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Drawing & Design

Visual Journaling with Wade
Instructor: Wade Gugino
A picture is worth a thousand words. Come learn how to make your notes and thoughts visual and explode with emotion. Impress someone you like, visualized your future, chronicle your life, or just plain have fun making funny cartoon! We'll show you how to say nice things, share your feelings, and capture special moments with cartoon notes and cards. You'll learn techniques to lay out your thoughts and goals visually. You'll get the tools to journal in cartoon form and you'll get a crash course in simple strip and panel cartoons. This is the more comprehensive cartoon immersion available, and you can totally do this!
Ages 18 & up • Fridays • January 17th - February 7th • 10:00 am - 11:00 am • $50 members $75 non-members REGISTER

Adobe Illustrator
Instructor: McCoy Khamphouy
Are you interested in creating posters, flyers, brochures, and other publications? This is the software used for layouts. Learn from active professional designer McCoy. You will need to sign up wiht the Adobe Creative Cloud subscription service on you laptop before class (credit card required) or during the first day-we can help you if you need it. This is a month to month service, so you can end it after the class is over if you wish. You may also qualify for a discount if you verify you are a student or educator when subscribing. 
Ages 13 & up • Tuesdays • February 4th - 18th • 6:15 - 8:00 pm • $100 members $125 non-members REGISTER

Adobe InDesign
Instructor: McCoy Khamphouy
Are you interested in creating posters, flyers, brochures, and other publications? This is the software used for layouts. Learn from active professional designer McCoy. You will need to sign up wiht the Adobe Creative Cloud subscription service on you laptop before class (credit card required) or during the first day-we can help you if you need it. This is a month to month service, so you can end it after the class is over if you wish. You may also qualify for a discount if you verify you are a student or educator when subscribing. 
Ages 13 & up • Tuesdays • February 25th-March 10th • 6:15-8:00pm • $100 members $125 non-members REGISTER

Basic of Animation
Instructor: McCoy Khamphouy
Learn the basics of animation with McCoy, a professional animator, illustrator, and graphic designer. You will need to have a frame-by-frame 2D animation software on your computer such as Adobe Animate CC, ToonBoom, or TV Paint.
Ages 13 & up • Saturday • March 7th • 9:00 am - 3:00 pm • $100 members $125 non-members REGISTER

Character Design
Instructor: McCoy Khamphouy
Learn how to draw effective characters for comics, animation, or even your Dungeons & Dragons campaigns with professional artist McCoy! He will teach you how to work traditionally wiht pencil and paper or digitally with a computer and drawing tablet setup.
Ages 13 & up • Saturday • March 14th • 9:00 am - 3:00 pm • $100 members $125 non-members REGISTER

Relaxation for Creativity 
Instructor: Joyce Borst
Rest and restore to enhance your creativity. Supported rest and restoration poses for deep relaxation and tap into your inner creativeness
Ages 12 & up • Saturday • March 21st • 10:00 am - 11:00 pm • $20 members $30 non-members REGISTER


Painting

Abstract by Design 
Instructor: Christi Dreese
Find Your Creativity: Combine mixed media techniques using acrylics, colored pencil, graphite, and gel medium with artists Christi Dreese. Explore and paint intuitively. Join us for a flexible, fun class of experimentation to find your own voice through painting!
​Ages 18 & up • Friday • January 31st• 10:00 am - 4:00 pm • $125 members $150 non-members
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Natural Science Illustration with Watercolor
Instructor: Dayna Walton
If you're fascinated by the natural world and are interested in capturing wild beauty with paint, Natural Science Illustration is here to guide you. This 6 week course will kick off with an intro day where we cover basic watercolor techniques such as color mixing and blending approaches. Each following meeting, we will focus on a different group of organisms: plants, insects, fungi, birds, and mammals. Using both specimens to draw from life and photo references, students will work on a different study every class, practicing demonstrated techniques to capture a variety of textures. We will look to the master to guide us in the planning composition and developing a painting strategy. All supplies provided. Ages 14 & up • Mondays • February 10th - March 16th • 6:00 - 8:00 pm • $250 members $275 non-members ​REGISTER

Mixed Emotions: A Whimsical Heart Series Paint Class
Instructor: Christi Dreese
Come and express yourself with this fun, loose, contemporary heart painting class. Christi will show her techniques using acrylic paint using a step by step process. Great for beginners!
Ages 18 & up •Thursday • February 13th • 6:00 - 8:00 pm • $50 members $75 non-members REGISTER

Beginning Acrylic Painting
Instructor: Bux Dhyne
Imaginary Landscapes for beginners! Have a fun and creative time learning the basics and beyond of acrylic painting. Bux will teach you how to mix paints and all the brush techniques you need to create beautiful, lush, landscapes. Learn easy techniques to create a variety of trees, bodies of water and rock techniques to create a landscape from you imagination! The supply list includes a mixing set of acrylic paints, a flat 1" brush, flar 14", round #0, and 16 x 20 canvases
Ages 14 & up • February 21st - March 27th • 6:15 - 7:30 pm • $90 members $115 non-members REGISTER

Landscape Painting: Creating the Illusion of Depth
Instructor: Larry Bovits
In these three Saturday classes, learn to create depth by focusing on aerial perspective, specific light types, and color manipulation. Class discussion and instructional handouts will explain the fundamentals of light, color, and ways to use these elements in combination with aerial perspective cutes. This class is for intermediate and advanced painters working with oil, acrylic, watercolor, or pastel. You will be working for your own 8" x 10" reference photos and will be asked to do underpainting preparation beforehand at home and then continue to develop the painting to specifically practice creating the illusion of depth under the guidance of the instructor. Materials are not provided. Use your current supplies. Project guidelines to prepare the underpainting before the first class will be provided by the instructor. Numerous instructional handouts will reinforce what is taught in class. 
Ages 18 & up • February 29th - March 14th • 10:30 - 4:30 pm • $260 members $280 non-members REGISTER

Contemporary Floral Workshop
Instructor: Christi Dreese
Want to loosen up your painting style? Join artist Christi Dreese for a splash of color, quick brush strokes, and scribbles of graphite. Learn Christi's approach to contemporary floral paintings by painting loose and gestural. Beginners welcomed and great for the experienced who want a fresh approach, working towards a looser style.
Ages 18 & up •Thursday • March 26th • 10:00 am - 4:00 pm • $125 members $150 non-members REGISTER

Simplifying Your Paintings to Make Them Stronger
Instructor: Eric Michaels 
Like a good house needs a solid foundation, the strength of a painting lies not in the drawing or the detail but in the arrangement and execution of its values and masses. In this class, we will learn how to take any subject and synthesize it down to its basic value masses. Then, painting those masses accurately, simply, and interestingly, we set the stage so that our main focul paint has maximum impact. Eric will demonstrate all the tips and techniques that he knows to assist the participants in what will be an educational and fun experience.
Experienced teenagers and adults • April 15th, 16th, and 17th • 10:00 am - 4:00 pm • $285 members $310 non-members  REGISTER

Tulip Paint Series
Instructor: Christi Dreese
Come and express yourself with this fun, loose, contemporary floral painting class. Christi will show you her techniques using acrylic paint using a step by step process. Great for beginners!
Ages 18 & up • Saturday • April 18th • 1:00 - 3:00 pm • $50 members $75 non-members  REGISTER

Let Loose: Expressing Yourself Through Abstract Painting
Instructor: Christi Dreese
Combine mixed media techniques using acrylics, colored pencil, graphite, and gel medium with artist Christi Dreese. Explore and paint intuitively. Christi will show you how to build layers with gel medium, stamping, printing with wax paper, adding washes and revealing underneath layers. Join Christi for this fun, flexible, expressive class learning new techniques in mixed media. Beginners are welcomed and great for the experienced who want a fresh approahc working towards a looser style. 
Ages 18 & up • Thursday • May 28th • 10:00 am - 4:00 pm • $125 members $150 non-members
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Pushing Color with Landscapes
Instructor: Christi Dreese
Learn to use loose, expressive and bold colors in your landscapes. Edit scenes to achieve better compositions. Improve your skill and confidence while putting pizazz into your paintings with bold color. Christi will supply photo references and students are welcome to bring their own. This is an easy-going, casual class for all levels of painters!
Ages 18 & up • Friday & Saturday • September 25th 10:00 am - 4:00 pm & September 26th 10:00 am - 3:00 pm • $250 members $275 non-members REGISTER

Beginners Birch Tree Paint Class
Instructor: Christi Dreese
Short strokes of paint create loose, contemporary birch tree paintings. Learn about composition, blocking in color, layers, and the types of brush strokes used to transform your painting. Christi will show you her techniques using acrylic paint in a step by step process. Great for beginners!
Ages 18 & up • Thursday • October 8th • 6:00 - 8:00 pm • $50 members $75 non-members 
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Beginners Holiday Paint Class
Instructor: Christi Dreese
Take a break from the holiday hustle and create a holiday themed painting with Christi Dreese in a fun painting class.
Ages 18 & up • Thursday • November 19th • 6:00 - 8:00 pm • $50 members $75 non-members
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Fly Tying and Wood Burning

Introduction to Fly Tying
Instructor: Bryon Anderson
Fly tying is the art of using thread to attach (or "tie") natural and/or synthetic materials to a fishing hook to create an artificial lure (or "fly") used in fly fishing. 

Humans have been making and using artificial flies to catch fish for over five-hundred years. Using a wide range of materials and hooks of various sizes and shapes, flies can be tied to imitate nearly anything a fish might eat, including insects, smaller fish, leeches, frogs, and even small mammals such as mice. The successful fly tier, therefore, is not only a skilled craftsperson but a careful observer of the natural world, merging knowledge and skill to make art that imitates life. 

In this class, you will learn about the basic tools, terminology, techniques of fly tying, and you will use them to tie four different types of flies. The cost of the the course covers instruction and enough material to tied at least twenty individual flies of your own. 
Ages 12 & up • Tuesdays • January 28th-February 18th• 6:00 - 8:00 pm • $200 members $225 non-members REGISTER


​Learn the Art of Wood Burning
Instructor: Tom Reverman 
This 5-week course will start by teaching you how to properly use the wood-burning pen. You will learn how to use different tips, how to shade, how to create texture, and why it is important to adjust the temperature. Experience in painting or drawing is encourage. All materials and tools will be provided. Each person will leave the class with their own wood-burning kit.  If you wish to use your own wood-burning tools, contact Tom prior to registering at treverman@lssu.edu. Tom looks forward to teaching you the art of pyrography!
Ages 16 & up • Tuesdays • February 4th - March 3rd • 6:00 - 7:15 pm • $125 members $150 non-members REGISTER


Embroidery and Crochet

Extinct Embroidery: Eastern Elk
Instructor: Dayna Walton
We will cover 4 basic embroidery stitches to complete a design of an Eastern Elk, declared extinct in 1880. We will talk about the history of the animal and what led to its decline. Participants will create a stitched work of art that can be used as a gift, wall hanging, or sewn into something else! This class is fit for both beginners and pros. The class will be split into small groups with periodic demos by instructor Dayna Walton to allow for all to work at their own pace. All supplies included, each participant will receive a printed sampler to stitch, a hoop, thread, needle, and instructional sheet.
Ages 14 & up • Saturday • February 1st • 10:00 am - 1:00 pm • $40 members $65 non-members​REGISTER

How to Crochet
Instructor: Susan Curry 
Have you ever wanted to learn how to crochet? Did you know that crochet and knitting are good for your brain? It can reduce stress, gives you the ability to cope with illness (physical or mental) and decreases the risk of cognitive impairment as you age. This introductory class is a perfect class for beginners and anyone wanting to pick up their crochet hook again. Learn how to determine the right fiber to use for the right project, basic stitches and how to read patterns. You'll leave with a set of your own hooks and a finished handmade project you created! Much more, you'll leave class with a new skill!
Ages 14 & up • Saturday • February 22nd • 10:00 am - 2:30 pm • $60 members $85 non-members REGISTER

Flicks and Stitches: Super Fungi Embroidery
Instructor: Dayna Walton 
During this all-levels embroidery crash course, we'll cover 4 outline and filling stitches and use them to complete a sampler of Michigan mushrooms. Beginners are welcome, and the pros are welcome to work at their own pace. After we've gotten familiar with our stitch techniques, we'll tune into the documentary "Super Fungi" to learn about how mushrooms fit into our ecosystem and how they may be able to solve our problems like pollution. This film is full of gorgeous shots of colorful fungi, time-lapses of their growth, and interviews with Paul Stamets. You'll leave with a finished embroidered wall hanging and a new awareness for fungi, hiding in plain sight all around you. 
Ages 14 & up • Saturday • March 7th • 10:00 am - 1:00 pm • $40 members $65 non-members REGISTER

Printmaking 

Linoleum Relief Printmaking
Instructor: Lee Ann Frame
Learn the relief printmaking process, how to transfer a drawing, how to carve away the negative space creating a graphic dynamic image. Inking the linoleum and using an etching press to transfer the image to paper. Your image comes to life in multiples. Chine collé can add color to the traditional black and white print.
Ages 17 & up • Friday & Saturday • March 20th & 21st • 10:00 am - 3:30 pm • $175 members $200 non-members REGISTER

Drypoint and Chine Collé 
Instructor: Lee Ann Frame
Learn how to prepare a copper plate, altering the surface with etching needles, sandpaper, burnishers, and scrapers to create a variety of textures on the plate. Experience inking, wiping the plate, registration and using an etching press to print and transfer the image to paper. Drypoint creates a very soft and dynamic image. Colorful Asian papers can be added to the print called chine collé.
Ages 17 & up • Friday & Saturday • April 3rd & 4th • 10:00 am - 3:30 pm • $175 members $200 non-members REGISTER

Jewelry

Fused Glass Art Jewelry 
Instructor: Gini Cooper
Learn basic techniques for fusing glass jewelry. You’ll make earrings, pins and pendants using frits, stringers, dichroic glass and rich sepia-toned decals using photo-fusing. Your creations will be great for gift giving! Fusing is easy to do even if you’ve never worked with glass before so no fusing experience is necessary. Use of tools and materials, including fusible glass in included. 
WINTER: Adults • Tuesdays • January 14th - February 11th • 12:30 - 2:30 pm • $100 members $125 non-members REGISTER

SPRING I: Adults • Tuesdays • March 24th, 31st & April 14th, 21st• 12:30 - 2:30 pm • $80 members $105 non-members REGISTER

SPRING II: Adults • Tuesdays • May 12th - June 9th • 12:30 - 2:30 pm • $100 members $125 non-members REGISTER

FALL: Adults • Tuesdays • August 18th - September 15th • 12:30 - 2:30 pm • $100 members $125 non-members REGISTER

HOLIDAY I: Adults • Tuesdays • October 27th - November 24th • 12:30 - 2:30 pm • $100 members $125 non-members REGISTER

​HOLIDAY II: Adults • Tuesdays • December 1st - December 22nd • 12:30 - 1:30 pm • $80 members $105 non-members REGISTER

Ceramics & Sculpture

Couples Ceramics Workshop Winter
One Evening
Instructor: Mary Wolter
Make it a memorable Friday-night date night playing together in the dirt! Bring your lover or your mother and spend some quality time making unique creations. Wine and treats served!
Ages 21 & up • One evening • Friday • February 14th • 6:00-8:00 pm • $85 members $95 non-members per couple 
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​Spring Ceramics, Morning
10-week course
Instructor: Mary Wolter
This class provides expert artist instruction in wheel-throwing, hand-building, texturizing, glazing and firing.  Twenty-five pounds of clay, glazing, firing and 18 hours of open studio access are included in tuition. Additional clay is available to purchase at $30 for 25 pounds.  This class is limited to people 18 years & older.
Ages 18 & up • 10 weeks • Tuesdays • April 14- June 16 • 10:00am - 12:00pm• $275 ($265) • FULL

Spring Ceramics, Evening
10-week course
Instructor: Mary Wolter
This class provides expert artist instruction in wheel-throwing, hand-building, texturizing, glazing and firing.  Twenty-five pounds of clay, glazing, firing and 18 hours of open studio access are included in tuition. Additional clay is available to purchase at $30 for 25 pounds.  This class is limited to people 18 years & older.
Ages 18 & up • 10 weeks • Tuesdays • April 14- June 16 • 6:00pm-8:00pm • $275 ($265) FULL

Couples Ceramics Workshop Spring
One Evening
Instructor: Mary Wolter
Make it a memorable Friday-night date night playing together in the dirt! Bring your lover or your mother and spend some quality time making unique creations. Wine and treats served!
Ages 21 & up • One evening • Friday • May 15th • 6:00-8:00 pm • $85 members $95 non-members per couple 
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Summer Ceramics, Morning
10-week course
Instructor: Mary Wolter
This class provides expert artist instruction in wheel-throwing, hand-building, texturizing, glazing and firing.  Twenty-five pounds of clay, glazing, firing and 18 hours of open studio access are included in tuition. Additional clay is available to purchase at $30 for 25 pounds.  This class is limited to people 18 years & older.
Ages 18 & up • 10 weeks • Tuesdays • July 14- September 15 • 10:00am - 12:00pm• $275 ($265) • REGISTER

Summer Ceramics, Evening
10-week course
Instructor: Mary Wolter
This class provides expert artist instruction in wheel-throwing, hand-building, texturizing, glazing and firing.  Twenty-five pounds of clay, glazing, firing and 18 hours of open studio access are included in tuition. Additional clay is available to purchase at $30 for 25 pounds.  This class is limited to people 18 years & older.
Ages 18 & up • 10 weeks • Tuesdays • July 14- September 15• 6:00pm-8:00pm• $275 ($265) • REGISTER

Couples Ceramics Workshop Summer
One Evening
Instructor: Mary Wolter
Make it a memorable Friday-night date night playing together in the dirt! Bring your lover or your mother and spend some quality time making unique creations. Wine and treats served!
Ages 21 & up • One evening • Friday • August 14th • 6:00-8:00 pm • $85 members $95 non-members per couple 
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Fall Ceramics, Morning
10-week course
Instructor: Mary Wolter
This class provides expert artist instruction in wheel-throwing, hand-building, texturizing, glazing and firing.  Twenty-five pounds of clay, glazing, firing and 18 hours of open studio access are included in tuition. Additional clay is available to purchase at $30 for 25 pounds.  This class is limited to people 18 years & older.
Ages 18 & up • 10 weeks • Tuesdays • October 6-December 8 • 10:00am - 12:00pm• $275 ($265)• REGISTER 

Fall Ceramics, Evening
10-week course
Instructor: Mary Wolter
This class provides expert artist instruction in wheel-throwing, hand-building, texturizing, glazing and firing.  Twenty-five pounds of clay, glazing, firing and 18 hours of open studio access are included in tuition. Additional clay is available to purchase at $30 for 25 pounds.  This class is limited to people 18 years & older.
Ages 18 & up • 10 weeks • Tuesdays • October 6- December 8 • 6:00pm-8:00pm• $275 ($265)• REGISTER

​Couples Ceramics Workshop Fall
One Evening
Instructor: Mary Wolter
Make it a memorable Friday-night date night playing together in the dirt! Bring your lover or your mother and spend some quality time making unique creations. Wine and treats served!
Ages 21 & up • One evening • Friday • October 30th • 6:00-8:00 pm • $85 members $95 non-members per couple 
REGISTER