Workshops

We dug up an intriguing site for our recent Art in Curious Places – an industrial ruin filled with layers of decaying dime-store products, offering a dramatic architectural setting around lots of melted, shattered and mutating objects with new plant life emerging from the cracks. Artists showed up with pencils, ink and watercolors, pulled up …

For this round of Art in Curious Places, we’re drawing inspiration from the outdoor installation at Dabl’s African Bead Museum, one of the most stunning locations in greater Detroit.

Weave a rich and textural narrative using scraps of fabric and chunky fibers, found objects, sticks, moss, hair, paper and string. In our intuitive weaving workshop, you can upcycle anything from old fabric or leftover crafting supplies to scrap metal and chains into fiber art. Whether your vision is wild and imperfect or rich and …

In a dark, dusty abandoned home, we will set up still lifes with objects both natural and unnatural, carefully curated from the Seafoam Palace vaults. Creepy vignettes designed by Seafoam Palace artists will be tucked in the corners of each room, glowing with candle light. Bring your own drawing paper or sketchpads, pencils, charcoal or …

Our first Art in Curious Places was so fun, we've decided to host another in the same location near an abandoned factory in Southwest Detroit.

We’re launching our new outdoor salon series Art in Curious Places at a lovely post-apocalyptic site in Southwest Detroit, complete with a torched car, a nearby abandoned factory, discarded toys and other artifacts among the building rubble.

See things differently? Do you want to? Join us for a free salon-style drawing workshop. We will set up several still lifes with objects both natural and unnatural, carefully curated from the Seafoam Palace vaults. Bring your own drawing paper or sketchpads, pencils, charcoal or other supplies. We can offer some direction and basic instruction …

Seafoam Palace presents a workshop for fossil hunters, botany lovers and collectors of rocks and trinkets. Whether found on your last expedition to Mazaghan or an archaeological dig in your own backyard, your souvenirs and prehistoric evidence can easily be displayed with supplies found around your house. In this two-hour class, you will learn how …

Make your own curiosity displays Seafoam Palace presents a workshop for fossil hunters, botany lovers and collectors of rocks and trinkets. Whether found on your last expedition to Mazaghan or an archaeological dig in your own backyard, your souvenirs and prehistoric evidence can easily be displayed with supplies found around your house. In this two-hour …