Art Making Workshops & Classes for All Levels @ BMoCA
Explore contemporary art created by living artists in our downtown Boulder building. Learn from highly skilled and respected artist-educators. Develop art making skills, learn new techniques. Meet people who are serious art lovers. Geared toward adults of all ages and artists of all skill levels.
Summer 2026 Adult Art Workshops
Eco-Collage with Robin Whatley
Date: Saturday, July 11, 2026 @ BMoCA
Time: 1 - 4pm
Cost: $100/$85 members REGISTER
In this one day, 3-hour workshop, we will explore the art of collage while working with the topic of circular systems. Using provided collage making materials, students will be challenged to create an original collage or mixed media piece incorporating images of water cycles. Students will be allowed to choose one of three select images of a water cycle (i.e. evaporation, condensation, precipitation) to begin constructing a collage. While using as much or as little of the image, students will embellish their piece with the provided collage making supplies (i.e. magazines, tissue paper, text and found images). The workshop is focused on helping students relate to the circular system with the use of recycled magazines, found images, and mixed media supplies.
Materials to bring: magazines, tissue paper, text and found images
Instructor Bio: Robin Whatley is a mixed media collage artist, educator, and curator based in Denver CO. With a background in arts administration, she holds a BFA with a concentration in painting from Colorado State University, and studied at the Santa Chiara Italart in Castiglione Fiorentino, Italy. Her work examines old print ads like an archeological artifact of our ancestors. The nameless figures inked into aged pulp of 1960’s magazines are carefully rescued from the dehumanizing old Madison Ave world and safely released into a vivid and futuristic landscape. These seamlessly blended vintage paper cut-outs and water-based paintings transport the viewer into surreal and otherworldly landscapes where humanity and identity are explored beyond consumerism.
Image courtesy of the artist.
Upcycled Denim DIY with Olivia McCann
Dates: Two Tuesdays, August 4 & 11, 2026 @ BMoCA
Time: 5 - 8pm
Cost: $125/$100 members REGISTER
This hands-on workshop introduces participants to block printing on denim through designing, carving, and printing custom linoleum blocks directly onto garments using fabric-safe ink. Focusing on DIY creativity and wearable art, the class centers on transforming clothes with original printed designs while learning the fundamentals of carving and textile printing. After printing, participants will have the option to further personalize their pieces using fabric markers and hand-sewn patches. The result is a one-of-a-kind, artist-designed piece to wear and keep.
Materials to bring: Bring your own materials (fabric markers and patches of fabric, needles, thread and scissors).
Instructor Bio: Olivia McCann is an artist and upcycle designer based in Denver, CO. Passionate about giving new life to discarded materials, she specializes in upcycling, collage, and abstract painting—creating vibrant, one-of-a-kind pieces from secondhand finds.
Audio Drama with Tal Minear
Dates: Two Wednesdays, August 12 & 19, 2026 @ BMoCA
Time: 5 - 8pm
Cost: $125/$100 members REGISTER
Learn script writing and how to record then edit audio files while creating individual and collaborative podcasts. Themes exploring fictitious “radio plays” will culminate with participants producing a pilot episode. This class meets for 2 consecutive sessions on Wednesday from 5-8pm.
Image credit: Tal Minear, courtesy of the artist.
Materials: Bring your own materials (Laptop, with speakers).
Instructor Bio: Tal Minear is an award-winning podcast producer, voice actor and sound designer. Find them on Podchaser, on IMDb, and follow them on Tumblr @starplanes.
Handcraft a Website Workshop with Gus Becker
Date: Wednesday, August 26, 2026 @ BMoCA
Time: 6-7:30pm
Cost: $65/$55 members REGISTER
Bringing Whimsy back to the Web
Join local artist and creative technologist Gus Becker as he guides you to create your own personal slice of the web using the open source project Neocities! Bring a laptop and Gus will show you how to set up your own Neocities site (yourusername.neocities.org), provide a template that is responsive on desktop and mobile, and show you how to begin to edit it on your own -- all from a browser with no downloads or domain purchases required!
Materials to bring: Laptop
Instructor Bio: Gus Becker is a Boulder-based research scientist, community organizer and artist who facilitates several groups in-person and online related to art-making and web revival.
Natural Dye Workshop with Cady Faus
Dates: Two Days, Tuesday/Wednesday, September 29/30, 2026 @ BMoCA
Time: 5 - 8pm
Cost: $150/$130 members REGISTER
This hands-on workshop introduces students to natural dyes and resist dye techniques, including Katazome and Tsutsugaki. Over the course of two 3-hour sessions, participants will create their own designs and naturally dye organic textiles.
Each student will design and dye their own bandana sized fabric, which can later be framed as a visual art piece, or adorned as wearable art. We will also experiment with sample fibers to learn about the differences between cellulose fibers such as cotton, linen, silk, and hemp.
Materials: included
Instructor Bio: Cady Faus is a natural dyer and mixed media artist based in Boulder, Colorado. Passionate about our local Fibershed and slow food and fashion movements, her art practice seeks an understanding of and connection to natural material, history and place, and self and community. She has traveled internationally to study the arts of natural dye and has learned Katazome and Tsutsugaki techniques from experts in Japan, Mexico, and California. Her current focus combines elements of traditional arts with modern-day methods, all the while paying attention to sustainability, stewardship, and collaboration between farmers and artists. Cady believes curiosity without judgement is the best tool in the arts of natural dyeing.
Refund Policy for Adult Classes & Workshops: If you would like a refund, please notify BMoCA at least 24 hours before the event. We will do our best to refund the full amount to your card. You may also donate your admission ticket. Please contact us via email at Marketing@bmoca.org.
Cancellation of Event: If there is a reason that causes BMoCA to cancel an event, we will notify you and offer an option of either a new date, or refund.