Adult Classes
Book Arts
Drawing/Painting
FiberArt
Ceramics/Mixed Media
Mosaics
Movement
Literary Arts
Personal Deveopment
Sonoma County Book Arts Guild
If you make books, alter books, want to learn to make books please join us at the Center for the Arts. The intent is to create a group to share work, teach techniques, take field trips, invite guest artists to teach, and have a show.
15-Adult
Painting/Drawing Studio
Last Saturday of each month, 10am-12pm
5/30, 6/27, 7/25, 8/28
Fee: $2-$5 donation to cover facility use
Contact Dena Bliss 829-1732
Drawing Nature
Instructor: Nina Antze
Colored pencils are a fun, safe and portable way to express oneself artistically. Learn the basics of using colored pencil drawing including blending, burnishing and impressed line while incorporating the techniques of botanical. We work will stem from a variety of seasonal natural objects. All levels welcome.
Adult
Library
4 Tues: 9am-12pm,
June 1 – 22
July 6 – 27
August 3 – 24
September 7 – 28
Fee: $84 Non-member: $89
Scratchboard Workshop
Painting Drawing Studio
Sat., May 29 & Sun. May 30
12:30-4:30, $150.00
Contact Diana Lee, 568-5889Go Figure!
Facilitator: James Curtis
Non-instructed drop-in, open studio figure study sessions. Draw, paint, and/or sculpt
the human figure from a live model in an open, well-lit studio. All levels of experience invited to participate. Bring your own materials. No turpenoid or turpentine solvents! Tables, easels, sink, lighting and set up for the model provided. Artists must be at least 18 years of age.
Painting/Drawing Studio
Every Mon, Drop-in, 12 noon-3pm, single 3-hour pose session-- ideal for painting or portraiture
Fee: $15 per session or $50 for 4-prepaid sessions
Every Wed evening, Drop-in, 7-10pm, multiple short poses 1st hour, then 20 minute poses--suited for sketching gesture or developing one’s ability at caricature.
Fee: $12 per session or $40 for 4-prepaid sessions
Photography and/or sketching ONLY on occasional Friday or Saturday evenings 7-9 PM
Contact Jim at 576-0628 or cell 332-7877 or e-mail: jcurt@sonic.netDrawing & Painting with Stanley Mouse & Rob Perkins
Drawing/Painting Studio
First Thursdays of the month
7-10pm on going
Drop-in $18.00
Contact Rob Perkins 415-892-3799Watercolor Painting and Collage
Instructor: Susan St. Thomas
Free of drawing, learn the basics of color mixing, exciting textures and innovative painting techniques then combine mixed media and collage to create dynamic compositions with or without subjects. Spark your creativity and expand your artistic vision. For all levels of art experience.
4 Tuesdays, 6:30-9:00pm
June 29 – July 20
$90 members / $95 non-members
Materials list supplied
+ $10 paper fee to instructorMonotype / Monoprint
Instructor: Linda Shelp
One day, hands-on printmaking workshop using a Pin Press Hand Printing Roller. Designed for all levels with or without printmaking or art background. Discover a unique printmaking process which incorporates printmaking, painting, drawing and collage. Participants are encouraged to bring flat, interesting objects to class.
Saturday July 31, 10 - 4 pm
Fee: $90. (includes all materials)
Information Linda Shelp, 887-2528Frame It Yourself
Instructor: Susan St. Thomas
Pull out those prints, photographs, drawings and paintings and learn how to frame them yourself using simple tools and available resources. Save money cutting your own mats and finishing with wood or designer metal frames. Plenty of personal attention and hands-on mat cutting practice.
Bring your artwork to be framed.
Saturday, August 21, 1-4pm
$45 members / $50 non-members
Weaving: Basics & Beyond
Summer Weight Fabrics
Instructor: Marta Shannon
Experienced weavers will focus on weaving loom shaped tops, shawls, table linens, or other projects using wonderful summer yarns such as cotton, linen, or other natural fibers. Project costs will vary. Beginners will learn to measure a warp, dress the loom and weave a sampler (warp provided). Looms available courtesy of the Redwood Empire Handweavers & Spinners Guild.
5 Thursdays, 9:30am-12:30pm
July 1 – July 29
Ages 15 - Adult or permission of the instructor
$120 members/ $125 non members
Open “Drop In” Studio
Non-instructed studio time for open-minded potters with some experience. One of the few public facilities in Sonoma County open to the public for ceramic hand-building, sculptural and wheel-work. Studio features 8 potter’s wheels, slab roller, extruder, glaze and electric kilns. Fire cone 5. No production potters.
Ceramic/Mixed Media Studio
14-Adult
Mon, 9:30am-12:30pm
Tues, 6-8:30pm (if no one show up by 7 pm we go home)
Wed, 12-3pm
Sat, 9:30am-12:30pm
$60 for 6-session card
$90 for 10-session card
$12 per session / $6 concurrently enrolled in SCA class.
$30 for 1 bag of clay, glaze, firing as needed.Spring in to Pottery
Instructor: Randy Snyder
Come play with clay. This class will focus on the potters wheel learning to wedge, center, and pull the clay to create bowls, cups, and vases. Other techniques like pinch, slab, and coil will also be covered. We will glaze and high fire our finished projects. Great for beginning and seasoned potters trying to bring it to the next level.
Sign up early space limited.
12-Adult
Ceramic/Mixed Media Studio
6 Thurs, May 13-June 16 6pm- 8:30pm
Fee $120.00 + $30.00 material fee. Non members $125.00Pottery/Potter’s Class
Instructor: Randy Snyder
Come play with clay. Classes will focus on the potter’s wheel, learning to wedge, center, and pull the clay to create bowls, cups, and vases.
12-Adult
Ceramic/Mixed Media Studio
6 Thurs, 6pm- 8:30pm
August 12- Sept 16
Sept 23- Oct 28
November 4 – December 16 (no class 11/25/10)
Fee $120 + $30 material fee. Non members $125
Pique Assiette Mosaic
Instructor: Kathy Joseph
A French folk art taking broken china and interesting objects, to turn it into something creative and beautiful! Drag out bric-a-brac, jewelry, toys, buttons, coins, hardware, that old platter from Italy that arrived broken and come play! For ages: 7-Adult
Tuesday mornings, 10am-12 pm
4 weeks, Fee: $100 + Material fee: $25
Call SCA staff for dates 829-4797
Tian Gong Qi Gong
Instructor: Kieryn
Ongoing practices for strengthening the physical, energy and soul bodies. Beginners and advanced practitioners to come together and learn an advanced system of healing. All ages. Bring a pad, blanket and a smile.
Music/Movement Room
Tues, 7-8:30pm,
$5 donation
Contact Kieryn, 321-0411Body Tales / Authentic Movement
Music/Movement Studio
Body Tales 1st & 3rd, Mon. 6:30–9:30pm
Authentic Movement 2nd & 4th Mon, 6:30 -9pm
Sliding Scale $60-$100 per group/per mo.
Contact Lysa Castro, 823-2652Contact Improv Jam
Discover the possibilities of connecting with other dancers in playful, spontaneous and often surprising ways. Play with gravity, weight-sharing, counter-balance, breath and voice. Bring your instruments. Beginning lessons included.
Adult
Music/Movement Studio
Thurs, 7-9pm, $5
Contact Lee Wylie, 823-8220West County Improv
Music/Movement Studio
Wednesdays 7-9pm
$15.00 per class/ 8 week series
Contact Pauline Pfandler 829-8619Chinese Soaring Crane Qigong
Level 1 Class Series – Library
Wed or Fri, 10:30 -12:00, classes TBA
$230.00 includes book & practice cd
Contact Ellen Solot, MA, CMT, 823-9106Rising Moon Playback Theatre
The Improvisation of Real Life
Music/Movement Studio
Saturday, June 19, 8 pm. Theme: Father Stories (on being one, having one, wanting one…)
Share an experience and see it turned into theatre on the spot
Sliding Scale $25-$15. All are welcome, regardless of ability to pay.
Contact Jacqueline Grace Hayward 823-7687
Writing Poems Awake: A Poetry Writing Workshop with Claire Drucker
Jumpstart your poetic imaginations through exercises that engage the senses and open up the unconscious mind. For anyone who wants to generate new material as well as for those exploring poetry for the first time.
Saturday, June 19, 2-5pm Fee $50.
Contact Claire Drucker 824-9621
Women’s Zen Meditation
Music/Movement Studio
Tues, 5-6:30pm, suggested donation $10
Contact Chris Fortin, 527-8106
