HAC’S signature Enamel on Copper Switchplate Workshop pops-up in the iconic Farag’s summer courtyard!
Enamel is an ancient art that fuses glass to copper via a quick trip into our small, HOT kiln. ENAMEL YOUR VERY OWN toggle light switch plate. Touch art everyday!
According to Time Out, Farag’s is “an Egyptian-influenced, summer-only patio restaurant and mezcal and wine bar. Food, hospitality and design expert Megan Sanchez develops pop-up restaurants on the back patio of Güero No. 1 Tortas alongside cocktail visionary Ben Skiba.”
Come hang with us, and learn the unique enamel on copper process. We will apply a range of colorful glass frit to a copper substrate, followed by a quick trip into our small, HOT kiln. You will leave with an original, hand-held work of art. BEHOLD the magic of glass !
ALL MATERIALS INCLUDED!
One copper standard toggle light switch plate
a multitude of colors of glass frit
5 millefiori , 5 jewels, 10 threads
+extra embellishments and copper objects available for purchase (small copper dish, switch plate, pendant)(copper, opaque and transparent glass, specialty glass — “jewels", millefiori [means a thousand flowers] and threads of glass)
Includes a unique FARAG’S beverage!
Farag’s is located in the outdoor and partially covered courtyard behind Güero
Fancy a fancy hat?
Join us to embellish your hats with bedazzling and beadwork. Baseball hat, bucket hat, cat in the hat hat? Customize your personal hat, or select a hat from HAC’s curated VINTAGE collection. Includes a special FARAG’S beverage.
House of Art and Craft has been busily building out our bedazzling shop with large, medium, and tiny colorful rhinestones as well as gold, silver, spot, star, pyramid, and pearl metal studs. Select rare glass and vintage beads from HAC’s carefully culled collection. Come with friends, or come solo in shimmering contemplation for the myriad of ways you will design and glamorize your hat.
ALL MATERIALS INCLUDED!
Each student will receive up to approximately up to:
30 studs and rhinestones
20 beads
1 fine baseball hat from HAC’s collection of vintage hats, OR, BYOH (Bring your own hat)
Saturday, September 12, 11-2pm $75
BLOCK PRINT, BEDAZZLE, and EMBELLISH your very own cloth napkin set to elevate your tablescape with an artist’s touch. This workshop includes 4 cloth napkins and takes place in the iconic Farag’s summer courtyard! Includes a special FARAG’S beverage.
According to Time Out, Farag’s is “an Egyptian-influenced, summer-only patio restaurant and mezcal and wine bar. Food, hospitality and design expert Megan Sanchez develops pop-up restaurants on the back patio of Güero No. 1 Tortas alongside cocktail visionary Ben Skiba.”
ALL MATERIALS INCLUDED!
4 cloth napkins
bedazzles, rhinestones, and beads
full block printing setup
wildcard charms, gromets, and buttons
Includes a unique FARAG’S beverage!
Farag’s is located in the outdoor and partially covered courtyard behind Güero
Influenced by Italian Futurist paintings from the 1930’s and Martha Stewart, Get LOST in a fantastical tablescape featuring pearls spilling out of a broken watermelon, dusty Grapes, RARE OLD lamps, GLITTER branches and beyond. Includes a special FARAG’S beverage.
According to Time Out, Farag’s is “an Egyptian-influenced, summer-only patio restaurant and mezcal and wine bar. Food, hospitality and design expert Megan Sanchez develops pop-up restaurants on the back patio of Güero No. 1 Tortas alongside cocktail visionary Ben Skiba.”
ALL MATERIALS INCLUDED!
NOTE: This bombastic drawing party will occur on FARAG’S 2026 closing weekend. Drawing Party date is subject to change slightly due to coordinating with the FARAG’S team— any signups will be notified as soon as possible.
Farag’s is located in the outdoor and partially covered courtyard behind Güero
House of Art & Craft (H.A.C.) is an anti-institutional art school for adults founded by artist Rainen Knecht, and co-directed by artist/poet Morgan Ritter. H.A.C. currently offers uncommon hands-on art classes, open studio time, pop-up workshops, singular artist-made furniture, fashion and art objects, and more! We are unaccredited, affordable, and approachable. Our programs are facilitated by practicing artists and educators from many backgrounds, including established contemporary artists to folk artists living on the fringe!
What differentiates H.A.C. from other studio schools is that we are co-directed by working contemporary artists and we emphasize fun and affordability with NOTAFLOF spots per every class. Our program includes niche processes such as copper enameling, pysanky on goose eggs, imaginative beadwork classes, and more.
Home-spun and hands-on, we believe art making doesn’t require a “genius” artist or a performance of skills. In fact, we believe art is for everyone. H.A.C. asserts that we can learn best through play.
H.A.C. is a space for collectivity. Here you can directly connect with the uniquely experimental and diverse working artists in the Pacific Northwest region.
H.A.C. is currently a bit rogue – headquartered partially within a functioning artist studio in SE Portland, Oregon, and in pop-ups at FARAG’S, it’s just a feeling, hide & seek gallery, art galleries, cafes, libraries, workplaces, and beyond.
H.A.C. seasonally releases one-off art objects, furniture and garments. Follow along @house_of_art_and_craft_pdx
