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UPCOMING MASTER CLASSES

Woodcuts with Bryn Perrott AKA Deerjerk

Dates: August 22-24, 2025

Location: Sweetwater Art Center, Sewickley, PA

Join woodcut artist Deerjerk (Bryn Perrott) for an immersive workshop to create your own relief woodcut carvings. Students will learn the whole process from layout to carving to sealing the finished woodcut for display.

Artist Bio

Bryn Perrott aka Deerjerk, is best known for her striking, immensely detailed high-contrast woodcuttings and prints. Her work has been used as beer labels, band merchandise, tattoos, and more. Bryn’s relief carvings feature themes like animals, death, and religion with a folk art feel that often mix cuteness with gore.

Inquisitive Construction: Hand-building with Deb Schwartzkopf

Instructor: Deb Schwartzkopf

Dates: October 24 – 26, 2025

Location: Sweetwater Art Center, Sewickley, PA

All the small details add up into new creations. This 3-day workshop will focus on fostering our attention to nuances, exploring our curiosities, and embracing techniques that will build on what you know of hand-building with clay.

When you hand-build with clay, any shape is possible! Together, we will make our own molds to shape slabs, dart cylinders to add movement and assemble simple parts into expressive shapes. (We will be working off the wheel, however many of these techniques can be applied to thrown cylinders! This workshop is great for throwers and hand-builders alike.)

Deb will lead you through a journey of discovery, with the goal of personal growth in your own work. Spark your ideas as you watch demos, participate in hands-on exercises, and enjoy all the ideas flowing within the group. Discussions about surface will round out this workshop. This workshop is one of discovery and risk more than finished objects. You will bring home ideas and techniques to enliven your studio practice. The days will be balanced with plenty of time for your own work and personal attention. Open to all skill levels.