic dish. Both dishes will be fused fired and slumped for you. Dishes can be picked up 3 days after class. All materials and 2 firings included.
Pet Portraits w/ Alison for All Ages
This guaranteed-to-succeed method is fast, fun and fabulous! Bring in a color picture of your favorite creature (8x10) and we’ll convert it into a colorful portrait you’ll be proud of!
Mosaic Horse
Use your glass cutting and design skills to cover our lifesize horse with gorgeous stained glass mosaic. All materials provided.
Open Soldering Studio
Do you have an unfinished project (from home or one of our classes?). Come use our tools and get your project foiled and soldered. Free to bike class or stained glass class folk - email us to register without a fee.
Mosaic Day-of-the-Dead Skull - Grouting
We will take funky ceramic skulls and make a gorgeous Day of The Dead mosaic out of mirror, irridized glass, fun tiles and all kinds of lovely things. This will be a fabulous project.
Cool Cacti: Advanced Stained Glass & Ornamental Soldering - Day 2
Perfect your stained glass skills - and learn decorative soldering! - while creating a glass cactus masterpiece.
Cool Cacti: Advanced Stained Glass & Ornamental Soldering - Day 1
Perfect your stained glass skills - and learn decorative soldering! - while creating a glass cactus masterpiece.
10.16.25: Open Mosaic Studio
Bring your own project and supplies (or buy them at The Groove’s mosaic supply shop!) and work on your piece together with others. Use our tools and grinders as needed. Let’s make art in community!!
Gilding Photographic Art with Kevin Black
Join master photographer and gilder Kevin Black as we cover these topics and make some gorgeous pieces (all materials included):
Safety
Why I have selected these materials and processes [show n’ tell]
What makes a good print to gild
Using your printer, settings, overcoming obstacles
Demonstrations. all steps, how to set up workspace
Printing a vellum Epson P600 [P7000 considerations] Timing
Varnishing, signing, mark making
Masking print and coating with gilding size. Design considerations.
Conservation of materials for quality and cost savings
Gilding; patent, loose leaf, rolls
Not panicking & how to fix undesired effects.
How to preserve the work.
Have fun, go to town and make some!
Kevin’s private online group invite.
Intro to Glass Painting and Enameling
Join us for an opportunity learn and/or improve glass painting/enameling (and some screen printing) skills. We will all be learning and doing together. All materials provided. One kiln firing is also included.
Fused Day of the Dead Skull with Linda
Make a fun Day of the Dead Skull with Fused Glass!
Mosaic Horse
Use your glass cutting and design skills to cover our lifesize horse with gorgeous stained glass mosaic. All materials provided.
Mosaic Day-of-the-Dead Skull Day 2
We will take funky ceramic skulls and make a gorgeous Day of The Dead mosaic out of mirror, irridized glass, fun tiles and all kinds of lovely things. This will be a fabulous project.
Mosaic Day-of-the-Dead Skull Day 1
We will take funky ceramic skulls and make a gorgeous Day of The Dead mosaic out of mirror, irridized glass, fun tiles and all kinds of lovely things. This will be a fabulous project.
10.1.25: Open Mosaic Studio
Bring your own project and supplies (or buy them at The Groove’s mosaic supply shop!) and work on your piece together with others. Use our tools and grinders as needed. Let’s make art in community!!
Mosaic Horse
Use your glass cutting and design skills to cover our lifesize horse with gorgeous stained glass mosaic. All materials provided.
Mosaic Mural - Outdoor Wall Session 3 (In person)
This workshop will start with information on the techniques used by several artists in Albuquerque for creating mosaic mural walls, including the one Leah made for her own backyard. We will discuss the pros and cons of various methods. The first session will be on zoom.
The next 2 sessions will be hands-on, in-person. We will demonstrate one common indirect method and then deep dive into another.Each participant will plan and create a figure on foam/mortar board (up to 2’ x 2’), then cut out the figure and prepare it for mosaic.Then, you will apply tesserae of ceramic tile, broken dishes, found objects or items you bring to use or share.
Your figure will be ready to hang and grout on your outdoor wall as a single piece or as the start of your larger mural.
Mosaic Mural - Outdoor Wall Session 2 (In-person)
This workshop will start with information on the techniques used by several artists in Albuquerque for creating mosaic mural walls, including the one Leah made for her own backyard. We will discuss the pros and cons of various methods. The first session will be on zoom.
The next 2 sessions will be hands-on, in-person. We will demonstrate one common indirect method and then deep dive into another.Each participant will plan and create a figure on foam/mortar board (up to 2’ x 2’), then cut out the figure and prepare it for mosaic.Then, you will apply tesserae of ceramic tile, broken dishes, found objects or items you bring to use or share.
Your figure will be ready to hang and grout on your outdoor wall as a single piece or as the start of your larger mural.
Mosaic Mural - Outdoor Wall Zoom Session 1
This workshop will start with information on the techniques used by several artists in Albuquerque for creating mosaic mural walls, including the one Leah made for her own backyard. We will discuss the pros and cons of various methods. The first session will be on zoom.
The next 2 sessions will be hands-on, in-person. We will demonstrate one common indirect method and then deep dive into another.Each participant will plan and create a figure on foam/mortar board (up to 2’ x 2’), then cut out the figure and prepare it for mosaic.Then, you will apply tesserae of ceramic tile, broken dishes, found objects or items you bring to use or share.
Your figure will be ready to hang and grout on your outdoor wall as a single piece or as the start of your larger mural.
Mosaic Horse
Use your glass cutting and design skills to cover our lifesize horse with gorgeous stained glass mosaic. All materials provided.
Open Soldering Studio
Do you have an unfinished project (from home or one of our classes?). Come use our tools and get your project foiled and soldered. Free to bike class or stained glass class folk - email us to register without a fee.
Intro to Glass Painting and Enameling
Join us for an opportunity learn and/or improve glass painting/enameling (and some screen printing) skills. We will all be learning and doing together. All materials provided. One kiln firing is also included.
9.18.25: Open Mosaic Studio
Bring your own project and supplies (or buy them at The Groove’s mosaic supply shop!) and work on your piece together with others. Use our tools and grinders as needed. Let’s make art in community!!
Fused Glass Fun w/ Lavae
Do you want to start making scrumptious light-filled fused glass art? Start
by learning the basics of kiln-forming with Lavae Aldrich. In this beginning class (no prior
experience required), you'll learn the basic techniques, processes, and rules of glass fusing
while creating a work of art. You'll start with a brief exercise to learn to cut glass. We'll talk
about compatibility (COE) and what happens to glass in the kiln. Then, starting with a 6” glass
backer, you'll compose your art work, using colored sheet glass, glass powders and “frit”, glass
stringers and noodles, puddles, and dots. Each piece will be fired twice; fused first to a flat
blank and then again in the mold of your choice. You'll choose from a dish, plate, votive holder,
or nitelite. You'll return 3 days later to pick up your art piece. (Each kiln firing takes about 24
hours.)
• All tools, materials, and heat (kiln-firing) provided.