The Creamery Arts Center

10/23/2026

✨ Exploring the Labyrinth Within: An Interactive Journey ✨

Join Matthew Robinson and Karen Floyd for a unique, hands-on experience exploring the fascinating world of labyrinths!

Discover the history, mythology, and practices surrounding labyrinths while glazing your own ceramic labyrinth. This interactive workshop combines creativity and the timeless symbolism of the labyrinth.

🏺 Saturday, November 14 | 2–4 PM

📍 Creamery Arts Center – Clay Studio

💛 $65 Recommended Donation | Sliding Scale Available

Come explore, create, and discover the journey within!

✨ All are welcome!
Register Here➡️ https://forms.gle/RTDefMvMNrC9SnAd6

10/23/2026

✨ Create Your Own Elegant Silk Wrap! ✨

Join fiber artist Jane Dupree for a wonderful day of creativity as you explore the beautiful art of Nuno Felting!

Discover how soft, luxurious fibers can be transformed into a stunning, one-of-a-kind wearable work of art. You'll create your very own elegant wrap to take home!

🧶 Elegant Wraps — Nuno Felting with Jane Dupree

📅 Friday, October 30
⏰ 10:00 AM–3:00 PM
📍 Creamery Arts Center | Hotchkiss
💲 $65 class fee + $15 materials fee

Jane's beautiful fiber creations have been featured in Aspen Sojourner magazine and sold in galleries and specialty markets.

Come experience the magic of working with silk and natural fibers while creating something truly special!

💕 reserve your spot here:

✨ Create Your Own Elegant Wrap! ✨ Join fiber artist Jane Dupree for a wonderful day of creativity as you explore the beautiful art of Nuno Felting! Discover how soft, luxurious fibers can be transformed into a stunning, one-of-a-kind wearable work of art. You'll create your very own elegant wrap...

10/20/2026

🥧 A Little Slice of Crafty Fun! 🍂

Join us for our November 1st Tuesday Craft Night at the Creamery Arts Center!

This month, Hillary Homer will guide us in creating an adorable Felt Pumpkin Pie Garland—a sweet and festive decoration to add a little handmade charm to your home this holiday season! 🧡

💲 $25 per person
📍 Creamery Arts Center | Hotchkiss, CO

Come enjoy a relaxed evening of creativity, laughter, and good company. No experience necessary!

🥧 Save your spot!
Register here 👉 https://forms.gle/2zvw9usxUSWPtwy19

We can't wait to get crafty with you! 🍁

1st Tuesday Craft Night — Felt Pumpkin Pie Garland with Hillary Homer 🥧 November 3 | 6:30 PM | $25 Join us for a fun evening of crafting and create a festive felt pumpkin pie garland—perfect for holiday decorating!

10/10/2026

🧶✨ What a wonderful evening at the Creamery Arts Center!

Last night's Hotchkiss Second Friday opening of Interwoven was such a beautiful celebration of art, creativity, and community!

Our gallery was filled with people enjoying incredible fiber art, catching up with friends, making new connections, and sharing good food and conversation. The Hotchkiss Knitters added an extra special touch, gathering on the porch with their knitting and sharing their love of the craft. 🧶❤️

A heartfelt thank you to our talented artists, volunteers, and everyone who came out to make the evening so memorable. It's nights like these that remind us just how special our North Fork Valley community is!

📸 Here are some favorite moments from the evening. We hope you enjoy them as much as we did!

If you missed the opening, Interwoven will be on display through October 31. Come experience this wonderful collection of fiber art for yourself!

10/09/2026

🍂🧶 TONIGHT at the Creamery!

Join us for Hotchkiss 2nd Friday, 5–8 PM, as we celebrate the opening of INTERWOVEN: A Fiber Arts Exhibition!

Come enjoy a beautiful fall evening filled with:

🎨 Incredible fiber art, from contemporary fine art to cozy handcrafted wearables!

🧶 Live fiber artist demonstrations

🛍️ Fiber vendors on the porch—get a head start on your holiday shopping!

🌭🍽️ Come hungry! We’ll be serving up a hot meal of delicious brats and sides!

🍁 Great art, wonderful people, and plenty of community spirit!

Friday, October 9 | 5–8 PM
📍 Creamery Arts Center | Hotchkiss, CO

Bring a friend, enjoy some great food, meet the artists, and celebrate fall with us!

See you TONIGHT! ❤️

10/07/2026

✨ Charming Gel Plate Layered Prints

Come play with color, shape, and layers in this fun printmaking class with Loretta Columbia! 🎨

Loretta will guide you through a gel plate layering technique that creates prints with the bold, graphic look of a serigraph—without all the mess. Experiment, layer, and see what unfolds. Every print is a little bit of magic!

📅 Saturday, October 24
⏰ 10 AM–1 PM
💲 $55
✨ Returning participants receive $5 off!
No need to be an experienced printmaker—just come ready to create and have fun.
Sign up here➡️ https://forms.gle/wz2p1Ckj9rNbPfPQ8

Charming technique layering shapes for prints. This technique makes your prints looking similar to a serigraph. It's fun and a lot less messy than the serigraph technique. So many options and so much fun, it's magical! Saturday October 24th. 10-1pm. $55. $5 off for returning participants.

10/07/2026

🎨 Intro to Watercolor: Birds 🐦
Join us for a relaxed, creative afternoon exploring the beautiful and approachable medium of watercolor! In this beginner-friendly class, we’ll work step-by-step through watercolor basics and techniques, building toward a finished bird painting of your own.
No watercolor experience is necessary, and all supplies are included—just come ready to paint!
🐦 Thursday, October 22
⏰ 10:30 AM–2:30 PM
📍Location: Creamy Arts Center, Hotchkiss
🎨 Instructor: Melanie Hoshiko
💲 $65 | All supplies included
Perfect for anyone who has been curious about watercolor and wants a welcoming place to begin.
Sign up here ➡️ https://forms.gle/VSoYKH3oHz4cn6PN8

Instructor: MELANIE HOSHIKO Discover the beauty of watercolor in this beginner-friendly class designed for those new to the medium. Students will learn basic fundamental watercolor techniques. Through guided practice exercises, participants will build confidence and develop an understanding of how w...

10/03/2026

✨ A little sneak peek at Interwoven…
From contemporary fine art to beautifully handcrafted wearables, Interwoven celebrates the incredible creativity and possibilities of fiber art. 🧶✨
Join us for the opening during Hotchkiss Second Friday and experience the show inside and out—with fiber artists demonstrating their craft and fiber vendors set up outside with beautiful handmade goods to explore and shop.
📅 Friday, October 9 | 5–8 PM
📍 Creamery Arts Center
And come hungry! We’ll be serving up brats and delicious sides throughout the evening. 🌭
Come see what happens when fiber becomes art. ✨

10/02/2026

Step by Step Pastel Drawing with Thesa Callinicos 🎨
Explore the expressive possibilities of pastel in this fun, approachable step-by-step drawing class.
Thesa will guide everyone through the same drawing while introducing basic techniques for drawing through movement and strokes. This is a great opportunity to experiment with pastel and build confidence—no experience necessary!

📅 Tuesday, October 20
⏰ 6:00–7:30 PM
💲 $20 — all supplies included
📍 Creamery Arts Center Educational Classroom
Please enter through the back door by the Clay Studio.

Come ready to draw, experiment, and have some fun with pastels! 🖍️✨
Sign up here ➡️ https://forms.gle/CgvFwxbi9xpCTQjK8

09/27/2026

❄️ Winter Landscape Painting with Wayne McKinzie 🎨

Saturday, November 7 | 10 AM–2:30 PM
Creamery Arts Center | Hotchkiss
$65 | Ages 15+

Learn how to bring light, depth, and vibrancy to your winter landscapes!

In this hands-on class, you’ll paint the same winter scene side-by-side with Wayne in real time, learning how he uses underpainting, subtle color and value, brushwork, light, and shadow to bring a winter landscape to life.

✨ All skill levels welcome
🖼️ 8" × 10" primed panel provided
🎨 Students bring their own paints, brushes & palette

Come ready to paint, ask questions, and leave with new techniques you can bring into your own artwork.

Reserve your spot here: https://forms.gle/MB52CpYzs4tPQKg38

Bring Your Winter Landscapes to Life Do your winter paintings sometimes seem dull or lack the depth and vibrancy you see when you’re out in the landscape? While winter may not have the obvious colors of summer or fall, it is filled with subtle shifts in color and value that can bring a painting to...