The Center for Lifelong Learning

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Spring 2013 classes:

Ceramics for Kids: Wheel-throwing and Hand-building (Grades 2-5)

A wet lump of clay spinning under your hands turns into a bowl as if by magic. Welcome to the wonderful world of the pottery wheel. In this class we will learn wheel-throwing techniques like centering, forming, and finishing and hand-building skills like pinching, coiling, and rolling out slabs. We'll decorate using textures and glazes. Repeat students welcome!

Course Number: 30306-123
Instructor: Jan Arbogast
Days: 6 Wednesdays
Date: March 20-April 24, 2013
Time: 4:30-6pm
Location: Waldron, Room W101
Cost: $124

Ceramics for Tweens (Grades 6-9)

No experience is necessary to make cool stuff out of clay. Learn how to throw on the potter's wheel using skills to help center, pull up a piece, and attach handles or a lid. Create your own hand-built masterpiece using slabs, coil and pinch pot methods. You'll create your own mugs and bowls, explore three dimensional sculptures, as well as sculptural relief tiles, not to mention glazing, trimming and firing! Bring your creative ideas, and be prepared to get dirty and have fun. Suitable for all levels of experience and all materials are included in the course fee.

Course Number: 30308-123
Instructor: Marcy Neiditz
Days: 6 Thursdays
Date: March 21-April 25, 2013
Time: 4:30-6:30pm
Location: Waldron, Room W101
Cost: $165

Drawing and Painting for Kids (Grades 2-5)

Young artists will explore the combined uses of drawing, painting, collage, printmaking and assemblage to create unique art objects in both two- and  three-dimensional forms. Media may include fibers, fabrics, plastics, papers, wood, found objects, computer and photocopied generated materials, old pictures, and drawings. All skill levels are welcome!

Course Number: 30323-123
Instructor: Hilary Cannon Anderson
Days: 6 Wednesdays
Date: March 20-April 24, 2013
Time: 4:30-6pm
Location: Waldron, Room W201
Cost: $119

Painting for Tweens (Grades 6-9)

Using watercolor and acrylic painting as the media, emerging artists will improve their skills while learning new techniques. Various exercises will prepare students for a more involved final project-one observational, the other abstract-in each media.

Course Number: 30325-123
Instructor: Hilary Cannon Anderson
Days: 6 Thursdays
Date: March 21-April 25, 2013
Time: 4:30-6:30pm
Location: Waldron, Room W201
Cost: $125