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Introduction to Sumi-e: The Ancient Art Of Asian Brush Painting
In this 1-day workshop Fontaine Rodgers will teach the Ancient 3,000 year old Asian art of Sumi-e painting using ink, special brushes and rice paper. Students learn to paint by following the traditions of ancient masters of an art form that developed alongside the invention of the basic strokes of character writing. Philosophy, traditions, techniques and set-up will be covered. Familiar themes include bamboo, blossoms, plants, insects, animals and other elements of nature. This workshop is ideally suited for beginners, artists and non-artists and teachers who wish to add Sumi-e to their multicultural classroom experience. All materials provided, including 5 quality brushes for the participants to keep. Participants are welcome to bring their own brushes but not required. Participants will also receive a Sumi-e Supply Kit worth $50.00
Discover how to create more expressively through self-awareness and releasing expectations. This approach of creating abstractly will allow you to trust your instincts while incorporating the organic process of abstract painting. Demos and guided exercises will help you achieve more liberating paintings. Acrylic paints only.
This class is currently full.
JOIN WAITLISTExpressive Still Life Workshop with Emphasis on Flowers
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
Travel Florida Backroads to Palatka & the Historic Ravine Gardens
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.
Ikebana Pottery: The Japanese Art of Flower Arranging
***Workshop participants will meet February 4th and February 25th***
In this 2 day workshop, participants will 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.
Work with found objects creating multi-media 3D forms. Gluing, riveting, bolting, mold making, and casting will be used to connect dissimilar materials. Students will be asked to bring in some materials and some materials will be provided.
Art of Many Cultures (ages 4-7)
Learn what inspired master artists in many cultures then express yourself as you create from what inspires you! Investigate art in nature and nature in art!
**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.
**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.
Wildlife Sampler (Ages 8 – 12)
Experiment with a variety of techniques while you learn to draw and paint your favorite animals and beautiful landscapes where they live. Then sculpt those animals in 3-D using wire, clay, paper mache, and more. Work with 2-D and 3-D materials to produce a sampler of amazing wildlife and natural habitats.
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.
Exploring Abstract Painting Mon
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.
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.
Learn how 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.
Black-and-White Film I: Introduction to the Darkroom (Mon)
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.
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!
Functional Pottery 6 pm (Winter Garden)
**Class meets at Jesse Brock Community Center**
Jars, jugs, platters and bowls! Explore form and surface decorations, as you create potter vessels to gather, store and present food. Let the holidays inspire ceramic keepsakes. Hand builders and wheel throwers are welcome!
This class is currently full.
JOIN WAITLISTFunctional Pottery 12:30-2:30pm (Winter Garden)
**Class meets at Jesse Brock Community Center**
Jars, jugs, platters and bowls! Explore form and surface decorations, as you create potter vessels to gather, store and present food. Let the holidays inspire ceramic keepsakes. Suitable for all levels. Hand builders and wheel throwers are welcome!
This class is currently full.
JOIN WAITLISTHandbuilt Pottery for Teens (Ages 13-17)
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.
Wheel Throwing and More! Winter Garden (ages 11-16)
**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.
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.
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.
Multimedia Press Mold Sculptures
Learn to sculpt and take impressions from found objects to be used to create clay molds. 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.
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
Exploring Abstract Painting AM
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.
Exploring Abstract Painting PM
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.
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.
Pastel Fundamentals Crealde@Home
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.
In this class students learn how to make outstanding photographs that reveal the essential qualities of the built environment — residential, commercial, monumental, historic, and contemporary — and how to photograph interiors like a pro. 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.
Black and White Film II: Fine-tuning Your Film and Printing Skills
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.
**This class will be presented as a hybrid learning opportunity, with classroom instruction via Zoom and on-location field trips**
Capture the fascinating world of small subjects. Determine the correct equipment to use for close-ups such as macro lenses, diopters, bellows attachments, extension tubes, tele-extenders and telephoto lenses. Overcome inherent problems with photographing very small subjects, such as short depth-of-field problems, distance relationships in focusing– the close-up focusing conundrum. We also will discuss and practice stacking technique, the process that creates and isolates to produce the perfect close-up photograph. There will be five classroom sessions (critique and lecture) and four field trips.
Intro to Silversmithing Jewelry
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.
Introduction to Jewelry Design & Fabrication
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.
Advanced Wheel for Teens (ages 13-17)
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.
Adventures in Photoshop for Teens (Ages 13-17)
Dive into Adobe Photoshop and explore the possibilities – photo editing, image manipulation, digital painting, tablet drawing and much more. Instruction starts with the basic tools and advances through layers, masking and related processes. Students must have their own laptop and Adobe Creative Cloud subscription. (Check online for details)
Botanical Studies in Watercolor for Teens (Ages 13-17)
Celebrate the beauty of nature with botanical art. Select your favorite flowers, trees, or herbs, then use form, line, texture and color to compose beautiful botanical compositions. Nurture your painting skills as you capture minute details of our natural world.
Brush and Pen for Teens Winter Garden (ages 11-16)
**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!
Clay for Homeschool (ages 8-12)
Take some screen downtime and come play in the mud! Enjoy the satisfaction of using your hands to create personal treasures from clay – functional and sculptural. Each session features new projects to introduce techniques and develop skills.
Digital Street Photography (Ages 13-17)
Learn the rich history of street photography, one of the most famous photographic genres. Through instructor-led photo walks, students will learn how to capture a fleeting moment in time and create candid images that last forever. Digital SLR cameras are provided.
**Weeks 1 and 6 meet in Studio 3. Weeks 2 – 5 will meet and pick up at shoot location.**
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.
Exploring Sculpture for Teens (Ages 13-17)
Create heads and figures of your favorite animals -real or imagined! Learn techniques for making with clay, wire, wood and more as you sculpt lively figures in 3-D. Instructor will guide each student in the use of special sculpting tools to create animation, texture and movement.
Intro to Oil Painting (Winter Garden)
**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. Demonstrations and discussions will emphasize the importance of composition, shapes, edges, brushwork, and ways to manipulate the value and intensity of color.
Painting & Drawing I (Wed, 8-12yrs)
Glimpse the world through an artist's eyes. Explore your potential with a variety of painting and drawing materials and take your skills to the next level! Using technical drawing and painting fundamentals, create something beautiful and one of a kind to frame and treasure each session!
Discover how to create interesting and compelling still-life paintings by focusing on composition, color, value and edges. Make use of ordinary household objects, ranging from fruit and flowers to car keys and scissors, to assemble their own still-life setups to paint. Open to students using oils, acrylics or pastels.
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.
Creating Meaningful Abstract Imagery
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.
Painting is so much more than copying what you see. Discover and explore the beauty of using a limited palette through demonstrations and critiques. Experiment with traditional watercolor techniques and work towards painting from your own photographs.
Beginning Wheel Throwing (Wed PM)
Learn to center, open and compress clay, and throw small cylinders on the potter’s wheel. Trimming, finishing, adding handles, feet and spouts make pieces ready to glaze and fire.
Black-and-White Film I: Introduction to the Darkroom (Wed)
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.
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
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.
Metal sculpture is known as Repousse, which is working the metal directly to create relief sculptures without molds. Participants will learn the technique in small scale to learn the fundamental steps and tools for metal embossing. Repousse is embossing relief sculptures and have endless design possibilities for sculptural jewelry and metalsmithing, relief murals, doors, mirrors, etc. Emphasis on using your personal drawings and ideas, working with handmade punches to move the metal, for creating relief dimension.
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.
Intro to Drawing & Painting (Winter Garden)
Explore the fundamentals of drawing and painting. Sample various drawing and painting techniques using different media, including watercolors, acrylics, and oils.
Wheel Throwing and More! (ages 10-14)
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!
Advanced/Independent Oil & Acrylics – 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. We will also paint en plein air on the beautiful campus. Receive one-on-one attention with demonstrations on the contrasts of values, colors, and brushwork and the importance of composition. Get your frames ready!
Beginning Portrait Drawing with Live Model
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.
Let's get started! 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 on your watercolor journey.
Squish, squeeze, pinch, pat and roll. Strengthen fine motor skills as we create clay treasures. A bowl for berries or a bear-y fine sculpture. Each session features fresh projects to build new skills!
Realistic Drawing with Colored Pencils
An exciting new twist to a classical drawing technique is colored pencil. Adding thin glaze-like layers of colored pencil to a carefully constructed drawing can produce surprising results. A step-by-step breakdown of the process will gain understanding of color, value structure, and a traditional drawing method.
Still Life – A New Perspective
Instead of at or just below eye level, as in a typical still life, we will put the subject on the tabletop or floor for a 'bird's eye view".
Explore shapes and colors that make the painting while considering composition, values, temperature, and color intensity. Use the color wheel to create your still life. Work in Oil or Acrylic.
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. Skill level: Intermediate
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.
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.
Blacksmithing and Multimedia Sculpture
Blacksmithing Fundamentals for Sculpture
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.
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.
Students will explore and experiment with advanced watercolor techniques, color theory, and composition to add depth and interest to their artwork. Use new colors to extend the 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!
Let's get started! 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 on your watercolor journey.
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.
Fundamentals of Color, Design & Composition
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.
This class is currently full.
JOIN WAITLISTBeginning Wheel Throwing (Fri 7pm)
Learn to center, open and compress clay, and throw small cylinders on the potter’s wheel. Trimming, finishing, adding handles, feet and spouts make pieces ready to glaze and fire.
Handbuilding Like the Ancients (Fri)
Humans have been firing clay for over 20,000 years, leaving artifacts that provide us glimpses into ancient times and ways. From Mesopotamia to Japan, from the shores of Lake Titicaca to the slopes of Mt. Olympus, clay vessels and figures, tiles and tablets, preserve and suggest those long ago days. Let’s build on that clay legacy by creating pots which harken back to ancient times and yet look to the future.
This class is currently full.
JOIN WAITLISTLet’s join together with clay and create. This will be a chance for your hands and fingers to shape and explore what you are feeling in the moment. Express and celebrate yourself with clay! All are welcome.
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.
Image and Meaning in Photography
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. Prerequisite: Basic Image Processing class PH258 or Black and White Film II PH239 or similar experience. Skill level: Intermediate
Join David in designing small sculptures over a weekend. Practice cutting and basic welding techniques, while creating artwork from found objects. No experience needed.
Cartoon Toys and Stop Motion Animation (ages 8-12)
Create two-dimensional cartoon characters in a variety of styles using pencils and markers. Then bring your characters to life as posable three-dimensional sculptures. Experiment with set design for your toy then use cameras and technology to make stop motion movies.
Figure Drawing for Teens (ages 13-17)
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.
Flying Friends (Sat, Ages 5-8)
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. Even Harry Potter would be amazed!
Film cameras are provided.
Budding artists will experience the fascinating world of artmaking with hands-on projects in watercolors, pastels, collage and more. Fledgling artists explore self expression in a nurturing environment.
Painting & Drawing I (Winter Garden) (ages 8-12)
**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!
Painting & Drawing I (Sat, 8-12yrs)
Glimpse the world through an artist's eyes. Explore your potential with a variety of painting and drawing materials and take your skills to the next level! Using technical drawing and painting fundamentals, create something beautiful and one of a kind to frame and treasure each session!
Pint Size Picassos (Winter Garden) (ages 4-8)
**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.
Painting & Drawing II (ages 8-12)
Attention Young Artists! Come join the fun and learn to draw and paint in a variety of styles and media including abstract art! New projects build on fundamental skills to develop style and self expression each session.
How does an artist see the world? Explore your potential as you experiment with a variety of painting and drawing materials. Use technical drawing and painting fundamentals to advance your skill set! Create stunning and one of a kind artworks to frame and treasure each session!
Pick up the Palette! (Ages 5-9)
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 with scratch boards.
Discover exciting new painting and drawing techniques in a variety of media, including charcoal, pastels, watercolors, and collage. Develop your creativity in this fun, introduction to the world of art!
Storytelling through Film Photography (Ages 13-17)
Become a visual storyteller! Learn how to sequence images to create a narrative while incorporating the concepts of symbolism and metaphor. Process your film and watch as your prints develop in Crealdé's darkroom then combine with the written word. Get the picture?
Things with Clay Wings (Ages 8-12)
Beginning Wheel Throwing (Sat 4pm)
Learn to center, open and compress clay, and throw small cylinders on the potter’s wheel. Trimming, finishing, adding handles, feet and spouts make pieces ready to glaze and fire.
This class is currently full.
JOIN WAITLISTStudents will carve styrofoam using brushes and hot knives creating sculptural forms and learn how to apply cement creating a durable surface for indoor and outdoor art works. The sculptures will be finished using faux finishes, colorful dyes, and sealers.
Beginning Wheel Throwing (Sun)
Learn to center, open and compress clay, and throw small cylinders on the potter’s wheel. Trimming, finishing, adding handles, feet and spouts make pieces ready to glaze and fire.
This class is currently full.
JOIN WAITLISTStudents 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.
Are you goofy for gnomes, sentimental for Smurfs, enthusiastic for elves, frantic for fairies? Create miniature clay dwellings themed for your garden, porch or mantle. It’s true, there’s no place like home…especially the one-of-a-kind garden houses you will construct from clay!
This class is currently full.
JOIN WAITLISTAdding glaze to clay can intimidate, frustrate and overwhelm; yet successfully applying glaze can be transformative. This is a skill which can be acquired. Techniques for using glazes will be demonstrated with projects you bring to class. Boost your confidence and banish your glaze room anxieties. Learn to let the glazes and kiln work their magic…alchemy at its best…and you can be the sorcerer who controls it all!
Create fresh focal points in your garden with totems you design that will add charm and delight to your plantings. Birds, beasts, geometrics and more…visualize, and instruction will help your concepts materialize! Skill level: All
Don’t be intimidated by clay. This class gives you the chance to handbuild freely. The projects are explained step-by-step and based on pieces from children’s classes … from plates and bowls to animal rattles and lanterns. Come play with clay!
This class is currently full.
JOIN WAITLISTBeginning Wheel Throwing (Mon 7pm)
Learn to center, open and compress clay, and throw small cylinders on the potter’s wheel. Trimming, finishing, adding handles, feet and spouts make pieces ready to glaze and fire.
This class is currently full.
JOIN WAITLISTHandbuilding Like the Ancients (Mon)
Humans have been firing clay for over 20,000 years, leaving artifacts that provide us glimpses into ancient times and ways. From Mesopotamia to Japan, from the shores of Lake Titicaca to the slopes of Mt. Olympus, clay vessels and figures, tiles and tablets, preserve and suggest those long ago days. Let’s build on that clay legacy by creating pots which harken back to ancient times and yet look to the future.
This class is currently full.
JOIN WAITLISTIntroduction to Bronze Casting
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 the polishing and coloring of final castings.
Throwing vessels on the wheel can be addictive but they don’t all have to be round! Create oval, square and animated pots using darts, pleats, folds and facets. Experiment with additions and assemblage for pots that go beyond round.
This class is currently full.
JOIN WAITLISTBeginning Wheel Throwing (Tues AM)
Learn to center, open and compress clay, and throw small cylinders on the potter’s wheel. Trimming, finishing, adding handles, feet and spouts make pieces ready to glaze and fire.
This class is currently full.
JOIN WAITLISTIntermediate Wheel Throwing (Tue 4pm)
Now that you’re comfortable with centering, let’s tickle the imagination and create bowls, cups, and vases. This course covers beginner to advanced levels of wheel throwing, altering and glazing.
Intermediate Wheel Throwing (Tue 7pm)
Now that you’re comfortable with centering, let’s tickle the imagination and create bowls, cups, and vases. This course covers beginner to advanced levels of wheel throwing, altering and glazing.
This class is currently full.
JOIN WAITLISTExplore 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.
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.
This class is currently full.
JOIN WAITLISTA continuation of SC124, students study a range of materials and processes. Armature construction for clay, concrete, plaster, and foam sculpture is demonstrated. Students can advance their experience in producing sculptures.
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.
A design problem is given for the term, emphasizing one or two design elements in particular. Discussions about design and the finished pieces are a part of each class. If a base for the piece is needed, that becomes part of the discussion as well. Some hand-building skills are required. Skill level: Intermediate
Beginning Wheel Throwing (Wed AM)
Learn to center, open and compress clay, and throw small cylinders on the potter’s wheel. Trimming, finishing, adding handles, feet and spouts make pieces ready to glaze and fire.
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JOIN WAITLISTWork 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.
Beginning Wheel Throwing (Thur)
Learn to center, open and compress clay, and throw small cylinders on the potter’s wheel. Trimming, finishing, adding handles, feet and spouts make pieces ready to glaze and fire.
This class is currently full.
JOIN WAITLISTIntermediate Wheel Throwing – Thurs
Now that you’re comfortable with centering, let’s tickle the imagination and create bowls, cups, and vases. This course covers beginner to advanced levels of wheel throwing, altering and glazing.
This class is currently full.
JOIN WAITLISTCurious 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.
Handbuilding with Found Objects
Experiment with paper, plants, fabric and more as you create hand-built pottery with unique texture and pattern. Make your own stamps and sprig molds to personalize your nature-inspired pottery. Skill level: All
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JOIN WAITLISTIntroduction to Glaze Formulation and Alteration
Ever wondered how all those powders and elements combine to make a beautiful ceramic glaze? Ever dreamt of being an alchemist? We will de-mystify glaze calculation… How to make a shiny glaze matt, how to achieve colors, etc. One need not have a degree in chemistry to make one's own glazes.
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JOIN WAITLISTCarving Styrofoam Sculptures Feb 17-18
Students will carve low relief and three-dimensional forms creating indoor and outdoor art. Learn how to apply a variety of surface finishes and color applications including faux finishes, dyes, and sealers. Most materials included.
Thermal Forming Plastic Sculptures Feb 17-18
Learn how to use thermal forming plastics and similar materials to produce your sculpture ideas. These materials can be cut into workable shapes with standard woodworking tools. By using a number of different heating sources, the materials can be bent and shaped to fit the desired sculpture you want to create. Details on how to give these thermal materials different finishes or textures will be discussed and explored.
Urban Sketching: Tips and Techniques
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.
Join David in designing small sculptures over a weekend. Practice cutting and basic welding techniques, while creating artwork from found objects. No experience needed.
Inspired Words: Writing to Art 2/24
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.
Carving Styrofoam Sculptures March 2-3
Students will carve low relief and three-dimensional forms creating indoor and outdoor art. Learn how to apply a variety of surface finishes and color applications including faux finishes, dyes, and sealers. Most materials included.
Thermal Forming Plastic Sculptures March 2-3
Learn how to use thermal forming plastics and similar materials to produce your sculpture ideas. These materials can be cut into workable shapes with standard woodworking tools. By using a number of different heating sources, the materials can be bent and shaped to fit the desired sculpture you want to create. Details on how to give these thermal materials different finishes or textures will be discussed and explored.
Join David in designing small sculptures over a weekend. Practice cutting and basic welding techniques, while creating artwork from found objects. No experience needed.
Macramé Wall Hanging Workshop 3/9
Macramé is a form of textile that uses knotting techniques and comes from the 13th century weavers’ word for “fringe.” This fiber art was popular in the 60s and 70s and now it is back and as popular as ever. Join artist Alyssa Foxson and embrace your inner boho goddess. Learn all the basic macramé knots needed to make a macramé wall hanging and beyond. All supplies are included and you will leave this workshop with a beautiful wall hanging ready for display.
Carving Styrofoam Sculptures March 16-17
Students will carve low relief and three-dimensional forms creating indoor and outdoor art. Learn how to apply a variety of surface finishes and color applications including faux finishes, dyes, and sealers. Most materials included.
Thermal Forming Plastic Sculptures March 16-17
Learn how to use thermal forming plastics and similar materials to produce your sculpture ideas. These materials can be cut into workable shapes with standard woodworking tools. By using a number of different heating sources, the materials can be bent and shaped to fit the desired sculpture you want to create. Details on how to give these thermal materials different finishes or textures will be discussed and explored.
Inspired Words: Writing to Art 3/16
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.
Join David in designing small sculptures over a weekend. Practice cutting and basic welding techniques, while creating artwork from found objects. No experience needed.
Japanese Paper Marbling and Bookbinding
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.
Working from photos, students will learn how to prepare surfaces, compose their own ladnscapes, and use various oil pastel techniques to blend, layer, scrape, and soften this versatile material into creating amazingly colorful sunsets, mountains, rural landscapes, and nature's most beautiful bodies of water.
Discover the Art of Paper Marbling
In this one-day workshop, you’ll explore the ancient art of marbling while creating intricately stunning designs on water, to capture them onto a unique monoprint.
Toward the end of the workshop, you will be able to choose one of your marbled papers to decorate the cover of a handbound notebook. Silvana has studied with masters of this art form in Italy, Brazil and the USA.
Precious Metal Clay Jewelry Design Workshop
Come and experience the alchemy of precious metal clay jewelry design. Step by step, you will be led through the process of transforming a piece of special fine silver clay into a work of wearable art. Explore this fun and innovative medium, manifesting your ideas from paper to reality as you roll, imprint, cut, fire, and buff a beautiful .999 fine silver pendant or earrings.
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.
Join David in designing small sculptures over a weekend. Practice cutting and basic welding techniques, while creating artwork from found objects. No experience needed.
***Two Day Workshop meets Saturday, April 13 and Sunday, April 14***
In this two-day relief printmaking workshop, students will learn printing techniques for linocuts. Monochromatic printing from single blocks, color printing from multiple blocks, and reduction techniques will be covered. Printing techniques will be taught on an etching press as well as small relief presses and barens. Advantages of different printmaking papers as well as water-based inks will be discussed, demonstrated and used by participants. Subject matter can be either figurative or abstract. This is a hands-on workshop so participants can expect to get their hands dirty.
Together in this action-packed workshop, we will discuss and build a nontraditional Raku kiln beginning from a hardware store barbecue grill. We will explore white crackle, luster and texture glaze surfaces. Kiln building, firing processes and post firing techniques will all be demonstrated and we will have a uniquely, creative dinner event to celebrate the end of our time together!
Noble Beauty: The Platinum Print
Make your photographs sing with the depth and detail of platinum prints. The most archival of all printing processes, platinum printing imbues images with unparalleled richness and timelessness. We'll first learn to make digital negative enlargements from either traditional film negatives or digital files. Then we'll explore sensitizing the paper and exposing and developing the prints. You'll come away with beautiful heirloom quality prints to treasure!
*This is a two-day workshop.
Saturday, April 13, 2-6 PM
Sunday, April 14, 10 AM – 4 PM
Travel the Backroads to Historic Places: The Yearling Trail
***Saturday, April 13th, hours will be 8:00am – 6:00pm, Review Session will be Thursday, April 25th from 5:00 – 6:00pm***
Explore hidden architectural and cultural treasures in the landscape and the communities immortalized by legendary Florida writer Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. The workshop will provide a contemporary window into the region’s past and rich heritage. Photographic opportunities include natural and man-made landscapes, local landmarks, as well as the interior of historical buildings.
Work with found objects creating multi-media 3D forms. Gluing, riveting, bolting, mold making, and casting will be used to connect dissimilar materials. Students will be asked to bring in some materials and some materials will be provided.
Art of Many Cultures (ages 4-7)
Learn what inspired master artists in many cultures then express yourself as you create from what inspires you! Investigate art in nature and nature in art!
Wildlife Sampler (Ages 8 – 12)
Experiment with a variety of techniques while you learn to draw and paint your favorite animals and beautiful landscapes where they live. Then sculpt those animals in 3-D using wire, clay, paper mache, and more. Work with 2-D and 3-D materials to produce a sampler of amazing wildlife and natural habitats.
Art Journaling is a visual diary where memories and emotions come alive onto the pages. Through the expressive use of various paint mediums, collage, and imagery, students will create a personal art journal that will uncover their heart's story.
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JOIN WAITLISTFocusing 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.
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.
Painting and Drawing for Senior Citizens
In this flexible art class, you can choose any subject from landscape to flowers, to still life. Choose between 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*
Don’t be intimidated by clay. This class gives you the chance to handbuild freely. The projects are explained step-by-step and based on pieces from children’s classes … from plates and bowls to animal rattles and lanterns. Come play with clay!
Beginning Wheel Throwing (Mon)
Learn to center, open and compress clay, and throw small cylinders on the potter’s wheel. Trimming, finishing, adding handles, feet and spouts make pieces ready to glaze and fire.
This class is currently full.
JOIN WAITLISTHandbuilding Like the Ancients (Mon)
Humans have been firing clay for over 20,000 years, leaving artifacts that provide us glimpses into ancient times and ways. From Mesopotamia to Japan, from the shores of Lake Titicaca to the slopes of Mt. Olympus, clay vessels and figures, tiles and tablets, preserve and suggest those long ago days. Let’s build on that clay legacy by creating pots which harken back to ancient times and yet look to the future.
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JOIN WAITLISTBlack-and-White Film I: Introduction to the Darkroom (Mon)
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.
Introduction to Portrait Photography
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.
Introduction to Bronze Casting
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 the polishing and coloring of final castings.
Handbuilt Pottery for Teens (Ages 13-17)
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.
It’s a Wonderful Life in Winter Garden with Peter Schreyer
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.
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.
In this beginning class, students will learn how to use the first artistic medium in the history of man while discovering their hidden ability to create beautiful works of art with confidence. Photo reference will be provided for the first class. Skill level: Beginner
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
Exploring Abstract Painting AM
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.
Exploring Abstract Painting PM
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.
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.
Pastel Fundamentals Crealde@Home
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.
Throwing vessels on the wheel can be addictive but they don’t all have to be round! Create oval, square and animated pots using darts, pleats, folds and facets. Experiment with additions and assemblage for pots that go beyond round.
Beginning Wheel Throwing (Tues AM)
Learn to center, open and compress clay, and throw small cylinders on the potter’s wheel. Trimming, finishing, adding handles, feet and spouts make pieces ready to glaze and fire.
Intermed Wheel Throwing (Tue 4pm)
Now that you’re comfortable with centering, let’s tickle the imagination and create bowls, cups, and vases. This course covers beginner to advanced levels of wheel throwing, altering and glazing.
Intermed Wheel Throwing (Tue 7pm)
Now that you’re comfortable with centering, let’s tickle the imagination and create bowls, cups, and vases. This course covers beginner to advanced levels of wheel throwing, altering and glazing.
This class is currently full.
JOIN WAITLISTAn 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.
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.
Photographing the Natural Landscape
Discover skills needed for landscape photography, including the fundamentals of 2-dimensional design applied to photography. Subjects will also include how to look at a landscape, when and how to capture the best light, what to include and what to leave out. Students will practice their newly learned skills during Saturday field trips.
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.
Metal sculpture is known as Repoussé, which is working the metal directly to create relief sculptures without molds. Participants will learn the technique in small scale to learn the fundamental steps and tools for metal embossing. Repousse is embossing relief sculptures and have endless design possibilities for sculptural jewelry and metalsmithing, relief murals, doors, mirrors, etc. Emphasis on using your personal drawings and ideas, working with handmade punches to move the metal, for creating relief dimension.
Creating with Clay Winter Garden (Ages 8-13)
**Class meets at Jesse Brock Community Center**
Celebrate the wonders of spring! Use hand-building techniques to create nature inspired pottery and whimsical art for the garden. Embellish with glaze and fire for charming garden treasures.
Functional Pottery 12:30 PM Winter Garden
**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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JOIN WAITLISTFunctional Pottery 6 PM Winter Garden
**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!
This class is currently full.
JOIN WAITLISTCreate 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.
A continuation of SC124, students study a range of materials and processes. Armature construction for clay, concrete, plaster, and foam sculpture is demonstrated. Students can advance their experience in producing sculptures.
Advanced Wheel for Teens (ages 13-17)
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.
Adventures in Photoshop for Teens (Ages 13-17)
Dive into Adobe Photoshop and explore the possibilities – photo editing, image manipulation, digital painting, tablet drawing and much more. Instruction starts with the basic tools and advances through layers, masking and related processes. Students must have their own laptop and Adobe Creative Cloud subscription. (Check online for details)
Clay for Homeschool (ages 8-12)
Take some screen downtime and come play in the mud! Enjoy the satisfaction of using your hands to create personal treasures from clay – functional and sculptural. Each session features new projects to introduce techniques and develop skills.
Digital Street Photography (Ages 13-17)
Learn the rich history of street photography, one of the most famous photographic genres. Through instructor-led photo walks, students will learn how to capture a fleeting moment in time and create candid images that last forever. Digital SLR cameras are provided.
**Weeks 1 and 6 meet in Studio 3. Weeks 2 – 5 will meet and pick up at shoot location.**
Experimental Art Techniques (Ages 13-17)
Come 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 to explore the unique characteristics of each modality and bring ideas to life as we create one-of-a-kind masterpieces.
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.
Exploring Sculpture for Teens (Ages 13-17)
Create heads and figures of your favorite animals -real or imagined! Learn techniques for making with clay, wire, wood and more as you sculpt lively figures in 3-D. Instructor will guide each student in the use of special sculpting tools to create animation, texture and movement.
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.
Painting & Drawing I (Wed, 8-12yrs)
Glimpse the world through an artist's eyes. Explore your potential with a variety of painting and drawing materials and take your skills to the next level! Using technical drawing and painting fundamentals, create something beautiful and one of a kind to frame and treasure each session!
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.
Painting is so much more than copying what you see. Discover and explore the beauty of using a limited palette through demonstrations and critiques. Experiment with traditional watercolor techniques and work towards painting from your own photographs.
Flowers are wondrously diverse – exuberant, beautiful, mysterious, dramatic and shy. In this class, students will paint their perceptual and emotional response to flowers. For each session, the instructor will bring in new flowers to prime the creative pump. Instructor will show how tweaking edges, color, value and composition can capture the “personality” of flowers. Open to oil, acrylic, and pastel painters.
A design problem is given for the term, emphasizing one or two design elements in particular. Discussions about design and the finished pieces are a part of each class. If a base for the piece is needed, that becomes part of the discussion as well. Some hand-building skills are required. Skill level: Intermediate
Beginning Wheel Throwing (Wed AM)
Learn to center, open and compress clay, and throw small cylinders on the potter’s wheel. Trimming, finishing, adding handles, feet and spouts make pieces ready to glaze and fire.
Beginning Wheel Throwing (Wed PM)
Learn to center, open and compress clay, and throw small cylinders on the potter’s wheel. Trimming, finishing, adding handles, feet and spouts make pieces ready to glaze and fire.
This class is currently full.
JOIN WAITLISTIn 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.
Learn how to make silver rings with a variety of designs. Focus on learning the fundamental fabrication techniques and procedures, working with sterling or fine silver for custom made rings. Explore how to use the jewelers saw and shears for cutting metal, filing, drilling for piercing, forming for shaping, sweat soldering for joining components, and buffing polishing. Included are bezel stone-setting and gemstones to completely finish your ring project.
Intro to Silversmithing Jewelry
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.
Introduction to Jewelry Design & Fabrication
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.
Brush and Pen for Teens Winter Garden (Ages 11-16)
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!
Intro to Oil Painting (Winter Garden)
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.
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.
Squish, squeeze, pinch, pat and roll. Strengthen fine motor skills as we create clay treasures. A bowl for berries or a bear-y fine sculpture. Each session features fresh projects to build new skills!
Wheel Throwing and More! (ages 10-14)
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!
Achieving Creative Color with Transparent Watercolors
Why are my paintings dull? Should I paint on wet or dry paper? Use transparent pigment to learn how to mix colors to achieve luminosity, spontaneity, and sparkle in your paintings. Color mixing and a variety of WOW (wet-on-wet) and dry paper techniques will be explored.
Advanced/Independent Oil & Acrylics – 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. We will also paint en plein air on the beautiful campus. Receive one-on-one attention with demonstrations on the contrasts of values, colors, and brushwork and the importance of composition. Get your frames ready!
Beginning Portrait Drawing with Live Model
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.
Let's get started! 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 on your watercolor journey.
Drawing II: Expanding Your Skills
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 pencil.
Still Life – A New Perspective
Instead of at or just below eye level, as in a typical still life, we will put the subject on the tabletop or floor for a 'bird's eye view".
Explore shapes and colors that make the painting while considering composition, values, temperature, and color intensity. Use the color wheel to create your still life. Work in Oil or Acrylic.
Beginning Wheel Throwing (Thur)
Learn to center, open and compress clay, and throw small cylinders on the potter’s wheel. Trimming, finishing, adding handles, feet and spouts make pieces ready to glaze and fire.
This class is currently full.
JOIN WAITLISTIntermediate Wheel Throwing – Thurs
Now that you’re comfortable with centering, let’s tickle the imagination and create bowls, cups, and vases. This course covers beginner to advanced levels of wheel throwing, altering and glazing.
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.
This class is currently full.
JOIN WAITLISTIntroduction to Glaze Formulation and Alteration
Ever wondered how all those powders and elements combine to make a beautiful ceramic glaze? Ever dreamt of being an alchemist? We will de-mystify glaze calculation… How to make a shiny glaze matt, how to achieve colors, etc. One need not have a degree in chemistry to make one's own glazes.
Surface Decoration for Pottery
Experiment with colored slips and clay, transfers and more to enhance the clay surface. Learn to layer techniques to create unique, narrative pottery.
This class is currently full.
JOIN WAITLISTAn 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.
This class is currently full.
JOIN WAITLISTBuild 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.
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. This class will include field trips, shooting 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 or individually. The instructor will present the work of widely recognized artists from the history of photography, as well as lesser known photographers.
Prerequisites: Introduction to Digital Photography or Black and White Film I.
Intro to Drawing and Painting (Winter Garden)
Blacksmithing and Multimedia Sculpture
Blacksmithing Fundamentals for Sculpture
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.
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.
Students will explore and experiment with advanced watercolor techniques, color theory, and composition to add depth and interest to their artwork. Use new colors to extend the 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!
Let's get started! 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 on your watercolor journey.
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.
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.
Beginning Wheel Throwing (Fri 7pm)
Learn to center, open and compress clay, and throw small cylinders on the potter’s wheel. Trimming, finishing, adding handles, feet and spouts make pieces ready to glaze and fire.
Bronze Casting Workshop April 20-21
*** Bronze pour date to be announced at the workshop. ***
Cartoon Toys and Stop Motion Animation (ages 8-12)
Create two-dimensional cartoon characters in a variety of styles using pencils and markers. Then bring your characters to life as posable three-dimensional sculptures. Experiment with set design for your toy then use cameras and technology to make stop motion movies.
Drawing Intensive for Teens (Ages 13-17)
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. Repeated sessions are encouraged to expand skills and build a portfolio.
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. Even Harry Potter would be amazed!
Film cameras are provided.
Gnomes in the Garden (Sat, Ages 5-8)
Budding artists will experience the fascinating world of artmaking with hands-on projects in watercolors, pastels, collage and more. Fledgling artists explore self expression in a nurturing environment.
Painting & Drawing I (Sat, 8-12yrs)
Glimpse the world through an artist's eyes. Explore your potential with a variety of painting and drawing materials and take your skills to the next level! Using technical drawing and painting fundamentals, create something beautiful and one of a kind to frame and treasure each session!
Painting & Drawing II (ages 8-12)
Attention Young Artists! Come join the fun and learn to draw and paint in a variety of styles and media including abstract art! New projects build on fundamental skills to develop style and self expression each session.
How does an artist see the world? Explore your potential as you experiment with a variety of painting and drawing materials. Use technical drawing and painting fundamentals to advance your skill set! Create stunning and one of a kind artworks to frame and treasure each session!
Pick up the Palette! (Ages 5-9)
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 with scratch boards.
Discover exciting new painting and drawing techniques in a variety of media, including charcoal, pastels, watercolors, and collage. Develop your creativity in this fun, introduction to the world of art!
Storytelling through Film Photography (Ages 13-17)
Become a visual storyteller! Learn how to sequence images to create a narrative while incorporating the concepts of symbolism and metaphor. Process your film and watch as your prints develop in Crealdé's darkroom then combine with the written word. Get the picture?
Beginning Wheel Throwing (Sat)
Learn to center, open and compress clay, and throw small cylinders on the potter’s wheel. Trimming, finishing, adding handles, feet and spouts make pieces ready to glaze and fire.
Painting and Drawing I Winter Garden (Ages 8-12)
**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!
Pint-Size Picassos Winter Garden (Ages 4-8)
**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.
Students will carve styrofoam using brushes and hot knives creating sculptural forms and learn how to apply cement creating a durable surface for indoor and outdoor art works. The sculptures will be finished using faux finishes, colorful dyes, and sealers.
Multimedia Press Mold Sculptures
Learn to sculpt and take impressions from found objects to be used to create clay molds. 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.
Urban Sketching: Tips and Techniques
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.
Adding glaze to clay can intimidate, frustrate and overwhelm; yet successfully applying glaze can be transformative. This is a skill which can be acquired. Techniques for using glazes will be demonstrated with projects you bring to class. Boost your confidence and banish your glaze room anxieties. Learn to let the glazes and kiln work their magic…alchemy at its best…and you can be the sorcerer who controls it all!
Beginning Wheel Throwing (Sun)
Learn to center, open and compress clay, and throw small cylinders on the potter’s wheel. Trimming, finishing, adding handles, feet and spouts make pieces ready to glaze and fire.
Fundamentals of Color, Design & Composition
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.
Handbuilding Like the Ancients (Fri)
Humans have been firing clay for over 20,000 years, leaving artifacts that provide us glimpses into ancient times and ways. From Mesopotamia to Japan, from the shores of Lake Titicaca to the slopes of Mt. Olympus, clay vessels and figures, tiles and tablets, preserve and suggest those long ago days. Let’s build on that clay legacy by creating pots which harken back to ancient times and yet look to the future.
This class is currently full.
JOIN WAITLISTLet’s join together with clay and create. This will be a chance for your hands and fingers to shape and explore what you are feeling in the moment. Express and celebrate yourself with clay! All are welcome.
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.
Create fresh focal points in your garden with totems you design that will add charm and delight to your plantings. Birds, beasts, geometrics and more…visualize, and instruction will help your concepts materialize! Skill level: All
The heart of a garden is its bird bath, a sparkling oasis that beckons nature’s creatures to stop and refresh. We’ll fashion special vessels to offer water to your neighborhood’s community, a bird bath to nestle among your plantings and trees. Be sure to place your water basin where you can observe…a flutter of wings, a cascade of droplets…there’s a cardinal visiting just about now!
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!
Inspired Words: Writing to Art 5/4
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.
Bronze Casting Workshop May 18-19
***Bronze pour date to be announced at the workshop.***
Macramé is a form of textile that uses knotting techniques and comes from the 13th century weavers’ word for “fringe.” This fiber art was popular in the 60s and 70s and now it is back and as popular as ever. Join artist Alyssa Foxson and embrace your inner boho goddess. Learn all the basic macramé knots needed to make a macramé wall hanging and beyond. All supplies are included and you will leave this workshop with a beautiful wall hanging ready for display.
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.
Art Camp Session 1A (ages 4-5)
Let’s get our hands dirty! Create projects that expand the imagination and develop fine motor skills. Basic art techniques are combined with cultural exploration and investigation of our natural world to nurture self expression through art making.
Art Camp Session 1B (ages 4-5)
*This one-week camp meets Monday through Friday for half days.*
*This one-week camp meets Monday through Friday for half days.*
Colorful, exotic, daring and spectacular! That will be our art inspired by the American big top.
Art Immersion-Mixed Media & Painting (ages 12-16)
**This one-week camp meets Monday through Friday.**
Expand your creative palette with various mixed media and painting & drawing adventures as you experiment with different artistic perspectives. Explore a variety of styles and techniques using traditional & non-traditional materials while you play with innovative paint application, glazing, and more.
Crealdé’s Young Adult Immersion program gives students the opportunity to concentrate on one medium exclusively for one week.
Art Immersion-Ceramics (ages 12-16)
**This one-week camp meets Monday through Friday.**
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.
Crealdé’s Young Adult Immersion program gives students the opportunity to concentrate on one medium exclusively for one week.
Art Immersion-Digital Photography (ages 12-16)
**This one-week camp meets Monday through Friday.**
Learn the basics of digital photography to make photographs using our DSLR (digital single lens reflex) cameras to explore composition, light, and balance. Get creative with basic Photoshop editing techniques in our state-of-the-art digital classroom.
Crealdé’s Young Adult Immersion program gives students the opportunity to concentrate on one medium exclusively for one week.
Art Immersion-Film Photography (ages 12-16)
**This one-week camp meets Monday through Friday.**
Put our 35mm and Holga cameras into action. Explore subject matter, composition and light, then develop and print negatives with "green" chemicals in the darkroom.
Crealdé’s Young Adult Immersion program gives students the opportunity to concentrate on one medium exclusively for one week.
Art Immersion-Painting/Drawing (ages 12-16)
*This one-week camp meets Monday through Friday.* Immerse yourself in acrylics and watercolor as you learn paint handling, color mixing, as well as traditional and experimental approaches to painting.
Crealdé’s Young Adult Immersion program gives students the opportunity to concentrate on one medium exclusively for one week. The program is based on the nationally-recognized Advanced Placement Studio Art Program.
Art Immersion-Sculpture (ages 12-16)
*This one-week camp meets Monday through Friday.* Bring your imagination to life during a week-long exploration of the sculpting process. Students will use a variety of materials and construction techniques to create decorative wall masks, figurines and life-size heads.
Crealdé’s Young Adult Immersion program gives students the opportunity to concentrate on one medium exclusively for one week.
Art Immersion-Wheel Throwing (ages 12-16)
**This one-week camp meets Monday through Friday.**
Create pottery on the wheel! Learn to center, stretch, and manipulate clay until a form emerges. Alter and embellish forms to create functional and decorative art. Experiment with sgrafitto, resists and glaze to complete your pots.
Crealdé’s Young Adult Immersion program gives students the opportunity to concentrate on one medium exclusively for one week.
Art Camp Session 3 (ages 8-12)
*This camp meets Monday through Thursday for two weeks.*
Full-days of classes in painting, mixed media, photography, ceramics, sculpture and a mystery medium.
Handbuilt Pottery for Teens (Ages 13-17)
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.
Functional Pottery 6 PM Winter Garden
**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!
Advanced Wheel for Teens (ages 13-17)
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.
Intro to Oil Painting (Winter Garden)
Wheel Throwing and More! (ages 10-14)
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!
Intro to Drawing and Painting (Winter Garden)
Cartoon Toys and Stop Motion Animation (ages 8-12)
Create two-dimensional cartoon characters in a variety of styles using pencils and markers. Then bring your characters to life as posable three-dimensional sculptures. Experiment with set design for your toy then use cameras and technology to make stop motion movies.
Figure Drawing for Teens (ages 13-17)
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.
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. Even Harry Potter would be amazed!
Film cameras are provided.
Budding artists will experience the fascinating world of artmaking with hands-on projects in watercolors, pastels, collage and more. Fledgling artists explore self expression in a nurturing environment.
Painting & Drawing I (Sat, 8-12yrs)
Glimpse the world through an artist's eyes. Explore your potential with a variety of painting and drawing materials and take your skills to the next level! Using technical drawing and painting fundamentals, create something beautiful and one of a kind to frame and treasure each session!
Painting & Drawing I (Winter Garden) (ages 8-12)
**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!
Painting & Drawing II (ages 8-12)
Attention Young Artists! Come join the fun and learn to draw and paint in a variety of styles and media including abstract art! New projects build on fundamental skills to develop style and self expression each session.
How does an artist see the world? Explore your potential as you experiment with a variety of painting and drawing materials. Use technical drawing and painting fundamentals to advance your skill set! Create stunning and one of a kind artworks to frame and treasure each session!
Pick up the Palette! (Ages 5-9)
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 with scratch boards.
Discover exciting new painting and drawing techniques in a variety of media, including charcoal, pastels, watercolors, and collage. Develop your creativity in this fun, introduction to the world of art!
Pint Size Picassos (Winter Garden) (ages 4-8)
**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.
Storytelling through Film Photography (Ages 13-17)
Become a visual storyteller! Learn how to sequence images to create a narrative while incorporating the concepts of symbolism and metaphor. Process your film and watch as your prints develop in Crealdé's darkroom then combine with the written word. Get the picture?
Creating with Clay (5-8 year olds)
From flamingos to geckos and points in between, use your imagination and make some silly, summer keepsakes from clay.
From flamingos to geckos and points in between, use your imagination and make some silly, summer keepsakes from clay .Feathered and furry, scaly and slick – Florida is home to fascinating wildlife. Flock to clay class and create fabulous and funny Florida critters!
Family Camp Monday (ages 6-13)
**This one-day camp meets Monday.**
For one day, 1 adult & 1 child experiment in 3 different media with Crealdé’s professional artist faculty, share a picnic lunch lakeside and come away with a portfolio of artistic creations.
Family Camp Tuesday (ages 6-13)
**This one-day camp meets Tuesday.**
For one day, 1 adult & 1 child experiment in 3 different media with Crealdé’s professional artist faculty, share a picnic lunch lakeside and come away with a portfolio of artistic creations.
*This one-week camp meets Monday through Thursday for half days.*
Let’s waddle with the penguins and dive with the seals as we create residents of the South Pole.
Art Camp Session 5 (ages 9-14)
*This one-week camp meets Monday through Thursday.*
Full days of art experiences in 5 different media.
Campers bring bag lunches for daily picnics. Supervision is provided until 5:30 pm.
*This one-week camp meets Monday through Thursday for half days.*
Explore the land where bald eagles soar, grizzly bears munch on salmon and totem poles stand sentry. Let’s make art inspired by Alaska the 49th state.
Art Camp Session 7 (ages 9-14)
*This one-week camp meets Monday through Thursday.*
Full days of art experiences in 5 different media.
Campers bring bag lunches for daily picnics. Supervision is provided until 5:30 pm.
Art Camp Session 8 (ages 8-13)
*This one-week camp meets Monday through Thursday.*
Full days of art experiences in 3 different media.
Campers bring bag lunches for daily picnics. Supervision is provided until 5:30 pm.
Art Immersion-Ceramics (ages 12-16)
*This one-week camp meets Monday through Friday.* 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.
Crealdé’s Young Adult Immersion program gives students the opportunity to concentrate on one medium exclusively for one week.
Art Immersion-Painting/Drawing (ages 12-16)
*This one-week camp meets Monday through Friday.* Immerse yourself in acrylics and watercolor as you learn paint handling, color mixing, as well as traditional and experimental approaches to painting.
Crealdé’s Young Adult Immersion program gives students the opportunity to concentrate on one medium exclusively for one week. The program is based on the nationally-recognized Advanced Placement Studio Art Program.
Art Immersion-Photoshop (ages 12-16)
*This one-week camp meets Monday through Friday.*
Dive into Adobe Photoshop and explore the possibilities – photo editing, image manipulation, digital painting, tablet drawing and much more. Instruction starts with the basic tools and advances through layers, masking and related processes. Students must have their own laptop and Adobe Creative Cloud subscription.
Crealdé’s Young Adult Immersion program gives students the opportunity to concentrate on one medium exclusively for one week.
Art Camp Session 10 (ages 9-14)
*This one-week camp meets Monday through Thursday.*
Full days of art experiences in 5 different media.
Campers bring bag lunches for daily picnics. Supervision is provided until 5:30 pm.
*This one-week camp meets Monday through Thursday.*
Discover the amazing plants, animals and insects of this vital ecosystem and capture them with art!
Art Camp Session 11 (ages 5-8)
*This one-week camp meets Monday through Thursday.*
We give you permission to play with your food – paint with Broccoli or print with peppers! Let’s create a visual feast of artworks!
Art Camp Session 12 (ages 9-14)
*This one-week camp meets Monday through Thursday.*
Full days of art experiences in 5 different media.
Campers bring bag lunches for daily picnics. Supervision is provided until 5:30 pm.