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RiverhouseCreate

Come make something with your hands.

We're a nonprofit teaching studio on 150 acres near the river in Stockton, Alabama. Four studios: wheels and a kiln, easels and a long table, a needlework table with the hoops laid out, and a black box theater. Ten working artists teach here, and one of them pulls up a chair beside you. Beginners start every week.

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Watercolor painting of the Riverhouse, a pale two-story house under tall trees

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A painter at a table working a portrait in oils on a small canvas Painting & Drawing Watercolor, oils, pastel or pencil at the long table, with a painter working beside you and student pictures covering every wall. A potter smiling at the wide ruffled clay bowl he has just built by hand Pottery Center a bowl on the wheel or build one by hand — it goes into the kiln here, and you come back for it fired. A stitcher working a flower in an embroidery hoop, threads and a coffee cup on the table beside him Needlework Thread, hoops and frames are already out on the table; sit down and learn embroidery, quilting, knitting or machine sewing. Two young performers on the Black Box stage, holding scrolls and laughing at each other Performing Arts Children rehearse with Riverhouse Folktales Theatre Co. on the black box stage, next to the puppet theater they built themselves.

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One credit, any class.

One credit gets you a seat in any regular class, in any studio. Single Class Credit — $50. Membership is $30 a year, and members take four classes at once with the Member Four-Class Pack — $130. Credits don't expire, and you can book right up to the moment the class starts.

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Teachers

All teachers
  • Diana Rell DeanDiana Rell Dean
  • Julie DayJulie Day
  • Sherri ScottSherri Scott
  • Zach SierkeZach Sierke
  • Megan ShiffletMegan Shifflet
  • Lynn DavisLynn Davis
The Riverhouse Create building behind its fence, pines on both sides

63637 State Hwy. 59, Stockton, Alabama 36579

About 40 minutes from Mobile or Fairhope and 25 from Bay Minette, on 150 acres in the Mobile-Tensaw Delta. Turn in off Highway 59 and the house is right there behind its fence, pines standing on both sides.

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