LaVerne Kyriss Janet and Tom Frost moved to SaddleBrooke in early 2019, excited to begin exploring all the community and surrounding areas had to offer. Janet, a former operating room nurse and hospital manager and travel blogger, was excited to begin exploring other activities and pastimes. She had always worked with fabric and yarn, quilting…
Connie Kotke Watercolor is not a medium to be totally controlled. Certain colors act a certain way when placed on paper, and many things happen on dry and wet surfaces that cannot be explained. Watercolor’s beauty is unleashed as colors respond to your own personal emotions. Come explore the joy of painting with watercolors at…
Connie Kotke The SaddleBrooke Fine Arts Guild is a nonprofit organization that provides educational, skill-building, and social opportunities for guild members and SaddleBrooke residents alike. One popular activity is our quarterly Art & Wine Event, where friends and neighbors join in to paint a completed work of art while enjoying a sack supper and wine…
Connie Kotke The SaddleBrooke Fine Arts Guild offers a wide range of fun art classes for all skill levels, conveniently located in the SaddleBrooke community. Join your friends and neighbors in the Topaz Room at the MountainView Arts and Crafts Center. Then grab some lunch at the adjacent clubhouse before, during, or after class. You’ll…
Connie Kotke The SaddleBrooke Fine Arts Guild is pleased to announce its newly named Art Sampler class on Saturday, April 9, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Topaz Room in the Arts and Crafts Center at MountainView Country Club. The class time includes one hour for lunch on your own. This popular class was…
Connie Kotke The SaddleBrooke Fine Arts Guild (www.saddlebrookefinearts.org) offers a wide range of art classes for beginners to experts right here in the Activity Center at the MountainView Clubhouse. Our instructors are remarkably talented, and they love to teach! This month, we highlight Laurie Brussel, who teaches Beginning Drawing 1, Drawing 2, acrylic painting, and colored…
Connie Kotke, Publicity Chair The next popular Art and Wine event, sponsored by the SaddleBrooke Fine Arts Guild, is set for Tuesday, Feb. 22, from 5:30 to 9 p.m. at the Activity Center in SaddleBrooke One. Join your friends and neighbors to complete a painting of a service dog while enjoying a sack supper and sipping…
Varda Main Do you reach out to fondle fabrics, just because? Do you love creating things out of fabric, thread, yarn, wire, and other fibers? Do you love creating things where you don’t need to sew a straight line or make corners and points of pieces meet? If you answered yes to any of these…
Connie Kotke, Publicity Chair The SaddleBrooke Fine Arts Guild is a nonprofit organization that provides a wide range of classes to build or enhance the skills of artists at all levels of experience. Classes are held in the Topaz Room at the MountainView Arts and Crafts Center. Learn more about instructors, techniques, fees, and material…
LaVerne Kyriss Connie Kotke first learned about rosemaling when she was a teen attending Norwegian camp. This summer experience immersed her in all things Norwegian, from language and crafts to food and culture. She explained that rosemaling is a decorative folk art that originated in Norway in the late 1600s and reached its height in…