Friday, May 29th - 4pm - 7pm
Saturday, May 30th - 10am - 4pm
Sunday, May 31st - 10am - 4pm

Immerse yourself in a transformative weekend of watercolor, creative exploration, and personal artistic growth at the St. Tammany Art Association led by artist and art educator Rachael Lagarde Walker. This three‑day intensive blends hands‑on technique with reflective practice, guiding you to deepen your skills while reconnecting with the artist within.

Across the weekend, participants will explore watercolor through layered washes, expressive mark‑making, field‑sketching walks, and guided studio sessions designed to help you develop and refine your personal style. Alongside the technical work, we’ll engage in conversations about the artist’s life—creative courage, sustaining inspiration, navigating blocks, and cultivating a meaningful studio practice.

Each day includes working lunch sessions where we gather to discuss artist life stories, share reflections, and build community. (Lunch is not provided; participants may bring their own or purchase nearby.) Snacks and drinks will be available throughout the day to keep you energized. 

On Sunday evening, we’ll close with an optional group dinner for those who want to continue the conversation beyond the studio.

Whether you’re seeking to expand your watercolor technique, reconnect with your creative identity, or simply spend a weekend immersed in art and conversation, this workshop offers a rich, restorative space to grow.

Expect a weekend that is both skill‑building and soul‑nourishing:

• Watercolor demonstrations and guided exercises
• Personal style development and creative voice exploration
• Walking field trips for sketching, observation, and inspiration
• Reflective discussions on the artist’s journey
• Supportive group critiques and idea‑sharing
• A welcoming, community‑centered environment

thursday, May 21st
from 6:00pm - 7:30pm
family night! come celebrate the end of the school year with us!

Join us for our new club, the CCC! Each club meeting will offer a brief collage tutorial followed by lots of fun with paper and glue! Feel free to bring any projects or materials you wish to work on. Sharing of ideas, tops, and supportive feedback with the group is encouraged. We will have plenty of ephemera and supplies on hand. All ages welcomed, and experience is not required!

single-session workshop
tuesday, may 19th
from 6:00 - 8:00pm

Join STAA and instructor Robyn Kennedy for a tote bag painting party! The single-night workshop will encourage students to use paints, markers, and stencils, and embellishments to create custom pieces of functional art! Students are asked to bring their own tote bags, but all other supplies are provided. Come and explore painting on an unconventional surface to stretch your creative muscles!

thursday, April 23rd
from 6:00pm - 7:30pm

Join us for our new club, the CCC! Each club meeting will offer a brief collage tutorial followed by lots of fun with paper and glue! Feel free to bring any projects or materials you wish to work on. Sharing of ideas, tops, and supportive feedback with the group is encouraged. We will have plenty of ephemera and supplies on hand. All ages welcomed, and experience is not required!

Single-Session workshop
tuesday, april 21st from 6:00pm - 8:00pm

Join local jewelry designer Angelle LeBouef at St. Tammany Art Association in downtown Covington for a hands-on jewelry making experience. Participants will learn foundational design techniques while working with semi-precious stones and gold-plated hardware, creating one custom necklace to take home. Students will choose from a variety of colors, gold spacers, and freshwater pearls!
Inspired by the natural beauty of stones, Angelle is a locally based artist and mother of six who loves helping others create meaningful, wearable pieces that reflect their own personal style.

two single-session workshops
saturday, april 18th from
11:00am - 1:00pm (POttery wheeL)
& 2:00pm - 4:00pm (Handbuilding)

Mother’s Day is right around the corner! Choose your technique in this all ages workshop to make mom a custom trinket dish!
Join Angelina in this simple, single-session workshop to create small trinket dishes on the pottery wheel or with the slab roller! Learn the beginning basics of wedging, centering, and throwing a plate or small bowl! Once finished throwing, students can use stamps, tools, and glazes to decorate their pieces. Dishes will then be fired in the kiln, and students will be notified when they are ready to be picked up!

Single-session workshop on
Friday, April 17th
from 6:00pm - 8:00pm

B.Y.O.W.
Mother’s Day is just around the corner! Make mom a mug, share an experience with her, or have a therapy sesh with the girls while you sip some wine and get creative!

Students will learn the basics of handbuilding with clay to create a custom mug! Instructor Angelina Quigley will teach students how to work with the slab roller, coiling technique, or pinch pot to shape their mugs. Students will work with stamps and tools to add texture to their pieces, add attachments, and use underglazes to add color. Pieces are then fired, and students will receive an email when they are ready to be picked up!

Thursday, march 26th
from 6:00pm - 7:30pm

Join STAA for its new program, the CCC! Each club meeting will offer a brief collage tutorial followed by lots of fun with paper and glue! Feel free to bring any projects or materials you wish to work on. Sharing of ideas, tops, and supportive feedback with the group is encouraged. We will have plenty of ephemera and supplies on hand. All ages welcomed, and experience is not required!

single-session workshop
tuesday, March 17th
from 6:00 - 8:00pm

Join STAA and instructor Blair Barlow for a linocut print class that explores illustrating poetry! This class will walk the participants through a meditation on poetry and sketch images that arise. We will then translate these sketches into a linocut carving and decorate the cover of a sketchbook with your original print. Come and explore print making and stretch your creative muscles!

single-session workshop
Saturday, March 14th
2:00pm - 4:00pm

Be the talk of your family’s Easter celebration with a custom, handmade deviled egg platter! Students will use the slab roller to create uniform pieces of clay to then cut and form their desired shape of platter! Use tools to create egg-shaped indentations, textures, and designs. Students will also underglaze details onto their platters. Platters will be dried and fired, and students will be notified when they are ready to be picked up!

Thursday, February 26th
from 6:00pm - 7:30pm

Join STAA for its new program, the CCC! Each club meeting will offer a brief collage tutorial followed by lots of fun with paper and glue! Feel free to bring any projects or materials you wish to work on. Sharing of ideas, tops, and supportive feedback with the group is encouraged. We will have plenty of ephemera and supplies on hand. All ages welcomed, and experience is not required!

Single-session workshop on
wednesday, february 25th
from 6:00pm - 8:00pm

B.Y.O.W.
Bring your friends, sip some wine, and create your very own mug!

Students will learn the basics of handbuilding with clay to create a custom mu! Instructor Angelina Quigley will teach students how to work with the slab roller, coiling technique, or pinch pot to shape their mugs. Students will work with stamps and tools to add texture to their pieces, add attachments, and use underglazes to add color. Pieces are then fired, and students will receive an email when they are ready to be picked up!

two single-session workshops
saturday, February 7th from
11:00am - 1:00pm & 2:00pm - 4:00pm

Have you always been interested in learning how to use the pottery wheel? Too noncommittal to make the investment into a new hobby? Well, have we got the workshop for you!
Join Angelina in this simple, single-session workshop to create small trinket dishes on the pottery wheel! Learn the beginning basics of wedging, centering, and throwing a plate or small bowl! Once finished throwing, students can use stamps, tools, and glazes to decorate their pieces. Dishes will then be fired in the kiln, and students will be notified when they are ready to be picked up!

2 Single-Session workshops
Saturday, January 24th
11:00am - 1:30pm
& 5:00pm - 7:30pm

Join Rachael for some creative Mardi Gras fun with an introduction to paper flower techniques, headpiece construction, and a variety of king cakes to sample! Use your new knowledge of creating paper flowers, combined with other provided decorative elements, to create a unique Mardi Gras paper flower headpiece!

First meeting of the covington collage club is
thursday, january 22nd
from 6:00pm - 7:30pm

Join our first ever session of the CCC! Each club meeting will offer a brief collage tutorial followed by lots of fun with paper and glue! Feel free to bring any projects or materials you wish to work on. Sharing of ideas, tops, and supportive feedback with the group is encouraged. We will have plenty of ephemera and supplies on hand. All ages welcomed, and experience is not required!
In our January meeting, Amy Bethke will demonstrate gel plate techniques to create hand-printed collage papers!

This single-session workshop meets
saturday, January 17th
3:00pm - 5:30pm

This year for Valentine’s Day, ditch the florist’s vase for your own unique creation!
Students will use the slab roller to roll out clay that will then be built and formed into a vase. From there, use tools, texturizers, cookie cutters, and glazes to customize your vase into a romantic piece you can love for years to come. Vases will be fired and ready for pick up before Valentine’s Day, so you can give your sweetheart a gift they’ll love!

single-session workshop
Saturday, january 17th
11:00am - 1:30pm

Join Angelina in this workshop and create a small ceramic picture frame! Students will use the slab roller to create uniform pieces of clay and then cut their desired shape of frame! Build a small box from your pieces and use tools, texturizers, cookie cutters, and glazes to bring your frame to life! Frames will be dried and fired, and students will be notified when they are ready to be picked up!

This single-session girls’ night art meets
tuesday, january 13th from 6:00pm to 8:00pm

Kick off 2026 by joining a supportive creative community to make artistic pocket journals filled with art, mantras, intentions, and wishes! We will strengthen our decision-making and follow-through by documenting our immediate goal-oriented actions as well as higher order aspirations.
No experience required! Just come with a desire to explore and create!

ThESE single-session classES take place
Saturday, december 13th
3:00pm - 5:00pm
&
5:30pm - 7:30pm

Want to spruce up your Christmas tree, or do you need a last minute gift? Create your own unique and festive ceramic Christmas ornaments! In the first class, students will use the slab roller and cookie cutter shapes to cut out 4 ornaments and decorate them using carving tools and glazes. Finished ornaments will be available for pickup before Christmas!

Join us for a charcoal still life workshop with
the 55th annual summer show first place winner amber hart!
This single-session workshop meets
saturday, december 13th
from 11:ooam - 1:00pm

Still-life drawing has been a cornerstone of art education since the Renaissance when artists like Caravaggio used everyday objects to explore light, composition, and form. In this 2-hour workshop, students will learn to apply and strengthen their foundational skills in drawing to a fun and creative staged still-life. Students will perform some warm-up exercises in line drawing and then proceed to their final drawing using charcoal. All materials will be provided. 

Single-session workshop on saturday, december 13th
from 11:00am - 2:00pm

Do you have a kiddo or teen that would love to create Christmas gifts for the ones they love? In this three hour workshop with Meghan Garcia, students will sculpt a variety of polymer clay earrings and trinkets! Ms. Meghan will help their creations come to life as they build, bake, and attach backings or hooks to their pieces! Students should bring a lunch, drink, and a festive attitude!

This single-session class takes place
Friday, december 12th from 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Price is per house built

Sign up on your own, or with a partner, to create a ceramic gingerbread house! Students will use the slab roller to roll out clay slabs to assemble their own 3-D gingerbread house. Use carving tools, stamps, underglazes, glazes, and your imagination to decorate and design a custom and festive piece. Students will be notified when their houses are ready to be picked up!

single-session workshop
Saturday, december 6th
6:00pm - 8:00pm

Want to have a girls night, a date night, or a night of family fun? Join us to celebrate the holidays in an artistic way!

Join STAA and Angelina Quigley to create your own Charcuterie Board! Students will use the slab roller to create a base for their platter. From there, use sculpting and carving techniques to create your holiday platter uniquely your own! Sculpt and paint food-safe underglaze and glaze designs to make each platter exactly what you need! Platters will then be glossed and and fired in our kiln to be picked up at a later date.

This single-session workshop meets
saturday, December 6th
From 1:00pm - 3:00pm

Join us for a casual and fun night of creative glazing! Each student will receive a set of three small (6in, 4.5in, & 3.5in) bisque-fired Christmas trees to uniquely decorate with gloss glazes. Layer colors to create a snowy effect, or use your imagination to make a whimsical pattern with unconventional colors! Share the love by bringing a group of friends or family, distribute your finished pieces, and you’ll have a piece of each other all holiday season! Pieces will be fired in the kiln after class, and students will be notified when their trees are ready for pickup!

Single-Session Class
Tuesday, december 2nd
6:00pm - 8:00pm

Bring the girls to this holiday edition of Girls’ Night Art! In this workshop, students will use watercolor to paint 2 distinct cards! Robyn will lead students through the first card and learn the techniques of masking off, wet on wet, dry brush, lift off, and splattering using the colors Prussian Blue, Burnt Umber, and White. Your second card is up to you! Robyn will provide you with support along the way, but use these techniques to make a truly unique card!

Single-session workshop
Saturday, july 19th
9am - 4pm (STUDENTS WILL HAVE A LUNCH BREAK FROM 12PM-1PM)

Are you interested in learning how to make unique and handmade cards and books for the holidays? Join Rachel in this hands on workshop where you will learn how to work with a gel plate and acrylic paints to monoprint on paper! Students will learn how to turn their printed paper into a book cover to create a basic pamphlet stitch booklet. Students will leave with a completed project.

Skills learned: 

• basic monoprinting using a gel plate

• basic bookbinding

• basic single pamphlet stitch

• single cards