Krkland Arts Center Announces Upcoming Classes And Workshops

CLASSES AND WORKSHOPS

WINTER QUARTER begins next Monday, 

January 11!

Registration is open to all. Sign up today for one of our featured classes (below), or visit us online to view our full Winter Quarter catalog for all classes offered this season. Read more.

Breaking Out of Artist Block

Rebecca DeVere
Saturday, January 23, 10 AM - 6 PM
$100 Members, $115 Nonmembers

Feeling stuck? Need new ideas? Through mixed media projects, writing exercises, and group activities this class will help you identify artist block and break through to new ideas. Tools for getting unstuck, mapping creative goals, and breaking free of old thought patterns will be covered in this inspirational and fun class! No experience necessary. All supplies included.
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Precious Metal Clay Charms Workshop

MerEdith Arnold
Saturday, January 16, Noon - 5:30 PM
$100 Members, $110 Nonmembers

Explore Precious Metal Clay (PMC) in this fun afternoon workshop. PMC works like clay but turns into fine silver when fired. Students will learn to texturize, stamp, mold, and shape PMC to create professional looking earrings, charms, beads, and more. Each student will take home three to five finished pieces. No prerequisites, all supplies included.
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Handbuilding: From Function to Figure

Sandy Farmer
Begins Tuesday, January 19, 6:30 - 9:30 PM (9 Sessions)
$250 Members, $270 Nonmembers

Develop your creative ideas and expand your technical skills in this class for advanced beginners to experienced students. Students are encouraged to include mixed media elements in their work, whether functional, decorative, or sculptural. Weekly demonstrations cover clay techniques, building tips for successful firing, and surface/finish options.
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Figure Drawing

Patti Treger
Begins Wednesday, January 27, 6:30 - 9:30 PM (8 Sessions)
$260 Members, $280 Nonmembers (model fee included)

Develop your observational skills and learn to express the essential elements of the figure while working from a live model. This class will cover gesture, contour, volume, depth, perspective, proportion, foreshortening, light values, and landmarks of the anatomy. Individual guidance will be provided, and returning students are welcome.
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Continuing Drawing

Michael Lorefice
Begins Monday, January 18, 7 - 10 PM (8 Sessions)
$195 Members, $215 Nonmembers

Expand on the traditional notion of drawing. Moving beyond skills learned in foundation classes, this class for advanced beginners focuses on visual relationships within a composition, teaches students to draw upon other artistic traditions, and apply these concepts to their drawings.
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Painting Studio (All Mediums)

Ryan Finnerty
Begins Thursday, February 5, 7 - 10 PM
$195 Members, $215 Nonmembers

Improve your skill, knowledge, and appreciation of painting through exploration in an informal studio setting. This class is ideal for continuing through advanced painting students. Students will examine questions of material, design, and inspiration through a series of exercises and critiques. All painting mediums are appropriate. Prerequisite: Painting experience required.
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YOUTH CLASSES AND WORKSHOPS

Silk Scarves Family Workshop

Britt Rynearson
[Ages 12 - 15 with an adult]
Saturday, January 16, 10 AM - 2 PM
$60 Members, $70 Nonmembers

[Ages 10 - 13 with an adult]
Sunday, January 10, 10 AM - 2 PM
$60 Members, $70 Nonmembers

Join us for this fun family workshop where you will conceptualize and design a painted silk scarf using batik methods. You will be introduced to basic shibori stitching methods and immersion dying. Taught by a professional surface design artist, this workshop will expand your horizons. No prerequisites, all supplies included. Dress to mess.
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Cartooning and Animation

Suraiya Daud
Starts Tuesday, January 19, 4 - 5:30 PM (9 Sessions)
$115 Members, $130 Nonmembers

[Ages 9 - 12] Learn the basics of cartooning and animation in this fun class. Students will learn how to draw figures, create a variety of expressions, and learn how to bring an inanimate object to life. Students will create their own characters for their very own flip book. Various styles and elements of visual storytelling will be examined.
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Creating from Fantasy and Storytelling

Kimberly Cisneros
Starts Tuesday, January 26, 4:30 - 6:30 PM (8 Sessions)
$140 Members, $155 Nonmembers

[Ages 7 - 10] Explore the many different ways of telling a story through means of illustration, including the magical appeal of anime, and the quirky placement of objects used in Surrealism. For one project each student will illustrate a stanza from a Haiku poem. The excitement of surprise will be in composing the poem like a puzzle: compiling the images into a whole, and discovering the poem in its entirety.
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Art Introduction: Explore Art

Danielle Phillips
Starts Monday, January 25, 4:30 - 6:30 PM (4 Sessions)
$80 Members, $90 Nonmembers

[Ages 9 - 12] Young artists will experiment working in two and three dimensions in this fun class. Students will explore drawing, painting, and sculpture, working on a variety of materials such as paper, canvas, and clay.
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CURRENT EXHIBITION

Opening this week:

Depth of Field
KAC Instructors' Exhibit
January 9 - February 6, 2010
Opening reception:
Friday, January 8, 6 - 8:30 PM

Curated by Tim Cross
Featured artists: Ryan Finnerty, Carol Gouthro, Michael Lorefice, Aaron Murray, Doug Parry, and Kinu Watanabe.

This biennial exhibition features a selection of painting, printmaking, ceramics, and sculpture, from our diversely talented instructors.

has: shop KAC at Kirkland Parkplace

Kirkland Arts Center's Fine + Functional Art Store
at Kirkland Parkplace
336 Parkplace, Kirkland
425-827-8219
Store Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 10 AM to 6 PM
Sunday, 12 to 5 PM

Conveniently located at the core of downtown Kirkland, has (Kirkland Arts Center's new retail store) features a great selection of handmade functional ceramics, sculptures, prints, paintings, jewelry, textiles, and other one-of-a-kind artisan objects created by KAC members and instructors. New works arriving daily; visit us soon - and often - at has!

With each purchase at has, you'll be providing essential support to individual artists and to Kirkland Arts Center programs.