Classes
Classes for Adults
Literary Arts & Book Arts & Music
The Play Pen
Instructor: Guy Biederman, M.A
A romper room class for adult writers who wish to soar beyond genre and leave the critic behind. Discover joy as we play with our words and watch them ricochet across the page. Explore your craft and delight in the simple act of creating with writing seeds in a sweet, hospitable environment. Bring your pen, have some fun, and write. Play as if your life depends on it! Library/Conference Room
3 Sunday mornings– April 15, 22 & 29 10:30am – Noon
Fee: $50/$45 Member
Contact: Guy Biederman, guyb@sonic.net, www.lowfatfiction.com
Sonoma County Book Arts Guild
If you make books, alter books, want to learn to make books please join us. The intent is to create a group to share work, teach techniques, take field trips, invite guest artists to teach and have a show.
15-Adult
Painting/Drawing Studio
First Saturday of each month, 10am-12pm
Fee: $3-$5 donation
Contact Dena Bliss 829-1732
Ceramics
Hand-Built Ceramics for Beginning & Intermediate Artists
Instructor: Denis Hazlewood
Get your hands into one of the most ancient natural materials: clay. In four weeks learn simple, and more complex methods for creating hand-built functional and artistic forms.
Ceramics Studio
4 Mondays, 6-9pm,
Session 3: May 7 – May 28
Fee: $90 / $85 Member + $30 clay
Spring in to Pottery 12 - Adult
Instructor: Randy Snyder
Come play with clay. Learn to wedge, center, and pull the clay to create bowls, cups, and vases. Other techniques like pinch, slab, and coil will also be covered. Glaze and high fire finished projects. Great for beginners and seasoned potters trying to bring it to the next level. Space limited.
Ceramic Studio
6 Thurs, 6:30-9pm, April 19-May 24
Fee: $125 / $120 Member +$30 clay
Pottery and the Potter’s Wheel
Instructor: Randy Snyder
Use the potters wheel and learn to center and raise the clay; then shape to make plates, cups, jars, and other functional pieces to glaze and fire. Other techniques like pinch, slab, and coil will also be covered. This class is perfect for beginners and beyond.
Space limited sign up early and come play in clay. For ages 12-Adult
Ceramic/Mixed Media Studio
6 Thurs, Aug. 23 - Sept. 27, 2012, 6:30pm- 9pm
Fee: Non-members $125 / members $120.00 + $30.00 materials
Pottery Class for the Holidays
Instructor: Randy Snyder
Cups, bowls and stuff. Make gifts for the giving season with your personal touch.
This class will focus on the potter’s wheel learning to wedge, center, and pull the clay to create bowls, cups, and vases. Other techniques like pinch, slab, and coil will also be covered. We will glaze and high fire our finished projects. Great for beginners, and for seasoned potters trying to take it to the next level.
Sign up early space limited For ages 12-Adult
Ceramic/Mixed Media Studio
8 Thurs, Oct 18- Dec 13, 2012 [no class Nov 2] 6:30pm-9pm
Fee: Non-members $165 / members $160.00 + $30.00 materials
Potter’s Wheel for ages 12 - Adult
Instructor: Randy Snyder
Use the wheel to center and raise the clay, then shape it to make plates, cups, jars and other functional pieces to glaze and fire for you to cherish at home. This class is perfect for beginners and beyond. Space limited sign up early.
Ceramic Studio
6 Thurs, Feb 21-April 4, 2013 (no class Mar 21), 6:30-9pm
Fee $125 / $120 Member +$30 clay
Earth Magic: Multi-Generational Ceramics*
Instructor: Meryl Juniper
See complete description listed under “Youth Classes”.
Thursdays, Mar 29 - May 10 1 - 2:30pm or 3:30-5pm
Fee: $105+ Materials fee
10% discoumt for additional family members
Register with Meryl 823-5843 meryljuniper@yahoo.com
"Drop In" Open Studio
Non-instructed studio time for open-minded potters with some experience. One of the few public facilities in Sonoma County available to the public for ceramic hand-building, sculptural and wheel-work. Studio features 8 potter's wheels, slab roller, extruder, glaze and electric kilns. Fire cone 5. No production potters. For ages 14-adult with experience.
Check for any schedule changes email: CeramicsSebArts@comcast.net
Ceramics Studio
Mon, 9:30am-12:30pm
Tues, 6-8:30pm (if no one shows up by 7 pm we go home)
Wed, 12-3pm
Sat, 9:30am-12:30pm
$60 for 6-session card
$90 for 10-session card
$12 per session / $6 concurrently enrolled in SCA class.
$30 for 1 bag of clay, glaze, firing as needed. All clay must be purchased from SCA. We do not fire work created from clay purchased elsewhere.
Drawing/Painting/Printmaking/Papermaking
Soul Art
Instructor: Dianne Monroe
Discover & deepen your relationship with Soul, that underground river flowing through each person. Soul speaks in the language of mystery, myth, metaphor and image, singing the deeper meaning of our life. Art speaks this same language. Using a blend of visual arts, deep imagery, guided meditation, creative writing, authentic movement & connection with nature, we will touch our soul flow, & explore our unique note in the Earth song of our times.
Sat. May 5, 10am-4pm
Fee: $85/$800 Member
Painting/Drawing Studio
Questions: dianne@diannemonroe.com, www.diannemonroe.com
Painting and Singing as a Meditative Practice
Instructor: Katie Ketchum
Connect with your muse and learn Visionary Artist Shiloh Sophia McCloud's Color of Woman technique for painting the sacred feminine with chanting throughout the day.
Painting/Drawing Studio
Sat, June 2, 1:30pm-6pm
Sat, Aug 4, 1:30-6pm.
$55. Inc materials.
Register with Katie Ketchum 707.874.3571
Drawing Nature for Beginners
Instructor: Nina Antze
Learn to draw and use colored pencils! The focus will be on Drawing Nature, learning drawing essentials using simple shapes that relate to nature along with the basics of using colored pencils. Each month we will focus on a different natural object depending on the season and use it as a way to observe, draw what we see and finally add color.
Painting/Drawing Studio
4 Tues, 1-3:30pm
Session 5: May 1-22
Session 6: June 5-26
Session 7: July 3-24
Session 8: August 7-28
Fee: $75/$70 Members
Questions? 237-7014 or antze@pcquilt.com
Drawing Nature Advanced
Instructor: Nina Antze
Colored pencils are a fun, safe and portable way to express oneself artistically. Learn the basics of using colored pencil drawing including blending, burnishing and impressed line while incorporating the techniques of botanical. Work from a variety of seasonal natural objects. All levels welcome, ongoing class. Check with Nina 237-7014 or antze@pcquilt.com for availability.
Library
4 Tues: 9am-Noon
Session 5: May 1-22
Session 6: June 5-26
Session 7: July 3-24
Session 8: August 7-28
Fee: $89/$84 Member
Go Figure!
Facilitator: James Curtis
Non-instructed drop-in, open studio figure study sessions. Draw, paint, and/or sculpt
the human figure from a live model in an open, well-lit studio. All levels of experience invited to participate. Bring your own materials. No turpenoid or turpentine solvents! Tables, easels, sink, lighting and set up for the model provided. Artists must be at least 18 years of age.
Painting/Drawing Studio
Every Wed evening, Drop-in, 7-10pm, multiple short poses 1st hour, then 20 minute poses--suited for sketching gesture or developing one's ability at caricature.
Fee: $15 per session or $50 for 4-prepaid sessions
Photography and/or sketching ONLY on occasional Friday or Saturday evenings 7-9 PM
Contact Jim at 332-7877 or e-mail: jcurt@sonic.net
Tuesday Morning Drawing Group
Meets from 9am to Noon, with a live model and no instructor. $45 per month or $15 per session drop in. For questions, email joycebobart@aol.com or call Joyce at 707.577.8218.
Fiberart: Weaving
Basic Weaving & Double Weave
Instructor: Marta Shannon
A mixed level 8 session class where new weavers will learn to measure a warp, dress the loom and weave a sampler using basic threading and treadling patterns. More experienced weavers will first focus on learning the basics of double weave by making a double weave sampler and then weave a project of your choice.
Materials fee $5 for samplers. Other project costs will vary.
Looms courtesy Redwood Guild of Fiber Arts
Thursdays, 9:30am-12:30pm
March 29 – May 17
Fee: $185 / $180 Members
Photography
The Photography of Connection, A Soul-full Photography Workshop
Instructor: Dianne Monroe
Explore the connection between inner and outer worlds with your camera. Learn how photography speaks the language of metaphor, myth, and mystery. Open your creativity to see and experience the world in different ways. Not a photography “how-to” class. For new and experienced photographers. Dianne Monroe is an Expressive Arts Facilitator, mentor, writer and photographer who blends Expressive Arts and nature for personal, social and planetary transformation. Material needed: Camera, notebook or journal.
Library/Conference Room
Sat. April 28, 10am – 4pm
Fee: $85/$80 Members
Questions: dianne@diannemonroe.com, www.diannemonroe.com
Jewelry
Earring Workshop on Demand
Instructor: Paula Bailey Brent
Make beautiful gifts or saleable adornments - and have fun! Explore the pleasures and challenges of the Ancient Art of the Earring. Work with silver, copper, brass, semiprecious gems; learn coldworking construction, wire forming links, sheet metal shapes/form hammering and assemblage. Minimum 5 students. Bring a lunch.
Saturdays, 10am-4pm, call 707.829.4797 for available next date
$70 Non Member / $65 Member+ Materials $15 fee
Other Music, Movement & Personal Development Classes
See complete descriptions
Songwriting from the Soul
Explore processes for writing free form songs, deepening the connecton with body/mind/spirit. Complete description.
Tian Gong Qi Gong
Ongoing practices for strengthening the physica, energy and soul bodies. Complete description.
Body Tales Group
Creative and healing practice integrates movement, voice and personal storytelling. Complete description
Authentic Movement for Women
Explore and expand your innate capacity to move and be moved, see and be seen, and articulate and integrate your experiences. Complete description.
