The Gail Harker Center for Creative Arts offers a comprehensive course schedule for artists of every level. Our internationally acclaimed faculty conducts certificate, diploma, and tutored courses in textile art, color studies, machine embroidery, paper and feltmaking, multimedia art, and dozens more. Whether you choose to visit our center in beautiful La Conner, or elect to enroll in our self-paced or mentored courses from your own home, we invite you to explore the resources we have to offer as you pursue your personal artistic goals.
News & Events
The Center’s New Phone Number– Please note: (360) 720-1919
Open Call For Art! Our Center is hosting a benefit online auction and we’d love you to be involved! Click Here for Details!
July 30- Spend a fun day playing with collaging fabrics and adding stitch to botanical photos printed on fabric! Summer Special! Register with a friend or family member at a discounted rate!
Explore the sumptuous world of Turkish embroidery! Choose one day or two- both hand and machine stitch will be covered! September 29 and/or September 30.
Join Gail on a tour of a fantastic one-of-a-kind garden on Whidbey Island. Work with your camera or sketchbook as well as getting a wonderful tour of Marjie Bachert’s textile art studio! July 22 –Click Here to Sign Up!
Learn to take your botanical photos and sketches to exciting designs in this one day class in the studio. July 23
New Website Navigation- All currently offered classes and talks are available under “Courses/Upcoming Classes and Talks”. If you’re currently enrolled in an ongoing class, you’ll find it under “Courses/Courses in Progress”.
NEW! Click Here for our Art and Design Series Brochure!
Calendar- Please check course brochures for class dates.
Our online, self-paced Designing with Circles 1 & 2 courses is newly revised!
Check Out our new Gallery of Graduates of the Gail Harker Center for Creative Arts!
Complex Threads Exhibition Gallery– Incredible artwork by students of the Gail Harker Center shown at the Schack Art Gallery in Everett, WA
Gift Certificates Available in any denomination!
Simply call the office, (360) 720-1919 with the particulars. Gift certificates can be delivered via email directly to the recipient, or sent via USMail.
Gail Harker Center for Creative Arts featured on Create Whimsy! Read the Article Here
Color Studies: Level 1 – A short slide presentation in color adds extra information to the Color brochure.