Instructor: Michelle Brode
This ongoing workshop invites participants to use the creative process as a means of self-exploration. Each session begins with writing an intention for this creative time—what is your desire, what is your wish …
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Coordinators: Ellen Borison & Lee Berry
These open model sessions offer participants the opportunity to practice drawing from the nude model without instruction. For the morning short pose session, the first hour will typically be …
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Join a small group of working artists each month for an evening of collaboration and critique facilitated by a guest artist each session. The guest artists are professional artists and have been chosen for their ability to ask insightful questions as well as …
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Instructors: Juliette Ripley-Dunkelberger and Vicki Hoffman
Have you always wanted to get your hands on some clay but didn’t know where to start? Join us on Friday nights for an open clay studio. This is a fun and stress-free opportunity to learn more about clay. …
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Coordinator: Ellen Borison
These open model sessions offer participants the opportunity to work from a live model without instruction. Each session will offer a composition suitable for painting with either a draped model or a nude mise-en-scène.
Some figure drawing experience is …
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Coordinators: Ellen Borison & Lee Berry
These open model sessions offer participants the opportunity to practice drawing from the nude model without instruction. For the morning short pose session, the first hour will typically be spent on …
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Instructor: Diane Culhane
Paul Klee described his art work as “taking a line for a walk”. Discover how to walk and run with line, shape and color through design. Learn how to dialogue with the spaces between speech and silence, and discover the possibilities that encourage …
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Instructor: Steph Mader
Are you curious about opening an Etsy shop? This workshop will walk you through the steps involved in setting up a shop, get you familiar with a wide variety of Etsy support tools and give you a sense of what it takes …
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Instructors: Ellen Borison and Rickie Wolfe
Approaching the figure through collage, we will work both on seeing the figure and on using the figure in composition.
We will work from a nude or simply clothed model who will begin the session by repeating the same 3 quick …
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Instructor: Deborah Kapoor
Explore this ancient, translucent medium and learn techniques for heating, mixing, and applying wax to surfaces, as well as layering and transferring methods. For our inspiration, instruction begins with a visual presentation of artists who use the written word with images in …
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Instructor: Mitchell Albala
Landscape painter, author, and teaching artist Mitchell Albala hosts a lively critique of landscape paintings. This is a great way to prepare for the summer painting season, as we review many of the core practices at the heart of both plein …
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Especially designed for the young adult (13-18). Learn the fundamentals of working with true ceramic materials and experience the thrill of the potter’s wheel. Students will learn basic throwing techniques combined with classic forms of handbuilding. Pieces will be either bisque fired or completed …
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Instructors: Juliette Ripley-Dunkelberger and Vicki Hoffman
Have you always wanted to get your hands on some clay but didn’t know where to start? Join us on Friday nights for an open clay studio. This is a fun and stress-free opportunity to learn more about clay. …
Permanent link to this article: http://arteast.org/2013/05/cr2-clay-play-for-adults/
Instructor: Larry Calkins
Create an unusual tableau of memory and idea, based on the Victorian wonder cabinet. This mixed media class will start with a hand built box provided by the instructor. The goal is to fill it in a meaningful way that …
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Instructor: Leslie Nan Moon
Especially designed for the young adult (13-18). Printmaking will literally show you how to make your mark on the world. Use your hands, your thoughts, and new skills to give your unique voice a new form of expression.
Leslie Nan Moon …
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Instructor: Gail Baker
Have you ever wanted to just mess around with paint and learn art principles and elements at the same time in a fun, wild way? Here’s your chance. No brushes allowed!! We’ll use tempera and acrylic paint on Bristol Board and primed canvas to build paintings …
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Instructor: Janis Smith
Especially designed for the young adult (13-18). Capture your favorite animal or pet in this fun, surprising and very powerful way to express your feelings, dreams, and artistic vision. Learn the basic properties, skills and techniques that are unique to watercolor. The …
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Instructor: Pam Heeke
Embark on a journey of self discovery with mixed-media map making! This class gives participants the tools and techniques needed to create mixed-media maps of their personal journeys. You will learn how to make maps of your stories and experiences. In the end, you will have …
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Instructor: Gail Baker
Especially designed for the young adult (13-18). This is a painting camp for the creative adventurer in you. It’s about learning where innovation and creativity come from and trying new things with color, form, and composition. Comparing work to others’ work will …
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Instructor: Gail Baker
In honor of the recent Women’s show at SAM, we’ll do a short study of Helen Frankenthaler’s abstract expressionist and color field work. Even though her work may seem foreign to you, it may inspire you to learn more about it, the spirit behind her subjects, her poured …
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