Ready to roll up your sleeves and connect with your inner artist? Try your hand at any of these DIY artistic endeavors, no experience necessary. Bring your kids or a friend or two, and go home with a new skill and the beautiful product of your handiwork.
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Glass art
Make a colorful, decorative object at GlassRoots in Newark or Hot Sand in Asbury Park by blowing your own glass. At Glassworks Studio in Morristown, create coasters, picture frames and more through the process of fusing glass in a kiln.
Pottery
Have a “claydate,” throw a pot on the wheel, or hand build at Mud Clay Studio in Mendham, Montclair or Madison; the Clay Pot Pottery Studio in Spotswood; Atacama Clay Studio or Sandy Mones in Jersey City; or Blue Skies Pottery in Hoboken.
Pottery painting
Pick out a vase, bowl or mug and paint away at Doin’ Dishes in Montclair, Art on the Ave in Nutley, All Fired Up in Collingswood, That Pottery Place in West Windsor, or Painting Pottery Cafe in Englewood.
Mosaics
Mosaic Art Studio has nine locations. Make a Turkish lamp, paint ceramics, and learn the art of ebru (water marbling).
Beading
Craft jewelry at Just Bead It on Long Beach Island, Charmed Beading Studio in Montclair, or That Bead Place in Denville.
Painting
At the nine Pinot’s Palette locations in the state, you can paint and sip a BYO beverage with friends and family (aged 15 and up) and bring your masterpiece home.
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