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The Art of Painting With Light Workshop 2/13 and 2/20
****This is a two-day workshop. Meetings are on Fridays, February 13 and 20 | 7 – 9 pm****
Learn the process of creating dynamic images using various light sources to paint light onto images of objects and/or people. Included are hands-on demonstrations and in-depth instruction on light painting.
Students need a digital camera with manual setting and the ability to shoot at an extended shutter speed of over 15 seconds, plus a tripod for the first day.
Instructor will send a list of objects to bring to the first class.
Crash Course: Blacksmithing: Metal Forging Demo 2/21
In this demo of small metal projects, observe a blacksmithing process. Learn about the tools, the techniques, and the applications of metal working as an art form and as a craft. Be inspired to try blacksmithing as a sculpture in a future class.
Inspired Words: Writing to Art 2/21
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.
Bookbinding Foundation and Stitches
Learn 3 different stitches and use them to bind 3 notebooks. A selection of beautifully handcrafted papers will be provided. You will also exercise your creativity when paring them with different color threads and other decorative elements. With the skills you‘ll learn, you’ll be able to make many more at your home using very few tools. All materials will be provided.
Expressive Still Life with Emphasis on Flowers 2/28 & 3/1
Creative Metal Casting Techniques in Aluminum 2/28-3/1
***This is a two-day workshop, Saturday 2/28 and Sunday 3/1***
Cast aluminum using experimental techniques. Try alternative model making resources to create small aluminum sculptures with materials that can be burned: plastics, wax, shells, cardboard, wood, etc. Sand casting will also be demonstrated using styrofoam shapes. Metal pour date will be announced at the workshop
Compositional Skills in Photography Workshop 3/4
Weds Mar 4 | 7-9pm: Introduction and preparation via Zoom
Compositional Skills in Photography Workshop 3/4
Weds Mar 4 | 7-9pm: Introduction and preparation via Zoom
This immersive art wellness workshop will guide you toward inner balance and rejuvenation. Discover stress reduction strategies, such as reflective practice of journaling, the restorative power of mindful breathing and stretching exercises. Create a personalized totem as a tangible symbol of grounding and mindfulness. Celebrate resilience, a nurturing force that cultivates strength and compassion.
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.
Welding Workshop – Sculptures in Motion 3/14
Create a kinetic sculpture from found objects. Design artwork that hangs from the ceiling and sculptures that are mounted on stands for the yard. Fishing swivels, bearings, hinges, wheels and other forms will be used to make art move with the wind. Materials will be supplied but students are welcome to bring their own parts.
Gouache Painting Explorations 3/21
The versatility of gouache appeals to artists working in various techniques and styles. It can be thinned down to an almost watercolor transparency, or laid thick like acrylic or oil to create textures. Students will experiment with properties of gouache, using it alone or with special painting mediums and varnishes, on different surfaces, creating beautiful art pieces. All supplies provided.
***This Two-Day Workshop will meet on Saturday, March 21 and Sunday, March 22.***
Professional sculptor David Cumbie guides students as they create life-size busts. Learn techniques for capturing accurate proportions of the head and a variety of facial features.
Throw and Go Wheel Workshop March 21
Focusing first on proportions, measurement, and anatomy, experiment with rub-out and cross-hatch techniques to create tonal studies. Work from references provided by the instructor or choose your own photographs as the class progresses.
Drawing II: Expanding Your Skills (Winter Garden)
By breaking down the process of art making into manageable steps, we produce more developed work and gain new insight into our artistic growth. Bring an object or photo to work from and use graphite, charcoal, or colored pencils.
Intro to Drawing and Painting (Monday)
Explore the fundamentals of drawing and painting. Sample various drawing and painting techniques using different media, including watercolors, acrylics, and oils.
Observing Shapes and Movement in Landscapes
***This class is not suitable for beginners***
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.
Basic understanding of 35mm camera controls and functions is preferred.
Contribute your own personal Gargoyle to the long history that has embellished architecture for thousands of years. Work on modeling heads and faces for interior and exterior display. Create variations on historical works or create your own vision in terra cotta clay or stoneware. The works will be fired and colored surface treatments will be suggested and demonstrated.
Beginning Wheel Throwing Mon 6:30 pm
Always wanted to experience the magic of forming clay vessels on the potter’s wheel? Learn to center, open and pull up clay walls. This class may be repeated until confidence is gained.
Hand Building Across Cultures Mon
Dive into honoring the beauty of culture clay techniques from around the world. Emphasis will be on the building processes, form structure and decoration techniques that make the culture we are focusing on unique.
Find your own voice in clay. We will design our own treasures and acquire handbuilding and finishing skills to make them. Explore pinch, coil, slab construction and add finishing and decorative elements to create your own unique pieces!
Prereq: Hand Building Across Cultures; Hand Building Basics; or similar experience.
Art of Many Cultures (ages 4-7)
Learn what inspired master artists in many cultures, then create artwork using your own inspiration. Explore the world through the arts!
Exploring Abstract Painting Tuesday 10 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 Tuesday 1PM
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.
Oil pastel allows you to blend colors and work with effects similar to paintings, but with the practical approach of a crayon. Working from photos, learn how to prepare surfaces, design compositions, and use various oil pastel techniques to blend, layer, scrape, and soften this material into amazing works of art.
Explore figurative drawing with quick gesture studies and longer sustained poses. Draw from the live figure, with an emphasis on anatomy and proportion and the expressive use of materials.
Prereq: Drawing I or similar experience
Digital Photography I (Tuesday)
Build a strong foundation for your photography and make better images by understanding exposure, metering, focus, file formats, depth of field, and basic composition. Demonstrations and assignments with image reviews reinforce camera systems such as shutter speed, aperture, ISO, and their impact on the final photograph. Single lens reflex or mirrorless cameras are recommended. The instructor is available for camera recommendations.
Learning from the Masters of Photography
Sculpt your own masks and figurines in clay. Learn to enhance the aesthetic and structural qualities. Students will be given the option of using stains and glazes.
Totems – Exploration of Idea and Process
Students will design and build their own clay totems two to five feet tall. The designs will combine symbols, animals, and personal imagery to tell a story. Use of clay armatures, slab construction, and mold making techniques will be explored. Introduction to presentation and installation.
Explore the potter’s wheel and create animated pots by altering thrown forms beyond round. Dart, pleat, fold and facet! Just because it’s made on a wheel doesn’t mean it has to be round.
Prerequisite Beginning Wheel Throwing or similar experience Course is not suitable for beginners.
Beginning Wheel Throwing (Tues 10AM)
Always wanted to experience the magic of forming clay vessels on the potter’s wheel? Learn to center, open and pull up clay walls. This class may be repeated until confidence is gained.
Clay Foundations and Exploration 12:30 PM WG
**Class meets at Jessie Brock Community Center**
Discover the fundamentals and hone your skills through wheel throwing, hand building, and surface design in a supportive studio setting. Each session offers guided practice with room to experiment, whether it’s your first time touching clay or you’re refining long-practiced techniques. Create functional pottery that reflects your unique style, from everyday vessels to expressive, decorative forms.
Clay Foundations and Exploration 6 PM Winter Garden
**Class meets at Jessie Brock Community Center**
Discover the fundamentals and hone your skills through wheel throwing, hand building, and surface design in a supportive studio setting. Each session offers guided practice with room to experiment, whether it’s your first time touching clay or you’re refining long-practiced techniques. Create functional pottery that reflects your unique style, from everyday vessels to expressive, decorative forms.
Decorative Clay for the Home – Garden Edition
Create functional hand built items for your garden. Explore your style including the design and decoration of each piece while learning the fundamentals of ceramic hand building. Possible projects may include planters, watering cans, plant stakes, and bird feeders.
Intermediate Wheel Throwing (Tue 4pm)
Now that you’re comfortable with centering and pulling short walls, let’s make more dynamic forms and work on achieving some height through bowls, cups, vases, pitchers, and anything else you can imagine. This class is ideal for anyone comfortable with centering up to an advanced level student.
Prereq: Beginning Wheel Throwing
Intermediate Wheel Throwing (Tue 7pm)
Now that you’re comfortable with centering and pulling short walls, let’s make more dynamic forms and work on achieving some height through bowls, cups, vases, pitchers, and anything else you can imagine. This class is ideal for anyone comfortable with centering up to an advanced level student.
Prereq: Beginning Wheel Throwing
Shape sound from clay. Explore ancient Andean forms and pre-Columbian inspiration to create vessel whistles that sing with spirit. Students sculpt interactive pieces that blend ritual, resonance, and storytelling. Each one a tactile echo of ancestral breath. Techniques include hollow-form construction, whistle construction, and surface embellishment rooted in cultural reverence and playful experimentation.
Creating with Clay Winter Garden (Ages 8-13)
**Class meets at Jesse Brock Community Center**
Use hand building techniques to craft imaginative pieces, from nature-inspired sculptures to whimsical keepsakes. Finish with colorful glaze before firing to transform your creations into lasting treasures. Wheel throwing is not included.
Decorative Clay for the Home – Kitchen Edition
Create functional hand built items for your kitchen. Explore your own style including the design and decoration of each piece while learning the fundamentals of ceramic hand building. Possible projects may include oil cruets, butter dishes, drinkware, and storage jars.
Hand built 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.
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.
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.
Prereq: PD104 or similar exp.
Intro to Drawing and Painting (Wednesday)
Explore the fundamentals of drawing and painting. Sample various drawing and painting techniques using different media, including watercolors, acrylics, and oils.
Intro to Oil Painting (Winter Garden)
Magical Layers in Acrylic Landscapes
Transform your landscapes into a rich tapestry of colors and textures by learning how to use layers of paint in your work. A variety of techniques will be introduced to create depth and dimension so you can take your art to the next level.
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.
Continuing Sculpture Studies Wednesday 7pm
Professional sculptor David Cumbie guides students as they create life-size busts. Students learn techniques for capturing accurate proportions of the head and a variety of facial features.
Beginning Wheel Throwing (Wed 10 AM)
Always wanted to experience the magic of forming clay vessels on the potter’s wheel? Learn to center, open and pull up clay walls. This class may be repeated until confidence is gained.
Prereq: Beginning Wheel Throwing; Hand Building Basics; or similar exp. (Course is not suitable for beginners).
Hand Building Independent Intensive
Intermediate Wheel Throwing – Wednesday 1PM
Now that you’re comfortable with centering and pulling short walls, let’s make more dynamic forms and work on achieving some height through bowls, cups, vases, pitchers, and anything else you can imagine. This class is ideal for anyone comfortable with centering up to an advanced level student.
Prereq: Beginning Wheel Throwing
Clay for Homeschool (ages 8-12)
Come play in the mud! Use your hands to squish, pinch, pat and roll clay into a personal creation. We will experiment with sculptural and functional clay forms, fired and glazed for permanence.
Painting & Drawing I (Wed, 8-12yrs)
See the world through an artist's eyes. Working with various painting and drawing materials, explore your creative potential. Use technical drawing and painting fundamentals to produce beautiful artwork.
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. Prereq: Wheel Throwing and More! or similar wheel experience.
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.
Mixed Media & Experimental Art (Ages 13-17)
Go beyond the basics and discover the expressive potential of acrylic, pastel, and more. Through layering, blending, and unconventional approaches, you’ll create one-of-a-kind masterpieces that showcase your unique artistic voice.
Sculpting Big for Teens (Ages 13-17)
Sculpt large figures in the form of human heads, animals, cartoon figures, or original imaginative creations. Learn techniques for sculpting using an armature and sculpting tools. The sculptures will demonstrate animation, texture, and movement.
Learn to make silver earrings. Build your designer skills, think like a jeweler, and utilize silver fabrication techniques. Explore different methods for cutting metal, forming, texture, soldering, polishing and connecting elements for kinetic earrings. Include a bezel stone setting for the 4 mm semi-precious stone for adding color. Receive information about jewelry tools, materials, and suppliers.
Learn the technique of connecting independent parts of different materials such as wood to metal, leather, fabric or plastic where gluing might not be possible. Make your own custom-made rivets unveiling the secrets of standard, flush, tube, rivets exclusive for jewelry making. Bring your own favorite components to create wearable, functional jewelry.
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.
Watercolor is a wonderfully mysterious medium. Explore watercolor techniques, color mixing, and learn the value of using a limited palette to gain skills and confidence needed to get you started on your watercolor journey.
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 pencils.
Prereq: Drawing I or similar experience
Intro to Drawing and Painting (Winter Garden)
Tips and Tricks for Painting Portraits in Oil
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.
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.
Beginning Wheel Throwing (Thursday 7PM)
Always wanted to experience the magic of forming clay vessels on the potter’s wheel? Learn to center, open and pull up clay walls. This class may be repeated until confidence is gained.
Beginning Wheel Throwing Thursday 1PM
Always wanted to experience the magic of forming clay vessels on the potter’s wheel? Learn to center, open and pull up clay walls. This class may be repeated until confidence is gained.
Pottery and Gardening go hand -in-hand. Let the garden influence the decoration of a serving vessel for nature’s harvest. Create a water oasis for feathered and furry backyard visitors or top off a fencepost with a nature inspired finial!
Pottery and Gardening go hand -in-hand. Let the garden influence the decoration of a serving vessel for nature’s harvest. Create a water oasis for feathered and furry backyard visitors or top off a fencepost with a nature inspired finial!
Hand Building Basics – Thursday
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.
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 is more than just a pretty vase!
Watercolor is a wonderfully mysterious medium. Explore watercolor techniques, color mixing, and learn the value of using a limited palette to gain skills and confidence needed to get you started on your watercolor journey.
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 according to its value and intensity. With a split primary palette oil paint arrangement, exercises show that mixing complementary color relationships is crucial. Topics include various color models and suggestions for color harmony and basic design and compositional elements.
Build a strong foundation for your photography and make better images by understanding exposure, metering, focus, file formats, depth of field, and basic composition. Demonstrations and assignments with image reviews reinforce camera systems such as shutter speed, aperture, ISO, and their impact on the final photograph. Single lens reflex or mirrorless cameras are recommended. The instructor is available for camera recommendations.
Continuing Sculpture Studies Friday 1 pm
Continuing Sculpture Studies Friday 10 am
Beginning Wheel Throwing (Fri 7pm)
Always wanted to experience the magic of forming clay vessels on the potter’s wheel? Learn to center, open and pull up clay walls. This class may be repeated until confidence is gained.
Develop your unique style of hand building and glaze techniques. Explore individual style with a preconceived idea or based on a class demonstration. Students will be encouraged to push the boundaries of design and function of utilitarian pottery. Learn to experiment with glazes and glaze techniques.
Prereq: Beginning Handbuilding or similar experience. Class is not suitable for beginners.
Beginning Wheel Throwing (Sat 4pm)
Always wanted to experience the magic of forming clay vessels on the potter’s wheel? Learn to center, open and pull up clay walls. This class may be repeated until confidence is gained.
Art of the Masters with a Twist (Ages 8-12) (Ages 8-12)
Learn how to paint and draw with inspiration from Michelangelo, Picasso, Van Gogh, and other great art masters! Add your own creative twist with materials like oil pastel, acrylic, watercolors, charcoal, and more.
Cartoon Toys and Animation 9AM (ages 8-12)
Create two-dimensional cartoon characters in a variety of styles using pencils, watercolor, and markers. Bring your characters to life as three-dimensional sculptures using wire, clay, and fabric.
Before digital photography, there was film. Take pictures using 35mm cameras and black-and-white film, and print photos in the darkroom. A little science, a touch of chemistry, and your photo is art! Film cameras are provided.
Gnomes in the Garden (Ages 5-8)
Intermediate Painting and Drawing (Ages 10-14)
Embark on a colorful adventure where your creativity and imagination knows no bounds. Dive deeper into your painting and drawing skills, exploring new materials – charcoal, soft pastel, watercolor, acrylic, and collage. Unleash your inner artist!
Prereq: Painting and Drawing I; Brush to Canvas; Art of the Masters with a Twist; or similar experience.
Painting & Drawing I (Sat, 8-12yrs)
See the world through an artist's eyes. Working with various painting and drawing materials, explore your creative potential. Use technical drawing and painting fundamentals to produce beautiful artwork.
Painting and Drawing I Winter Garden (Ages 8-12)
**Class meets at Jessie 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!
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.
Aspiring artists will discover drawing and painting techniques in various mediums including acrylic, pastel, watercolor, and collage. and develop their creativity and artistic skills in a nurturing environment.
Pint Size Picassos (Winter Garden) (ages 4-8)
**Class meets at Jessie Brock Community Center**
Explore the many ways to make art using pastel, acrylic, watercolor and other materials. A fun introductory experience for emerging artists.
Analog Film Adventures for Teens (Ages 13 – 17)
Drawing Intensive for Teens (Ages 13-17)
Explore drawing techniques using charcoal, pencil, and pastel. Improve your technique, composition, and understanding of perspective and anatomy. Each class will present challenging concepts, still life, and may include a model. Repeated sessions are encouraged to expand skills and build a portfolio.
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.
Beginning Wheel Throwing (Sun 4)
Always wanted to experience the magic of forming clay vessels on the potter’s wheel? Learn to center, open and pull up clay walls. This class may be repeated until confidence is gained.
Beginning Wheel Throwing (Sun 7)
Always wanted to experience the magic of forming clay vessels on the potter’s wheel? Learn to center, open and pull up clay walls. This class may be repeated until confidence is gained.
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.
Intermediate Wheel Throwing Sunday 10:30 AM
Now that you’re comfortable with centering and pulling short walls, let’s make more dynamic forms and work on achieving some height through bowls, cups, vases, pitchers, and anything else you can imagine. This class is ideal for anyone comfortable with centering up to an advanced level student.
Prereq: Beginning Wheel Throwing
Meditation & Mud: Handbuilt Vessels & Sculptures
How do meditation and mud relate to one another? Decompress and feel refreshed for the week ahead. Class will start with a short 5-minute guided meditation with clay. Learn handbuilding, stamp-making and underglaze layering techniques to create a series of vessels. You will leave feeling centered and inspired; ready to greet a new week.
Bronze Casting Workshop 4/11-4/12
*** Bronze pour date to be announced at the workshop. ***
Inspired Words: Writing to Art 4/11
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.
Techniques in Mold Making 4/18
Build a mold from and make copies of your existing or new artwork. Rubber latex, silicon, and plaster molds will be used to duplicate your work in hydro stone, cement, and casting plastics or to make wax copies for bronze casting. Most materials are included in the class cost. Students who make silicon molds will need to purchase mold making kits. Contact the instructor for specific details concerning personal projects.
Throw and Go Wheel Workshop April 18
Collaborating with Watercolor 4/19
Welding Workshop – Wall Sculptures for the Home 4/25
Throw and Go Wheel Workshop May 9
Inspired Words: Writing to Art 5/9
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.
Color Theory for the Soul – the Healing Power of Color in Art
Japanese Paper Marbling and Bookbinding 5/17
Learn the Japanese way of marbling paper and binding books. Start with Sumingashi, a form of Japanese paper marbling, then transform the papers created into covers for two books students will bind in a Japanese stab-binding style.
***Two Day Workshop meets Saturday, May 30th and Sunday, May 31st***
Learn linocut printing techniques. Monochromatic printing from single blocks, color printing from multiple blocks, and reduction techniques will be covered. Advantages of different printmaking papers as well as water-based inks will be discussed, demonstrated and used. Subject matter can be either figurative or abstract.
Art Camp Session 1A (ages 4-5): A Week of Art Discovery
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): A Week of Art Discovery
*This one-week camp meets Monday through Friday for half days.*
Art Camp Session 2 (ages 5-8): Magic Materials Lab
*This one-week camp meets Monday through Friday for half days.*
Experiment, explore, and discover creative “magic.” Playful messes, curious thinking, and fun experiments turn into imaginative works of art.
Art Immersion-Wheel Throwing (ages 12-16) 6/1
**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 Immersion-Sculpture (ages 12-16) 6/1
*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-Painting/Drawing (ages 12-16) 6/1
*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-Film Photography (ages 12-16) 6/1
**This one-week camp meets Monday through Friday.**
Learn how to use Pentax K1000 35mm, Holga and pinhole cameras. Explore subject matter, composition and light, using analog processes. Develop film, enlarge negatives, and get creative printing photographs with student-friendly 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-Digital Photography & Photoshop (ages 12-16) 6/1
**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-Ceramics (ages 12-16) 6/1
**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-Mixed Media & Painting (ages 12-16) 6/1
**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 Camp Session 3 (ages 8-13): One Week of Multimedia! 6/8
*This one week camp meets Monday through Thursday.*
Full days of art experiences in six different media.
Hand built 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.
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. Prereq: Wheel Throwing and More! or similar wheel experience.
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 is more than just a pretty vase!
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.
Squish Smash Sculpt! Summer Clay Adventure (Ages 5-8)
This playful 6-week ceramics class introduces young artists to clay through hands-on exploration and imagination. Students will pinch, roll, squish, and shape clay while building fine motor skills, creativity, and confidence. Each week encourages experimentation and self-expression in a fun, supportive environment. No prior experience needed—just curious hands and big ideas!
Aspiring artists will discover drawing and painting techniques in various mediums including acrylic, pastel, watercolor, and collage. and develop their creativity and artistic skills in a nurturing environment.
Cartooning and Toy Design (ages 8-12)
Before digital photography, there was film. Take pictures using 35mm cameras and black-and-white film, and print photos in the darkroom. A little science, a touch of chemistry, and your photo is art! Film cameras are provided.
Painting & Drawing I (Sat, 8-12yrs)
See the world through an artist's eyes. Working with various painting and drawing materials, explore your creative potential. Use technical drawing and painting fundamentals to produce beautiful artwork.
Art of the Masters with a Twist (Ages 8-12)
Learn how to paint and draw with inspiration from Michelangelo, Picasso, Van Gogh, and other great art masters! Add your own creative twist with materials like oil pastel, acrylic, watercolor, charcoal, and more.
Clay Play: Sun-Kissed Creations (Ages 8-12)
This playful 6-week ceramics class introduces young artists to clay through hands-on exploration and imagination. Students will pinch, roll, squish, and shape clay while building fine motor skills, creativity, and confidence. Each week encourages experimentation and self-expression in a fun, supportive environment. No prior experience needed—just curious hands and big ideas.
Intermediate Painting and Drawing (Ages 10-14)
Embark on a colorful adventure where your creativity and imagination knows no bounds. Dive deeper into your painting and drawing skills, exploring new materials – charcoal, soft pastel, watercolor, acrylic, and collage. Unleash your inner artist!
Prereq: Painting and Drawing I; Brush to Canvas; Art of the Masters with a Twist; or similar experience.
Film Photo Magic for Teens (Ages 13 – 17)
Figure Drawing for Teens (ages 13-17)
The class will challenge participants with new drawing techniques using charcoal and soft pastel. 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.
Pint Size Picassos (Winter Garden) (ages 4-8)
**Class meets at Jessie Brock Community Center**
Explore the many ways to make art using pastel, acrylic, watercolor and other materials. A fun introductory experience for emerging artists.
Painting and Drawing I Winter Garden (Ages 8-12)
**Class meets at Jessie 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!
Art Camp Session 4 (ages 5-8): Creature Creators 6/15
*This one-week camp meets Monday through Thursday for half days.*
Art Camp Session 5 (ages 9-14): One Week of Multimedia! 6/15
*This one-week camp meets Monday through Thursday.*
Full days of art experiences in four different media.
Art Camp Session 6 (ages 5-8): Level Up! 6/22
*This one-week camp meets Monday through Thursday for half days.*
Art Camp Session 7 (ages 9-14): One week of Multimedia! 6/22
*This one-week camp meets Monday through Thursday.*
Full days of art experiences in four different media.
Family Camp Tuesday (ages 6-13)
**This one-day camp meets Tuesday 6/30/25.**
Family Camp Wednesday (ages 6-13)
**This one-day camp meets Wednesday 7/2/25.**
For one day, 1 adult & 1 child experiment in 3 different media with Crealdé’s professional artist faculty, share a picnic lunch lakeside and leave with a portfolio of artistic creations.
Art Camp Session 8 (ages 8-13): One Week of Multimedia! 7/6
*This one-week camp meets Monday through Thursday.*
Full days of art experiences in 6 different media.
Art Camp Session 9 (ages 9-14): One Week of Multimedia!
*This one-week camp meets Monday through Thursday.*
Full days of art experiences in four different media.
Art Immersion-Digital Photography with Photoshop (ages 12-16) 7/13
*This one-week camp meets Monday through Thursday.*
Learn the basics of digital photography using our DSLR cameras to make photographs then dive into Adobe Photoshop and explore the possibilities – photo editing, image manipulation, and digital painting.
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) 7/13
*This one-week camp meets Monday through Thursday.*
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-Ceramics (ages 12-16) 7/13
*This one-week camp meets Monday through Thursday.*
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 Camp Session 10 (ages 5-8): Texture, Squish, and Splash 7/20
*This one-week camp meets Monday through Thursday for half days.*
Art Camp Session 11 (ages 9-14): One Week of Multimedia 7/20
*This one-week camp meets Monday through Thursday.*
Full days of art experiences in four different media.
***Campers bring bag lunch . Supervision is provided until 5:30 pm***
Art Camp Session 12 (ages 8-13): One Week of Multimedia 7/27
*This one-week camp meets Monday through Thursday.*
Full days of art experiences in 6 different media.
Campers bring bag lunches for daily picnics. Supervision is provided until 5:30 pm.
Art Camp Session 13 (ages 5-8): Make Believe Worlds 8/3
*This one-week camp meets Monday through Thursday for half days.*
Art Camp Session 14 (ages 9-14): One Week of Multimedia 8/3
*This one-week camp meets Monday through Thursday.*
Full days of art experiences in four different media.
***Campers bring bag lunch . Supervision is provided until 5:30 pm***