Summer Classes

Adults & Teens

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CLAY

Create original art in either functional or decorative styles using the wheel, hand building or sculpting techniques. Glazing methods range from functional tableware to decorative saggar, raku and smoking. All ability levels welcome.

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STUDIO PAINTING

Choose any Painting or Drawing option: oil, acrylic, watercolor, pastel, charcoal, conte, pencil, ink pens. Paint or Draw from nature, studio set ups, photographs, or use your imagination. Begin with traditional methods and materials to create a design plan, explore techniques unique to each medium, study color and compositional principles culminating in your own unique piece of art.

PLEIN AIR

Explore the immediacy of painting outside from nature, understanding composition, color, the effects of light and atmosphere. Choose your favorite medium, pastel, oil, acrylic or watercolor.

Children (8-12 year olds)

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CLAY

Following a fun theme, students use hand building, wheel thrown and sculpting techniques to produce several functional and decorative clay pieces.

DRAWING

Unlock the creative process by building a foundation based on a new art principle each lesson. Enjoy the variety of mediums introduced, resulting in a varied portfolio of works.


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PAINTING

Using acrylic paints and canvas panels supported by an easel, students experience the freedom of creative color mixing and stroke application creating several works.