Pride Month Series: Queer Collage
Instructor: Austyn De Lugo & Molly Wurwand 
Every Fri, 6/12 – 7/3 (4 Sessions)
5-7PM
Ages 15+
$120
Hosted on ZOOM
In this workshop, we’ll discuss how collage perverts the social, political, and cultural specificity of images, and how collage, as a practice, negotiates the public and the private. We will learn how collage has been used by queer and feminist artists throughout art history. Our discussions will serve as the backdrop for explorations in our own collages. We’ll apply additive and subtractive methods and play with a range of materials in this Pride Series workshop.
Please note this class will contain nude artwork and adult themes will be discussed.
Supplies:
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Teen Drawing Fundamentals
Instructor: Zara Feeney
Every Mon & Thurs, June 15 – July 23 (12 Sessions)
1-2PM
Ages 13-18 (Teens Only)
$240
Hosted on ZOOM
In this class students will develop technical skills as they explore the fundamental concepts of drawing. During this course students will investigate various techniques and methods that will aid in their ability to see, observe and draw from life, memory and a combination of these. Within the context of representation, students will explore relative measuring, mark making and material sensitivity. During each Monday’s meeting, students will learn a new concept and be given a short assignment to be completed by Thursday’s meeting. Thursday we will have a group critique of everyone’s work.
Supplies:
- 11’’ x 14’’ drawing sketchbook
- 2 graphite crayons
- 4 graphite pencils (HB, 2B, 6B, 8B)
- 4 micron pens
- 1 large black marker
- 1 kneaded eraser
- 1 gum eraser
- 2 blending stumps
- 1 blending cloth
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Painting Fundamentals: Still Life Class
Instructor: Melissa Dyanne
Every Tues, 6/16-7/21 (6 Sessions)
10AM-1PM
Ages 16+
$320
Hosted on ZOOM
Set up your at-home painting studio while learning the basics of color theory, still life set up, lighting, and materials. This 6 week course will take you through the basics of palette set-up, color mixing, painting from observation and some basic drawing and composition. There will be a combo of lecture, demo and working time in 3 hour sessions through Zoom. Get the full in-class painting experience at home!
Supplies:
Please make sure to have rags and a jar available for water.
iPad Fundamentals
Instructor: Melissa Dyanne
Every Wed, 6/17-7/22 (6 Sessions)
10AM-12PM
Ages 16+
$180
Hosted on ZOOM
With the new surge in digital art technology, the iPad is wonderfully suited to be a “one-stop-shop” for drawing and painting. Free apps such as the Camera, iPhoto and Sketchbook allow you to lay out and finish a composition with any tool you desire, while everything can be stored on one device with no messy clean up.
This 6 week class will take you through the basics of using your iPad as a Digital Sketchbook and Painting Studio. All students will need an iPad and the Sketchbook app (free in the apple store). An iPencil is extremely helpful but not required. Each student will draw or paint a still-life and landscape using the Camera and Sketchbook scanner, learn the interface and tools in the Sketchbook app as well as how to create patterns and work with imported images and studies that can enhance the final piece.
Supplies:
Please make sure to have the iPad, Apple Pencil and the Sketchbook Pro App downloaded onto your iPad.
Abstract Mixed Media: Freewheeling and Unconstrained
Instructor: Stephanie Waisler-Rubin
Thursday, June 18
1-3PM
Ages 12+
$30
Hosted on ZOOM
Mixed media art is a celebration of many different artistic types, techniques, and methods. Mixed media demands a new way of thinking about what art is and how the creative process uses anything and everything. In this workshop we’ll explore painting, drawing, collaging, and printing while looking to Matisse, Joseph Albers, and Rex Ray for inspiration. Color theory, composition, line and shape as well as positive and negative space will be explored. Less thinking and more DOING in this process focused workshop.
Student will explore
- Process is just as important as product
- How to find flow
- Everyone can make art
- Less thinking more doing
- Color Theory
- Composition
- Line & Shape
- Positive & Negative space
Supplies:
- 5-6 sheets
- Drawing paper 9×12
- Acrylic paint
- Wide flat brush
- White glue w/ sm glue brush or glue stick
- Large to-go food container top/bottom to use as paint palette
- Scissors
- 10 Fresh leaves and flowers to use for printing- look for leaves with texture
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Dog Portraits
Instructor: Shelley Levy
Saturday, June 20
1-3PM
Ages 14+
$30
Hosted on ZOOM
This workshop is designed to teach you how to capture your dog’s unique personality using vibrant colours and mixed media. I encourage you to bring a high quality image to work from, showing the body and the eyes. You are welcome to submit your photos prior to the class in order for me to prepare the workshop. This is a great opportunity for families to create art together on Zoom. It’s fun and engaging, and all skill levels are encouraged to attend.
Supplies:
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Abstracting the Landscape
Instructor: Rob Homsy
Every Wed, 6/24 – 7/15 (4 Sessions)
4-5:30PM
Ages 14+
$120
Hosted on ZOOM
Find the balance between abstraction and representation in this acrylic painting class. We will discuss composition, gesture, color and more, while we paint the landscape from photographs. Students can choose to paint from their own photos or from a provided photo. Students should have a basic foundation in painting.
Supplies:
- Basic acrylic paint set
- Matte medium
- 2-4 Canvases or surfaces to paint on (I will be painting on 16”X20” canvas panel/board)
- 9”X12” Canvas Paper Pad (for quick sketches)
- Assorted brushes
- Palette knife(s)
- Palette (Can use a paper plate)
- Some of my favorite colors you may have or want to include:
- White, Ivory Black, Cadmium Red Medium, Cadmium Red Light, Cadmium Yellow Medium, Brilliant Yellow, Sap Green, Hookers Green, Phthalocyanine Blue (Green Shade), Cobalt Blue, Raw Umber, Burnt Umber, Payne’s Gray, Yellow Oxide, Neutral Gray 5
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Teen Surrealist Drawing
Instructor: Lauren Volk
Every Tues & Thurs, 7/7 – 7/16 (4 Sessions)
2-5PM
Ages 13-18 (Teens Only)
$240
Hosted on ZOOM
Explore the depths of your imagination. Reveal your wildest dreams. By using the techniques of the Surrealists, explore your subconscious as a valid form of reality.
In this course students will be given a solid foundation in basic drawing techniques (contour drawing, cross hatching, scumbling, etc.) and the elements and principles of design (color, line, space, etc.) Then they will learn about the Surrealists and their revolutionary attempts to plum the subconscious and release their true creative potential.
For their project, students will take what they have learned and merge it all together to create dream-like, surreal images inspired by the works of Max Ernst, Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte, Merit Oppenheim, and their contemporaries.
Supplies:
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Art of Collage (July)
Instructor: Hillar Kaplan-New 
Every Wed, 7/8 – 7/29 (4 Sessions)
10AM-12PM
Ages 16+
$100
Hosted on ZOOM
This class welcomes students of all experience levels who are looking to stir up their artistic vocabulary, expand their art making techniques, and discover their own unique artistic voice. In this fun, no-rules and supportive class, students will learn strategies to begin a collage through conceptualizing through the elements of art: color, value, composition. Students will learn how as how synthesize these elements to create a compelling visual experience. Explore how to intuitively reimagine the bits & pieces of your saved paper ephemera into creative personal expressions. Online demos will cover tearing, cutting, gluing techniques, drawing, painting and the methods for combining and layering various 2-D materials.
“I love the unknown, both of the process of making these works as well as the unknown of where they’ll end up next.”—Johanna Goodman, collage artist
Supplies:
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Dream House: Drawing, Watercolor and Collage Class
Instructor: Nicole Cohen 
Wed- Fri, 7/8-7/10 (3 Sessions)
1-3PM
Ages 12+
$90
Hosted on ZOOM
In this class students will create a drawing and work with watercolor and collage to add many parts that together become the design of a dream home. A dream house does not need to be a practical home, as it can have a lot of unexpected elements, such as a rooftop bowling alley, an indoor playground, and murals on the walls. Why not? Each student will create a unique home that will be playful and thoughtful, as we stretch our imaginations and reconsider what makes a home.
Using drawing, watercolor and constructions, we will create a house, starting with the blue prints, then the walls, floors, lighting and working our way to furniture design and special features. On the last day of class we will have an “online open house” and present our houses.
Students will Learn:
- Perspective
- Working with color
- Design Elements
- Invention and imagination of brainstorming our dream houses
- Building the space
Supplies:
- Ruler, any straight edge
- Pencil, Eraser
- Scissors/Exacto Knife
- Masking Tape
- Fabric Swatches (optional: to give texture to work)
- Fine Black Pen
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Painting Studio: All Levels
Instructor: Hillar Kaplan-New 
Every Fri, 7/10 – 7/31 (4 Sessions)
10AM-12PM
Ages 16+
$100
Hosted on ZOOM
This class is for students who wish to explore and develop their own personal visual language. Students work on their own individual projects under the guidance of the instructor. Students will expand their skills and learn new techniques while strengthening their creative vocabulary. Students may have a variety of interests and work if different styles. The instructor works to inspire each student and help them build and grow from their strengths to create their best work. Composition, symbolism, color theory, and art history and group critiques will be incorporated into the class curriculum.