Classes & Workshops
REGISTER FOR CLASSES AT THE DORCHESTER CENTER FOR THE ARTS
Now that students are back to school, the Dorchester Center for the Arts (DCA) invites the community to participate in upcoming classes and programs. New this session is a tap dancing class for adults and beginner ceramic classes
(PHOTO: Willy Schlossbach, Instructor, is one of the many artists leading classes at DCA this fall.)
Painting
Oil Painting for Beginners and Intermediates, Taught by Tom Ryan
Learn to paint with oils in this class that is great for beginners or students continuing to perfect their skills. Beginners learn the fundamentals of still life painting including color, composition, form, and materials while intermediate students hone existing skills and explore more complex challenges. More advanced students will complete finished, professional quality work. Supply list available. All sessions: Monday mornings, six weeks, 9 a.m. – noon. The fall session begins September 20.
Discovering the “Know How” of Oil Painting, Mary Ekroos, Instructor
Learn the “know how” of creating a painting from your own photos. Students will be shown: how to compose a painting using basic elements in their subjects; how to use light and color; the importance of linear and atmospheric perspectives and how to understand what they see. Basic principles of drawing will be reviewed. The class is oriented toward marine and landscape oil painting and is open to students at all levels of painting experience. A supply list is available. The class will meet for four weeks beginning Monday, October 4. -- cont --
Intermediate Landscape Oil Painting - Expressing Your Own Style, Taught by Willy Schlossbach
This class will teach intermediate and the more advanced oil students painting techniques in landscape and cityscape painting. Students will learn to interpret photographs and ideas into paintings that express themselves and make their paintings distinctively their own. Supply list is available. Thursday afternoons, six weeks; 1 p.m. – 4 p.m. The session begins September 23.
Watercolor
Watercolor for Beginners and Beyond, Taught by Jeanne Ewell
This class introduces basic techniques of watercolor and builds to the more complex. Emphasis will focus on the basics of controlling the medium, color mixing, brush handling, and composition. Demonstrations are part of the class. Beginning and continuing students will receive individual attention while painting a variety of subject matter. Supply list available. The class will meet for six weeks on Thursday mornings from 10 a.m. – noon, beginning September 23.
Sumi-e Painting in the Wetlands for Kids
August 17, 9am-noon, Environmental Concern Wetland Education Center and Campus, St. Michaels , Call 410 212-9320 for price.
Sumi-e is a type of traditional Chinese painting using black ink. Many painters throughout Chinese history were inspired by wetlands and the animals that inhabit them. This camp will give kids and opportunity to experience this inspiration themselves by trying the traditional eastern approach to painting wetlands animals and water while learning about the amazing animals and characteristics of them. Traditional Chinese painting media, such as the bamboo brush, sumi-e ink, rice paper and suzuri inkwell will be demonstrated. With most of the camp held on the banks of Environmental Concern’s wetlands, there will be many opportunities to paint beautiful wetlands scenes inspired by eastern painting styles and Chinese painting tradition. RSVP required by calling 410 212-9320.
Seascapes at Sunset - Outside Art Workshop for kids and families
June 21, 5:30-sunset , Claiborne, $40 per/s
Come and see the best sunset views of the Chesapeake through the eyes of an artist! This fun outside art workshop will teach participants from all ages and artistic levels how to "see like an artist," compose a painting, work with colors and use professional painting techniques to create an original sunset seascape painting. This class is multi-level and can be taken by children, and families. Group discounts available. Call 410 212-9320 to RSVP and for exact location.
*Call to schedule, other dates available!
ADKINS ARBORETUM ANNOUNCES SPRING EDUCATION PROGRAMS FOR ADULTS
Adkins Arboretum is offering a full slate of education programs for spring, from tree and meadow stewardship programs to poetry readings and workshops to a full complement of crafts sessions. Programs include:
The Brother Gardeners: Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession
Tuesday, May 4, 4–5 p.m. with a reception to follow
Fee: $15 members, $18 general public
In this beautifully illustrated talk, Andrea Wulf tells the story of a small group of 18th-century naturalists that made England a nation of gardeners. Friends, rivals and enemies, their correspondence, collaborations and squabbles make for a riveting human drama set against the backdrop of the emerging British Empire and America's magnificent forests. As botany and horticulture became a science, the garden became the Eden for everyman.
From the Tree’s Perspective
Wednesday, May 5, 10–11:30 a.m.
Fee: $10 members, $15 general public
Richard Murray will introduce the concepts of tree function and defense from the tree’s perspective. He will provide an overview of the basics of tree biology and how trees influence ecological associations and processes. Using samples and a hands-on approach, he will discuss how we can improve our efforts to establish and preserve trees.
Dance Your Way Through Summer
by Erin Mawn
One thing that I have always loved about the beginning of summer, besides the obvious answers like the smell of fresh cut grass, warm breezes and flowers in full bloom, is that it is dance recital season. I started dancing when I was three years old, and I continued all the way through college. I loved the excited murmurs and shouts of joy in the dance studio when the costumes finally arrived. We couldn’t wait to try them on, and imagined what we’d look like on stage performing in front of all those smiling faces. The weeks leading up to the performance were hectic in a wonderful way: frenzied mothers asking about tights, little girls parading around in adorable costumes that made them look like dolls come to life, older girls practicing their routines around the clock, and harried dance instructors frantically trying to corral their students. Being on stage was, and is still is, one of the greatest feelings, but it was also a little disappointing to know that dance classes were over until the fall.
Early Bird Art - art class for kids!
May 29th, 9-11am Pickering Creek Audubon, Easton
ONLY $30 PER STUDENT!
Wake-up with the birds and explore the amazing world of our feathered friends in this fun morning art workshop. In the tradition of the famous bird artist and orinthologist, John James Audubon, young artists in this class will learn about a wide variety of native birds through artistic study. Materials included. RSVP required by phone. 410 212-9320. Go to http://outsideartlessons.com/artwrhshpkids.aspx to register!
Chesapeake Cartoon Creatures-art class for kids!
May 15, 10-noon, Phillips Wharf Environmental Center, Tilghman
ONLY $20 PER STUDENT! Kids ages 6-12 are invited to meet the cartoon character and real life Phil the Crab in this fun and exciting cartooning workshop at Philips Wharf Environmental Center on Tilghman Island. Kids will also learn how to draw cartoon characters while meeting some of the amazing creatures of the Chesapeake Bay in this fun two hour class. All participants will be entered in a lottery to win a T-shirt with their character on it! RSVP by phone required. Call 410 212-9320 or register online at http://outsideartlessons.com/artwrhshpkids.aspx
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Fun Flower Painting for KIDS
Aspiring young artists, ages 6-12 will make a one-of-a-kind watercolor flower paintings in this two hour watercolor workshop with a local teaching artist, Dawn Malosh. Kids in this class will learn professional drawing, composition and watercolor techniques as well as cool stuff about flowers while making a one-of-a-kind Mothers Day present! Idlewild Park, Easton, May 8, 1-3pm, $30 per student, materials included. RSVP required by calling 410 212-9320. Visit www.outsideartlessons.com to register.
Learn Glass Fusing
Greensborough Trading Company in Greensboro, Md. is offering in April and May a set of classes in Glass Fusing.
Due to popular requests Lynn Haneke, the Stained Glass Instructor, at Greensborough Trading Company has developed a beginning level short course in Glass Fusing basics.
The first class will be held April 17th at 10:00. The students will be creating two 4” coasters using multiple layers of glass and decorations with a wide array of colors. Lynn will be bringing into the store her own kiln, various colors of glass, and stringers, noodles and frit to decorate the coasters. Students will be able to pick up their finished projects in two weeks or less. This class will be full of hands-on instruction with examples of finished projects for inspiration. You need no prior experience in stained glass. The cost of the class is $35.00 with all materials and kiln firing provided. Class size is limited to 6 students and if more than 6 students sign up a second entry level class can be held that same day starting at 2:00.
The second class will build on the skills gained in the first one. It will be held May 15th at 10:00. We will be creating a birdhouse with wind chimes of glass hanging from it. The birdhouse is decorated with many chips of glass portraying a flower garden. The chips range in size from pencil eraser to dust. An artistic ability is helpful but not necessary. The cost of the class is $50.00 with all materials and firing provided. Class size is again limited to 6 students with a second class possible. Students must take the first class in order to participate in the second.
Students must pre-register/ pre-pay with Barbara Mutolo at Greensborough Trading Company, 410-482-2200.
Historians Delight - Washington Crossing the Delaware
- David H.Fischer on Emanuel Leutze's 'Washington Crossing the Delaware'
- Saturday, May 1 | 4:30pm Free event
- This event runs Saturday, May 1
- Location: Nan Tucker McEvoy Auditorium, Reynolds Center for American Art and Portrait
- Contact: LKitz2@washcoll.edu
- Phone: 410–810–7165
- Email: LKitz2@washcoll.edu
- URL: http://starrcenter.washcoll.edu/events_programs/a
- One of our country's foremost historians, David Hackett Fischer has described his work as 'a deep affirmation of American values'. His books include Paul Revere's Ride, a main selection of the History Book Club; Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America, winner of the American Association of University Presses Prize for Overall Excellence; and 'Champlain's Dream', the authoritative biography of French explorer and visionary Samuel de Champlain. Fischer received the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for 'Washington's Crossing', an analysis of Washington's battles in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. A graduate of Princeton and Johns Hopkins Universities, Fischer serves as the Earl Warren Professor of History at Brandeis, where he has taught since 1962. He is presently at work on two books, a comparative political history of the United States and New Zealand, and a history of the endurance of African folkways in America.
Free bus from Casey Academic Center, Washington College Departs 11:30am - returns
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