Don’t spend another day watching the best and brightest get wooed away by competitors, vendors, recruiters, and even other teams within your organization! Uncover the secrets to retaining top employees, and learn what keeps these essential team members performing at their peak by attending a free small business workshop, “How to Retain Your Best and Brightest Employees”.

This workshop offers a rare opportunity to learn the intricate art of glassblowing. This six-hour studio workshop introduces the absolute beginner to the basics of working hot glass. During this one-day session participants learn to gather glass from the furnace, use blocks, marver and other tools to make solid forms such as marbles and paperweights, and then finish by blowing glass to make simple bowls and vases. No experience required. All workshop materials and supplies are included in the registration fee. Wearing cotton jeans, cotton long sleeve shirt and shoes is recommended.

Cost: $250
The workshop takes place at SCAD’s Savannah campus.
The exact address will be e-mailed to registered participants about a week beforehand.
www.scad.edu/ce

Learn to tell your money where to go instead of wondering where it went! Attend a free workshop to gain the skills that can help you achieve financial security. Because it is August, the topic will be savings.

Cost: free

More Info: visit www.cccssavannah.org

In this workshop, participants refine their watercolor skills and create a special mobile paint kit to take home and continue the fun with watercolor. All materials provided, all levels welcome.

Cost: $95

More Info: visit www.scad.edu/ce

This workshop is a fun and functional exploration of material and dye. Participants will use resist techniques on silk yardage to develop designs for home accents like pillows and wall hangings. This workshop is fun for all ages and no experience is necessary only creativity! All supplies provided. All levels welcome.

Cost: $180

More Info: visit www.scad.edu/ce

Participants learn new trends and tips for getting work into galleries in this special workshop with professional fine artist Linda Rorer. Rorer has worked in the business art field for the last five years, successfully setting up art galleries and working closely with top American painters and sculptors. Rorer has studios in Atlanta and Hilton Head Island. Participants should bring their portfolio and materials for review.

Cost: $75

More Info: visit www.scad.edu/ce

This workshop focuses on sighting and measuring techniques (drawing from observation), gesture drawing and basic perspective issues. The workshop is designed for beginners and participants looking to sharpen their skills. All supplies provided.

Cost: $95

More Info: visit www.scad.edu/ce

This workshop will be a discussion of the ways that artists set up their studios, and the way that studios may change over time. Now that many artists are making project-based work,it’s important to understand how to change a studio space to make projects possible. The workshop covers some logistics of having a small studio, how to properly set up a space to paint, and how to make work that seems beyond what a space is capable of.

Cost: $75

More Info: visit www.scad.edu/ce

Join certified yoga instructor and long time golfer, Lauren McLaren, and USGTF certified golf instructor and long time yoga practitioner, Anthony Tavernier, for a dynamic two hour workshop designed to improve all aspects of your game. In this workshop, you will learn a variety of yoga poses that will extend your physical capacity for the game, breathing practices that will help you maximize your power and relaxation techniques to help keep you calm on and off the course.

Cost: $30-members $35-non-members

More Info: visit www.yogacoopsavannah.com

This workshop introduces participants to researching a historic property. The first part of the workshop is a brief lecture on the different sources for researching any historic building,including primary and secondary sources, and online and local archive materials available. A property in Savannah’s Historic Landmark District is used as an example to demonstrate the process of discovering the building date, history of use and structural changes. The second part of the workshop examines a few different locations in Savannah including the Georgia Historical Society and Bull Street Public Library’s Georgia Room. Participants will have the opportunity to research their property with help from the instructor and staff on site.

Cost: $75

More Info: visit www.scad.edu/ce