New Classes This Spring at Guilford Art Center

The Spring schedule at Guilford Art Center includes a whole crop of new classes--on new topics, or exploring specialized aspects of familiar art forms, ideal for adventuresome new students and seasoned artists alike.

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

BEADING: ABCs of Beading Basics; Progressive Beading

BLACKSMITHING: The Hand-Forged Blade; The Craft of Blacksmithing

BOOK AND PAPER ARTS: Illustrating Children's Books; Pattern Through Collage; Paste Paper Techniques; Nature and the Book
CERAMICS: Making Pots On and Off the Wheel; 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: Basic Mural Design and Painting

DRAWING: Expressive 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: Knit One, Purl Two and Beyond; Marbling on Fabric and Paper; Traditional Rug Hooking; Fabric Dying Workshop; Embellishing Fabric With Glass and Silver

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: Beginning Portrait 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

For more information, contact Guilford Art Center at (203) 453-5947, or click here.