Classes
ART DEFINES PHYSICAL SPACE, REVEALS TRUTH, AND CREATES A SENSE OF PRIDE.
If you’d like to learn to draw, paint, or create pottery, earrings, or sculpture — or simply improve those skills — we have a class for that!
We have classes for adults and children
in both 2D and 3D art.
Children's Classes
New Schedule Coming Soon!
Adult Classes
The Strategy and Tactics of Graphic Design
Course is curently not scheduled. Sign up to be notified when it is.
If you ever have to create a flyer, a poster, a brochure, an ad, a yard sign, or anything visual — and you’re not sure what to do or even how to start — this course is a must. No matter your current artistic ability, you will learn to create effective presentations. And this class is where it starts.
WHAT happens in class?
Most people think good design is a result of skill. And while skill is always a good thing to have, understanding and implementing strategy is much more important. Knowing how to start your design is the ONLY way for your design to achieve its goal.
- We’ll start by understanding the brain, then consider the intentions of design, the goals, and other strategies. Then we’ll look at examples and you’ll decide what works and why. You’ll be surprised by how much you already know and how much more you can learn about creating good design.
- Then we’ll create some projects. Using pencil and paper, crayons, scissors, and glue. If this sounds familiar, you’ll learn why that’s true. And why it has to be.
- Then we’ll talk about some tactics, like type and fonts and white space and balance and color. And you’ll discover how easy it is to get them right and how frequently people make a mess out of things by doing only what they like instead of doing what works.
ELECTRONIC TOOLS
If you have a laptop or tablet with a graphics or layout program, you may bring it and we’ll give you some pointers. If you don’t or choose not to, your instructor will have one for demonstration purposes.
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“To practice any art, no matter how well or badly,
is a way to make your soul grow.
So do it.”
— Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
You might be an excellent candidate for an Art Class if:
1. You can’t draw a straight line without a ruler.
2. You can but you want to make better lines — even ones that curve.
3. You admire those who can draw and you want to be able to do that, too.
4. You like to work with your hands.
5. You want to create something to wear, hang on the wall, or give away.
6. You want to be more creative or greatly increase the creativity you already have.
7. You want to learn something new, use a different part of your brain, and push yourself out of your comfort zone.
8. You enjoy meeting new people, especially those in the same boat as you!
9. You need to do something different with your spare time.
10. You already love to create art but you want get better and get better results.
HIGH-SCHOOL STUDENTS WHO ENGAGE IN THE ARTS AT SCHOOL ARE TWICE AS LIKELY TO VOLUNTEER THAN THOSE WHO DON’T.