Pure Color: The Essence of Pastel

with Richard McDaniel

Dates: January 6 - 27, Four Fridays
Time: 9:30 am - 12:30 pm
Cost: Members $80, Non-Members $100

Renowned artist Richard McDaniel will be teaching a Friday morning class that allows students the opportunity to learn about the medium of pastel and to expand his/her skills as pastel painters. Students will learn various methods of applying pigment, working on different surfaces, adjusting works in progress, and methods for transporting and presenting completed works. Individual instruction is provided for each artist, as well as through group discussion and periodic instructor demos. McDaniel has been published in most of the leading art journals, and has written five books on art and teaching methods. Visit www.richardmcdaniel.com for more information.

Art in the Modern World (1900-1950)

with Jennifer Bethke

Dates: February 28 - March 20, Four Tuesdays
Time: 10 am - noon
Cost: Members $60, Non-Members $75

The early-twentieth century was a dynamic period in the art world. Artists experimented wildly, breaking from tradition and boldly pushing art into new aesthetic territories. This art history class will discuss the nature of these experiments, concentrating mostly on Europe.  Learn about artistic movements such as Cubism, Dada, Surrealism, and Abstract Expressionism that significantly impacted the art world at the beginning and mid-20th century. Gain an appreciation for the history of modern art in a fun and friendly learning environment with SCM curator of art and instructor Jennifer Bethke. Jennifer holds a PhD in art history from UC Berkeley and will continue the art history class series with the course Contemporary Art: from 1950 to Today, in the Summer of 2012.

Instructor: Jennifer Bethke, SCM curator of art, holds a PhD in art history from UC Berkeley.

Keys to Print Making

with Laurie Reynolds

Dates: March 1 - March 29, Five Thursdays
Time: 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Cost: $80 Members, $95 Non-Members

In this class students will learn how to produce clean, fresh drawings in a variety of composition styles and create hand pulled leno block prints. Students will learn how to transfer an image onto a surface and transform it into a printable image. The joy of printing is seeing an original idea reproduced, and emerge from a surface to produce multiple “prints” each with their own distinct artistic character. Instructor Laurie Reynolds is a local artist as well as a credentialed and experienced art teacher of printmaking and other art media.

Pysanka: The Ukrainian Art
of Egg Decorating

with Kelle Marsh

Dates: March 24 (adults)/ March 25, one-day workshop,
(kids 10 and up, accompanied by an adult are welcome)
Time: 11:00 pm - 3:00 pm (with a 30 min break)
Cost: $30 Members, $45 Non-Members

Pysanka is the unique, delicate and beautiful ancient art of egg decorating that dates back to 6000 B.C. Practiced in many Eastern European countries during the Spring season and associated with the Orthodox Easter holiday, Pysanka, originated in the Ukraine and involves using a wax-resist method to create intricate patterns on the delicate surface of a hollow egg. Pysanka, which comes from the word pysaty, “to write” in Russian, is the art of decorating eggs with meaningful and mystic symbolism that reflects ideas of fertility, good harvests, protection from evil and the circle of life. The one-day workshop, offered on March 24th and 25th will be led by Kelle Marsh, and will instruct students on the decorating and dying process from beginning to end, with participants being able to take home a decorative ornament they have created.