Explore your inner craftsperson and shape your own one-of-a-kind walking stick in this hands-on workshop with woodcarver instructor Richard Fisher. Using wood sourced from Bernheim, you’ll carve, add a rustic finish, and complete your creation with a signature Bernheim charm. Bernheim members $45; Non-members $55 Registration required by 4 p.m. the day prior to the […]

Celebrate World Water Day in the forest while honing your watercolor skills outdoors. Join master watercolorist Manish Rajguru for a workshop along the banks of Lake Nevin. Known for his award-winning, expressive watercolors, Manish will guide a lecture and an in-depth demonstration of painting en plein air, then give you time to create your own […]

Responding to the spring landscape and the return of migrating birds, artist Lizzie Gulick will lead participants in creating felted landscape “paintings” that honor the spirit and beauty of Bernheim Forest. We will use traditional wet felting methods, working in layers. Techniques covered will include cut and piece inlay, color mixing, exploring surface textures through […]

In this solstice-themed poetry session, we will build our word banks by exploring the world bank of Bernheim, seeking out objects to serve as images in our poems, and building word shrines to honor nature—a poetic foraging practice and an exercise in slow composition. We’ll experiment with contrast and balance, light and dark, halves and […]