Join us in person for an open studio painting experience! Bring unfinished or blank canvas, paint, and easel to enjoy 2 relaxing hours with fellow artists and budding artists. Let's keep painting!

Author and instructor Mike Wilson will demonstrate how to use your Apple iPhone. This class is designed for mature and recent iPhone users. Mike will cover cell phone topics such as: the photo app, texting, navigating, apps, contacts, email, camera, App store, settings, and the Internet. NOT for Android users.

During this one-day, outdoor workshop, you'll be wearing snowshoes while improving your skills with: compass (taking and following bearings); fire building; cooking using various techniques; shelter building; how to search for a separated group member; and handling some possible first aid issues. Designed for those with some knowledge who will be leading family members or small groups outdoors in cold weather or are preparing to become Registered Maine Guides.

In this gentle yoga class for a healthy back, participants will learn an evidence-based yoga movement practice to maintain and/or improve back strength and flexibility and reduce low back pain. Together with breath and specific movements, you will stretch and strengthen muscles, reduce muscular tension, build flexibility and strength, and improve balance and bone strength. Class is held at Thomaston Yoga Studio, 183 Main St., Thomaston. All necessary equipment (mats and props) provided by instructor.

Cut, mold, and dye your own beautiful leather cuffs. You'll receive materials to make two cuffs during this two-night workshop. You can choose from three different designs. The first night we'll cut the shapes and mold them. The second night, we'll dye them and add a finish. You'll go home with two lovely cuffs. Registration includes materials fee. Bring a pair of scissors if you have them.

Working primarily in graphite and other drawing media, we will come together for six weeks of Tuesday morning 2 ½-hour sessions to explore line, form, tonal value, seeing skills, abstraction, and mark making—all and any aspect of the simple yet rich medium of drawing. The pace will be relaxed. Participants will be expected to bring work in progress for sharing and continued drawing. At the initial meeting, the group will determine together the direction of our focus. The instructor will provide resources and offer demos—one on one, small group ,or whole group depending on the interests of the “drawing room collective”. Suggested for any level of skill or experience. We will all share our interests in a supportive and energizing studio atmosphere. Suggested materials list: Graphite 2b (can be a yellow school Dixon Ticonderoga, or a Mirrado Black Warrior), 9b (solid graphite stick); several white plastic erasers such as Mars Staedtler (optional, thin white plastic eraser in a pen style holder—thinnest diameter); fine natural artist chamois for creating a smooth ground (find at Dick Blick); paper—the very best, Arches Watercolor, Hotpress (a tough paper with a smooth surface that can stand multiple erasures. It holds blacks beautifully, and you can create smooth gradations on it. Other papers can be used at lower cost depending on how much revisioning and reworking of your drawing is desired.)

Focus on strengthening your core muscles—the abdominals and back—while toning all the muscles in your arms and legs. You'll be using hand held weights, ankle weights, and a foam roller. Attention is paid to achieving good form while progressively increasing the amount of weight you can use.