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LIST OF CURRENT CLASSES
Don't miss your class - call to register ASAP! 504-949-1525 Monday through Friday 9am - 7 pm, Saturday 9am - 5pm, and Sunday 10am - 5pm.
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BOOKBINDING
CURRENT CLASSES
MAKE YOUR OWN BOOKS *BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND
Saturday 1:30 pm – 5:30 pm (ONE DAY WORKSHOP)
-March 22, 2025
BOOKBINDING: JAPANESE STAB STITCHING *NEW CLASS!
Saturday, 1:30 pm – 5:30 pm
-February 15, 2025 (ONE DAY WORKSHOP)
CALLIGRAPHY
CURRENT CLASSES
INTRO TO CALLIGRAPHY: ADDRESSING ENVELOPES *BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND
Saturday 1:30 pm – 5:30 pm (ONE DAY WORKSHOP)
-April 5, 2025
INTRO TO TRADITIONAL CALLIGRAPHY WRITING *BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND
Saturday 11:30 am – 5:30 pm
-May 24, 2025 (ONE DAY WORKSHOP)
TRADITIONAL CALLIGRAPHY WRITING *BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND
Thursdays EVENINGS 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
-April 3 – 24, 2025 (4 WEEKS)
METALSMITHING
CURRENT CLASSES
METALSMITHING I, II AND OPEN STUDIO *BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND
Wednesdays EVENINGS 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm
-March 12 – April 16, 2025 (6 WEEKS)
Also offered
-April 23 – May 28, 2025
PAINTING
CURRENT CLASSES
OIL PAINTING, BEGINNING AND CONTINUING *BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND
Saturdays MORNINGS 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
-January 4 – February 8, 2025 (6 WEEKS)
Also offered
-February 15 – April 5, 2025 (Skipping March 1 & 8 for Mardi Gras)
And
-April 12 – May 17, 2025
Call to register, 504-949-1525, Monday through Friday 9am - 7 pm, Saturday 9am - 5pm, and Sunday 10am - 5pm.
LIST OF UNSCHEDULED CLASSES
Dates and times are TBA - please call or send us an email if you're interested in taking one of the following courses. Click on class name for a course description.
ART APPRECIATION
BOOKBINDING
- INTRO TO BOOK MAKING: ALBUMS
- BOOKBINDING: Western Case and Coptic Bindings
- BASICS OF BOOKBINDING
- BOOKBINDING: Pop-Up Books
- PAPERMAKING AND BOOKBINDING
- BASIC-TO-INTERMEDIATE BOOK BINDING
- VINTAGE VALENTINES
- MOTHER'S DAY POP-UP CARDS
- NON-ADHESIVE BOOK STRUCTURES: A World Tour
- BOOKBINDING II: TWO BOOKS
- BOOKBINDING I: THREE BOOKS
- CONTINUING BOOK MAKING: JOURNALS
CALLIGRAPHY
- PENCIL CALLIGRAPHY AND GILDING
- BEGINNING CALLIGRAPHY
- BEGINNING CALLIGRAPHY: THE FOUNDATIONAL HAND
- A MODERN HAND AND GILDING
- PLAYFUL LETTERING/NEULAND HAND
- ITALIC CALLIGRAPHY AND GILDING
- MODERN UNICAL CALLIGRAPHY
- CONTINUING COPPERPLATE CALLIGRAPHY (4-week)
- CONTINUING COPPERPLATE CALLIGRAPHY (2-day Workshop)
- INTRO TO CALLIGRAPHY: PLAYFUL NEULAND
- INTRODUCTION TO CALLIGRAPHY: Unical Hand
- INTRODUCTION TO CALLIGRAPHY: ALL CAPS!
- FREEFORM LETTERING AND GILDING
- INTRO TO CALLIGRAPHY: PLAYFUL LETTERING
- INTRODUCTION TO MODERN POINTED PEN
- TRADITIONAL CALLIGRAPHY TECHNIQUES
CERAMICS
DRAWING
- PORTRAITURE (drawing)
- LIFE DRAWING
- DRAPERY: A modern approach to Still Life
- DRAWING FOR CHILDREN II
- PASTEL WORKSHOP
- STORYTELLING THROUGH COMICS
- FIGURE DRAWING (Philip C. Thompson)
- BASIC DRAWING FOR CHILDREN
- DRAWING, Beginning and Continuing - (Philip C. Thompson)
- FIGURE DRAWING
- PERSPECTIVE WORKSHOP
- AFTER SCHOOL DRAWING FOR TEENS
- FIGURE STUDY: GIVE ME A HAND
- DRAWING WORKSHOP: FIGURE STUDY
- BEGINNING DRAWING WITH BRITTANY SHALL
- PEN AND INK TECHNIQUES WORKSHOP
- DRAWING WORKSHOP: CHARCOAL SKETCHING
- DRAWING THE URBAN LANDSCAPE
- BEGINNING DRAWING WITH HARRIET BURBECK
- FIGURE STUDY: MAKING FACES
EDUCATION
- TAKING YOUR ART TO MARKET
MASKMAKING
METALSMITHING & PRECIOUS METAL CLAY
- DISCOVER ENAMELING
- COLD CONNECTIONS (4 week class)
- PMC3 - Creating Your Own Texture Sheets & Molds For Use In Your PMC Creations
- EASY EARRINGS FROM PMC – FOR HOLIDAY GIFT GIVING
- ORGANIC HOLLOW FORMS IN METAL CLAY
- RIO REWARDS PMC CERTIFICATION COURSE
- COLD CONNECTIONS INTENSIVE (2-day)
- WEARABLE MEMORIES/ FOUND OBJECT JEWELRY
- RINGS GO ROUND (and a Bracelet)
- ADVANCED ARTISTRY IN PMC - Link Bracelet
- RIO REWARDS PMC CERTIFICATION COURSE
- NARRATIVE FRAME PENDANT IN METAL CLAY
- ADVANCED ARTISTRY IN PMC - Complex Hollow Core Bead
- PMC LEVEL 1 CERTIFICATION COURSE
- SATURDAY OPEN METAL STUDIO
- FLAME, FLAME, FLAME SOLDERING WORKSHOP
- PMC LEVEL 2 CERTIFICATION COURSE
- SURFACE DESIGN TECHNIQUES
- SURFACE DESIGN TECHNIQUES
- PMC LEVEL 1 CERTIFICATION COURSE
- INTRODUCTION TO PMC 960
- ETCHING FOR METALSMITHS
- EXPLORING STONE SETTING
- TORCH FIRED ENAMEL
- TORCH FIRED EARRINGS
- METALSMITHING: TAB SETTING
- BYZANTINE CHAIN BRACELET
- PMC PENDANT
- PMC EARRINGS
- PMC3 - Beyond the Basics
- INTRODUCTION TO BRONZE CLAY
- A TOUCH OF GOLD
- PMC RINGS
- INTRODUCTION TO PMC3 METAL CLAY
- SPINNER RINGS IN SILVER PMC
MIXED MEDIA
MOSAICS
- GLASS MOSAIC FLEUR DE LIS
- MOSAIC GLASS LAMP
- MULTI-LEVEL MOSAICS-INDIVIDUAL PROJECT COURSE
- MOSAIC MEMORY VESSEL/PIQUE ASSIETTE
- ARCHITECTURAL APPLICATONS FOR MOSAICS – Floors and Walls
- THE POWER OF ART: BUILDING CREATIVE CAPITAL THROUGH COMMUNITY MOSAICS: Laurel True’s Community Mosaic Projects in the US, Africa and Haiti
- FACILITATING COMMUNITY MOSAIC PROJECTS LOCALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY SEMINAR/WORKSHOP WITH LAUREL TRUE
- GLASS FUSING FOR MOSAICS
- GLASS MOSAIC EYES - Symbols of Vision and Protection
- BEGINNING GLASS FUSING - Holiday Gift Making Class
- INTRODUCTION TO CONTEMPORARY MOSAICS – One Day Lecture Demo with Mini Project
- INTERMEDIATE GLASS MOSAICS
- GLASS ON GLASS MOSAICS
- MIXED MEDIA MOSAICS
- MOSAICS FOR THE GARDEN
- MOSAIC BACKSPLASHES, FLOORS, WALLS AND MORE – Architectural Mosaics in the Home
- INTRO TO ITALIAN SMALTI MOSAICS
- BEGINNING GLASS FUSING- Holiday Gift Making Class
- TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES FOR MOSAICS
- MOSAICS FOR THE GARDEN
- INTRO TO ITALIAN SMALTI MOSAICS - CONTEMPORARY MOSAICS WITH ANCIENT MATERIALS
- BEGINNING AND INTERMEDIATE GLASS MOSAICS: MIXED-LEVEL CLASS
- MOSAICS WITH RECYCLED MATERIALS
- FACILITATING COMMUNITY MOSAIC PROJECTS: SEMINAR AND HANDS-ON PROJECT SEMINAR/WORKSHOP WITH LAUREL TRUE
- COMMUNITY MOSAIC MURAL MAKING: HANDS-ON CLASS
PAINTING
- SATIN SILK PAINTING
- WATERCOLOR - cityscapes in plein air
- UNDERSTANDING CONTEMPORARY OIL PAINTING MATERIALS
- OIL PAINTING IN PLEIN AIRE
- THE FIGURE: A ONE WEEK INTENSIVE
- PORTRAIT PAINTING IN OILS
- UNDERSTANDING CONTEMPORARY OIL PAINTING MATERIALS
- PORTRAIT AND LANDSCAPE PAINTING WORKSHOP
- OIL PAINTING, LANDSCAPES/CITYSCAPES
- INTRO TO OIL PAINTING WORKSHOP
- FIGURE STUDY: MAKING FACES
- WATERCOLORS, Beginning and Continuing
- BEGINNING ACRYLIC PAINTING
- BEGINNING ACRYLIC PAINTING (Brittany Schall)
- COLOR THEORY IN PAINTING
- OIL PAINTING: PORTRAITURE
- BEGINNING ACRYLIC PAINTING (Harriet Burbeck)
- INTRO TO ACRYLICS WORKSHOP
- INTRO TO WATERCOLORS WORKSHOP
- INTRO TO OIL PAINTING WORKSHOP (Gus Hoffman)
- WATERCOLORS, Beginning and Continuing (Diego Larguia)
PAPERMAKING
PHOTOGRAPHY
- PHOTOJOURNALISM - Creating Storytelling Images
- INTRO TO BIRD PHOTOGRAPHY
- USING SELF-PUBLISHED BOOKS TO PROMOTE YOUR ART
- USING THE iPHONE and iPAD IN PHOTOGRAPHY
- PHOTOSHOP FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS
- MAKING PANORAMIC PHOTOGRAPHS
- INTRO TO BIRD PHOTOGRAPHY
- MAKING PANORAMIC PHOTOGRAPHS
- INTRO TO MACRO PHOTOGRAPHY
- INTRO TO MACRO PHOTOGRAPHY
- INTERMEDIATE DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY
- BASIC DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY
- PHOTOGRAPHING YOUR ARTWORK
PRINTMAKING
- PHOTOTRANSFERS WITH ENCAUSTICS AND PRINTMAKING
- SILKSCREEN PRINTING FOR BEGINNERS
- SILKSCREEN PRINTING WITH LAYERS (ADVANCED)
- PRINTMAKING - LINOCUTS I
- PRINTMAKING - LINOCUTS II
- BATIK AND WOODCUT TESSELLATING PATTERNS
- INTRO TO PRINTMAKING – LINOCUTS I
- INTRO TO PRINTMAKING – Collagraphy
- INTRO TO LINOLEUM CARVING
- INTRO TO BLOCK PRINTING: LINOLEUM CARVING
- BLOCK PRINTING, BEGINNING AND CONTINUING
- BLOCK PRINTING, BEGINNING AND CONTINUING
- BLOCK PRINTING: CREATING YOUR OWN PATTERNS & TEXTILES
SCULPTURE / 3-D
STAINED GLASS
Call to register, 504-949-1525, Monday through Friday 9am - 7 pm, Saturday 9am - 5pm, and Sunday 10am - 5pm.