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- Introduction to Ceramics – In-Person
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Item Number: W25ARTS325A
Dates: 1/9/2025 - 1/30/2025
Times: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Days: Th
Sessions: 4
Maximum Enrollment: 6
Building: Talent Maker City
Room: 109 Talent Avenue, Talent
Instructor: Lisa Shinohara
In this beginning ceramics course, students will be introduced to the beauty of clay. They will learn and explore coil building, slab construction, pinching, and basic wheel-throwing techniques. Using this know-how, students will create functional and decorative clay pieces while exploring the various ways to form and manipulate clay. Instructors will focus on different building techniques each week. The course will likely be divided into two weeks of hand-building and two weeks of wheel-throwing. A variety of glazing and surface decoration techniques will be introduced as well. By the end of this course, students will be able to independently create pieces. Specific techniques and lessons will vary, depending on student interest.
NOTE: There is a fee of $20 materials cost per student.
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- Introduction to Design: From Pencil to Print – In-Person
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Item Number: W25ARTS326A
Dates: 2/6/2025 - 2/27/2025
Times: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Days: Th
Sessions: 4
Maximum Enrollment: 6
Building: Talent Maker City
Room: 109 Talent Avenue, Talent
Instructor: Lisa Shinohara
Students will learn foundational design basics, create their own designs, and then make designs come to life in the studio. This may include screen printing, laser engraving, and sticker decals. Participants will start with the design process and move to digital graphics applications as they advance their skills. This course covers all the basics, from design process to printing. Students will get hands-on experience with producing their own custom designs using different techniques, guided by Talent Maker City instructors. This is a safe and supportive environment for individuals to learn and advance their creative skills. The goal is to build relationships and collaborate, experiment, value unexpected challenges, and problem-solve. Most important, the goal is to keep learning, growing, improving, and celebrating success.
NOTE: There is a fee of $20 materials cost per student.
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- Make Multimedia eBooks: Your Words and Pictures – In-Person
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Item Number: W25ARTS324A
Dates: 1/8/2025 - 2/12/2025
Times: 1:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Days: W
Sessions: 6
Maximum Enrollment: 17
Building: Campbell Center
Room: Room C
Instructor: Meri Walker
Are you an avid mobile photographer with a story to tell? All those pictures languishing in your iPhone deserve more than a one-time share on social media. Why not curate some of them, wrap them in a simple story, and turn them into a visually rich eBook you can publish and distribute through the Apple Bookstore, to the people who matter most to you: your family, friends, and colleagues … and maybe a wider audience? If you have an Apple iPhone, an iPad Pro, and/or Mac laptop and are ready to learn some simple chops, this class will equip you to use simple IOS creation tools to turn an album of your photos, and some short text (and even some sound and/or video clips, if you like) into a beautiful eBook portfolio you can publish and distribute through the Apple Bookstore. The instructor will guide class participants through the ins and outs of using two Apple-based apps that make it easier than you might think to collect your photos and words into beautiful page layouts.
NOTE: Participants need a late-model iPhone (11, 12, 13, 14, 15) and either an iPad Pro (3rd, 4th, 5th, or 6th generation) or an up-to-date Mac laptop to make good use of this course. Earlier models of iPhone, iPad, or iPad Air will NOT work for this course. The only cost will be buying the app, PhotoSync - Transfer Photos, from the Apple App Store. It can be bought once and then loaded on both an iPhone and iPad and then, with the proof of purchase, you can download it for your Mac computer.
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- Playful Art II – In-Person
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Want to expand your creativity and have fun? Join us to experience joyful, easy art projects. Bring your imagination, an open mind, and a willingness to explore possibilities. You may be surprised by what you produce in this four-session course. We will offer new ideas and techniques that are different from what was presented in the course Playful Art for Everyone I. Together, we’ll complete exercises in: abstracts, all over composition, collage, and word art. We will provide a sketchbook for each student; cardstock paper; watercolor paper; and some pens, pencils, markers, and magazines for use during class. No experience is needed, and participation in the course Playful Art for Everyone I is not a prerequisite.
NOTE: A contribution of $5 is due at the first class to offset our costs for the sketchbook, paper, copies, and other supplies. Students will be asked to bring some basic supplies. That information will be outlined for registered students in the pre-course email.
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- Rubens' Art of Persuasion – In-Person
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Peter Paul Rubens, in his vibrant oil paintings, defended his faith, his profession, his business — and quite a few paying clients. This course will consider how his majestic altarpieces tied Catholic dogma to deeply felt human experience; how the Greek and Roman subjects of his history paintings put him forward as a gentleman rather than a craftsman; and how he designed for widely distributed prints, both to establish his value as an art consultant and dealer, and to defend copyright. His work, imagining various crowned heads at their most noble and worthy, not only supported their politics but earned him princely commissions. Each class lecture will be heavily illustrated, with time for questions and discussion. The course will touch on Rubens' Marie de Medici cycle, but not in the detail of my previous OLLI course on that subject.
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- The Schneider Museum's Exhibition: "Other World/s" – In-Person
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Item Number: W25ARTS312A
Dates: 2/6/2025 - 2/13/2025
Times: 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Days: Th
Sessions: 2
Maximum Enrollment: 25
Building: SOU Art Building
Room: Meese Auditorium
Instructor: Scott Malbaurn
Other World/s brings together four artists working in diverse media such as sculpture, installation, ceramics, embellished photography, and painting. Each artist crafts a world that borders on reality and the abstract. There is a science fiction feel to some exhibits and an uncanny familiarity to others. With the Schneider Museum of Art’s executive director, Scott Malbaurn, learn about the winter exhibition through two classes. The first will be a classroom PowerPoint presentation, and the second will be a walkthrough of the exhibition. You’ll meet fellow arts lovers and be confident in walking your friends and family through the exhibition with follow-up visits. The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalog with an exhibition essay. Students will receive a complimentary catalog.
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