ALL ADULT CLASSES & WORKSHOPS PROVIDE ACT 48 CREDITS ($25 fee/class)
PAINTING & DRAWING
ART CAMP for ADULTS (16 – 106 yrs)
Dates: July 12 -16
Times: 9 A.M. - 12 P.M. and/or 1 - 4 P.M.
Location: Connie’s House
Instructors: Artists and Art Educators
Tuition: $30 per session, morning or afternoon
$130 for either all mornings or all afternoons (5 sessions)
$220 for the entire week, mornings and afternoons (10 sessions)
A summer day, a playful spirit and some art supplies are all you need to experience the delight of making images with heart.
We are offering 10 sessions in a variety of art making processes, projects and techniques.
Each session is a hands-on exploration focusing on a particular medium such as pastel, watercolor, acrylic, printmaking and mixed media.
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Choose 1 or all 10 sessions to experience a “taste of art”.
For beginners and those with some experience in art making.
Monday July 12
A.M. Imaginative Images - Pastels
P.M. Color Creations - Pastels
Tuesday July 13
P.M. Water Reflections - Watercolors
Wednesday July 14
P.M. Landscape - Acrylics
Thursday July 15
P.M. Silkscreen made Simple - Printmaking
Friday July 16
P.M. Frame It! - Mixed Media
Tuesdays
EN PLEIN AIR
Instructor: Martin Pieczonka
Start Date: June 22
End Date: August 10
Time: 9 a.m.-12 p.m.
Tuition: $190 CSS/HYS Member, $205 Non-member
Fee: $50 Model Fee
We will explore the landscape in and around Chester Springs. In this class you can learn techniques of observation that will broaden your vision and enable you to compare color, and construct a painting that is unified in its qualities of light and shadow. Learn to arrange your composition to maximize the pictorial effect of your subject. Demonstrations will be conducted on simplifying and blocking in the elements with an open palette and loose brushwork. There will be a model 3 times to explore the relationship between the figure and the landscape. Other topics such as scale, perspective, and materials will be covered. A materials list is provided.
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Thursdays
IN THE STUDIO: FIGURE & LIFE DRAWING
Monitor: Martin Pieczonka
Start Date: June 24
End Date: August 12
Time: 6:45-9:45 p.m.
Location: Barn Studio
Tuition: $75 CSS/HYS Member, $90 Non-member
This class presents the opportunity to draw, paint, and sculpt from the figure without instruction. Poses, whether croquis or extended, will be determined by the group with the monitor. Students may drop in for classes for a fee provided the class can be formed around a core group of committed students.
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SCULPTURE
WEDNESDAYS
EQUINE SCULPTURE
Instructor: Alexander Hromych
Start Date: June 23
End Date: August 11
Time: 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Location: Barbara Berry Farm (1825 Kimberton Road)
Tuition: $210 CSS/HYS Member, $225 Non-member
Fee: $50 fee paid first day of class if using terra cotta
Explore the beauty, power, and elegance of the horse. Students will work from life, while learning various modeling techniques and methods in terra cotta and plastaline. Other mediums such as stone and wood can be used as well. All methods and techniques will be demonstrated. For beginning students and those with experience.
Directions
From the Chester Springs Studio take Art School Road to the east until you come to Kimberton Road. Go left until you pass Flint Road. Take the first driveway to your left.
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CERAMICS
INFORMATION & OPEN STUDIO
Class enrollments are limited to 12 to afford everyone an electric wheel. Studio & firing fees cover the use of the studio, glazes, firings and your first bag of clay. Additional clay may be purchased at CSS as follows: $16 for a 25# bag of stoneware, terra cotta and porcelain. Tool kits are available at $15.
Open Studio Hours from July 5 through August 14 are Tuesday, 1 to 4 p.m. and Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tech support is available during most open studio times to insure that students are getting proper instruction. Open studio requires a registration fee of $20.00 and is available to students enrolled in a class.
Mondays
SUMMER SPECIAL-For Ceramic Students Enrolled this Past Year
Start Date: June 21 (Studio closed week of June 28 for Adult Clay Camp)
End Date: August 16
Time: 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Location: Ceramics Studio
Tuition: $100 CSS/HYS Members, $115 Non-members
Fee: $50 Materials & Firing Fee
We are offering a special opportunity for students who were enrolled in Chester Springs Studio ceramics classes during the Fall 2009, Winter 2010 and Spring 2010 semesters to work on their own in the ceramics studio. This will also give you the privilege of enjoying our regular open studio hours.
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Tuesdays
THROWING CONCENTRATION
Instructor: Suzanne Kent
Start Date: July 13
End Date: August 17
Time: 7-10 p.m.
Location: Ceramics Studio
Tuition: $150 CSS/HYS Members, $165 Non-members
Fee: $50 Firing and Materials Fee
The underlying premise of this class is to afford students, whose principal interest is the wheel, the opportunity to develop and strengthen their skills and to understand the complete throwing process. Individual instruction will be emphasized with attention given to form and function and the mechanics of trimming and glazing. Limit 12.
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Wednesdays
POTTERY BASICS (Originally scheduled for Thursdays)
Instructor: Nell Hazinski
Start Date: July 7
End Date: August 11
Time: 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Location: Ceramics Studio
Tuition: $150 CSS/HYS Members, $165 Non-members
Fee: $50 Firing and Materials Fee
Making useful, handsome pots that embody the spirit of the maker is the goal of this class. Learn and explore the process and techniques of hand building and wheel throwing to allow you to bring form to your ideas. This is a comprehensive class for all skill levels.
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FROM THE TABLE UP!
Instructor: Susan Bankert
Start Date: July 7
End Date: August 11
Time: 6:30-9:30 p.m.
Location: Ceramics Studio
Tuition: $150 CSS/HYS Members, $165 Non-members
Fee: $50 Firing and Materials Fee
This class offers something for everyone with some clay experience to the advanced student. We will learn more about using the potter’s wheel and work on the basic skills that will allow you to create your own personal pottery. For those who have been in class before we will continue to focus on individual projects and continue our discussion of form and function. We will also continue to master the glazing process by familiarizing ourselves with the cone 6 glazes. Ongoing demonstrations and lively discussions about pottery are sure to make for an enjoyable and productive session. The intimae class size at the studio allows for plenty of individual attention form the instructor and the sharing of information among students. New students welcome! Limit 12.
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Thursdays
BEYOND THE BASICS–Pottery Form and Content
Instructor: Nell Hazinski
Start Date: July 8
End Date: August 12
Time: 3-6 p.m.
Location: Ceramics Studio
Tuition: $150 CSS/HYS Members, $165 Non-members
Fee: $50 Firing and Materials Fee
This class is for those students who have begun to develop their own style and techniques and would like to refine their personal aesthetic and skills. Each class will include a group critique concentrating on individual aspects of form, decoration, and vision.
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CLAY IN THE HANDS
Instructor: Jeanie Silver
Start Date: July 8
End Date: August 12
Time: 7-10 p.m.
Location: Ceramics Studio
Tuition: $150 CSS/HYS Members, $165 Non-members
Fee: $50 Firing and Materials Fee
This is a comprehensive course in acquiring the skills for hand-building based on the way clay really behaves. In this highly individualized class we will focus on the Hand as the most adaptable and intelligent tool for making work never dreamed of at the potter’s wheel. We will learn how to work with slabs, pinch, stretch, texture to support and seduce the clay into taking the forms we want. This is a class for people who want to learn from the clay, and each other. Your own hand is a “skeleton key” to unlock the way to any form you can imagine. Plates, bowls, figures…its is all in your hands. Limit 8.
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