Turn Your Pinterest Dreams into Reality

by Casey Blake | July 19, 2016

Are you spending your precious free time carefully curating and arranging ideas for creative projects on Pinterest? Have you been adding pin after pin but find yourself struggling to make it past the planning phase? Picking up a few handy skills from an arts pro may boost your confidence just enough to take a project from the screen to reality.

14 art studios at MAC await your DIY enthusiasm. In workshops that range in time commitment from quick-and-dirty half-day to weekend warrior, you’ll be whipping up a new accessory or learning artist secrets in less time than it takes to fill your latest how-to board. There’s a workshop to fit almost any Pinterest-lover’s tastes.

Here are a few selections from the wide-ranging list of options:

Flameworking: Does the idea of playing with fire spark your imagination? Try a Flameworking workshop in the glass hot shop. Choose from learning to make beads or marbles before advancing to creating snails and glass critters.

Introduction to Welding: Do you find yourself admiring objects that are as functional as they are beautiful? Get a taste of welding and learn to bend, shape, cut, weld and finish steel to make decorative objects for your yard or home.

If it is performing arts that inspires you, try your hand at beginning guitar or learn the basics of belly dancing. Regardless of what it is that piques your interest, you’re hereby encouraged to get out from behind the screen and give it a shot! What’s the worst that could happen? Class registration for the Fall session opens Friday, July 22! Find more at www.MesaArtsCenter.com/classes.