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Classes / Activities

For over 10 years we have been offering fun and educational classes and workshops, instructed by some of the areas best artists. Classes are weekly and workshops are special 1, 2 or 3 day events. Here are some of our classes:

CLASSES  & WORKSHOPS

WEEKLY CLASSES

Tuesdays~ Drop In and Draw Class ~ Pat Dittberner 9:30am—12:30pm
Cost:$15.00 non-members $13.50 Members Come, learn to draw or improve your skills. Join us any Tuesday and have a great time! Supply list is available at front desk.

Thursdays~ Soft Pastels ~  Donna Garven ~ 9:30 am -12:30 pm-Cost: $15.00 non-members $13.50 Members. Get your set of Soft  Pastels, (Hobby Lobby has them at 14.95), you can buy the right  paper from the instructor so you are ready to participate in this fun class!

Thursdays~ oil Painting ~  Donna Garven ~ 9:30 am -12:30 pm-  Cost: $15 Supply List will be available. She will teach the basics of Oil Painting and the use of Color. Subjects will be varied each week. Come join her and she will introduce you to the fun of Oil Painting and how to use soft pastels. The Basics in Oil will be brush techniques, color washes, blending and mixing paint, use of a palette knife in painting and more.

 


Beginning/Intermediate Watercolor~Kay Barnebey ~ Check in for Dates
Cost: $25 if you just drop in or $80 for 4. Supply List is available at front desk. Learn to paint or improve your skills!

 

Workshops-

Sue McClurg ~Jewelry Workshops
Please go to our Calendar for dates and times of Sue McClurg's Jewelry Workshops.

CHECK BACK FOR FUTURE DATES:

Hammered Silver Bracelet (a favorite) Cost: $15instruction+$ 20supply 

 Fun with Chains, Beads & Wire   Cost: $15- Instruction+ $15 Supplies

 Beaded Cabachon ( for pendant) Cost: $15 inst + $15 Supply. Bring a cabachon or purchase one from Sue.

Wire Wrap Beach Glass  Cost: $15 Instruct +$5 Supplies

Dichroic Glass Fusing 9:30-about 2  Cost:$75 Instruction + $25 Supplies You will make 2 pendants a pin & earrings

 Fun with Polymer Clay    Cost:$15 instruction + $5 Supplies


Sue McClurg in Dichro Workshop

Pottery Workshop with Bill Hildebrand ~ Hand Built & On the Wheel Pottery
September 27th - Nov.15th
6-8:30pm Cost: $210 non-members $180 members
Please Pre-register & pay by September 20th


Bill Hildebrand

"WATERCOLOR MADE SIMPLE" -  Lee Ricks ~
October 8 & 9
9:30am-4:30 with a lunch break
Cost: $95 for the 2 days. Pre-register & pay by October 1st.

EASY COIL BASKETS-Judith DeShong Hall CHECK BACK FOR FUTURE DATES  Cost: $45 for both classes  Create wonderful baskets with the coiling method. Various twine and yarns allow for a great variety of looks.  This method easily converts to non‑traditional shapes.  Use strong yarn, embroidery thread and cords in creating unique baskets.  Coiling projects can be carried and worked on anywhere.  Week 1 - Starting/Finishing;      Week 2 - Review/Fancy Variations

 


 

Color, color Everywhere! - Painting Workshop-Judith DeShong Hall
CHECK BACK FOR FUTURE DATES
9:30-4pm
Cost:$135 for all 3 days Bring your choice of Mediums-Watercolor, Acrylics, Oils or Pastels
Need more color in your life? Crave exciting color in your paintings?  This class will talk about color optics, color mixing, color harmonies.  You’ll learn how to enrich and unify your art with color, whatever your medium or style.  Students will practice with color, create with color.  Eugene Delacroix said, ‘Colors are the music of the eyes.”  Come have fun.

Plein air (Paint/Sketch outdoors) – Judith deShong hall
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Fridays 1-3:30pm
Cost:$25 each session. Bring your choice of materials, we will sketch and/or paint in prime picturesque locations around Port A. Meet at the Art Center 1st to establish location.

 

Raku Pottery Afternoon  Workshop - Ken Barnett
CHECK BACK FOR FUTURE DATES  
Monday through Friday
Time:1:30-4:30 pm   with Glazing on Feb.191:30-4:30 and  Firing on ? Total 8 Sessions-Cost: Members $220 non-Members $250.

ACRYLIC/ OIL PAINTING-GUY MORROW - 3 Day Painting  Workshop /Sea related
Oil or Acrylic - 9:30am-5pm
(bring a sack lunch)
CHECK BACK FOR FUTURE DATES Cost: $175 for all 3 days We will finish a painting a day. Come learn from this excellent instructor. Supply List available at Art Center front desk.

Dinah Bowman & Friends - Framing Workshop 1-2:30pm
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Cost:$15 Pre-Pay & Register at Art Center by ?-Presented by Dinah Bowman Gallery. Providing professional custom framing for 30 years. Team taught by Johnny Bilano Photography, Marcie Durocher-- High end archival framing, and Dinah Bowman framing for competition and your home, trouble shooting. Bring one art piece you would like to have a design created just for you. Class limited to 10,if we go over that # another workshop will start at 3:00pm. Questions email: Dinah@dinahbowman.com

Writing Workshop-Instructor-Beverly Charles-
Check in for Future Dates



CLICK HERE for Complete Details! (pdf format)
 

Click Here for Photos of June & July, 2009 Youth Art Camps!

Tiddle Caylor, Jack Gant, Ken Barnett & Eddy Lee Skipwith Play So Fine in the Art Center’s Classroom - at the First Friday Receptions!

 


Physical Address:
323 N. Alister
Port Aransas, Texas
361-749-7334
Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 1175
Port Aransas, TX 78373
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