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LIBRARY ARTS CENTER STUDIO PROGRAM:WINTER & SPRING 2012 |
To register call 603-863-3040
**PLEASE NOTE: If the class of your choice is full or canceled due to lack of enrollment, you will be notified and entitled to a full refund. Class tuition is due in full on or before the first day of the class session. Make-up classes will only be offered when the instructor is unable to teach his/her class.
Members of the Library Arts Center may subtract 10% from tuition prices of all classes.
Scholarships for children’s classes are available, please inquire.
Round One of Class Listings, more to be added soon – ranging from children’s sewing to adult’s life drawing and watercolor classes.
Classes for Children
Inuit Art Study: Winter Animals
Instructors: Mary Willis & Caitlin Mauser Rowe
Ages: 7 – 11
Tuition: $30.00 includes all materials
Dates/Times: Jan 24th, 31st, Feb. 7th and 14th 4:00-5:30pm
Maximum enrollment: 10
Description: Spend some chilly winter afternoons in the warm studio learning about artists from the Arctic region. Explore the stunning stylized artwork of the Pacific Northwest. Hear the legends and symbolism attached to animals often depicted in Inuit artwork. Create your own animal portraits in this unique, bold style.
Artful “Upcycled” Valentines for Children
Instructor: Fran Huot
Tuition: $5.00
Dates/Times: Wed. – Thurs. Feb. 1-2, 3:30-5:00pm
Maximum enrollment: 10
Description: Why not try some handmade, earth-friendly valentines this year? Learn to make your own artful valentines from recycled materials, including cardboard, brown paper bags, recycled gift wrap & origami paper, and old crayons—while also giving thought to composition, texture & contrast. At the end of this two-day workshop, students will walk away with several special valentines to share with teachers, friends & family, and a collection of valentines to present to their classmates.
Creating Comics
Instructor: Marek Bennet
Ages: 4th-6th Graders
Tuition: $15.00 (includes both days, and materials!)
Dates/Times: Mon., Feb. 27 & Fri., Mar. 2 (during school vacation week)
Hours: 9am – 3pm (bring a brown bag lunch)
Maximum enrollment: 10
Description: Everybody can be a cartoonist! In this fun, two-day workshop students will learn quick & powerful ways to create characters & develop interesting stories from professional cartoonist & instructor Marek Bennet! This class is the first of hopefully many partnerships with Communities United Regional Network for Sullivan County, supporting kids living healthy lives and making positive choices. At the end of the second class, each participant will have a self-published pocket-sized mini comic. Directly following the end of the second class, there will be a “comic convention” in the studio where students can share their finished comics with family and friends.
Basket Weaving Workshop
Instructors: Nancy Parssinen & Carolyn Neighbor
Ages: 8-13,
Tuition $10.00 includes all materials
Dates/Times: Tues., Wed., Thurs., May 1, 2, 3, 3:30 – 5pm
Maximum enrollment: 8
Description: This is a great class for young crafters looking for a new craft, and a new challenge! Learn the art of basket weaving from this duo of crafting sisters! Students will learn to weave a simple wicker basket, woven with round reed and embellished with colorful beads. Each student will leave the workshop with a variety of basket weaving skills and his or her own unique, handmade basket.
Classes for Adults
Mosaic Making Workshop
Instructors: Mary Willis & Caitlin Mauser Rowe
Tuition: $30.00
Dates/Times: Sat., Feb. 18th, 9am – 1pm
Maximum enrollment: 10
Description: Have you ever had the desire to save broken dishes, collect colorful tiles, repurpose recycled metal bits and pieces, collect sea shells and stones etc. to use as medium in artwork? Then this beginner’s workshop in mosaics may be for you. Students will learn the basics of mosaics and will create small sample mosaic squares in the studio. Bring a few dishes or bits of collections you would like to use in your mosaic, or use materials supplied in the studio. Everyone will leave the studio with an individualized mosaic sample piece, along with the inspiration and skills needed to create mosaics at home.
Ceramics with a Moroccan Twist for beginner and intermediate students
Instructors: Suzanne Kaegi
Tuition: $45.00 includes all clay, and firing fees
Dates/Times: Four weeks, Wed., Feb. 1, 8, 15, 29, 5:30-7:30
Maximum enrollment: 10
Description: This class will work on hand building and wheel throwing skills and is designed for both beginner and intermediate ceramic students. Suzanne will lead the class through the basics of ceramics, but with a Moroccan twist! Students will learn about the ceramic traditions of Morocco and will be encouraged to incorporate shapes and designs into their work that are commonly found in Moroccan pottery.
Drawing and the Sketchbook as a Key to a Successful Watercolor
Instructor: Robert O’Brien, AWS NWS
Tuition: $130
Dates/Times: Sat. & Sun., March 3 & 4, 9:30am – 4pm
Enrollment: minimum 5, maximum 10
Description: Robert O’Brien AWS NWS will conduct a two day workshop focusing on drawing and the importance of a sketchbook in creating a successful watercolor painting with an emphasis on values. The workshop will focus on winter landscape painting. The student will learn basic principles of perspective and how to paint a “black and white” watercolor in the sketchbook using water soluble pencils and a brush. Students will then create a thumbnail value sketch using these same materials. They will then use the sketch as a guide for a watercolor painting to be done in class. A critique and class discussion will follow. This class is open to all ability levels.
Materials and sketchbook will be provided by the students. A materials list will be furnished upon request.
The Traditional Arts Series presented in 2011, in conjunction with the 250th Anniversary of the town of Newport, New Hampshire was supported in part by a grant from the New
Hampshire State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
