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Raheleh and her husband Reza will conduct a two-day hands-on weekend workshop on the art of crafting clay darbuka drums using traditional techniques, culminating in a drum circle performance that weaves together clay and music to foster cultural connection, collective identity, and community healing. While the ceramic drum bases will be pre-formed, the process of creating the drum—from construction to decoration—will be covered
Welding Workshop – Create Figures and Faces
Create whimsical figures and faces from found objects made of steel. Students are encouraged to bring in objects to include in their compositions. All metal objects must be sensitive to a magnet. Free materials will be available during the workshop.
Exploring Abstract Painting (Mon)
This inspiring class offers a fundamental exploration into the beauty of abstract painting. Instruction concentrates on composition, techniques, form, texture, and color. Students will develop their own artistic vision, while referencing the works of contemporary artists. Be ready to paint outside the lines.
Explore the fundamentals of drawing and painting. Sample various drawing and painting techniques using different media, including watercolors, acrylics, and oils. Most supplies are provided.
Learn to draw and paint amazing wildlife and their habitats or choose to paint your own pet using acrylics and/or watercolors. Bring images of your chosen animals and learn how to draw using correct proportions. Drawing and painting techniques will be taught as you work on your painting. These are skills that you can later apply to any other subject you might want to paint or draw.
Focusing first on proportions, measurements and anatomy, students will then experiment with rub-out and cross-hatch techniques to create tonal studies. Students will begin working from photographs provided by the instructor but may choose their own photographs as the class progresses.
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.
Find your own voice in clay. We will design our own treasures and acquire handbuilding and finishing skills to make them. Explore pinch, coil, slab construction and add finishing and decorative elements to create your own unique pieces!
Prereq: TD172, TD142, or similar experience.
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.
Learn the fundamentals of visual storytelling using your smartphone or iPhone's video camera: dynamic shots and angles, creating excitement through movement, the magic of editing, and so much more!
Black-and-White Film I: Introduction to the Darkroom (Mon)
Explore the timeless beauty of traditional, film-based black-and-white photography, including image selection, exposure and processing your own film and prints in Crealdé’s wet darkroom. This introductory course will cover basic camera controls and formats, film types, hands-on field trips, weekly assignments, print reviews and lots of fun time in the darkroom. Designed for students new to film photography and photographers who want to reconnect with this creative art form. Tuition includes lab fee, chemistry, and free loaner cameras. Prerequisites: Understanding of basic camera controls and functions.
Sculpting Sea Creatures (Ages 8 – 12)
This introduction to sculpture will combine paper and paint with clay, and recycled materials to make life-like fish, whales, dolphins, and many other sea creatures..
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.
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.
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!
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.
Enjoy creating with pure color known as pastels! In each class, you have the opportunity to paint from a still life setup that the instructor will use to demonstrate pastel painting. You are welcome to paint along or you can bring your own photo to work from. Students will explore the advantage of underpainting while discovering the beauty of pastels.
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
Explore figurative drawing with quick gesture studies and longer sustained poses. Draw from the live figure, with an emphasis on anatomy and proportion and the expressive use of materials.
Prereq: PD103 or similar experience
Beginning Wheel Throwing (Tues 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.
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
Intermediate Wheel Throwing (Tue 7pm)
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.
An investigation into the design and function of the ceramic pouring and drinking vessels. Gain handbuilding and wheel throwing skills through the creative exploration, design and construction of different types of functional and abstract forms. We'll explore different types of handles and the ergonomic issues facing utilitarian forms. Though focused on handbuilding skills, there will be some opportunity to combine thrown components.
Create handbuilt home décor items. Explore your own style in the design and decoration of each piece. Emphasis will be placed on surface techniques including wax resist and carving combined with post-firing addition of mixed media like cotton, fiber and wood. Possible projects include wall hangings and ceramic bells.
Photographing the Natural Landscape
Discover skills needed for landscape photography, including the fundamentals of 2-dimensional design applied to photography. Subjects will include how to look at a landscape, when and how to capture the best light, what to include and what to leave out. We will also cover seeing forms of composition and how to control them in the frame. Students will practice their newly learned skills during Saturday field trips.
Black and White Film II: Fine-tuning Your Film and Printing Skills
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.
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.
Wheel Throwing and More! Winter Garden (ages 11-16)
**Class meets at Jesse Brock Community Center**
Experience the magic of the potter’s wheel as you create clay forms then combine and embellish them with handbuilding to create decorative sculptures or functional ware. Pottery, it’s more than just a pretty vase! Develop skills with more sessions.
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!
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, polishing and coloring of final castings. Cleaning polishing and finishing the bronze work is not included in the cost of the class.
Whimsical Figures in Terra Cotta
Have a blast with bringing to life a reptile, fish, bird, or any animal with human attributes. This class will teach students how to make whimsical human-like figures with animal characteristics using terra cotta clay.
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.
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.
Not happy with the color in your paintings? Are you held captive to paint exactly what you see in your photos? Painting is so much more than copying what you see. The main focus of this class is to work on brush techniques and use transparent pigments to create luminosity in your paintings. Prerequisite: PD104 or similar experience
Arrangements of shapes, tones, patterns and colors can evoke feelings and memories. This class will teach students first to develop personal imagery, second to layer these images until they become abstract patterns of shapes and tones, and third to refine their compositions. A finished piece will suggest an emotion, a thought, a memory in a poetic combination of formal elements.
Beginning Wheel Throwing (Wed 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.
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.
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.
Explore your creativity while focusing on functional serving ware through a variety of handbuilding processes. Students of all levels will learn and explore new skills and techniques and how to apply the visual elements and principles of design to create serving vessels of their own design and imagination.
Prereq: TD122, TD135 or similar exp. (Course is not suitable for beginners).
In this 4 week course learn to use the iPhone camera to achieve amazing results. Explore various iPhone camera photography modes and useful camera and image processing apps. There will be interactive demonstrations and image reviews.
Black-and-White Film I: Introduction to the Darkroom (Wed)
Explore the timeless beauty of traditional, film-based black-and-white photography, including image selection, exposure and processing your own film and prints in Crealdé’s wet darkroom. This introductory course will cover basic camera controls and formats, film types, hands-on field trips, weekly assignments, print reviews and lots of fun time in the darkroom. Designed for students new to film photography and photographers who want to reconnect with this creative art form. Tuition includes lab fee, chemistry, and free loaner cameras. Prerequisites: Understanding of basic camera controls and functions.
Image and Meaning in Photography
Part of the Crealde curriculum for more than two decades, this course has guided countless Crealde students in the development of their photographic vision. Landscape, portrait, documentary and night photography themes are examined through lectures, slide presentations, assignments, critiques and field trips. Designed for the visual and photographic growth of intermediate students working in film or digital, color or black-and-white photography. Class includes field trips. Please see schedule in Special Notes below.
Prerequisite: Basic Image Processing class PH258 or Black and White Film II PH239 or similar experience.
Painting & Drawing I (Wed, 8-12yrs)
This class will focus on learning to see the world through an artist's eyes. Working with a variety of painting and drawing materials, young artists will explore their potential as they take their skills to the next level! Students will use technical drawing and painting fundamentals to create something beautiful and one of a kind to frame and treasure each session!
Clay for Homeschool (ages 8-12)
Come play in the mud! Experience the satisfaction of using your hands to squish, pinch, pat and roll clay into a personal creation. We will experiment with sculptural and functional clay forms, fired and glazed for permanence.
Exploring Sculpture for Teens (Ages 13-17)
Learn techniques for sculpting using an armature and sculpting tools to create figures real or imagined. Students choose what they want to sculpt from human heads, animals, cartoon figures or original imaginative creations. The sculptures will be 3 dimensional demonstrating animation, texture and movement. Tools and material included.
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. Prerequisite YAP208 or similar wheel experience.
Digital Photography with Photoshop (Ages 13-17)
Learn the basics of digital photography- composition, lighting, exposure and more using our DSLR cameras to take artistic photographs. Then dive into Adobe Photoshop and explore the editing possibilities – image manipulation, tablet drawing and digital painting.
Creative Watercolor for Teens (ages 13-17 yrs)
Young painters will explore essential and creative building blocks of watercolor painting. Through instructor demonstrations of dynamic watercolor techniques and lots of painting time young adults develop skills and confidence to paint self-expressive artworks.
Brush and Pen for Teens Winter Garden (Ages 11-16)
**Class meets at Jesse Brock Community Center**
Calling young artists who love to paint and draw! Explore your creative potential through acrylic paint, watercolors, charcoal, and pastels on canvas and paper. Experiment with painting and drawing techniques, composition and color theory. Say it with art!
Intro to Oil Painting (Winter Garden)
Continuing Sculpture Studies Wed 7 pm
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.
Create whimsical figures and abstract welded sculptures. Learn basic cutting and arc welding techniques using found objects and mild steel. Students are encouraged to bring objects for their compositions.
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.
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.
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.
Increase your technical oil painting skills through challenging exercises and studies using both brushes and painting knives. Students will explore ways to convey textures, transparency and patterns when painting fabrics and floral subjects. Working from life, we will focus on observing changes in color that indicate light, volume and a sense of space in representational painting. Prereqs: Drawing I; Oil Painting I, or similar exp
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.
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.
Beginning Wheel Throwing (Thur)
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.
Intermediate Wheel Throwing – Thurs
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
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. Learn to layer techniques to create unique, narrative pottery.
Prereq: TD122 or similar
This class is currently full.
JOIN WAITLISTCurious about clay? Come get your hands dirty and get some answers as you experiment with basic forming methods, connections and attachments to create decorative and/or functional pottery by hand. Embellish with glaze for lasting treasures.
Build a strong foundation for your photography and make better images by understanding exposure, metering, focus, file formats, depth of field and basic composition. Hands-on demonstrations and assignments with personalized image reviews reinforce camera systems such as shutter speed, aperture, ISO, and their artistic impact on the final photograph. Single lens reflex or mirrorless cameras are recommended. The instructor is available for camera recommendations.
Through in-depth assignments and image reviews, students more deeply explore composition, lighting, lenses and flash photography. A field trip on the 5th Saturday of the session will further develop skills for real time applications. Demonstrations on basic image processing and printing techniques along with preparing photographs for online presentation will be included.
The Twin Lens Reflex (TLR) Camera
Uncover the history, unique camera controls, and the photographers who made the landmark German Rolleiflex, the most popular – and most copied – professional camera of the 1940s and 50s. From documentary to glamour it was the camera of choice by many of the time’s most noted photographers. The instructor – who uses his Rollei for his professional documentary, portrait and travel photography – will overview and demonstrate why the TLR has re-emerged as such a popular camera in the in the re-emergence of film-based or analog photography. Class will include special equipment and accessory demonstrations, a fieldtrip and time in the darkroom. The course is suited for students with any kind of TLR camera, including Yashica and Mamiya. Crealdé also has a loaner camera available for class use. Skill level: Intermediate
Squish, squeeze, pinch, pat and roll. Strengthen fine motor skills as we create clay treasures. 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!
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 with joyful play!
Draw Comic Book Action Figures (Ages 13-17)
Use action pose figures and comic book references to create your own dynamic comic book art. Experiment with light and shadow, facial expressions and movement. Complete your own full page comic book art piece!
Intro to Drawing and 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.
Learn to make a wide range of knife styles like survival knives, daggers, and Qama knives using titanium and steel. Explore a variety of techniques such as forging blades, shaping, heat treatment, sharpening, riveting, polishing, and handle making techniques.
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.
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.
Advanced/Independent Oil & Acrylics – It’s All About the Finish with a Twist
It's all about the finish with a twist. Bring unfinished paintings to the next level, and then begin a new still life, landscape or portrait. Receive one-on-one attention with demonstrations on the contrasts of values, colors, and brushwork and the importance of composition. Get your frames ready!
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.
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.
Archaelogists study ceramics to understand early civilizations. Use slab, coil, and pinch techniques to create utilitarian or decorative pieces like ancient cultures. Experience the joy of making as you create treasures for the future inspired by the past.
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.
Continuing Sculpture Studies Fri 10 am
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.
Continuing Sculpture Studies Fri 1 pm
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.
Clean, Polish, and Patina Bronze Art
Discover the range of processes in the finishing of a bronze sculptures. This is an introduction class on how to sandblast, clean and finish your bronzes for display. Demonstrations using materials for grinding and polishing will be a big part of the classroom work. Coloring the metal with patina will be demonstrated and used on student works. Materials include in the cost of the class. Prereq: SC129 or similar exp.
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.
This class is designed to allow young artists to explore the exciting world of artmaking with hands-on lessons in acrylics, watercolors, drawing, collage, and more. Aspiring artists will express themselves in a creative, supportive environment.
This class is a fun introduction to the world of art! Aspiring artists will discover drawing and painting techniques in various mediums including acrylics, pastels, watercolors, and collagé. Budding artists will develop their creativity and artistic skills in a nurturing environment.
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.
Clay Animals at the Zoo (Ages 5-8)
Unleash your creativity as you shape and decorate your favorite zoo animals using basic pottery techniques in a fun and supportive environment. Perfect for little hands and big imaginations!
Painting & Drawing I (Sat, 8-12yrs)
This class will focus on learning to see the world through an artist's eyes. Working with a variety of painting and drawing materials, young artists will explore their potential as they take their skills to the next level! Students will use technical drawing and painting fundamentals to create something beautiful and one of a kind to frame and treasure each session!
Attention Young Artists! Come experience the fun of painting and learn new skills that will last a lifetime! Each week, captivating lessons will spark your creativity and transform your ideas into unique works of art.
Create detailed animal sculptures inspired by your favorite zoo denizens as you learn hand building pottery skills. It's a fun and engaging way to bring a love for animals to life!
Before digital photography, there was film. Have fun taking pictures using 35mm cameras and black-and-white film, then create your own photos in the darkroom. A little science, a touch of chemistry, and your photo is art! Film cameras are provided.
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 pastels, acrylic paints, watercolors, charcoal and more.
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 pastels, watercolors, acrylics, and even collage. Unleash your inner artist! Prerequisite YAP202, YAP209, YAP226
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.
Film Photography and Dark Room for Teens (Ages 13 – 17)
Pint Size Picassos (Winter Garden) (ages 4-8)
**Class meets at Jesse Brock Community Center**
Like to draw and paint? Explore the many ways to make art using pastels, paints, watercolors and other materials. A fun introductory experience for fledgling artists.
Painting 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!
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.
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.
Travel Florida Backroads to Palatka & the Historic Ravine Gardens
*** On Location: Sat. Jan. 18 | 8am–6pm***
Discover hidden architectural, cultural and natural treasures along Highway 17 on the way to Florida's historic river town of Palatka. Located on the scenic St. Johns River, the city features the unique Ravine Gardens State Park, which was developed by the Federal Works Progress Administration in the 1930s. In addition to the historic structures, the ravine trails and the picturesque creek are lined with thousands of azaleas each winter. Lunch will be provided.
Corian Marble Sculptures Jan 18-19
Learn how to use Corian marble creating sculptures for the house and garden. Explore forming techniques using heat and special prepared shapes for achieving creative forms and patterns. How to join surfaces and applying various finishes will be experimented with along with technique in mounting the final sculpture.
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.
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)
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.
Tile Making for Home and Garden
Learn basic tile-making skills such as relief, mosaics, and painted wall tiles, along with the techniques to keep your tiles flat and how to adhere and grout your work. Learn to plan and implement projects for homes and gardens, i.e. backsplashes, indoor/outdoor murals, framed mirrors, wall hangings and garden stepping stones.
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.
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!
Bronze Casting Workshop Jan 25-26
*** Bronze pour date to be announced at the workshop. ***
Printramics: Printmaking and Ceramics Workshop
******This Two-Day Workshop meets Saturday, January 25 from 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm and Sunday, January 26 from 9:00 am to 2:00 pm.***
Learn how to combine printmaking and ceramics in this unique workshop. Saturday will be devoted to learning relief printmaking by carving four blocks with Chinese symbols. and making prints on paper. On Sunday, use your carved block to create relief impressions in clay. Turn these printed slabs into functional vessels.
Contribute your own personal Gargoyle to the long history that has embellished architecture for thousands of years. Students will work modeling heads and faces for interior and exterior display. Create variations on historical works or create your own vision in terra cotta clay or stoneware. The works will be fired and colored surface treatments will be suggested and demonstrated. Clay will be available for purchase in class.
Blacksmithing Fundamentals Workshop
Architectural Photography of Local Landmarks
Using some of Central Florida’s historical treasures, learn to capture the photographic potential of the interior and exterior of the built environment — residential, commercial, monumental, historic, and contemporary. The class covers lighting techniques, from available light to multiple and mixed lighting, and image postproduction, including multiple exposure, and high dynamic range processing so that students realize their vision in final images. The course will include assignments and Saturday field trips.
Welding Workshop – Sculptures in Motion
Focus on creating a Kinetic sculpture from found objects. Artwork that hangs from the ceiling and sculptures that are mounted on stands for the yard. Fishing swivels, bearings, hinges, wheels and many more forms will be used to make art move with the wind. Materials will be supplied but students are welcome to bring their own parts.
Inspired Words: Writing to Art 2/15
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.
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.
Sculptural Garden Art in Concrete
Create functional sculptures for your house and garden. Explore ways of creating large forms easily with affordable materials. Model sculptures by carving, and construction shapes to be covered, cast and poured in cement. Masonry dye and various surface treatments will be demonstrated in the completion of large garden forms.
Creative Metal Casting Techniques in Aluminum Feb 22-23
Discover a variety of ways to cast aluminum using experimental techniques. Students will be introduced to alternative model making materials that can be used to create small aluminum sculptures. Make small sculptures with materials that can be burned: plastics, wax, shells, cardboard, wood, etc. Sand casting will also be demonstrated using styrofoam shapes. Metal pour date to be announced at the workshop.
Blacksmithing Fundamentals Workshop
Learn the fundamental process for traditional blacksmithing. Students will use the hammer to forge hot steel on the anvil and learn how to make door handles, hooks, and ornamental scrolls. Practice techniques such as flattening, upsetting, twisting, punching, drawing, and familiarity with the blacksmith forge.
Sculpting Whimsical Animals in Clay for Teens (Ages 13-17)
Immersive two day workshop making large (12-16”) whimsical animal figures using hand building and sculpting skills. Explore sculpture techniques while making a silly, serious, or satirical animal of your choice with terra cotta – cat, dog, cow, rabbit, bear, etc. Raw clay sculptures are complete with a single firing and can be displayed indoors or out for years to come. Clay will be provided.
Expressive Still Life Workshop with Emphasis on Flowers
Wish your paintings popped from across the room? Come learn how. Through short demonstrations and discussion, followed by plenty of one-on-one instruction – you can learn to make your paintings sing with light, depth and movement in this all from life class with a special emphasis on flowers. Gorgeous flowers and still life items will be provided for full on inspiration and visual excitement as we explore and learn through value, color, edges and composition. Prerequisites: PD103 and PD157 or similar experience
Welding Workshop – Wall Sculptures for the Home
Sculptural Garden Art in Concrete
Create functional sculptures for your house and garden. Explore ways of creating large forms easily with affordable materials. Model sculptures by carving, and construction shapes to be covered, cast and poured in cement. Masonry dye and various surface treatments will be demonstrated in the completion of large garden forms.
Discover the Art of Paper Marbling
In this one-day workshop, you’ll explore the ancient art of marbling while creating intricately stunning designs on water, to capture them onto a unique monoprint.
Toward the end of the workshop, you will be able to choose one of your marbled papers to decorate the cover of a handbound notebook. Silvana has studied with masters of this art form in Italy, Brazil and the USA.
Pre-Columbian Techniques: Contemporary Practice
***This is a two-day workshop Sat.-Sun. March 15-16 | 10:00 – 4:00 pm***
Join a generational master in exploring handbuilding techniques passed down through many generations from pre-Columbian times. Be inspired by the Peruvian Chulala bird who, according to tradition, builds its nest with its beak and feet. It is said that this bird taught Ramirez's ancestors the techniques he employs and will share over our two days together. Learn all aspects of formation, traditional engobe decoration and burnishing in this technique-based workshop that will culminate with a pit firing.
Find your own voice in clay. We will design our own treasures and acquire handbuilding and finishing skills to make them. Explore pinch, coil, slab construction and add finishing and decorative elements to create your own unique pieces!
Prereq: TD172, TD142, or similar experience.
Observing Shapes and Movement in Landscapes
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.
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 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*
Focusing first on proportions, measurements and anatomy, students will then experiment with rub-out and cross-hatch techniques to create tonal studies. Students will begin working from photographs provided by the instructor but may choose their own photographs as the class progresses.
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.
Bird Photography: Lessons and Field Trips
** This class will be presented as a hybrid learning opportunity, with classroom instruction via Zoom and on-location field trips**
Catch the shot and the passion for bird photography! Explore techniques on how to get as close as possible to the bird’s environment while capturing that prize photograph. Practice these techniques during instructor-led field trips with lifelong birder and bird photographer, Milton Heiberg.
Black-and-White Film I: Introduction to the Darkroom (Mon)
Explore the timeless beauty of traditional, film-based black-and-white photography, including image selection, exposure and processing your own film and prints in Crealdé’s wet darkroom. This introductory course will cover basic camera controls and formats, film types, hands-on field trips, weekly assignments, print reviews and lots of fun time in the darkroom. Designed for students new to film photography and photographers who want to reconnect with this creative art form. Tuition includes lab fee, chemistry, and free loaner cameras. Prerequisites: Understanding of basic camera controls and functions.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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
Explore figurative drawing with quick gesture studies and longer sustained poses. Draw from the live figure, with an emphasis on anatomy and proportion and the expressive use of materials.
Prereq: PD103 or similar experience
Beginning Wheel Throwing (Tues 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.
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
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
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.
Crafting Melodies: Ceramic Instruments and Spirit Animals
Discover the enchanting world of ceramic musical instruments. Learn the art of crafting wind instruments, focusing on the creation of the Ocarina. Shape and tune Ocarinas, and then unleash their creativity by designing and transforming an animal figure into a functional musical instrument. Combine the joy of music with the magic of clay, offering a unique opportunity to explore both artistic and musical expression.
Create handbuilt home décor items. Explore your own style in the design and decoration of each piece. Emphasis will be placed on surface techniques including wax resist and carving combined with post-firing addition of mixed media like cotton, fiber and wood. Possible projects include wall hangings and ceramic bells.
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.
An introduction and continued studies in medium format black and white photography using the Plastic Holga Lomography Camera. The Holga’s low-cost construction and simple meniscus lens often yield pictures that display vignetting, blur, light leaks, and other distortions. The camera’s quirkiness has brought it a cult following among some photographers, and Holga photos are known worldwide! This course will include image editing & selection, exposure & processing of your film, as well as darkroom-printing in our Crealde darkroom. Expect a field trip, assigned work to take place outside of class, print reviews, and a reconnect with the film-based medium.
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!
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, polishing and coloring of final castings. Cleaning polishing and finishing the bronze work is not included in the cost of the class.
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.
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.
Bouquets & Florals in Watercolor
Watercolor lends itself to the beauty of flowers. This class focuses on the four building blocks of color, shape, value, and edges to help create flowing floral paintings. Concepts will be reinforced with creative exercises and demonstrations. Pre-req: PD104 or similar.
Beginning Wheel Throwing (Wed 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.
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.
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.
Prereq: TD122, TD135 or similar exp. (Course is not suitable for beginners).
In this hybrid class, learn the fundamentals of image processing with today's most popular image processing tools and image enhancement techniques. Learn a step by step workflow that combines the best features of Lightroom, Photoshop and Epson inkjet printers to create expressive and aesthetically pleasing photographs. Topics will include creating and maintaining an image archive, image enhancement techniques, effective use of metadata, preparing images for online publishing, and the fundamentals of inkjet printing. Prerequisite: Introduction to Digital Photography PH147 or similar experience. Skill level: Intermediate
Black-and-White Film I: Introduction to the Darkroom (Wed)
Explore the timeless beauty of traditional, film-based black-and-white photography, including image selection, exposure and processing your own film and prints in Crealdé’s wet darkroom. This introductory course will cover basic camera controls and formats, film types, hands-on field trips, weekly assignments, print reviews and lots of fun time in the darkroom. Designed for students new to film photography and photographers who want to reconnect with this creative art form. Tuition includes lab fee, chemistry, and free loaner cameras. Prerequisites: Understanding of basic camera controls and functions.
Intro to Oil Painting (Winter Garden)
Continuing Sculpture Studies Wed 7 pm
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.
Create whimsical figures and abstract welded sculptures. Learn basic cutting and arc welding techniques using found objects and mild steel. Students are encouraged to bring objects for their compositions.
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.
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.
Increase your technical oil painting skills through challenging exercises and studies using both brushes and painting knives. Students will explore ways to convey textures, transparency and patterns when painting fabrics and floral subjects. Working from life, we will focus on observing changes in color that indicate light, volume and a sense of space in representational painting. Prereqs: Drawing I; Oil Painting I, or similar exp
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.
Beginning Wheel Throwing (Thur)
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.
Intermediate Wheel Throwing – Thurs
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
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. Learn to layer techniques to create unique, narrative pottery.
Prereq: TD122 or similar
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.
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.
Learning from the Masters of Photography
Intro to Drawing and 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.
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.
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.
Advanced/Independent Oil & Acrylics – It’s All About the Finish with a Twist
It's all about the finish with a twist. Bring unfinished paintings to the next level, and then begin a new still life, landscape or portrait. Receive one-on-one attention with demonstrations on the contrasts of values, colors, and brushwork and the importance of composition. Get your frames ready!
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.
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.
Archaelogists study ceramics to understand early civilizations. Use slab, coil, and pinch techniques to create utilitarian or decorative pieces like ancient cultures. Experience the joy of making as you create treasures for the future inspired by the past.
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.
Continuing Sculpture Studies Fri 10 am
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.
Continuing Sculpture Studies Fri 1 pm
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.
Clean, Polish, and Patina Bronze Art
Discover the range of processes in the finishing of a bronze sculptures. This is an introduction class on how to sandblast, clean and finish your bronzes for display. Demonstrations using materials for grinding and polishing will be a big part of the classroom work. Coloring the metal with patina will be demonstrated and used on student works. Materials include in the cost of the class. Prereq: SC129 or similar exp.
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.
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.
Create a one-of-a-kind bracelet. Use copper and brass to learn the fundamental fabrication techniques and determine how to make a variety of bracelets from start to finish with the use of jewelers’ tools. Explore different designs with step-by-step guidance from the instructor, including resources for tools and supplies for developing your own jewelry studio. Stone setting is not included in this program.
Inspired Words: Writing to Art 3/22
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.
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)
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.
Tile Making for Home and Garden
Learn basic tile-making skills such as relief, mosaics, and painted wall tiles, along with the techniques to keep your tiles flat and how to adhere and grout your work. Learn to plan and implement projects for homes and gardens, i.e. backsplashes, indoor/outdoor murals, framed mirrors, wall hangings and garden stepping stones.
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.
Learn to sculpt and take impressions from found objects to be used to create sculptures. All projects will be cast in Portland cement and hydro stone using masonry dyes for color. Faux bronze and silver finishes will be offered for interior sculptures. Students are encouraged to create several pieces. All materials provided.
Sculpting Sea Creatures (Ages 8 – 12)
***This class will start on 3/24/25***
This introduction to sculpture will combine paper and paint with clay, and recycled materials to make life-like fish, whales, dolphins, and many other sea creatures..
Handbuilt Pottery for Teens (Ages 13-17)
***This class will start on 3/25/25***
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.
Creating with Clay Winter Garden (Ages 8-13)
***This class will start on 3/25/25***
**Class meets at Jesse Brock Community Center**
Celebrate the wonders of the seasons! Use hand building techniques to create nature inspired pottery and whimsical art. Embellish with glaze and fire for charming, treasured keepsakes. Note: Wheel throwing will not be included in this class.
Painting & Drawing I (Wed, 8-12yrs)
***This class will start on 3/26/25***
This class will focus on learning to see the world through an artist's eyes. Working with a variety of painting and drawing materials, young artists will explore their potential as they take their skills to the next level! Students will use technical drawing and painting fundamentals to create something beautiful and one of a kind to frame and treasure each session!
Clay for Homeschool (ages 8-12)
***This class will start on 3/26/25***
Come play in the mud! Experience the satisfaction of using your hands to squish, pinch, pat and roll clay into a personal creation. We will experiment with sculptural and functional clay forms, fired and glazed for permanence.
Exploring Sculpture for Teens (Ages 13-17)
***This class will start on 3/26/25***
Learn techniques for sculpting using an armature and sculpting tools to create figures real or imagined. Students choose what they want to sculpt from human heads, animals, cartoon figures or original imaginative creations. The sculptures will be 3 dimensional demonstrating animation, texture and movement. Tools and material included.
Advanced Wheel for Teens (ages 13-17)
***This class will start on 3/26/25***
Expand your skills on the potters' wheel as you stretch and manipulate the clay to alter forms and create lids, spouts, and more. Create your own pottery collection to give and to treasure. Prerequisite YAP208 or similar wheel experience.
Digital Photography with Photoshop (Ages 13-17)
***This class will start on 3/26/25***
Learn the basics of digital photography- composition, lighting, exposure and more using our DSLR cameras to take artistic photographs. Then dive into Adobe Photoshop and explore the editing possibilities – image manipulation, tablet drawing and digital painting.
Experimental Art Techniques (Ages 13-17)
***This class will start on 3/26/25***
Draw, paint, and assemble while you exercise your creative muscle using experimental techniques. Go beyond the basics as we delve into acrylics, pastels, and more. Explore the unique characteristics of each modality and bring ideas to life as we create one-of-a-kind masterpieces.
Brush and Pen for Teens Winter Garden (Ages 11-16)
**Class meets at Jesse Brock Community Center**
Calling young artists who love to paint and draw! Explore your creative potential through acrylic paint, watercolors, charcoal, and pastels on canvas and paper. Experiment with painting and drawing techniques, composition and color theory. Say it with art!
***This class will start on 3/27/25***
Squish, squeeze, pinch, pat and roll. Strengthen fine motor skills as we create clay treasures. Each session features fresh projects to build new skills!
Wheel Throwing and More! (ages 10-14)
***This class will start on 3/27/25***
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!
Art of Many Cultures (ages 4-7)
***This class will start on 3/27/25***
Learn what inspired master artists in many cultures, then express yourself as you create from what inspires you! Investigate art with joyful play!
Draw Comic Book Action Figures (Ages 13-17)
***This class will start on 3/27/25***
Use action pose figures and comic book references to create your own dynamic comic book art. Experiment with light and shadow, facial expressions and movement. Complete your own full page comic book art piece!
***This class will start on 3/29/25***
This class is designed to allow young artists to explore the exciting world of artmaking with hands-on lessons in acrylics, watercolors, drawing, collage, and more. Aspiring artists will express themselves in a creative, supportive environment.
***This class will start on 3/29/25***
This class is a fun introduction to the world of art! Aspiring artists will discover drawing and painting techniques in various mediums including acrylics, pastels, watercolors, and collagé. Budding artists will develop their creativity and artistic skills in a nurturing environment.
Pick up the Palette! (Ages 5-9)
***This class will start on 3/29/25***
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.
Set the Table with Clay (Ages 5-8)
***This class will start on 3/29/25***
Get ready to bloom! Young artists create functional pottery pieces decorated with vibrant spring designs – a bowl with birdies or a plate with pansies. This hands-on class is perfect for little creators eager to sample a sandwich from a plate they made.
Painting & Drawing I (Sat, 8-12yrs)
***This class will start on 3/29/25***
This class will focus on learning to see the world through an artist's eyes. Working with a variety of painting and drawing materials, young artists will explore their potential as they take their skills to the next level! Students will use technical drawing and painting fundamentals to create something beautiful and one of a kind to frame and treasure each session!
***This class will start on 3/29/25***
Attention Young Artists! Come experience the fun of painting and learn new skills that will last a lifetime! Each week, captivating lessons will spark your creativity and transform your ideas into unique works of art.
***This class will start on 3/29/25***
Craft your own usable pottery while exploring spring-inspired designs and patterns – plates, cups, bowls and more. The perfect opportunity to combine creativity with practicality – set the table with unique handmade ceramics.
***This class will start on 3/29/25***
Before digital photography, there was film. Have fun taking pictures using 35mm cameras and black-and-white film, then create your own photos in the darkroom. A little science, a touch of chemistry, and your photo is art! Film cameras are provided.
Art of the Masters with a Twist (Ages 8-12) (Ages 8-12)
***This class will start on 3/29/25***
Learn how to paint and draw with inspiration from Michelangelo, Picasso, Van Gogh, and other great art masters! Add your own creative twist with materials like oil pastels, acrylic paints, watercolors, charcoal and more.
Intermediate Painting and Drawing (Ages 10-14)
***This class will start on 3/29/25***
Embark on a colorful adventure where your creativity and imagination knows no bounds! Dive deeper into your painting and drawing skills, exploring new materials – charcoal, soft pastels, watercolors, acrylics, and even collage. Unleash your inner artist! Prerequisite YAP202, YAP209, YAP226
Drawing Intensive for Teens (Ages 13-17)
***This class will start on 3/29/25***
This drawing intensive will challenge students in surprising ways, as they explore a variety of drawing techniques using charcoal and soft pastels. Emphasis will be placed on improving technique, speed, composition, and understanding of anatomy. Each class will present a fresh, challenging still life that may include a model. Repeated sessions are encouraged to expand skills and build a portfolio.
Film Photography and Dark Room for Teens (Ages 13 – 17)
"Does anyone use film cameras anymore? Yes, and you can, too! Learn to shoot on manual 35mm cameras with black-and-white film, develop your negatives, and learn to print photos in the darkroom using chemistry.
Pint Size Picassos (Winter Garden) (ages 4-8)
**Class meets at Jesse Brock Community Center**
**Class Begins on 3/29/24**
Like to draw and paint? Explore the many ways to make art using pastels, paints, watercolors and other materials. A fun introductory experience for fledgling artists.
Painting and Drawing I Winter Garden (Ages 8-12)
***This class will start on 3/29/25***
**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!
Inspired Words: Writing to Art 4/12
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.
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.
A Photographic and Cultural Tour of Switzerland with Peter Schreyer
Ikebana Pottery: The Japanese Art of Flower Arranging
Learn how to create various forms out of clay specific for this style of flower arrangement. Jesus will demonstrate both hand building and wheel throwing techniques to build these Ikebana containers. Ikebana in the Japanese art of flower arrangement using simple design principles that celebrate space, movement, and form. Participants will make the container the first day of the workshop and on the second day, when the containers have been finished and fired, Jesus will demonstrate the art of Ikebana and participants will make their own arrangements using their finished containers.
Calming Totems for Grounding and Mindfulness
Vibrant Oil Painting & Palette Knife Workshop
**Workshop takes place Saturday & Sunday, May 17 & 18, 10am – 4pm**
Learn the intricacies of palette knife painting using oil paints. Discover the hidden brilliance and clarity of the colors and their on impact on each other on the canvas. Your instructor will introduce you to and guide you through the process of oil painting techniques, color mixing, composition and application with a palette knife. Bring your own images or use references provided by the instructor. Experience the joy of painting, creating, and learning to be in the moment.
Make your creative work SHINE! You have the passion, you have the skill, now let’s take a deep dive into helping you understand the VALUE of your work, CLARIFY your unique and individual message and learn how to CREATE a beautiful, thoughtful and cohesive collection that will attract an audience excited to buy! We will discuss foundation and collection building, resistance, fears, marketing, photography and the launch of your work.