Spring Semester Kicks Off New Classes and Events at Guilford Art Center

The spring 2010 semester at Guilford Art Center kicks-off to a variety of new classes and activities designed to get everybody to express themselves creatively. Some of the newest offerings include drawing classes for absolute beginners (Drawing 101 & Developing Your Drawing and Start Drawing & Keep On Drawing, offered days and evenings); weekday, evening blacksmithing classes in the newly renovated pole barn; new, media-specific classes for teens (Blacksmithing, Metals, Hot Glass and Fashion Design); fashion workshops for kids and young adults; and a new series of meetings with local artists, Creating in the Community.

Most classes at Guilford Art Center are open to students of all levels. Contact the Center to discuss your questions and interests. Financial aid is available for children and adults enrolling in Guilford Art Center classes. Awards are based on need and interest and are most often partial scholarships, to enable as many students as possible to participate. Scholarship forms are available from the Guilford Art Center office and can be downloaded from the website, www.guilfordartcenter.org. Forms must be returned no later than ten days before the beginning of each semester; for Spring 2010 classes the return date is March 19, 2010. A $20 tuition deposit is required with all scholarship applications.

Spring 2010 classes begin the week of March 29. Catalogs are available by calling the Guilford Art Center at 203.453.5947 or downloading from the Internet: www.guilfordartcenter.org. For more information and to register call the Art Center.

Guilford Art Center Spring 2010 Classes and Workshops:

ADULTS

• Beading: The Art Of Seed Beating; The ABCs of Beading
• Blacksmithing: The Craft of Blacksmithing; Open Forge; The Hand-Forged Blade
• Book Arts: Make A Book-Collage
• Ceramics: Pottery Plus; Functional Pottery Made on the Wheel; Ceramics; Ceramic Sculpture; Intermediate Ceramics: Developing Techniques; Advanced & Intermediate Wheel Throwing; Basics & Beyond; Raku Workshop
• Drawing: Morning Drawing; Drawing the Clothed Figure; A Drawing & Painting Sampler; Drawing 101; Developing Your Drawing; Start Drawing; Keep on Drawing; Color Workshop
• Fiber: Sewing For All; Beyond Penny Rugs; Deconstructed Screen Printing; Rug Hooking; Hand Manipulated Stitches For Machine Knitters; Multi-Dimensional
• Felt: Puckers, Pouches & Protuberances;
• Glass: Stained Glass; It's Hot! Lamp worked Glass Beads
• Metals: Jewelry & Metalsmithing; Jewelry & Metal Art; Rio Rewards PMC Certification Workshop; One Day Cloisonne; Wire Wrapping; Enameling
• Painting: Anyone Can Paint; Outdoor Watercolor: The Essence of Landscape; Introduction to Watercolor Painting; Principles of Abstract Painting; Painting Fundamentals; Spring is Watercolor; Expressionist Painting; Realist Methods; Acrylic Painting Technique; Apprentice & Mentor Painting Workshop; Painting in the Landscape at Murray Pond
• Photography: Photography With Your Digital Camera: The Basics & More; Beyond the Eye: Advanced Camera Practice
• Sculpture: Portrait Sculpture; Stone Carving
• Special Interest: Ancient to Modern: A Survey of Western Art; Creating Art History; Art Business and Marketing; Spring Cleaning = Found Treasure; Re-Color Your World; Encaustic Collage; Making Serene Space: Elements of Japanese Tea House & Zen Garden; Hypertufa Troughs & Garden Ornaments;
  Rustic Structures for the Garden.
• Weaving: Floor Loom Weaving; Understanding the Mystery Of Drafts for Weavers

YOUTH

• Ages 14+: Metalsmithing for Teens
• Ages 13+: Teen Blacksmithing; Heat it Up With Glass!; Fashion Analysis
• Ages 12+: Comic Books and Sequential Art
• Ages 11+: Wheel-Thrown Pottery
• Ages 8+: Potters at Work; Caricature Craze; Drawing & Painting For the Young Artist; Sewing Sensations: All New Projects; Fashion Workshop; Saturday Sewing Fun
• Ages 7+: Partial to Pastels; Weave a Colorful Spring/Easter Basket
• Ages 6+: American Girl Crafts & Cooking; Pirate Adventures
• Ages 5+: Crafty Space Explorations; Ready, Set, Cartoon!; A Mad Hatter Tea Party; Spring Clay Creations; Begin To Paint & Draw; Bunnies & Baskets; A Crafty Princess Party
• Ages 4+: A Celebration of Spring Crafts; Creating Clay Animals; Easter Parade of Crafts
• Age 3: Especially For 3's: All New Projects; Art Explorations For Special Needs Children; The Funny Papers; Berry Funtastic!; Flying Fish
• Home Schoolers: The Potter's Wheel For Home Schoolers

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