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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.
This class is currently full.
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.
This class is currently full.
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!
This class is currently full.
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.
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 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.
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.