Art is a superpower.
Curiosity cannot be contained.
Welcome to Spark and Salvage Workshop, an unconventional art space and creative reuse center dedicated to keeping young minds curious and inventive. Here, the value of an arts education IS a priority.
Coming this Fall!
Coming this Fall!
2026 Fall Class Catalog
Sept - 8,10,15,17,22,24,29 Oct 1
Grades: K – 3rd | Schedule: 2 Days a Week for 4 Weeks (8 Sessions) | Standard Track: $200
Forget the coloring books and pre-cut templates . We are here to smash, roll, stamp, and experiment! Messy Masters is a hands-on, high-energy immersion into the fundamental building blocks of art—lines, shapes, and textures—taught entirely through interactive process art. Students become tiny scientists in an art laboratory, discovering how different materials behave when they collide. There are no patterns to follow, just endless ways to play, discover, and make a beautiful mess.
The 4-Week Lab Breakdown:
• Week 1: Lines in Motion: Dropping the paintbrushes to explore physical lines using gravity and physics. We investigate high-velocity marble painting, roll paint tracks with upcycled tires, and tilt boards to capture kinetic motion on paper.
• Week 2: Texture Hunters: Discovering how art feels! Kids create dimensional, tactile masterpieces using shaving cream paint swirls, kinetic sensory sand, layered fabrics, and clean wood scrap composites.
• Week 3: The Printing Press: Exploring shapes and patterns through unconventional printmaking. We roll bold inks onto bubble wrap, plastic gears, and textured cardboard skeletons, stamping original, highly layered pattern sheets.
• Week 4: Interactive Chaos: Bringing everything together in large-scale, collaborative process art. A final week of deep, student-led experimentation on giant wall papers where the creative journey is the entire destination.
PARENT PROMISE: If you are looking for identical, neat paper crafts to stick on the fridge, this isn't it! Your child will come home covered in paint, full of pride, and equipped with true problem-solving resilience.
Sept - 8,10,15,17,22,24,29 Oct 1
Grades: 4th – 6th | Schedule: 2 Days a Week for 4 Weeks (8 Sessions) | Standard Track: $240
Real artists don’t copy; they steal inspiration and make it their own! Master's Studio dives straight into the minds of history’s most rebellious, brilliant artists. But we aren't here to make boring, identical replicas of museum paintings. Using our choice-based Teaching for Artistic Behavior pedagogy, your child will study how the masters thought, analyze their creative choices, and raid our salvage bins to construct original, legendary masterpieces that speak their own artistic language.
The 4-Week Rebellious Breakdown:
• Week 1: Radical Re-Abstracting: Breaking down shapes, lines, and bold colors inspired by Picasso's Cubism and Kandinsky's musical rhythms. Students build abstract, three-dimensional faces and designs using salvaged geometric plastics and cardboard.
• Week 2: The Action Painters: Channelling the physical, high-energy painting processes of Jackson Pollock and Joan Mitchell. We explore how movement, scale, and raw emotion translate onto large-scale canvases without traditional brushwork.
• Week 3: Found-Object Surrealism: Diving into the bizarre, dreamlike worlds of Salvador Dalí and Louise Nevelson. Kids use their planning sheets to curate the weirdest salvage—old doll parts, tech motherboards, gears—and assemble a surrealist shadow box.
• Week 4: Pop Art & Mass Culture: Exploring how Andy Warhol and Keith Haring turned commercial, everyday objects into high art. Students execute a self-directed final project commenting on modern culture using printmaking, collage, or painting.
Sept - 8,10,15,17,22,24,29, Oct 1
Grades: 6th – 8th | Schedule: 2 Days a Week for 4 Weeks (8 Sessions) | Standard Track: $240
No digital screens. No cookie-cutter stamps. Just high-contrast, hands-on ink transfers! Step into the printmaking laboratory and discover how to capture the rich textures of Ketchikan's rainforest and industrial salvage on paper. This course is a deep dive into print mechanics, brayer work, and ink density. Instead of identical runs, students build custom stamps from salvage, roll vibrant gradients, and create original print editions.
The 4-Week Ink Breakdown:
• Week 1: Botanical Monoprints & The Gel Plate: Mastering brayers, ink rolling, and paint density. Students use Gelli plates to capture the physical, intricate patterns of local ferns, leaves, and coastal mosses in multi-layered organic pulls.
• Week 2: Stamp Design & Salvage Carving: Upcycling as a graphic tool. Students design and carve custom, reusable stamps using dense foam sheets, wood blocks, wine corks, and cardboard skeletons, exploring negative space and repeating patterns.
• Week 3: Color Transitions & Registrations: Introducing advanced techniques like the 'rainbow roll' (gradient ink blending) and stencils. Students build a physical registration grid to line up multiple color layers perfectly.
• Week 4: The Final Edition & Portfolio: Working like professional printmakers. Students spend the final week printing a limited edition series on heavy paper or upcycled fabrics, compiling an original zine, or pulling poster runs.
STUDIO TIP FOR PRINTING: Printmaking is highly compatible with salvaged materials! Encourage your students to roll inks over vintage Ketchikan blueprints, old marine charts, or dockwood cuts for stunning, local results.
Spark
Process over product—imagination over instructions.
Our choice-based studio ditches the step-by-step. Young makers take inspiration from all types of materials, map out a wild idea, and navigate real creative roadblocks. They won't just bring home a quirky masterpiece; they'll bring home the fierce independence to solve any problem they meet
Salvage
You know what they say about trash and treasure…
We rescue clean, unorthodox scraps and overstock from ending up in a landfill and hand them over to the community as a bonanza for creative thinking. From open tinkering sessions to low-cost materials for local artists, we are building a more sustainable, deeply curious world—one piece of salvaged imagination at a time.
Donation Station
Every decision we make is shaped by a clear sense of purpose. Our journey has been anything but ordinary. Through every step, we've focused on staying true to our values and making space for thoughtful, lasting work.
Be in the Know!
Classes will post early August, and begin in September 2026. Sign up for information on upcoming classes and registration. We can’t wait to play!
