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Aboriginal Art with
Kristen Bryce
Australia, the world down under! Use geometric patters,
natural colors, and unique "brushes" to paint in the style of the
Aboriginals. Students will create their own "bark" painting.
Ages: 9-11 years
Date and Times: April 3, 2010 11:30am - 12:30pm
Fee: $15 materials included
The
Courage To Create by Photographer Howard Rubenstein
This course is for ALL artists who
want to initiate or re-ignite their creative powers. This is about moving
outside the limits you have set for yourself, to find your own authentic
artistic vision. There are lectures, assignments, audio and visual
presentations and critiques. It is designed
to be fun and exciting. Open to all art
forms.
Date and time: 5 weekly two-hour sessions, Thursdays 3 - 5 p.m.
Fees: $60 members/$80 non-members
Please call the gallery at 294-6840 Tuesday - Saturday between 11 a.m.
- 3 p.m. to register. To learn more
about the instructor go to rubensteinart.com
Handmade Paper Workshop
with Janet Tobin
This three hour class will allow the creation of
5x7 sheets of decorative paper using ordinary recycled paper, fragments
of fiber and found natural objects such as bark, potpourri, flower
petals, grasses and ferns. A blender, water, paper towel and
recycled cards, card stock and other household recycled mail can be used
to create varied textured papers for use in collages, scrapbooking,
handmade cards, journal covers and actual writing paper. This
technique can be utilized to make larger or smaller papers and will
allow participants to use their imagination and creativity to design
unique papers to enhance a variety of art projects or crafts.
A materials list will be provided at registration
but will include objects easily found around the house or yard.
The only object necessary to purchase or make is a 5 X 7 frame with a
wire mesh screening attached to the flat side of the frame.
Further information for this item will be provided at registration
Date and Time:
June 21st, 9am-12pm
Fees: $20 for members and $25
for
non-members
Miniature Hand
Bound Books
with Kristen Bryce
Learn how to bind your own handmade books. Create a
new structure each class ranging from the traditional journal to
open-spine to non-western bindings. This class is perfect for any artist
looking to learn a new skill or to create personalized sketchbooks.
Dates and times: Fridays, March 12th - April 9th, 12pm - 2pm
Fees: $100 members/$110 non members
Out
of the Box Photography
offered by Photographer Howard Rubenstein
This course is designed for
photographers at any level from beginner to professional. It is for people
who know how to use their camera, from pinhole to high end digital. The
object of the course is for all of us to move out of our "box,"
be it cardboard, wood, or reinforced concrete; to learn to see differently
and change the way we think and believe in things relevant to our craft.
There will be lectures, audio, some slides, prints discussed, and
assignments.
Date and time: 5 weekly two-hour sessions, Wednesday
evenings from 7 - 9 p.m., starting
September 15, 2010
Minimum enrollment: 6 registered students that have remitted payment.
Fee: $65 members/$80 non-members
Call the gallery at 294-6840
Tuesday-Thursday 11 a.m. - 3 p.m. to register. To learn more about the
instructor, go to rubensteinart.com
Testimonials for this class:
“To
any of you who wish to be able to look at the world in ways you had never
dreamt, I would strongly recommend enrolling in Howard Rubenstein's
"How to Take Great Photos Class," [renamed “Out of the Box
Photography”]. I had the joy of participating in this course about
a year ago. Not only did these classes open up my eyes as to taking more
creative and insightful photographs, but they also gave me the means to
look at our world in so many different ways. After all, isn't this what
photography is all about....at least when I had completed the course I
realized that YES, this is what photography is all about.
Most likely you will find this class far different than any photography
class you may have taken. Forget aperture, f-stops and all those details.
Howard will broaden your ability to look at our world, a scene or an
object in ways that you never may have imagined. Howard's sense of humor
alone is worth the price of admission! Trust me.”
Eric Wertheimer
“I
signed up for the class How to Take Great Photos because several people
told me how amazing it was. One woman told me she'd taken it twice.
Somehow I never got around to reading the course description in the WAA
newsletter and came to class expecting instruction in composition,
aperture and shutter priority, low light, zoom lenses. Instead I
discovered that the learning was NOT about photography skills--artists in
any medium can benefit from the message Howard Rubenstein delivers in this
class. Perhaps he should call it "Getting "outside the box"
to find your own authentic artistic vision."
I spent the next six (8?) weeks being transformed into an artist. Howard
teaches how to develop the unique creative vision that each of us owns. He
gently walked us through a journey of looking inward to discover our
individual creative process and the barriers that lurk inside to thwart
it. In every class he stimulated our creative juices with
illustrations--visual, verbal, auditory, tactile--of well-known artists in
every field (from Leonardo to the Beatles!).
The challenges Howard gave us each week demonstrate his natural brilliance
as a teacher. I wondered, the first time we were assigned to two dozen
photos in several unorthodox ways (shooting in the rain, lying on our
backs, e.g.) plus a few reflective writing exercises, how I could cram all
this into an already overbooked life. But doing the "homework"
became the high point of my week. The photography challenges were FUN and
the essays I wrote took me to new places of insight and imagination.
Howard helped me overcome my reticence to share my work with the class by
teaching us his own gentle, incisive style of critique. But the most
important lesson he drove home about criticism of one's work was,
"You are the ONLY judge of the worth of your work." Criticism
may be helpful with technical issues but never valid about one's creative
vision.
Howard is a master teacher who can foster profound changes in a few short
weeks. What I learned about creativity and personal vision resonates day
after day and reminds me to stay outside that box!”
Marcia Blair
Painting in Pastels
with Lori Jeremiah
Few mediums allow you to be as free and spontaneous as pastel.
Because it is essentially pure pigment that you apply directly to paper,
you can achieve luminosity and texture in your paintings. Pastel can be
beautifully and easily used to render light and color in every subject
and style.
Elements of design with
emphasis on color, value and composition will be included along with the
basic fundamentals of pastel painting.
Students do not need
prior pastel or drawing experience. All levels are welcome.
Teens to Adults
Dates and Times:
July 30, Aug 6 and 13 from 9am-noon
Fees: $90
members/$95 nonmembers.
Pen & Ink with Fred Meli
This course is designed for the novice, with little or no previous pen
and ink experience and/or the advanced artist. The course will cover:
line, wash drawing and mixed media techniques. The instructor will
provide several simple exercises that will help facilitate a student’s
ability to acquire a basic knowledge helping them to render and sketch
with this very versatile medium of pen and ink.
Dates and Times: June 22, 29 & July
6 (Tuesday evenings) from 6-8pm.
Fees: $85 members/$95 non-members.
Portraiture
Class
with Paula Dewell 
PORTRAITURE: A class for those who wish to begin or continue experimenting
with portraits. Sessions will include demonstrations on use of acrylics,
alone or in combination with water miscible oils. Other media options
possible. Brief critiques, group and/or individual, may be included.
Sessions will be adapted with input from class members.
Date and time: TBA
Fees: $100 members/$110 non-members
Course will begin after 5 people register; Maximum Registration of 10
students.
Relief Carving in
Limestone
 with
Laura Travis
The distinctive look of the High Crosses and decorative
knotwork requires a specialized approach that is actually simple to
learn…We’ll be able to complete two small carvings in this weekend
workshop.
Throughout most of the
world, art works in stone embody importance and permanence, honor
deities and the dead, and mark transitions of every sort. To carve stone
is to understand timelessness and tenacity. The methods used today are
nearly identical to those employed throughout history, and while
practice and persistence are required, the basics are relatively easily
explained and learned.
Date and time: July 27-28 from 9:30-3 and August 21-22
10-3:30.
Fees: $100 and includes use of tools, 2 small stones, and most
materials
Rhode
Island Scenes in Water Media with Albert
Scartabello.
Watercolor and Acrylic
Date: TBA
Time: TBA
Fee: $85 members/$95 non-members
For questions about the course, or to register, email the
gallery or call
294-6840.
Summer Painting at the
Beach for Kids! with Lori Jeremiah
Ages 10 and up
This is a fun beginner/intermediate painting class using
watercolor and tempera paint. Drawing skills and elements and principles
of design will be included as students create abstract works of art.
Emphasis will be color theory and color mixing.
Class will be held outdoors (weather permitting).
All materials included
Dates
and Times: July 20, 21, 27, 28 from 10am-noon
Fees:
$85 which includes materials
Watercolor Collage Workshop
with Carole Berren
This workshop will focus on working with watercolors, rice
papers etc. to take a watercolor into a multidimensional, textured and
exciting painting.
Dates and time: April 22 and 29, 2010
1:30-4:30pm
Fees: $75 for both days
Contact the gallery at 294-6840 to register.
Waterfront Watercolor
with Lori Jeremiah
This workshop will focus on the fundamentals of
watercolor. Still life paintings of beach “treasures” will be created
using various watercolor techniques and materials such as salt, masking,
wet-in-wet paint, etc.
This relaxing, fun workshop is good for the
beginner and/or intermediate painter. No drawing or painting experience
is necessary. Class will be held outdoors (weather permitting) near the
beach. Feel free to bring your picnic lunch!
Dates and
Times: July 20, 21, 27, 28 from 1-3pm
Fees:
$80 members/$85 non members
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