Join us for a hands-on workshop inspired by Georgia O'Keeffe. We'll begin with a short introduction to her life, paintings, and distinctive way of seeing before creating our own artwork from fresh flowers. A 9 × 12in sketchbook and oil pastels will be supplied and yours to bring home!
Together, we'll explore color, shape, scale, and abstraction using oil pastels. The workshop is relaxed, guided, and open to all experience levels.
During the workshop, you'll:
Learn about Georgia O'Keeffe's life and artistic approach.
Explore how she used color, shape, scale, and abstraction.
Create artwork inspired by her paintings and fresh flowers.
Experiment with oil pastels in a relaxed, guided setting.
What’s Included:
Fresh flowers to work from
9×12 in Sketchbook to take home
An oil pastel set to use during the workshop and take home
A basic introduction to oil pastel
Class Taught by Diana Vidal. Gallery Founder Director + Educator
Spend an evening experimenting with color, texture, and layers.
Join us for a hands-on introduction to gel printing, an accessible form of monoprinting that makes it easy to create one-of-a-kind images. We’ll begin with a demonstration of the gel plate, brayer, paint, and basic printing process before creating a series of original prints.
Together, we’ll explore color, shape, texture, masks, stencils, and layered compositions. The workshop is relaxed, welcoming, and open to all experience levels; whether you already make art or simply want to try a playful new process.
During the workshop, you’ll:
Learn how to apply paint and pull a clean print from a gel plate.
Experiment with paper masks, stencils, and found textures.
Build layered compositions and create ghost prints.
Leave with a collection of original prints, experimental papers, and your gel printing supplies.
WHAT’S INCLUDED
A gel plate and brayer
Acrylic paints
9x12in sketchbook
Guided demonstrations and instruction
All workshop supplies to use during class and take home.Nothing is required but feel free to bring magazines or printed matter to use.
Spend an evening drawing from color, symbols, and intuition.
Join us for a hands-on workshop inspired by Hilma af Klint. We’ll begin with a short introduction to her life, paintings, and distinctive visual language before creating our own abstract drawings with colored pencils.
Together, we’ll explore color relationships, geometry, repeated forms, symbols, and intuitive mark-making through a series of guided prompts. The workshop is relaxed, welcoming, and open to all experience levels—whether you draw regularly or are simply curious to try something new.
During the workshop, you’ll:
— Learn about Hilma af Klint’s life, paintings, and artistic approach.
— Look closely at how she used color, geometry, symbols, and repeated forms.
— Respond to guided drawing prompts inspired by her visual language.
— Create your own abstract compositions with colored pencils in a supportive setting.
WHAT’S INCLUDED
— A sketch pad
— Colored pencils
— Printed reference images and a short symbol guide
— Guided drawing prompts and instruction
Spend an evening experimenting with color, texture, and layers.
Join us for a hands-on introduction to gel printing, an accessible form of monoprinting that makes it easy to create one-of-a-kind images. We’ll begin with a demonstration of the gel plate, brayer, paint, and basic printing process before creating a series of original prints.
Together, we’ll explore color, shape, texture, masks, stencils, and layered compositions. The workshop is relaxed, welcoming, and open to all experience levels; whether you already make art or simply want to try a playful new process.
During the workshop, you’ll:
Learn how to apply paint and pull a clean print from a gel plate.
Experiment with paper masks, stencils, and found textures.
Build layered compositions and create ghost prints.
Leave with a collection of original prints, experimental papers, and your gel printing supplies.
WHAT’S INCLUDED
A 5x7 take-home gel plate and brayer
Acrylic paints and 9x12in sketchbook
Stencils, paper masks, and texture tools
Guided demonstrations and instruction
All workshop supplies to use during class and take home. Nothing is required but feel free to bring magazines or printed matter to use.
Spend an evening drawing from color, symbols, and intuition.
Join us for a hands-on workshop inspired by Hilma af Klint. We’ll begin with a short introduction to her life, paintings, and distinctive visual language before creating our own abstract drawings with colored pencils.
Together, we’ll explore color relationships, geometry, repeated forms, symbols, and intuitive mark-making through a series of guided prompts. The workshop is relaxed, welcoming, and open to all experience levels—whether you draw regularly or are simply curious to try something new.
During the workshop, you’ll:
— Learn about Hilma af Klint’s life, paintings, and artistic approach.
— Look closely at how she used color, geometry, symbols, and repeated forms.
— Respond to guided drawing prompts inspired by her visual language.
— Create your own abstract compositions with colored pencils in a supportive setting.
WHAT’S INCLUDED
— A sketch pad
— Colored pencils
— Printed reference images and a short symbol guide
— Guided drawing prompts and instruction
Join us for a 2 hour, hands-on workshop inspired by Georgia O'Keeffe. We'll begin with a short introduction to her life, paintings, and distinctive way of seeing before creating our own artwork from fresh flowers. A 9 × 12in sketchbook and oil pastels will be supplied and yours to bring home!
Together, we'll explore color, shape, scale, and abstraction using oil pastels. The workshop is relaxed, guided, and open to all experience levels.
During the workshop, you'll:
Learn about Georgia O'Keeffe's life and artistic approach.
Explore how she used color, shape, scale, and abstraction.
Create artwork inspired by her paintings and fresh flowers.
Experiment with oil pastels in a relaxed, guided setting.
What’s Included:
Fresh flowers to work from
9×12 in Sketchbook to take home
An oil pastel set to use during the workshop and take home
A basic introduction to oil pastel
Class Taught by Diana Vidal. Gallery Founder Director + Educator
7-Week Program for Artists Working Across Mediums
A focused, small-group critique program for artists who want to better understand their work and make stronger decisions in their practice.
This session is open to artists working across disciplines—including painting, sculpture, installation, video, and mixed media.
Artists in this program are given the space and dedicated time to return to ideas, forms, and themes, developing them further through consistent critique and feedback.
In Person (Mondays) All Mediums
June 1 – July 13th
6:30pm – 8:30pm
Super Secret Projects, Beacon NY
Enrollment form will pop-up once you click “Join the Program”.
7-Week Program for Photographers and Lens-Based Artists
A focused, small-group critique program for photographers who want to better understand their work and make stronger decisions in their practice.
Artists in this program are given the space and dedicated time to return to ideas, images, and themes, developing them further through consistent critique and feedback.
In Person (Sundays)
May 24 – June 28
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Super Secret Projects, Beacon NY
Enrollment form will pop-up once you click “Join the Program”.
7-Week Program for Photographers and Lens-Based Artists
A focused, small-group critique program for photographers who want to better understand their work and make stronger decisions in their practice.
Artists in this program are given the space and dedicated time to return to ideas, images, and themes, developing them further through consistent critique and feedback.
Online (Wednesdays)
May 27 – July 8
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM (EST)
Enrollment form will pop-up once you click “Join the Program”.
COMING SOON
Photography as a Daily Practice is a 3-week workshop focused on slowing down, noticing intentionally, and building a personal photographic voice. This class is completely non-technical and non-camera-based in the room — all image-making happens outside class through simple weekly prompts. All cameras welcome (including phones).
During class, we explore:
how to see instead of simply look
how photographers throughout history have approached quiet observation
how subtle moments carry mood and meaning
image editing, refining, and sequencing
Students leave with:
a clearer photographic voice
stronger instincts for composition
learn about well known photographers’ practice
confidence in observing everyday life
a refined set 10 - 15 (5×7) prints
The Practice of Mark-Making:Gestures, Repetition & Attention is a drawing centered workshop and class focusing on gestures, lines, loops, and repeated marks as a way to slow down and reconnect to your practice. This workshop includes a mark-making kit to take home to continue your practice at home
This is not a technical drawing class; it’s an expressive one. We will take a look into the practice and work of artists such as Cy Twombly, Agnes Martin, Joan Miró and Joan Mitchell. They will be our guides to better understand how marks become language.
Materials Kit contains : a sketchbook, professional Sketching set (12b - 4h), black oil pencil, easer + blender
Jan. 27th th (6:00-9:00pm)
This 3 hour workshop offers a hands-on introduction to the basics of handmade bookmaking. Participants will be guided through a few simple, repeatable book techniques and learn how different folds and bindings shape the way a book is held, opened, and read.
During the session, you’ll create a finished handmade book using provided materials and gain familiarity with tools and techniques that can be used beyond the class.
All materials are provided.
Participants will leave with a completed book and a small set of tools to continue bookmaking on their own.
Jan. 28th (7:00-9:00pm)
Assemblage Art Series — Session 2 This session centers on everyday life as material. Participants are invited to reflect on daily routines, habits, and personal rhythms by transforming ordinary items into a 5x7 three-dimensional assemblage.
We’ll focus on how personal objects—receipts, notes, packaging, photographs, and small ephemera—can hold memory and meaning when arranged intentionally. The session emphasizes observation, selection, and composition through a personal lens.
All base materials are provided. Participants are encouraged to bring personal items such as receipts, tickets, shopping lists, notes, photographs, coffee cup sleeves, or wrappers.
This session may be taken on its own or as part of the full three-session series.
Friday, Feb. 6th (6:00pm-9:00pm)
This 3 hour workshop offers a hands-on introduction to the basics of handmade bookmaking. Participants will be guided through a few simple, repeatable book techniques and learn how different folds and bindings shape the way a book is held, opened, and read.
During the session, you’ll create a finished handmade book using provided materials and gain familiarity with tools and techniques that can be used beyond the class.
All materials are provided.
Participants will leave with a completed book and a small set of tools to continue bookmaking on their own.
Thurs: Jan. 29th, Feb. 5th, Feb. 12th (6:00-9:00pm)
Photography as a Daily Practice is a 3-week workshop focused on slowing down, noticing intentionally, and building a personal photographic voice. This class is completely non-technical and non-camera-based in the room — all image-making happens outside class through simple weekly prompts. All cameras welcome (including phones).
During class, we explore:
how to see instead of simply look
how photographers throughout history have approached quiet observation
how subtle moments carry mood and meaning
image editing, refining, and sequencing
Students leave with:
a clearer photographic voice
stronger instincts for composition
learn about well known photographers’ practice
confidence in observing everyday life
a refined set 10 - 15 (5×7) prints
Feb. 5th (7:00-9:00)
Assemblage Art Series — Session 3 This session explores the physical remnants of technology—objects once central to daily life that now feel obsolete or overlooked. Participants will work with technological materials to create a 5x7 three-dimensional assemblage that reflects on tactility, memory, and material presence.
We’ll consider how hands-on engagement contrasts with unseen systems and digital abstraction, focusing on transformation through physical making. The emphasis remains on process, curiosity, and experimentation.
All base materials are provided. Participants are encouraged to bring personal technological items such as calculators, CDs, floppy disks, alarm clocks, keyboards, remote controls, or old cameras.
This session may be taken on its own or as part of the full three-session series.
Wednesday, January 14, (11:30-1:00pm)
The Practice of Mark-Making:Gestures, Repetition & Attention is a drawing centered workshop and class focusing on gestures, lines, loops, and repeated marks as a way to slow down and reconnect to your practice. This workshop includes a mark-making kit to take home to continue your practice at home
This is not a technical drawing class; it’s an expressive one. We will take a look into the practice and work of artists such as Cy Twombly, Agnes Martin, Joan Miró and Joan Mitchell. They will be our guides to better understand how marks become language.
Materials Kit contains : a sketchbook, professional Sketching set (12b - 4h), black oil pencil, easer + blender
January 20th: 11am-1:00pm
This workshop will guide artists through the full process of preparing, organizing, and applying to creative opportunities—specifically exhibitions, residencies, and open calls. Whether you're just getting started or looking to streamline your approach, this session offers real-world tools and tips to help you feel confident and prepared.
What you’ll learn:
How to organize and prepare your materials before applying
Formatting and labeling your artwork images for submission
Understanding different types of opportunities and how to spot the right ones for you
Tips for avoiding common application mistakes
How to stay organized with deadlines and track your submissions
Where to find quality open calls, including platforms, newsletters, and networks
What you’ll leave with:
A clearer understanding of the application process
Actionable steps to prepare your materials for future submissions
A curated list of current open calls to get started right away
Confidence in applying to opportunities that align with your practice
Join Emma McDonald for a hands-on workshop to learn how to transfer Polaroid prints onto watercolor paper, fabric, or other surfaces, creating one-of-a-kind artistic expressions.
This workshop is perfect for photographers, artists, and creative enthusiasts, this workshop covers the entire process—from selecting the right materials to mastering transfer techniques.
No prior experience is needed—just bring your creativity and a willingness to experiment!
Workshop Instructor:
When & Where:
Wednesday, January 22nd, 2025 | 6:00 - 8:30PM
Super Secret Projects (back of Hyperbole),
What you’ll need:
No experience is needed!
Bring as many of your own Polaroids as desired
Note: Polaroids must be cured for at least 24-hours before practicing lifts
2 digital images for Polaroid DayLab
Images must be submitted to Emma no later than 48-hours prior to class date
Once registration is completed, preparatory instructions and additional info will be emailed. .
All other materials are provided.
Registration Details
Registration will be completed via Emma McDonald Diamond’s Website.
All payments must be made to your instructor via Venmo: @EmmaMcDonaldPhotography
Full workshop fee is due upon registration and will be confirmed via email.
If you do not have Venmo or have addtional questions, please email emma@emmamcdonaldphotography.com.
POLAROID LIFT - WORKSHOP REGISTRATION:
NOTE: The link above will bring you to the registration form on Emma’s Website.
Art Review Night : a night of art + one-on-one feedback!
Join our Art Review Night for a unique portfolio/artwork review opportunity to have your work reviewed by experienced Hudson Valley based artists and curators. Limited spots available for your personalized feedback and artistic growth.
Art Review Night promises a nurturing environment for artists to gain clarity on their work, receive encouragement, and potentially discover new directions for their artistic expressions.
Meet our reviewers:
Hanny Ahern is an artist and educator based in Beacon, NY, whose immersive, media-agnostic work reimagines everyday experiences to invite new perspectives. She holds degrees from Bennington College and NYU's ITP program, and has co-founded art spaces, developed youth programs, and served as a guest critic at institutions like Yale, RISD, and Parsons.
Allegra Jordan is a Beacon-based painter, sculptor, and curator whose work explores the intersection of desire and fate. As co-director of Super Secret Projects, she curates exhibitions and creates space for artistic connection and experimentation.
Diana Vidal is a multidisciplinary artist working in painting, photography, sculpture, and video, exploring themes of time, loss, and presence. As co-director of Super Secret Projects, she curates open calls, organizes group exhibitions, and develops community-focused programming.
We welcome artists from all mediums and at any stage of their artistic journey, emphasizing that the value of feedback and community transcends the specificities of medium or experience level.
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