Veterans Art Group

With support from Suzie Spada (in memory of Tom Spada), Rachel Doctors and Craig Kniffin, the SAA is providing art classes to the 'Veterans  Art Group' of the Springfield Vet Center.  
Veterans will be introduced to a variety of different media in workshops held throughout our campus.  
​They will take classes to create finished pieces in papermaking, metals, ceramics, cold glass, hot glass, fiber arts, printmaking, and book arts. 

Please contact Betsy VanBrocklin at www.vetcenter.va.gov for workshop details.

Paper Arts

Attendees learned about the history of papermaking while pulling their own sheets of handmade paper, utilized our Mixed Media Studio to create handmade books, and designed their own lino block to cut and print resulting in multiple cards. 

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Metals

Attendees spent time in our Smith & Nickelson Metals Studio creating sculptures from recycled aluminum and cutting, forming, and soldering metal flowers to be worn or used as small scale sculptures.

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Ceramics

In our Prairie Earth and Fire Ceramics Studio participants learned the fundamental skills of wheel throwing, how to hand build ceramic white-boards using slab building methods, and how to glaze ceramic bisqueware.

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Glass

Attendees spent time in our Baima Glass and Mixed Media studios learning glass fusing, stained glass, and hot glass. Participants created fused glass dishes in quilt block patterns, sculpted pumpkins out of hot glass, pieced together mittens in stained glass, and made blown glass ornaments.

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Fiber Arts

Participants spent an afternoon in our historic house museum, Edwards Place, learning the historical craft of weaving! Beautiful functional items were made on mini looms.

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2026 programming is generously supported by:
Suzie Spada in memory of Tom Spada
​Rachel Doctors and Craig Kniffin