ONSITE: Drawing Fundamentals (B)
Learn the basic tenets of drawing and composition. We’ll cover line, shape, space and value. Hone your observation skills and use charcoal to translate what you see to paper.
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ONLINE: Follow Your Bliss
All of us were born hard-wired with certain predilections, certain things we love above all others. Sometimes these passions were squelched, but in this class, we’ll spend time discovering what it is we really love to do, what makes us feel excited, what feeds our spirits. We’ll take some time to sort out what stopped […]
read moreONSITE: Intermediate Digital Photography
Take your photographs to the next level! You know how to use your digital camera, but have creative ennui. In this class, students are encouraged to discover their personal style with weekly assignments. We will discuss portraiture, night photography, still life and documenting daily trivia (at home). Students have the opportunity to share and discuss […]
read moreONLINE: Revision Workshop
Have a story that needs work but you don’t know where to start? In this workshop, students learn different methods for revision, how to assess and incorporate feedback, and work through their own revision of a short story or novel excerpt. Nothing we write can stand on its own without some phase of revision. Students […]
read moreONSITE: Editing the Digital Photograph in Adobe Lightroom
Adobe Lightroom is a powerful program that allows you to catalog and enhance your digital photographs. We will cover its most useful features like importing, making collections, fix exposure and color, applying local adjustments, using graduated filters, creating fun presets and converting images to black and white. Each week, students have the opportunity to practice […]
read moreONLINE: Novel Writing
Build a workable first draft of a novel by the final session of this year-long class. We’ll focus on technique and craft as well as plot structure as we work our way through your novel from start to finish.
read moreONLINE: Drawing Fundamentals for the Still Life: Flowers, Furniture & Food
This course will cover a range of drawing experiences. We”ll connect and learn from one another in an online environment. We’ll explore the fundamentals of line through tone, proportion, harmony and composition. The beginner will learn processes that will provide enough structure to develop comfort and confidence while moving forward with drawing techniques and subject […]
read moreONLINE: Ink, Watercolor + Gouache
This two-hour studio course is designed for painters who are familiar with the fundamentals of water media and who are interested in the development of the subject matter, style and content of their painting. Each session will begin with a short presentation on an artist, technique or exhibition with follow up time used for guidance, […]
read moreONLINE: Watercolor for the Absolute Beginner (A)
This class is for watercolor beginners. Learn the art of watercolor painting as we explore basic painting techniques such as layering color and creating texture. As we build on these techniques, we’ll create several pieces of artwork including a one point perspective city scape, an abstract ocean scene and a still-life plant study.
read moreONLINE: Writing Poetry
We’ll read and discuss poems written by other people, then write poems of our own, with special attention to elements of line, image and syntax. Students will learn how close readings of other poems may inspire their own work, and how they might read their own work with fresh eyes. Each meeting will include at […]
read moreONSITE: Intermediate Drawing
If you’ve taken a beginner drawing class, this intermediate class is a great opportunity to practice your observation skills, experiment with personal mark making style and apply them to various subject areas with drawing media. Explore and get guidance as you develop your own individual style and subject matter interests. We’ll focus on the development […]
read moreONSITE: Glass Fusing + Slumping for the Absolute Beginner (A)
Learn to fuse and slump glass in the kiln. We’ll create designs by cutting colored sheet glass, using glass stringers, rods and frits. By layering patterns and firing glass in kilns, students can create tiles, bowls, plates and panels. No previous experience needed.
read moreONSITE: Introduction to the Wheel (A)
Learn to throw clay on a potter’s wheel. We’ll cover the foundations of wheel work, including wedging and centering clay and forming cylinders, cups and bowls. Basic glazing information will help you finish your final forms.
read moreONSITE: Glass Fusing + Slumping for the Absolute Beginner (B)
Learn to fuse and slump glass in the kiln. We’ll create designs by cutting colored sheet glass, using glass stringers, rods and frits. By layering patterns and firing glass in kilns, students can create tiles, bowls, plates and panels. No previous experience needed.
read moreONSITE: Stained Glass (A)
Learn the basics of glass cutting, foiling, soldering and framing in order to embellish your home with stained glass panels, decorative mirrors or handmade lampshades. By the end of the class, beginners will have learned the fundamentals and completed a panel. Returning students will be able to explore more advanced techniques.
read moreONSITE: Kurinuki: Japanese Clay Hollowing
Kurinuki is the Japanese technique of starting with a block of clay, developing the exterior, then hollowing it out. This class will create a box, bud vase, tea bowl and more. We will also explore images of Kurinuki work and talk about bottles, incense burners, pouring vessels and larger bowls.
read moreONLINE: Pen + Ink Drawing
Learn how to draw using black India ink, a dip pen and brush. We’ll cover techniques such as cross-hatching and stippling. You’ll learn the ins and outs of using a dip pen and brush, then we’ll go over drawing fundamentals such as value, perspective and line. We’ll also study the history of ink drawing by […]
read moreONLINE: Wax Carving: Basic Band & Signet Ring
Use hard wax and carving tools that you already have on hand to learn and execute the basics or add to your repertoire of hard carving wax skills. You’ll learn the skills needed to carve a basic band and a signet ring.
read moreONLINE: Freewriting Intensive
Let’s generate new work for the new year! Through intensive freewriting and class discussion, we will delve deeper and complicate our initial ideas. Open to all genres and levels. This class is for first-time writers, writers in the muddled middle of a longer project, and writers feeling directionless after time away from the page. Like […]
read moreONSITE: Thrown + Altered Forms
Learn to create expressive ceramic pots by altering thrown forms. In addition to demonstrating the basics of wheel throwing, we’ll cover a variety of techniques used to alter forms like cups, vases, bowls, etc. We’ll also cover creative surface strategies.
read moreONSITE: Intermediate Wheel + Hand Building
Learn to make functional forms such as bowls, mugs and lidded pieces. We’ll review the basics of wheel throwing and hand building—including pinch, coil, and slab construction methods—before building on what we know. We’ll also cover surface treatment and glaze techniques.
read moreONSITE: Storytelling in Oil
Explore different ways of storytelling through paint! This course will broadly address the connection between narrative and painting. The class will be utilizing story and memory as a framework to make paintings. Each week we will look at and discuss painters, both abstract and representational, historical and contemporary, and how their work connects to narrative. […]
read moreONLINE: Intermediate Digital Photography
Take your photographs to the next level! You know how to use your digital camera, but have creative ennui. In this five week class, students are encouraged to discover their personal style with weekly assignments. We will discuss self-portraiture, night photography, still life and documenting daily trivia (at home). Students have the opportunity to share […]
read moreONLINE: Writing the Shadow
Explore the dark self, what Carl Jung called the “shadow” part of our psyche. Sometimes we see it in our dreams, sometimes it appears in dark imaginings. We’ll learn what the shadow can add to our creative writing by experimenting with timed writing, dream journals, guided imagery and Active Imagination.
read moreONSITE: Introduction to Loom Weaving
Learn to weave on a floor loom. You’ll enjoy warping demonstrations and plenty of practice time, along with tips for achieving smooth selvages and an even beat. Plan to design and complete at least one plain weave project—a rag rug, a scarf or a table runner. Returning students will take on more complex projects.
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