Beginner to Intermediate, Young Adults & Adults 
Instructor: Julia Malakoff 

Energize your creativity by jumping into an 8-week artistic workout! Your artistic adventure will begin with boundless exploration as you seek to discover and develop your own unique artistic voice. We will stimulate our passions and invigorate our imaginations, initially relying primarily on intuition to guide the creative process. Each lesson will focus on different media and techniques. We will drip paints, rip papers, make marks, paint with our hands and loosen our minds as we play with color, line, shape and texture. The intuitive artistic process is fueled by both spontaneity and serendipity. It consists of layering paints, papers, patterns and textures, each step suggesting the next, in order to create a visual story. Through this process, you will learn how to create visual stories which are uniquely your own. We will then focus on how to finetune and enhance the impact of your work through the application of the traditional elements of composition. Each class will begin with a quick journal page warm-up, utilizing markers and watercolors, doodling and drawing to get your creativity flowing.  Lessons will end with a cool down, including a class critique, and reflections and reviews of the day’s lesson. Students will also be responsible for journaling their visual observations throughout the week using their cell phone camera or pen and pencil. These small captured moments will serve as inspiration for the next week’s lesson.(Meets in W-6, 607)

Spring Quarter (8 weeks) 
Mon Apr 1 (10am-1pm)

Tuition: $240 
Materials: Supply list provided at time of registration.

All Skill Levels, Young Adults & Adults

Instructor: Bill Firestone

Students will explore and grow upon any previous knowledge of landscape painting through the use of photograph, reference material and natural surroundings in this nine-week class. We will explore the challenge of showing pictorial space on a 2-D surface through perspective, compositional, color, and technique choices. This class is specific to Acrylic Paint.

(Meets in W-10)

Spring Quarter (9 weeks)
Mon Apr 1 (6pm-9pm)

Tuition: $250

Materials: Supply list provided at time of registration.

All Skill Levels, Young Adults & Adults

Instructor: David Vickers

This course offers a judgement-free opportunity to explore watercolor through four unique and fun activities. We begin with rendering abstract compositions by mixing oil-based crayons with watercolor. Following this is a more expansive exploration of additives with watercolor such as salt, isopropyl alcohol, and string. Building on what we discover, our next activity employs the previous strategies to create small decorated functional paper fans. We round out our experience by adding to what we have learned to render larger sunset compositions on paper. In each class a variety of techniques and strategies for experimenting with materials will accompany instruction in basic skills. Participants will take away a collection of varied works on paper.

(Meets in W-10)

Spring Quarter (8 weeks)
Mon Apr 1 (6:30pm-8:30pm)

Tuition: $205

Materials: Supply list provided at time of registration.

Locations: W-3, 305

All Skill Levels, Young Adults & Adults

Instructor: Phoebe Peterson

Have you ever wondered how the “Daily Painters” finish an oil painting in just a few hours? Practice! In this class your goal will be to complete a small oil painting every week. Working from the teacher’s still life set up or from your own found objects, you will work entirely from observation, not from photos. Instruction will include strategies for accuracy, creative interpretation, composition, and bold, colorful, loose brush work.

Spring Quarter (8 weeks)
Tues Apr 2 (10am-1pm)

Tuition: $240

Materials: Supply list provided at time of registration.

Locations: W-6, 607

All Skill Levels, Young Adults & Adults

Instructor: Bill Firestone

Emphasis is on painting in a loose manner, including getting started and then stopping before overworking. Regardless of technique or style the student learns through demonstration, discussion and practice how best to keep artwork fresh and viable. The focus is on an uninhibited approach for a less rigid result.

Spring Quarter: 9 weeks

Tuesday April 2, 10am–1pm

Tuition: $250, supply list provided at time of registration
Location: W-10

Intermediate, Young Adults & Adults

Instructor: Jack Murphy

Learn to create a painting from your imagination by integrating your observations with your own imagined compositions and designs. Avoiding the all too often collage look in an imaginative work we will focus on how observations and imagined elements can be brought together through classical time-tested method of seventeenth century Old Master Roger De piles. Why re-invent the wheel? using six step method artists can make detailed studies and gradually integrate them into a larger work avoiding the disjointed and out of place elements that are so hard to avoid in imaginative work.

Spring Quarter: 9 weeks

Tuesday April 2, 6:30pm- 9pm

Tuition: $235, supply list provided at time of registration

Location: W-6, 607

All Skill Levels, Adults

Instructor, Lynn Goldstein

This class includes various approaches to the soft pastel medium that will help encourage students to develop their personal style. Several techniques will be explored and applied to complete pastel paintings for a deeper understanding of this versatile medium. Fundamentals of design, composition and color will be discussed. Students will use their own resource materials to compose paintings. Instruction will be provided to determine how best to complete a painting with photographic resource material. Beginners should bring drawing materials; intermediate and advanced students should bring their pastel supplies to the first class.

Spring Quarter: 8 weeks

Wednesday April 3, 10am–12:30pm

Tuition: $225, supply list distributed at first class

Location: W-6, 607

All Skill Levels, Young Adults & Adults

Instructor: Marni Maree

You know that pile of unfinished paintings you have? What is keeping you from finishing them? Maybe something’s not working in your painting and you don’t know how to fix it. I will point you in the right direction and help you to resolve problem areas. Whether it’s technique, color mixing, composition, or value, I’ll help you improve your work and skills. You will receive individual attention, instruction,

and guidance on your own projects so you can finish those paintings or begin new ones. Bring your own supplies to work with in class.

Spring Quarter: 7 weeks

Wednesday April 3, 10am–1pm

No Class on April 17 and 24, May 22 and 29 and June 5

Tuition: $230

Location: W-3, 305

Intermediate, Young Adults & Adults

Instructor: Jack Murphy

Using the methods of The Boston School and American Impressionism students will learn to create paintings that combine the color of Impressionism with the finish of the Old Masters. The class teaches still life painting with the use of high contrast bright edges and low contrast blurs to form an instant optical impression that slowly resolves into a realistic painting with an emphasis on hierarchy of contrast and color.

Spring Quarter: 9 weeks

Wednesday April 3, 6:30pm- 9pm

Tuition: $235, supply list distributed at first class

Location: W-6, 607

Intermediate to Advanced Skill Levels, Adults

Instructor: Gwen Bragg

This class is best for students with prior watercolor experience. Students will select from a variety of projects including but not limited, to spring flowers and gardens, working with a limited palette, and narrative painting. All projects are designed to strengthen watercolor painting skills. Demonstrations, individual instruction and group critiques will foster creativity in all students.

Spring Quarter: 9 weeks

Thursday April 4, 9:30am–12:30pm

Tuition: $250
Location: W-3, 305

All Skill Levels, Young Adults & Adults

Instructor: Hsi-Mei Yates

Chinese Brush Painting can trace its culture back over 2000 years of Chinese history and art. There is no need for previous painting experience to enjoy this class; all levels are welcome. The instructor will begin with simple brush strokes and guide you through the step by step process of creating flowers and birds in this traditional style.

Spring Quarter: 9 weeks

Morning Session: Thursday April 4, 11am-1pm, No class on April 18

Evening Session: Thursday April 4, 6pm–8pm

Tuition: $220

Materials Fee: Optional $80 kit includes black ink, rice paper, one large bamboo brush, one small bamboo brush, felt, a watercolor container, a set of 12 watercolors, a mixing plate, and a small dish.

Payable to the instructor at first class. Or bring your own supplies.

Location: W-5

Beginners, Young Adults & Adults
Instructor: Mikhail Bolkhovitinov
This course concentrates on basic principles of design and composition in visual arts. These principles are primarily analyzed in relation to painting, but their universal meaning is reinforced by samples from graphics, sculpture, and monumental art. A deep understanding of the artwork’s visual structure, scale, rhythm, balance and movement makes the creative process more meaningful and productive. The course is beginner-friendly, but it also might be of interest to those who want to widen their vision “outside the box” of their media. The lessons include hands-on exercises on each topic.

Spring Quarter: 9 weeks
Thursday April 4, 10am-1pm

Tuition: $250

Location: W-10

All Skill Levels, Young Adults & Adults

Instructor: Marni Maree

This class is designed for students who want a time and place to paint. Students work on individual projects with as much critique, support and guidance from the instructor as wanted. All mediums are welcome. Bring your own supplies.

Spring Quarter: 7 weeks

Friday April 5, 10am–1pm

No Class on April 19 and 26, May 24 and 31

Tuition: $230

(Ink washes + watercolor)
All Skill Levels, Adults

Instructor: Epp Meisner

Drawing and Painting Botanicals (flowers, tree branches, leaves, etc.) capture each subject’s personality through line, washes and color. Students will be encouraged to strive for a lively expression, not botanical accuracy. Students encouraged to bring own botanical flowers/arrangements to class. Instructor will have botanicals available for a small fee.

Spring Quarter: 3 weeks
Session A: Friday April 5, 10am-2pm, Last class will meet in W-6, 607
Session B: Friday May 3, 10am-2pm

Tuition: $170
Location: W-6, 602

Beginner to Intermediate, Young Adults & Adults 
Instructor: Mehrdad Izadi 

Learn the fundamentals and techniques of watercolor, and how to see like an artist. Students will practice how to “see the lines”, weigh light and dark tones and values, and recognize mass and volume, practice brush strokes and more while working from photographs and still life.

Spring Quarter: 9 weeks

Friday April 5, 6pm–8:30pm

Tuition: $235, supply list provided at time of registration

Location: W-6, 602

All Skill Levels, Young Adults and Adults
Instructor: Nadine Thola
Learn how to paint flowers on a wooden, copper disc, stone, rock or plastic item to make into a necklace, zipper pull or earrings. Findings such as cord for necklace or ear wires for dangle earrings will also be included.

(Meets in W-10)

Spring Quarter (One day workshops) 
Session A: Thur Apr 11 (6-8pm)

Session B: Thur Jun 5 (6-8pm)

Tuition: $50
Materials: $10 added at time of registration, all materials provided

All Skill Levels, Young Adults & Adults

Instructor: Nadine Thola

Nothing to do or looking for something special? Learn to paint in Acrylics!

Teens, couples, friends or just you can enjoy a night of discovering your inner artist!

With basics techniques taught, you can choose demonstrated painting styles and colors to make your work of truly your own!

Spring Quarter: One day

Session A: Friday April 12, 7pm-9pm, Theme: Bunnies & Cherry Blossoms

Session B: Friday May 10, 7pm-9pm, Theme: Peony 

Tuition: $65, includes all materials
Location: W-10

All Skill Levels, Adults

Instructor: Epp Meisner

Learn to draw and paint human figure quickly using shape and proportion, contour line and sighting technique. Learn to mix warm and cool flesh tones from fresh washes of watercolor to capture the spirit of the model.

Spring Quarter: One day

Session A: Sunday April 14, 10am-4pm

Session B: Sunday May 5, 10am-4pm
Session C: Sunday May 19, 10am-4pm

Tuition: $140
Materials: Model fee’s will be collected in class.
Location: W-6, 607

All Skill Levels, Young Adults & Adults

Instructor: Bill Firestone

Begin with a discussion and demonstration of eleven techniques for painting loosely. The focus of the workshop is for an uninhibited approach to painting to achieve a less rigid and fresh result. Each student will create two separate paintings from one scene. The student can bring their own photos or can select from ones supplied by the instructor. Each student should bring acrylic paints and two canvases (approx. 11x14 or similar size).

Spring Quarter: One day
Saturday April 20, 11am-4pm

Tuition: $110
Location: W-10

All Skill Levels, Young Adults and Adults
Instructor: Nadine Thola
Learn how to paint in the tradtional style of Palechk Russian lacquer boxes. It is also the technique used in Byzantine icons. You will focus on painting an animal and tree design on a wooden piece. (Meets in W-10)

Spring Quarter (One day workshops) 
Thur May 2 (6-9pm)

Tuition: $70
Materials: $10 added at time of registration, all materials provided

All Skill Levels, Young Adults & Adults

Instructor: Nadine Thola

Using the Donna Dewberry One Stroke and Russian one stroke process, we will be making quick and easy paintings. No previous paint experience is required. Learn to do stroke work for any technique of painting. This is a great how-to class!

Spring Quarter: 4 weeks

Thursday May 9, 6pm-9pm

Tuition: $170, supply list provided at time of registration

Location: W-10

In this class you will paint a flower (or subject of your choice, bring photos) on two canvas boards using traditional watercolor paints and brushes. Forget all that you know about painting on paper because this is a whole new experience. Some watercolor experience is helpful, but not necessary.  Canvas boards and spray varnish will be provided for a fee by the instructor.

Spring Quarter: One day

Saturday May 18, 10am–4pm 

Tuition: $140

Location: W-6,607

All Skill Levels, Young Adults & Adults

Instructor: David Vickers

Watercolor can be fun! Loose! Spontaneous! Experimental! It can involve unexpected tools like salt or string! Find out what’s possible when you play with paint! This four-hour workshop includes instruction and support that encourages creative exploration of watercolor on a small scale using a variety of materials and tools to free up experimentation. Final works will range from spontaneous abstractions to planned renderings. Tools including sponges, string, straws, and stencil papers may be combined with additives including salt and alcohol to open a creative door to endless possibilities with watercolor.

While some known artists’ works will be referenced in conversation and through visuals, creative independence and individual expression is at the essence of this workshop. Participants will be able to take away a number of small completed watercolor experiments since we will work in multiples of two or four for each of several explorations.

Spring Quarter: One day

Saturday June 1, 10am-2pm

Tuition: $90, supply list provided at time of registration
Location: W-6,607

All Skill Levels, Young Adults and Adults
Instructor: Nadine Thola
Using Folk art enamel or multipurpose paints, paint simple floral designs or animals on glass or porcelain items. Easy way to update your home. Some one-stroking techniques will be used. No previous experience needed. (Meets in W-10)

Spring Quarter (4 weeks) 
Thur June 6 (6pm-9pm)
Tuition: $170
Materials:Supply list provide at time of registration

All Skill Levels, Young Adults & Adults

Instructor: Nadine Thola

Nothing to do or looking for something special? Learn to paint in Acrylics!

Teens, couples, friends or just you can enjoy a night of discovering your inner artist!

With basics techniques taught, you can choose demonstrated painting styles and colors to make your work of truly your own!

Summer Quarter: One day

Session A: Friday June 14, 7pm-9pm, Theme: Lighthouse

Session B: Friday July 12, 7pm-9pm, Theme: Beach Scene

Session C: Friday August 9, 7pm-9pm, Theme: Waterfall/River Scene

Tuition: $65, includes all materials
Location: W-10

Intermediate to Advanced, Young Adults & Adults

Instructor: Jeff Gorrell

The one-day workshop will aid students in learning how to paint realistically and abstractly on Yupo and other synthetic papers. The instructor will demonstrate specific techniques and will show how he designs his paintings and will guide students in developing their own style on this unique kind of surface. Experience in painting with watercolors is necessary, since the workshop will focus on making adjustments from traditional watercolor papers to synthetic. There will be ample time for students to work on their own paintings with guidance from the instructor.

Summer Quarter: One day

Session A: Saturday June 15, 10am–4pm 
Session B: Saturday July 27, 10am-4pm

Tuition: $140, supply list provided at time of registration
Location: W-10

All Skill Levels, Young Adults & Adults

Instructor: Bill Firestone

Students will explore and grow upon any previous knowledge of landscape painting through the use of photograph, reference material and natural surroundings in this nine-week class. We will explore the challenge of showing pictorial space on a 2-D surface through perspective, compositional, color, and technique choices. This class is specific to Acrylic Paint.

(Meets in W-10)

Summer Quarter (9 weeks)
Mon Jun 17 (6pm-9pm)
Tuition: $250

Materials: Supply list provided at time of registration.

 All Skill Levels, Young Adults & Adults

Instructor: Bill Firestone

Emphasis is on painting in a loose manner, including getting started and then stopping before overworking. Regardless of technique or style the student learns through demonstration, discussion and practice how best to keep artwork fresh and viable. The focus is on an uninhibited approach for a less rigid result.

Summer Quarter: 9 weeks

Tuesday June 18, 10am–1pm

Tuition: $250, supply list provided at time of registration
Location: W-10

All Skill Levels: Young Adults and Adults

Instructor: Phoebe Peterson

Students will learn about composition, color, value, and perspective. In class demos will show the basics of Grisaille painting and “blocking-in”. Topics that will be discussed include mixing clean colors, paint application, the use of hard and soft edges as well as color harmony, creating the effect of light, and the use of transparent and opaque paints. Students are encouraged to bring their own photographs or still life resource materials to create their own compositions. Instruction will be given to each student individually, at their level of experience, so that each may reach their goals and discover their own style.

Winter Quarter: 8 weeks

Tuesday January 8, 6:30pm-9:30pm

Tuition: $240, supply list provided at time of registration
Location: W-6, 607

Intermediate, Young Adults & Adults

Instructor: Jack Murphy

Learn to create a painting from your imagination by integrating your observations with your own imagined compositions and designs. Avoiding the all too often collage look in an imaginative work we will focus on how observations and imagined elements can be brought together through classical time-tested method of seventeenth century Old Master Roger De piles. Why re-invent the wheel? using six step method artists can make detailed studies and gradually integrate them into a larger work avoiding the disjointed and out of place elements that are so hard to avoid in imaginative work.

Summer Quarter: 9 weeks

Tuesday June 18, 6:30pm- 9pm

Tuition: $235, supply list provided at time of registration

Location: W-6, 607

Intermediate, Young Adults & Adults

Instructor: Jack Murphy

Using the methods of The Boston School and American Impressionism students will learn to create paintings that combine the color of Impressionism with the finish of the Old Masters. The class teaches still life painting with the use of high contrast bright edges and low contrast blurs to form an instant optical impression that slowly resolves into a realistic painting with an emphasis on hierarchy of contrast and color.

Summer Quarter: 9 weeks

Wednesday June 19, 6:30pm- 9pm

Tuition: $235, supply list distributed at first class

Location: W-6, 607

Beginners, Young Adults & Adults
Instructor: Mikhail Bolkhovitinov
This course concentrates on basic principles of design and composition in visual arts. These principles are primarily analyzed in relation to painting, but their universal meaning is reinforced by samples from graphics, sculpture, and monumental art. A deep understanding of the artwork’s visual structure, scale, rhythm, balance and movement makes the creative process more meaningful and productive. The course is beginner-friendly, but it also might be of interest to those who want to widen their vision “outside the box” of their media. The lessons include hands-on exercises on each topic.

Summer Quarter: 9 weeks
Thursday June 20, 10am-1pm

Tuition: $250

Location: W-10

All Skill Levels, Young Adults & Adults

Instructor: Hsi-Mei Yates

Chinese Brush Painting can trace its culture back over 2000 years of Chinese history and art. There is no need for previous painting experience to enjoy this class; all levels are welcome. The instructor will begin with simple brush strokes and guide you through the step by step process of creating flowers and birds in this traditional style.

Summer Quarter: 9 weeks

Thursday June 20, 6pm–8pm
No class on July 4

Tuition: $220

Materials Fee: Optional $80 kit includes black ink, rice paper, one large bamboo brush, one small bamboo brush, felt, a watercolor container, a set of 12 watercolors, a mixing plate, and a small dish.

Payable to the instructor at first class. Or bring your own supplies.

Location: W-5

Beginner to Intermediate, Young Adults & Adults 
Instructor: Mehrdad Izadi 

Learn the fundamentals and techniques of watercolor, and how to see like an artist. Students will practice how to “see the lines”, weigh light and dark tones and values, and recognize mass and volume, practice brush strokes and more while working from photographs and still life.

Summer Quarter: 9 weeks

Friday June 21, 6pm–8:30pm

Tuition: $235, supply list provided at time of registration

Location: W-6, 602

All Skill Levels, Adults

Instructor, Lynn Goldstein

Ever heard of water mixable oil paint? It’s a great way to enjoy all the beauty of painting with oils without toxic materials. In this 2-day workshop, you will get an overview of this wonderful medium. Students will provide their own photographic reference materials to compose a painting. Color, composition, design, value, light patterns, atmospheric perspective, and underpainting techniques will be discussed as will the qualities of water mixable oil paint. This workshop is appropriate for beginners to advanced students with some drawing experience who are looking to expand and understand how water mixable oil paint works.

Summer Quarter: Two Days

Saturday June 22 and Sunday June 23, 11am-4pm

Tuition: $205

Location: W-6, 607

Beginner to Intermediate, Young Adults & Adults

Instructor: Terry Anstrom

Create a watercolor painting by using a variety of techniques involving “pouring” paint, dropping salt on wet backgrounds, or spraying water on pockets of paint, and splattering. Usually, I plan my painting by drawing an image, applying paint, then finishing the background. In this workshop, we will spend the first part experimenting with dark or medium colors “poured on” paper, then sprinkle with salt or splatter or spray with water to create a background. One sheet of 140 lb watercolor paper divided into 8 pieces will be used to create the background designs. In the second part the student will identify what emerges from the results of the pouring or salting or splattering to suggest the idea for a painting. Students will be amazed at what they can produce and design in one day workshop.  Lots of examples shown to students.

Summer Quarter: One day

Session A: Sunday June 23, 12pm-5pm, Meets in W-6, 602
Session B: Sunday July 28, 12pm-5pm, Meets in W-6, 607

Tuition: $110, supply list provided at time of registration

All Skill Levels, Young Adults & Adults
Instructor: Lynda Ray

Encaustic painting is a process that produces impressive results with luminous and jewel-like surfaces and textures. Students will learn techniques such as melting through, line and edge, transfers, texture and collage where one will choose to practice these methods or just the ones that interest them. At the end of the workshop, artists will be familiar with a range of techniques which they can use as they develop their body of work. All supplies provided. 

Summer Quarter: One day

Session A: Saturday June 29, 11am–5pm 
Session B: Saturday July 20, 11am-5pm
Session C: Saturday August 24, 11am-5pm

Tuition: $140

Materials Fee: $40, payable to the instructor at first class. An optional materials list will be supplied before the workshop.

Location: W-7, 711

All Skill Levels, Young Adults & Adults

Instructor: Marni Maree

You know that pile of unfinished paintings you have? What is keeping you from finishing them? Maybe something’s not working in your painting and you don’t know how to fix it. I will point you in the right direction and help you to resolve problem areas. Whether it’s technique, color mixing, composition, or value, I’ll help you improve your work and skills. You will receive individual attention, instruction,

and guidance on your own projects so you can finish those paintings or begin new ones. Bring your own supplies to work with in class.

Summer Quarter: 7 weeks

Wednesday July 10, 10am–1pm

No Class on July 17

Tuition: $230

Location: W-6, 607

All Skill Levels, Young Adults & Adults

Instructor: Marni Maree

This class is designed for students who want a time and place to paint. Students work on individual projects with as much critique, support and guidance from the instructor as wanted. All mediums are welcome. Bring your own supplies.

Summer Quarter: 7 weeks

Friday July 12, 10am–1pm

No Class on July 19

Tuition: $230
Location: W-6, 607

Intermediate, Young Adults & Adults
Instructor: Gwen Bragg

A special workshop during which the Instructor Gwen Bragg will demonstrate how she has created her "Stone on Stone" series of watercolors. From a Master class taught by Lee Weiss, she paints on both sides of her watercolor paper and flips it over onto a sheet of acrylic to create unique textures and color

unobtainable with a brush alone.

Summer Quarter: Two days

Saturday July 20 and Sunday July 21, 12pm–4pm 

Tuition: $165

Location: W-6,607

All Skill Levels, Young Adults & Adults

Instructor: Nadine Thola

Using the Donna Dewberry One Stroke and Russian one stroke process, we will be making quick and easy paintings. No previous paint experience is required. Learn to do stroke work for any technique of painting. This is a great how-to class!

Summer Quarter: 4 weeks

Thursday August 1, 6pm-9pm

Tuition: $170, supply list provided at time of registration

Location: W-10