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Ikebana Pottery: The Japanese Art of Flower Arranging
- 10:00 am - 03:00 pm
- Start Date: May 10, 2025
- Instructor: Jesus Minguez
- Location: Main Campus
Learn how to create various forms out of clay specific for this style of flower arrangement. Jesus will demonstrate both hand building and wheel throwing techniques to build these Ikebana containers. Ikebana in the Japanese art of flower arrangement using simple design principles that celebrate space, movement, and form. Participants will make the container the first day of the workshop and on the second day, when the containers have been finished and fired, Jesus will demonstrate the art of Ikebana and participants will make their own arrangements using their finished containers.
This class is currently full.
JOIN WAITLISTCalming Totems for Grounding and Mindfulness
- 10:00 am - 02:00 pm
- Start Date: May 10, 2025
- Instructor: Eileen Hernandez
- Location: Main Campus
This class is currently full.
JOIN WAITLISTVibrant Oil Painting & Palette Knife Workshop
- 10:00 am - 04:00 pm
- Start Date: May 17, 2025
- Instructor: Kathleen Brodeur
- Location: Main Campus
**Workshop takes place Saturday & Sunday, May 17 & 18, 10am – 4pm**
Learn the intricacies of palette knife painting using oil paints. Discover the hidden brilliance and clarity of the colors and their on impact on each other on the canvas. Your instructor will introduce you to and guide you through the process of oil painting techniques, color mixing, composition and application with a palette knife. Bring your own images or use references provided by the instructor. Experience the joy of painting, creating, and learning to be in the moment.
This class is currently full.
JOIN WAITLIST- 01:00 pm - 05:00 pm
- Start Date: May 18, 2025
- Instructor: John Baker
- Location: Main Campus
Need to mat and frame your artwork for exhibition? Learn how to cut custom windows for your artwork with Crealdé equipment. Students are responsible for bringing their 2D artwork, mats, frames and hanging wire materials.
This class is currently full.
JOIN WAITLISTBookbinding Foundation and Stitches
- 01:00 pm - 04:00 pm
- Start Date: May 18, 2025
- Instructor: Silvana Martins
- Location: Main Campus
Learn 3 different stitches and use them to bind 3 notebooks. A selection of beautifully handcrafted papers will be provided. You will also exercise your creativity when paring them with different color threads and other decorative elements. With the skills you‘ll learn, you’ll be able to make many more at your home using very few tools. All materials will be provided.
This class is currently full.
JOIN WAITLIST- 10:00 am - 04:00 pm
- Start Date: May 31, 2025
- Instructor: Genna Sweetnam
- Location: Main Campus
Make your creative work SHINE! You have the passion, you have the skill, now let’s take a deep dive into helping you understand the VALUE of your work, CLARIFY your unique and individual message and learn how to CREATE a beautiful, thoughtful and cohesive collection that will attract an audience excited to buy! We will discuss foundation and collection building, resistance, fears, marketing, photography and the launch of your work.
3 spots remaining
LEARN MOREThe Exhibition Print: An Advanced Darkroom Workshop
- 01:00 pm - 05:00 pm
- Start Date: June 1, 2025
- Instructor: Peter Schreyer
- Location: Main Campus
Intermediate level analog photographers will learn to produce exhibition-quality prints by switching to fine art fiber base paper. Learn about paper selection, special chemistry and toners, archival processing, pressing and retouching final prints. Work in the darkroom under close supervision of a life-long black and white photographer with an international exhibition and awards record. Included is a presentation on matting and framing for exhibition and access to the darkroom on monitored days during the month of June.
2 spots remaining
LEARN MOREArt Camp Session 1A (ages 4-5)
- 08:45 am - 11:45 am
- Duration: 1 Week
- Start Date: June 2, 2025
- Location: Main Campus
Instructor TBD.
Let’s get our hands dirty! Create projects that expand the imagination and develop fine motor skills. Basic art techniques are combined with cultural exploration and investigation of our natural world to nurture self expression through art making.
This class is currently full.
JOIN WAITLISTArt Camp Session 1B (ages 4-5)
- 01:00 pm - 04:00 pm
- Duration: 1 Week
- Start Date: June 2, 2025
- Location: Main Campus
Instructor TBD.
*This one-week camp meets Monday through Friday for half days.*
1 spots remaining
LEARN MORE- 08:45 am - 11:50 am
- Duration: 1 Week
- Start Date: June 2, 2025
- Location: Main Campus
Instructor TBD.
*This one-week camp meets Monday through Friday for half days.*
Explore the fascinating world of insects, their habitats, and their roles in nature.
2 spots remaining
LEARN MOREArt Immersion-Ceramics (ages 12-16) 6/2
- 01:00 pm - 05:00 pm
- Duration: 1 Week
- Start Date: June 2, 2025
- Location: Main Campus
Instructor TBD.
**This one-week camp meets Monday through Friday.**
Join the makers movement! Combine hand building methods to manipulate clay into three dimensions for sculptural or functional art. Is it a tiger or a teapot? Or a tiger teapot? Experiment with underglaze, sgrafitto, slips and glazes for compelling surface decoration.
Crealdé’s Young Adult Immersion program gives students the opportunity to concentrate on one medium exclusively for one week.
3 spots remaining
LEARN MOREArt Immersion-Digital Photography & Photoshop (ages 12-16) 6/2
- 01:00 pm - 05:00 pm
- Duration: 1 Week
- Start Date: June 2, 2025
- Location: Main Campus
Instructor TBD.
**This one-week camp meets Monday through Friday.**
Learn the basics of digital photography to make photographs using our DSLR (digital single lens reflex) cameras to explore composition, light, and balance. Get creative with basic Photoshop editing techniques in our state-of-the-art digital classroom.
Crealdé’s Young Adult Immersion program gives students the opportunity to concentrate on one medium exclusively for one week.
Art Immersion-Film Photography (ages 12-16) 6/2
- 01:00 pm - 05:00 pm
- Duration: 1 Week
- Start Date: June 2, 2025
- Instructor: Donald Kratt
- Location: Main Campus
**This one-week camp meets Monday through Friday.**
Put our 35mm and Holga cameras into action. Explore subject matter, composition and light, then develop and print negatives with "green" chemicals in the darkroom.
Crealdé’s Young Adult Immersion program gives students the opportunity to concentrate on one medium exclusively for one week.
Art Immersion-Mixed Media & Painting (ages 12-16) 6/2
- 01:00 pm - 05:00 pm
- Duration: 1 Week
- Start Date: June 2, 2025
- Location: Main Campus
Instructor TBD.
**This one-week camp meets Monday through Friday.**
Expand your creative palette with various mixed media and painting & drawing adventures as you experiment with different artistic perspectives. Explore a variety of styles and techniques using traditional & non-traditional materials while you play with innovative paint application, glazing, and more.
Crealdé’s Young Adult Immersion program gives students the opportunity to concentrate on one medium exclusively for one week.
Art Immersion-Painting/Drawing (ages 12-16) 6/2
- 01:00 pm - 05:00 pm
- Duration: 1 Week
- Start Date: June 2, 2025
- Location: Main Campus
Instructor TBD.
*This one-week camp meets Monday through Friday.* Immerse yourself in acrylics and watercolor as you learn paint handling, color mixing, as well as traditional and experimental approaches to painting.
Crealdé’s Young Adult Immersion program gives students the opportunity to concentrate on one medium exclusively for one week. The program is based on the nationally-recognized Advanced Placement Studio Art Program.
This class is currently full.
JOIN WAITLISTArt Immersion-Sculpture (ages 12-16) 6/2
- 01:00 pm - 05:00 pm
- Duration: 1 Week
- Start Date: June 2, 2025
- Location: Main Campus
Instructor TBD.
*This one-week camp meets Monday through Friday.* Bring your imagination to life during a week-long exploration of the sculpting process. Students will use a variety of materials and construction techniques to create decorative wall masks, figurines and life-size heads.
Crealdé’s Young Adult Immersion program gives students the opportunity to concentrate on one medium exclusively for one week.
1 spots remaining
LEARN MOREArt Immersion-Wheel Throwing (ages 12-16) 6/2
- 01:00 pm - 05:00 pm
- Duration: 1 Week
- Start Date: June 2, 2025
- Location: Main Campus
Instructor TBD.
**This one-week camp meets Monday through Friday.**
Create pottery on the wheel! Learn to center, stretch, and manipulate clay until a form emerges. Alter and embellish forms to create functional and decorative art. Experiment with sgrafitto, resists and glaze to complete your pots.
Crealdé’s Young Adult Immersion program gives students the opportunity to concentrate on one medium exclusively for one week.
This class is currently full.
JOIN WAITLISTIntuitive Abstract Painting 6/7
- 10:00 am - 04:00 pm
- Start Date: June 7, 2025
- Instructor: Patricia Byron
- Location: Main Campus
Discover how to create more expressively through self-awareness and releasing expectations. This approach of creating abstractly will allow you to trust your instincts while incorporating the organic process of abstract painting. Demos and guided exercises will help you achieve more liberating paintings. Acrylic paints only. Some materials provided.
- 01:30 pm - 03:30 pm
- Duration: 8 Weeks
- Start Date: June 9, 2025
- Instructor: Vince Sansone
- Location: Main Campus
Find your own voice in clay. We will design our own treasures and acquire handbuilding and finishing skills to make them. Explore pinch, coil, slab construction and add finishing and decorative elements to create your own unique pieces!
Prereq: Hand Building Across Cultures; Hand Building Basics; or similar experience.
3 spots remaining
LEARN MOREHandbuilding Across Cultures Mon 6:30PM
- 06:30 pm - 08:30 pm
- Duration: 8 Weeks
- Start Date: June 9, 2025
- Instructor: Eve Wildermuth
- Location: Main Campus
Dive into honoring the beauty of culture clay techniques from around the world. Emphasis will be on the building processes, form structure and decoration techniques that make the culture we are focusing on unique.
2 spots remaining
LEARN MOREBeginning Wheel Throwing Mon 6:30 pm
- 06:30 pm - 08:30 pm
- Duration: 8 Weeks
- Start Date: June 9, 2025
- Instructor: Jesus Minguez
- Location: Main Campus
Always wanted to experience the magic of forming clay vessels on the potter’s wheel? Learn to center, open and pull up clay walls. This class may be repeated until confidence is gained.
This class is currently full.
JOIN WAITLISTBlack-and-White Film I: Introduction to the Darkroom (Mon)
- 07:00 pm - 09:00 pm
- Duration: 8 Weeks
- Start Date: June 9, 2025
- Instructor: John Baker
- Location: Main Campus
Explore the timeless beauty of traditional, film-based black-and-white photography, including image selection, exposure and processing your own film and prints in Crealdé’s wet darkroom. This introductory course will cover basic camera controls and formats, film types, hands-on field trips, weekly assignments, print reviews and lots of fun time in the darkroom. Designed for students new to film photography and photographers who want to reconnect with this creative art form. Tuition includes lab fee, chemistry, and free loaner cameras. Prerequisites: Understanding of basic camera controls and functions.
1 spots remaining
LEARN MORE- 06:00 pm - 08:00 pm
- Duration: 8 Weeks
- Start Date: June 9, 2025
- Instructors: Joan Sanchez, Julie Nieves, Deborah Umphrey, David Hunter
- Location: Main Campus
Explore the foundations of drawing and painting basics. In each two-weeks segment, students will learn and sample various artistic techniques under the guidance of a different instructor. Each instructor brings their artistic techniques in diverse mediums, including pencil, charcoal, watercolors, acrylics, and oils. Most supplies provided.
This class is currently full.
JOIN WAITLISTArt Camp Session 3 (ages 8-13)
- 09:00 am - 05:15 pm
- Duration: 1 Week
- Start Date: June 9, 2025
- Location: Main Campus
Instructor TBD.
*This one week camp meets Monday through Thursday.*
Full days of art experiences in six different media.
This class is currently full.
JOIN WAITLIST- 01:00 pm - 03:00 pm
- Duration: 8 Weeks
- Start Date: June 10, 2025
- Instructor: Delila Smalley
- Location: Main Campus
Explore the potter’s wheel and create animated pots by altering thrown forms beyond round. Dart, pleat, fold and facet! Just because it’s made on a wheel doesn’t mean it has to be round. Prereq: TD Beginning Wheel Throwing or similar exp. Course not suitable for beginners.
Intermediate Wheel Throwing (Tue 4pm)
- 04:00 pm - 06:00 pm
- Duration: 8 Weeks
- Start Date: June 10, 2025
- Instructor: Vadim Malkin
- Location: Main Campus
Now that you’re comfortable with centering and pulling short walls, let’s make more dynamic forms and work on achieving some height through bowls, cups, vases, pitchers, and anything else you can imagine. This class is ideal for anyone comfortable with centering up to an advanced level student.
Prereq: Beginning Wheel Throwing
1 spots remaining
LEARN MOREIntermediate Wheel Throwing (Tue 7pm)
- 07:00 pm - 09:00 pm
- Duration: 8 Weeks
- Start Date: June 10, 2025
- Instructor: Vadim Malkin
- Location: Main Campus
Now that you’re comfortable with centering and pulling short walls, let’s make more dynamic forms and work on achieving some height through bowls, cups, vases, pitchers, and anything else you can imagine. This class is ideal for anyone comfortable with centering up to an advanced level student.
Prereq: Beginning Wheel Throwing
This class is currently full.
JOIN WAITLIST- 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
- Duration: 8 Weeks
- Start Date: June 10, 2025
- Instructor: Robert Reedy
- Location: Main Campus
An investigation into the design and function of the ceramic pouring and drinking vessels. Gain handbuilding and wheel throwing skills through the creative exploration, design and construction of different types of functional and abstract forms. We'll explore different types of handles and the ergonomic issues facing utilitarian forms. Though focused on handbuilding skills, there will be some opportunity to combine thrown components.
- 07:00 pm - 09:00 pm
- Duration: 8 Weeks
- Start Date: June 10, 2025
- Instructor: Kelly Evans
- Location: Main Campus
Have fun exploring your own style while making creative pieces for your home. Special emphasis is placed on surface design with students experimenting with wax resist and carving, along with occasional additions post firing such as wood and fiber.
Beginning Wheel Throwing (Tues 10AM)
- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Duration: 8 Weeks
- Start Date: June 10, 2025
- Instructor: August Mendez
- Location: Main Campus
Always wanted to experience the magic of forming clay vessels on the potter’s wheel? Learn to center, open and pull up clay walls. This class may be repeated until confidence is gained.
- 07:00 pm - 09:00 pm
- Duration: 8 Weeks
- Start Date: June 10, 2025
- Instructor: Charles Hodges
- Location: Main Campus
Through in-depth assignments and image reviews, students more deeply explore composition, lighting, lenses and flash photography. A field trip on the 5th Saturday of the session will further develop skills for real time applications. Demonstrations on basic image processing and printing techniques along with preparing photographs for online presentation will be included.
Prerequisite: Digital Photography I or similar experience. Skill level: Intermediate
Introduction to Portrait Photography
- 07:00 pm - 09:00 pm
- Duration: 8 Weeks
- Start Date: June 10, 2025
- Instructor: Chris Casler
- Location: Main Campus
In this class, students will learn basic lighting techniques, using flash and natural light to reveal a subject's unique personality. Focus is given to the ways in which posing techniques can define the photographic portrait. Students may work in black and white or color. Prerequisite: Black-and-White Film Photo I, Intro to Digital Photo, or similar experience.
- 07:00 pm - 10:00 pm
- Duration: 6 Weeks
- Start Date: June 10, 2025
- Instructor: Andrew Grant
- Location: Main Campus
Explore figurative drawing with quick gesture studies and longer sustained poses. Draw from the live figure, with an emphasis on anatomy and proportion and the expressive use of materials.
Prereq: Drawing I or similar experience
Hand built Pottery for Teens (Ages 13-17)
- 04:30 pm - 06:30 pm
- Duration: 6 Weeks
- Start Date: June 10, 2025
- Instructor: Eve Wildermuth
- Location: Main Campus
Join the makers movement! Combine hand building methods to manipulate clay into three dimensions for sculptural or functional art. Is it a tiger or a teapot? Or a tiger teapot? Experiment with underglaze, sgrafitto, slips and glazes for compelling surface decoration.
Functional Pottery 6 PM Winter Garden
- 06:00 pm - 08:00 pm
- Duration: 8 Weeks
- Start Date: June 10, 2025
- Level: All
- Instructor: Camille Castronovo
- Location: Jessie Brock Comm Center
**Class meets at Jesse Brock Community Center**
Jars, jugs, platters, and bowls! Explore form and surface decoration, as you create pottery vessels to gather, store, and present food. Suitable for all levels. Handbuilders and throwers are welcome!
This class is currently full.
JOIN WAITLIST- 07:00 pm - 09:00 pm
- Duration: 8 Weeks
- Start Date: June 11, 2025
- Instructor: Jeff Rogers
- Location: Main Campus
Prereq: Beginning Wheel Throwing; or similar exp. (Course is not suitable for beginners).
This class is currently full.
JOIN WAITLIST- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Duration: 8 Weeks
- Start Date: June 11, 2025
- Instructor: Robert Reedy
- Location: Main Campus
Explore your creativity while focusing on functional serving ware through a variety of handbuilding processes. Students of all levels will learn and explore new skills and techniques and how to apply the visual elements and principles of design to create serving vessels of their own design and imagination.
This class is currently full.
JOIN WAITLISTBeginning Wheel Throwing (Wed 1PM)
- 01:00 pm - 03:00 pm
- Duration: 8 Weeks
- Start Date: June 11, 2025
- Instructor: Jeff Rogers
- Location: Main Campus
Always wanted to experience the magic of forming clay vessels on the potter’s wheel? Learn to center, open and pull up clay walls. This class may be repeated until confidence is gained.
1 spots remaining
LEARN MOREBeginning Wheel Throwing (Wed 10 AM)
- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Duration: 8 Weeks
- Start Date: June 11, 2025
- Instructor: Abby Girand
- Location: Main Campus
Always wanted to experience the magic of forming clay vessels on the potter’s wheel? Learn to center, open and pull up clay walls. This class may be repeated until confidence is gained.
- 07:00 pm - 09:00 pm
- Duration: 4 Weeks
- Start Date: June 11, 2025
- Instructor: Jon P. Manchester
- Location: Heritage Center
In this 4 week course learn to use the iPhone camera to achieve amazing results. Explore various iPhone camera photography modes and useful camera and image processing apps. There will be interactive demonstrations and image reviews.
2 spots remaining
LEARN MORE- 06:30 pm - 08:30 pm
- Duration: 8 Weeks
- Start Date: June 11, 2025
- Instructor: David Hunter
- Location: Main Campus
Explore the methods, materials, and tools involved with acrylic painting. Learn techniques used to produce a finished acrylic painting, from rough sketch to final finishing touches, including the use of various brushes, palette knives, canvases, clay boards and final coating to protect the finished image.
- 06:00 pm - 08:00 pm
- Duration: 8 Weeks
- Start Date: June 11, 2025
- Instructor: Julie Nieves
- Location: Main Campus
Watercolor is a wonderfully mysterious medium. Students will explore watercolor techniques, color mixing, and learn the value of using a limited palette to gain skills and confidence needed to get you started on your watercolor journey.
Intro to Silversmithing Jewelry
- 03:00 pm - 05:00 pm
- Duration: 8 Weeks
- Start Date: June 11, 2025
- Instructor: Stefan Alexandres
- Location: Main Campus
Experience the fundamental processes of cutting, forging, metal texturing, hammering, sawing and soldering silver. The course includes: bezel stone setting for cabochon gemstones, polishing techniques and combining sterling silver sheet metal with fine silver wire, etc. Specific projects, planned by the instructor, will focus on how to make silver rings, pendants, bracelets, necklaces, and earrings. Silver will be provided. Please note, the use of silver material or gemstones will be limited to the scheduled projects planned by the instructor.
3 spots remaining
LEARN MOREIntroduction to Jewelry Design & Fabrication
- 05:30 pm - 07:30 pm
- Duration: 8 Weeks
- Start Date: June 11, 2025
- Instructor: Stefan Alexandres
- Location: Main Campus
Learn concepts for basic and advanced jewelry fabrication. Become familiar with essential silversmithing skills and methods of cutting, forging, embossing, and all the fundamentals of soldering techniques. Students are given the instructions and tools to make finger rings, earrings, bracelets, and other forms of jewelry. Copper materials will be provided for use in class. Students wanting to work in silver should bring their own silver supply.
This class is currently full.
JOIN WAITLIST- 07:00 pm - 09:00 pm
- Duration: 8 Weeks
- Start Date: June 11, 2025
- Instructor: Elaine Person
Have you ever said, “Someday I’ll write a story or a book?” Someday is today! Award-winning instructor Elaine Person will guide you toward achieving your writing goals. Open to people of all writing levels as your writing is unique to you. We write together and share by reading our assignments to each other to make your writing stronger. Listening to others helps us improve our writing too. With the use of prompts such as paintings, photographs, quotations, items, and more, you will tap into your own creativity. Each week, we will write together and have positive critique. See your stories unfold. We will discuss a variety of literary techniques used to strengthen our stories. This class is for you, whether you write prose, poetry, lyrics, scripts, or other genres.
Advanced Wheel for Teens (ages 13-17)
- 04:00 pm - 06:00 pm
- Duration: 6 Weeks
- Start Date: June 11, 2025
- Instructor: Eve Wildermuth
- Location: Main Campus
Expand your skills on the potters' wheel as you stretch and manipulate the clay to alter forms and create lids, spouts, and more. Create your own pottery collection to give and to treasure. Prerequisite YAP208 or similar wheel experience.
Intro to Oil Painting (Winter Garden)
- 06:00 pm - 08:00 pm
- Duration: 8 Weeks
- Start Date: June 11, 2025
- Level: Beginner to Intermediate
- Instructor: Catherine Hempel
- Location: Jessie Brock Community Center
Intermediate Wheel Throwing – Thurs 1PM
- 01:00 pm - 03:30 pm
- Duration: 6 Weeks
- Start Date: June 12, 2025
- Instructor: Jeff Rogers
- Location: Main Campus
Now that you’re comfortable with centering and pulling short walls, let’s make more dynamic forms and work on achieving some height through bowls, cups, vases, pitchers, and anything else you can imagine. This class is ideal for anyone comfortable with centering up to an advanced level student.
Prereq: Beginning Wheel Throwing
- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Duration: 8 Weeks
- Start Date: June 12, 2025
- Instructor: August Mendez
- Location: Main Campus
Design and create unique functional wall pieces, such as altars and shelves. Use a slab roller, an extruder, and other tools to create these forms. Focus on the building process, form, structure, as well as decoration and finishing techniques.
- 06:30 pm - 08:30 pm
- Duration: 6 Weeks
- Start Date: June 12, 2025
- Instructor: Abby Girand
- Location: Main Campus
Curious about clay? Come get your hands dirty and get some answers as you experiment with basic forming methods, connections and attachments to create decorative and/or functional pottery by hand. Embellish with glaze for lasting treasures.
Beginning Wheel Throwing (Thur)
- 07:00 pm - 09:00 pm
- Duration: 8 Weeks
- Start Date: June 12, 2025
- Instructor: Jeff Rogers
- Location: Main Campus
Always wanted to experience the magic of forming clay vessels on the potter’s wheel? Learn to center, open and pull up clay walls. This class may be repeated until confidence is gained.
This class is currently full.
JOIN WAITLIST- 07:00 pm - 09:00 pm
- Duration: 8 Weeks
- Start Date: June 12, 2025
- Instructor: Jon P. Manchester
- Location: Main Campus
Build a strong foundation for your photography and make better images by understanding exposure, metering, focus, file formats, depth of field and basic composition. Hands-on demonstrations and assignments with personalized image reviews reinforce camera systems such as shutter speed, aperture, ISO, and their artistic impact on the final photograph. Single lens reflex or mirrorless cameras are recommended. The instructor is available for camera recommendations.
3 spots remaining
LEARN MORE- 06:30 pm - 08:30 pm
- Duration: 8 Weeks
- Start Date: June 12, 2025
- Instructor: Joseph Mattus
- Location: Main Campus
Create vibrant, drawings with full value range using charcoal/graphite. Starting with a block-in sketch then learn the principles of form modeling to create a look of realism and dimensionality. Work from still life set-ups or choose to draw your own subjects.
- 06:00 pm - 09:00 pm
- Duration: 6 Weeks
- Start Date: June 12, 2025
- Instructor: Fabiola Hansen
- Location: Main Campus
Learn how to use the first artistic medium in the history of man while discovering your hidden ability to create beautiful works of art with confidence! Create vibrant masterpieces while expanding your knowledge with a new medium. All supplies included.
Wheel Throwing and More! (ages 10-14)
- 04:30 pm - 06:00 pm
- Duration: 6 Weeks
- Start Date: June 12, 2025
- Instructor: Camille Castronovo
- Location: Main Campus
Experience the magic of the potter's wheel as you create clay forms then combine and embellish them with hand building to create decorative sculptures or functional ware. Pottery, it's more than just a pretty vase!
This class is currently full.
JOIN WAITLISTIntro to Drawing and Painting (Winter Garden)
- 06:00 pm - 08:00 pm
- Duration: 8 Weeks
- Start Date: June 12, 2025
- Level: Beginner to Intermediate
- Instructor: Catherine Hempel
- Location: Jessie Brock Community Center
- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Duration: 8 Weeks
- Start Date: June 13, 2025
- Instructor: Missy Kimsey-Hickman
- Location: Main Campus
Learn a variety of hand building skills though instructor demonstrations of hands on slab, coil and pinch techniques to create original and decorative pieces.
This class is currently full.
JOIN WAITLISTBeginning Wheel Throwing (Fri 7pm)
- 07:00 pm - 09:00 pm
- Duration: 8 Weeks
- Start Date: June 13, 2025
- Instructor: Abby Girand
- Location: Main Campus
Always wanted to experience the magic of forming clay vessels on the potter’s wheel? Learn to center, open and pull up clay walls. This class may be repeated until confidence is gained.
3 spots remaining
LEARN MOREContinuing Sculpture Studies Fri 10 am
- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Duration: 8 Weeks
- Start Date: June 13, 2025
- Instructor: David Cumbie
- Location: Main Campus
Intermediate and advanced students are assisted with ideas related to their personal projects. Problem-solving and discovering new materials and techniques will be a part of each class. Bronze casting and welding will be offered with the approval of the instructor.
Prereq: Sculpture I or similar experience
This class is currently full.
JOIN WAITLISTContinuing Sculpture Studies Fri 1 pm
- 01:00 pm - 03:00 pm
- Duration: 8 Weeks
- Start Date: June 13, 2025
- Instructor: David Cumbie
- Location: Main Campus
Intermediate and advanced students are assisted with ideas related to their personal projects. Problem-solving and discovering new materials and techniques will be a part of each class. Bronze casting and welding will be offered with the approval of the instructor.
Prereq: Sculpture I or similar experience
This class is currently full.
JOIN WAITLIST- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Duration: 8 Weeks
- Start Date: June 13, 2025
- Instructor: Charles Hodges
- Location: Main Campus
Build a strong foundation for your photography and make better images by understanding exposure, metering, focus, file formats, depth of field and basic composition. Hands-on demonstrations and assignments with personalized image reviews reinforce camera systems such as shutter speed, aperture, ISO, and their artistic impact on the final photograph. Single lens reflex or mirrorless cameras are recommended. The instructor is available for camera recommendations.
- 09:30 am - 12:30 pm
- Duration: 6 Weeks
- Start Date: June 13, 2025
- Instructor: Patti Shistle
- Location: Main Campus
Focus on finishing with flair! Elevate unfinished works or start a new still life, landscape, or portrait. Enjoy one-on-one guidance with demos on values, colors, brushwork, and composition contrasts of values, colors and brushwork. Get ready to frame your masterpieces!
Prerequisites: Drawing I; Beginning Acrylics; Oil I; or similar experience
- 01:30 pm - 03:30 pm
- Duration: 8 Weeks
- Start Date: June 13, 2025
- Instructor: Julie Nieves
- Location: Main Campus
Watercolor is a wonderfully mysterious medium. Students will watercolor techniques, color mixing, and learn the value of using a limited palette to gain skills and confidence needed to get started on their watercolor journey.
1 spots remaining
LEARN MORE- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Duration: 8 Weeks
- Start Date: June 13, 2025
- Instructor: Deborah Umphrey
- Location: Main Campus
Develop skills for measuring proportions and angles, drawing tones to show light and volume, perspective and composition. The goal is to learn techniques to draw realistically and develop perceptual awareness.
Inspired Words: Writing to Art 6/14
- 10:00 am - 04:00 pm
- Start Date: June 14, 2025
- Instructor: Elaine Person
- Location: Main Campus
When you see a painting, what do you feel? When you look at a photograph, what memories surface? Tap into your creativity with the use of paintings, photographs, and objects as award-winning writer Elaine Person prompts you to write original stories, poems, and essays. Learn writing tools and techniques. Different genres of writing and reflection will be discussed. Short lunch break provided. Students will leave this workshop with their own written words.
Beginning Wheel Throwing (Sat 4pm)
- 04:00 pm - 06:00 pm
- Duration: 8 Weeks
- Start Date: June 14, 2025
- Instructor: Delila Smalley
- Location: Main Campus
Always wanted to experience the magic of forming clay vessels on the potter’s wheel? Learn to center, open and pull up clay walls. This class may be repeated until confidence is gained.
Hollow Construction Techniques for Jewelry
- 05:30 pm - 07:30 pm
- Duration: 8 Weeks
- Start Date: June 14, 2025
- Instructor: Stefan Alexandres
- Location: Main Campus
- 03:00 pm - 05:00 pm
- Duration: 8 Weeks
- Start Date: June 14, 2025
- Instructor: Stefan Alexandres
- Location: Main Campus
Learn how to make silver rings with a variety of designs. Focus on learning the fundamental fabrication techniques and procedures, working with sterling or fine silver for custom made rings. Explore how to use the jeweler's saw and shears for cutting metal, filing, drilling for piercing, forming for shaping, sweat soldering for joining components, and buffing polishing. Included are bezel stone-setting and gemstones to completely finish your ring project.
- 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Duration: 6 Weeks
- Start Date: June 14, 2025
- Instructor: Patricia Byron
- Location: Main Campus
This class is designed to allow young artists to explore the exciting world of artmaking with hands-on lessons in acrylics, watercolors, drawing, collage, and more. Aspiring artists will express themselves in a creative, supportive environment.
1 spots remaining
LEARN MORE- 09:00 am - 10:00 am
- Duration: 6 Weeks
- Start Date: June 14, 2025
- Instructor: Patricia Byron
- Location: Main Campus
This class is a fun introduction to the world of art! Aspiring artists will discover drawing and painting techniques in various mediums including acrylics, pastels, watercolors, and collage. Budding artists will develop their creativity and artistic skills in a nurturing environment.
2 spots remaining
LEARN MOREPick up the Palette! (Ages 5-9)
- 10:00 am - 11:00 am
- Duration: 6 Weeks
- Start Date: June 14, 2025
- Instructor: Julie Nieves
- Location: Main Campus
Use animals as inspiration and explore the fundamentals of art! Projects expose young artists to an array of materials and art concepts and encourage self-expression as they draw, paint and experiment.
Squish Smash Sculpt! Summer Clay Adventure (Ages 5-8)
- 09:00 am - 10:00 am
- Duration: 6 Weeks
- Start Date: June 14, 2025
- Instructor: Julie Ellington
- Location: Main Campus
Little hands will squish, smash, and sculpt through fun summer-themed clay projects! From ocean creatures to sweet treats, kids will explore texture, shapes, and creativity while learning basic pottery techniques.
1 spots remaining
LEARN MOREPainting & Drawing I (Sat, 8-12yrs)
- 09:00 am - 10:30 am
- Duration: 6 Weeks
- Start Date: June 14, 2025
- Instructor: Fabiola Hansen
- Location: Main Campus
This class will focus on learning to see the world through an artist's eyes. Working with a variety of painting and drawing materials, young artists will explore their potential as they take their skills to the next level! Students will use technical drawing and painting fundamentals to create something beautiful and one of a kind to frame and treasure each session!
1 spots remaining
LEARN MORE- 11:00 am - 12:30 pm
- Duration: 6 Weeks
- Start Date: June 14, 2025
- Instructor: Anita Cohen
- Location: Main Campus
Attention Young Artists! Come experience the fun of painting and learn new skills that will last a lifetime! Each week, captivating lessons will spark your creativity and transform your ideas into unique works of art.
Sun-Kissed Clay Creations (Ages 8-12)
- 10:30 am - 12:00 pm
- Duration: 6 Weeks
- Start Date: June 14, 2025
- Instructor: Julie Ellington
- Location: Main Campus
Get creative with clay! Kids will learn hand-building techniques while sculpting summer-inspired pieces like beach creatures, tiki masks, and more. A fun and artistic way to explore clay this summer
- 09:00 am - 10:30 am
- Duration: 6 Weeks
- Start Date: June 14, 2025
- Instructor: Donald Kratt
- Location: Main Campus
Before digital photography, there was film. Have fun taking pictures using 35mm cameras and black-and-white film, then create your own photos in the darkroom. A little science, a touch of chemistry, and your photo is art! Film cameras are provided.
Art of the Masters with a Twist (Ages 8-12) (Ages 8-12)
- 11:30 am - 01:00 pm
- Duration: 6 Weeks
- Start Date: June 14, 2025
- Instructor: Fabiola Hansen
- Location: Main Campus
Learn how to paint and draw with inspiration from Michelangelo, Picasso, Van Gogh, and other great art masters! Add your own creative twist with materials like oil pastels, acrylic paints, watercolors, charcoal and more.
Intermediate Painting and Drawing (Ages 10-14)
- 01:30 pm - 03:00 pm
- Duration: 6 Weeks
- Start Date: June 14, 2025
- Instructor: Julie Nieves
- Location: Main Campus
Embark on a colorful adventure where your creativity and imagination knows no bounds! Dive deeper into your painting and drawing skills, exploring new materials – charcoal, soft pastels, watercolors, acrylics, and even collage. Unleash your inner artist! Prerequisite Painting and Drawing I; Brush to Canvas; Art of the Masters with a Twist; or similar experience.
Cartoon Toys and Stop Motion Animation (ages 8-12)
- 09:00 am - 10:30 am
- Duration: 6 Weeks
- Start Date: June 14, 2025
- Instructor: Ken Foster
- Location: Heritage Center
Create two-dimensional cartoon characters in a variety of styles using pencils and markers. Then bring your characters to life as posable three-dimensional sculptures. Experiment with set design for your toy then use cameras and technology to make stop motion movies.
1 spots remaining
LEARN MOREFigure Drawing for Teens (ages 13-17)
- 01:30 pm - 03:30 pm
- Duration: 6 Weeks
- Start Date: June 14, 2025
- Instructor: Fabiola Hansen
- Location: Main Campus
This teen figure drawing class will challenge participants with new drawing techniques using charcoal and soft pastels. Students will work on anatomy, gesture, line, proportion, composition, and tone-working with a model. Repeated sessions are encouraged to expand skills and build a portfolio.
3 spots remaining
LEARN MOREAnalog Film Adventures for Teens (Ages 13 – 17)
- 11:00 am - 01:00 pm
- Duration: 6 Weeks
- Start Date: June 14, 2025
- Instructor: Donald Kratt
- Location: Main Campus
Pint Size Picassos (Winter Garden) (ages 4-8)
- 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Duration: 6 Weeks
- Start Date: June 14, 2025
- Level: All
- Instructor: Mike Goodge
- Location: Jessie Brock Community Center
**Class meets at Jesse Brock Community Center**
Like to draw and paint? Explore the many ways to make art using pastels, paints, watercolors and other materials. A fun introductory experience for fledgling artists.
Painting and Drawing I Winter Garden (Ages 8-12)
- 09:00 am - 10:30 am
- Duration: 6 Weeks
- Start Date: June 14, 2025
- Level: All
- Instructor: Mike Goodge
- Location: Jessie Brock Community Center
**Class meets at Jesse Brock Community Center**
Learn the fundamentals of art-making and discover how to see as an artist. Create with a variety of painting and drawing media and explore new techniques to enhance your artistic skills!
Meditation & Mud: Handbuilt Vessels & Sculptures
- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
- Duration: 8 Weeks
- Start Date: June 15, 2025
- Instructor: Sarah Johnston
- Location: Main Campus
How do meditation and mud relate to one another? Decompress and feel refreshed for the week ahead. Class will start with a short 5-minute guided meditation with clay. Learn handbuilding, stamp-making and underglaze layering techniques to create a series of vessels. You will leave feeling centered and inspired; ready to greet a new week.
Tile Making for Home and Garden
- 01:00 pm - 03:00 pm
- Duration: 8 Weeks
- Start Date: June 15, 2025
- Instructor: Sarah Johnston
- Location: Main Campus
Learn basic tile-making skills such as relief, mosaics, and painted wall tiles, along with the techniques to keep your tiles flat and how to adhere and grout your work. Learn to plan and implement projects for homes and gardens, i.e. backsplashes, indoor/outdoor murals, framed mirrors, wall hangings and garden stepping stones.
Beginning Wheel Throwing (Sun 7)
- 07:00 pm - 09:00 pm
- Duration: 8 Weeks
- Start Date: June 15, 2025
- Instructor: Abby Girand
- Location: Main Campus
Always wanted to experience the magic of forming clay vessels on the potter’s wheel? Learn to center, open and pull up clay walls. This class may be repeated until confidence is gained.
- 02:00 pm - 05:00 pm
- Duration: 6 Weeks
- Start Date: June 15, 2025
- Instructor: Joan Sanchez
- Location: Main Campus
Learn basic techniques of the alla prima (direct) method of applying oil paint. In addition to paint application and brushwork, practice mixing color using a split primary palette. Working from still life setups, complete one study each week to explore techniques for rendering glass, ceramic, metal, and organic objects.
- 08:45 am - 11:50 am
- Start Date: June 16, 2025
- Location: Main Campus
Instructor TBD.
*This one-week camp meets Monday through Thursday for half days.*
Unleash our imaginations! Create wacky, colorful monsters by bringing silly creature ideas to life.
This class is currently full.
JOIN WAITLISTArt Camp Session 5 (ages 9-14)
- 09:00 am - 05:15 pm
- Duration: 1 Week
- Start Date: June 16, 2025
- Location: Main Campus
Instructor TBD.
*This one-week camp meets Monday through Thursday.*
Full days of art experiences in four different media.
Campers bring bag lunches for daily picnics. Supervision is provided until 5:30 pm.
This class is currently full.
JOIN WAITLISTSculpting the Human Head 6/21 and 6/22
- 10:00 am - 04:00 pm
- Start Date: June 21, 2025
- Instructor: David Cumbie
- Location: Main Campus
***This Two-Day Workshop will meet on Saturday, June 21 and Sunday, June 22.***
Professional sculptor David Cumbie guides students as they create life-size busts. Students will learn techniques for capturing accurate proportions of the head and a variety of facial features during this intensive, two-day workshop.
- 08:45 am - 11:50 am
- Duration: 1 Week
- Start Date: June 23, 2025
- Location: Main Campus
Instructor TBD.
*This one-week camp meets Monday through Thursday for half days.*
Celebrate the wonders of nature by creating vibrant seasonal art from blooming spring flowers to snowy winter scenes.
This class is currently full.
JOIN WAITLISTArt Camp Session 7 (ages 9-14)
- 09:00 am - 05:15 pm
- Duration: 1 Week
- Start Date: June 23, 2025
- Location: Main Campus
Instructor TBD.
*This one-week camp meets Monday through Thursday.*
Full days of art experiences in four different media.
Campers bring bag lunches for daily picnics. Supervision is provided until 5:30 pm.
1 spots remaining
LEARN MOREFamily Camp Tuesday (ages 6-13)
- 09:00 am - 03:15 pm
- Duration: 1 Week
- Start Date: July 1, 2025
- Location: Main Campus
Instructor TBD.
**This one-day camp meets Tuesday 7/1/25.**
For one day, 1 adult & 1 child experiment in 3 different media with Crealdé’s professional artist faculty, share a picnic lunch lakeside and leave with a portfolio of artistic creations.
Family Camp Wednesday (ages 6-13)
- 09:00 am - 03:15 pm
- Duration: 1 Week
- Start Date: July 2, 2025
- Location: Main Campus
Instructor TBD.
**This one-day camp meets Wednesday 7/2/25.**
For one day, 1 adult & 1 child experiment in 3 different media with Crealdé’s professional artist faculty, share a picnic lunch lakeside and leave with a portfolio of artistic creations.
Art Camp Session 8 (ages 8-13)
- 09:00 am - 05:15 pm
- Duration: 1 Week
- Start Date: July 7, 2025
- Location: Main Campus
Instructor TBD.
*This one-week camp meets Monday through Thursday.*
Full days of art experiences in 6 different media.
Campers bring bag lunches for daily picnics. Supervision is provided until 5:30 pm.
This class is currently full.
JOIN WAITLISTArt Camp Session 9 (ages 9-14)
- 09:00 am - 05:15 pm
- Duration: 1 Week
- Start Date: July 14, 2025
- Location: Main Campus
Instructor TBD.
*This one-week camp meets Monday through Thursday.*
Full days of art experiences in four different media.
***Campers bring bag lunch . Supervision is provided until 5:30 pm***
This class is currently full.
JOIN WAITLISTArt Immersion-Ceramics (ages 12-16) 7/14
- 01:00 pm - 05:00 pm
- Duration: 1 Week
- Start Date: July 14, 2025
- Location: Main Campus
Instructor TBD.
*This one-week camp meets Monday through Thursday.* Join the makers movement! Combine hand building methods to manipulate clay into three dimensions for sculptural or functional art. Is it a tiger or a teapot? Or a tiger teapot? Experiment with underglaze, sgrafitto, slips and glazes for compelling surface decoration.
Crealdé’s Young Adult Immersion program gives students the opportunity to concentrate on one medium exclusively for one week.
2 spots remaining
LEARN MOREArt Immersion-Digital Photography with Photoshop (ages 12-16) 7/14
- 01:00 pm - 05:00 pm
- Duration: 1 Week
- Start Date: July 14, 2025
- Instructor: Caryn Kuhn
- Location: Main Campus
*This one-week camp meets Monday through Thursday.*
Learn the basics of digital photography using our DSLR cameras to make photographs then dive into Adobe Photoshop and explore the possibilities – photo editing, image manipulation, and digital painting.
Crealdé’s Young Adult Immersion program gives students the opportunity to concentrate on one medium exclusively for one week.
1 spots remaining
LEARN MOREArt Immersion-Painting/Drawing (ages 12-16) 7/14
- 01:00 pm - 05:00 pm
- Duration: 1 Week
- Start Date: July 14, 2025
- Location: Main Campus
Instructor TBD.
*This one-week camp meets Monday through Thursday.* Immerse yourself in acrylics and watercolor as you learn paint handling, color mixing, as well as traditional and experimental approaches to painting.
Crealdé’s Young Adult Immersion program gives students the opportunity to concentrate on one medium exclusively for one week. The program is based on the nationally-recognized Advanced Placement Studio Art Program.
This class is currently full.
JOIN WAITLISTSculpting the Human Head 7/19 and 7/20
- 10:00 am - 04:00 pm
- Start Date: July 19, 2025
- Instructor: David Cumbie
- Location: Main Campus
***This Two-Day Workshop will meet on Saturday, July 19 and Sunday, July 20.***
Professional sculptor David Cumbie guides students as they create life-size busts. Students will learn techniques for capturing accurate proportions of the head and a variety of facial features during this intensive, two-day workshop.
Inspired Words: Writing to Art 7/19
- 10:00 am - 04:00 pm
- Start Date: July 19, 2025
- Instructor: Elaine Person
- Location: Main Campus
When you see a painting, what do you feel? When you look at a photograph, what memories surface? Tap into your creativity with the use of paintings, photographs, and objects as award-winning writer Elaine Person prompts you to write original stories, poems, and essays. Learn writing tools and techniques. Different genres of writing and reflection will be discussed. Short lunch break provided. Students will leave this workshop with their own written words.
Art Camp Session 10 (ages 5-8)
- 08:45 am - 11:50 am
- Duration: 1 Week
- Start Date: July 21, 2025
- Location: Main Campus
Instructor TBD.
*This one-week camp meets Monday through Thursday for half days.*
Embark on a global art adventure! Create colorful projects inspired by cultures from different continents worldwide. The camp meets for hald days, Monday through Thursday.
This class is currently full.
JOIN WAITLISTArt Camp Session 11 (ages 9-14)
- 09:00 am - 05:15 pm
- Duration: 1 Week
- Start Date: July 21, 2025
- Location: Main Campus
Instructor TBD.
*This one-week camp meets Monday through Thursday.*
Full days of art experiences in four different media.
***Campers bring bag lunch . Supervision is provided until 5:30 pm***
This class is currently full.
JOIN WAITLISTArt Camp Session 12 (ages 8-13)
- 09:00 am - 05:15 pm
- Duration: 1 Week
- Start Date: July 28, 2025
- Location: Main Campus
Instructor TBD.
*This one-week camp meets Monday through Thursday.*
Full days of art experiences in 6 different media.
Campers bring bag lunches for daily picnics. Supervision is provided until 5:30 pm.
This class is currently full.
JOIN WAITLISTIntroduction to Sumi-e: The Ancient Art Of Asian Brush Painting
- 10:00 am - 04:00 pm
- Start Date: August 2, 2025
- Instructor: Fontaine Rodgers
- Location: Main Campus
Create in the 3,000 year old Asian art style of Sumi-e painting using ink, special brushes, and rice paper. Experience painting in the traditions of ancient masters of an art form that developed alongside the invention of the basic strokes of character writing. Philosophy, traditions, techniques and set-up will be covered. Themes include bamboo, blossoms, plants, insects, animals and other elements of nature. This workshop is ideally suited for beginners, artists and non-artists and teachers who wish to add Sumi-e to their multicultural classroom experience. Materials provided, including quality brushes that participants keep. Students will receive a Sumi-e kit and supplies.
Art Camp Session 13 (ages 5-8)
- 08:45 am - 11:50 am
- Duration: 1 Week
- Start Date: August 4, 2025
- Location: Main Campus
Instructor TBD.
*This one-week camp meets Monday through Thursday for half days.*
Blast off into creativity designing rockets, starry galaxies, and futuristic space scenes inspired by the wonders of the cosmos.
This class is currently full.
JOIN WAITLISTArt Camp Session 14 (ages 9-14)
- 09:00 am - 05:15 pm
- Duration: 1 Week
- Start Date: August 4, 2025
- Location: Main Campus
Instructor TBD.
*This one-week camp meets Monday through Thursday.*
Full days of art experiences in four different media.
***Campers bring bag lunch . Supervision is provided until 5:30 pm***
- 10:00 am - 04:00 pm
- Start Date: August 9, 2025
- Location: Main Campus
Instructor TBD.
Oil and cold wax medium are beautifully suited for creating color and texture that transforms from subtle to bold. Discover the versatile methods that can be applied when painting with oil and cold wax. After demos and discussions, students will explore and discover on your own. Oil painting experience recommended.