New Classes This Fall at Guilford Art Center

The Fall 2008 schedule of classes at Guilford Art Center is featuring a wide selection of short-term classes for adults and children. In addition to the semester-long classes the Center always offers, this Fall student can choose from a number of four or five week classes in basketry, drawing knitting and painting. New for kids is a series called "Fun on Fridays," a seroes pf three-week session in a huge variety of media, from "Stories and Art From Around the World" to "Art to Wear."

"The idea of offering shorter classes is to encourage people to try an artform they might be interested in without having to make a huge time commitment to a 10-week semester," says GAC executive director Jean Perkins. "This way you can learn a skill, create some art, and decide if you'd like to go on to study more intensively in a future class. Or you may just want to take a short class for the fun of it."

A weekend workshop in Illustrating Children's Books will offer the chance to work with Jamison Odone, an artist and author and protégé of Maurice Sendak. Clay Monotypes makes ceramics come alive in a new way: as a matrix for creating limited edition prints. Basic Mural Design translates your ideas onto the walls of your own home. In the Fiber Arts, students can explore weekend workshops in Marbling on Fabric and Paper and Embellishing Fiber with Glass and Silver-creating your own glass and metal objects. Weekend Hinge Sampler will help jewelery students to get their work to move and articulate in new ways, while painters will learn to work in series, a la Monet and Cezanne in A Landscape Chronicle. Or create your own photographic heirloom in Artful Family Tree.

SPRING ADULT CLASSES AND WORKSHOPS

SPLINT STYLE BASKETS RIBBED BASKETS

BEADING: ABCs of Beading Basics; Progressive Beading

BLACKSMITHING: The Hand-Forged Blade; The Craft of Blacksmithing, Intro to Blacksmithing

Calligraphy: From Pen to Paper; Enrich Your Life with a Single Brush Stroke
CERAMICS: MBy Hand and Wheel; Extrude This! Functional Pottery Made on the Wheel; Ceramic Sculpture; Intermediate Ceramics: Developing Techniques; Ceramics; Basics And Beyond; Clay Monoprints; Primitive Pots; Porcelain and Light

DECORATIVE ARTS: Decorative Painting Workshop

DRAWING: ECharcoal & Pastel; Drawing is Natural; Narrative Figure Drawing; Art & Soul: Figure Drawing; Oil Pastel Workshop; xpressive Portrait Drawing; Drawing is Natural; Why is Cezanne Known as "the Father of Modern Art?"; The Basics of Drawing; Oil Pastel and Painting on Paper; Drawing Workout for the Absolute Beginner; Colorful Drawing On a Saturday; Portrait Drawing in the Round; Dazzle Them With Color Workshop

FIBER: Sewing for All; Knitting Socks; Go Green! Knit and Felt a Shopping Bag; Felted Fabric: Featherweight Scarves & Bags; Needle Felting

GLASS: Say It In Stained Glass; Kiln-Worked Glass; Pate de Verre; Sunday is Glass

METALS: Jewelry and Metalsmithing; Jewelry Making in the Classical Way; Lost Wax Casting; PMC, Enamels And Gold Spell: Keum Bo; Forming Metal; Weekend Hinge Sampler; A Duet: Precious Metal Clay And Glass; Granulation on Metal

PAINTING: Let The Paint Talk- Intro to Watercolor; Painting at the Hay House; Studio Time; The Essence of Watercolor Landscapes; Exploring Oil and Acrylic Painting; The Essence of Watercolor; A Landscape Chronicle; Color Magic

PHOTOGRAPHY: Introduction To Digital Photography

SCULPTURE: BeginningPortrait Sculpture; Stone Carving

SENIORS: Creating Art History

SPECIAL INTEREST: Mini Mandala Workshop; Artful Family Tree; Key Presentation Strategies For Artists; Knitting With Wire

WEAVING: Floor Loom Weaving

Click here for more information, and to register, contact the Guilford Art Center at (203) 453-5947.