Learn how to up the level of your painting. You will sharpen your skills in drawing, painting, and composition. You will understand the balance that is between moisture, pigment, and paper with the decisions of every brushstroke. Letting your techniques serve what you want to convey in your painting. Helping you gain clarity to move forward in your art. Materials needed: Watercolor paints, Palettes, Watercolor paper, Brushes, #2 pencil, Gum eraser, Water cup, Paper towel

This hands-on course will explore how to enhance your photographic skills using all forms of digital cameras, including point-and-shoot, cell phone, and more advanced digital SLR cameras. You do not need prior experience or instruction; come with an open mind and a desire to learn how to do more with the camera you have. Each week, there will be assigned topics for photographic exploration including composition, lighting, exposure and how to enhance the shots. During the class, we will offer a public critique of your photos and answer your questions.

Students enrolled in Explore Your Voice will learn breathing, articulation, and phonation techniques. During the course, students will work on songs they have chosen. Each week, the instructor will work with them on their songs, and by the end of the course they will have learned one to two songs and have improved their speaking and singing voices. Most of all, they will have had fun! The final class will be a recital that is open to the public.

Have you been yearning to have a reason to pick up your flute again? Join us for flute choir and ensembles; previous playing experience is required. We will have time set aside for those who wish for extra help. You will need a flute in playing condition, a music stand, a tuner, and a metronome. $5.00 copying fee. Contact instructor for reliable flute repair technicians.

Learn to knit as you make a dishcloth, potholder or blanket (for the more ambitious). Beginning skills: knit, purl, cast on, bind off, tools of knitting. Beginner supplies: size 7 or 8 needle (straight or circular 10-14 in); 1 skein Lily Sugar 'n Cream (Michael's) or Crafter's Secret Cotton (Hobby Lobby). Knitters join us to knit and/or learn a new skill.

Bring your latest needlework project and come form a hearth circle. Each session we’ll explore a range of topics: the history of knitting in America; when some needles went to war and others stayed home to mend or protest; knits and knitters of fame, infamy and anonymity; knitting traditions from around the world; science of the spin, and more. Class time will include hands-on demonstrations, light refreshments and perhaps a sing-along or two.

This is not a class on technologies & apps. for picture manipulation and editing. Rather, it’s all about Taking Great Pictures. What makes a good picture? Why are some pictures bland and others of the same subject more appealing? What catches our eye? Students will learn about and experiment with composition, framing, perspective, light & shadow, contrast and other elements of picture-taking through instruction and assignments, followed by sharing & critiquing pictures they have taken. They will also develop new ways of looking at the world around them. Digital cameras and cell-phone cameras are both fine. $15 course fee due at the first class.

This class is for anyone who wishes to learn basic watercolor techniques. Whether you already have watercolor experience or have never picked up a paintbrush before, this class offers a fun and supportive environment through a variety of projects. Full list of materials will be emailed prior to first class, estimated cost $40-$50. Copy fee of $5.00 cash due to instructor at first class.