Adult Classes
Adult Studio

with Lydia Thomson, Helen Schmidt, and/or Jason Alden       $410.

Sept. 20 – Dec. 17      Twelve 2.5 hour sessions

Mondays,  10 am – 12:30 pm
Mondays,  6 pm – 8:30 pm
Wednesdays, 10 am – 12:30 pm
Thursdays,  6 pm – 8:30 pm
Fridays,  12 noon – 2:30 pm

Studio class focuses on individual process, creativity and expression, employing a variety of media and techniques, including oils, acrylics, pastel, charcoal, watercolor and sequenc­ing. Projects are developed individually with instructors. Open to all levels of experience.

 
Richly Layered Printmaking

with Helen Schmidt        $410.

Mondays,  6 pm – 8:30 pm  Sept. 20 – Dec. 13

We will explore etching, relief, monotype, and collagraph printing. These prints may then be added onto with collage, or by using alternative techniques such as chine colle, botanical and photo transfers. The results are richly layered and subtle.

 
Non Toxic Printmaking

with Kim Hartman Colligan        $410.

Thursdays,  9:30 – 12 noon  Sept. 23 – Dec. 16  

Explore and create your own unique monotypes, etching, and relief printmaking using Akua non-toxic printmaking inks and R&F pigment sticks. Participants will make their own prints and then work back into them using various media.

 
Art and Meditation

with Barbara Merfeld Campman         $410.

Tuesdays,  6:30 pm - 9 pm  Sept. 21 – Dec. 14

The meeting of meditation and art making opens ways for our creative energy to manifest in new, often mysterious ways, through the use of various media including painting, found object assemblage, and collage.

 
Wicked Basic Drawing

with Ross Smart        $205  each session

Wednesdays,  6 pm – 8:30 pm  
Session one: Sept. 22 – Oct 26 
Session two: Nov. 2 – Dec. 14

Relax, have fun, and learn to trust your instincts, no matter your level of skill. Emphasis will be on building basic skills by practicing new and less judgmental ways to draw and see the world.

 
Life Drawing and Painting

Mondays, 1 pm – 4 pm   Sept. 20 – Nov 29  with Jason Alden      $410.

Thursdays,  6 pm – 8:30 pm   Sept. 23 – Dec. 16  with Matthew Peake     $410.

Working from the live model, students will be shown various ways to understand and draw the human figure. Using charcoal, pastel and other media, students will explore how to create a sense of space, light, form and feeling within a picture.

 
Landscape and Visual Memory

with Jason Alden        $410.

Tuesdays, 11 am – 2 pm   Sept. 7 – Nov. 9

This class will paint both out in the Vermont landscape and in the studio.  Using sketches, structural drawings, Sequencing and color studies, students will familiarize themselves with a particular landscape.  As the weather turns colder, students will meet at RGS where they will learn to stretch and prepare a large canvas.  The second half of the semester will be devoted to painting the landscape on canvas, with memory and imagination as our guides, using the preparatory sketches and studies as reference.  The additional cost for stretcher bars and canvas will be added during the semester.

   

 
Observational Drawing

with Jason Alden    $410.

Wednesdays,  1 pm – 3:30 pm   Sept 22 – Dec 15

How to translate the 3D world of light, form, space and proportion to the two-dimensional surface of the paper is the focus of this 15 week class.  Working primarily with pencil and charcoal students will be introduced to a variety of ways of drawing from life.  Still life, landscape and the human figure will be our subjects.  This class is for terrified beginners and those who wish to revisit the fundamentals of seeing simply and drawing.

 
Open Studio

Various Saturdays,    noon – 2 pm     Details to come.

An opportunity to spend independent creative time in our studios. This offering is only for adult students who are fully enrolled in the current semester. No instruction; materials not provided.

 
Sculpture

with Helen Schmidt      $410.

Friday Sept 24 -Dec 17  10 am - 12:30 pm

Work in your choice of wood, soapstone, plaster, metal, or rice paper to create three dimensional work, while having fun exploring these different sculptural mediums.