Through the art of teaching, critique, demonstration, and discussion groups large and small, our faculty and students explore what creativity means through guided projects in various studio environments. We offer a wide variety of creative endeavors to build confidence and skill in ceramics, painting, drawing, photography, film, digital art, multimedia, textiles, printmaking, and jewelry design.
Advanced Drawing
With Roumen Boudev
Begins: April 25, 9:00 am
5 weeks, Fri 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Location & Summary
Art School: Studio A
Learn the masters’ advanced methods, materials, and techniques and create your unique drawings! With many demonstrations, lessons, presentations, and critiques provided by the instructor, the students will be able to develop hyper realistic details and fully 3D effect, while exploring still life, landscape, and plaster cast.
Plein Air Painting
With Janet Onofrey
Begins: April 25, 9:00 am
5 weeks, Fri 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Location & Summary
Art School: Drawing Studio
Embrace the experience of painting from life, “plein air” outdoors, weather permitting. Learn to use a limited palette and size down your materials to handle the challenge of utilizing direct observation to gather information. Proper equipment is required. All levels welcome, but basic paint mixing experience is helpful. Focus is on color and composition.
Sculpting Stories in Clay
With Leda Almar
Begins: April 25, 9:00 am
5 weeks, Fri 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Location & Summary
Art School: Ceramics Studio
Students will embark on a creative journey where they learn to sculpt their emotions, memories, and ideas into tangible, expressive forms. The class combines technical instruction in hand-building techniques with a focus on storytelling through clay, helping students merge skill and imagination.
Advanced Painting
With Roumen Boudev
Begins: April 25, 1:00 pm
5 weeks, Fri 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Location & Summary
Art School: Studio A
Come to our friendly painting studio to create, experiment, and have fun! Continue learning advanced methods and techniques while focusing on your unique individual approach and style. Working in either representational or non-representational styles, we will learn about exciting techniques such as glazing, direct paint, and impasto. Course emphasizes in the interaction of color and form, the rules of composition, developing a personal palette, and individual expression. All painting media and mixed media a
Exploring Watercolor: Beginners and Beyond!
With Janet Onofrey
Begins: April 25, 1:00 pm
5 weeks, Fri 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Location & Summary
Art School: Studio D & E Combined
Using still life as subjects, students explore basic color usage, brushes, paper and mixes. Experiment with gradient washes, sponging, scratching, dry brushing, masking, wet-on-wet and more techniques.
Ceramics and Pottery
With Cynthia Zmetronak
Begins: April 26, 9:00 am
5 weeks, Sat 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Location & Summary
Art School: Ceramics Studio
This fundamental course offers an exploration into creating forms in wet clay and transforming them into permanent ceramic objects. Students learn to form clay through handbuilding and throwing on the potter’s wheel, and also explore glazes and decorative finishes. *All Materials Included
Nature & Landscape Photography
With Jerry Ginsberg
Begins: April 26, 9:00 am
5 weeks, Sat 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Location & Summary
Art School: Photo Studio
Turn your photos from Blah to Ahhh! Give them the impact and drama they deserve. Learn how to use light, color and creative composition to make your pictures stand out with punch. Explore the Digital Darkroom and gain an overview of today’s simple, yet elegant software tools.
Freestyle Figure Drawing - Nude Model
With Barbara Wasserman
Begins: April 26, 1:00 pm
5 weeks, Sat 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Location & Summary
Art School: Great Room
Learn to translate what you see and how to draw what you see from a live model. Students will be taught movement, proportion and foreshortening. These elements will help to create your own style. Various techniques will be taught to enhance your very own creative process.
Metal Clay in Bronze, Silver, and Copper
With Jane Levy
Begins: April 26, 1:00 pm
5 weeks, Sat 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Location & Summary
Art School: Jewelry Studio
Metal clay is a compound of organic binders infused with metals such as copper, bronze, or silver that fuses into a solid metal when fired. By manipulating the clay with rubber stamps, carving tools, and hand building, this exciting new medium can be used to create one-of-a-kind jewelry or sculpture pieces.
The Digital Darkroom
With Jerry Ginsberg
Begins: April 26, 1:00 pm
5 weeks, Sat 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Location & Summary
Art School: Photo Studio
Learn to use the magic of Adobe Photoshop® and other software to reveal the hidden potential of your pictures. Demystify the Digital Darkroom and today’s easy to use yet elegant software tools. You’ll learn the easy way to coax the hidden beauty out of every picture you make. Photo software is user-friendly and can be fun to use. Photographs made with digital cameras and/or scanned film will benefit the most.
Wheelthrowing: Intermediate to Advanced
With Cynthia Zmetronak
Begins: April 26, 1:00 pm
5 weeks, Sat 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Location & Summary
Art School: Ceramics Studio
Further develop and improve your throwing skills. Learn how to alter and combine thrown forms using a variety of techniques. Teapots, lidded vessels , squared thrown work and more. Create new work on a more independent level with regular guidance from the instructor.
Advanced Sogetsu Ikebana
With Chieko Mihori
Begins: May 2, 1:00 pm
4 weeks, Fri 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Location & Summary
Art School: Great Room
This ancient Japanese art form seeks to create a living sculpture that transcends the beauty of nature. More than merely arranging flowers, Ikebana often emphasizes other areas of the plant, such as its stems and leaves, focusing on shape, line, harmony, and balance.
Japanese Floral Sculpture Sogetsu Ikebana
With Chieko Mihori
Begins: May 6, 10:00 am
3 weeks, Tue 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Location & Summary
Art School: Studio A
Sogetsu Ikebana is much more than Japanese flower arranging; it is a modern form of the ancient art of sculpture with living materials. Learn the traditional principles and aesthetic disciplines combined with creative energies to capture, express, and enhance natural beauty. Flower fee of $80 paid to the instructor, ($20 per class), Instructor will bring flowers for students, please let her know if you are NOT coming. Ikebana frog and container starting at $40.
Pastel Painting Workshop
With Oksana Urban
Begins: May 10, 1:00 pm
Saturday 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location & Summary
Art School: Great Room
During the soft pastel workshop, students will explore the magic of painting landscapes with pastels. Varieties of soft pastel techniques will be explained. Students will learn from a teacher demonstration. Bringing your own photo reference is optional. All levels are welcome.
