Make Art a Part of Your Life!

Life Drawing    

Tuesdays,    7 - 9:15 p.m. 

$10 for members, $12 for non-members, $8 students (with ID)

3rd Tuesday of the Month = Long Pose Night

Drop-in workshops featuring a different model every week, both short and long poses. Beginners or professional artists welcome, with instruction or critiques if students request.  Third Tuesday of each month will be dedicated to Long Poses. 

Contact Julie for information (831.335.5000)

Draw the Moment  Level I

with Rob Court

Stay tuned for new schedule!

7 - 9 p.m.

$110 members / $130 non-members

Check out The Scribbles Institute

This fun and informative series of 4 adult workshops helps beginners explore drawing for enjoyment, work, and school. Students are encouraged to express their own styles as they build confidence in spontaneous doodling, sketching ideas, and drawing realistically.

Basic Skills and Techniques You'll Learn:
  Gripping the Pencil, Warmups, Drawing and Sketching FUNdamentals
  Elements of Visual Art: line, shape, patterns, form, texture, light & shadow, tonal values
  Perception of Space
  Proportions, Relationships
  Basic Principles of Composition
  Exploration of Drawing Materials
 

with Brenda Berg

Winter 2012

January 11 - February 29, 2012

8 Wednesdays  6 - 9 p.m.

 

Member: $175

Non-members: $195

$15 model fee

    Visit Brenda's Class Blog

Oil Painting: All Levels is for beginners who would like to learn to paint with oils, and for those with painting experience. Award winning artist Brenda Berg paces the class to fit the individual concerns of each student, so development naturally occurs in an enjoyable learning environment. Attention is given to observational studies, form, light and shadow, as well as color theory, composition, painting materials, historical art movements and selected master artworks. Beginning oil painters are given a structured curriculum, while Intermediate and Advanced students will chose individual direction and projects. Each artist is encouraged to find his or her own visual voice and to develop an individual approach to image making.

All Levels  with Brenda Berg

Class Syllabus Materials    

Visit Brenda's Mixed Media Blog

Let your creative soul come out to play. This class offers creative inspiration for artists and aspiring artists of all skill levels. If you want the biggest boost for your art, take Painting on Wednesday and Mixed Media on Thursday. Liberate and expand the boundaries of your art by exploring the range of media available for painting and drawing. Approach the relationship between drawing and painting dynamically and experiment with a variety of techniques and materials. Students may choose to work in wet or dry media such as charcoal, graphite, colored pencil, ink, watercolor, acrylic, gouache, pastel, collage and found objects. While subject matter is suggested, students may chose to work on projects that they conceive independently.

Plein Air Painting: Oil & Acrylic Summer 2012

Stay tuned for next class

Syllabus for Plein Air (PDF)

Images from Brenda's August Class:    Visit Brenda's Blog for this class - photos, etc.

The class offers students two sessions in the Santa Cruz Mountains and two sessions along the coast. Students will have the opportunity to experience the exhilaration that comes from painting directly from nature. Working from nature in a constantly changing light source can be challenging-but it's the spectacular colors, textures, scenes, sounds and smells of the living landscape that the outdoor painter finds engaging. The class is open to all students wanting to learn more about plein air oil painting. See syllabus for details.
First session meets at the Art Center. After that locations will be announced.

For more information or questions, email Brenda.

Collaborative Painting

with Heidi Drew

Stay tuned for next class

This workshop is for artists who do not want their painting experience to be a solitary activity and want to grow from experiencing others  styles, techniques and ideas.
Painters can have mental blocks of inspiration, as do most artists. Working together can break that dam and encourage us to think about our painting in new ways. We will each start on a canvas and allow others to work on our canvas, in turn. Each student will take their own canvas home and can continue to work on this canvas as they like. We will break for two positive critiques or sharing sessions of our work for feedback.  The class is about broadening our outlook on our oeuvre. No experience necessary.

First workshop will be of a shared still life. Second workshop will be based on a shared idea. Students can take one or both workshops at $45/$50 each.

Supplies required:
  Array of primary & secondary color acrylic paints
  Variety of brushes for use in acrylic painting
  2 (16 x20  or 18 x24 ) canvases, gesso prepared for painting
  Objects for a still life
  Imaginary image ideas or sources

 

Make a Stained Glass Lotus Flower

with Aldina Rubina

 

Stay tuned for next class

All phases of classic stained-glass making: drawing a pattern, cutting, glass, grinding each piece, copper foiling, soldering and polishing. Go home with a finished piece/gift item. Materials fee included in price.
Glass is a very enchanting medium that comes in all colors, transparent, opaque and iridescent. There are two methods that can be used for the realization of a stained-glass piece: the copper foil technique and the lead-cane method. In this class students learn to cut, break and  groucier  glass, assemble the pieces by grinding to perfect shape, soldering together the previous copper foiled pieces of glass and polishing the soldered lines.

Basket Weaving

with Larry Worley

Sunday, February 5, 2012  

10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

$40 members / $45 non-members / $20 materials

 

SORRY!  This class is currently full.  If you are interested in taking this class in March, please contact Larry.

Learn the basic techniques of ribbed basketry and make a 15"  shallow bowl-shaped basket using round reed and a reed hoop.
Tools needed are: a flexible dressmakers measuring tape, scissors or small garden pruners, and awl or ice pick. Optional tools: a small cordless drill and a 2-5/32 bit.

Beginning Ukulele 2012

with Marty Carlson

Mondays, beginning Feb 13, 2012
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
$5 members

 

New class on February 13, running for about 10 weeks.
 

Learn to play ukulele!   Santa Cruz's hottest new craze! No musical knowledge required. Bring ukulele, or may purchase for $25.00 at class.  Some are available for one-time, in-class use.   Learn enough to play with large local ukulele club! Mary's motto is, "If it ain't fun, don't do it!"   He emphasizes "just playing songs and having fun."   Just strum chords, or get as complicated as you want.
To contact Marty, email: sydmarty@sbcglobal.net

 

Intermediate Ukulele   

with Rick Duncan

Ongoing   Mondays
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
$2 members / $2 non-members / $5 (one time) materials

 

Rick Duncan is a master of stringed instruments who lives in Boulder Creek. After a life of writing and recording music he’s now teaching others in our community how to play their instruments.

Rick has recorded over 300 original songs, written poems, parodies, and humor articles; while his musical forays have taken him into rock, country, dixieland, ethnic folk dance, children's, and comedy music. Dr Demento has featured Rick’s songs on his national radio program. 

To contact Rick, email:

duncansong@comcast.net

Clay Studio - Winter 2011

Tuesdays - Thursdays,  2 - 5 p.m.

 

In February Mondays - Wednesdays

 

3 days/week, clay students can come in and work on their own projects.

Sign up for one month  $100 members   $140 non-members

Or pay per day $20 members   $30 non-members

 

 

The following days are focused, but not limited to:

Tuesdays, Hand-building / wheel-throwing (With Linda Levy)

Wednesdays, On the Wheel with Travis Adams or work on your projects.

Thursdays, Clay Art Projects abound!  Learn new hand-building techniques and have fun! (with Jody Snider & Linda)

Clay Expressions: Wheel & Hand

  with Travis Adams

Mondays & Tuesdays, ongoing

12 - 6 p.m.

 

Drop in per session:

$20 members / $25 non-members

Suitable for beginning through advanced potters, this class is for experiencing an ancient creative and functional outlet that we all deserve in our lives. We will develop a relationship with the clay, creating constant dialogue while learning about ourselves and our place in life. We will learn how to harmonize with the elements of Earth and strive for aesthetic excellence. Techniques in handbuilding and throwing on the wheel.

Raku Fridays   

  with  Dale Bates

Friday nights 

6 - 9 pm

Drop in sessions, $18 members; $20 non-members

Call Dale @ 345-7565 to check in

Makin' It Tall!

With Jennifer Hennig

Class has been rescheduled for APRIL

10 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Jennifer working on large hand

We're going big! This is a handbuilding class that goes through the essentials in making a sound, tall sculpture, from construction through glazing. Intermediate clay experience is essential, beginners not advised.

Come learn the techniques of making tall sculpture with just clay!  We will be going through a variety of techniques, employing one, or several, that each student is most comfortable with to build at least one large sculpture during the course of the class.  Experience with clay is a must.  It is advised that you’ve had hand-building or throwing classes before and have the patience for construction with a pliable material.

This is a morning class that meets during the week, so if you can fit it into your schedule, this will be a great opportunity to take some time for yourself and get more comfortable with clay!  Local ceramics artist Jennifer Hennig, who has taught ceramics classes locally and sold her work throughout the country for over 15 years, will teach this class. The class meets 3 times per week, on Monday, Wednesday & Friday, for 3 hours each session, for a period of 3 weeks. After 2 weeks, we will take a week off for drying and firing and continue the following week for glazing.  Students purchase clay from the Art Center. Let’s make it tall!

 

"Soda-Licious!"  Soda Workshop

with Ruthanne Tudball

Sunday February 19, 2012

10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

$40 Adults / $25 Students (includes lunch)

 

Soda Fired Ceramic Teapot

Ruthanne's Website

 

REGISTER / PAY ONLINE ADULT	REGISTER / PAY ONLINE STUDENT
($40)	($25)

 

Space is limited.

Join us for this one-day workshop with the Queen of Soda Firing, Ruthanne Tudball.   Ruthanne regularly conducts demonstrations and workshops by invitation around the world.

"This one day demonstration of my methods of creating forms on the wheel, will also include slip application for soda firing and helpful information about Soda Firing.

I am interested in helping potters to realise their own creative potential through developing their own unique creative vision and style of making."

Ruthanne will inspire us all with her approach to making ceramic works of art. 

"My clay is a mixture of ball clays, china clay and sand mixed to enhance the soda glazing process and encourage the typical orange peel texture and warm body colour, which results from sodium vapour glazing. The colour is further determined by slips into which the pots are dipped or which are brushed or trailed onto the pots. The slips are based on a mixture of china clays and ball clays to encourage the orange colours. I also use a black slip, which has a combination of manganese, iron, cobalt and sometimes chrome to produce a deep bluish black finish."

Testing...Testing...Testing Glazes (Cone 6)

with Linda Levy

4 Wednesdays, Jan. 4 - 25, 2012  2 - 5  p.m.

$20 members / $30 non-members

We will make LOTS of test tiles and perform overlap testing on our current new glazes and older glaze combinations, both in oxidation and reduction.  Students will learn how to do basic bi-axial and tri-axial glaze tests.  Basic glaze formulation / materials information will be provided.

Start Here:  Effective Clay Handbuilding  

Session I:

with Liz Crain

Session 1:  6 Thursdays, February 23 - March 29. 2012, 2 - 5 p.m.

 

$180 Members / $200 non-members per session.

 

($180)	($200)

 

Suitable for those entirely new to clay as well as those wishing to begin again or fill holes in their ceramic understanding, these classes offer a solid foundation in the basics of handbuilding. Using well-guided but interpretive projects, students will explore a trio of forming and decorating techniques in each 6-week session.
The first class will cover pinching, coiling and soft wad construction methods. The second class will explore both soft and leather-hard slab forming options, as well as building solid sculptural forms and hollowing them out. Every session will cover the pertinent properties of clay, drying, suitable decorating and firing options, cracks and repairs, as well as address the juicy aspects of the creative process. Each class is stand alone and can be taken separately. Taken together, they will provide students with a guided tour of essential and effective handbuilding skills as well as a good start on a range of decoration choices and some understanding of creative process and personal style.

Click on the thumbnail for a larger image of the flyer

Beginning Slab Building - Soft Slab Construction

with Elaine Pinkernell

Saturday, April 14, 2012  10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

$80 members / $85 non-members

 

Slab constructed vases - please click on the thumbnail to view larger image.

 

($80)	($85)

This is a hands-on workshop using tar paper to make functional pieces. All skill levels welcome.
Using tar paper templates we will do soft slab building to create mugs, vases, bowls and more. If you've made pots with slabs before, learning to use tar paper makes it so much easier! If you have no previous hand building experience, don t worry. We will go over basic pieces at the beginning of class so that you will be able to make pieces that day. I will also demonstrate how to glaze your textured pieces in the way I do for my product line.

More class info / PDF Flyer

Click on the thumbnail for a larger image of the flyer

San Lorenzo Valley High School    THURSDAYS

We are honored by the Rydell Visual Arts Foundation support to offer FREE art classes afterschool to SLV high school and Middle school students.  

Classes are held at the SLV High Art Room (Thank you Annette Lanni) 

Winter 2012  Session  I   Thursdays, Jan. 12 - Feb 2;  2:30 – 4:30 p.m.

Collage & Assemblage

with Jen Hennig

Making beautiful expressions of yourself in pictures, words, shapes. So much fun! Bring personal photos, if you like.

Winter 2012 Session   I I  Thursdays, Feb 9 - Mar 1;  2:30 – 4:30  p.m.

Ancient Pottery Making & More

with Nora Sarkissian

Learn the ancient art of pottery making, like the Pueblo potters. This will be introduced along with other sculptural elements using pinch, coil and slab methods. All projects will be glazed. Students will be responsible to pick up projects after session ends.

Winter 2012 Session   III   Thursdays, Mar. 8 - Mar 29;  2:30 – 4:30  p.m.

Animal Art

with Lynn Guenther

Our local wildlife will be the inspiration for this class. We will work in pastels and watercolor and create a metal embossing of a favorite animal.

ART Saturdays for TEENS:

Robotics I & II

Ages 3rd grade - high school

Coming Soon:  Stay Tuned!

with Brenda Berg & Ted Berg

3:00 pm - 5:30 pm

* Includes Materials fee of $25 (robotics lab experiences include working with basic robot building and computer programming, Lego's Mindstorms® Robotics, and a simple robot project that each student will keep)

Learn how to build, program and control a robot! This fun class is ideal if you like to know how to make things work, crawl, roll, blink, buzz or even think! A great introduction to the world of robotics and an opportunity for further robotics exploration for returning students. Students will have a chance to assemble and program simple to more complex robots that communicate, move and think on their own. During the class we’ll break out different types of robots including the totally fun Lego Mindstorms. In addition, each student will have an opportunity to build and keep one simple introductory robot. Brenda is pleased to team-teach with Stanford engineer Ted Berg! PRE-REGISTRATION REQUIRED.

  with Brenda Berg  

Young Students creating and making their Claymation Movie at the Santa Cruz Mountains Art Center

Throwing on the Potter’s Wheel: Winter 2012
with Jen Hennig

Monday - Friday, March 3 - 31, 2012
Mar. 3, 10, 17, 24, 31   3 pm - 5 pm
$140 members / $150 non-members / $25 materials

 

($165 *)	($175 *)

* Includes $25 materials fee

Learn the basics, an introduction to throwing on the potter s wheel.

Enrollment limited to 7 total students.

 

 

Register by calling 336-4ART or by downloading registration form  and sending it  via post or dropping it at the Center along with the tuition.   Students must register before the first day of class. 

 

Parents: if your child has taken a class from us and you wish to offer suggestions, comments, you are most welcome to take our SURVEY.  This survey will only take a minute to do, and it helps us get grants to support our programs.  Thanks!

 

 

 

Art Camps are week long classes, with morning and afternoon classes.  We provide theme-based instruction using 2-Dimensional approaches (Painting, Drawing, Printmaking, Collage, and more!) and 3-Dimensional approaches (Ceramics, Mixed Media, Sculpture, Assemblage, Mask Making, and more!)

 

The Art Center offers a Spring Break Art Camp and 4 Summer Art Camps each year.

Stay posted for the latest information.  If you'd like to be on our email notification list, please send us a message, or call 831.336.4ART  (336.4278)  our education hot-line and leave a message.

See Robotics and Claymation Movie Making (above)

Winter Art Saturdays, 2012   Session I

4 Saturdays, February 4 - 25, 2012

Session I  - Morning

Everything Paper - 3D

with Lori Wilson

10:00 a.m. - 12:00 pm

We will make paper sculpture using recycled paper, homemade paper and paper maché.

 

Session I  - Afternoon

Fresh off the Press:  Printmaking & Book Arts

with Brenda Berg

12:30 a.m. - 2:30 pm

Winter at the Mountain Art Center  offers a blizzard of art possibilities—imagine making art with screens, foam, food and found objects; or making your very own personalized book…in a place where, according to one of our young artists, “you get to spread your imagination!”

Session I  - Late session

Movie Making with Brenda Berg.

Register above

Winter Art Saturdays, 2012   Session II

4 Saturdays, March 10 - 31, 2012

Session II  - Morning

Heaps of Houses

with Lisa Alexander

10:00 a.m. - 12:00 pm

Have you ever wanted to live in a treehouse? Or a teepee? How about a high-rise apartment? Students will learn about light and shadow, color, and perspective while creating the coolest houses ever imagined. We will draw and paint homes from around the world, from the past and present, and maybe even the future.

 

Session II  - Afternoon

Working with Clay

with Jen Hennig

12:30 - 2:30 pm

Are you curious to now how to make things with clay that will last forever? come learn the fun of working with clay.  Attention to detail is a must in this class.  We will learn the basic tools of hand-building to make a variety of pieces and glaze our projects the last week.  Come catch the clay fever!

 

Session II  - Late session

On the Potter's Wheel with Jen Hennig

Register above

THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS:   

 Cultural Council of Santa Cruz County   Community Foundation of Santa Cruz County    Bruce Bangert

  North Glass   Phoenix Ceramics    Earth Matters Foundation    Valley Women's Club    New Leaf Market Felton

This web site was created by an Artist for Artists.  Your comments are welcome. This page was last updated on 01/10/12. 

All written and visual information in this web site is copyright ©2011, Santa Cruz Mountains Art Center, and may not be used or reproduced without permission.

This website is hosted with FATCOW, where their energy is provided totally by wind generators!  The WebMaven's home is powered by Solar Arrays. 

PRIVACY STATEMENT:  Information collected by the Santa Cruz Mountains Art Center during on-line registration or any on-line payment will  NOT be shared with any other parties/entities.  For a full privacy statement.