Class Details

Ages 13-18

Monday evenings, 4:30-6:00; 10 classes total

September 14 to November 16, 2026

$350

What is it?

• Expanding new skills: We will be using different materials to expand and grow in ways you may have never thought of before. 
• Collaboration: Working together and inspiring new possibilities. 
• Creativity:Thinking outside the box, making weird and fun things to share with others.
• Problem solving: Finding new ways to use items never previously thought of.
• 3D:Using items to build out a world and characters 
• 2D:Creating patterns, paintings, and drawings 

Syllabus

September 14: Mandalas

September 21:Cotton Sculpting

September 28: Shadow paper puppets 

October 5:Tehran Making

October 12: Panting the cotton sculptures

October 19: Mask making

October 26: College 

November 2:  Anything but a canvas

November 9: Mask painting

November 16:Beaded spiders (Last Day)

BIO

Riley Motisi is a mixed media artist living in Lehigh Acres, Florida. She started sculpting when she was 9 years old and diverged into drawing and painting a few years later. Her work is inspired by creatures in folklore from different cultures, such as kelpies, wendigos, dragons, spirits and demons. Her work is also inspired by films such as childhood favorites: Dark Crystal, The Labyrinth, Spiderwick, and Pan’s Labyrinth.

Riley is a found object artist who incorporates and gravitates to glass. She would describe her style as “creepy cute”. By using polymer clay, air dry clay, found objects, moss, acrylic paint, and wood she builds her folklore worlds for little characters that represent different parts of human emotions and behaviors.

Riley uses objects that were well loved or forgotten and breathes new life into them instead of throwing them away. She often uses them as landmarks or modes of transportation for her characters. She helps others view everyday objects from a new perspective by inviting you into her fantastical world.