We offer year-round classes in crafts and fine arts for adults, teens, and children. Our resident artists work and teach in well-equipped studios located in charming, historic buildings. Our students develop their artistic skills and experience the joy of creating with paint, wood, clay, and other mediums. Older teens (14+) are welcome in most adult classes.
Workshops not to miss!
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- Wood/Salt Fire Workshop
Instructor: Gail Van de Bogurt
August 30th-September 4th
5:30-9:00Pm
Cost: $195 Materials: $35
Workshop gives participants an opportunity to explore the way form and surface decoration can interplay in pottery to give handmade functional ware both personality and appeal. Gail’s teaching style is relaxed and interactive. Whether you are still honing your throwing skills or an accomplished potter she will help you to explore the dialog between you and the clay. Workshop participants can bring bisqueware to include in the gas fired salt kiln which will be fired on Friday. A Museum field trip is also planned for Friday. - Close-up & Macro Photography 2 Day-Workshop
Instructor: Carl Rubino
Saturday, September 11th(9-5PM)- Sunday, September 12th (9-4PM)
Member: $165, Non-Member: $195This workshop will focus on techniques and equipment needed to take shots ranging from typical close up shots of subjects such as flowers, peeling paint on the side of a building, a rain streaked window pane, a baby’s hands or whatever else inspires you, to extreme close up, or macro photography, which reproduces an image at life size or greater than life size, and is often used to create abstract images such as petals of a flower taken at such close range that they appear as washes or layers of color, abstract patterns revealed in an insect’s wing or in a rusted metal surface, or droplets of water reflecting clouds in the sky above. The possibilites in both close up and macro work range from incredibly beautiful and accurate renderings of natural and man-made objects to the widly abstract. We will learn by lecture, demonstration, slide shows and actually going outside and shooting close up and macro shots during the workshop.
www.carlrubinophotography.com - Michael DeMeng: The Secret Keeper
Instructor: Michael DeMeng
Saturday, October 16th
10:00-4:00
Members $160, Non-Members $180, Materials: $25 and Material List.
I’ve always like the idea of a place where secrets are kept. Of course most people think of Pandora and her box (which, as an aside was actually a large jar in the original story…I think I prefer to think of it as a small box for some reason), or there is Alice going down the Rabbit Hole. In both cases there is potential danger inside those sacred places, but also potential enlightenment. This is the idea that lurks behind the workshop Students will create a small realm to preserve sacred things, but that’s not all, students will also create a small little metaphoric representation of what they want to lock away or keep safe. To do this w will explore a variety of assemblage, collage, and painting techniques to create these magical little worlds Are you locking away a secret or keeping something sacred safe? - Michael DeMeng: Angels and Demons
Instructor: Michael DeMeng
Sunday October 17th
10-4
Members $160, Non-Members $180, Materials: $25 and Material List.
Good Guys versus Bad Guys…yep that’s what this class is all about. You’ll have to decide which side of this epic battle for the dominion of…sorry, I get a little carried away sometime. Actually, what this class is about is playing with busted toys and reinventing them. What could be more fun? Gather up those Barbies, GI Joes, or wedding figurines, because we’re going to dismantle them and reassemble with a variety of found objects into rather non-traditional angels and demons. In this class you will learn a variety of processes involving assemblage, and collage as well as an extensive amount of painting techniques. Now the big question…will you create a friend or fiend?