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Welding Workshop – Sculptures in Motion

Welding Workshop – Sculptures in Motion

  • Saturdays | 10:00 am - 04:00 pm
  • Start Date: November 16, 2024
  • Level: All
  • Instructor: David Cumbie
  • Location: Main Campus
***This Two-Day Workshop meets Saturday, Nov 16 and Sunday, Nov 17.***

Focus on creating a Kinetic sculpture from found objects. Artwork that hangs from the ceiling and sculptures that are mounted on stands for the yard. Fishing swivels, bearings, hinges, wheels and many more forms will be used to make art move with the wind. Materials will be supplied but students are welcome to bring their own parts.

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Corian Marble Sculptures Nov 23-24

Corian Marble Sculptures Nov 23-24

  • Saturdays | 10:00 am - 04:00 pm
  • Start Date: November 23, 2024
  • Instructor: Rick Bostick
  • Location: Main Campus
***This Two-Day Workshop meets Saturday, November 23 and Sunday, November 24.***

Learn how to use Corian marble creating sculptures for the house and garden. Explore forming techniques using heat and special prepared shapes for achieving creative forms and patterns. How to join surfaces and applying various finishes will be experimented with along with technique in mounting the final sculpture.

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Welding Workshop – Wall Sculptures for the Home

Welding Workshop – Wall Sculptures for the Home

  • Saturdays | 10:00 am - 04:00 pm
  • Start Date: December 7, 2024
  • Level: All
  • Instructor: David Cumbie
  • Location: Main Campus
***This Two-Day Workshop meets Saturday, Dec 7 and Sunday, Dec 8.***

Create designs for your garden wall or living room area. This is an opportunity to make site specific art pieces to enhance your environment. Bring in found objects to embellish your compositions while attaching the forms to an armature for mounting to a wall. Many materials will be made available for student at the workshop.
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Japanese Paper Marbling and Bookbinding

Japanese Paper Marbling and Bookbinding

  • Sundays | 01:30 pm - 05:00 pm
  • Start Date: December 14, 2024
  • Instructor: Silvana Martins
  • Location: Main Campus

In this workshop, students will learn the Japanese way of marbling paper and binding books. We will start with Sumingashi, a form ofJapanese Paper Marbling, then transform the papers created into covers for two books students will bind in a Japanese stab-binding style.

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Bronze Casting Workshop Dec 14-15

Bronze Casting Workshop Dec 14-15

  • Saturdays | 10:00 am - 04:00 pm
  • Start Date: December 14, 2024
  • Instructor: David Cumbie
  • Location: Main Campus
***This Two-Day Workshop meets Saturday, April 20 and Sunday, April 21.***

*** Bronze pour date to be announced at the workshop. ***

An introduction to a variety of techniques in the creation of wax sculptures. Once the wax sculptures are made, students prepare their waxes with gates and sprues in preparation for the ceramic mold-making process. Waxes are coated with state-of-the-art ceramic shell, and then the wax will be burned out, and the molten bronze poured into the molds. Cost includes a five pound bronze sculpture, with the option to purchase additional material for larger works. Students are responsible for finishing the polishing and coloring of final castings.

 

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Ceramic Rhythms and Community

Ceramic Rhythms and Community

  • Fridays | 10:00 am - 04:00 pm
  • Duration: 1 Week
  • Start Date: January 10, 2025
  • Instructor: Raheleh Filsoofi
  • Location: Main Campus
***Fri. Jan 10 10am – 4pm***
***Sat. Jan 11 10am – 2 pm***

Decorate and complete your own clay darbuka drum using traditional techniques and learn to play it. On the final evening, participants will have the opportunity to participate in a vibrant performance and public performance that weaves together clay and music to foster cultural connection, collective identity, and community healing. Though hand-made drum bodies will be created in advance, we will explore various ways to make your own.

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Welding Workshop – Create Figures and Faces

Welding Workshop – Create Figures and Faces

  • Saturdays | 10:00 am - 04:00 pm
  • Start Date: January 11, 2025
  • Instructor: David Cumbie
  • Location: Main Campus
***This Two-Day Workshop meets Saturday, Jan 11 and Sunday, Jan 12.***

Create whimsical figures and faces from found objects made of steel. Students are encouraged to bring in objects to include in their compositions. All metal objects must be sensitive to a magnet. Free materials will be available during the workshop.

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Exploring Abstract Painting (Mon)

Exploring Abstract Painting (Mon)

  • Mondays | 07:00 pm - 09:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 13, 2025
  • Instructor: Patricia Byron
  • Location: Main Campus

This inspiring class offers a fundamental exploration into the beauty of abstract painting. Instruction concentrates on composition, techniques, form, texture, and color. Students will develop their own artistic vision, while referencing the works of contemporary artists. Be ready to paint outside the lines.

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Intro to Drawing and Painting

Intro to Drawing and Painting

  • Mondays | 06:00 pm - 08:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 13, 2025
  • Instructor: Glen Ward
  • Location: Main Campus

Explore the fundamentals of drawing and painting. Sample various drawing and painting techniques using different media, including watercolors, acrylics, and oils. Most supplies are provided.

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Portraits in Oil and Acrylic

Portraits in Oil and Acrylic

  • Mondays | 02:00 pm - 04:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 13, 2025
  • Instructor: Patti Shistle
  • Location: Main Campus
Paint beautiful heirloom portraits working from your cherished photographs. Brushwork, composition, color, and lighting will be explored as you receive guidance and feedback from the instructor.
Prereqs: PD157, PD149 or similar exp.
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Wildlife & Pet Painting

Wildlife & Pet Painting

  • Mondays | 02:00 pm - 04:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 13, 2025
  • Instructor: Fabiola Hansen
  • Location: Main Campus

Learn to draw and paint amazing wildlife and their habitats or choose to paint your own pet using acrylics and/or watercolors. Bring images of your chosen animals and learn how to draw using correct proportions. Drawing and painting techniques will be taught as you work on your painting. These are skills that you can later apply to any other subject you might want to paint or draw.

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Beginning Portrait Drawing

Beginning Portrait Drawing

  • Mondays | 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 13, 2025
  • Instructor: Dennis Schmalstig
  • Location: Main Campus

Focusing first on proportions, measurements and anatomy, students will then experiment with rub-out and cross-hatch techniques to create tonal studies. Students will begin working from photographs provided by the instructor but may choose their own photographs as the class progresses.

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Beginning Wheel Throwing Mon 6:30 pm

Beginning Wheel Throwing Mon 6:30 pm

  • Mondays | 06:30 pm - 08:30 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 13, 2025
  • Instructor: Jesus Minguez
  • Location: Main Campus

Always wanted to experience the magic of forming clay vessels on the potter’s wheel? Learn to center, open and pull up clay walls. This class may be repeated until confidence is gained.

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Handbuilding Explorations

Handbuilding Explorations

  • Mondays | 01:30 pm - 03:30 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 13, 2025
  • Instructor: Vince Sansone
  • Location: Main Campus

Find your own voice in clay. We will design our own treasures and acquire handbuilding and finishing skills to make them. Explore pinch, coil, slab construction and add finishing and decorative elements to create your own unique pieces!
Prereq: TD172, TD142, or similar experience.

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Handbuilding Across Cultures

Handbuilding Across Cultures

  • Mondays | 07:00 pm - 09:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 13, 2025
  • Instructor: Eve Wildermuth
  • Location: Main Campus

Dive into honoring the beauty of culture clay techniques from around the world. Emphasis will be on the building processes, form structure and decoration techniques that make the culture we are focusing on unique.

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Smartphone Videomaking I

Smartphone Videomaking I

  • Mondays | 02:00 pm - 05:00 pm
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 13, 2025
  • Instructor: Eric Matyas
  • Location: Main Campus

Learn the fundamentals of visual storytelling using your smartphone or iPhone's video camera: dynamic shots and angles, creating excitement through movement, the magic of editing, and so much more!

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Black-and-White Film I: Introduction to the Darkroom (Mon)

Black-and-White Film I: Introduction to the Darkroom (Mon)

  • Mondays | 07:00 pm - 09:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 13, 2025
  • Instructor: John Baker
  • Location: Main Campus

Explore the timeless beauty of traditional, film-based black-and-white photography, including image selection, exposure and processing your own film and prints in Crealdé’s wet darkroom. This introductory course will cover basic camera controls and formats, film types, hands-on field trips, weekly assignments, print reviews and lots of fun time in the darkroom. Designed for students new to film photography and photographers who want to reconnect with this creative art form. Tuition includes lab fee, chemistry, and free loaner cameras. Prerequisites: Understanding of basic camera controls and functions.

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Sculpting Sea Creatures (Ages 8 – 12)

Sculpting Sea Creatures (Ages 8 – 12)

  • Mondays | 04:30 pm - 06:00 pm
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 13, 2025
  • Instructor: Fabiola Hansen
  • Location: Main Campus

This introduction to sculpture will combine paper and paint with clay, and recycled materials to make life-like fish, whales, dolphins, and many other sea creatures..

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Gargoyles in Clay

Gargoyles in Clay

  • Mondays | 10:00 am - 12:00 am
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 13, 2025
  • Instructor: David Cumbie
  • Location: Main Campus

Contribute your own personal Gargoyle to the long history that has embellished architecture for thousands of years. Work on modeling heads and faces for interior and exterior display. Create variations on historical works or create your own vision in terra cotta clay or stoneware. The works will be fired and colored surface treatments will be suggested and demonstrated.

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Beginning Acrylics (Tue 4pm)

Beginning Acrylics (Tue 4pm)

  • Tuesdays | 04:00 pm - 06:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 14, 2025
  • Instructor: David Hunter
  • Location: Main Campus

Explore the methods, materials, and tools involved with acrylic painting. Learn techniques used to produce a finished acrylic painting, from rough sketch to final finishing touches, including the use of various brushes, palette knives, canvases, clay boards and final coating to protect the finished image.

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Beginning Acrylics (Tue 7pm)

Beginning Acrylics (Tue 7pm)

  • Tuesdays | 07:00 pm - 09:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 14, 2025
  • Instructor: David Hunter
  • Location: Main Campus

Explore the methods, materials, and tools involved with acrylic painting. Learn techniques used to produce a finished acrylic painting, from rough sketch to final finishing touches, including the use of various brushes, palette knives, canvases, clay boards and final coating to protect the finished image.

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Functional Pottery 6 PM Winter Garden

Functional Pottery 6 PM Winter Garden

  • Tuesdays | 06:00 pm - 08:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 14, 2025
  • Instructor: Camille Castronovo
  • Location: Jessie Brock Community Center

**Class meets at Jesse Brock Community Center**

Jars, jugs, platters, and bowls! Explore form and surface decoration, as you create pottery vessels to gather, store, and present food. Suitable for all levels. Handbuilders and throwers are welcome!

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Exploring Abstract Painting AM

Exploring Abstract Painting AM

  • Tuesdays | 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 14, 2025
  • Instructor: Patricia Byron
  • Location: Main Campus

This inspiring class offers a fundamental exploration into the beauty of abstract painting. Instruction concentrates on composition, techniques, form, texture, and color. Students will develop their own artistic vision, while referencing the works of contemporary artists. Be ready to paint outside the lines.

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Exploring Abstract Painting PM

Exploring Abstract Painting PM

  • Tuesdays | 01:00 pm - 03:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 14, 2025
  • Instructor: Patricia Byron
  • Location: Main Campus

This inspiring class offers a fundamental exploration into the beauty of abstract painting. Instruction concentrates on composition, techniques, form, texture, and color. Students will develop their own artistic vision, while referencing the works of contemporary artists. Be ready to paint outside the lines.

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Still Life in Pastels

Still Life in Pastels

  • Tuesdays | 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 14, 2025
  • Instructor: Gary Rupp
  • Location: Main Campus

Enjoy creating with pure color known as pastels! In each class, you have the opportunity to paint from a still life setup that the instructor will use to demonstrate pastel painting. You are welcome to paint along or you can bring your own photo to work from. Students will explore the advantage of underpainting while discovering the beauty of pastels.

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Drawing I (Tue)

Drawing I (Tue)

  • Tuesdays | 04:00 pm - 06:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 14, 2025
  • Instructor: Glen Ward
  • Location: Main Campus

Learn the fundamentals of the most important art form: drawing. Our goal is to draw realistically and train our eyes to capture what is in front of us. We will see how light and shadow creates form, practice subtle transitions in shading, use of proportions, angles, and more. Anyone can learn to draw, and with practice, you can bring your artistic visions to life. Skill level: Beginner

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Life Drawing

Life Drawing

  • Tuesdays | 07:00 pm - 10:00 pm
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 14, 2025
  • Instructor: Andrew Grant
  • Location: Main Campus

 
Explore figurative drawing with quick gesture studies and longer sustained poses. Draw from the live figure, with an emphasis on anatomy and proportion and the expressive use of materials.
Prereq: PD103 or similar experience

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Beginning Wheel Throwing (Tues AM)

Beginning Wheel Throwing (Tues AM)

  • Tuesdays | 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 14, 2025
  • Instructor: Belinda Glennon
  • Location: Main Campus

Always wanted to experience the magic of forming clay vessels on the potter’s wheel? Learn to center, open and pull up clay walls. This class may be repeated until confidence is gained.

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Intermediate Wheel Throwing (Tue 4pm)

Intermediate Wheel Throwing (Tue 4pm)

  • Tuesdays | 04:00 pm - 06:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 14, 2025
  • Instructor: Vadim Malkin
  • Location: Main Campus

Now that you’re comfortable with centering and pulling short walls, let’s make more dynamic forms and work on achieving some height through bowls, cups, vases, pitchers, and anything else you can imagine. This class is ideal for anyone comfortable with centering up to an advanced level student

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Intermediate Wheel Throwing (Tue 7pm)

Intermediate Wheel Throwing (Tue 7pm)

  • Tuesdays | 07:00 pm - 09:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 14, 2025
  • Instructor: Vadim Malkin
  • Location: Main Campus
Now that you’re comfortable with centering and pulling short walls, let’s make more dynamic forms and work on achieving some height through bowls, cups, vases, pitchers, and anything else you can imagine. This class is ideal for anyone comfortable with centering up to an advanced level student

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Altered Pottery

Altered Pottery

  • Tuesdays | 01:00 pm - 03:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 14, 2025
  • Instructor: Belinda Glennon
  • Location: Main Campus

Explore the potter’s wheel and create animated pots by altering thrown forms beyond round. Dart, pleat, fold and facet! Just because it’s made on a wheel doesn’t mean it has to be round.

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Pouring and Drinking Vessels

Pouring and Drinking Vessels

  • Tuesdays | 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 14, 2025
  • Instructor: Robert Reedy
  • Location: Main Campus

An investigation into the design and function of the ceramic pouring and drinking vessels. Gain handbuilding and wheel throwing skills through the creative exploration, design and construction of different types of functional and abstract forms. We'll explore different types of handles and the ergonomic issues facing utilitarian forms. Though focused on handbuilding skills, there will be some opportunity to combine thrown components.

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Decorative Clay for the Home

Decorative Clay for the Home

  • Tuesdays | 07:00 pm - 09:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 14, 2025
  • Instructor: Kelly Evans
  • Location: Main Campus

Create handbuilt home décor items. Explore your own style in the design and decoration of each piece. Emphasis will be placed on surface techniques including wax resist and carving combined with post-firing addition of mixed media like cotton, fiber and wood. Possible projects include wall hangings and ceramic bells.

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Photographing the Natural Landscape

Photographing the Natural Landscape

  • Tuesdays | 07:00 pm - 09:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 14, 2025
  • Instructor: Milton Heiberg
** This class will be presented as a hybrid learning opportunity, with classroom instruction via Zoom and on-location field trips**
Discover skills needed for landscape photography, including the fundamentals of 2-dimensional design applied to photography. Subjects will include how to look at a landscape, when and how to capture the best light, what to include and what to leave out. We will also cover seeing forms of composition and how to control them in the frame. Students will practice their newly learned skills during Saturday field trips.
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Black and White Film II: Fine-tuning Your Film and Printing Skills

Black and White Film II: Fine-tuning Your Film and Printing Skills

  • Tuesdays | 07:00 pm - 09:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 14, 2025
  • Instructors: Jon P. Manchester, Peter Schreyer
  • Location: Main Campus

Sharpen your black-and-white vision of the world surrounding you in this intermediate level course with more assignments, field trips, supervised time in the darkroom, and print reviews. Learn more about grain and contrast control, film speed manipulation and the relationship between camera exposure, film development and final print. Course includes darkroom demonstrations, print reviews, and a night photography field trip. Tuition includes lab fee, chemistry, and loaner cameras.
Prerequisite: PH168 or similar experience.
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Introduction to Portrait Photography

Introduction to Portrait Photography

  • Tuesdays | 07:00 pm - 09:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 14, 2025
  • Instructor: Chris Casler
  • Location: Main Campus

In this class, students will learn basic lighting techniques, using flash and natural light to reveal a subject's unique personality. Focus is given to the ways in which posing techniques can define the photographic portrait. Students may work in black and white or color. Prerequisite: Black-and-White Film Photo I PH168, Intro to Digital PH147, or similar experience. 

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Handbuilt Pottery for Teens (Ages 13-17)

Handbuilt Pottery for Teens (Ages 13-17)

  • Tuesdays | 04:30 pm - 06:30 pm
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 14, 2025
  • Instructor: Belinda Glennon
  • Location: Main Campus

Join the makers movement! Combine hand building methods to manipulate clay into three dimensions for sculptural or functional art. Is it a tiger or a teapot? Or a tiger teapot? Experiment with underglaze, sgrafitto, slips and glazes for compelling surface decoration.

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Wheel Throwing and More! Winter Garden (ages 11-16)

Wheel Throwing and More! Winter Garden (ages 11-16)

  • Tuesdays | 03:30 pm - 05:00 pm
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 14, 2025
  • Instructor: Camille Castronovo
  • Location: Jessie Brock Community Center

**Class meets at Jesse Brock Community Center**

Experience the magic of the potter’s wheel as you create clay forms then combine and embellish them with handbuilding to create decorative sculptures or functional ware. Pottery, it’s more than just a pretty vase! Develop skills with more sessions.

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Functional Pottery 12:30 PM Winter Garden

Functional Pottery 12:30 PM Winter Garden

  • Tuesdays | 12:30 pm - 02:30 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 14, 2025
  • Instructor: Camille Castronovo
  • Location: Jessie Brock Community Center

**Class meets at Jesse Brock Community Center**

Jars, jugs, platters, and bowls! Explore form and surface decoration, as you create pottery vessels to gather, store, and present food. Suitable for all levels. Handbuilders and throwers are welcome!

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Introduction to Bronze Casting

Introduction to Bronze Casting

  • Tuesdays | 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 14, 2025
  • Instructor: David Cumbie
  • Location: Main Campus

Create wax sculptures that will be cast in bronze. Students learn how to prepare the wax form for casting, and the ceramic shell mold-making process. The instructor uses the latest mold-making materials available and students witness a bronze pour at the end of the class. Cost includes the casting of one five-pound bronze with option to purchase additional material for large works. Students are responsible for finishing, polishing and coloring of final castings. Cleaning polishing and finishing the bronze work is not included in the cost of the class.

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Whimsical Figures in Terra Cotta

Whimsical Figures in Terra Cotta

  • Tuesdays | 01:30 pm - 03:30 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 14, 2025
  • Instructor: Missy Kimsey-Hickman
  • Location: Main Campus

Have a blast with bringing to life a reptile, fish, bird, or any animal with human attributes. This class will teach students how to make whimsical human-like figures with animal characteristics using terra cotta clay.

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Beginning Acrylics (Wed)

Beginning Acrylics (Wed)

  • Wednesdays | 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 15, 2025
  • Instructor: David Hunter
  • Location: Main Campus

Explore the methods, materials, and tools involved with acrylic painting. Learn techniques used to produce a finished acrylic painting, from rough sketch to final finishing touches, including the use of various brushes, palette knives, canvases, clay boards and final coating to protect the finished image.

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Magical Layers in Acrylic Landscapes

Magical Layers in Acrylic Landscapes

  • Wednesdays | 01:30 pm - 03:30 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 15, 2025
  • Instructor: Fabiola Hansen
  • Location: Main Campus

Transform your landscapes into a rich tapestry of colors and textures by learning how to use layers of paint in your work. A variety of techniques will be introduced to create depth and dimension so you can take your art to the next level.

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WOW (Wet on Wet) Watercolor

WOW (Wet on Wet) Watercolor

  • Wednesdays | 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 15, 2025
  • Instructor: Patty Kane
  • Location: Main Campus

Not happy with the color in your paintings? Are you held captive to paint exactly what you see in your photos? Painting is so much more than copying what you see. The main focus of this class is to work on brush techniques and use transparent pigments to create luminosity in your paintings. Prerequisite: PD104 or similar experience

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Intermediate Watercolor

Intermediate Watercolor

  • Wednesdays | 06:30 pm - 08:30 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 15, 2025
  • Instructor: Patty Kane
  • Location: Main Campus
Discover and explore the beauty of using a limited palette through demos and critiques. Experiment with traditional watercolor techniques and work towards painting from your own photos.
Pre-req: PD104 or similar experience.
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Experimental Drawing

Experimental Drawing

  • Wednesdays | 01:00 pm - 03:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 15, 2025
  • Instructor: Dennis Schmalstig
  • Location: Main Campus

Arrangements of shapes, tones, patterns and colors can evoke feelings and memories. This class will teach students first to develop personal imagery, second to layer these images until they become abstract patterns of shapes and tones, and third to refine their compositions. A finished piece will suggest an emotion, a thought, a memory in a poetic combination of formal elements.

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Beginning Wheel Throwing (Wed 1PM)

Beginning Wheel Throwing (Wed 1PM)

  • Wednesdays | 01:00 pm - 03:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 15, 2025
  • Instructor: Jeff Rogers
  • Location: Main Campus

Always wanted to experience the magic of forming clay vessels on the potter’s wheel? Learn to center, open and pull up clay walls. This class may be repeated until confidence is gained.

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Beginning Wheel Throwing (Wed 10 AM)

Beginning Wheel Throwing (Wed 10 AM)

  • Wednesdays | 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 15, 2025
  • Instructor: Abby Girand
  • Location: Main Campus

Always wanted to experience the magic of forming clay vessels on the potter’s wheel? Learn to center, open and pull up clay walls. This class may be repeated until confidence is gained.

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Handbuilding Across Cultures

Handbuilding Across Cultures

  • Wednesdays | 04:00 pm - 06:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 15, 2025
  • Instructor: Eve Wildermuth
  • Location: Main Campus

Dive into honoring the beauty of culture clay techniques from around the world. Emphasis will be on the building processes, form structure and decoration techniques that make the culture we are focusing on unique.

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The Dinner Party

The Dinner Party

  • Wednesdays | 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 15, 2025
  • Instructor: Robert Reedy
  • Location: Main Campus

Explore your creativity while focusing on functional serving ware through a variety of handbuilding processes. Students of all levels will learn and explore new skills and techniques and how to apply the visual elements and principles of design to create serving vessels of their own design and imagination. We will end with a dinner party extravaganza using the serving vessels created in class.

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Evening Pottery Throwdown

Evening Pottery Throwdown

  • Wednesdays | 07:00 pm - 09:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 15, 2025
  • Instructor: Jeff Rogers
  • Location: Main Campus
A more informal, larger group guided independent study time with a focus on fun and togetherness, space to stretch out on ideas and projects with teacher and community support. Come with goals, ideas and a joyful heart, ready for learning, sharing, music and some laughs.
Prereq: TD122, TD135 or similar exp. (Course is not suitable for beginners).
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iPhone Photography

iPhone Photography

  • Wednesdays | 07:00 pm - 09:00 pm
  • Duration: 4 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 15, 2025
  • Instructor: Jon P. Manchester
  • Location: Heritage Center

In this 4 week course learn to use the iPhone camera to achieve amazing results. Explore various iPhone camera photography modes and useful camera and image processing apps. There will be interactive demonstrations and image reviews.

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Black-and-White Film I: Introduction to the Darkroom (Wed)

Black-and-White Film I: Introduction to the Darkroom (Wed)

  • Wednesdays | 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 15, 2025
  • Instructor: Jon P. Manchester
  • Location: Main Campus

Explore the timeless beauty of traditional, film-based black-and-white photography, including image selection, exposure and processing your own film and prints in Crealdé’s wet darkroom. This introductory course will cover basic camera controls and formats, film types, hands-on field trips, weekly assignments, print reviews and lots of fun time in the darkroom. Designed for students new to film photography and photographers who want to reconnect with this creative art form. Tuition includes lab fee, chemistry, and free loaner cameras. Prerequisites: Understanding of basic camera controls and functions.

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Image and Meaning in Photography

Image and Meaning in Photography

  • Wednesdays | 07:00 pm - 09:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 15, 2025
  • Instructor: Peter Schreyer
  • Location: Main Campus

Part of the Crealde curriculum for more than two decades, this course has guided countless Crealde students in the development of their photographic vision. Landscape, portrait, documentary and night photography themes are examined through lectures, slide presentations, assignments, critiques and field trips. Designed for the visual and photographic growth of intermediate students working in film or digital, color or black-and-white photography.   Class includes field trips. Please see schedule in Special Notes below.
Prerequisite: Basic Image Processing class PH258 or Black and White Film II PH239 or similar experience.

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Painting & Drawing I (Wed, 8-12yrs)

Painting & Drawing I (Wed, 8-12yrs)

  • Wednesdays | 04:00 pm - 05:30 pm
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 15, 2025
  • Instructor: Wendi Zlamal
  • Location: Main Campus

This class will focus on learning to see the world through an artist's eyes. Working with a variety of painting and drawing materials, young artists will explore their potential as they take their skills to the next level! Students will use technical drawing and painting fundamentals to create something beautiful and one of a kind to frame and treasure each session!

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Clay for Homeschool (ages 8-12)

Clay for Homeschool (ages 8-12)

  • Wednesdays | 10:30 am - 12:00 pm
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 15, 2025
  • Instructor: Belinda Glennon
  • Location: Main Campus

Come play in the mud! Experience the satisfaction of using your hands to squish, pinch, pat and roll clay into a personal creation. We will experiment with sculptural and functional clay forms, fired and glazed for permanence.

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Exploring Sculpture for Teens (Ages 13-17)

Exploring Sculpture for Teens (Ages 13-17)

  • Wednesdays | 04:00 pm - 06:00 pm
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 15, 2025
  • Instructor: Missy Kimsey-Hickman
  • Location: Main Campus

Learn techniques for sculpting using an armature and sculpting tools to create figures real or imagined. Students choose what they want to sculpt from human heads, animals, cartoon figures or original imaginative creations. The sculptures will be 3 dimensional demonstrating animation, texture and movement. Tools and material included.

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Advanced Wheel for Teens (ages 13-17)

Advanced Wheel for Teens (ages 13-17)

  • Wednesdays | 04:00 pm - 06:00 pm
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 15, 2025
  • Instructor: Belinda Glennon
  • Location: Main Campus

Expand your skills on the potters' wheel as you stretch and manipulate the clay to alter forms and create lids, spouts, and more. Create your own pottery collection to give and to treasure. Prerequisite YAP208 or similar wheel experience.

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Digital Photography with Photoshop (Ages 13-17)

Digital Photography with Photoshop (Ages 13-17)

  • Wednesdays | 04:00 pm - 06:00 pm
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 15, 2025
  • Instructor: Caryn Kuhn
  • Location: Main Campus

Learn the basics of digital photography- composition, lighting, exposure and more using our DSLR cameras to take artistic photographs. Then dive into Adobe Photoshop and explore the editing possibilities – image manipulation, tablet drawing and digital painting.

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Creative Watercolor for Teens (ages 13-17 yrs)

Creative Watercolor for Teens (ages 13-17 yrs)

  • Wednesdays | 04:30 pm - 06:30 pm
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 15, 2025
  • Instructor: Fabiola Hansen
  • Location: Main Campus

Young painters will explore essential and creative building blocks of watercolor painting. Through instructor demonstrations of dynamic watercolor techniques and lots of painting time young adults develop skills and confidence to paint self-expressive artworks.

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Brush and Pen for Teens Winter Garden (Ages 11-16)

Brush and Pen for Teens Winter Garden (Ages 11-16)

  • Wednesdays | 03:30 pm - 05:00 pm
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 15, 2025
  • Instructor: Mike Goodge
  • Location: Jessie Brock Community Center

**Class meets at Jesse Brock Community Center**

Calling young artists who love to paint and draw! Explore your creative potential through acrylic paint, watercolors, charcoal, and pastels on canvas and paper. Experiment with painting and drawing techniques, composition and color theory. Say it with art!

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Intro to Oil Painting (Winter Garden)

Intro to Oil Painting (Winter Garden)

  • Wednesdays | 06:00 pm - 08:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 15, 2025
  • Instructor: Catherine Hempel
  • Location: Jessie Brock Community Center
**Class meets at Jesse Brock Community Center**
Learn basic techniques and methods used in a representational oil painting by developing skills of observing, rendering, color matching, and applying paint through practice. Demos and discussions will emphasize the importance of composition, shapes, edges, brushwork, and ways to manipulate the value and intensity of color.
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Continuing Sculpture Studies Wed 7 pm

Continuing Sculpture Studies Wed 7 pm

  • Wednesdays | 07:00 pm - 09:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 15, 2025
  • Instructor: David Cumbie
  • Location: Main Campus

Intermediate and advanced students are assisted with ideas related to their personal projects. Problem-solving and discovering new materials and techniques will be a part of each class. Bronze casting and welding will be offered with the approval of the instructor.

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Introduction to Welding

Introduction to Welding

  • Wednesdays | 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 15, 2025
  • Instructor: David Cumbie
  • Location: Main Campus

Create whimsical figures and abstract welded sculptures. Learn basic cutting and arc welding techniques using found objects and mild steel. Students are encouraged to bring objects for their compositions.

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Introduction to Jewelry Design & Fabrication

Introduction to Jewelry Design & Fabrication

  • Wednesdays | 02:30 pm - 04:30 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 15, 2025
  • Instructor: Stefan Alexandres
  • Location: Main Campus

Learn concepts for basic and advanced jewelry fabrication. Become familiar with essential silversmithing skills and methods of cutting, forging, embossing, and all the fundamentals of soldering techniques. Students are given the instructions and tools to make finger rings, earrings, bracelets, and other forms of jewelry. Copper materials will be provided for use in class. Students wanting to work in silver should bring their own silver supply.

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Write on! Crealde@Home

Write on! Crealde@Home

  • Wednesdays | 07:00 pm - 09:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 15, 2025
  • Instructor: Elaine Person

Have you ever said, “Someday I’ll write a story or a book?” Someday is today! Award-winning instructor Elaine Person will guide you toward achieving your writing goals. Open to people of all writing levels as your writing is unique to you. We write together and share by reading our assignments to each other to make your writing stronger. Listening to others helps us improve our writing too. With the use of prompts such as paintings, photographs, quotations, items, and more, you will tap into your own creativity. Each week, we will write together and have positive critique. See your stories unfold. We will discuss a variety of literary techniques used to strengthen our stories. This class is for you, whether you write prose, poetry, lyrics, scripts, or other genres.

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Oil Painting II

Oil Painting II

  • Thursdays | 01:30 pm - 04:30 pm
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 16, 2025
  • Instructor: Beth Pendleton
  • Location: Main Campus

Increase your technical oil painting skills through challenging exercises and studies using both brushes and painting knives. Students will explore ways to convey textures, transparency and patterns when painting fabrics and floral subjects. Working from life, we will focus on observing changes in color that indicate light, volume and a sense of space in representational painting. Prereqs: PD103 and PD157 or similar exp

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Beginning Watercolor (Thur)

Beginning Watercolor (Thur)

  • Thursdays | 07:00 pm - 09:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 16, 2025
  • Instructor: Julie Nieves
  • Location: Main Campus

Watercolor is a wonderfully mysterious medium. Explore watercolor techniques, color mixing, and learn the value of using a limited palette to gain skills and confidence needed to get you started on your watercolor journey. 

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Your Next Level in Watercolor

Your Next Level in Watercolor

  • Thursdays | 02:00 pm - 04:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 16, 2025
  • Instructor: Patty Kane
  • Location: Main Campus
Explore and experiment with advanced watercolor techniques, color theory, and composition to add depth and interest to their artwork. Using new colors to extend their palette, students will be inspired to create exciting and colorful paintings. Learning the secrets to great design will improve your paintings and encourage you on your painting journey!
Prerequisites: PD104 or similar experience
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Advanced Painting Intensive

Advanced Painting Intensive

  • Thursdays | 09:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 16, 2025
  • Instructor: Barbara Tiffany
  • Location: Main Campus
Learn and explore intensive techniques to develop a personal style. Build a small body of work that is unified and ready to submit to galleries. Photographing your subjects will be demonstrated. Study composition, lighting, and storytelling, then paint in such a way that your work looks like it was painted from life. Learn how to correct camera distortion and adjust shadows. Bring your own reference photographs. Oil or acrylic.
Pre-requisite: PD157 or similar exp. Course is not suitable for beginners.
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Painting Landscapes from Life

Painting Landscapes from Life

  • Thursdays | 09:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 16, 2025
  • Instructor: Robert Ross
  • Location: Main Campus
Learn to paint landscapes from life instead of photos. The first session will be held at Crealdé. For remaining sessions, the class will meet by prearrangement in nearby parks in Winter Park. Students will learn what to look for in a landscape, different ways to start your painting, choosing the important over the trivial, and using composition, value and color as tools. Personal assistance and advice from the instructor will be provided as you paint. Oil, acrylic, or gouache may be used.
Prereqs: PD157, PD149 or similar exp.
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Beginning Portrait Drawing with Live Model

Beginning Portrait Drawing with Live Model

  • Thursdays | 06:00 pm - 08:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 16, 2025
  • Instructor: Joseph Mattus
  • Location: Main Campus

Learn the technical aspects of drawing the human head. Working from a live model and other sources, gain experience and familiarity with both pencil and charcoal, exploring the genre’s expressive possibilities.

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Beginning Wheel Throwing (Thur)

Beginning Wheel Throwing (Thur)

  • Thursdays | 07:00 pm - 09:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 16, 2025
  • Instructor: Jeff Rogers
  • Location: Main Campus

Always wanted to experience the magic of forming clay vessels on the potter’s wheel? Learn to center, open and pull up clay walls. This class may be repeated until confidence is gained.

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Intermediate Wheel Throwing – Thurs

Intermediate Wheel Throwing – Thurs

  • Thursdays | 01:00 pm - 03:30 pm
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 16, 2025
  • Instructor: Jeff Rogers
  • Location: Main Campus

Now that you’re comfortable with centering and pulling short walls, let’s make more dynamic forms and work on achieving some height through bowls, cups, vases, pitchers, and anything else you can imagine. This class is ideal for anyone comfortable with centering up to an advanced level student

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Surface Decoration for Pottery

Surface Decoration for Pottery

  • Thursdays | 10:30 am - 01:00 pm
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 16, 2025
  • Instructor: Belinda Glennon
  • Location: Main Campus

Experiment with colored slips and clay, transfers and more to enhance the clay surface. Learn to layer techniques to create unique, narrative pottery. Learn to layer techniques to create unique, narrative pottery. 
Prereq: TD122 or similar

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Handbuilding Basics

Handbuilding Basics

  • Thursdays | 06:30 pm - 08:30 pm
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 16, 2025
  • Instructor: Belinda Glennon
  • Location: Main Campus

Curious about clay? Come get your hands dirty and get some answers as you experiment with basic forming methods, connections and attachments to create decorative and/or functional pottery by hand. Embellish with glaze for lasting treasures.

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Digital Photography I (Thur)

Digital Photography I (Thur)

  • Thursdays | 07:00 pm - 09:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 16, 2025
  • Instructor: Jon P. Manchester
  • Location: Main Campus

Build a strong foundation for your photography and make better images by understanding exposure, metering, focus, file formats, depth of field and basic composition. Hands-on demonstrations and assignments with personalized image reviews reinforce camera systems such as shutter speed, aperture, ISO, and their artistic impact on the final photograph. Single lens reflex or mirrorless cameras are recommended. The instructor is available for camera recommendations.

 

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Digital Photography II

Digital Photography II

  • Thursdays | 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 16, 2025
  • Instructor: Charles Hodges
  • Location: Main Campus

Through in-depth assignments and image reviews, students more deeply explore composition, lighting, lenses and flash photography. A field trip on the 5th Saturday of the session will further develop skills for real time applications. Demonstrations on basic image processing and printing techniques along with preparing photographs for online presentation will be included. 

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The Twin Lens Reflex (TLR) Camera

The Twin Lens Reflex (TLR) Camera

  • Thursdays | 07:00 pm - 09:00 pm
  • Duration: 4 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 16, 2025
  • Instructor: Peter Schreyer
  • Location: Main Campus

Uncover the history, unique camera controls, and the photographers who made the landmark German Rolleiflex, the most popular – and most copied – professional camera of the 1940s and 50s. From documentary to glamour it was the camera of choice by many of the time’s most noted photographers. The instructor – who uses his Rollei for his professional documentary, portrait and travel photography – will overview and demonstrate why the TLR has re-emerged as such a popular camera in the in the re-emergence of film-based or analog photography. Class will include special equipment and accessory demonstrations, a fieldtrip and time in the darkroom. The course is suited for students with any kind of TLR camera, including Yashica and Mamiya. Crealdé also has a loaner camera available for class use. Skill level: Intermediate

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Creating with Clay (5-9)

Creating with Clay (5-9)

  • Thursdays | 03:30 pm - 04:30 pm
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 16, 2025
  • Instructor: Ana Edwards
  • Location: Main Campus

Squish, squeeze, pinch, pat and roll. Strengthen fine motor skills as we create clay treasures. Each session features fresh projects to build new skills!

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Wheel Throwing and More! (ages 10-14)

Wheel Throwing and More! (ages 10-14)

  • Thursdays | 04:30 pm - 06:00 pm
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 16, 2025
  • Instructor: Camille Castronovo
  • Location: Main Campus

Experience the magic of the potter's wheel as you create clay forms then combine and embellish them with hand building to create decorative sculptures or functional ware. Pottery, it's more than just a pretty vase!

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Art of Many Cultures (ages 4-7)

Art of Many Cultures (ages 4-7)

  • Thursdays | 01:00 pm - 02:00 pm
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 16, 2025
  • Instructor: Johana Escobar
  • Location: Main Campus

Learn what inspired master artists in many cultures, then express yourself as you create from what inspires you! Investigate art with joyful play!

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Draw Comic Book Action Figures (Ages 13-17)

Draw Comic Book Action Figures (Ages 13-17)

  • Thursdays | 05:00 pm - 07:00 pm
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 16, 2025
  • Instructor TBD.

  • Location: Main Campus

Use action pose figures and comic book references to create your own dynamic comic book art. Experiment with light and shadow, facial expressions and movement. Complete your own full page comic book art piece!

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Intro to Drawing and Painting (Winter Garden)

Intro to Drawing and Painting (Winter Garden)

  • Thursdays | 06:00 pm - 08:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 16, 2025
  • Instructor: Catherine Hempel
  • Location: Jessie Brock Community Center
**Class meets at Jesse Brock Community Center**
Explore the fundamentals of drawing and painting. Sample various drawing and painting techniques using different media, including watercolors, acrylics and oils. Most supplies are provided.
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Sculpture I 10 am

Sculpture I 10 am

  • Thursdays | 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 16, 2025
  • Instructor: David Cumbie
  • Location: Main Campus

Work in clay to create face masks, heads, and figures to be fired in the kiln. Mold-making and casting will be demonstrated as part of the session.

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Sculpture I 7pm

Sculpture I 7pm

  • Thursdays | 07:00 pm - 09:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 16, 2025
  • Instructor: David Cumbie
  • Location: Main Campus

Work in clay to create face masks, heads, and figures to be fired in the kiln. Mold-making and casting will be demonstrated as part of the session.

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Knife Making

Knife Making

  • Thursdays | 04:00 pm - 06:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 16, 2025
  • Instructor: Marcos Carrasco
  • Location: Main Campus

Learn to make a wide range of knife styles like survival knives, daggers, and Qama knives using titanium and steel. Explore a variety of techniques such as forging blades, shaping, heat treatment, sharpening, riveting, polishing, and handle making techniques.

 

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Fundamentals of Color, Design & Composition

Fundamentals of Color, Design & Composition

  • Fridays | 06:00 pm - 08:30 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 17, 2025
  • Instructor: Beth Pendleton
  • Location: Main Campus

Learn to mix paint pigments to achieve any hue with respect to its value and intensity. Using a Split Primary Palette arrangement of oil paint, exercises will demonstrate the importance of complementary color relationships in mixing. Various color models and suggestions for color harmony in painting will be presented. Discussions will cover basic elements of design and composition in painting.

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Beginning Watercolor (Fri)

Beginning Watercolor (Fri)

  • Fridays | 01:30 pm - 03:30 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 17, 2025
  • Instructor: Julie Nieves
  • Location: Main Campus

Watercolor is a wonderfully mysterious medium. Explore watercolor techniques, color mixing, and learn the value of using a limited palette to gain skills and confidence needed to get you started on your watercolor journey. 

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Advanced/Independent Oil & Acrylics – It’s All About the Finish with a Twist

Advanced/Independent Oil & Acrylics – It’s All About the Finish with a Twist

  • Fridays | 09:30 am - 12:30 pm
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 17, 2025
  • Instructor: Patti Shistle
  • Location: Main Campus

It's all about the finish with a twist. Bring unfinished paintings to the next level, and then begin a new still life, landscape or portrait. Receive one-on-one attention with demonstrations on the contrasts of values, colors, and brushwork and the importance of composition. Get your frames ready! 

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Drawing I (Fri)

Drawing I (Fri)

  • Fridays | 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 17, 2025
  • Instructor: Dennis Schmalstig
  • Location: Main Campus

Develop skills for measuring proportions and angles, drawing tones to show light and volume, perspective and composition. The goal is to learn techniques to draw realistically and develop perceptual awareness.

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Beginning Wheel Throwing (Fri 7pm)

Beginning Wheel Throwing (Fri 7pm)

  • Fridays | 07:00 pm - 09:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 17, 2025
  • Instructor: Abby Girand
  • Location: Main Campus

Always wanted to experience the magic of forming clay vessels on the potter’s wheel? Learn to center, open and pull up clay walls. This class may be repeated until confidence is gained.

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Archaeology & Handbuilding

Archaeology & Handbuilding

  • Fridays | 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 17, 2025
  • Instructor: Missy Kimsey-Hickman
  • Location: Main Campus

Archaelogists study ceramics to understand early civilizations. Use slab, coil, and pinch techniques to create utilitarian or decorative pieces like ancient cultures. Experience the joy of making as you create treasures for the future inspired by the past.

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Digital Photography I (Fri)

Digital Photography I (Fri)

  • Fridays | 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 17, 2025
  • Instructor: Charles Hodges
  • Location: Main Campus

Build a strong foundation for your photography and make better images by understanding exposure, metering, focus, file formats, depth of field and basic composition. Hands-on demonstrations and assignments with personalized image reviews reinforce camera systems such as shutter speed, aperture, ISO, and their artistic impact on the final photograph. Single lens reflex or mirrorless cameras are recommended. The instructor is available for camera recommendations.

 

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Continuing Sculpture Studies Fri 10 am

Continuing Sculpture Studies Fri 10 am

  • Fridays | 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 17, 2025
  • Instructor: David Cumbie
  • Location: Main Campus

Intermediate and advanced students are assisted with ideas related to their personal projects. Problem-solving and discovering new materials and techniques will be a part of each class. Bronze casting and welding will be offered with the approval of the instructor.

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Continuing Sculpture Studies Fri 1 pm

Continuing Sculpture Studies Fri 1 pm

  • Fridays | 01:00 pm - 03:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 17, 2025
  • Instructor: David Cumbie
  • Location: Main Campus

Intermediate and advanced students are assisted with ideas related to their personal projects. Problem-solving and discovering new materials and techniques will be a part of each class. Bronze casting and welding will be offered with the approval of the instructor.

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Clean, Polish, and Patina Bronze Art

Clean, Polish, and Patina Bronze Art

  • Fridays | 04:30 pm - 06:30 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 17, 2025
  • Instructor: David Cumbie
  • Location: Main Campus

Discover the range of processes in the finishing of a bronze sculptures. This is an introduction class on how to sandblast, clean and finish your bronzes for display. Demonstrations using materials for grinding and polishing will be a big part of the classroom work. Coloring the metal with patina will be demonstrated and used on student works. Materials include in the cost of the class. Prereq: SC129 or similar exp.

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Beginning Wheel Throwing (Sat 4pm)

Beginning Wheel Throwing (Sat 4pm)

  • Saturdays | 04:00 pm - 06:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 18, 2025
  • Instructor TBD.

  • Location: Main Campus

Always wanted to experience the magic of forming clay vessels on the potter’s wheel? Learn to center, open and pull up clay walls. This class may be repeated until confidence is gained.

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Mini Matisses (ages 4-6)

Mini Matisses (ages 4-6)

  • Saturdays | 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 18, 2025
  • Instructor: Patricia Byron
  • Location: Main Campus

This class is designed to allow young artists to explore the exciting world of artmaking with hands-on lessons in acrylics, watercolors, drawing, collage, and more. Aspiring artists will express themselves in a creative, supportive environment.

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Pint Size Picassos (ages 5-8)

Pint Size Picassos (ages 5-8)

  • Saturdays | 09:00 am - 10:00 am
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 18, 2025
  • Instructor: Patricia Byron
  • Location: Main Campus

This class is a fun introduction to the world of art! Aspiring artists will discover drawing and painting techniques in various mediums including acrylics, pastels, watercolors, and collagé. Budding artists will develop their creativity and artistic skills in a nurturing environment.

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Pick up the Palette! (Ages 5-9)

Pick up the Palette! (Ages 5-9)

  • Saturdays | 10:00 am - 11:00 am
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 18, 2025
  • Instructor: Julie Nieves
  • Location: Main Campus

Use animals as inspiration and explore the fundamentals of art! Projects expose young artists to an array of materials and art concepts and encourage self-expression as they draw, paint and experiment.

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Clay Animals at the Zoo (Ages 5-8)

Clay Animals at the Zoo (Ages 5-8)

  • Saturdays | 09:00 am - 10:00 am
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 18, 2025
  • Instructor: Julie Ellington
  • Location: Main Campus

Unleash your creativity as you shape and decorate your favorite zoo animals using basic pottery techniques in a fun and supportive environment. Perfect for little hands and big imaginations!

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Painting & Drawing I (Sat, 8-12yrs)

Painting & Drawing I (Sat, 8-12yrs)

  • Saturdays | 09:00 am - 10:30 am
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 18, 2025
  • Instructor: Fabiola Hansen
  • Location: Main Campus

This class will focus on learning to see the world through an artist's eyes. Working with a variety of painting and drawing materials, young artists will explore their potential as they take their skills to the next level! Students will use technical drawing and painting fundamentals to create something beautiful and one of a kind to frame and treasure each session!

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Brush to Canvas (ages 8-12)

Brush to Canvas (ages 8-12)

  • Saturdays | 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 18, 2025
  • Instructor: Anita Cohen
  • Location: Main Campus

Attention Young Artists! Come experience the fun of painting and learn new skills that will last a lifetime! Each week, captivating lessons will spark your creativity and transform your ideas into unique works of art.

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Clay Zoo Mates (Ages 8-12)

Clay Zoo Mates (Ages 8-12)

  • Saturdays | 10:30 am - 12:00 pm
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 18, 2025
  • Instructor: Julie Ellington
  • Location: Main Campus

Create detailed animal sculptures inspired by your favorite zoo denizens as you learn hand building pottery skills. It's a fun and engaging way to bring a love for animals to life!

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Fun with Film (ages 8-12)

Fun with Film (ages 8-12)

  • Saturdays | 09:00 am - 10:30 am
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 18, 2025
  • Instructor: Donald Kratt
  • Location: Main Campus

Before digital photography, there was film. Have fun taking pictures using 35mm cameras and black-and-white film, then create your own photos in the darkroom. A little science, a touch of chemistry, and your photo is art! Film cameras are provided.

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Art of the Masters with a Twist (Ages 8-12) (Ages 8-12)

Art of the Masters with a Twist (Ages 8-12) (Ages 8-12)

  • Saturdays | 11:30 am - 01:00 pm
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 18, 2025
  • Instructor: Fabiola Hansen
  • Location: Main Campus

Learn how to paint and draw with inspiration from Michelangelo, Picasso, Van Gogh, and other great art masters! Add your own creative twist with materials like oil pastels, acrylic paints, watercolors, charcoal and more.

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Intermediate Painting and Drawing (Ages 10-14)

Intermediate Painting and Drawing (Ages 10-14)

  • Saturdays | 01:30 pm - 03:00 pm
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 18, 2025
  • Instructor: Julie Nieves
  • Location: Main Campus

Embark on a colorful adventure where your creativity and imagination knows no bounds! Dive deeper into your painting and drawing skills, exploring new materials – charcoal, soft pastels, watercolors, acrylics, and even collage. Unleash your inner artist! Prerequisite YAP202, YAP209, YAP226

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Figure Drawing for Teens (ages 13-17)

Figure Drawing for Teens (ages 13-17)

  • Saturdays | 01:30 pm - 03:30 pm
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 18, 2025
  • Instructor: Fabiola Hansen
  • Location: Main Campus

This teen figure drawing class will challenge participants with new drawing techniques using charcoal and soft pastels. Students will work on anatomy, gesture, line, proportion, composition, and tone-working with a model. Repeated sessions are encouraged to expand skills and build a portfolio.

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Film Photography and Dark Room for Teens (Ages 13 – 17)

Film Photography and Dark Room for Teens (Ages 13 – 17)

  • Saturdays | 11:00 am - 01:00 pm
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 18, 2025
  • Instructor: Donald Kratt
  • Location: Main Campus
"Does anyone use film cameras anymore? Yes, and you can, too! Learn to shoot on manual 35mm cameras with black-and-white film, develop your negatives, and learn to print photos in the darkroom using chemistry.
Film cameras are provided."
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Pint Size Picassos (Winter Garden)  (ages 4-8)

Pint Size Picassos (Winter Garden) (ages 4-8)

  • Saturdays | 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 18, 2025
  • Instructor: Mike Goodge
  • Location: Jessie Brock Community Center

**Class meets at Jesse Brock Community Center**

Like to draw and paint? Explore the many ways to make art using pastels, paints, watercolors and other materials. A fun introductory experience for fledgling artists.

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Painting and Drawing I Winter Garden (Ages 8-12)

Painting and Drawing I Winter Garden (Ages 8-12)

  • Saturdays | 09:00 am - 10:30 am
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 18, 2025
  • Instructor: Mike Goodge
  • Location: Jessie Brock Community Center

**Class meets at Jesse Brock Community Center**

Learn the fundamentals of art-making and discover how to see as an artist. Create with a variety of painting and drawing media and explore new techniques to enhance your artistic skills!

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Intro to Silversmithing Jewelry

Intro to Silversmithing Jewelry

  • Saturdays | 05:00 pm - 07:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 18, 2025
  • Instructor: Stefan Alexandres
  • Location: Main Campus

Experience the fundamental processes of cutting, forging, metal texturing, hammering, sawing and soldering silver. The course includes: bezel stone setting for cabochon gemstones, polishing techniques and combining sterling silver sheet metal with fine silver wire, etc. Specific projects, planned by the instructor, will focus on how to make silver rings, pendants, bracelets, necklaces, and earrings. Silver will be provided. Please note, the use of silver material or gemstones will be limited to the scheduled projects planned by the instructor.

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Earrings

Earrings

  • Wednesdays | 05:00 pm - 07:00 pm
  • Duration: 7 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 18, 2025
  • Instructor: Stefan Alexandres
  • Location: Main Campus

Learn to make silver earrings. Build your designer skills, think like a jeweler, and utilize silver fabrication techniques. Explore different methods for cutting metal, forming, texture, soldering, polishing and connecting elements for kinetic earrings. Include a bezel stone setting for the 4 mm semi-precious stone for adding color. Receive information about jewelry tools, materials, and suppliers.

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Filigree Silver Jewelry

Filigree Silver Jewelry

  • Saturdays | 02:30 pm - 04:30 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 18, 2025
  • Instructor: Stefan Alexandres
  • Location: Main Campus

Explore the art of filigree jewelry; how to make pendants, earrings, rings, etc. focusing only on silver filigree process and procedures. Students will be guided through this ancient filigree fabrication technique. There will be specific projects planned by the instructor with samples, demonstrations, and hands-on projects. Silver material will be provided for use in the class only and limited to the projects and assignments planned by the instructor. This class does not include any stone setting techniques. 

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Travel Florida Backroads to Palatka & the Historic Ravine Gardens

Travel Florida Backroads to Palatka & the Historic Ravine Gardens

  • Saturdays | 08:00 am - 06:00 pm
  • Start Date: January 18, 2025
  • Instructor: Peter Schreyer
  • Location: Main Campus

*** On Location: Sat. Jan. 18 | 8am–6pm***

***Review & Discussion: Weds. Jan 29 | 5–6pm – Review in Studio 3***

Discover hidden architectural, cultural and natural treasures along Highway 17 on the way to Florida's historic river town of Palatka. Located on the scenic St. Johns River, the city features the unique Ravine Gardens State Park, which was developed by the Federal Works Progress Administration in the 1930s. In addition to the historic structures, the ravine trails and the picturesque creek are lined with thousands of azaleas each winter. Lunch will be provided.

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Corian Marble Sculptures Jan 18-19

Corian Marble Sculptures Jan 18-19

  • Saturdays | 10:00 am - 04:00 pm
  • Start Date: January 18, 2025
  • Instructor: Rick Bostick
  • Location: Main Campus
***This Two-Day Workshop meets Saturday, January 18 and Sunday, January 19.***

Learn how to use Corian marble creating sculptures for the house and garden. Explore forming techniques using heat and special prepared shapes for achieving creative forms and patterns. How to join surfaces and applying various finishes will be experimented with along with technique in mounting the final sculpture.

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Oil Painting I

Oil Painting I

  • Sundays | 02:00 pm - 05:00 pm
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 19, 2025
  • Instructor: Beth Pendleton
  • Location: Main Campus

Students will learn basic techniques of the alla prima (direct) method of applying oil paint. In addition to paint application and brushwork, students will learn how to mix color using a split-primary palette. Working from still life setups, students will complete one study each week to explore techniques for rendering glass, ceramic, metal, and organic objects. Instruction will focus on teaching students to see and copy value and intensity changes in color. There will be demonstrations of techniques, along with discussions about methods, materials and supplies used in oil painting.

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Urban Sketching: Tips and Techniques

Urban Sketching: Tips and Techniques

  • Sundays | 09:30 am - 12:30 pm
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 19, 2025
  • Instructor: Thomas Thorspecken
  • Location: Main Campus

Learn to sketch from subject to the environment. Classroom sessions will focus on sketching clothed models and progress towards sketching the model and classroom environment. Learn how to incorporate storytelling into your sketches in our location sessions. These trips to local venues will challenge you to use your sketchbook the way a photojournalist uses a camera. The six-week goal is to produce finished sketches using pencil, pen, and watercolor within two hours.

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Beginning Wheel Throwing (Sun)

Beginning Wheel Throwing (Sun)

  • Sundays | 07:00 pm - 09:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 19, 2025
  • Instructor: Abby Girand
  • Location: Main Campus

Always wanted to experience the magic of forming clay vessels on the potter’s wheel? Learn to center, open and pull up clay walls. This class may be repeated until confidence is gained.

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Tile Making for Home and Garden

Tile Making for Home and Garden

  • Sundays | 01:00 pm - 03:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 19, 2025
  • Instructor: Sarah Johnston
  • Location: Main Campus

Learn basic tile-making skills such as relief, mosaics, and painted wall tiles, along with the techniques to keep your tiles flat and how to adhere and grout your work. Learn to plan and implement projects for homes and gardens, i.e. backsplashes, indoor/outdoor murals, framed mirrors, wall hangings and garden stepping stones.

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Meditation & Mud: Handbuilt Vessels & Sculptures

Meditation & Mud: Handbuilt Vessels & Sculptures

  • Sundays | 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 19, 2025
  • Instructor: Sarah Johnston
  • Location: Main Campus

How do meditation and mud relate to one another? Decompress and feel refreshed for the week ahead. Class will start with a short 5-minute guided meditation with clay. Learn handbuilding, stamp-making and underglaze layering techniques to create a series of vessels. You will leave feeling centered and inspired; ready to greet a new week.

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Sculptural Garden Art in Concrete

Sculptural Garden Art in Concrete

  • Sundays | 04:00 pm - 06:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: January 19, 2025
  • Instructor: Shaun Cook
  • Location: Main Campus

Create functional sculptures for your house and garden. Explore ways of creating large forms easily with affordable materials. Model sculptures by carving, and construction shapes to be covered, cast and poured in cement. Masonry dye and various surface treatments will be demonstrated in the completion of large garden forms.

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Metal Forging Techniques

Metal Forging Techniques

  • Saturdays | 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Start Date: January 25, 2025
  • Instructor: Devyn Going
  • Location: Main Campus

Metal lovers, come observe a mix of small metal projects that you could do too! In this demonstration, you will see a crash course of blacksmithing and be introduced to the tools, the techniques, and the applications of metal working as an art form and as a craft. If you are nervous about trying out metal sculpture or blacksmithing classes, consider this, see what it’s all about and be inspired!

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Bronze Casting Workshop Jan 25-26

Bronze Casting Workshop Jan 25-26

  • Saturdays | 10:00 am - 04:00 pm
  • Start Date: January 25, 2025
  • Instructor: David Cumbie
  • Location: Main Campus
***This Two-Day Workshop meets Saturday, January 25 and Sunday, January 26.***

*** Bronze pour date to be announced at the workshop. ***

An introduction to a variety of techniques in the creation of wax sculptures. Once the wax sculptures are made, students prepare their waxes with gates and sprues in preparation for the ceramic mold-making process. Waxes are coated with state-of-the-art ceramic shell, and then the wax will be burned out, and the molten bronze poured into the molds. Cost includes a five pound bronze sculpture, with the option to purchase additional material for larger works. Students are responsible for finishing the polishing and coloring of final castings.

 

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Gargoyles in Clay

Gargoyles in Clay

  • Saturdays | 10:00 am - 04:00 pm
  • Start Date: February 1, 2025
  • Instructor TBD.

  • Location: Main Campus

Contribute your own personal Gargoyle to the long history that has embellished architecture for thousands of years. Students will work modeling heads and faces for interior and exterior display. Create variations on historical works or create your own vision in terra cotta clay or stoneware. The works will be fired and colored surface treatments will be suggested and demonstrated. Clay will be available for purchase in class.

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Blacksmithing Fundamentals Workshop

Blacksmithing Fundamentals Workshop

  • Saturdays | 10:00 am - 04:00 pm
  • Start Date: February 1, 2025
  • Instructor: Devyn Going
  • Location: Main Campus
***Sat.-Sun. Feb. 1 – 2 | 10am – 4pm***
Learn the fundamental process for traditional blacksmithing. Students will use the hammer to forge hot steel on the anvil and learn how to make door handles, hooks, and ornamental scrolls. Practice techniques such as flattening, upsetting, twisting, punching, drawing, and familiarity with the blacksmith forge.
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Architectural Photography of Local Landmarks

Architectural Photography of Local Landmarks

  • Wednesdays | 07:00 pm - 09:00 pm
  • Duration: 1 Week
  • Start Date: February 5, 2025
  • Instructor: Chris Casler
  • Location: Main Campus
***Studio 3: Weds. Feb. 5 | 7–9pm***
***On Location: Sat. Feb. 8 | 9am–5pm***

Using some of Central Florida’s historical treasures, learn to capture the photographic potential of the interior and exterior of the built environment — residential, commercial, monumental, historic, and contemporary. The class covers lighting techniques, from available light to multiple and mixed lighting, and image postproduction, including multiple exposure, and high dynamic range processing so that students realize their vision in final images. The course will include assignments and Saturday field trips.

Prerequisite: PH292, PH239 or similar experience.
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Welding Workshop – Sculptures in Motion

Welding Workshop – Sculptures in Motion

  • Saturdays | 10:00 am - 04:00 pm
  • Start Date: February 8, 2025
  • Instructor: David Cumbie
  • Location: Main Campus
***This Two-Day Workshop meets Saturday, February 8 and Sunday, February 9.***

Focus on creating a Kinetic sculpture from found objects. Artwork that hangs from the ceiling and sculptures that are mounted on stands for the yard. Fishing swivels, bearings, hinges, wheels and many more forms will be used to make art move with the wind. Materials will be supplied but students are welcome to bring their own parts.

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Inspired Words: Writing to Art 2/15

Inspired Words: Writing to Art 2/15

  • Saturdays | 10:00 am - 04:00 pm
  • Start Date: February 15, 2025
  • Instructor: Elaine Person
  • Location: Main Campus

When you see a painting, what do you feel? When you look at a photograph, what memories surface? Tap into your creativity with the use of paintings, photographs, and objects as award-winning writer Elaine Person prompts you to write original stories, poems, and essays. Learn writing tools and techniques. Different genres of writing and reflection will be discussed. Short lunch break provided. Students will leave this workshop with their own written words.

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Techniques in Mold Making

Techniques in Mold Making

  • Saturdays | 10:00 am - 04:00 pm
  • Start Date: February 15, 2025
  • Instructor: David Cumbie
  • Location: Main Campus
***This Two-Day Workshop meets Saturday, Feb. 15 and Sunday, Feb. 16***

Explore a variety of mold-making techniques in creating sculpture works. Students will create molds out of clay, plaster, low temperature wax, alginate, and latex. All materials are provided.

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Sculptural Garden Art in Concrete

Sculptural Garden Art in Concrete

  • Saturdays | 10:00 am - 04:00 pm
  • Duration: 1 Week
  • Start Date: February 22, 2025
  • Instructor: Shaun Cook
  • Location: Main Campus

Create functional sculptures for your house and garden. Explore ways of creating large forms easily with affordable materials. Model sculptures by carving, and construction shapes to be covered, cast and poured in cement. Masonry dye and various surface treatments will be demonstrated in the completion of large garden forms.

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Creative Metal Casting Techniques in Aluminum Feb 22-23

Creative Metal Casting Techniques in Aluminum Feb 22-23

  • Saturdays | 10:00 am - 04:00 pm
  • Start Date: February 22, 2025
  • Instructor: David Cumbie
  • Location: Main Campus

Discover a variety of ways to cast aluminum using experimental techniques. Students will be introduced to alternative model making materials that can be used to create small aluminum sculptures. Make small sculptures with materials that can be burned: plastics, wax, shells, cardboard, wood, etc. Sand casting will also be demonstrated using styrofoam shapes. Metal pour date to be announced at the workshop.

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Blacksmithing Fundamentals Workshop

Blacksmithing Fundamentals Workshop

  • Saturdays | 10:00 am - 04:00 pm
  • Start Date: February 22, 2025
  • Instructor: Devyn Going
  • Location: Main Campus
***Sat.-Sun. Feb 22 – 23 | 10am – 4pm

Learn the fundamental process for traditional blacksmithing. Students will use the hammer to forge hot steel on the anvil and learn how to make door handles, hooks, and ornamental scrolls. Practice techniques such as flattening, upsetting, twisting, punching, drawing, and familiarity with the blacksmith forge.

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Expressive Still Life Workshop with Emphasis on Flowers

Expressive Still Life Workshop with Emphasis on Flowers

  • Saturdays | 10:00 am - 04:30 pm
  • Start Date: March 1, 2025
  • Instructor: Stacy Barter
  • Location: Main Campus
***This Two-Day Workshop meets Saturday, March 1 and Sunday March 2.***

Wish your paintings popped from across the room? Come learn how. Through short demonstrations and discussion, followed by plenty of one-on-one instruction – you can learn to make your paintings sing with light, depth and movement in this all from life class with a special emphasis on flowers. Gorgeous flowers and still life items will be provided for full on inspiration and visual excitement as we explore and learn through value, color, edges and composition. Prerequisites: PD103 and PD157 or similar experience

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Welding Workshop – Wall Sculptures for the Home

Welding Workshop – Wall Sculptures for the Home

  • Saturdays | 10:00 am - 04:00 pm
  • Start Date: March 1, 2025
  • Instructor: David Cumbie
  • Location: Main Campus
***This Two-Day Workshop meets Saturday, March 1 and Sunday, March 2.***

Create designs for your garden wall or living room area. This is an opportunity to make site specific art pieces to enhance your environment. Bring in found objects to embellish your compositions while attaching the forms to an armature for mounting to a wall. Many materials will be made available for student at the workshop.
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Sculptural Garden Art in Concrete

Sculptural Garden Art in Concrete

  • Saturdays | 10:00 am - 04:00 pm
  • Start Date: March 8, 2025
  • Instructor: Shaun Cook
  • Location: Main Campus

Create functional sculptures for your house and garden. Explore ways of creating large forms easily with affordable materials. Model sculptures by carving, and construction shapes to be covered, cast and poured in cement. Masonry dye and various surface treatments will be demonstrated in the completion of large garden forms.

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Pre-Columbian Techniques: Contemporary Practice

Pre-Columbian Techniques: Contemporary Practice

  • Saturdays | 10:00 am - 04:00 pm
  • Start Date: March 15, 2025
  • Instructor TBD.

  • Location: Main Campus

***This is a two-day workshop Sat.-Sun. March 15-16 | 10:00 – 4:00 pm***

Join a generational master in exploring handbuilding techniques passed down through many generations from pre-Columbian times. Be inspired by the Peruvian Chulala bird who, according to tradition, builds its nest with its beak and feet. It is said that this bird taught Ramirez's ancestors the techniques he employs and will share over our two days together. Learn all aspects of formation, traditional engobe decoration and burnishing in this technique-based workshop that will culminate with a pit firing.

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Observing Shapes and Movement in Landscapes

Observing Shapes and Movement in Landscapes

  • Mondays | 06:00 pm - 09:00 pm
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 17, 2025
  • Instructor: Joan Sanchez
  • Location: Main Campus
This landscape painting in oil approach simplifies nature’s complexity into precise and visually concise shapes. Through a series of exercises, a unique interpretation of landscapes emphasizing their visual language, will be developed. Master the concepts of subject selection, limited values, movement and color strategy to lay the groundwork for achieving the final goal: creating a stunning painting.
Prereqs: PD120, PD157 or similar experience
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Intro to Drawing and Painting

Intro to Drawing and Painting

  • Mondays | 06:00 pm - 08:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 17, 2025
  • Instructor: Glen Ward
  • Location: Main Campus

Explore the fundamentals of drawing and painting. Sample various drawing and painting techniques using different media, including watercolors, acrylics, and oils. Most supplies are provided.

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Intro to Drawing and Painting

Intro to Drawing and Painting

  • Mondays | 06:00 pm - 08:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 17, 2025
  • Instructor: Glen Ward
  • Location: Main Campus

Explore the fundamentals of drawing and painting. Sample various drawing and painting techniques using different media, including watercolors, acrylics, and oils. Most supplies are provided.

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Portraits in Oil and Acrylic

Portraits in Oil and Acrylic

  • Mondays | 02:00 pm - 04:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 17, 2025
  • Instructor: Patti Shistle
  • Location: Main Campus
Paint beautiful heirloom portraits working from your cherished photographs. Brushwork, composition, color, and lighting will be explored as you receive guidance and feedback from the instructor.
Prereqs: PD157, PD149 or similar exp.
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Painting and Drawing for Senior Citizens

Painting and Drawing for Senior Citizens

  • Mondays | 02:00 pm - 04:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 17, 2025
  • Instructor: Fabiola Hansen
  • Location: Main Campus

In this flexible art class, you can choose any subject from landscape to flowers, to still life. Choose acrylic, watercolor, oil pastels, colored pencils, or switch materials at will. No need to rush or follow the rest of the class. Work at your own pace and skill level. Finish one painting or many! The instructor will guide each student with art techniques tailored to their specific artwork and proficiency level.
*Seniors are welcome in all Crealde classes*

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Beginning Portrait Drawing

Beginning Portrait Drawing

  • Mondays | 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 17, 2025
  • Instructor: Dennis Schmalstig
  • Location: Main Campus

Focusing first on proportions, measurements and anatomy, students will then experiment with rub-out and cross-hatch techniques to create tonal studies. Students will begin working from photographs provided by the instructor but may choose their own photographs as the class progresses.

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Beginning Wheel Throwing Mon 6:30 pm

Beginning Wheel Throwing Mon 6:30 pm

  • Mondays | 06:30 pm - 08:30 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 17, 2025
  • Instructor: Jesus Minguez
  • Location: Main Campus

Always wanted to experience the magic of forming clay vessels on the potter’s wheel? Learn to center, open and pull up clay walls. This class may be repeated until confidence is gained.

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Bird Photography: Lessons and Field Trips

Bird Photography: Lessons and Field Trips

  • Mondays | 07:00 pm - 09:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 17, 2025
  • Instructor: Milton Heiberg
  • Location: Main Campus

** This class will be presented as a hybrid learning opportunity, with classroom instruction via Zoom and on-location field trips**

Catch the shot and the passion for bird photography! Explore techniques on how to get as close as possible to the bird’s environment while capturing that prize photograph. Practice these techniques during instructor-led field trips with lifelong birder and bird photographer, Milton Heiberg.

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Black-and-White Film I: Introduction to the Darkroom (Mon)

Black-and-White Film I: Introduction to the Darkroom (Mon)

  • Mondays | 07:00 pm - 09:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 17, 2025
  • Instructor: John Baker
  • Location: Main Campus

Explore the timeless beauty of traditional, film-based black-and-white photography, including image selection, exposure and processing your own film and prints in Crealdé’s wet darkroom. This introductory course will cover basic camera controls and formats, film types, hands-on field trips, weekly assignments, print reviews and lots of fun time in the darkroom. Designed for students new to film photography and photographers who want to reconnect with this creative art form. Tuition includes lab fee, chemistry, and free loaner cameras. Prerequisites: Understanding of basic camera controls and functions.

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Sculpting Sea Creatures (Ages 8 – 12)

Sculpting Sea Creatures (Ages 8 – 12)

  • Mondays | 04:30 pm - 06:00 pm
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 17, 2025
  • Instructor: Fabiola Hansen
  • Location: Main Campus

This introduction to sculpture will combine paper and paint with clay, and recycled materials to make life-like fish, whales, dolphins, and many other sea creatures..

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Drawing I (Winter Garden)

Drawing I (Winter Garden)

  • Mondays | 06:00 pm - 08:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 17, 2025
  • Instructor: Prayong Deeying
  • Location: Jessie Brock Community Center
**Class meets at Jesse Brock Community Center**
Develop skills for measuring proportions and angles, drawing tones to show light and volume, perspective and composition. The goal is to learn techniques to draw realistically and develop perceptual awareness.
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Watercolor (Winter Garden)

Watercolor (Winter Garden)

  • Mondays | 03:00 pm - 05:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 17, 2025
  • Instructor: Prayong Deeying
  • Location: Jessie Brock Community Center
**Class meets at Jesse Brock Community Center**
Explore the classical world of watercolor and develop a firm grounding in traditional approaches and techniques. Intermediate and advanced students will work independently on personal projects with instructor’s guidance.
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Primitive Mask Making

Primitive Mask Making

  • Mondays | 01:30 pm - 03:30 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 17, 2025
  • Instructor: Missy Kimsey-Hickman
  • Location: Main Campus
Learn to sculpt a series of human, animals, or anthropomorphic masks from terracotta clay. All projects will be sculpted for wall hangings. Masks will be primitive-fired for a smokey ancient look. Students will have the option to paint and decorate the masks.
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Gargoyles in Clay

Gargoyles in Clay

  • Mondays | 10:00 am - 12:00 am
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 17, 2025
  • Instructor: David Cumbie
  • Location: Main Campus

Contribute your own personal Gargoyle to the long history that has embellished architecture for thousands of years. Work on modeling heads and faces for interior and exterior display. Create variations on historical works or create your own vision in terra cotta clay or stoneware. The works will be fired and colored surface treatments will be suggested and demonstrated.

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Beginning Acrylics (Tue 4pm)

Beginning Acrylics (Tue 4pm)

  • Tuesdays | 04:00 pm - 06:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 18, 2025
  • Instructor: David Hunter
  • Location: Main Campus

Explore the methods, materials, and tools involved with acrylic painting. Learn techniques used to produce a finished acrylic painting, from rough sketch to final finishing touches, including the use of various brushes, palette knives, canvases, clay boards and final coating to protect the finished image.

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Beginning Acrylics (Tue 7pm)

Beginning Acrylics (Tue 7pm)

  • Tuesdays | 07:00 pm - 09:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 18, 2025
  • Instructor: David Hunter
  • Location: Main Campus

Explore the methods, materials, and tools involved with acrylic painting. Learn techniques used to produce a finished acrylic painting, from rough sketch to final finishing touches, including the use of various brushes, palette knives, canvases, clay boards and final coating to protect the finished image.

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Functional Pottery 6 PM Winter Garden

Functional Pottery 6 PM Winter Garden

  • Tuesdays | 06:00 pm - 08:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 18, 2025
  • Instructor: Camille Castronovo
  • Location: Jessie Brock Community Center

**Class meets at Jesse Brock Community Center**

Jars, jugs, platters, and bowls! Explore form and surface decoration, as you create pottery vessels to gather, store, and present food. Suitable for all levels. Handbuilders and throwers are welcome!

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Exploring Abstract Painting AM

Exploring Abstract Painting AM

  • Tuesdays | 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 18, 2025
  • Instructor: Patricia Byron
  • Location: Main Campus

This inspiring class offers a fundamental exploration into the beauty of abstract painting. Instruction concentrates on composition, techniques, form, texture, and color. Students will develop their own artistic vision, while referencing the works of contemporary artists. Be ready to paint outside the lines.

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Exploring Abstract Painting PM

Exploring Abstract Painting PM

  • Tuesdays | 01:00 pm - 03:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 18, 2025
  • Instructor: Patricia Byron
  • Location: Main Campus

This inspiring class offers a fundamental exploration into the beauty of abstract painting. Instruction concentrates on composition, techniques, form, texture, and color. Students will develop their own artistic vision, while referencing the works of contemporary artists. Be ready to paint outside the lines.

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Pastel Fundamentals Crealde@Home

Pastel Fundamentals Crealde@Home

  • Tuesdays | 06:00 pm - 08:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 18, 2025
  • Instructor: Gary Rupp

Working with pastels is like sculpting with pure color. Come and enjoy! Each session will include a demonstration. Work from your own photographs and images. We will also explore the advantages of underpainting as we discover the beauty of pastels.

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Drawing I (Tue)

Drawing I (Tue)

  • Tuesdays | 04:00 pm - 06:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 18, 2025
  • Instructor: Glen Ward
  • Location: Main Campus

Learn the fundamentals of the most important art form: drawing. Our goal is to draw realistically and train our eyes to capture what is in front of us. We will see how light and shadow creates form, practice subtle transitions in shading, use of proportions, angles, and more. Anyone can learn to draw, and with practice, you can bring your artistic visions to life. Skill level: Beginner

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Life Drawing

Life Drawing

  • Tuesdays | 07:00 pm - 10:00 pm
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 18, 2025
  • Instructor: Andrew Grant
  • Location: Main Campus

 
Explore figurative drawing with quick gesture studies and longer sustained poses. Draw from the live figure, with an emphasis on anatomy and proportion and the expressive use of materials.
Prereq: PD103 or similar experience

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Beginning Wheel Throwing (Tues AM)

Beginning Wheel Throwing (Tues AM)

  • Tuesdays | 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 18, 2025
  • Instructor: Belinda Glennon
  • Location: Main Campus

Always wanted to experience the magic of forming clay vessels on the potter’s wheel? Learn to center, open and pull up clay walls. This class may be repeated until confidence is gained.

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Intermediate Wheel Throwing (Tue 4pm)

Intermediate Wheel Throwing (Tue 4pm)

  • Tuesdays | 04:00 pm - 06:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 18, 2025
  • Instructor: Vadim Malkin
  • Location: Main Campus

Now that you’re comfortable with centering and pulling short walls, let’s make more dynamic forms and work on achieving some height through bowls, cups, vases, pitchers, and anything else you can imagine. This class is ideal for anyone comfortable with centering up to an advanced level student

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Intermediate Wheel Throwing (Tue 7pm)

Intermediate Wheel Throwing (Tue 7pm)

  • Tuesdays | 07:00 pm - 09:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 18, 2025
  • Instructor: Vadim Malkin
  • Location: Main Campus

Now that you’re comfortable with centering and pulling short walls, let’s make more dynamic forms and work on achieving some height through bowls, cups, vases, pitchers, and anything else you can imagine. This class is ideal for anyone comfortable with centering up to an advanced level student

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Altered Pottery

Altered Pottery

  • Tuesdays | 01:00 pm - 03:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 18, 2025
  • Instructor: Belinda Glennon
  • Location: Main Campus

Explore the potter’s wheel and create animated pots by altering thrown forms beyond round. Dart, pleat, fold and facet! Just because it’s made on a wheel doesn’t mean it has to be round.

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Crafting Melodies: Ceramic Instruments and Spirit Animals

Crafting Melodies: Ceramic Instruments and Spirit Animals

  • Tuesdays | 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 18, 2025
  • Instructor: Marcia Selleri
  • Location: Main Campus

Discover the enchanting world of ceramic musical instruments. Learn the art of crafting wind instruments, focusing on the creation of the Ocarina. Shape and tune Ocarinas, and then unleash their creativity by designing and transforming an animal figure into a functional musical instrument. Combine the joy of music with the magic of clay, offering a unique opportunity to explore both artistic and musical expression.

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Decorative Clay for the Home

Decorative Clay for the Home

  • Tuesdays | 07:00 pm - 09:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 18, 2025
  • Instructor: Kelly Evans
  • Location: Main Campus

Create handbuilt home décor items. Explore your own style in the design and decoration of each piece. Emphasis will be placed on surface techniques including wax resist and carving combined with post-firing addition of mixed media like cotton, fiber and wood. Possible projects include wall hangings and ceramic bells.

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Digital Photography II

Digital Photography II

  • Tuesdays | 07:00 pm - 09:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 18, 2025
  • Instructor: Jon P. Manchester
  • Location: Main Campus

Through in-depth assignments and image reviews, students more deeply explore composition, lighting, lenses and flash photography. A field trip on the 5th Saturday of the session will further develop skills for real time applications. Demonstrations on basic image processing and printing techniques along with preparing photographs for online presentation will be included. 

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Dancing with Holga

Dancing with Holga

  • Tuesdays | 07:00 pm - 09:00 pm
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 18, 2025
  • Instructor: John Baker
  • Location: Main Campus

An introduction and continued studies in medium format black and white photography using the Plastic Holga Lomography Camera. The Holga’s low-cost construction and simple meniscus lens often yield pictures that display vignetting, blur, light leaks, and other distortions. The camera’s quirkiness has brought it a cult following among some photographers, and Holga photos are known worldwide! This course will include image editing & selection, exposure & processing of your film, as well as darkroom-printing in our Crealde darkroom. Expect a field trip, assigned work to take place outside of class, print reviews, and a reconnect with the film-based medium.

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Handbuilt Pottery for Teens (Ages 13-17)

Handbuilt Pottery for Teens (Ages 13-17)

  • Tuesdays | 04:30 pm - 06:30 pm
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 18, 2025
  • Instructor: Belinda Glennon
  • Location: Main Campus

Join the makers movement! Combine hand building methods to manipulate clay into three dimensions for sculptural or functional art. Is it a tiger or a teapot? Or a tiger teapot? Experiment with underglaze, sgrafitto, slips and glazes for compelling surface decoration.

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Creating with Clay Winter Garden (Ages 8-13)

Creating with Clay Winter Garden (Ages 8-13)

  • Tuesdays | 03:30 pm - 05:00 pm
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 18, 2025
  • Instructor: Camille Castronovo
  • Location: Jessie Brock Community Center

**Class meets at Jesse Brock Community Center**

Celebrate the wonders of the seasons! Use hand building techniques to create nature inspired pottery and whimsical art. Embellish with glaze and fire for charming, treasured keepsakes. Note: Wheel throwing will not be included in this class.

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Functional Pottery 12:30 PM Winter Garden

Functional Pottery 12:30 PM Winter Garden

  • Tuesdays | 12:30 pm - 02:30 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 18, 2025
  • Instructor: Camille Castronovo
  • Location: Jessie Brock Community Center

**Class meets at Jesse Brock Community Center**

Jars, jugs, platters, and bowls! Explore form and surface decoration, as you create pottery vessels to gather, store, and present food. Suitable for all levels. Handbuilders and throwers are welcome!

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Introduction to Bronze Casting

Introduction to Bronze Casting

  • Tuesdays | 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 18, 2025
  • Instructor: David Cumbie
  • Location: Main Campus

Create wax sculptures that will be cast in bronze. Students learn how to prepare the wax form for casting, and the ceramic shell mold-making process. The instructor uses the latest mold-making materials available and students witness a bronze pour at the end of the class. Cost includes the casting of one five-pound bronze with option to purchase additional material for large works. Students are responsible for finishing, polishing and coloring of final castings. Cleaning polishing and finishing the bronze work is not included in the cost of the class.

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Beginning Acrylics (Wed)

Beginning Acrylics (Wed)

  • Wednesdays | 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 19, 2025
  • Instructor: David Hunter
  • Location: Main Campus

Explore the methods, materials, and tools involved with acrylic painting. Learn techniques used to produce a finished acrylic painting, from rough sketch to final finishing touches, including the use of various brushes, palette knives, canvases, clay boards and final coating to protect the finished image.

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Magical Layers in Acrylic Landscapes

Magical Layers in Acrylic Landscapes

  • Wednesdays | 01:30 pm - 03:30 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 19, 2025
  • Instructor: Fabiola Hansen
  • Location: Main Campus

Transform your landscapes into a rich tapestry of colors and textures by learning how to use layers of paint in your work. A variety of techniques will be introduced to create depth and dimension so you can take your art to the next level.

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Bouquets & Florals in Watercolor

Bouquets & Florals in Watercolor

  • Wednesdays | 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 19, 2025
  • Instructor: Patty Kane
  • Location: Main Campus

Watercolor lends itself to the beauty of flowers. This class focuses on the four building blocks of color, shape, value, and edges to help create flowing floral paintings. Concepts will be reinforced with creative exercises and demonstrations. Pre-req: PD104 or similar.

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Intermediate Watercolor

Intermediate Watercolor

  • Wednesdays | 06:30 pm - 08:30 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 19, 2025
  • Instructor: Patty Kane
  • Location: Main Campus
Discover and explore the beauty of using a limited palette through demos and critiques. Experiment with traditional watercolor techniques and work towards painting from your own photos.
Pre-req: PD104 or similar experience.
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Beginning Wheel Throwing (Wed 1PM)

Beginning Wheel Throwing (Wed 1PM)

  • Wednesdays | 01:00 pm - 03:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 19, 2025
  • Instructor: Jeff Rogers
  • Location: Main Campus

Always wanted to experience the magic of forming clay vessels on the potter’s wheel? Learn to center, open and pull up clay walls. This class may be repeated until confidence is gained.

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Beginning Wheel Throwing (Wed 10 AM)

Beginning Wheel Throwing (Wed 10 AM)

  • Wednesdays | 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 19, 2025
  • Instructor: Abby Girand
  • Location: Main Campus

Always wanted to experience the magic of forming clay vessels on the potter’s wheel? Learn to center, open and pull up clay walls. This class may be repeated until confidence is gained.

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Handbuilding Across Cultures

Handbuilding Across Cultures

  • Wednesdays | 04:00 pm - 06:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 19, 2025
  • Instructor: Eve Wildermuth
  • Location: Main Campus

Dive into honoring the beauty of culture clay techniques from around the world. Emphasis will be on the building processes, form structure and decoration techniques that make the culture we are focusing on unique.

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Evening Pottery Throwdown

Evening Pottery Throwdown

  • Wednesdays | 07:00 pm - 09:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 19, 2025
  • Instructor: Jeff Rogers
  • Location: Main Campus
A more informal, larger group guided independent study time with a focus on fun and togetherness, space to stretch out on ideas and projects with teacher and community support. Come with goals, ideas and a joyful heart, ready for learning, sharing, music and some laughs.
Prereq: TD122, TD135 or similar exp. (Course is not suitable for beginners).
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Photoshop & Lightroom

Photoshop & Lightroom

  • Wednesdays | 07:00 pm - 09:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 19, 2025
  • Instructor: Jon P. Manchester
  • Location: Heritage Center

In this hybrid class, learn the fundamentals of image processing with today's most popular image processing tools and image enhancement techniques. Learn a step by step workflow that combines the best features of Lightroom, Photoshop and Epson inkjet printers to create expressive and aesthetically pleasing photographs. Topics will include creating and maintaining an image archive, image enhancement techniques, effective use of metadata, preparing images for online publishing, and the fundamentals of inkjet printing. Prerequisite: Introduction to Digital Photography PH147 or similar experience. Skill level: Intermediate

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Black-and-White Film I: Introduction to the Darkroom (Wed)

Black-and-White Film I: Introduction to the Darkroom (Wed)

  • Wednesdays | 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 19, 2025
  • Instructor: Jon P. Manchester
  • Location: Main Campus

Explore the timeless beauty of traditional, film-based black-and-white photography, including image selection, exposure and processing your own film and prints in Crealdé’s wet darkroom. This introductory course will cover basic camera controls and formats, film types, hands-on field trips, weekly assignments, print reviews and lots of fun time in the darkroom. Designed for students new to film photography and photographers who want to reconnect with this creative art form. Tuition includes lab fee, chemistry, and free loaner cameras. Prerequisites: Understanding of basic camera controls and functions.

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Painting & Drawing I (Wed, 8-12yrs)

Painting & Drawing I (Wed, 8-12yrs)

  • Wednesdays | 04:00 pm - 05:30 pm
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 19, 2025
  • Instructor: Wendi Zlamal
  • Location: Main Campus

This class will focus on learning to see the world through an artist's eyes. Working with a variety of painting and drawing materials, young artists will explore their potential as they take their skills to the next level! Students will use technical drawing and painting fundamentals to create something beautiful and one of a kind to frame and treasure each session!

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Clay for Homeschool (ages 8-12)

Clay for Homeschool (ages 8-12)

  • Wednesdays | 10:30 am - 12:00 pm
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 19, 2025
  • Instructor: Belinda Glennon
  • Location: Main Campus

Come play in the mud! Experience the satisfaction of using your hands to squish, pinch, pat and roll clay into a personal creation. We will experiment with sculptural and functional clay forms, fired and glazed for permanence.

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Exploring Sculpture for Teens (Ages 13-17)

Exploring Sculpture for Teens (Ages 13-17)

  • Wednesdays | 04:00 pm - 06:00 pm
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 19, 2025
  • Instructor: Missy Kimsey-Hickman
  • Location: Main Campus

Learn techniques for sculpting using an armature and sculpting tools to create figures real or imagined. Students choose what they want to sculpt from human heads, animals, cartoon figures or original imaginative creations. The sculptures will be 3 dimensional demonstrating animation, texture and movement. Tools and material included.

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Advanced Wheel for Teens (ages 13-17)

Advanced Wheel for Teens (ages 13-17)

  • Wednesdays | 04:00 pm - 06:00 pm
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 19, 2025
  • Instructor: Belinda Glennon
  • Location: Main Campus

Expand your skills on the potters' wheel as you stretch and manipulate the clay to alter forms and create lids, spouts, and more. Create your own pottery collection to give and to treasure. Prerequisite YAP208 or similar wheel experience.

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Digital Photography with Photoshop (Ages 13-17)

Digital Photography with Photoshop (Ages 13-17)

  • Wednesdays | 04:00 pm - 06:00 pm
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 19, 2025
  • Instructor: Caryn Kuhn
  • Location: Main Campus

Learn the basics of digital photography- composition, lighting, exposure and more using our DSLR cameras to take artistic photographs. Then dive into Adobe Photoshop and explore the editing possibilities – image manipulation, tablet drawing and digital painting.

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Experimental Art Techniques (Ages 13-17)

Experimental Art Techniques (Ages 13-17)

  • Wednesdays | 04:30 pm - 06:30 pm
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 19, 2025
  • Instructor: Anita Cohen
  • Location: Main Campus

Draw, paint, and assemble while you exercise your creative muscle using experimental techniques. Go beyond the basics as we delve into acrylics, pastels, and more. Explore the unique characteristics of each modality and bring ideas to life as we create one-of-a-kind masterpieces.

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Brush and Pen for Teens Winter Garden (Ages 11-16)

Brush and Pen for Teens Winter Garden (Ages 11-16)

  • Wednesdays | 03:30 pm - 05:00 pm
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 19, 2025
  • Instructor: Mike Goodge
  • Location: Jessie Brock Community Center

**Class meets at Jesse Brock Community Center**

Calling young artists who love to paint and draw! Explore your creative potential through acrylic paint, watercolors, charcoal, and pastels on canvas and paper. Experiment with painting and drawing techniques, composition and color theory. Say it with art!

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Intro to Oil Painting (Winter Garden)

Intro to Oil Painting (Winter Garden)

  • Wednesdays | 06:00 pm - 08:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 19, 2025
  • Instructor: Catherine Hempel
  • Location: Jessie Brock Community Center
**Class meets at Jesse Brock Community Center**
Learn basic techniques and methods used in a representational oil painting by developing skills of observing, rendering, color matching, and applying paint through practice. Demos and discussions will emphasize the importance of composition, shapes, edges, brushwork, and ways to manipulate the value and intensity of color.
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Continuing Sculpture Studies Wed 7 pm

Continuing Sculpture Studies Wed 7 pm

  • Wednesdays | 07:00 pm - 09:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 19, 2025
  • Instructor: David Cumbie
  • Location: Main Campus

Intermediate and advanced students are assisted with ideas related to their personal projects. Problem-solving and discovering new materials and techniques will be a part of each class. Bronze casting and welding will be offered with the approval of the instructor.

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Introduction to Welding

Introduction to Welding

  • Wednesdays | 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 19, 2025
  • Instructor: David Cumbie
  • Location: Main Campus

Create whimsical figures and abstract welded sculptures. Learn basic cutting and arc welding techniques using found objects and mild steel. Students are encouraged to bring objects for their compositions.

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Intro to Silversmithing Jewelry

Intro to Silversmithing Jewelry

  • Wednesdays | 05:00 pm - 07:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 19, 2025
  • Instructor: Stefan Alexandres
  • Location: Main Campus

Experience the fundamental processes of cutting, forging, metal texturing, hammering, sawing and soldering silver. The course includes: bezel stone setting for cabochon gemstones, polishing techniques and combining sterling silver sheet metal with fine silver wire, etc. Specific projects, planned by the instructor, will focus on how to make silver rings, pendants, bracelets, necklaces, and earrings. Silver will be provided. Please note, the use of silver material or gemstones will be limited to the scheduled projects planned by the instructor.

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Stone Setting Techniques

Stone Setting Techniques

  • Wednesdays | 02:30 pm - 04:30 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 19, 2025
  • Instructor: Stefan Alexandres
  • Location: Main Campus
This introduction to several stone-setting techniques for faceted stones or cabochons gemstones. is dedicated to the brilliance of stone setting. Learn how to make silver baskets for the prong settings, odd shape bezel stone-setting and round tube setting. Strengthen your skills capabilities and learn the proper techniques with the diverse characteristics of gemstones.
Prereq: JG103, JG107, JG108 or similar exp.

 

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Write on! Crealde@Home

Write on! Crealde@Home

  • Wednesdays | 07:00 pm - 09:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 19, 2025
  • Instructor: Elaine Person

Have you ever said, “Someday I’ll write a story or a book?” Someday is today! Award-winning instructor Elaine Person will guide you toward achieving your writing goals. Open to people of all writing levels as your writing is unique to you. We write together and share by reading our assignments to each other to make your writing stronger. Listening to others helps us improve our writing too. With the use of prompts such as paintings, photographs, quotations, items, and more, you will tap into your own creativity. Each week, we will write together and have positive critique. See your stories unfold. We will discuss a variety of literary techniques used to strengthen our stories. This class is for you, whether you write prose, poetry, lyrics, scripts, or other genres.

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Oil Painting II

Oil Painting II

  • Thursdays | 01:30 pm - 04:30 pm
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 20, 2025
  • Instructor: Beth Pendleton
  • Location: Main Campus

Increase your technical oil painting skills through challenging exercises and studies using both brushes and painting knives. Students will explore ways to convey textures, transparency and patterns when painting fabrics and floral subjects. Working from life, we will focus on observing changes in color that indicate light, volume and a sense of space in representational painting. Prereqs: PD103 and PD157 or similar exp

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Beginning Watercolor (Thur)

Beginning Watercolor (Thur)

  • Thursdays | 07:00 pm - 09:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 20, 2025
  • Instructor: Julie Nieves
  • Location: Main Campus

Watercolor is a wonderfully mysterious medium. Explore watercolor techniques, color mixing, and learn the value of using a limited palette to gain skills and confidence needed to get you started on your watercolor journey. 

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Your Next Level in Watercolor

Your Next Level in Watercolor

  • Thursdays | 02:00 pm - 04:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 20, 2025
  • Instructor: Patty Kane
  • Location: Main Campus
Explore and experiment with advanced watercolor techniques, color theory, and composition to add depth and interest to their artwork. Using new colors to extend their palette, students will be inspired to create exciting and colorful paintings. Learning the secrets to great design will improve your paintings and encourage you on your painting journey!
Prerequisites: PD104 or similar experience
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Advanced Painting Intensive

Advanced Painting Intensive

  • Thursdays | 09:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 20, 2025
  • Instructor: Barbara Tiffany
  • Location: Main Campus
Learn and explore intensive techniques to develop a personal style. Build a small body of work that is unified and ready to submit to galleries. Photographing your subjects will be demonstrated. Study composition, lighting, and storytelling, then paint in such a way that your work looks like it was painted from life. Learn how to correct camera distortion and adjust shadows. Bring your own reference photographs. Oil or acrylic.
Pre-requisite: PD157 or similar exp. Course is not suitable for beginners.
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Drawing II: Expanding Your Skills

Drawing II: Expanding Your Skills

  • Thursdays | 06:00 pm - 08:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 20, 2025
  • Instructor: Joseph Mattus
  • Location: Main Campus

By breaking down the process of art making into manageable steps, we produce more developed work and gain new insight into our development as artists. Students can bring an object or photo to work from and can use graphite, charcoal, or colored pencils. 

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Beginning Wheel Throwing (Thur)

Beginning Wheel Throwing (Thur)

  • Thursdays | 07:00 pm - 09:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 20, 2025
  • Instructor: Jeff Rogers
  • Location: Main Campus

Always wanted to experience the magic of forming clay vessels on the potter’s wheel? Learn to center, open and pull up clay walls. This class may be repeated until confidence is gained.

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Intermediate Wheel Throwing – Thurs

Intermediate Wheel Throwing – Thurs

  • Thursdays | 01:00 pm - 03:30 pm
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 20, 2025
  • Instructor: Jeff Rogers
  • Location: Main Campus

Now that you’re comfortable with centering and pulling short walls, let’s make more dynamic forms and work on achieving some height through bowls, cups, vases, pitchers, and anything else you can imagine. This class is ideal for anyone comfortable with centering up to an advanced level student

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Surface Decoration for Pottery

Surface Decoration for Pottery

  • Thursdays | 10:30 am - 01:00 pm
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 20, 2025
  • Instructor: Belinda Glennon
  • Location: Main Campus

Experiment with colored slips and clay, transfers and more to enhance the clay surface. Learn to layer techniques to create unique, narrative pottery. Learn to layer techniques to create unique, narrative pottery. 
Prereq: TD122 or similar

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Handbuilding Basics

Handbuilding Basics

  • Thursdays | 06:30 pm - 08:30 pm
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 20, 2025
  • Instructor: Belinda Glennon
  • Location: Main Campus

Curious about clay? Come get your hands dirty and get some answers as you experiment with basic forming methods, connections and attachments to create decorative and/or functional pottery by hand. Embellish with glaze for lasting treasures.

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Digital Photography I (Thur)

Digital Photography I (Thur)

  • Thursdays | 07:00 pm - 09:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 20, 2025
  • Instructor: Jon P. Manchester
  • Location: Main Campus

Build a strong foundation for your photography and make better images by understanding exposure, metering, focus, file formats, depth of field and basic composition. Hands-on demonstrations and assignments with personalized image reviews reinforce camera systems such as shutter speed, aperture, ISO, and their artistic impact on the final photograph. Single lens reflex or mirrorless cameras are recommended. The instructor is available for camera recommendations.

 

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Learning from the Masters of Photography

Learning from the Masters of Photography

  • Thursdays | 07:00 pm - 09:00 pm
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 20, 2025
  • Instructor: John Baker
  • Location: Main Campus
An introduction and review of a select group of timeless, traditional film photographers, whose work spans the 20th Century. Students will study the unique characteristics of these artists’ work, their contributions to the photographic medium, and will be encouraged to let the masters work inspire and influence their own photography. Specific assignments and supervised darkroom sessions will allow participants to prepare a new body of work.
Prerequisite: PH168 or similar experience.
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Large Format Photography

Large Format Photography

  • Thursdays | 04:00 pm - 06:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 20, 2025
  • Instructor: Jon P. Manchester
  • Location: Main Campus
This advanced-level course is designed for students considering work with the 4×5 format camera, using sheet film. Information will be presented on how to buy a 4×5 camera, image management, development and printing large format negatives. Students will gain a basic understanding of the view camera’s movements as a creative tool with artistic applications. Includes an overview of the Zone System method for exposure and processing.
Prerequisite: PH168 or similar experience
***Special Notes: Tuition includes lab fee, B&W chemistry, and a limited number of free loaner cameras.***
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Street Photography

Street Photography

  • Thursdays | 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 20, 2025
  • Instructor: Charles Hodges
  • Location: Heritage Center
Learn new ways to observe our daily environment, by linking the mind's eye to the critical moment in the classic style of street photography. The course will explore the tools and creative thought processes needed to create dynamic images, capturing “the decisive moment”, as master photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson called it. The class will include field trips, four shooting class assignments, and a research assignment. This course will cover both film and digital workflow, as well as selected readings and music selections to stimulate the creative thought process. Students can work in teams as well as individually. The instructor will present the work of widely recognized artists from the history of photography, as well as lesser known photographers.
Prerequisites: PH147, PH168, or similar experience

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Creating with Clay (5-9)

Creating with Clay (5-9)

  • Thursdays | 03:30 pm - 04:30 pm
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 20, 2025
  • Instructor: Ana Edwards
  • Location: Main Campus

Squish, squeeze, pinch, pat and roll. Strengthen fine motor skills as we create clay treasures. Each session features fresh projects to build new skills!

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Wheel Throwing and More! (ages 10-14)

Wheel Throwing and More! (ages 10-14)

  • Thursdays | 04:30 pm - 06:00 pm
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 20, 2025
  • Instructor: Camille Castronovo
  • Location: Main Campus

Experience the magic of the potter's wheel as you create clay forms then combine and embellish them with hand building to create decorative sculptures or functional ware. Pottery, it's more than just a pretty vase!

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Art of Many Cultures (ages 4-7)

Art of Many Cultures (ages 4-7)

  • Thursdays | 01:00 pm - 02:00 pm
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 20, 2025
  • Instructor: Johana Escobar
  • Location: Main Campus

Learn what inspired master artists in many cultures, then express yourself as you create from what inspires you! Investigate art with joyful play!

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Draw Comic Book Action Figures (Ages 13-17)

Draw Comic Book Action Figures (Ages 13-17)

  • Thursdays | 05:00 pm - 07:00 pm
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 20, 2025
  • Instructor TBD.

  • Location: Main Campus

Use action pose figures and comic book references to create your own dynamic comic book art. Experiment with light and shadow, facial expressions and movement. Complete your own full page comic book art piece!

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Intro to Drawing and Painting (Winter Garden)

Intro to Drawing and Painting (Winter Garden)

  • Thursdays | 06:00 pm - 08:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 20, 2025
  • Instructor: Catherine Hempel
  • Location: Jessie Brock Community Center
**Class meets at Jesse Brock Community Center**
Explore the fundamentals of drawing and painting. Sample various drawing and painting techniques using different media, including watercolors, acrylics and oils. Most supplies are provided.
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Sculpture I 10 am

Sculpture I 10 am

  • Thursdays | 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 20, 2025
  • Instructor: David Cumbie
  • Location: Main Campus

Work in clay to create face masks, heads, and figures to be fired in the kiln. Mold-making and casting will be demonstrated as part of the session.

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Sculpture I 7pm

Sculpture I 7pm

  • Thursdays | 07:00 pm - 09:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 20, 2025
  • Instructor: David Cumbie
  • Location: Main Campus

Work in clay to create face masks, heads, and figures to be fired in the kiln. Mold-making and casting will be demonstrated as part of the session.

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Fundamentals of Color, Design & Composition

Fundamentals of Color, Design & Composition

  • Fridays | 06:00 pm - 08:30 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 21, 2025
  • Instructor: Beth Pendleton
  • Location: Main Campus

Learn to mix paint pigments to achieve any hue with respect to its value and intensity. Using a Split Primary Palette arrangement of oil paint, exercises will demonstrate the importance of complementary color relationships in mixing. Various color models and suggestions for color harmony in painting will be presented. Discussions will cover basic elements of design and composition in painting.

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Beginning Watercolor (Fri)

Beginning Watercolor (Fri)

  • Fridays | 01:30 pm - 03:30 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 21, 2025
  • Instructor: Julie Nieves
  • Location: Main Campus

Watercolor is a wonderfully mysterious medium. Explore watercolor techniques, color mixing, and learn the value of using a limited palette to gain skills and confidence needed to get you started on your watercolor journey. 

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Advanced/Independent Oil & Acrylics – It’s All About the Finish with a Twist

Advanced/Independent Oil & Acrylics – It’s All About the Finish with a Twist

  • Fridays | 09:30 am - 12:30 pm
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 21, 2025
  • Instructor: Patti Shistle
  • Location: Main Campus

It's all about the finish with a twist. Bring unfinished paintings to the next level, and then begin a new still life, landscape or portrait. Receive one-on-one attention with demonstrations on the contrasts of values, colors, and brushwork and the importance of composition. Get your frames ready! 

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Drawing I (Fri)

Drawing I (Fri)

  • Fridays | 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 21, 2025
  • Instructor: Dennis Schmalstig
  • Location: Main Campus

Develop skills for measuring proportions and angles, drawing tones to show light and volume, perspective and composition. The goal is to learn techniques to draw realistically and develop perceptual awareness.

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Beginning Wheel Throwing (Fri 7pm)

Beginning Wheel Throwing (Fri 7pm)

  • Fridays | 07:00 pm - 09:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 21, 2025
  • Instructor: Abby Girand
  • Location: Main Campus

Always wanted to experience the magic of forming clay vessels on the potter’s wheel? Learn to center, open and pull up clay walls. This class may be repeated until confidence is gained.

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Archaeology & Handbuilding

Archaeology & Handbuilding

  • Fridays | 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 21, 2025
  • Instructor: Missy Kimsey-Hickman
  • Location: Main Campus

Archaelogists study ceramics to understand early civilizations. Use slab, coil, and pinch techniques to create utilitarian or decorative pieces like ancient cultures. Experience the joy of making as you create treasures for the future inspired by the past.

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Digital Photography I (Fri)

Digital Photography I (Fri)

  • Fridays | 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 21, 2025
  • Instructor: Charles Hodges
  • Location: Main Campus

Build a strong foundation for your photography and make better images by understanding exposure, metering, focus, file formats, depth of field and basic composition. Hands-on demonstrations and assignments with personalized image reviews reinforce camera systems such as shutter speed, aperture, ISO, and their artistic impact on the final photograph. Single lens reflex or mirrorless cameras are recommended. The instructor is available for camera recommendations.

 

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Continuing Sculpture Studies Fri 10 am

Continuing Sculpture Studies Fri 10 am

  • Fridays | 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 21, 2025
  • Instructor: David Cumbie
  • Location: Main Campus

Intermediate and advanced students are assisted with ideas related to their personal projects. Problem-solving and discovering new materials and techniques will be a part of each class. Bronze casting and welding will be offered with the approval of the instructor.

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Continuing Sculpture Studies Fri 1 pm

Continuing Sculpture Studies Fri 1 pm

  • Fridays | 01:00 pm - 03:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 21, 2025
  • Instructor: David Cumbie
  • Location: Main Campus

Intermediate and advanced students are assisted with ideas related to their personal projects. Problem-solving and discovering new materials and techniques will be a part of each class. Bronze casting and welding will be offered with the approval of the instructor.

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Clean, Polish, and Patina Bronze Art

Clean, Polish, and Patina Bronze Art

  • Fridays | 04:30 pm - 06:30 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 21, 2025
  • Instructor: David Cumbie
  • Location: Main Campus

Discover the range of processes in the finishing of a bronze sculptures. This is an introduction class on how to sandblast, clean and finish your bronzes for display. Demonstrations using materials for grinding and polishing will be a big part of the classroom work. Coloring the metal with patina will be demonstrated and used on student works. Materials include in the cost of the class. Prereq: SC129 or similar exp.

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Beginning Wheel Throwing (Sat 4pm)

Beginning Wheel Throwing (Sat 4pm)

  • Saturdays | 04:00 pm - 06:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 22, 2025
  • Instructor TBD.

  • Location: Main Campus

Always wanted to experience the magic of forming clay vessels on the potter’s wheel? Learn to center, open and pull up clay walls. This class may be repeated until confidence is gained.

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Mini Matisses (ages 4-6)

Mini Matisses (ages 4-6)

  • Saturdays | 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 22, 2025
  • Instructor: Patricia Byron
  • Location: Main Campus

This class is designed to allow young artists to explore the exciting world of artmaking with hands-on lessons in acrylics, watercolors, drawing, collage, and more. Aspiring artists will express themselves in a creative, supportive environment.

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Pint Size Picassos (ages 5-8)

Pint Size Picassos (ages 5-8)

  • Saturdays | 09:00 am - 10:00 am
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 22, 2025
  • Instructor: Patricia Byron
  • Location: Main Campus

This class is a fun introduction to the world of art! Aspiring artists will discover drawing and painting techniques in various mediums including acrylics, pastels, watercolors, and collagé. Budding artists will develop their creativity and artistic skills in a nurturing environment.

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Pick up the Palette! (Ages 5-9)

Pick up the Palette! (Ages 5-9)

  • Saturdays | 10:00 am - 11:00 am
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 22, 2025
  • Instructor: Julie Nieves
  • Location: Main Campus

Use animals as inspiration and explore the fundamentals of art! Projects expose young artists to an array of materials and art concepts and encourage self-expression as they draw, paint and experiment.

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Set the Table with Clay (Ages 5-8)

Set the Table with Clay (Ages 5-8)

  • Saturdays | 09:00 am - 10:00 am
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 22, 2025
  • Instructor: Julie Ellington
  • Location: Main Campus

Get ready to bloom! Young artists create functional pottery pieces decorated with vibrant spring designs – a bowl with birdies or a plate with pansies. This hands-on class is perfect for little creators eager to sample a sandwich from a plate they made.

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Painting & Drawing I (Sat, 8-12yrs)

Painting & Drawing I (Sat, 8-12yrs)

  • Saturdays | 09:00 am - 10:30 am
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 22, 2025
  • Instructor: Fabiola Hansen
  • Location: Main Campus

This class will focus on learning to see the world through an artist's eyes. Working with a variety of painting and drawing materials, young artists will explore their potential as they take their skills to the next level! Students will use technical drawing and painting fundamentals to create something beautiful and one of a kind to frame and treasure each session!

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Brush to Canvas (ages 8-12)

Brush to Canvas (ages 8-12)

  • Saturdays | 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 22, 2025
  • Instructor: Anita Cohen
  • Location: Main Campus

Attention Young Artists! Come experience the fun of painting and learn new skills that will last a lifetime! Each week, captivating lessons will spark your creativity and transform your ideas into unique works of art.

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Clay for Food (Ages 8-12)

Clay for Food (Ages 8-12)

  • Saturdays | 10:30 am - 12:00 pm
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 22, 2025
  • Instructor: Julie Ellington
  • Location: Main Campus

Craft your own usable pottery while exploring spring-inspired designs and patterns – plates, cups, bowls and more. The perfect opportunity to combine creativity with practicality – set the table with unique handmade ceramics.

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Fun with Film (ages 8-12)

Fun with Film (ages 8-12)

  • Saturdays | 09:00 am - 10:30 am
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 22, 2025
  • Instructor: Donald Kratt
  • Location: Main Campus

Before digital photography, there was film. Have fun taking pictures using 35mm cameras and black-and-white film, then create your own photos in the darkroom. A little science, a touch of chemistry, and your photo is art! Film cameras are provided.

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Art of the Masters with a Twist (Ages 8-12) (Ages 8-12)

Art of the Masters with a Twist (Ages 8-12) (Ages 8-12)

  • Saturdays | 11:30 am - 01:00 pm
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 22, 2025
  • Instructor: Fabiola Hansen
  • Location: Main Campus

Learn how to paint and draw with inspiration from Michelangelo, Picasso, Van Gogh, and other great art masters! Add your own creative twist with materials like oil pastels, acrylic paints, watercolors, charcoal and more.

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Intermediate Painting and Drawing (Ages 10-14)

Intermediate Painting and Drawing (Ages 10-14)

  • Saturdays | 01:30 pm - 03:00 pm
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 22, 2025
  • Instructor: Julie Nieves
  • Location: Main Campus

Embark on a colorful adventure where your creativity and imagination knows no bounds! Dive deeper into your painting and drawing skills, exploring new materials – charcoal, soft pastels, watercolors, acrylics, and even collage. Unleash your inner artist! Prerequisite YAP202, YAP209, YAP226

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Drawing Intensive for Teens (Ages 13-17)

Drawing Intensive for Teens (Ages 13-17)

  • Saturdays | 01:30 pm - 03:30 pm
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 22, 2025
  • Instructor: Fabiola Hansen
  • Location: Main Campus

This drawing intensive will challenge students in surprising ways, as they explore a variety of drawing techniques using charcoal and soft pastels. Emphasis will be placed on improving technique, speed, composition, and understanding of anatomy. Each class will present a fresh, challenging still life that may include a model. Repeated sessions are encouraged to expand skills and build a portfolio.

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Film Photography and Dark Room for Teens (Ages 13 – 17)

Film Photography and Dark Room for Teens (Ages 13 – 17)

  • Saturdays | 11:00 am - 01:00 pm
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 22, 2025
  • Instructor: Donald Kratt
  • Location: Main Campus
"Does anyone use film cameras anymore? Yes, and you can, too! Learn to shoot on manual 35mm cameras with black-and-white film, develop your negatives, and learn to print photos in the darkroom using chemistry.
Film cameras are provided."
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Pint Size Picassos (Winter Garden)  (ages 4-8)

Pint Size Picassos (Winter Garden) (ages 4-8)

  • Saturdays | 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 22, 2025
  • Instructor: Mike Goodge
  • Location: Jessie Brock Community Center

**Class meets at Jesse Brock Community Center**

Like to draw and paint? Explore the many ways to make art using pastels, paints, watercolors and other materials. A fun introductory experience for fledgling artists.

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Painting and Drawing I Winter Garden (Ages 8-12)

Painting and Drawing I Winter Garden (Ages 8-12)

  • Saturdays | 09:00 am - 10:30 am
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 22, 2025
  • Instructor: Mike Goodge
  • Location: Jessie Brock Community Center

**Class meets at Jesse Brock Community Center**

Learn the fundamentals of art-making and discover how to see as an artist. Create with a variety of painting and drawing media and explore new techniques to enhance your artistic skills!

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Introduction to Jewelry Design & Fabrication

Introduction to Jewelry Design & Fabrication

  • Saturdays | 02:30 pm - 04:30 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 22, 2025
  • Instructor: Stefan Alexandres
  • Location: Main Campus

Learn concepts for basic and advanced jewelry fabrication. Become familiar with essential silversmithing skills and methods of cutting, forging, embossing, and all the fundamentals of soldering techniques. Students are given the instructions and tools to make finger rings, earrings, bracelets, and other forms of jewelry. Copper materials will be provided for use in class. Students wanting to work in silver should bring their own silver supply.

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Bracelets

Bracelets

  • Saturdays | 05:00 pm - 07:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 22, 2025
  • Instructor: Stefan Alexandres
  • Location: Main Campus

Create a one-of-a-kind bracelet. Use copper and brass to learn the fundamental fabrication techniques and determine how to make a variety of bracelets from start to finish with the use of jewelers’ tools. Explore different designs with step-by-step guidance from the instructor, including resources for tools and supplies for developing your own jewelry studio. Stone setting is not included in this program.

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Inspired Words: Writing to Art 3/22

Inspired Words: Writing to Art 3/22

  • Saturdays | 10:00 am - 04:00 pm
  • Start Date: March 22, 2025
  • Instructor: Elaine Person
  • Location: Main Campus

When you see a painting, what do you feel? When you look at a photograph, what memories surface? Tap into your creativity with the use of paintings, photographs, and objects as award-winning writer Elaine Person prompts you to write original stories, poems, and essays. Learn writing tools and techniques. Different genres of writing and reflection will be discussed. Short lunch break provided. Students will leave this workshop with their own written words.

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Oil Painting I

Oil Painting I

  • Sundays | 02:00 pm - 05:00 pm
  • Duration: 6 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 23, 2025
  • Instructor: Beth Pendleton
  • Location: Main Campus

Students will learn basic techniques of the alla prima (direct) method of applying oil paint. In addition to paint application and brushwork, students will learn how to mix color using a split-primary palette. Working from still life setups, students will complete one study each week to explore techniques for rendering glass, ceramic, metal, and organic objects. Instruction will focus on teaching students to see and copy value and intensity changes in color. There will be demonstrations of techniques, along with discussions about methods, materials and supplies used in oil painting.

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Beginning Wheel Throwing (Sun)

Beginning Wheel Throwing (Sun)

  • Sundays | 07:00 pm - 09:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 23, 2025
  • Instructor: Abby Girand
  • Location: Main Campus

Always wanted to experience the magic of forming clay vessels on the potter’s wheel? Learn to center, open and pull up clay walls. This class may be repeated until confidence is gained.

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Tile Making for Home and Garden

Tile Making for Home and Garden

  • Sundays | 01:00 pm - 03:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 23, 2025
  • Instructor: Sarah Johnston
  • Location: Main Campus

Learn basic tile-making skills such as relief, mosaics, and painted wall tiles, along with the techniques to keep your tiles flat and how to adhere and grout your work. Learn to plan and implement projects for homes and gardens, i.e. backsplashes, indoor/outdoor murals, framed mirrors, wall hangings and garden stepping stones.

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Meditation & Mud: Handbuilt Vessels & Sculptures

Meditation & Mud: Handbuilt Vessels & Sculptures

  • Sundays | 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 23, 2025
  • Instructor: Sarah Johnston
  • Location: Main Campus

How do meditation and mud relate to one another? Decompress and feel refreshed for the week ahead. Class will start with a short 5-minute guided meditation with clay. Learn handbuilding, stamp-making and underglaze layering techniques to create a series of vessels. You will leave feeling centered and inspired; ready to greet a new week.

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Multimedia Sculpture

Multimedia Sculpture

  • Sundays | 04:00 pm - 06:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 23, 2025
  • Instructor: Missy Kimsey-Hickman
  • Location: Main Campus

Learn to sculpt and take impressions from found objects to be used to create sculptures. All projects will be cast in Portland cement and hydro stone using masonry dyes for color. Faux bronze and silver finishes will be offered for interior sculptures. Students are encouraged to create several pieces. All materials provided.

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Sculptural Garden Art in Concrete

Sculptural Garden Art in Concrete

  • Sundays | 04:00 pm - 06:00 pm
  • Duration: 8 Weeks
  • Start Date: March 23, 2025
  • Instructor: Shaun Cook
  • Location: Main Campus

Create functional sculptures for your house and garden. Explore ways of creating large forms easily with affordable materials. Model sculptures by carving, and construction shapes to be covered, cast and poured in cement. Masonry dye and various surface treatments will be demonstrated in the completion of large garden forms.

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Inspired Words: Writing to Art 4/12

Inspired Words: Writing to Art 4/12

  • Saturdays | 10:00 am - 04:00 pm
  • Start Date: April 12, 2025
  • Instructor: Elaine Person
  • Location: Heritage Center

When you see a painting, what do you feel? When you look at a photograph, what memories surface? Tap into your creativity with the use of paintings, photographs, and objects as award-winning writer Elaine Person prompts you to write original stories, poems, and essays. Learn writing tools and techniques. Different genres of writing and reflection will be discussed. Short lunch break provided. Students will leave this workshop with their own written words.

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Techniques in Mold Making

Techniques in Mold Making

  • Saturdays | 09:00 am - 03:00 pm
  • Start Date: April 26, 2025
  • Instructor: David Cumbie
  • Location: Main Campus
***This Two-Day Workshop meets Saturday, April 13 and Sunday, April 14.***

Explore a variety of mold-making techniques in creating sculpture works. Students will create molds out of clay, plaster, low temperature wax, alginate, and latex. All materials are provided.

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A Photographic and Cultural Tour of Switzerland with Peter Schreyer

A Photographic and Cultural Tour of Switzerland with Peter Schreyer

  • Sundays | 09:00 am - 03:00 pm
  • Start Date: May 9, 2025
  • Instructor: Peter Schreyer
  • Location: Main Campus
Visit Switzerland with native Swiss photographer and educator Peter Schreyer. Travel in a small group off the beaten path along scenic back roads. Participate in themed day trips while traveling comfortably in our private van. Excursions and topics will vary from day to day and will allow flexibility for the group’s specific interests. Visits to historic farmhouses and vineyards, light hiking through pristine mountain scenery, exploring medieval towns and castles are just a few of the planned day trips. Stay in deluxe hotels, eat delicious food, and immerse yourself in a different culture comfortably – the Swiss way! For more detailed tour information, please contact Peter Schreyer at pschreyer@crealde.org. To reserve your space, a deposit in the amount of $1,500 is due upon registration or no later than January 31.
Member $4750 • Non-member $4795 (double occupancy)
Member $5750 • Non-member $5795 (single occupancy)
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Ikebana Pottery: The Japanese Art of Flower Arranging

Ikebana Pottery: The Japanese Art of Flower Arranging

  • Saturdays | 10:00 am - 03:00 pm
  • Duration: 4 Weeks
  • Start Date: May 10, 2025
  • Instructor: Jesus Minguez
  • Location: Main Campus
***This Two-Day Workshop meets Saturday May 10 and Saturday May 31, 10am – 3 pm***

Learn how to create various forms out of clay specific for this style of flower arrangement. Jesus will demonstrate both hand building and wheel throwing techniques to build these Ikebana containers. Ikebana in the Japanese art of flower arrangement using simple design principles that celebrate space, movement, and form. Participants will make the container the first day of the workshop and on the second day, when the containers have been finished and fired, Jesus will demonstrate the art of Ikebana and participants will make their own arrangements using their finished containers.
 

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Calming Totems for Grounding and Mindfulness

Calming Totems for Grounding and Mindfulness

  • Saturdays | 10:00 am - 02:00 pm
  • Start Date: May 10, 2025
  • Instructor: Eileen Hernandez
  • Location: Main Campus
Calming Totems is an immersive art wellness workshop that will guide you toward inner balance and rejuvenation. Discover stress reduction strategies, such as reflective practice of journaling, the restorative power of mindful breathing and stretching exercises. You will use acrylic paint and markers to create a personalized totem as a tangible symbol of grounding and mindfulness.
Let’s celebrate resilience, a nurturing force that cultivates strength and compassion, empowering individuals to thrive in the face of life's daily challenges.
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Vibrant Oil Painting & Palette Knife Workshop

Vibrant Oil Painting & Palette Knife Workshop

  • Saturdays | 10:00 am - 04:00 pm
  • Start Date: May 17, 2025
  • Instructor TBD.

  • Location: Main Campus

**Workshop takes place Saturday & Sunday, May 17 & 18, 10am – 4pm**

Learn the intricacies of palette knife painting using oil paints. Discover the hidden brilliance and clarity of the colors and their on impact on each other on the canvas. Your instructor will introduce you to and guide you through the process of oil painting techniques, color mixing, composition and application with a palette knife. Bring your own images or use references provided by the instructor. Experience the joy of painting, creating, and learning to be in the moment.

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Creating Collections

Creating Collections

  • Saturdays | 10:00 am - 04:00 pm
  • Start Date: May 31, 2025
  • Instructor: Genna Sweetnam
  • Location: Main Campus

Make your creative work SHINE! You have the passion, you have the skill, now let’s take a deep dive into helping you understand the VALUE of your work, CLARIFY your unique and individual message and learn how to CREATE a beautiful, thoughtful and cohesive collection that will attract an audience excited to buy! We will discuss foundation and collection building, resistance, fears, marketing, photography and the launch of your work.

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