The Arts and Sciences is a broad category within the SCA that includes all sorts of ways of knowing and creating things from the Middle Ages and Renaissance. The Shire holds workshops on particular topics, and events often include classes. A&S workshops are announced on the email list and Facebook page, or contact the Minister of Arts and Sciences at MOAS@hartshorn-dale.eastkingdom.org .

Current regular Arts & Sciences gatherings are held virtually twice a month, on the second and fourth Wednesdays. Other, in-person gatherings are often scheduled once or twice a month. Please see the calendar for more details.

If there is a skill you’d like to learn, contact the Minister of Arts and Sciences to find a teacher. Recent workshops have included making Viking garb, painting silk banners, bronze casting, and velvet embossing.

The East Kingdom’s Ministry of Arts and Sciences website has lots of information about Arts & Sciences in the SCA.

The best way to understand the range of A&S (as the Arts & Sciences are often called) is visually. The items in the gallery below were made by members of the Shire.