Grunewald Guild

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

06/01/2026

July 12-17th promises to be a very special week of Guild programming! With ceramic hand-building, stained glass mosaic and classical drawing there is something for everyone. Whether you lean toward technique and fine detail, or experimentation, this week will be bright and filled with color! Find out more on our website, we'd love to see you this summer!

05/29/2026

Today we're highlighting Kristen Gilje! Kristen is a beloved Guild faculty and full-time artist who works in her Bellingham WA studio on art commissions for sacred spaces. She makes large colorful works on silk for seasonal use, which can be seen in churches from coast to coast. Kristen spent 9 years as Artist in Residence at Holden village, near Chelan WA, where she learned the value of making art for and with a worshiping community. A 1978 graduate from St. Olaf College, her senior concentration was entitled “Art as Expression of the Holy.” Kristen has been combining ideas about art and theology in her work ever since and will be teaching Watercolor in the Sacred Milieu this summer July 5th-11th!

05/25/2026

Today we're highlighting the Guild's Executive Director, Sarah Sprouse! Sarah is a visual artist, educator, and art historian. Outside of the Guild, Sarah is a professor of ceramics at Wenatchee Valley College where she fosters creative exploration and artistic growth. Sarah is committed to facilitating opportunities for all to experience the transformative power of art. Experience that transformative power for yourself in Sarah's class, Binding Family Stories: Making Artist Books as Archives, July 5th-11th!

05/23/2026

Introducing Tamzin Darden! Tamzin is originally from São Paulo, Brasil and was raised in a family passionate about the arts. To Tamzin creativity is not a hobby but a way of life! She loves to do all forms of art and currently spends her time making jewelry, sewing, making pottery, and teaching. Most of the time, Tamzin can be found in Leander, Texas, with her chickens, ducks, dogs and the love of her life, Mike. In the summertime, she spends time at her cabin on Lake Wenatchee, Washington. Tamzin has 3 grown sons and 4 grandchildren. Experience Tamzin's fun and joyful teaching this summer in her Jewelry class July 5-11th!

05/22/2026

This July 5-11 we will have three classes full of joy and color that celebrate the magic of intentional intuitive creation! Whether you're looking to add to your personal archive, experiment with jewelry making or express yourself through the art of watercolor we have something for your inner creative. Check out the link in our bio to read more about the classes, we'd love to create with you this summer!

05/19/2026

Introducing Nicki Lang, who will be teaching printmaking with us June 28-July 3! Nicki is a creative dabbler. After making leather goods for ten years, she picked up a palette knife and started painting Pacific Northwest landscapes. Lately you can find her hand-building with clay and playing with both sculpture and functional forms. When she is not doing visual art, Nicki can be found writing, playing the banjo, or spending time outside with her husband, two boys and goofy dog, Lupinella. Experience the joyful creativity inspired by the Guild's natural habitat with Nicki this June when she returns to teach Plants, Prints & Place!

05/15/2026

June 28-July 3 will be an incredible week at the Guild! Have you ever wanted to write a novel or memoir? Or perhaps you would like to explore your love love of the local flora & fauna on the Guild campus! Whether glass, textiles, writing or printmaking this week will be full of inspiration!

05/13/2026

If you have ever marveled at a Guild mug - particularly our "Art Faith" mugs - you have admired the work of master ceramic artist Jim Halvorson! Jim has been a potter for nearly 50 years and was initially introduced to the ceramic art while a student at Valparaiso University. Jim received his MFA from Rochester Institute of Technology where he studied with Bauhaus trained potter Frans Wildenhain. In 1990 Jim achieved his teachers certification and taught ceramics in addition to other art classes in the Indianapolis Public School system. We are so thrilled to have Jim returning to the Guild to teach with us this summer and invite you to consider this incredible opportunity to learn from a true master-- June 21st-June 27th! Find out more about his class at the link in our bio.

05/12/2026

Join us for a vibrant week of classes taught by beloved Guild faculty June 21-27! Whether it's pottery with Jim Halvorson, weaving with Nancy Marsh and , multi-media civic engagement with , songwriting with , or outdoor sculpture with --this week will be one for the books. Learn more about the courses on our website!

05/08/2026

This month we are honored to share work by Kelsey Shirley in the Guild library. We will have a reception and opening at 7pm on Friday May 8th followed by an artist talk at 7:30pm!

Kelsey Shirley is a bed based artist who explores themes of illness and the warping of time, memory, and identity that come alongside it.

After becoming profoundly disabled with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), Kelsey lost the ability to make art for years and only recently has her health improved enough to create again. For the last year she has been exploring scanography as an accessible method of making, scanning the objects around her on a flatbed scanner and making distortions that reflect her lived experience.

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19003 River Road
Leavenworth, WA
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+15097633693

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http://www.grunewaldguild.com/

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