Arts Classes - Adult Fall 2008 Art Classes Fall Art Class Registration begins August 13. Click here for the Art Class Registration Form. If you wish to mail in registration and payment, please first contact Lyndon House Arts Center at 706-613-3623 for class availability. Beginning to Intermediate Pottery In this class, you’ll be successfully turning your own stoneware on the wheel in no time. The instructor is sole proprietor of Short Dogs Pottery and has been a teacher and practicing artist for 33 years. Beginner and intermediate potters will focus on functional pottery, wheelthrowing, handles, glazing, trimming, and decoration. Students have the option of choosing one open studio time weekly for extra practice. Lab fee includes 50 pounds of clay, firing and glazes. Additional clay may be purchased for $20 per 25 pounds with a limit of 50 pounds. Instructor: Denise Burns Ages: Adult Date: 8 Thursdays, September 9 – November 6 (No class October 23) Time: 6:00 – 8:30 p.m. Location: Lyndon House Arts Center (706) 613-3623 Registration: Wednesday, August 13, until class fills Fee: $130/ACC Resident plus $30 lab fee $150/Non-ACC Resident plus $30 lab fee Drawing the Figure: The Head and Face This class will focus on seeing and drawing the proportions of the head and the features (eyes, nose, etc.), and on the planes of light and shadow. Anatomy will be briefly studied to aid in understanding the proportions and the planes. For three sessions, students will draw from a live model. Fee for the model: approximately $3 - $6 per session, based on enrollment. This class is open to those of any level of drawing experience. Instructor: Toni Carlucci Ages: Adult Date: 6 Wednesdays, September 10 – October 15 Time: 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. Location: Lyndon House Arts Center (706) 613-3623 Registration: Wednesday, August 13, until class fills Fee: $78/ACC Resident $90/Non-ACC Resident Introduction to Drawing Techniques Development of good drawing skills is the foundation on which most great art is built. This course teaches students traditional drawing techniques and basic observational skills, including fundamental art theory. Projects will consist mainly of still life drawing with the student completing a final project of his or her choice at the end of the course. Instructor: Bricelyn Strauch Ages: Adult Date: 8 Thursdays, September 11 – November 6 (no class October 23) Time: 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. Location: Lyndon House Arts Center (706) 613-3623 Registration: Wednesday, August 13, until class fills Fee: $104/ACC Resident plus $20 supply fee $120/Non-ACC Resident plus $20 supply fee Face and Figure: Drawing & Painting Studio If you are interested in drawing and/or painting from a live model, please join in this new group. Participants will bring their own supplies and will share in expenses for the model. Instruction is not provided. You are welcome to come whether you are beginning or experienced. Ages: Adults Date: Oct 4, 25; Nov 1, 15; Dec 6 and 20 Time: 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. Location: Lyndon House Arts Center (706) 613-3623 Registration: Must sign up each month Fee: Students share expenses and help with set-up Painting With Charles Whether you work in acrylic or oil, you’ll benefit from Charles’ individualized approach for the advanced beginner and intermediate painter. Students bring in their own subject matter or works in progress and Charles will offer easel side instruction on an individual basis. Students bring their own painting supplies and canvas or other painting surface. Charles earned his MFA in painting from UGA and exhibits his large flower paintings regionally. Instructor: Charles Warnock Ages: Adult Date: 8 Tuesdays, September 9 – October 28 Time: Session I: 3:30 – 5:30 p.m. Session II: 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. Location: Lyndon House Arts Center (706) 613-3623 Registration: Wednesday, August 13, until class fills Fee: $104/ACC Resident $120/Non-ACC Resident Oil or Acrylic Painting Basics This class will cover basic techniques in drawing, image composition and painting styles using the still life and landscape as the focus of your explorations. Mixing colors and color theory are central to the course. Materials for the first class will be supplied, and instructor will give a list of other supplies during the course. For the beginner and advanced beginner. Instructor: Charles Warnock Ages: Adult Date: 7 Thursdays, September 11 – October 30 (no class October 23) Time: 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. Location: Lyndon House Arts Center (706) 613-3623 Registration: Wednesday, August 13, until class fills Fee: $91 /ACC Resident plus $3 materials fee $105/Non-ACC Resident plus $3 materials fee Beginning Textile Surface Design Jenifer Borg is an award winning textile artist who will introduce students to several basic techniques of dyeing and printing fabric using both fiber reactive dyes and pigments. Participants will explore immersion dyeing, paste painting, block-printing, and simple silk screening. These techniques are very useful for creating unique fabrics or altering and enhancing existing commercial fabrics. Participants will be able to create material for a notebook of samples and instructions for future reference. A studio material fee of $30 will cover basic dyes and chemicals needed for class. Instructor: Jenifer Borg Ages: Adult Date: 8 Tuesdays, September 9 – October 28 Time: 5:30 - 8:30 p.m. Location: Lyndon House Arts Center (706) 613-3623 Registration: Wednesday, August 13, until class fills Fee: $104/ACC Resident $120/Non-ACC Resident Intermediate Textile Surface Design This class will build upon the techniques learned in beginning textile surface design, or previous experience with dyes. The goal of this class is to allow participants the opportunity to explore mono printing, block printing, and silk screening techniques using fiber reactive dyes on small pieces of fabric. Individual work surfaces will allow students to leave their work from week to week if necessary. Students will be encouraged to experiment with a variety of techniques and fabrics. For silk-screening, students will learn to make their own screens, as well as, use screens available at the Lyndon House studio. A studio material fee of $30 will cover basic dyes and chemicals needed for class. Fabrics, silk screen and squee-gee will be additional purchases for the student. Instructor: Jenifer Borg Ages: Adult Date: 6 Wednesdays, September 10 – October 15 Time: 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. Location: Lyndon House Arts Center (706) 613-3623 Registration: Wednesday, August 13, until class fills Fee: $117/ACC Resident $135/Non-ACC Resident Beading Basics Learn the basic techniques of beaded jewelry design including tools, findings, stringing materials and design tips to make your very own creations. You will also learn the basics of designing earrings, multi-strand necklaces and bracelets. Robin Weinrich, an award-winning jewelry artist, will help you create those special pieces using glass beads. If you have your own collection of beads, please bring them with you. This course will run for two sessions and you’ll create at least one necklace, two bracelets and several pairs of earrings to take home. A $15 lab fee is due to the instructor at the beginning of class. Limit 10 students. Ages: Adult Date: Session I: Thursdays, August 14 & 21 Session II: Thursdays, October 16 & 23 Time: 5:30 - 8:30 p.m. Location: Lyndon House Arts Center (706) 613-3623 Registration: Wednesday, August 13, until class fills Fee: $33/ACC Resident plus $15 supply fee to instructor $38/Non-ACC Resident plus $15 supply fee to instructor Beading - Intermediate Techniques If you have mastered the basics, are ready to learn new techniques, and designs that are more intricate this is the next class to take. Robin Weinrich, award-winning jewelry artist, will introduce you to chainmail techniques, spirals, coiled bead wraps and the various forms of multi-strand necklace designs. Basic beading skills are required and an excellent follow-up class to Beading Basics. You are welcome to bring along your own tools and bead collections to work with. This class will run for two sessions per class offered. A $15 lab fee is due to the instructor at the beginning of class. Limit 10 students. Ages: Adult Date & Time: Session I: Thursdays, September 18 & 25 from 5:30 - 8:30 p.m. Session II: Thursdays, November13 & 20 from 5:30 - 8:30 pm Location: Lyndon House Arts Center (706) 613-3623 Registration: Wednesday, August 13, until class fills Fee: $39/ACC Resident plus $15 supply fee to instructor $45/Non-ACC Resident plus $15 supply fee to instructor Intorduction to Enamel Bead Making Discover the world of making beads with this unique technique of enameling. You’ll learn the basics to start making your very own glass enamel beads. You’ll use a propane torch and fuse glass to copper tubing. Learn how to create various design elements into the glass. No bead is the same and you’ll complete about five beads to make your next unique jewelry design! Robin Weinrich, award-winning jewelry artist, will share her passion for color and design using the basic hothead torch. $10 lab fee to be paid to the instructor at the beginning of the first class. Limit five students. Ages: Adult Date & Time: Session I: Saturday, August 16 from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Session II: Thursday, September 11 from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Session III: Saturday, November 8 from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Location: Lyndon House Arts Center (706) 613-3623 Registration: Wednesday, August 13, until class fills Fee: $20/ACC Resident plus $10 supply fee to instructor $23/Non-ACC Resident plus $10 supply fee to instructor Open Darkroom Studio Open Darkroom Studio Please call the Lyndon House if you are interested in using the darkroom. We require that you have taken either a Lyndon House darkroom photography course or a college level darkroom course. Completion of a one-hour darkroom orientation is required. Please check with us for the next orientation and open darkroom. Times: 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on selected Saturdays. Please call to register. Woodworking - Mitered Box in Cherry Mitered Box in Cherry A special class to expand your knowledge of hand and stationary power tools. You will be introduced to the jointer and planer in the woodshop. You will refresh your understanding of the hand held, table router techniques, and acquire skills to mill your own stock and make professional miters while building a multipurpose and beautiful mitered box with a sliding lid. (Makes a very nice holiday gift.) A lab fee of $40 will be due to the instructor at the beginning of class. Instructor: Heike Mueller Ages: Adult Date: 2 Saturdays, call for more information Time: 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Location: Lyndon House Arts Center (706) 613-3623 Registration: Wednesday, August 13, until class fills Fee: $91/ACC Resident $105/Non-ACC Resident Ecological Art By nature, creative minds grow deeply into the environments that surround them. Understanding ways that the places around us shape who we are and what we do is a vital aspect of being both an artist and a human being. In this course, we will look at contemporary artistic movements and individual artists whose works interact with natural places and systems in various ways—from early landscape-conscious works such as Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty to eco-art practices and hybrid scientific-artistic projects that seek to counteract environmental harm. With expanded concepts of art “products” and practices in mind, we’ll devote time to practical development of place-based creative projects, within a kind of workshop exchange. Instructor: Karin Bolender Ages: Adult Date: 6 Tuesdays, September 9 – October 14 Time: 7:30 p.m. – 8:45 p.m. Location: Lyndon House Arts Center (706) 613-3623 Registration: Wednesday, August 13, until class fills Fee: $48.75/ACC Resident $56.25/Non-ACC Resident Face and Figure: Drawing and Painting Studio If you are interested in drawing and/or painting from a live model, please join in this new group. Participants will bring their own supplies and will share in expenses for the model. Instruction is not provided. You are welcome to attend whether you are a beginner or have experience. Ages: Adults Date: 1st and 3rd Saturdays Time: 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. Location: Lyndon House Arts Center, (706) 613-3623 Registration: Must sign up each month Fee: Students share expenses and help with set-up Printmakers Cooperative This recently formed group of printmakers of all experience levels meets most Saturday mornings to learn from each other and work on their projects. The group explores solar printing, relief printing, etching, and experimental printmaking. Bring your own supplies and projects. Ages: Adults Date: Most Saturdays Time: 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Location: Lyndon House Arts Center (706) 613-3623 Registration: None Fee: Students share expenses Charity Quilting Bee If you love to quilt, join this friendly group of quilters who creat quilts for local and overseas charities. Some quilting experience is necessary. this is a quilting bee of the Cotton Patch Quilt Guild, but the public is welcome and membership is not required. Ages: Adult Date: Ongoing on Wednesdays Time: 9:30 a.m. - Noon Location: Lyndon House Arts Center, (706) 613-3623 Registration: None required Fee: Free Open Studio in Printmaking For the experienced relief and intaglio printmakers. Participants will be able to use our two presses, studio space and glass slabs. You are responsible for bringing your consumable supplies, and cleaning up your workspace. A monitor will be present to answer questions, but no instruction is provided. Class limited to six students. Ages: Adults Dates: Saturdays Time: 10:00 a.m. Location: Lyndon House Arts Center, (706) 613-3623 Registration: Ongoing Fee: Students share expenses Thursday Painters Join members of the Athens Art Association for an afternoon of painting at the Lyndon House. Participants bring their own paints and other supplies and work on their own projects, but enjoy sharing ideas with each other. No fee or reservation needed, and membership in the Athens Art Association is not required. Ages: Adult Dates: Ongoing on Thursdays Time: 12:30 - 3:30 p.m. Location: Lyndon House Arts Center, (706) 613-3623 Registration: Not required Fee: Free See also: Lyndon House Arts Center - Special Events - Exhibits - Instructors

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