From hands-on workshops to community art experiences, Elevate Arts Ed offers events that spark curiosity and invite creative exploration for all ages. Whether you’re diving into a class for the first time or returning to reconnect with your creative self, our events are designed to be welcoming, engaging, and rooted in the idea that everyone is naturally creative. Check back often for new offerings—and come be part of something inspiring.
Community Ed Classes
Tuesday, January 20th and Tuesday, January 27th, 6-8 PM
The Art of Food – Caribbean Collage
Thursday, January 29th, 5:30-8 PM
Small & Sustainable – One Couple’s Journey
Tuesday, March 17th, 6-8 PM
Other Upcoming Classes
Click here the view classes at Moose Lake Brewery
Click here the view classes through Uncle Herman’s Farm
Classes at 210 Gallery and Art Center, 210 Commercial Ave. N., Sandstone, MN
Mounting, Matting, and Framing
Use your own creativity and some basic “rules of the road” for mounting, matting and framing your own artwork or images! Learn about the visual and technical aspects of presenting artwork and images. We’ll practice using some very basic, inexpensive tools, even scavenged materials, to avoid the frame shop!
Tuesday, February 3, 3:00-4:30 PM @ 210 Gallery and Art Center,
210 Commercial Avenue North, Sandstone
$35, includes all materials
DRAWING 101: Modern Mona (Appropriation and Parody in Art)
Mona Lisa selling jeans? American Gothic hawking deodorant? Examine a fun history of how art has been used for other things, and then make your OWN images!
Wednesday, February 18, 2:30-4:00 PM @ 210 Gallery and Art Center,
210 Commercial Avenue North, Sandstone
$25, includes all materials
DRAWING 101: CITYSCAPE (Drawing in Perspective)
Drawing in perspective has been around since the Renaissance! See early examples from history and learn how to represent space accurately Hone your ‘seeing’ skills and learn the protocols for measuring space on the picture plane!
Wednesday, February 18, 4:00-6:00 PM @ 210 Gallery and Art Center,
210 Commercial Avenue North, Sandstone
$25, includes all materials
GAMES PEOPLE PLAY!
Come with a friend or family member to make a board game together, or make one just for you! Registration $10 per person. Game Board/Supplies $25 per gameboard kit (includes foldable gameboard and all game-making supplies to keep!)
Game design encompasses the entire process of creating and shaping the mechanics, systems, rules, and gameplay of a game! Bring an idea, and come design with us. You might make the next Monopoly, who knows!? We’ll look at the history of game design and use art skills to create.
Saturday, February 21, 10:30 AM-12:30 PM @ 210 Gallery and Art Center,
210 Commercial Avenue North, Sandstone
$35, plus $10 per additional person, if creating the same game together.
CARIBBEAN COLLAGE
We’ll use food images to explore a method for creating collage! Learn a bit about collage as a medium, and explore value and contrast in this papercraft course.
Saturday, February 21, 1:00-3:00 PM @ 210 Gallery and Art Center,
210 Commercial Avenue North, Sandstone
$30, includes all materials