FRIDAY FIRE, FUN with CLAY
FRIDAY EVENINGS
6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
January 24 - Raye Tobin
February 7 - Lisa Filer
February 21 - Raye Tobin
March 14 - Lisa Filer
March 28 - Raye Tobin
April 11 - Lisa Filer
Who is this class for? Anyone who wants to work with clay and have a unique and fun night out.
What is it? Come spend a few hours creating your own piece of pottery. Students will be taught a project step by step and create their own original project. This class is relaxed and timed to complete a project. Completed pieces will be fired and glazed and ready for pickup in approximately 3 weeks. The instructor will contact students when they are done.
Note: Each class is unique and different projects are offered each session.
Cost: $40 GVA Member / $46 Non-Member
No experience required. All materials included.
ART 101: COLORED PENCILS
SATURDAY: February 15
10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
INSTRUCTOR: Joanna Hill
Learn about Colored Pencils
Colored Pencils offer it all: rich color, direct mark making, control, relaxation, and immediate gratification! Warning: you just might become addicted to colored pencils!
Join professional artist, Joanna Hill and discover the history of the medium, the different types of pencils, supplies to use with them, and have the chance to test them out.
COST: $25 GVA Member / $30 Non-Member
A HISTORICAL ART JOURNEY: EVOLUTION OF MODERN ART 1900-1960
TUESDAYS, FEBRUARY 11 & 18
7:00 p.m to 8:00 p.m.
Two-part lecture series, Tuesday night over two weeks
INSTRUCTOR: Jennifer Broadus
This provocative 2-night lecture begins in post impressionism and journeys into what critics call, “the evolution of twentieth century modern art”.
February 11 Our first lecture begins in 1900 with the end of post impressionism traveling into ground breaking movements including Cubism, Art Nouveau, Fauvism, Dadaism and Symbolism. Artists include Picasso, Matisse, Braque, Derain, Metzinger, Duchamp, and others, with parallel movements in Russia including Malevich.
February 18 This lecture takes us further into the twentieth century beginning around 1930 with global movements into Surrealism, Bauhaus, Art Deco, Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism, Pop-art and Neo-expressionism. Artists will include: Dali, Kandinsky, Pollock, Rothko, Warhol, Kahlo, O’Keefe, Mondrian, Lichtenstein, De Kooning, Hopper and others.
COST: $90 GVA Member / $102 Non-Member
ABSTRACT COMPOSITION & PAINTING TECHNIQUES
TUESDAYS: March 18 & 25, April 1
6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
3 Sessions – Two Hour Sessions; once per week for 3 consecutive weeks
INSTRUCTOR: Bettina Dickson Rusher
MEDIUM: Oil and/or Acrylic
LEVEL: Beginning & Intermediate
COST: $ 125 GVA Members / $145 Non-members
Students will learn about 6 basic composition formats (handouts); we will explore the basics of mark making and tools to use (demos); we will discuss paint types and corresponding mediums used to create texture and transparency layers (demos). We will learn the difference between an “action painting” a “shape relationship painting” and a “gesture painting”. (handouts). One the last day I will share slides of known abstract painters and examples of their work. At each session students will have the opportunity to practice theory, techniques and use the tools, that I will provide. Students should bring their own brushes, palette knife, acrylic or water color paints (red, yellow, blue, black and white) and acrylic or water color paper of at least 9” x 12”, plus any mark-making tools they may want to try.
Kathy Rennell Forbes at Driftwood Beach
Protecting the Dunes
PAINTING THE GOLDEN ISLES with Kathy Rennell Forbes
APRIL 24 - 26
Thursday & Friday
9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Saturday, April 26
9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
We will spend two days on beautiful St. Simons Island.
Each day, Kathy will begin with a watercolor demo and then offer individual assistance.
One day we will focus on marshes and trees. Another day painting structures on the island. We will start with thumbnail sketches, learning how to simplify the scene and capture the light.
The final day we will paint on Jekyll Island.
COST: $425 GVA Members / $470 Non-Members
Individual Day Rate: $150
Kathy was an invited Master Artist for Olmstead Plein Air Invitational and all 6 Olmsted Georgia Color Plein Air competitions. She has taught numerous workshops in Georgia, the USA and abroad. Learn more about Kathy at rennellforbes.com.