Spring Art Classes for Teens and Adults
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Now offering evening — and DAYTIME — classes!
February 7 through March 18, 2022
Registration Deadline: Sunday, January 30, 2022
We are bringing you our spring studio art classes in a whole new way! Offering daytime and evening course options perfect for all schedules, our classes will be sure to help spark your creativity in the new year! Each class is perfect for beginners or lifetime artists looking to enhance their skills in a group setting.
See a course you think you'd enjoy? Click on one of the photos below to find more information about a specific class.
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February 9 - March 16, 2022
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Digital Painting
Wednesdays, 10 am to 1 pm
Instructor: Reinier Munguia, Professional Illustrator and Photographer, owner of Wildstock Photography
This course will focus on the fundamentals of digital painting and illustration. Learn the proper use of the tools supplied by the computer software and how to apply conventional techniques in your digital media. Working digitally provides the artist with an endless source of colors and brushes to produce amazingly real paintings that rival conventional media.
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Intro to Digital Photography
Wednesdays, 1 to 4 pm
Instructor: Sarah Brewington Baarns, M.F.A. in Art Practice, The School of Visual Art
This introductory level digital photography course will cover the primary characteristics of creating successful digital images with your DSLR, Mirrorless, or Point and Shoot camera: Light, Composition, Aperture, Shutter Speed, Communication, and Concept. Each completed project will have a critique session where we can engage with, experience, understand, and enjoy one another’s work in a collaborative environment of learning.
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Environmental Art & Eco-Poetry
Wednesdays, 10 am to 1 pm
Instructor: Cecilia Llompart, M.F.A. in Poetry, University of Virginia
This class will focus on the impact of the environmental movement on the arts, including historical approaches to and perspectives of nature, as well as more recent ecological and politically motivated work. Students will explore these themes while generating their own work and will complete several polished pieces of writing, several rough sketches of local flora and fauna, and one environmental sculpture or one 3D mixed-media collage/assemblage.
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February 8 - March 18, 2022
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Intro to Film Photography
Fridays, 10 am to 1 pm
Instructor: Sarah Brewington Baarns, M.F.A. in Art Practice, The School of Visual Art
This introductory-level film photography course will cover the following primary characteristics of creating successful negatives and prints with your own 35mm film camera: light, composition, aperture, shutter speed, communication, and concept. Each of these photographic tenets will be paired with an Inspiration (a shared discussion of the works of other successful photographers) as well as specific development and printing techniques.
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Open Studio
Fridays, 2 to 4 pm
Monitor: Tara Jessup, B.A., Studio Art, Florida Southern College
Monitored open studio hours are being offered for those with a basic knowledge of their chosen medium who wish to work at their own pace with like-minded individuals without instruction, but with access to studio space and equipment. Equipment access includes: darkroom, printing press, ceramic kiln, wedging table, pottery wheels, slab roller, easels, drying racks, and basic studio setup with sinks.
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All classes are open to students ages 15+ unless otherwise noted.
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February 7 - March 14, 2022
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Art Fundamentals for Teens
Mondays, 6 to 8 pm
Instructor: Tara Jessup, B.A. Studio Art, Florida Southern College
Ever wonder what makes a piece of art successful or how to go about simply understanding art? This course is made for artistic teenagers! In this course, you —or your favorite teen — will explore how to use and identify the fundamentals of art: color, composition, value, form, brushwork, and perspective.
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Mixed Media
Mondays, 6 to 8 pm
Instructor: Casey Hall, B.F.A., Florida Southern College
This course will introduce a variety of mixed media techniques, including collage, xerox transfers, and acrylic mediums. Utilize everyday items to create in bold new ways. We will also cover the “hows, whys, and whens” of materials and solvents, enabling all student-artists in the class to confidently explore and express their creativity and imagination.
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Watercolor Painting - Full
Mondays, 6 to 8 pm
Instructor: Julie Terhaar, BFA, Illustration and Painting, Savannah College of Art and Design
Explore the realistic and illustrative approach with this popular medium. Learn to mix and blend color using a dry-brush technique, create texture with salt, and experiment with pen and ink (you will also learn all about traditional wet on wet applications). Students will begin with a simple still life to familiarize themselves with the properties of the watercolor medium and then move on to complete several projects including florals, landscapes, and portrait painting.
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February 8 - March 15, 2022
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Beginning Illustration
Tuesdays, 6 to 9 pm
Instructor: Simoni Limeira Bonadies, M.A., Sociology, Federal University of Alagoas Maceió
Is drawing something you have always wanted to learn how to do but don’t know where to start? Now is the time: Illustration is one of the most familiar and popular forms of art. In this course, you will learn how to draw and bring your illustrations to life with colored pencils. Through drawing exercises catered to the beginning illustrator, students will learn how to draw and work with their instructor to hone their skills, creating several illustrations inspired by the master illustrator Norman Rockwell and others.
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Collage and Comics
Tuesdays, 6 to 9 pm
Instructor: Cecilia Llompart, M.F.A in Poetry, University of Virginia
Collage? Comics? What could be more fun or of-this-moment? This class will provide an opportunity for ALL students — regardless of their level of experience with either genre — to produce the most experimental of all artworks. Equipped with a wide variety of mixed media materials (including magazine and newspaper clippings, fabric and textiles, fragments of other artwork or texts, photographs and found objects, etc.), students will get to experiment with a variety of paints and adhesives in order to produce incredible collages and comics creations.
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Figure Painting in Oil with a Limited Palette
Tuesdays, 6 to 9 pm
Instructor: Christopher Roll, M.S. Art Education, Buffalo State College
Learn the classical atelier technique of painting from a live model using a limited palette of oil paint on canvas. Concepts taught will include anatomical correctness, rending form, color mixing with a limited palette, blending oils, and developing personal voice through experimentation and discovery. Students will benefit from a lively, supportive classroom environment featuring weekly instructor demonstrations, one-on-one support, and constructive class critiques based on the elements of art and the principles of design.
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Art Appreciation: Unexpected Europe
Tuesdays, 6 to 8 pm
Instructor: Jan Hurndon, M.A. History and Culture, Union Institute and University
Free for Members!
Sometimes, unexpected discoveries can be the most rewarding. Join us as we explore (from the comfort and security of the Museum’s auditorium) some of Europe’s lesser known works of artwork. We’ll strike out to encounter oeuvres and their creators that don’t normally grab our attention or even their own chapter in art history texts. For each week of the class, we’ll visit a different country or region of Europe including Spain, Ireland, Russia, the Netherlands (and Flanders), Greece, and Norway.
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As we continue our 55th anniversary exhibition season, we hope you will partake in all the Museum has to offer both in-person and virtually. If you're in a position to support us, please consider making a donation in any amount to help us keep the Museum going during this time of financial difficulties.
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