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Artmaking by Nature: A Creative, Earth-based Outdoor Workshop for Educators
6 CTLE Hours
15 Participants LIMIT with Waiting List
2470 NY-212, Woodstock, NY 12498
STUDIO 1
This workshop offers art teachers an inspiring opportunity to explore nature-based artmaking that blends creativity with ecological awareness. Partially set outdoors, the session centers on using natural elements—such as plants, soil, and found materials—to create art supplies like inks, paints, and handmade paper. Participants engage in hands-on activities such as plant printing, nature journaling, and earth pigment experimentation, all while reflecting on the importance of gratitude and stewardship, practices rooted in Indigenous traditions.
The experience is designed to equip art educators with both the technical skills and the conceptual framework to bring these practices into their own classrooms. By reconnecting with the land and exploring sustainable, low-waste methods of artmaking, teachers will return with adaptable lesson ideas, a renewed sense of creative purpose, and tools to foster environmental curiosity and care in their students.
All supplies are provided or made onsite, but feel free to bring your favorite drawing tools. Bring a bag lunch. There are picnic tables and covered pavilion. Open to 15 participants with a wait list as well.
$10 Payment in CASH please (at the class)
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Bio: Muriel Stallworth is an art teacher and sustainability coordinator at the International School of Brooklyn, where she leads Growing Systems: Nature and Ecology at ISB, an interdisciplinary program that fosters a systemic understanding of the natural world, emphasizing gratitude and reciprocity. As an artist and climate education consultant in the Hudson Valley, Muriel designs experiential programs that weave together visual arts and ecological awareness, grounding students and educators alike in nature-based creativity. Informed by the knowledge of climate solutions, her "possibilist" approach to the climate crisis centers on hope, exploration, and the power of imagination.
New York State Art Teachers Association (NYSATA) is a New York State Education Department (NYSED) approved Continuing Teacher Leader Education (CTLE) sponsor. NYSED requires documentation and verification of attendance for CTLE credit.
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Plein Air Let Loose Outing at Mills Mansion with Holly McCabe
Wednesday, August 6th, 2025 5pm, Concert at 7pm by The Crew Band
Let's meet and draw together at gorgeous Mills Mansion. Bring your a chair or blanket, favorite drawing and/or painting supplies and BYOB snacks and drinks. Meet in the parking lot by 4:45pm.
RSVP to Holly McCabe at [email protected]
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Region 7 Art Educator Member Show
Bethany Arts Center, Ossining, NY
Open to Region 7 Art Educators who are members of NYSATA
Registration Coming Soon!
September 6, 2025 Opening
September 27 Closing Ceremony and Awards Recognition, 1-3pm
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Keep watching your emails from Region 7 for more future workshops and events!
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