Upcoming Adult Classes

Pour. Smile. Repeat: Acrylic Paint Pouring—“Puddle Pour” (Adults)

Instructor: Dan McAvey

Date: Monday, January 28th

Time: 7-9 pm

Cost: $39 Non-member/$35 Member
 

Small Paintings-Big Impact: Still Life (Adults)

Have you always wanted to learn to paint but feel short on time, space, or money to put into it? In this course, we’ll learn how making small paintings can resolve all three of these issues while providing opportunities to make beautiful, complete works of art to colorize your kitchen! We’ll cover acrylic painting fundamentals as well as strategies for working art into your busy life. Students can expect to complete one unique still life painting in each of the four class periods.

Instructor: Dan McAvey

Dates: Mondays, February 4th-25th

Time: 7-9:30 pm

Cost: $105 Non-member/$95 Member
 

Lights! Camera! Action! What's your digital story? (Adults)

Join us to learn the craft of digital storytelling! This workshop will empower participants as digital storytellers to write, craft, and edit a digital story based on a personal experience. Participants will learn how to craft key story ingredients into a memorable video to be posted online. First, we'll explore storytelling concepts, then write a short personal story, craft a video script, and then create a digital story through video editing. Media Artist conducts video editing in collaboration with digital storytellers. Class does not meet for a fifth session, but the instructor will work with students on final editing during that week.

Instructor: Nan Toskey

Dates: Tuesdays, February 5th-26th (Video editing conducted remotely the following week)

Time: 7-9pm

Cost: $150 Non-member/$135 Member
 

Pour. Smile. Repeat: Acrylic Paint Pouring—“Dirty Pour” (Adults)

Acrylic paint pouring is an exciting method for making unique, abstract art. In this class, we’ll start by learning about pouring mediums and how to mix paints to get consistent results. There will be a couple demonstrations, then you’ll get to create a unique painting of your own on a 9x12” canvas. In this session, we’ll learn a couple “dirty pour” techniques and how to make cells in your paintings. All supplies are included! Wear old clothes, it’s a messy medium. Paintings take 36 hours to dry, so you’ll need to come back to the Arts Center to pick up your painting later in the week.

Instructor: Dan McAvey

Date: Monday, March 4th

Time: 7-9 pm

Cost: $39 Non-member/$35 Member

Paint Night: Farmscape (Adults)

Enjoy an evening out while you make a beautiful painting of a Minnesota farmscape! In this one-night class, artist Dan McAvey will walk you through the steps to complete a 16x20" painting of a local farm using acrylic paints. No painting or drawing experience is required to have a fun night out and create a work of art you can bring home! Supplies are included in the course fee.

Instructor: Dan McAvey

Date: Monday, March 11th

Time: 7-9:30 pm

Cost: $39 Non-member/$35 Member

Alcohol Ink Painting (Adults)

Experiment with alcohol inks on Yupo paper. The non-absorbent nature of Yupo means it will not buckle, no matter how much water you put on it and it makes colors more vibrant and brilliant than on standard papers as all the color sits on the surface. Alcohol inks are pigment-intense and vibrant, free-flowing and filled with an energy all their own. You will leave the workshop with knowledge of a new technique that you can take home and expand your artistic interest.

Instructor: Lisa Vitkus

Date: March 12th

Time: 7-8:30pm

Cost: $38 Non-member / $34 Member

Pour. Smile. Repeat: Acrylic Paint Pouring—“Swipe Technique” (Adults)

Acrylic paint pouring is an exciting method for making unique, abstract art. In this class, we’ll start by learning about pouring mediums and how to mix paints to get consistent results. There will be a couple demonstrations, then you’ll get to create a unique painting of your own on a 9x12” canvas. In this session, we’ll learn the swipe technique to make incredible cells in your paintings. All supplies are included! Wear old clothes, it’s a messy medium. Paintings take 36 hours to dry, so you’ll need to come back to the Arts Center to pick up your painting later in the week.

Instructor: Dan McAvey

Date: Monday, March 18th

Time: 7-9 pm

Cost: $39 Non-member/$35 Member
 

Pour. Smile. Repeat: Acrylic Paint Pouring—“Tree Ring Pour” (Adults)

Acrylic paint pouring is an exciting method for making unique, abstract art. In this class, we’ll start by learning about pouring mediums and how to mix paints to get consistent results. There will be a couple demonstrations, then you’ll get to create a unique painting of your own on a 9x12” canvas. In this session, we’ll learn the tree ring pour technique. All supplies are included! Wear old clothes, it’s a messy medium. Paintings take 36 hours to dry, so you’ll need to come back to the Arts Center to pick up your painting later in the week.

Instructor: Dan McAvey

Date: Monday, April 1st

Time: 7-9 pm

Cost: $39 Non-member/$35 Member

Small Paintings-Big Impact: Florals (Adults)

Have you always wanted to learn to paint but a shortage of time, space, or money have kept you from doing so? In this course, we’ll learn how making small paintings can resolve all three of these issues while providing opportunities to make beautiful, complete works of art to liven up your living room. We’ll cover acrylic painting fundamentals as well as strategies for working art into your life. Our subject matter will be flowers and students can expect to complete one unique floral painting in each of the five class periods.

Instructor: Dan McAvey

Dates: Mondays, April 15th-May 6th

Time: 7-9:30 pm

Cost: $105 Non-member/$95 Member

Pour. Smile. Repeat: Acrylic Paint Pouring—SMASH!! (Adults)

Acrylic paint pouring is an exciting method for making unique, abstract art. In this class, we’ll start by learning about pouring mediums and how to mix paints to get consistent results. There will be a couple demonstrations, then you’ll get to create a unique painting of your own on a 9x12” canvas. In this session, we’ll use rubber mallets to pound the paint on the canvas to create beautiful blooms and lacing. All supplies are included! Wear old clothes, it’s a messy medium. Paintings take 36 hours to dry, so you’ll need to come back to the Arts Center to pick up your painting later in the week.

Instructor: Dan McAvey

Date: Monday, May 13th

Time: 7-9 pm

Cost: $39 Non-member/$35 Member

Silk Scarf Painting (16+)

Learn the French Serti technique of silk painting while creating a beautiful scarf. Share an unforgettable afternoon of art with friends, family and new acquaintances. No art experience necessary. Create your own design as simple or complex as you would like. It's easy, it's clean, it's fun, and you get startlingly beautiful results. Youth 16 and older may register when accompanied by a registered adult. Visit our Pinterest site to get ideas and inspiration prior to class.
http://www.pinterest.com/kidzartmn/silk-scarf-painting-ideas/

Card payment options for this class will be added soon. You may still register via check. Thank you for your patience.

Instructor: Lisa Vitkus

Date: Tuesday,May 21st

Time: 6-9pm

Cost: $42 Non-Member / $38 Member

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Canvas Fun: Dragonflies & Surfboards. Ages 6-12

Join us for a fun day of painting! We will create a colorful sunset sky with dragonflies with acrylic paints on an 11x14” stretched canvas. We will also paint a beach scene of surfboards in the sand against on a canvas tote bag. Come prepared to get messy and paint with us!

Instructor: Lisa Vitkus

Date: June 7th

Time: 9am-12pm

Cost: $48 Non-Member/ $43 Member

All About MN Art Camp! Ages 8-14

This art camp is all about Minnesota! Create artwork based off of Minnesota landmarks, tall tales (such as Paul Bunyan), national parks, traditional native arts (Ojibwe floral designs) and your favorite parts of MN! This class includes drawing, painting, printmaking, and air dry clay as well!  We will take a look at current local artists from MN for our inspiration! This Minnesotan class will be messy so please dress to make a mess, Uffda! All supplies included.

Instructor: Katie Walters

Dates: June 17th-20th

Time: 9:30am-12pm

Cost: $160 Non-Member/$144 Member

Summer Vacation Art Adventures! Ages 6-12

In this class we will learn about the form of pop art as we start out our summer adventures! We will be drawing pictures of some of our favorite foods and learning the technique of pointillism! Bright and bold colors will be a must through this part of our art journey! We will also travel around the world with our imaginations and create our own versions of some famous landmarks! Drawing, painting, and air dry clay will be involved! This vacation will be filled with messy fun so please dress to make a mess! All supplies included.

Instructor: Katie Walters

Dates: June 24th-27th

Time: 10am-12pm

Cost: $145 Non-Member/ $130 Member
 

Kinder Art Exploration. Ages 5-6

Come and explore multiple art mediums as we set out on our adventure of creativity and exploration! We will learn basic shapes and drawing skills to create our very own robot! We will explore watercolor and tempera painting techniques to paint and draw animals such as owls and maybe even some Dinosaurs! We will even make an air dry clay pinch pot! Age limit is strict, must be 5 by class date.  Please come dressed ready to make a mess! All supplies included.

Instructor: Katie Walters

Dates: July 8th-10th

Time: 9am-10am

Cost: $130 Non-Member/ $117 Member

Painting with Acrylic and Canvas. Ages 10-16

This fun filled painting class will be all about acrylic paints and scapes! We will be painting a landscape, a cityscape, and a seascape on canvas! We will look at art history and see the different types and styles of landscapes, cityscapes, and seascapes to help inspire us!  Techniques of acrylic painting will be explored first and then we will jump into the paintings! Please come ready dressed to make a mess! All supplies included.

Instructor: Katie Walters

Dates: July 8th-11th

Time: 1-4pm

Cost: $195 Non-Member/ $175 Member

Chalk it Up! Ages 12-16


This art camp will be all about chalk! We will learn how to blend chalk pastels on a small scale, and then take it to the big scale! First we will learn the basics of chalk and how to draw with the grid method in order to make their drawings life size!  We will be doing our final piece as street artists, weather permitting! This class will be messy and will involve bending down and working on the ground for the street method portion of the class. Please dress to make a mess and be ready to chalk it up! If weather permits chalking outside please bring a hat, water bottle, and sunscreen along with a healthy snack to keep our energy up!

Instructor: Katie Walters

Dates: July 15th-18th

Time: 8am-11am

Cost: $160 Non-Member/ $144 Member

Ooey, Gooey, Messy Art Camp. Ages 6-12

Its time to get super messy with this 4 day camp of crazy, messy, artsy fun. KidzArt always offers all new art projects and lots of experimenting with a variety of art tools and mediums. From paint, clay, and paper-mache your budding artist will be surprised at what their imaginations will create.

Instructor: Lisa Vitkus

Dates: July 15th-July 18th

Time: 1-3pm

Cost: $120 Non-Member/ $108 Member 

Studio Arts Academy. Ages 12-16

This class will focus on the expanding upon the fundamentals of drawing and concepts for painting on canvas and other traditional and nontraditional surfaces. Students will investigate the use of different drawing mediums such as graphite, charcoal, pencil, and acrylic paints. Please bring a sketchbook to class each day (all other supplies included).

Instructor: Lisa Vitkus

Dates: July 29th-August 1st

Time: 9am-12pm

Cost: $140 Non-Members/ $126 Member

Slime Time! Ages 6-12

Get ready for a messy good time making slime and other fun potions. We'll experiment and investigate interesting ingredients to create wild concoctions, bubbling potions and fizzy creations. We will design cool containers and bottles to house our concoctions. It's going to be a messy, fun time!!

Instructor: Lisa Vitkus

Date: August 9th

Time: 9am-12pm

Cost: $55 Non-Member/ $49 Member