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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.
Sculpting Bigfoot or Alien 6/6
***This is a 2-day workshop held on Sat & Sun, June 6-7***
Use your imagination and creativity sculpting fantastical beings that exist in your mind’s eye, such as Bigfoot, Alien, or other creatures. Learn the basics of sculpture in a relaxed and fun environment.
Intermediate Wheel Throwing Mon 6:30
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
Use hand building and wheel methods to create an animal from a photo or a drawing using simple geometric forms. Start with simple forms on the potter’s wheel and finish your creation using hand building techniques.
Prereq: Hand Building Basics, Beginning Wheel Throwing, or similar experience. Class not suitable for beginners.
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.
Intro to Drawing and Painting (Monday)
Explore the foundations of drawing and painting basics. In each two-weeks segment, students will learn and sample various artistic techniques under the guidance of a different instructor. Each instructor brings their artistic techniques in diverse mediums, including pencil, charcoal, watercolors, acrylics, and oils. All supplies provided.
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.
*** This class is held at the Jessie Brock Community Center ***
*** Updated Start Date and Time ***
Create vibrant, drawings with full value range using charcoal/graphite. Starting with a block-in sketch then learn the principles of form modeling to create a look of realism and dimensionality. Work from still life set-ups or choose to draw your own subjects.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Intro to Drawing and Painting (Tuesday)
Explore the foundations of drawing and painting basics. In each two-weeks segment, students will learn and sample various artistic techniques under the guidance of a different instructor. Each instructor brings their artistic techniques in diverse mediums, including pencil, charcoal, watercolors, acrylics, and oils. All supplies provided.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Hand Building Independent Intensive
Prereq: Beginning Wheel Throwing; Hand Building Basics; or similar exp. (Course is not suitable for beginners).
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.
***Hybrid class, Studio 3 and Zoom***
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: Digital Photography I or similar experience. Skill level: Intermediate
Introduction to Jewelry Design & Fabrication
Intro to Silversmithing Jewelry
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.
Mesmerized by pottery posts on TikTok? Come get your hands dirty and experience the magic. Create pots on the wheel, then decorate and glaze them for gifts and goodies. Beginning and experienced teens welcome.
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!
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.
Learn how to use the first artistic medium in the history of man while discovering your hidden ability to create beautiful works of art with confidence! Create vibrant masterpieces while expanding your knowledge with a new medium. All oil and soft pastel supplies included.
Realistic Drawing with Colored Pencils
An exciting new twist to a classical drawing technique is colored pencil. Adding thin glaze-like layers of colored pencil to a carefully constructed drawing can produce surprising results. A step-by-step breakdown of the process will gain understanding of color, value structure, and traditional drawing methods.
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.
Black and White Film II: Fine-tuning Your Film and Printing 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 is more than just a pretty vase!
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.
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.
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.
Foundations of Press Mold Making
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.
Inspired Words: Writing to Art 6/13
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.
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!
Beginning Wheel Throwing Sunday 10:30
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 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.
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.
Observing Shapes and Movement in Landscapes
***This class is not suitable for beginners***
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.
Exploring the world becomes even more thrilling if you carry a sketchbook. Artists travel at a different pace than most tourists, taking the time to sketch and truly look at the places they visit. This class will cover principles of composition, perspective, and basic use of line and watercolor to quickly put travel memories on the page. Travel sketching has become a hip, analog way to discover the world.
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)
*This one-week camp meets Monday through Thursday.*
Full days of art experiences in four different media.
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.
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.
Experience the joy of washing and serving summer berries from your handmade ceramic berry bowl. On the first day, use hand building techniques to create a simple pinch pot, then add handles, feet, and drainage holes for rinsing fresh fruit. On the second day, finish your pot with a beautiful glaze to complete this fun and functional dish. Beginner friendly but open to all levels.
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 7/1/26.**
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.
Inspired Words: Writing to Art 7/18
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.
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.
Throw and Go Wheel Workshop Aug 1
Introduction to Sumi-e: The Ancient Art Of Asian Brush Painting
Create in the 3,000 year old Asian art style of Sumi-e painting using ink, special brushes, and rice paper. Experience painting in the traditions of ancient masters of an art form that developed alongside the invention of the basic strokes of character writing. Philosophy, traditions, techniques and set-up will be covered. Themes include bamboo, blossoms, plants, insects, animals and other elements of nature. This workshop is ideally suited for beginners, artists and non-artists and teachers who wish to add Sumi-e to their multicultural classroom experience. Materials provided, including quality brushes that participants keep. Students will receive a Sumi-e kit and supplies.
Sculpting Bigfoot or Alien 8/1
***This is a 2-day workshop held on Sat & Sun, Aug 1-2***
Use your imagination and creativity sculpting fantastical beings that exist in your mind’s eye, such as Bigfoot, Alien, or other creatures. Learn the basics of sculpture in a relaxed and fun environment.
Metal Folding Techniques for Jewelry
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***
Watercolor and Mixed Media Workshop
Looking for transformative ways to enhance your mixed media watercolor projects? Experiment with watercolor and mixed media using soft pastels, inks, colored pencils, and gesso. Bring other media you would like to add including stencils or collage to create an expressive and vibrant artwork. Focus is on color, textures, and new and exciting techniques.
Vibrant Oil Painting & Palette Knife Workshop
**Workshop takes place Saturday & Sunday, Aug. 15 and 16, 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. Not suitable for beginners.