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Classes and Workshops 

All classes and workshops are held at the Wickford Art Association Gallery (unless otherwise indicated).  

Most classes and workshops are limited in size to assure each student receives  individual attention.  

Pre-registration is required (unless otherwise indicated).

To register by mail: print & complete this form, and send it with payment (please make checks payable to the Wickford Art Association) to the gallery:

Wickford Art Assoc. Gallery
36 Beach Street, 
N. Kingstown, RI 02852

AT A GLANCE

Classes And Workshops
Currently running and Upcoming

Aboriginal Art
 
with Kristen Bryce

The Courage To Create
   with Howard Rubenstein

Handmade Paper Workshop
   with Janet Tobin

Miniature Hand Bound Books
   with Kristen Bryce

Out of the Box Photography  
   with Howard Rubenstein
Painting in Pastels
   with Lori Jeremiah
Pen and Ink
   with Fred Meli
Portraiture Class  
   with Paula Dewell
Relief Carving in Limestone
   with Laura Travis
Summer Painting at the Beach for Kids
   with Lori Jeremiah
Rhode Island Scenes In Water Media
   with Albert Scartabello
Waterfront Watercolor
   with Lori Jeremiah
Watercolor Collage Workshop
   with Carole Berren

   

Classes/Workshops - Based on Interest

If there is sufficient interest, the following classes/workshops will be held:
Interested parties should contact the gallery (294-6840) or gallery@wickfordart.org .  Please specify which class you're interested in and leave complete contact information!

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