After School Art Classes
in the Library Arts Center Studio
Classes for ages 6-10, ages 9-13, and teens 13-17
Love art and art class and want more of it? Join this after school art group in the classroom studio and get creative with us. Each session has a different to expand exposure and skills with new materials and techniques. Each week will bring a new project and materials to go with it. Learn the techniques of using the materials and the project at hand and dive into your own creative work completing the project with your own creative flair. Leave the studio each week with a new art project as well as new skills and experience with materials. Sign up for sessions that work with your family’s schedule as each four-week session stands alone, or sign up for the whole year for a truly immersive year of arts in the studio. $40 per four-week session.
*Pre-registration is required, and scholarships are available.
Teen Art Class
Friday Afternoons, 3:30-6:00pm
This series, broken into four-class sessions that each stand alone, introduces classical art techniques, focusing on drawing, watercolor and gouache painting. Heidi helps teens bring their sketches to life with color, light, and atmosphere, honoring each student’s individual style and personality. This class is a welcoming and fun class atmosphere that turns into a community over the year with many students attending each session in the series or joining in for sessions through the year as they can around sports and other school commitments.
*Pre-registration is required, and scholarships are available.
Music with Friends
for infants, toddlers & preschoolers
Wednesday Mornings, 9:30am
Library Arts Center Gallery
with instructor Julie Love | $12 per family, per week (or special early-bird rate of $8 when you register in advance!)
Experience making music together in this class designed for babies through five year-olds and their caregivers. Music will come to life as everyone sings, dances, drums and claps, experimenting with voices, instruments and movement. *Pre–registration is required. Sign up online for specific weeks, or the whole series.
Creative Wellness: Sound Bath Series
guided by practitioner Beth Pollari
First Thursday of the Month | 6:00pm
Library Arts Center Gallery
Immerse yourself in a transformative one-hour Sound Bath, designed to guide you on a journey of deep relaxation and inner peace in the gallery. The soothing melodies of the crystal harp, crystal singing bowls, and singing triangles will wash over you, allowing the tension and stress to melt away from your body and mind. The gentle vibrations will lull you into a state of profound relaxation, where you can let go of the day’s worries and embrace a sense of tranquility. *pre-registration is required. Please note: Some select sessions will take place in the Richards Free Library Ballroom.
Open Studio Art Group
Wednesday mornings,
9:30am-12:30pm
$8 for LAC members/$12 non-members.
Bring your own art supplies and paint alongside a delightful and supportive group of artists. Facilitator Heidi Lorenz will paint alongside all, but is available for light guidance and instruction if desired. This welcoming and friendly drop-in style group is available to artists of all styles and abilities!
Drop in–No pre-registration necessary.
Basket-Making Workshops with Ray Lagasse
The Library Arts Center is proud to offer these exceptional artisan basket-making workshops with artisan Ray Lagasse. Students will spend a day in the studio learning this traditional craft and will leave with a fabulous heirloom-quality basket to keep or give as a phenomenal gift. Workshops are typically offered monthly in the Arts Center studio.
Yoga Classes with Brianna
Friday Mornings| 8:30am All-Levels + Chair yoga 10:00am
Library Arts Center Gallery
Classes are designed for any student looking to practice yoga. Movement will be linked with breath (as offered by the Hatha and Kripalu traditions of yoga), as well as focus on alignment, and attention paid to honoring your own organic movement. Students can expect to practice both seated and standing poses as well as focus on balance and breath. Please bring your own mat and any props you would like.
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