Veteran book arts expert, Gisela Noack, brings her many years of experience in restoration and conservation skills to students working on their own advanced book binding or restoration project. Includes one 3-hour monitored open bench session each week.
Term: Spring/Summer 2021
Suggested Ages: 18+
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Make a book where several folios (sheets of paper folded once in the middle) are hinged to each other and then joined with just one sewing. The result is a pamphlet variation, a thin book with every other page continuous across the fold. After practicing to make a folded origami-inspired cover with pockets, designed by expert binder Hedi Kyle, the final cover will be made out of your own choice of fabric with a special coating. Opening flat with a wraparound cover, this compact book is especially suitable for a sketchbook, artist book or travel journal.
Term: Spring/Summer 2021
Suggested Ages: 18+
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Is your favorite paperback falling apart? Learn how to transform it into a beautiful hardcover book, incorporating the original cover. Bookbinders call it a “perfect” binding. Students will learn to glue up individual sheets of paper to form the book block (a book without a cover) and make covers to fit. This technique can also be used to make blank books. Many of the basic skills of bookbinding will be introduced. No experience necessary.
Term: Spring/Summer 2021
Suggested Ages: 18+
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Using an iPad, the Procreate app, and direct observation, learn how to sketch and paint everyday objects. Students will begin with simple objects like coffee cups and fruit, and gradually develop the skills for complex, still life iPad paintings. Originally trained as a cartoonist, iPad and digital arts specialist Raheem Nelson will guide students through the course with demonstrations, group discussion, and individualized feedback. This class is online; Eastern Standard Time.
Term: Spring/Summer 2021
Suggested Ages: 18+
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Don’t be intimidated any longer—come learn to paint. This class will unfold the mysteries of painting by introducing students to the basics: selecting materials, setting up a palette, handling paint, and composing a picture. The class will emphasize learning to see what you wish to paint with the goal of rendering form clearly in terms of color and design. Come to the first class ready to paint.
Term: Spring/Summer 2021
Suggested Ages: 18+
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Venture out to the Edgerton Community Gardens on Cliff Street in New Haven and draw flowers and plants through observation. The gardens are home to dozens of plant species, each with a unique color profile, design, and growth pattern. Students will hone their observational skills with pencil drawings of natural forms, choosing between working independently or on basic assignments.
Term: Spring/Summer 2021
Suggested Ages: 18+
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Spark new ideas about how to draw through classroom exercises from innovative artists from the last three hundred years like Alexander Cozens, Pauline Oliveros, Josef Albers, and John Baldessari. Using just pencil, ink, a straight edge, and paper, each week’s exercises will build on and diverge from the previous week. Create the illusion of geometric space using a drawing prompt of Josef Albers, focus on the texture of ink blots to help create a landscape drawing in the style of Cozens, and listen deeply to landscapes using a prompt of Oliveros. Beginner and experienced artists alike will be challenged and inspired. This class is online; Eastern Standard Time
Term: Spring/Summer 2021
Suggested Ages: 18+
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Learn the basics of preparing and operating a loom to weave a sampler combining many useful weaves. Beginning students will complete the term by designing and weaving one or two simple projects of their choice. Intermediate and advanced students will weave projects with more complex structures using multi-harness looms. Beginning students have a materials fee of $14 payable to the instructor.
Term: Spring/Summer 2021
Suggested Ages: 18+
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How could a rubber band take your creative photography to a new level? Dive into the world of do-it-yourself photography this summer. Some DIYs are practical, some provide special effects, all can help you out in a pinch. Use items that are lying around the house and others that can be found with a trip to the dollar store. All are cheap and easy, and will unleash your creativity.
Term: Spring/Summer 2021
Suggested Ages: 18+
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Make functional pottery using the potter's wheel as our primary tool. We will cover clay preparation, forming pots on the wheel, and glazing. Every class include both demonstrations and individually focused instruction. Wear clothes that can get dirty. Includes one 3-hour weekly practice session during monitored practice hours.
Term: Spring/Summer 2021
Suggested Ages: 18+
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Ready to try something new? Wish you could make a better shape or explore new glazing and decorating ideas? Build upon existing skills to grow your ideas in a stimulating group of intermediate and advanced potters. Individual projects are encouraged, with demonstrations designed to inspire new ways of looking at throwing, hand building, and overall design. Includes one 3-hour weekly practice session during monitored practice hours.
Term: Spring/Summer 2021
Suggested Ages: 18+
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As long as you are interested in making ceramic pieces for the home this class is for you--whether you throw pots on the wheel or prefer to build by hand, are a beginner or an intermediate level student. Classes will include various techniques for pot making as well as considerations pertaining to each form. Students will learn ways to modify forms to create pieces uniquely their own. Classes will include both teacher demonstrations and one-on-one student instruction. Surface treatments including engobes, stains, and glazes will be covered. Wear clothes that can get dirty. Tools are available for sale. Includes one 3-hour weekly practice session during monitored practice hours.
Term: Spring/Summer 2021
Suggested Ages: 18+
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Making pottery without a wheel will be the focus of the class. Slab, coiled, and pinched pots will be used to create a wide variety of functional and decorative shapes. Wear clothes that can get dirty. Tools are available for sale. Includes one 3-hour weekly practice session during monitored practice hours.
Term: Spring/Summer 2021
Suggested Ages: 18+
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Monitored sessions for participants with experience, and approved by an instructor or department head. Wear clothes that can get dirty. Tools are available for sale. Includes one 3-hour weekly practice session during monitored practice hours.
Term: Spring/Summer 2021
Suggested Ages: 18+
More info…This class introduces students to all aspects of pottery making for participants with no previous experience or for those seeking further development of hand-building, throwing, and glazing skills. Wear clothes that can get dirty. Includes one 3-hour weekly practice session during monitored practice hours.
Term: Spring/Summer 2021
Suggested Ages: 18+
More info…Make functional pottery using the potter's wheel as our primary tool. We will cover clay preparation, forming pots on the wheel, and glazing. Every class include both demonstrations and individually focused instruction. Wear clothes that can get dirty. Tools are available for sale. Includes one 3-hour weekly practice session during monitored practice hours.
Term: Spring/Summer 2021
Suggested Ages: 18+
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Learn new printmaking techniques or further develop your area of interest. Explore the benefits of printing with intaglio, relief, collagraph, paper and polymer lithography processes, mixed media, Chiné-colle, digital, and experimental techniques. Analyze artwork, investigate approaches to image making, and expand exhibition opportunities. Includes one 3-hour practice session per week during monitored practice hours.
Term: Spring/Summer 2021
Suggested Ages: 18+
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Monotype is the most painterly and spontaneous printmaking process. We will experiment with a variety of textures, materials, and techniques to create unique, multilayered prints, and combine traditional printmaking with digital, photographic, and drawn or painted imagery. We can also use relief and intaglio processes to create monoprints. Come expand and explore your visual horizons. Includes one 3-hour practice session per week during monitored practice hours.
Term: Spring/Summer 2021
Suggested Ages: 18+
More info…Explore multiple printmaking techniques or concentrate in one area while using etching, drypoint, woodcut, linocut, monotype, transfer prints, and paper lithography. Learn a new technique or combine some with other artistic media with printmaking. Inspire new approaches to imagery and expand your artistic horizons. Try polymer plate lithography, collagraph, silk aquatint, transfer prints, cardboard drypoint or Chiné-colle as well. Includes one 3-hour practice session per week during monitored practice hours.
Term: Spring/Summer 2021
Suggested Ages: 18+
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Learn basic metalsmithing, develop new skills, or strengthen existing ones. Weekly demonstrations introduce tools and techniques required for working with nonferrous sheet metal and wire. Demonstrations may include sawing, filing, cold-connecting, soldering, surface embellishment, forging, shaping, fold forming, finishing, and patina coloring.
Term: Spring/Summer 2021
Suggested Ages: 18+
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Learn the many ways to create metal sculpture by welding (oxyacetylene and MIG), brazing, cutting (torch and plasma cutter), and hammering using traditional and unusual materials and combinations.
Term: Spring/Summer 2021
Suggested Ages: 18+
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Develop drawing skills through observation, imagination, tips, and techniques. Explore line, shape, form, shading, texture, and composition using pencil and pen and ink. The goal of the class is to help students develop, improve, and enhance their drawings. Appropriate for beginners who love drawing, as well as students who have studied drawing and/or have drawing experience. There will be new projects for continuing students. This class is online; Eastern Standard Time.
Term: Spring/Summer 2021
Suggested Ages: 8 - 14
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Be a junior artist-in-residence in our art studio and paint, collage, sculpt, and build using tempera and watercolor paints, oil and chalk pastels, and wood and recycled materials.
Term: Adventures in Art Summer 2021
Suggested Ages: 4 - 6
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Develop drawing skills through observation, imagination, tips, and techniques. Explore line, shape, form, shading, texture, and composition using pencil and pen and ink. The goal of the class is to help students develop, improve, and enhance their drawings. Appropriate for beginners who love drawing, as well as students who have studied drawing and/or have drawing experience. There will be new projects for continuing students.
Term: Spring/Summer 2021
Suggested Ages: 8 - 14
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Create your own buildings and other 3-D art from reclaimed wood, cardboard, recyclable/sustainables, mixed media, and papier-mâché.
Term: Adventures in Art Summer 2021
Suggested Ages: 4 - 6
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Create 2-D and 3-D botanical and nature-inspired artwork in clay, collage, painting, and drawing. Learn how to plant flowers and herbs.
Term: Adventures in Art Summer 2021
Suggested Ages: 4 - 6
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Hammer, saw, fold, stamp, twist, shape, and heat metal to make sculpture and jewelry.
Term: Adventures in Art Summer 2021
Suggested Ages: 7 - 11
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Discover how to tell a story using only images, shapes, patterns, and colors.
Term: Adventures in Art Summer 2021
Suggested Ages: 7 - 11
More info…Develop drawing skills through observation, imagination, tips, and techniques. Explore line, shape, form, shading, texture, and composition using pencil and pen and ink. The goal of the class is to help students develop, improve, and enhance their drawings. Appropriate for beginners who love drawing, as well as students who have studied drawing and/or have drawing experience. There will be new projects for continuing students. This class is online; Eastern Standard Time
Term: Spring/Summer 2021
Suggested Ages: 8 - 14
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Learn fundamental metal techniques to create miniature sculptures and jewelry with metal.
Term: Adventures in Art Summer 2021
Suggested Ages: 12 - 17
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Take your drawing skills to the next level and learn to draw with perspective, using tools like foreshortening and bird’s-eye view.
Term: Adventures in Art Summer 2021
Suggested Ages: 12 - 17
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Explore color mixing, patterns, stamp-printing, colorful clay, pastels, color wheels, and papier-mâché using tempera paint, watercolor, collage, and rainbow art.
Term: Adventures in Art Summer 2021
Suggested Ages: 4 - 6
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Build and experiment with slabs, coils, and pinch pots or dive into the timeless tradition of clay decorating with slip.
Term: Adventures in Art Summer 2021
Suggested Ages: 12 - 17
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Create imaginative artwork inspired by royalty and magical creatures such as dragons, unicorns, and mer-people; crowns and castles; and wands and wings using clay, paints, collage, glitter, papier-mâché, cardboard, wood, and mixed media.
Term: Adventures in Art Summer 2021
Suggested Ages: 4 - 6
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Explore the rich history of clay artifacts and toys from around the world...and then make your own!
Term: Adventures in Art Summer 2021
Suggested Ages: 7 - 11
More info…Develop drawing skills through observation, imagination, tips, and techniques. Explore line, shape, form, shading, texture, and composition using pencil and pen and ink. The goal of the class is to help students develop, improve, and enhance their drawings. Appropriate for beginners who love drawing, as well as students who have studied drawing and/or have drawing experience. There will be new projects for continuing students. This class is online; Eastern Standard Time.
Term: Spring/Summer 2021
Suggested Ages: 8 - 14
More info…Develop drawing skills through observation, imagination, tips, and techniques. Explore line, shape, form, shading, texture, and composition using pencil and pen and ink. The goal of the class is to help students develop, improve, and enhance their drawings. Appropriate for beginners who love drawing, as well as students who have studied drawing and/or have drawing experience. There will be new projects for continuing students. This class is online; Eastern Standard Time
Term: Spring/Summer 2021
Suggested Ages: 8 - 14
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