October Classes at the NEW Center for the Arts!

Join us at the NEW Center for the Arts Evergreen! We're all moved in and ready for Spectacular Autumn Classes!

Floral Design with Marilyn Quigley
You will learn the elements of design (form, color,texture, line, balance and proportion) to create unique, fresh flower arrangements. The instructor will teach the mechanics and techniques needed to create professional floral designs. Spark your creative potential using beautiful fresh flowers to design floral arrangements for gifts, events, or profit! You will learn a new skill and have fun using beautiful flowers to enhance your life. You will take home a stunning arrangement at the end of class.

DATES: Thursday, October 5,
TIME:9:30 am-11:30am
PRICE: $40.00 CAE Member; $45.00 Non-Member; $25 materials fee
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Gouache Studies with Ed Zorensky
Ed's stunning landscape, "Blue Kayak," was recently juried into the Rocky Mountain National Watermedia Show which can be seen in the CAE gallery. Here's your opportunity to learn an unusual watermedia technique from a nationally recognized artist!

Painting from observation is based on the interpretation of related shapes, values and colors. Visual expression emerges through a balance of abstraction and reality. Gouache is a perfect medium for exploring these creative choices with any motif. It dries quickly, mixes easily, and offers a color range that transposes well to larger finished works in oil, acrylic or water media. This six-week course will focus on the practical use of gouache to study the pure language of painting through rendering a landscape, a figure and a still life--two weeks for each. The course is designed to help the beginner get underway with confidence and to encourage the experienced artist to expand creative perception.

While there is no materials fee (students bring their own supplies), a $20 model fee will be collected at the the first class.

DATES: Six Thursdays: October 5, 12, 19, 26, November 2, 9,
TIMES: 1:00pm-4:00pm
PRICE: $210.00 CAE Member; $240.00 Non-Member
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Photography for Beginners with Stephanie O'Malley
Did you buy a fancy new camera and then realize you have no idea how it works? Learn how to get that thing off automatic! In this introductory class, we will begin by discussing what makes a great photograph. Learn the basic settings on most cameras, such as f-stop, shutter speed and ISO, and how you can use these to create your own masterpieces. Next, learn the basics about lenses. Which lenses are good for portraits? Which lenses are used for landscape or wildlife photography? Bring your camera and your camera manual so you can practice in class! Space is limited.
DATES: Saturday, October 7
TIME:9:00am-3:00pm
PRICE: $90.00 CAE Member; $100.00 Non-Member; $10 materials fee
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Let's Paint Purely with Watercolor with Cathy Jones
In this one day workshop, we will paint with transparent and opaque watercolors to create a painting or two of your own. Bring your own photos of what you would like to draw first and then paint. We will practice a few basic drawing techniques from "Drawing on the Rights Side of the Brain" by Betty Edwards which should then help you draw your image before painting. Then the rest of the time we will paint on paper with watercolor and canvas and/or board with a new technique involving gesso and watercolor.

DATES: Monday, October 9
TIMES: 10:00am-3:00pm
PRICE: $99.00 CAE Member; $110.00 Non-Member
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Try it All! with Sally Davidson Marovich
This is your opportunity to see what medium speaks to you. You'll experiment with Acrylics, Pastels and Watercolors in a fun, safe and supportive environment. No experience needed.
All supplies provided.

DATES: Three Wednesdays in October: October 11, 18 and 25,
TIMES: 1:00-4:00pm
PRICE: $150.00 CAE Member; $165.00 Non-Member; $15 materials fee
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Memoir Writing I with Carolyn Campbell
Colorado native Carolyn Evans Campbell has published five books of poetry, all of which received the Colorado Authors League Top Hand Award. She has also received three national awards including the Willa Award for her first novel. Study Memoir Writing with the master! Memoir represents a slice of life in which authors reflect upon intimate issues, family stories, specific events or personal relationships. It is a glimpse of the past, vividly recreated through creative writing.

DATES:
Four Friday mornings: October 13, 20, 27 and November 3,
TIMES: 9:30 am-12:15pm
PRICE: $130.00 CAE Member; $145.00 Non-Member
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Gourdsket with Jayne Colburn
A Gourdsket is created when you combine two ancient materials and techniques into one beautiful, contemporary art form. You begin with an ancient vessel called "Lagenaria," (a hard-shelled gourd), then add on pine needles and waxed linen using the 9000 year-old technique of coiling. Hence the name "Gourdsket;" part-gourd, part-basket! The Whirlwind is an ancient basket design based on the legend that whirling winds were a result of ceremonies linking the material and spiritual realms.

No experience is necessary to awaken your creative spirit by learning the ancient art form of coiled basketry and how to apply it on to a hard shelled gourd. Jayne's thorough demonstrations and gentle teaching methods and pace have taught thousands of hands over three decades. Learn about the history behind the art form, how to find and prepare natural materials, and how to use their natural marking to accentuate design. Warning: You will delight in your finished project and be eager to create many more! A fun and unique holiday gift idea!

DATES: Saturday, October 14
TIMES: 9:00am-2:00pm
PRICE: $85.00 CAE Member; $95.00 Non-Member; $20 materials fee
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