Workshops
Workshops 2025,
1 - 5PM
Donna Mikkelsen, AmbiArts Workshop
About the workshop:
This workshop will highlight the use of both hands to draw and paint, including working with partners and in groups to create symmetrical radial drawings, described as mandala-like. These workshops aim to leverage what Mickelson calls "Spontaneous Symmetry" as a method for developing self-awareness and building community.
About the artist:
Donna Mikkelsen uses symmetry drawing not only as a tool for self-exploration, but also as a means of design, storytelling, and collaborative art-making through workshops. It is her belief that this creative practice has the power to unlock new insights, deepen connections, and bring people together in shared artistic experiences.
Sharon Lindenfeld, Printmaking Workshop
About the workshop:
Printmaking is available for everyone to try. You will play an interactive ‘exquisite corpse’ game and get to choose head, body, and legs sections that you combine on the press for a unique print to take home.
About the artist:
Sharon Lindenfeld is a Warwick-based printmaker who makes large-scale multimedia prints. She has worked as an editions printer in NYC print workshops and currently teaches at Montclair State University. Her prints have been exhibited nationally from NYC to Maui and internationally from the UK to the UAE.
Kristin Orthmann: Butterfly Fashion Workshop
About the workshop:
Explore print, pattern, symmetry and color in this butterfly inspired fashion workshop.
Participants of all ages are invited to select materials, create unique butterflies & find the perfect landing spot for their butterfly on a wonderful, whimsical and collaboratively created butterfly ball gown.
About the artist:
Kristin Orthmann is a print, pattern & graphic designer with a focus in fashion.
She is the owner of Confetti's Create & Celebrate, an arts & crafts studio and event space specializing in creative birthday parties and workshops for kids and adults. Kristin is happy to be sharing her love of design at the festival & lives with her family in Warwick, NY.
Hudson Valley Wood Turners,
Wood Turning Demonstration
About the workshop:
Craftsmen from HVWT will demonstrate the basics of wood turning on their lathes by making tops, bowls and goblets. Items available for sale.
About the artists:
Hudson Valley Wood Turners (HVWT) is a group
of avocational wood turners that are enthusiastic about using lathes to shape and polish wood. The ancient craft of wood turning is widely practiced today to make bowls, candlesticks, pens, and many other items.
Nikki Romanello: Mycelium Planter Workshop
About the workshop:
Mycelium is the vegetative root of fungus organisms and mushrooms are the fruiting bodies of fungus. Both mycelium and fungus can be used as a sustainable biomaterial for packaging and insulation, as well as for pest control, medicine, and bioremediation. Explore the artistic and practical possibilities of mycelium by creating your own planter to take home.
About the artists:
Nikki Romanello is an Greenwood Lake-based artist who combines scientific techniques and sculptural practices. She works with materials that allow natural forms to appear and disappear, the same way new organisms evolve and are discovered as well as become extinct and fossilized. Her work echoes the loss of biodiversity and the need for environmental stabilization. She received her BFA in Interdisciplinary Sculpture and a Concentration in Photography at Maryland Institute of College of Art in Baltimore. She graduated with an MFA in Studio Art, majoring in Sculpture from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. She currently operates her own welding shop fabricating custom exhibition designs for Poster House NYC, and teaches BioArt classes at Genspace in Brooklyn.
Heidi Lanino: Murals-in-Motion Workshop
About the workshop:
Artist Heidi Lanino will be choreographing a color mural experience, inspired by a sense of place and season. Using lines, shapes, marks, and how shapes and colors communicate movement and emotion, you will move around the mural, experimenting with marks, while reacting to, and influencing the work of those around you.
About the artist:
Heidi Lanino is a figurative abstract painter with a strong base in gestural drawing influenced by the transformative nature of movement. Her work has been exhibited in the United States and abroad and is represented in numerous private and public collections. Her artistic practice includes drawing, painting, sculpture, ceramics, teaching, and community installations made from recycled materials.
Robert J. Gulick, Metalsmith Workshop
About the workshop:
Using his forge and anvil, Robert will demonstrate basic techniques for blacksmithing and shaping metal. You will be able to get a feel for how the heated metal reacts by using clay and mallets.
About the artist:
Robert J. Gulick’s work spans an impressive range of materials: the luminous color play of stained glass, the delicate strength of folded paper, the earthy resilience of forged copper, the raw elegance of iron through blacksmithing. Each medium offers its own voice, and Robert delights in listening closely—allowing material, memory, and moment to speak through his hands.
Screenprinting with Rooster Tees
About the workshop:
Bring an old t-shirt with you and Rooster Tees will UPCYCLE it with a choice of two whimsical Warwick designs.
They will also be printing and tie dying the official Fuller Moon Festival t-shirt on-site! Additionally, they’ll have a variety of Warwick-related merch for sale. All designing and decorating done locally in their Warwick printshop.
IG is @roostertees_