Classes & Workshops at the Library
Arts Center, Newport
To
register call 603-863-3040
Hand
Building with Clay
Dates: Tues., July 5 – Fri.,
July 8 & Thurs., July 21 & Fri.,
July 22
Times: 10am – 12noon
Instructors: Suzie Kaegi & Colleen Rupp Leonard
Ages:
7-12
Fee (Includes all materials): $45.00
Description: Do you love to get your hands in clay? Then you should join
this class led by this dynamic duo of instructors! Create an array of hand-built
clay projects using coil, slab and pinch techniques. This class will focus
specifically on hand building, so come prepared to create something special.
Under glaze and glaze techniques will be explored before your work is fired
in the kiln. You will leave this class with several of your own ceramic
creations, as well as a firm understanding of the basic hand building principles
and techniques of working with clay.
Plein
Air Garden Painting
Dates: Tues., July 5 – Fri.,
July8 & during the LAC garden tour,
Sat., July 9
Times: 1-3pm
Instructors: Mary Willis & Colleen Rupp Leonard
Ages: 9 - 12
Fee (Includes all materials): $35.00
*Permission to leave the studio must be granted by guardians on registration
form for this class.
Description: When this class starts, each student will be supplied with acrylic
paints, canvases, artist brushes and a French folding easel to use throughout
the duration of the class. Tuesday through Friday paint in the studio learning
tricks to great compositions, techniques of color mixing and paint application.
Guest plein air painters will be invited to the studio to share their paintings,
and painting advice to students. On Saturday the class will paint on-site,
alongside professional artists, in a blooming garden during the Library Arts
Center’s town-wide Arts in the Garden garden tour. Each student will
have an opportunity to display one piece of artwork done in the garden in
the Library Arts Center Gallery alongside artwork by other artists participating
in the garden tour.
Raku
Pottery Class
Dates: Tues. July 12 – Fri.
July 15 &Thurs., July 28 –Fri.,
July 29
Times: 10am – 12noon
Instructors: Suzie Kaegi & Caitlin Mauser- Rowe
Ages: 10-14
Fee (Includes all materials): $50.00
*Permission to leave the studio must be granted by guardians on registration
form for this class.
Description: Have you taken clay classes in the past at the Library Arts
Center? Are you feeling ready to bring your ceramics work to the next level?
Then this new class is the right fit for you! Participants will learn advanced
hand building, wheel throwing techniques during this class. After students’ clay
projects have gone through the first firing, the class will take a field
trip to do a raku firing of their projects. Raku firing is an exciting and
instantaneous firing technique that uses actual fire and creates amazing
color effects in glaze!
Color
Mixing Workshop
Date: Monday, July 11
Times: 9:30 – 10:45
Instructors: Mary Willis & Colleen Rupp Leonard
Ages: 3 – 5, accompanied
by an adult
Fee (Includes all materials): $10.00
Description: Class will start with story time featuring Mouse Paint
by author Ellen Stall. After this story students will learn to paint
like the mice, learning to mix primary colors to make secondary colors. With
their practice paintings complete, children will work on their own still
life paintings, using their new knowledge and a little inspiration
from famous artist Vincent Van Gogh.
Masks
from Around the World!
Dates: Tue., July 12 – Fri.,
July 15
Times: 1 – 3pm
Instructors: Colleen Rupp Leonard & TBA
Ages: 6-8
Fee (Includes all materials): $30.00
Description: Masks are made all around the world for all sorts of reasons.
Some cultures make masks for theater and play; some make masks for special
ceremonies and dances. Learn about all sorts of cultures and the masks they
create. Create your own plaster-cast mask molded to your own face and create
your own one-of-a-kind mask inspired by masks from around the world!
Celtic
Knots, Fanciful Drawing
Dates: Tues., July 19 – Wed.,
July 20
Times: 10am – 12noon
Instructors: Caitlin Mauser-Rowe & Colleen Rupp Leonard
Ages: 9 – 12
Fee (Includes all materials): $15.00
Description: Instructor Caitlin Mauser Rowe will be traveling to Ireland
this summer, and she will be learning all about traditional Celtic knot design.
She will bring her new found knowledge of these fascinating designs back
to the studio. In this class, students will learn to make the imaginative
illusions of complicated Celtic-design knots to create their own fanciful
drawings
Kitchen
Clay!
Date: Sat., July 16
Times: 9:30 – 10:45
Instructors: Mary Willis & Colleen Rupp Leonard
Ages: 3 – 5 accompanied
by an adult
Fee (Includes all materials): $10.00
Description: In this workshop, children and their caregivers will learn a
variety of techniques for building sculpture with kitchen clay. Students
will explore and create using clay prepared by instructors Mary and Colleen.
Everyone will leave the studio with their own sculptural creations, as well
as the LAC studio kitchen clay recipe for your own kitchen clay art projects
at home!
Catching
the Wind: Creative Wind Chime
Workshop
Dates: Mon., July 18
Times: 10am – 12noon
Instructor: Colleen Rupp Leonard
Ages: 5 - 7
Fee (Includes all materials): $10.00
Description: Create a piece of art that makes music with the wind! Learn
all about the art of wind chimes from Colleen Rupp Leonard who is known for
gift of making “trash-to-treasure” art. Colleen will work with
each student to create one-of-a-kind wind chimes using natural and found
materials. Each student will leave the studio with his or her own wind chime
as well as an understanding of how to make art out of just about anything!
Large
Scale Painting Artist Study:
Chuck Close
Dates: Tues., July 19 – Fri.,
July22
Times: 1-3pm
Instructors: Suzie Kaegi & Caitlin Mauser Rowe
Ages: 11 – 14
Fee (Includes all materials): $45.00
Description: Are you interested in making a really big acrylic painting
on canvas? Learn about Artist Chuck Close and his contemporary
large-scale self portraits and create your own large-scale self portrait
using his gridding and color mixing techniques. Planto either bring an up-
close photograph of yourself or have your photograph taken by the LAC instructors.
What
to do with Old Socks!
Dates: Tues. July 26 – Wed.,
July 27
Times: 10am – 12noon
Instructors: Colleen Rupp Leonard & Caitlin Mauser Rowe
Ages: 6 - 11
Fee (Includes all materials): $15.00
Description: We all have them, and let’s face it, they really do have
creative potential! Learn some creative ways to use your old socks in art
projects. Instructors Caitlin & Colleen are talented at making art out
of just about anything, even old socks! So clean out your sock drawer (or
all the sock drawers in your home) and bring your old (clean!) socks to the
studio and learn to glue, sew, stuff and cut them into art!
Printmaking:
Artist Study - Keith Haring
Dates: Tues., July 26 – Fri.,
July 29
Times: 1-3pm
Instructors: Mary Willis & Colleen Rupp Leonard
Ages:
6 - 11
Fee (Includes all materials): $30.00
Description: Learn about artist Keith Haring and his graphic, imaginative,
and playful style of artwork. Create your own imaginative artwork using the
work of this famous artist as inspiration. The printmaking techniques used
in this class do not require a printing press and can be done with simple
materials at home to further your summer of creative fun!
Music
with Friends
Dates: July 5, 12, 19, 26
Times: 9-9:45am
Instructor: Julie Love
Ages: 0 – 4 children
with a caregiver (between 6 and 12
children in the class)
Fee (for four week class): $25.00
Description: Experience making music with your children and friends in this
class designed for young children and their caregiver. Music will come to
life as everyone Sings, Dances, Drums and Claps for Fun, experimenting with
voices, instruments and bodies! This class will meet in the Library Arts
Center Gallery.
Music
with Friends
Dates: July 5, 12, 19, 26
Times: 10-10:45am
Instructor: Julie Love
Ages: 0 – 4 children
with a caregiver (between 6 and 12
children in the class)
Fee (for four week class): $25.00
Description: Experience making music with your children and friends in this
class designed for young children and their caregiver. Music will come to
life as everyone Sings, Dances, Drums and Claps for Fun, experimenting with
voices, instruments and bodies! This class will meet in the Library Arts
Center Gallery.
Music
with Friends
Dates: August 2, 9, 16, 23
Times: 9-9:45am
Instructor: Julie Love
Ages: 0 – 4 children
with a caregiver (between 6 and 12
children in the class)
Fee (for four week class): $25.00
Description: Experience making music with your children and friends in this
class designed for young children and their caregiver. Music will come to
life as everyone Sings, Dances, Drums and Claps for Fun, experimenting with
voices, instruments and bodies! This class will meet in the Library Arts
Center Gallery.
Music
with Friends
Dates: August 2, 9, 16, 23
Times: 10-10:45am
Instructor: Julie Love
Ages: 0 – 4 children
with a caregiver (between 6 and 12
children in the class)
Fee (for four week class): $25.00
Description: Experience making music with your children and friends in this
class designed for young children and their caregiver. Music will come to
life as everyone Sings, Dances, Drums and Claps for Fun, experimenting with
voices, instruments and bodies! This class will meet in the Library Arts
Center Gallery.
The
Library Arts Center is proud to offer
scholarships when possible thanks
to generous donations by community
members to the LAC Scholarship fund.
If you are in need of a scholarship
to sign your child up for a studio
class, please contact the Library
Arts Center Office.
Registration
Forms are available online and at
the LAC.
You
may call or email the LAC to hold
a space, but space is not guaranteed
until registration from and payment
is delivered to the LAC (both of
which are due prior to the start
of class). Refunds for cancelled
registrations are honored up to 7
days prior to the class start date.
Classes missed by registered students
are non refundable.
Classes
that will be leaving the studio for
field trips are marked as such in
the description. Permission for field
trips must be granted upon registration.
The Library Arts Center staff will
inform all parents in advance regarding
when and where their children will
be when they are not in the studio
for class.
Adult
Classes & Workshops
Adult
Open Studio Art Group
Group
Facilitator: Heidi Lorenz
Wednesdays, 9am-12noon
(meets on an ongoing basis)
$8 members/ $12 non-members per class
Are you looking for an inspiring studio environment to work on your own projects?
Bring your own materials in the medium of your choice and enjoy working alongside
other area artists to jump start your creative process. This informal, drop-in
group will meet Wednesday mornings on an ongoing basis. The group’s
facilitator will be available to students to provide inspiration, and light
guidance on projects, when requested.
Traditional
Arts Classes & Workshops
Celebrate
Newport’s 250 anniversary creatively!
More Traditional Classes & Workshops
being added, so check out websites
for updates
Floorcloth
Class
Instructor: Marilyn Paige – Roster
Artist of the NH State Council on the
Arts
Date: Saturday,
April 9th
Time: The class will start at 9 AM, break for lunch from 11:30-12:30, and
end at 3:00PM.
Tuition: $90.00 (includes all materials)
Maximum enrollment: 4 – 8 students
Beginners welcomed
This class will focus on the history of floorcloths, the materials required
to construct a floorcloth for yourself, the proper paints and designs to
use, making your own stencils, and how to hem and finish your piece. Participants
will complete a 2‘X3” floorcloth.
ALL
supplies needed will be provided
including a gesso-prepared canvas,
paints,stencils, brushes, hemming
materials, and polyurethane. Participants
are asked to bring an old shirt
or full apron, a well-formed idea
of your design, and your enthusiasm. Some
ideas for designs to consider include:
where in your home would you
like to place your floorcloth, i.e.
kitchen, bathroom, front door, etc.
and do you have a specific theme/colors
in that room. Please keep your
designs simple....this is a one-day
class, and if you require specific
colors please bring those with you. A
varied selection of paint colors
will be available as well as a large
array of stencils.
New
England Hooked Rugs for Beginners
Instructor: Ann Winterling
- Roster Artist of the NH State Council
on the Arts
Dates: Saturday
and Sunday, June 4 -5, 10 – 4
each day, brown bag lunch.
Times: 10am – 4pm each day, brown a bag lunch
Tuition: $45.00 (includes all materials) – BYO scissors as well as
any hooking equipment they may have.
Maximum Enrollment: 7 – 14 students
At the beginning of class Ann introduce students to several design concepts
and practical methods for creating unique and original designs. Ann will
help students transfer their own freshly created designs onto 8 X 10 foundation
material. Students will then learn to hook with 100% wool of many colors
to create their own art pieces.
Natural
Dying of Wools
Instructor:Loranne Carey-Block
- Roster Artist of the NH StateCouncil
on the Arts
Dates: June 25th
and 26th
More information to follow.
Brown
Ash Baskets - Create an heirloom
Instructor: Alice Ogden
- Roster Artist of the NH State Council
on the Arts
Dates: Saturday,
August 20
Times: 9 am - 5:30pm, bring a brown bag lunch
Tuition: $20.00 + materials fee Explanation listed below, $48.00 or $75.00
please specify which basket you will be making upon registration, BYO scissors
Maximum Class Size: 10 Beginners welcomed
Enjoy a day of weaving a Traditional Black Ash Basket. Choose one of 2 projects
being offered in this 8 hr. class. Learn the process of making a basket from
a tree, using materials already prepared and provided by the instructor.
Baskets will be woven over a wooden form supplied by Alice, and finished
off with her signature hand whittled white oak rims and handle.
Project
Options: 7 1/2 black ash kitten
head basket. This basket
is woven over a wooden form, whose
shape creates the 4 corners (ears)
of the bottom of the basket in
which it sits on, thus the name
kitten head (when the basket is
held up side down it is said to
resemble the ears of a kitten)
student end up with quite AN
impressive basket. Material costs.....75.00.
For those who prefer smaller...4
1/2 " kitten head, taking
the same amount of class time.
Material costs...48.00. |
