4 Thursdays, 6:30-8:45pm

This course centers around nine artists who dared to break with conventions and try something new.  Students will explore personal imagery and many different techniques for paper collage, including resists, transfers, and various textures.  The primary medium will be acrylics, but participants will also use charcoal, acrylic mediums, papers and other materials.   Students will work on nine images that will become either a nine patch image, a series or an artist book. The class is open to all levels of students interested in exploring new directions in art.

Instructor Nancy Scheinman’s collage paintings reflect the myth of a purer past within the framework of a modernist grid, fusing internalized landscapes and personal narrative. Her work has been included in over 100 exhibitions in museums and galleries throughout the United States, South America, Europe and Asia. Collectors of her work include the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Portland Museum of Art, the Washington DC Convention Center, Fidelity Investments and Mohamed Abou El Enein in Cairo. Her work can be viewed in depth at www.scheinman.com along with information about upcoming exhibitions and workshops.

8 Saturdays, 9:30am-noon

Learn how to use the potter’s wheel and handbuilding techniques to produce unique clay objects. Topics include wedging, centering and wheel throwing, with coiling, slab construction, and glaze applications. This class combines demonstrations and hands-on work sessions. Returning students will be able to concentrate on the wheel or handbuilt construction. For beginners and intermediate students. Includes firing fee.

6 Saturdays, 10:00am-12:30pm

Students will focus on developing stronger drawing and painting skills and techniques, with a concentration on intuitive approaches to water-based painting. The course will introduce and explore innovative techniques including: oil pastels with mineral oil, chalk pastels with water and creative work with ink. Concepts will be presented each week for participants to use as a springboard in which to focus on specific areas of concentration. With frequent critiques, students will be encouraged to develop their own direction.

Instructor Ruth Pettus was born in New Zealand and spent her childhood in London and Australia. She studied at the University of Sydney, and at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, D. C. Now residing in Baltimore, her paintings have been exhibited regionally and internationally. Examples of her 2-D and 3-D work can be viewed online at www.rpettus.com.