Monday, November 30, 2026, 3-6pm

The St. Johnsbury HUB, 105 Eastern Avenue (behind Catamount Arts), St. Johnsbury

Free. Drop in; no registration required.

Instructor: Nico Lima

Also offered Tuesday, November 10, 2026, 3-6pm. Attend either or both dates.

Drop in and stay as long as you like for either or both of these fun and accessible printmaking workshops. Learn the basics of monoprinting in a low-tech, experimental format. Students will produce one-of-a-kind images by ink transfer, bridging the gap between drawing, painting, and printmaking. Materials will include common household packaging, such as plastic bags, cereal boxes, Styrofoam trays, sticks, office paper, and ballpoint pens. This is a great introduction for anyone looking to explore printmaking without needing all the specialty tools used in traditional printmaking techniques.

This workshop is offered free of charge, thanks in part to an Arts and Social Cohesion grant from the Vermont Community Foundation.

Nico Lima lives and works in Lyndonville, VT. His practice includes painting, printmaking, and installation using post-consumer materials. His work investigates regional cuisine, terroir, agricultural infrastructure and mythologies. Nico received a BFA from UMass Dartmouth and MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. He teaches painting at the Community College of Vermont and exhibits throughout the Northeast.

Tuesday, December 15, 6-8pm

Spells for Safety: A Community Poetry Workshop (adults and teens)

Catamount Arts Center, 115 Eastern Avenue

Using the anthology Poetry as Spellcasting: Poems, Essays, and Prompts for Manifesting Liberation and Reclaiming Power, we will create and dream poem-rituals and spells together as freedom maps for ourselves and our communities. 

Please bring paper and something to write with. 

Class fee: $10 (10% off for Catamount Arts members). 

Supported in part by a grant from the Vermont Community Foundation. 

Ching-In Chen is author of Shiny City, recombinant (2018 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry) and The Heart's Traffic: a novel in poems as well as chapbooks to make black paper sing and Kundiman for Kin :: Information Retrieval for Monsters (Leslie Scalapino Finalist). Chen is co-editor of The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities. They are a Kelsey Street Press collective member, Airlie Press editor and Nonfiction Coordinator for Best of the Net. They serve on the Governing Council of Seattle's Cultural Space Agency, on the board of Seattle City of Literature and as the Pacific Northwest chapter co-lead for Kundiman and on the national Kundiman board. They collaborate on Breathing in a Time of Disaster, a performance, installation and speculative writing project exploring breath through meditation and environmental justice. They teach in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences and the MFA program in Creative Writing and Poetics at the University of Washington Bothell. 

Tuesday, December 15, 6-8pm

Spells for Safety: A Community Poetry Workshop (adults and teens)

Catamount Arts Center, 115 Eastern Avenue

Using the anthology Poetry as Spellcasting: Poems, Essays, and Prompts for Manifesting Liberation and Reclaiming Power, we will create and dream poem-rituals and spells together as freedom maps for ourselves and our communities. 

Please bring paper and something to write with. 

Class fee: $10 (10% off for Catamount Arts members). 

Supported in part by a grant from the Vermont Community Foundation. 

Ching-In Chen is author of Shiny City, recombinant (2018 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry) and The Heart's Traffic: a novel in poems as well as chapbooks to make black paper sing and Kundiman for Kin :: Information Retrieval for Monsters (Leslie Scalapino Finalist). Chen is co-editor of The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities. They are a Kelsey Street Press collective member, Airlie Press editor and Nonfiction Coordinator for Best of the Net. They serve on the Governing Council of Seattle's Cultural Space Agency, on the board of Seattle City of Literature and as the Pacific Northwest chapter co-lead for Kundiman and on the national Kundiman board. They collaborate on Breathing in a Time of Disaster, a performance, installation and speculative writing project exploring breath through meditation and environmental justice. They teach in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences and the MFA program in Creative Writing and Poetics at the University of Washington Bothell. 

Monday-Wednesday, Feb 22, 23, 24, 2027

10-11am at Catamount Arts Center

Instructor: Skyla Cole

Class fee: $10 (this donation supports the education programs at Catamount Arts). We do not want cost to be a barrier for any family, so if you need financial assistance, please call Anne at 802-748-2600 ext. 109. 

Tendues and Twirls will be an opportunity for children interested in dance with or without experience to explore the foundations and techniques of ballet in a playful and collaborative environment. 

Please bring a water bottle and wear comfortable athletic clothes: shorts, leggings, tee shirts or long sleeve shirts (does not need to be dance attire), socks, barefeet or ballet shoes

Miss Skyla Cole began her dance career at the age of 3 at Dance Workshop taking ballet, tap, jazz and acrobatics.  At dance competitions, she had the opportunity to experience a competitive performance as well as contemporary, ballet and hip hop dance classes.  At the age of 13, she switched to dance at Dance Express.  There, she was an assistant teacher, and took classes in ballet, pointe, tap, jazz, contemporary, modern and hip hop.  Upon entering high school, Miss Skyla chose Lyndon Institute and is highly involved in the dance program with Mrs. Rebecca McGregor.  She runs classical and tap clubs, is part of the National Honor Society for Dance Arts chapter, is a member of the audition-based Dance Company, participates in cultural dance and hip hop dance clubs, takes the modern dance class, and is now doing a dance internship.  Her internship work focuses on dance education as this is the pathway in which her Independent Study work in her junior and senior year will unfold.  Miss Skyla is passionate about the role of dance education in her life and wants to share this with others so they can experience the art of dance in a safe manner, potentially learn from others in case they wish to go on with dance, and for those who have never danced before try something new!