Register online for Winter 2018 classes!
January • February • March
To register for a class please click on the “Register for this Class” button for the class you wish to register for and enter your information on the following page. You may pay by mailing a check to GRACE or with you credit or debit card via PayPal.
We also offer a PDF form that you can print and mail to us with a check.
Please contact us if you would like to apply for a scholarship for any class.
Please register no later than one week prior to the start of the class.
Winter in the Studio: Exploring Still Life with Acrylics
Marcie Vallette
Tuesdays 1/9, 1/16, 1/23, 1/30
6-8pm
Cost: $100
Come in out of the cold and brush up on still life painting with acrylics. How do we relate to the everyday objects around us? The objects around us can’t help but tell our stories, and artists have been using still life to tell the stories of human culture since the days of ancient Egypt. Still lives have been found in ancient Greek and Roman ruins, on up through Renaissance, the age of Dutch Masters, Impressionists and into the 20th and 21st century. Along with traditional fruit and florals, a still life may include unusual and surprising things like shoes, a pile of books, tools, a piece of cake, a children’s toy. It’s great fun to paint a still life. You can keep it as simple or complex as you choose. Painting the still life gives you a chance to explore basic painting principals, including composition, point of view, color and spatial relationships.
Materials list:
Surfaces: Small stretched canvases, Watercolor paper cut to about 18 x 24 or smaller, Masking tape
Acrylic Paints: Mars black, Titanium white, Cadmium red, Cadmium yellow, Ultramarine Blue
Burnt Umber
Brushes: A variety of round and flat brushes, At least 3 of each.
Other: Paper towels, a bar of soap, jar, sprayer for water, 2 pallet knifes
Knitting
Jan Roy
Mondays 1/15, 1/22, 1/29, 2/5
6-8pm
Cost: $60
Join beginning and intermediate level knitters for instruction in a welcoming environment on Thursdays during the winter. Bring wool knitting worsted yarn and knitting needles size 5 -7 ( 3.75 mm- 4.5mm).
Weaving
Betsy Day & Lucy Hull
Thursdays 1/18, 1/25, 2/1, 2/8, 2/15, 2/22
6- 8pm
Cost: $120
This introductory weaving class will give you hands-on experience in a variety of weaving techniques and patterns. The looms will be warped and ready to work on. You will learn about the looms, how they function and how to mix and match yarn colors and textures to achieve a desired effect.
Materials: each student should bring 3 colors med weight balls of yarn.
Help Your Voice Go Free – Writing Workshop
Jerina Page
Mondays 2/12, 2/19, 2/26, 3/5, 3/12, 3/19, 3/26, 4/2
6- 7:30
Cost: $50
Join the GRACE Writing Group to learn and practice writing techniques that will unlock the power of your writer’s voice, no matter what kind of writing you want to do.
Learn how to help smother that editor in your head. Premature, compulsive editing makes writing difficult, dreaded and dead. The changes and pauses between your consciousness and the page damps down your voice. You have a sound, texture and rhythm to your voice that when unleashed creates powerful writing and makes a reader listen to you. You may not like your voice, but it’s the only one you have and your source of powerful writing. If you keep writing your voice will get better and you may like it better. If you stop writing, you’ll never have a voice and never be heard.
Write nonstop 5 minutes a day then bring your favorite selection to our weekly group for positive, noncritical feedback. Your voice will love being set free and make you smile.
Collage Monotype Printing
Lian Brehm
Tuesday & Thursday 2/27 & 3/1
6:30-8:00pm
Cost: $55; Additional materials fee: $10
In this workshop participants will create a monotype using collage techniques and utilizing a printing press to create an image in reverse. Participants will cut, tear, hole punch, etc. a variety of dry pre-inked oak tag to create a creature, which will be placed onto a print plate and run through the print press with damp blotted paper. Participants will then peel the pre-inked oak tag off their paper, transferring the oak tag colored shapes to paper. This is a one of a kind technique that creates rich and colorful original art.
Life Drawing at GRACE
Marie LaPré Grabon
Thursdays 3/15, 3/22 & 3/29
6 – 9 pm
Cost: $100
This workshop is appropriate for all levels of drawing expertise. We will focus on proportion of the figure, how to include foreshortening of the figure, the attitude of the pose, and composition of the picture plane. The workshop will include a variety of long and short poses. Participants are encouraged to use whatever drawing materials they are comfortable with. Suggested materials include: drawing or charcoal paper…at least 9 x 12” or 18 x 24”, vine charcoal with chamois and kneed eraser, graphite pencils #’s 4 – 6.
