Adult Multi-Week Classes

Instructor: Mark Ed

Class Limit: 7

Level:  ★★ & UP

Materials Fee: $25

Learn the techniques of hand-building with clay. Each class will build on the

last, starting with proper technique, hand-building guidelines, basic pottery

guidelines, and how to make your own slabs of clay. Get used to working

with clay and put the techniques you learn into practice. Finish off by taking

your finished piece home with you.

Instructor: Jean Thompson

Class Limit: 6

Level:  ★★★ & UP

Students who are able to cut and foil accurately and produce a smooth, consistently beaded solder line advance to more intricate work. Students select their own pattern and provide all glass and materials for their project. Tools and equipment are provided by the Arts Center. Closed toed shoes are required, and no long fingernails. There are two sessions to choose from.

Instructor: Duane Webb

Class Limit: 10

Level:  ★★ & UP

Create a masterpiece of your own inspired by the works of Thomas Kinkade

in this 4 week instructional class. Use acrylic paint to capture the beauty and

uniqueness that is infused with the warm glow of a cold winter’s night and

captures the essence of the holiday season. Learn brush techniques,

contrast, color variation and using painting tools to create different types of

strokes and patterns. Please bring a photo for reference if desired.

Instructor: Adam Borodach

Class Limit: 7

Level:  ★★ & UP

Materials Fee: $25

This class offers the very basics and also more advanced understanding of learning to work on a pottery wheel, including clay prep, wedging, centering clay, lifting or pulling clay into a 5 inch cylinder, and intro to hand-building. Mastery is not expected in one session. Repeat this class several times to maximize and expand your skills! Beginner & intermediate students are both welcome. No long fingernails and no valuables. Please bring a towel with you.

Instructor: Angela R. Godin

Class Limit: 10 couples

Level:  ★★ & UP

Swing into the holidays with your Community Arts Center’s dance

program! During this 6-week class, students will learn three dances: Slow

Dance, Swing, and Rumba. Dance shoes are not required, but

encouraged! 

About the dances: 

Slow Dance

One of the most useful and versatile social dances, the Slow Dance can be danced over a large area or over a small area. It is most often used with contemporary love songs and fits better than any other ballroom dance. Slow Dance is a combination of Foxtrot, Tango, Bossa Nova, and Samba movements. This gives the dance three distinct rhythms, but transitioning from one rhythm to the next takes a little practice. Slow Dance music should feel like very slow, romantic Foxtrot music. Like Foxtrot, the music will be accented on the 1st and 3rd beats.

Swing

Swing dancing is an upbeat and playful partner dance often set to jazz music. A form of ballroom dance, swing dance encompasses several different dance styles, each adding distinct flavor, including the Charleston, Lindy Hop, Collegiate Shag, Balboa, and others. 

Rumba

The word Rumba is a generic term for a type of West Indian music or dancing. There are two sources of the dance: one Spanish and the African. Although the main growth was in Cuba, there were similar dance developments which took place in other Caribbean islands and Latin America generally. The “Rumba influence” came in the 16th century with the black slaves imported from Africa. The native Rumba folk dance is essentially a sex pantomime danced fast with exaggerated hip movements and with sensually aggressive attitude on the part of the man and a defensive attitude on the part of the woman.

Typical Rumba music sounds very sensual and contains a constant tapping or a clave rhythm. Listen for the rhythm of & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 being tapped out lightly in the background of the music.

M/NM: $224 per couple — A $40 deposit is required upon

registration, followed by the remainder of the balance being paid

before the first lesson.

Instructor: KC Schutte

Class Limit: 6

Level:  ★★ & UP

Materials Fee: $20

Students with no glass experience will create a simple panel while learning the basic skills of pattern and glass preparation, cutting, foiling, soldering and patina. All supplies and equipment are provided by the Arts Center. Closed toed shoes are required. No long fingernails please.