Early Bird Dates: Tuesday, 2/12– Friday, 12/15. Use coupon code: EarlyBird
Workshops allow you to kick-start your creativity or learn a specialized skill in a convenient, shorter format. Taught by professional artists, workshops are available for students at all levels of experience and are kept small to ensure that individual attention can be given to everyone. Students learn in a supportive environment and are encouraged to fully explore their creativity and strive for excellence.
Book Arts
Carousel Books—NEW
Addy Gale
The seasons, they go round and round. Come and learn to make a carousel book—a multilayered accordion-style book that can be viewed page by page or opened fully to view in the round. A few examples of construction will be presented and students will choose their preferred format to create a three-dimensional, inviting, and theatrical artist’s book. Students may bring text or collage elements if they would like to add content to their book.
Supplies: While not required, students should consider bringing text or collage elements if they would like to add content to their book.
Prerequisite: None
Saturday, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM, 3/23 –
1 session: $90; Early Bird price: $86 (Discount available until 2/15/2019)
Bells and Whistles: 5 Simple Techniques—NEW
Jennifer Verbit
Get creative and make a book using five simple techniques. In the morning you will learn the techniques of paint transfer, pop-up, pamphlet stitching, one-sheet zigzag accordion, and decorative details. During the day, we will practice these variations, and then in the afternoon, we will use the zig-zag accordion technique and put it all together into a book. The simplest techniques can leave you inspired.
Supplies: none
Prerequisite: none
Sundays, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM, 4/28 –
1 session: $90; Early Bird price: $86 (Discount available until 2/15/2019)
Enhanced Paper Decoration: Paste Paper, Under-Painting, and Stamping—NEW
Regina and Dan St. John
Create unique decorated paper using techniques including under-painting, stamping, and paste patterning. These papers are most commonly used in traditional crafts such as bookbinding and can be creatively incorporated into calligraphy, printmaking, card making, scrap booking, collage, rubber stamping, and origami.
Supplies: Students may bring already marbled paper to class to add layers onto it. Please bring an apron.
Supplies Provided: All materials and tools provided by these visiting instructors
Prerequisite: none
Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM, 6/18 – 6/20
3 sessions: $594; Early Bird price: $564 (Discount available until 2/15/2019)
Introduction to Paper Marbling
Regina and Dan St. John
The wondrous process of marbling involves the capturing of an intricate intermingling of colors from the surface of a liquid. The pattern is then caught permanently when paper or fabric is briefly laid onto the liquid. This step-by-step acrylic paper marbling workshop is ideal for a beginner, but includes many innovations to challenge an experienced marbler. Students will work on full-size professional marbling tanks and learn how to use sets of precision marbling tools as they are introduced to a wide range of traditional and contemporary marbling patterns and techniques. Students will depart with their own leather-edge marbled journal and many marbled papers in a spectacular array of patterns and colors. All materials will be supplied for these classes, and students may expect to complete from 25-35 papers during the two-day class. Materials fee of $45 payable at registration.
Supplies: Please bring an apron.
Supplies Provided: All materials and tools provided by these visiting instructors
Prerequisite: none
Saturday and Sunday, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM, 6/22 – 6/23
2 sessions: $396; Early Bird price: $376 (Discount available until 2/15/2019)
Drawing + Painting
An Introduction to Drawing on the iPad
Raheem Nelson
This workshop is for students who are eager to learn traditional drawing and painting techniques using the latest digital technology. Students will discover the various iPad applications to create masterpieces in still life, landscape, portraiture, and cartoon illustration.
Supplies: Students must bring an iPad, Apple Pencil, and Procreate app installed.
Supplies Provided: None
Saturdays, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM, 3/16-4/6 (note new day and time)
4 sessions: $180; Early Bird price: $171 (Discount available until 2/15/2019)
Intensive Abstract Painting Workshop
Shilo Ratner
Jump-start your creative painting practice in this high-energy workshop open to students who wish to explore abstraction in painting. The focus will be on understanding form through simplified practical exercises including selecting imagery and analyzing compositions to develop your creative voice. Explore color theory, color mixing, brush techniques, paint handling, layering, and composition.
Supplies: 5-10 brushes, various brush sizes Acrylic paints below followed by * are required for class.
- * Titanium white (8 oz.)
- * Ivory black (8 oz.)
- * Cadmium yellow
- * Yellow ochre
- * Ultramarine blue
- Permanent green light
- Phthalo blue
- Napthol red or cadmium red
Supplies Provided: None
Prerequisite: None
Fridays, 10:30 AM – 3:30 PM, 3/15 – 3/22
2 sessions: $150; Early Bird price: $143 (Discount available until 2/15/2019)
A World of Color in Egg Tempera
Olivia Bonilla
Discover color and color interaction the old-fashioned way. Students will be introduced to the history of pigments while learning how to make paints from scratch in egg tempera.
Supplies: Bring a selection of brushes, 8×10 and 11×14 mixed-media notepad, plastic egg cartons, dust respirator, and eye protection.
Supplies Provided: Tools for making egg tempura; eggs, eye droppers, mixers, plastic egg cartons, glass/plexy palettes. Pigments are included.
Prerequisite: Knowledge of painting and color is preferable, but not required.
A: Saturday & Sunday, 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM, 3/16 – 3/17
2 sessions: $160; Early Bird price: $152 (Discount available until 2/15/2019)
B: Saturdays, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM, 5/18 – 6/8
4 sessions: $240; Early Bird price: $228 (Discount available until 2/15/2019)
How to Mix Color: An Introduction to Color Theory and Color-Spot Painting
Eric March
Learn how to use the basics of color theory to improve your ability to mix colors that capture the vibrancy of the world of color around you. We will put theory to practice with a “color spot” painting from a still life that focuses on the exact relationship between the large areas of color that make up a composition.
Supplies: The class demonstrations will be done in oil, but the ideas in the class are suitable for really any application of color. The color mixing demonstrations will be most closely related to opaque paint mixing (oil and acrylic) but could be adapted to watercolor as well. Additional materials will be discussed in class. Use brushes and colors suitable to your medium of choice.
Palette (glass or disposable palette paper for acrylic; glass, palette paper, or oiled wood for oil.)
Palette knife (trowel shape, medium to large size. Square shape may also be useful for application.)
Brushes—#5 flat (synthetic for acrylic, bristle for oil) *Note that this class can be done entirely with a palette knife, so brushes are optional.
Pencil and ruler
Thin masking tape (optional)
Canvas board—(2) 11 x 14-inch, (1) 8 x 10-inch
Paint Colors:
“Economy” palette for the class:
- Cadmium Yellow
- Quinacridone Magenta or Alizarin Crimson
- Manganese Blue or Cerulean Blue
- Ivory Black
- Titanium white
“Full” palette for the class includes warm and cool versions of each color as well as earth colors: “Economy” colors plus the following:
- Cadmium lemon
- Cadmium orange
- Cadmium red
- Yellow ochre
- Burnt sienna
- Burnt umber
- Phthalo green/viridian
- Phthalo emerald/sap green
- Ultramarine blue
Roll of paper towels
Plastic bag for trash
Mineral spirits for cleanup
Brush washer to clean brushes
Supplies Provided: None
Prerequisite: None
Thursdays, 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM, 3/28 – 4/18
4 sessions: $180; Early Bird price: $171 (Discount available until 2/15/2019)
Drawing + Paintint: Intermediate + Advanced
The Portrait in Pastel
Eric March
A preferred medium of Degas and Cassat, pastels combine the direct touch of drawing with the sensuous color of paint. Learn how to block in an under-drawing of a head and work up a richly colored rendering of skin tone, facial features, and hair, all without touching a brush. Class will cover layering, color mixing, and blending of pastels.
Supplies:
Vine charcoal (medium or soft)
Nitram Charcoal Shaper (sanding pad for sharpening Nupastel or Vine Charcoal, optional)
Generals Charcoal Pencils (HB & 2B, optional)
Razor blade (for sharpening pencils and chalks, optional)
Charcoal/Pastel Paper, 2-4 sheets.
You need a paper that has a textured surface that will hold the pastel. Some recommended options:
Art Specturm Colourfix Pastel Paper (this is my preferred paper but is expensive)
Canson Mi-Teintes pastel/charcoal paper. Middle-value blue, grey, or brown
Canson Ingres Laid paper
Golden Pastel Ground applied to cold-press watercolor paper
Pastel:
Nupastel set of 24 (or set of 36-more colors can give you a broader palette). Nupastels are a fairly hard pastel and are helpful for getting sharp edges but can also be used for blending.
The 24 set lacks some good darks-you can supplement the 24 set with individual sticks from the art store. I suggest getting an additional dark brown, dark blue/purple, dark green, and a dark red.
If you already have a set of pastels (dry chalk pastels, NOT oil pastels) use them. Other “soft” pastel options include sets of Rembrandt, Sennelier, or other brands. Soft pastels are lovely and give you a more buttery stroke.
Drawing :
Your board should be larger than your paper size (so 20” x 26” if you are using a full sheet of the Canson Paper). Often just going to a lumberyard and getting a piece of 1/8” Masonite cut down to size is the best-and cheapest-way to get one. (They also sell drawing boards in art stores that come equipped with handle-holes and built in clips that can make it hard to use the board! A simple flat piece of Masonite is better.) You can also look into using 1⁄2” foam core or “gatorboard” as a lightweight alternative to Masonite. Some drawing boards are available at CAW but often then have dried paint on them which makes them not great as a drawing surface.
Two Large 2″ Black Paper Clamps (for clipping paper to board)
Kneaded eraser and/or white “click”/mechanical/retractable eraser
Optional:
Straight, thin knitting needle or stick (for measuring)
Pastel pencils – these come in a variety of colors and can be useful for detail work. Suggested colors: grey, brown, white, light grey-blue, light yellow/beige
Other Suggested Materials:
Krylon Crystal Clear Acrylic Coating or Sennelier Delacroix Spray Fixative for Pencils and Charcoal (for fixing pastel drawings at home to protect them)
Glasseine (for covering drawings in storage – Glasseine is like tracing paper and can be bought in rolls. You can also buy a pad of tracing paper and use that as long as it’s acid- free.)
Portfolio for transporting paper and drawings (do not roll your drawings!)
Sketchbook
Supplies Provided: None.
Prerequisite: Figure drawing recommended
Thursdays, 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM, 5/2 – 5/23
4 sessions: $180; Early Bird price: $171 (Discount available until 2/15/2019)
Fiber
Knit a Critter Cap for Baby or Toddler
Gul Rukh Selim
If you can knit and purl, you can create a cute and colorful ladybug, bunny, bumblebee, strawberry, or pumpkin hat for a baby or a toddler.
Supplies: One 16 inch U.S. #6 or 4mm circular knitting needles, one set of #6 needles (comes in sets of four or five) and yarn, depending on hat selected: red and black for ladybug, red and green for strawberry, yellow and black for bumble bee, white for rabbit, or orange for pumpkin. Please buy Lion Brand Medium yarn. Instructor will provide pink and green remnants for rabbit ears or pumpkin stem.
Supplies Provided: Patterns, sample critter caps that I have knit to help participants to chose. And small remnants of yarn for details in cap.
Prerequisite: If you can knit and purl, you can do it!
Sundays, 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM, 4/7 – 4/14
2 sessions: $45; Early Bird price: $43 (Discount available until 2/15/2019)
Shibori Dyeing
Robin Green
Fold, stitch, wrap, and clamp fabric in this introduction to shibori, the Japanese manual resist-dyeing technique. Leave with four beautiful cotton napkins or two tea towels.
Supplies: Students can bring small amount of cotton or silk fabric from home to dye, but it is not required.
Supplies Provided: 4 cotton napkins per students, dye materials, dye pots and tools, electrical hotplate
Prerequisite: none
Sunday, 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM, 5/12 –
1 session: $60; Early Bird price: $57 (Discount available until 2/15/2019)
Photography
Architecture and Composition in New Haven
Katherine Carey
Take walking tours with your digital camera and learn about the history and architecture of four distinct neighborhoods in New Haven while focusing your eye on the element of composition in your photography. The class will tour neighborhoods on foot and students will have time to shoot. Students will then choose and edit a selection of photos to show in class the following day for a group discussion and critique. May 4: Whitney- Audubon Retail and Arts District and Wooster Square (meet at CAW)
May 5: Classroom discussion and critique of photos at CAW May 18: Chapel Street Historic District and Ninth Square, including a trip to Yale British Art Museum (meet on corner of College and Chapel Street in front of Info New Haven storefront) May 19: Classroom discussion, critique of photos, and final wrap-up at CAW
Supplies: Students must bring their own digital camera. This class is designed for digital photography, but students may use an analog camera and film if they wish, with the understanding that their participation in critiques is dependent on the processing time of their film, which is the student’s responsibility.
Supplies Provided: Paper handout with historical information about the neighborhoods and architectural photography.
Prerequisite: Students must bring their own camera and a good understanding of camera and computer skills.
Saturdays & Sundays, 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM, 5/4 – 5/19
No class 5/11 and 5/12
4 sessions: $180; Early Bird price: $171 (Discount available until 2/15/2019)
Pottery
Pottery Sampler
Michael Bradford
Consider a one-day sampler to find out what pottery is all about without committing to a whole term. You will be introduced to the studio and briefed on how to use our equipment, then dive in for some hands-on time with the potter’s wheel and a lump of clay. We provide the tools—just show up with an open mind and be ready to play!
Supplies: None
Supplies Provided: None
Prerequisite: None
Saturday, 9:30 AM – 12:00 PM, 6/8 –
1 session: $38; Early Bird price: $36 (Discount available until 2/15/2019)
Texture and Clay
Charles Jones
Explore adding texture to clay surfaces on both hand-built and wheel-thrown forms. Participants will experiment with common objects to create texture as well as construct texturing tools of their own. Wear clothes that can get dirty.
Supplies Provided: None
Prerequisite: None
Saturday, 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM, 6/15 –
1 session: $120; Early Bird price: $114 (Discount available until 2/15/2019)
Printmaking
Open Printmaking Week
Liz Pagano
Print all week in a monitored setting with basic materials for intaglio, relief, silkscreen, and paper lithography. Use one of four etching presses, the largest being 36″ x 60,” and equipment such as a light exposure unit, light box, plate cutter, and hot plate, as well as a separate room for printing editions.
Supplies: New Students: CAW supplies inks, solvents, oils, acid, hand cleaner, etc. If you have printmaking supplies or paper, bring them to class. Students will buy paper, plates, and tools as needed. Continuing Students: Bring a project that you’re working on and any materials/tools that you own.
Supplies Provided: None
Prerequisite: Printmaking experience and the ability to work independently and safely in a print studio. Preapproval from department head required.
Monday-Friday, 9:30 AM – 2:30 PM, 6/17 – 6/21
5 sessions: $375; Early Bird price: $356 (Discount available until 2/15/2019)
Sculpture
Building and Experimenting with LED Light
David Flynn
Experiment with light-emitting diodes (LED) and electricity. Volts, amps, ohms, and wattage as they apply to LED lights will be discussed. Our final project will be to build an LED bulb that students can take home and screw into your light socket.
Supplies: LED bulb kit purchased at registration.
Supplies Provided: none
Prerequisite: none
Sunday, 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM, 3/24 –
1 session: $60; Early Bird price: $57 (Discount available until 2/15/2019)
The Wonderful World of Epoxy Clay
David Millen
Explore the multitude of uses of the amazing 2-part epoxy clay that is easy-to-use, safe, self-hardening, non-shrinking weatherproof, and permanent. Each student will create a small figure using an armature made in class and the epoxy. This will take place at the instructor’s home workshop and gardens.
Supplies: None
Supplies Provided: Epoxy Clay
Prerequisite: none
Saturday, 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM, 4/13 –
1 session: $45; Early Bird price: $43 (Discount available until 2/15/2019)
Japanese Lampmaking
Phillip Chambers
Learn how easy it is to make an elegant Japanese shoji lamp in this one-day workshop. Students will use wood and rice paper to create a floor or table lamp and will learn a simple technique for electrically wiring the lamp. Students will leave with a unique lamp of their own design. All materials supplied, but feel free to bring any special rice paper.
Supplies: Students may bring in their own special rice paper.
Supplies Provided: All materials for the workshop are provided by the instructor.
Prerequisite: None
Sunday, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM, 4/14
1 session: $90; Early Bird price: $86 (Discount available until 2/15/2019)
Sculpture: Intermediate + Advanced
Sculpture and LED Light
David Flynn
Create paper sculptures illuminated wirelessly with LED lights using mat board, glue guns, and conduction paint.
Supplies: Mat board (your choice of color), mat knife, and glue gun.
Supplies Provided: LEDs and batteries.
Prerequisite: no
Sunday, 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM, 4/28
1 session: $60; Early Bird price: $57 (Discount available until 2/15/2019)
Young People
Build a Birdhouse with a Buddy
Philip Levine
Build a real wooden birdhouse with a parent, caregiver, or adult friend, that will last for years. The birdhouse includes a clean-out door on the bottom.Use pre-cut high-quality building materials, solid wood, galvanized nails and screws, and 20-year roofing material. All materials supplied included in cost of workshop. Painting will be done at home.
Suggested ages: 7-11
Supplies: none
Supplies Provided: Wood, nails, screws, glue,clamps, hand tools, and power tools.
Sunday, 10:00 AM – 1:30 PM, 4/28 –
1 session: $60; Early Bird price: $57 (Discount available until 2/15/2019)
Wet Felting for Kids
Eva Scopino
Felting is an ancient and beautiful process using natural materials. Using wool roving, students will create felt balls that can be strung for necklaces and felted pictures that can be displayed or made into pillows. The felting process teaches patience and requires following directions. It can be unpredictable which makes it creative and fun. It involves soap and warm water so dress for mess. Please bring a bath towel to the first class.
Suggested ages: 6-12
Supplies: A bath towel to first class (can be old but clean)
Prerequisite: Patience, able to follow directions/steps chronologically, creative, and willing to experiment. — part of the fun of felting is that it can be unpredictable!
Mondays, 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM, 6/24 – 7/1
2 sessions: $60; Early Bird price: $57 (Discount available until n/a)
Let’s Make an Accordian Book
Chris Perry and Alice Walsh
Make a unique, 48-page, 6.5 x 8.5 inch accordian book to use for your own artistic expressions including writing, drawing, or holding pictures or stickers. All materials and tolls will be supplied along with expert instruction and demonstratons.
Suggested ages: 8-15
Supplies: None
Prerequisite: none
Saturday, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM, 6/29 – 6/29
1 session: Free; Early Bird price: n/a (Discount available until n/a)
Pastel Selfies Workshop
Eva Scopino
Learn how to create a likeness of yourself in pastel, an expressive and colorful medium. Explore ways to draw facial features and express personal identity. Basic techniques including blending, layering, shading, color, and value will be taught. Work from observation using a mirror, or bring a photo of yourself. Take your finished piece home with you.
Suggested ages: 8-14
Supplies: None
Prerequisite: Interest in drawing portraits or people and a willingness to experiment with pastels.
Wednesday, 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM, 7/10 –
1 session: $30; Early Bird price: $29 (Discount available until n/a)
Soft Sculpture, Stuffies, and Pillows
Eva Scopino
Make a fun, simple, and soft sculpture, stuffie, or pillow. Use fabric markers and acrylic paints to draw and paint on cotton fabric then cut and sew around the artwork. Students will stuff their project with fiberfill and sew with assistance.
Suggested ages: 5-10
Supplies: none
Prerequisite: Imagination, willingness to focus and follow steps. Hand sewing experience helpful (but not necessary), can safely use scissors and at least try using sewing needle.
Wednesdays, 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM, 7/24 – 7/31
2 sessions: $60; Early Bird price: $57 (Discount available until n/a)