Workshops & education
Hands-on wire art programs for young people, families, educators, schools, festivals, and communities.
Learning by making
Participants use their hands, imagination, and accessible materials to turn lines into structure. Every session is active, inclusive, and designed to make creative success feel possible.
A signature introduction to three-dimensional thinking, geometric weaving, and expressive wire sculpture.
A demonstration-and-workshop format connects imagination to engineering. Participants encounter finished work, learn foundational joins and forms, create an original piece, and reflect on how their idea changed while building.
A traveling program created for schools, festivals, libraries, community centers, and major public events.
The artist, materials, and learning experience travel directly to the host. Formats can be adapted for classrooms, after-school programs, family events, neighborhood sites, and broad public audiences.
Repeat sessions that deepen technique, patience, confidence, creative decision-making, and personal expression.
Sequential instruction gives learners time to plan, revise, critique, complete more complex work, and connect art with geometry, engineering, architecture, design, and storytelling.
Small-group learning in a comfortable environment where students can develop ideas at their own pace.
Relationship-centered sessions provide close guidance, a view into authentic studio practice, and space for participants to develop technique and individual voice.
High-volume, welcoming make-and-take experiences for festivals, museums, arenas, and major public gatherings.
Clear demonstrations, prepared materials, flexible project choices, and supportive facilitation allow many participants to experience meaningful success in an energetic setting.
Collaborative making that connects individual contributions to a shared cultural work.
Community members may contribute ideas, stories, patterns, or components while the lead artist maintains artistic direction, finishing, structural integrity, and installation quality.
Art + STEAM learning
The work is tactile and imaginative, but the learning is also structural: participants plan, test, revise, connect, and complete.
Translate an idea into a stable three-dimensional form.
Practice coordinated and purposeful hand movements.
Explore pattern, symmetry, proportion, repetition, and geometry.
Make choices, revise ideas, and complete an original work.
Create beside peers, families, educators, and neighbors.
Experience mistakes as information and persistence as a creative tool.
In the room
What participants build
The process strengthens transferable skills while giving every participant something tangible to celebrate.
The courage to begin, experiment, and make personal choices.
The ability to slow down, repeat a process, and stay with a challenge.
Understanding shape, balance, structure, proportion, and three-dimensional form.
Learning how to adjust an idea when the material behaves unexpectedly.
Creating side by side, sharing discoveries, and celebrating one another’s work.
Designed around your audience
Programs can serve children, teens, adults, families, educators, and intergenerational groups in settings ranging from an intimate classroom to a major public event.
K–12 students, adult learners, families, schools, libraries, museums, festivals, youth organizations, and community groups.
Accessible sculptural materials selected for the project, including coated wire and beginner-friendly alternatives, with tools and guidance appropriate to the audience.
Audience details, location, dates, available time, space information, learning goals, and any accessibility or program requirements.
Hosts are invited to share mobility, sensory, language, developmental, behavioral, or supervision needs in advance. Pacing, group size, materials, demonstration style, and support can then be adjusted. Participants may work at different levels of complexity and demonstrate learning through making and conversation. Photographs and quotations are used only with appropriate permission.
Artist introduction; close observation of authentic Lonnetrix work; concise technique demonstration; guided experimentation; independent creation; peer or family sharing; reflection; and an invitation to continue making. Exact content is shaped to the audience, time, site, and learning goals.
Bring Lonnetrix to you
Programs can be shaped for your audience, space, schedule, and learning goals—from intimate classes to large public events.
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Tell us about your students, audience, event, or community and we’ll help shape the right program.