Hone your skills or try different mediums with our workshops!
Studio Manzanita is committed to celebrating diverse craft techniques and practices. With our workshops you can learn new mediums, take 2 day intensives on a specific technique, or try a one-time drop in session on the potters wheel or hand building.
Workshops and Events
Holiday Make & Take Craft Series
In preparation for the biggest gift-giving season of the year, something handmade can speak volumes to someone you care about.
Why not treat yourself while making a gift for someone special? When you sign up for one of our make & take workshops, you’re also gifting yourself the invaluable knowledge of new craft mediums!
About the Class
Create your own hardcover book from scratch through Bookbinding!
In this 4-hour workshop, you will learn the process of making physical books and learn to bind using the case binding technique. You will learn how to sew a textblock, make the case, and attach everything together to produce a unique hardcover book which can be used as a sketchbook or journal. A perfect gift for the bibliophile in your life!
All materials will be provided.
Suitable for beginners with little to no prior experience with bookbinding.
Your Instructor
Jaslin Chiu (she/her) is a bookbinder and artist who has been making books for the past five years. After discovering the craft in 2021, studying at the Cowell Press in Santa Cruz, CA, and taking classes at the San Francisco Center for the Book, she now finds joy in teaching others the art of bookbinding, and passing forward the magic of turning loose materials into a physical and usable object.
*No unaccompanied minors. Youth participants must register alongside an adult 18+ who is also registered for the event. No youth-only regristrations permitted.
Learn how to screen print and make your own custom t-shirts at this holiday make -&- take workshop.
In this 3-hour workshop, you will learn the screen printing process using the photo emlusion technique to create a custom composition you can turn into wearable art! Participants can choose to create designs through either drawing original images on clear glass, or use a selection of transparencies they can collage together into compelling designs they can print over and over again!
Each participant will be provided two t-shirts to print on (standard adult sizes). You are welcome to bring other light colored cotton textiles to print on.
All tools and materials provided.
No experience necessary
*Not suitable for youth under the age of 13. No unaccompanied minors. Youth participants must register alongside an adult 18+ who is also registered for the event. No youth-only regristrations permitted.
About the Class
“Catch a Fish” is a beginner-friendly, hands-on metalsmithing class where you'll design and build your own copper fish pendant or pin from a flat sheet of metal — no prior jewelry-making experience needed. Copper keeps the class affordable and approachable, and makes for a piece that's easy to give as a gift or wear yourself.
The class runs 3 hours of instruction and hands-on making, plus an additional 30 minutes to finish up projects and clean the lab — 3.5 hours total. This is a no-solder, no-torch project, so it's safe and welcoming for a wide range of ages and comfort levels.
Skills You'll Learn
Sawing — piercing your fish shape out of a copper sheet with a jeweler's saw
Filing — smoothing and refining edges for a clean, finished silhouette
Stamping — adding scale, texture, and personality with metal stamps
Dapping & Doming — shaping the flat piece into a dimensional, sculpted form
Drilling — adding a hole to hang your piece from a jump ring and chain
Instructor Bio
Chinanshu Arun Sharma (she/her) is a jewelry artist, maker, and designer-entrepreneur whose work spans over a decade of material exploration and creative reinvention. Since 2011, she has designed and handcrafted jewelry across an unusually wide range of media — from metal, stone, and recycled denim to found objects, yarns, natural fibers like grasses and banana fiber, and repurposed car and cycle parts. This range reflects her core creative philosophy: that beauty and meaning can be drawn from any material when approached with intention.
Chinanshu trained at the Indian Institute of Gems and Jewelry in Jaipur and interned at Amrapali, one of India's most celebrated jewelry houses. She went on to study directly under master craftsmen practicing traditional techniques such as Kundan and Meenakari — an experience that shaped not just her technical skill, but her relationship to the craft itself. Working alongside artisans in humble, hands-on settings taught her the discipline and patience that traditional jewelry-making demands and instilled a mindfulness that now defines her creative process.
For Chinanshu, making jewelry is a meditative practice as much as an artistic one — each piece is created with presence and care, and she designs with the intention that the wearer carries a small reminder of that same mindfulness into their day.
Chinanshu now brings this same blend of craftsmanship, creativity, and mindful intention into the classroom, teaching jewelry-making to students of all levels.
*No unaccompanied minors. Youth participants must register alongside an adult 18+ who is also registered for the event. No youth-only regristrations permitted.
Create your own Rubber stamps at this holiday make -&- take workshop.
In this 3-hour workshop, you will learn the block printing process by carving rubber slabs to turn into stamps you can use to print on greeting cards and canvas tote bags! You’ll be led step by step through the process from designing to printing, leaving you with custom art and stamps you can use again and again.
Each participant will be provided with a rubber block, 10 greeting cards and one canvas tote bag. You are welcome to bring other textiles and paper products to print on.
All tools and materials provided.
No experience necessary
*Not suitable for youth under the age of 13. No unaccompanied minors. Youth participants must register alongside an adult 18+ who is also registered for the event. No youth-only regristrations permitted.
