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Summer & Fall 2025 class schedule
Summer & Fall 2025 class schedule
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Quick paper mache masks
Quick paper mache masks
Age range: 14 to adult.
Duration: 4-5 hours
Tuition: $60, materials included.
Location: The Wildland Roots workshop at Green Anchors, directions HERE
Dates:
Saturday August 23rd, 10am-3pm (CANCELLED DUE TO EXTREME HEAT)
Sunday October 12th, 11am-4pm (Register HERE)
This one day class teaches students to create a unique wearable mask using a streamlined paper mache mask-making method that uses common materials including aluminum foil, tape, and paper. Class price includes materials. Instructor is professional mask-maker and Wildland Roots Artistic Director Moni Sears, and the class is based on a technique taught by Bruce Marrs at the Dell Arte School of Physical Theatre in the late 1990s.
Mask-making with Natural Materials
Mask-making with Natural Materials
Age range: 14 to adult.
Duration: ~5 hours
Cost: $60
Location: The Wildland Roots workshop at Green Anchors, directions HERE
Date:
Saturday August 30th, 10am-3pm (Register HERE)
This class teaches students to make beautiful, rustic masks from natural and biodegradable materials including natural fibers and earth-based pigments. It is designed to be taught outside in a natural environment without risk of contamination to local soil and water, and can even make use of local and onsite natural materials such as clay, moss, seed pods and other plant materials.
This mask-making method was developed by Wildland Roots Artistic Director Moni Sears.
Mask-making with Paper Mache
Mask-making with Paper Mache
Age range: 16 to adult.
Duration: 2 sessions of 4-5 hours each.
Tuition: $120 including materials
Location: The Wildland Roots workshop at Green Anchors, directions HERE
Dates:
Saturday Sept 27 & Saturday Oct 24th, 10am-4pm. (Register HERE)
Learn how to create a unique wearable mask using a traditional paper mache overcast technique. This is a two-day class offered on adjacent Saturdays, that offers a much more in-depth learning experience compared to our one day "Quick paper mache masks" class.
Participants who are unable to attend the second day of the class may be able to make arrangements to attend a make up session, or they can finish the mask on their own.
This class is taught by by professional mask-maker and Wildland Roots Artistic Director Moni Sears.
Photo by Lane Rollins, 2024
Lantern-making with Paper & Willow
Lantern-making with Paper & Willow
Age range: 14 to adult.
Duration: 4-5 hours
Cost: $60 including materials
Location: The Wildland Roots workshop at Green Anchors, directions HERE
Date:
Saturday October 18th, 10am-3pm (Register HERE)
Make a beautiful, pyramid-shaped paper lantern using locally harvested willow branches. This method is based on willow lantern-making techniques popular the UK, but is adapted to use materials easily found in the United States. The finished lantern size will be approximately 12"x12"x24" or less.
Class taught by Wildland Roots Artistic Director Moni Sears .
DIY Paper Clay
DIY Paper Clay
Age range: 14 to adult.
Duration: 2-3 hours
Tuition: Suggested donation $25.
Location: The Wildland Roots workshop at Green Anchors, directions HERE
Date:
Saturday August 2nd 1-4pm. (Register HERE)
We’ll make a paper pulp and cornstarch-based sculpting compound that can be used to smooth out or add surface detail to masks and puppet heads, or to make small sculptures. Feel free to BYO projects that you want to customize! The material works especially well when applied to paper mache or wood. We'll also have some simple supplies on hand for folks that just want to play with the material. Class size is limited to 10.
Other classes
(Dates TBA)
Other classes
(Dates TBA)
Lantern-making with Paper & Rattan
Lantern-making with Paper & Rattan
Make a beautiful paper lantern from natural rattan and translucent paper. Chose either a star or pyramid shaped style. (Students who have made lanterns with us previously have an advanced option to create a globe-shaped lantern). Finished lantern sizes are approximately 12"x12"x3" (star), 8"x8"x12" (pyramid), or 9"x9"x9" (globe).
Class taught by Wildland Roots Artistic Director Moni Sears.
Age range: 14 to adult.
Duration: 4-5 hours
Cost: $60 plus $15 materials fee
Location: The Wildland Roots workshop at Green Anchors, directions HERE
Upcoming class dates TBA
Face-casting
Face-casting
Participants pair up to make a mold of each other's faces using plaster bandages, then use plaster to create a low-detail casting of their own faces. These face castings can be used in any of our mask-making classes, (instead of using one of the stock face castings we have available) to build a custom fitted mask.
This class is taught by by professional mask-maker and Wildland Roots Artistic Director Moni Sears.
Age range: 16 to adult.
Duration: ~4 hours
Tuition TBA
Location: Green Anchors, in the garden directly in front of the bathroom building.
Upcoming class dates TBA
Other details
Summer classes: Dress for a class in an outdoor location. We have a covered workspace but we are right by the river where it tends to be slightly cooler than the rest of Portland, and sometimes breezy.
Winter classes: Dress for a class in an uninsulated indoor environment. We have a heater but recommend lots of layers especially during cold mornings.
Also we will be using paste and sometimes clay or paint so don't wear your best outfit.
Classes have a 1 hour lunch break, so bring a bag lunch or plan to grab a quick bite up the hill in downtown St Johns.
Class Cancellation and Refund Policy
Registrant cancellations made 1 week or more in advance of the event date will receive a 100% refund.
For registrant cancellations made less than 1 week before the event, but more than 24 hours before the event, we can offer you a credit towards a future class to be used within 6 months, but we do not offer refunds.
For registrant cancellations occurring 24 hours or less before the class (or in the instance of your not showing up to the class) you will lose the payment for the class.
If you are unable to attend you can give your spot to a friend, but the same refund and credit policy for your payment applies.
When you register for a class, you agree to these terms.
Cancellations can be made by email (wildlandroots@gmail.com) or text (503-341-9176). Thank you!
Class Cancellation and/or Rescheduling Policy for Extreme Weather or Unusual Events
In the event of extreme weather, or unusual or hazardous events in the vicinity of Green Anchors and/or North Portland that make it necessary for us to cancel a class in the interests of registrant and instructor safety (including but not limited to snow and or ice storms, flooding, extreme winds, wildfires, or an environmental disaster) we will attempt to reschedule the class and/or offer make-up days to registrants. If it is not possible to find a suitable alternative date for a registrant within 60 days, class tuition and any materials fees will be 100% refunded.
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