Grunewald Guild

Integrating art, faith and community since 1980, the Grunewald Guild is an arts education nonprofit

06/25/2026

Today we're featuring Lila Steffan, a watercolorist specializing in earth pigments, who is teaching with us July 26-Aug 1. Originally from Bellingham, Washington, she completed her BA in Studio Art at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas and has spent the last year living and working in Vermont. Her paintings have been featured in group exhibitions at the San Antonio Art League and Museum, SPACE Gallery in Burlington, Vermont, and the Michael and Noemi Neidorff Gallery. Through her work, Steffan explores the impact of climate change on naturally occurring cycles of decay and regeneration. Steffan forages for pigments such as charcoal, hematite, glauconite and shaggy mane mushrooms, which she hand processes into watercolor paints.

06/21/2026

Today, June 21-July 5th we're having a special sale on two of our classes taking place July 12-17! If you're interested in Classical Drawing or Stained Glass Mosaics now is a great time to sign up. No matter what your summer has in store for you, we hope it's filled with creativity!

06/20/2026

Today we're featuring Kayleigh Lang (they/them)! Kayleigh will be teaching a week-long mixed-media course on relating to the universal archetypes July 26th-Aug 1st, and a long weekend August 13-16 on the Fools Journey in Tarot!

Kayleigh is an artist currently located in Walla Walla, Washington, the original land of the Cayuse, Umatilla, and Walla Walla tribes. They grew up in Cheyenne, WY, and graduated with a BFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Wyoming. In 2016, they graduated with an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from Washington State University. Their work has been shown throughout the West and the greater Pacific Northwest, including Gallery 110, The Chase Gallery, Terrain Art Gallery, The Esvelt Gallery, and Witter Gallery. Kayleigh is currently working as an adjunct art professor and part-time professional tarot reader in eastern Washington.

06/18/2026

Our first week of summer programming was full of joy and color! Thank you all for the love and joy you brought to the time we had together and thank you for the thoughtfulness in how you approached community building in this space. You made beautiful art and beautiful connections and we're so grateful to be part of that!

06/17/2026

Introducing Kaia Gilje & Angela Sebastian, who will be teaching a movement class with us July 26-Aug 1st!

Angela is a Filipina dance artist with an MFA in Dance focused on choreography and performance from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (UHM). As an educator, Angela continuously works on her professional development and is currently a teacher trainee under Dr. Ama Wray, a professor at UC Irvine who created Embodiology, a performance praxis and endogenous knowledge of the Anlo-Ewe culture of the Volta region in Ghana for understanding the world through the body. Angela has maintained a great connection with the dance communities in the Philippines, Hong Kong & Hawai'i through teaching. She hopes to contribute to perpetuating the significance of art and making it part of the conversation through her current research in Philippine Dance: How traditions flow through time, spaces, and body.

Kaia Gilje became activated through art and community, finding collaboration as a place of practice. She has worked in dance and performance art and was shaped and influenced by the experimental performance art community in New York City. She has made a wide variety of performance work ranging from solo performances, long term duet collaborations, dancing in ensembles, participating in collectives, and creating operas. She has performed in DIY spaces, festivals, theatres, museums, bars, libraries, universities and on the street, engaging with performance as a process and a practice.

06/16/2026

We still have room during three dynamic weeks of programming this summer! If you've been contemplating a class, let this flash sale be your sign-- we can't wait to see you soon!

Recycled Sculpture with Trung Pham & Pottery with Jim Halvorson begin this Sunday June 21st & our sale runs through the 20th!

Writing with Larry Lehnerz & Weaving open studio (specifically for graduates of Nancy & Suzanne's weaving class) will be on sale until the 21st.

Binding Family Stories with Sarah Sprouse & Fun with Jewelry with Tamzin Darden will be on sale through June 28th.

06/13/2026

With classes based on movement, natural pigments, and mixed-media our final week of summer programming will help us connect our creativity to the earth, learn what grounds us, what brings us wholeness and what resonates past this summer as we move into the rest of our year. Join us for the joyful conclusion of our summer programming, July 26-Aug 1.

06/11/2026

Today we're featuring Adele Caemmerer, who will be teaching Drawing Where you Are this July 19-25. After coming to the Guild as a staffer in 1987, Adele met and married Mike, Guild founders, Richard and Liz Caemmerer’s son. Adele and Mike ventured overseas to teach in international schools. Along with their two daughters, they traveled between Asia and America, spending many summers in Plain with the Guild community. Alongside teaching art, Adele trained and continues to work as a spiritual director. She is now living in Plain, pursuing her art, teaching, leading retreats, practicing as an Internal Family Systems practitioner, and volunteering with the Grunewald Guild. She is also active in the local arts scene through exhibitions and arts advocacy. Adele incorporates her passion for art and spiritual practice in her visual explorations of daily life.

06/09/2026

Today we're featuring Ron Cole is a digital artist, songwriter, and potter. Born in Pittsburgh and raised in Kentucky, Ron first came to the Guild as an intern for the 2013 Summer Program, then stayed on as an Artist in Residence, and later returned to work on staff for a few years. He currently resides in Plain, WA where he, his wife, and toddler live in their tiny home. This summer Ron will be teaching a ceramics lidded vessel class July 19-25!

06/07/2026

During the week of July 19-25 we are so excited to be offering a wide range of different medias: tapestry weaving class, throwing lidded vessels, sewing and drawing! Something magical happens during multi-disciplinary weeks and we are really looking forward to this one! Find out more about these classes and our other offerings on our website!

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19003 River Road
Leavenworth, WA
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