ART INSTRUCTORS & CLASSES

The Lakewood Cultural Center and Washington Heights Arts Center are buzzing with artistic activity. On any given day, you’ll hear a weaver shifting the treadles of a loom, delight in a dancer’s joyful movement, see students painting en plein air or sketching quick gestures in a figure drawing class. From kids' art camps to beginning adult tap dance to watercolor, Lakewood has a class for every interest, every age and every level of experience.

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YOUTH ARTS

MAILIN PLAGGE

Mailin, a Denver-based artist, is a new addition to our youth arts team and will be instructing Open Art Studio on Monday afternoons. She has been a practicing artist and art teacher for several years. Her works are in collectors’ homes throughout North America, and she has taught various levels of art classes both internationally and in the U.S.

Mailin graduated from St. Lawrence University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, concentrating on figurative work in oil paint. Since then, she has greatly enjoyed honing her skills in other 2-D media, including soft and oil pastel, charcoal and most recently acrylics. Her work can be categorized as realism, with painterly elements in many of her pieces. Throughout her work and travels, Mailin has developed an interest in how we as humans fit into the world around us and how we can use our creativity for good. Mailin’s two goals when she travels are to understand and give back to the communities she encounters, and to take in and explore the natural spaces our world has to offer. Her artwork has always been a way to express her findings to the rest of the world through light, color and texture.

Most recently, Mailin has been exploring our natural world through acrylic paint, with a concentration on depicting flora and fauna from all across our globe. It is her hope that she can give viewers a sense of understanding and closeness with the natural world, in a time when it’s so easy to feel detached. Mailin’s art philosophy, in both practice and especially in teaching, centers on the belief that mistakes are a happy part of the learning process, that expression always trumps perfection, and that stretching our creative muscles is good for the soul. Learn more about Mailin Plagge by visiting her Instagram account at @MailinPlaggeArt.

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The Lakewood Cultural Center offers a variety of youth arts classes including Drawing for Youth, Painting Techniques, Digital Illustration, Stop Motion Animation, Beginning Sewing and Printmaking along with one-day weekend workshops and out-of-school camps.

PRINTMAKING & PAPER ARTS

ANGEL ESTRADA

If you’re looking for a new creative passion, prepare to be impressed by the possibilities of printmaking. With a variety of styles and materials, printmaking is perfect for absolute beginners to dedicated pros. If you’ve ever used a stamp or a stencil, then you’re ready to play with prints! Getting started with printmaking is fun and easy, and you can quickly make a series of artistic prints or cards for all your family and friends. If you love playing with paints, then try out Monotypes, where you can quickly ink up and print one-of a kind pictures. Interested in getting more hands-on? Try carving your own design in linoleum to make your own unique stamp to use over and over! Ready to take it to the next level? Experiment with stencils and layers to create amazing series of art. The possibilities are endless with printmaking, so come try it out!

Leading our series of printmaking and paper arts classes is instructor Angel Estrada. Originally from California, Angel moved to Colorado and graduated from Regis University, with degrees in visual art and art education. Angel is an accomplished K-12 arts teacher who is passionate about sharing his love of art with kids and adults alike.

Angel has been a featured artist at the Denver Art Museum and is a longtime participant in Denver’s Month of Printmaking and member of Globeville Riverfront Arts Center (GRACe).

Specializing in printmaking, Angel has a particular love for landscapes and a passion for teaching people how they can make fun, fast, beautiful work, with even the simplest of tools. Angel’s workshops make for the perfect weekend activity with friends, and his classes provide a fun and supportive atmosphere to learn a new craft. In addition to printmaking, Angel teaches book-arts classes as well as metalsmithing, so there’s something for everyone to enjoy.

Visit Lakewood.org/Register and search keyword “Estrada” to sign up for his classes! Follow him on Instagram at @estrada_printmaking.

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This winter/spring season, look for a variety of printmaking and paper arts workshops to get you started. Test out a number of fun and easy techniques that you can do at home in our DIY Printmaking Workshop, or play around with Monotypes, a quick process that is great for painters, but easy enough for everyone to try. Or, slow down and take a stab at creating your own hand-bound journal in Intro to Book Arts. We’ll also have special offerings this season in using a Cricut cutter for scrapbooking and making your own patterned fabric by Block Printing on textiles!

Creativity, perseverance and a healthy dose of self-reliance have always been at the heart of the urban homesteading revival. Ignited well before, but accelerated by the pandemic, this DIY movement is having much more than a moment, with Heritage Lakewood Belmar Park as the local epicenter. Urban homesteading-style crafts such as soapmaking, calligraphy and blacksmithing are proving to be as fun as they are practical.

SOAPMAKING KATRINA HOING

Katrina has lived in Lakewood since 2001 with her husband who is a lifelong Lakewood resident. She is a self-taught cold process soapmaker and mom to a teenage boy and four cats. Katrina has been making soap, bath fizzies and other personal items for over eight years and began teaching classes for Lakewood’s Heritage, Culture & the Arts programs in 2019. Katrina believes it is extremely gratifying to make the things we use every day with our very own hands. Heritage Lakewood instructors, like Katrina, are helping students to craft their own household staples as they enjoy learning valuable new skills and self-sufficiency as they save money in the process.

Ironically, the art of soap making gets a little dirty. Students don protective gloves and eye equipment and immerse their hands in the fragrant liquid destined to become a unique soap. Katrina walks her students through the chemistry happening in front of them. Each block of soap begins to take on its own pattern of graceful swirls that will solidify into the soap the students will take home.

Visit Lakewood.org/Register and search keyword "soapmaking" to sign up for Katrina's upcoming classes. Classes for adults take place on Saturday afternoons, Jan. 15, April 16 and May 21. A class specially designed for teens ages 12-15 takes place on Feb. 19.

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Some students will continue to pursue the art of soapmaking and explore new techniques, dyes and fragrances on their own. Others enjoy their handcrafted soap and move on to the next adventure.

Maybe they'll learn blacksmithing with Heritage Lakewood instructor Jeff Race. Or, they might choose to learn Spencerian with calligraphy artist Renee Jorgensen. In any case, Heritage Lakewood is sure to offer students a chance to learn, be more self-sufficient, save and to have a lot of fun while doing so.

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