Réseau artistique de Gananoque
Classes and Workshops
Please see our Cancellation Policy
Workshops and classes are held at the GAN space, 167 King St. E., Gananoque and are free unless otherwise noted.
Weekly
Knitting Circle – We will continue to meet as usual on Sunday mornings | 9 to 11 am and Thursday afternoons | 1:30 to 4 pm. Come for the knitting or any other craft and enjoy coffee and treats from the cafe and conversation with friends.
Casual Jam - Get out of the basement! Share your favourite tunes in an acoustic, laid-back afternoon jam session. Sunday afternoons | 2 to 4 pm Free.
Saturday Morning Kid’s Club - Drop in for some fun crafting; it’s free. Kiddos to be accompanied by an adult. Saturdays | 9:30 to 11:30 am
Spring Paint-in – "No Dishes, No Laundry”
7 Tuesdays starting April 14 to the end of May | 10:30 am to 3 pm
GAN community members are invited to show up for their creative selves. No structure, no agenda – just focused time to paint, explore, experiment, and share space with fellow artists.
Our winter session brought together a small group of regulars and grew into something unexpectedly rich. We spent a few hours immersed in our work, took a relaxed lunch break (with help from the MJ's café), and returned for another stretch of creating – leaving fulfilled and glad we’d honoured our artistic impulses.
Whether you stay for the full day or drop in for a while, bring whatever you’re working on and follow where your creative instincts lead.
Facilitated by John Sorensen.
Register below for 7 sessions, $40 or Drop in: whole day, $10; half day, $5
Monthly
GAN Urban Sketching – Wednesday, April 8 | 1– 3 pm
Becker Shoes
A parade of Crocs.
A cascade of socks & scarves.
Boots springing into to sandals.
Secret still lifes hiding in plain sight.
Unexpected subjects – whimsy invited!
180 King St. East
No charge.
All skill levels welcome.
Bring your sketchbook and join us!
Gan Art Walk – Gan Art Walk will be on hiatus until April 2026. See you then!
Workshops
Greenwood Spoon Carving Club
Sunday, April 12th | 11:30am-1:30pm
Price: Free
Attendance: maximum of 12. Attendees must register in advance online by registering here or by clicking on the blue button below.
Who This Is For::
These sessions are untaught, so for those with no previous carving experience, a prerequisite to joining the club is to have completed Luke's Introduction to Greenwood Spoon Carving workshop for an in-depth intro to safe and effective carving technique.
This is a social event intended for those who have some experience with spoon carving or using sharp edged hand tools, or who have attended an Introduction to Greenwood Spoon Carving Workshop.
Who we are:
Can the act of carving a wooden spoon with simple hand tools be an act of community building, social change, and resistance? We think it can.
It's also fun as heck, as high or low an art form as you're looking for, and promises to still the mind like few activities can.
As just one branch on a growing tree of greenwood spoon carving clubs, guilds and circles, we're grateful for the model those before us have provided in inspiring us to take a stand by sitting down and carving together.
We invite you to join an inclusive and supportive community of folks interested in just hanging out and carving spoons together!
What to expect:
This is a social event intended for those who have attended an Introduction to Greenwood Spoon Carving Workshop or have some experience with spoon carving, green woodworking, or using edged hand tools.
Everyone 16+ welcome. Whether you're a beginner/intermediate carver or further along on your carving journey, you can expect to feel inspired by those around you and empowered by this slyly subversive and powerfully democratic craft.
This is an untaught event, however participants can expect to be supported and supervised in their explorations of a number of techniques and approaches; safe tool use, spoon layout and design, roughing out blanks, finish carving, and treating completed spoons.
What to bring:-
Carving tools such as straight and spoon knives, but don't worry if you don't have tools - we'll provide all the required tools.-
Your own lunch if you wish or try the onsite cafe for tasty teas, coffee and snacks
- Do you have a green (fresh) branch or limb from a tree you'd like to share (min 4" diameter)? Please bring it along!
Cancellation policy
Refunds will be issued for student withdrawal up to two weeks before the class starts. After this period we will provide a credit towards a future class(es).
Classes are subject to cancellation or rescheduling by GAN if the minimum number of students is not met. Refunds or course credits will be provided at the students choice in this case.