Students enjoy a gentle introduction to hand building and wheel throwing in this relaxed beginner’s class!
Learn how to make fabulous cups, bowls, plates, and vases in this fun and informative class designed for beginning level students. Students will start with hand building and transition onto the wheel.
Make pumpkins from Clay and turn them into boxes, candle holders, and more!
Enjoy the pleasures of making your own useful pots. Students will explore techniques for creating beautiful ceramic pieces by hand and on the potter’s wheel. Form, function, and various surface treatments will be presented in a fun, informal setting.
In a fun and supportive workshop setting led by Cassandra Lewis, adult writers of all levels will have the opportunity to share an excerpt of their fictional work in progress and receive encouraging feedback. Using a writer-centered workshop method that fosters cohesion and community, each writer will get to decide how layered their feedback will be. Writers will also review the foundational story elements and respond to writing prompts to generate new work with a focus on revision and expansion.
Learn a new technique or revisit one you love, printing on the museum’s large Charles Brand press! *Students provide their own paper; ink, plates and equipment provided.
Enjoy the pleasures of making your own useful pots. Students will explore techniques for creating beautiful ceramic pieces by hand and on the potter’s wheel. Form, function, and various surface treatments will be presented in a fun, informal setting.
Students will learn basic wheel thrown shapes to build a foundation on the wheel. This class will learn to wedge and center clay, which are necessary elements to wheel thrown pottery. Weekly demonstrations will focus on cups and bowls.
Students with a foundation of throwing skills can continue to build their voice in this class. Demonstrations will guide individual creative projects and strengthen skills to advance student’s techniques in clay.
Students will explore a range of techniques for creating decorative and/or functional ceramic pieces on the potter’s wheel. Lessons can include a range from beginner fundamentals to developing skills to improve technique. For more experienced potters, the teacher can help you experiment with more advanced techniques (i.e. clay marbling, donut vase, bigger sizes).
Students with a foundation of throwing skills can continue to build their voice in this class. Demonstrations will guide individual creative projects and strengthen skills to advance student’s techniques in clay.
In this multi-week class, students will explore a variety of approaches to character design and storytelling. A wide range of techniques and materials will be practiced based on interest and intention including pencil drawing, inking, watercolor, markers, and colored pencils. These materials will be explored congruently to create characters used to play table top games such as Dungeons and Dragons, but also comic making, paintings, and more! Students will also learn to cut and prep paper, measure, thumbnail, and sketch. Topics of discussion will include character design, setting, concept, and mark making.
In this multi-week class, students will learn various approaches to illustration, both traditional and utilizing new techniques and technologies. Materials explored included pencil, archival inks, watercolor, gouache, alcohol markers, paint pens, and colored pencils. Students will learn various approaches to pattern-making, cross-hatching, and other forms of mark making as well as combining created imagery into collage.
This course will focus on approaches and techniques for representational and impressionistic acrylic painting. Direct observation along with working from a photographic reference will be the basis for combining light, shadow, and color to create realistic paintings.
Students are invited to work on their own, with teacher instruction. Class has background music, along with gentle group critiques. Please bring your own drink. The teacher gives one new lesson every week and students frequently paint the lesson.
This “Loper Method” class is designed to provide students with methods and techniques taught by the late Delaware artist Edward Loper Sr. Students will learn about achieving rich color through direct observation and the use of a limited palette by painting a still life while focusing on light, line, color, and space.
This class will focus on the fundamentals of oil painting for all levels including beginners. Using a direct ala prima approach, we will explore concepts of using light, shadow and value to create representational oil painting from observation or photo reference. Emphasis will be placed on techniques in controlling the medium, color theory and composition. Students will have the option of directed projects or applying concepts to their subject of choice. The class is designed to learn at your own paced with individualized instruction. Demonstrations and presentations will be given on various topics.
This class will focus on the fundamentals of oil painting for all levels including beginners. Using a direct ala prima approach, we will explore concepts of using light, shadow and value to create representational oil painting from observation or photo reference. Emphasis will be placed on techniques in controlling the medium, color theory and composition. Students will have the option of directed projects or applying concepts to they’re subject of choice. The class is designed to learn at your own paced with individualized instruction. Demonstrations and presentations will be given on various topics.
This class is designed for students with previous painting experience. Individual instruction and feed-back will be given based on each students needs in accomplishing they’re specific goals. Presentations and demonstrations will be given based on student interests.
For artists interested in exploring their inner voice and getting in touch with their creativity, this class is for you! Students will learn the basics of acrylic painting alongside expressive brushwork and color application.
For artists interested in exploring their inner voice and getting in touch with their creativity, this class is for you! Students will learn the basics of acrylic painting alongside expressive brushwork and color application.
Practice basic drawing techniques. Gesture, contour, quality of line, composition, form, and perspective will be emphasized.
This watercolor class will focus on the traditional landscape with painting demonstrations for skies, water, greenery, and buildings in a relaxed setting.
This is an opportunity for experienced metals students to work independently in the Museum’s metalsmithing studio. A monitor is present for safety and to help guide students with their projects. Completion of Beyond Beginner Jewelry Making or approval by a Museum metals instructor is required to attend.
Participants will see their skills advance as new techniques are added and old techniques are refined. Projects will change each semester. Students must have completed Beginning Jewelry Making.
This class is for beginners. Students will learn how to use essential jewelry-making tools to create their designs. They will also cover all essential metal jewelry-making techniques, including cutting metal, filing, hammering, cold connections, textures, soldering, and beginner bezel settings. Each week, a new project will be explored using a new technique. Students are encouraged to attend all classes, as this is an info-packed class. Please bring a notepad. The class runs for 10 weeks.
In this multi-week class, students will learn how to combine enameled forms and even flat backed stones or found objects with fabricated metal jewelry. This class will expand introductory metalsmithing and fabrication techniques, so while acting as an advanced metals class, no prior enameling experience is required. Primary techniques demonstrated include introductions to fusing enamel, surface decoration, bezel setting, hydraulic forming, eutectic soldering, ear wires, ring making, brooches, and more. Students are expected to explore narrative and connections between the enameled forms and the jewelry created to house them, making planning and sketching an important part of the process.
This is an opportunity for students familiar with enameling to work independently in the studio. A monitor is present for safety and to help guide students with their projects. Completion of a beginner Enameling course or permission from a museum instructor is required to attend.
In this class students will learn a quick and easy way to make a simple hard bound book. In the first session we will discuss the basic tools and skills of bookbinding, cutting, folding, gluing etc. will learn how to prepare a pamphlet to be bound, and then in the second session we will attach the boards and cover them. We will also discuss how to take the basic skills learned in the class and apply them to other book arts projects. Students need to be comfortable cutting with an xacto or mat knife.
Come fine tune your jewelry skills, utilize state of the art equipment and gain inspiration from peers in Metals open studio. Closed toed shoes, hair tie for long hair & natural fiber clothing, please.
Come fine tune your jewelry skills, utilize state of the art equipment and gain inspiration from peers in Metals open studio. Closed toed shoes, hair tie for long hair & natural fiber clothing, please.
Students of any background or enameling level will be able to participate in this multi-week class. For beginners, this means basic fusing to introductory techniques such as graphite drawing, glass etching and wet-packing, among others. More advanced students will be able to continue building on their projects while techniques such as luster, overglazes, underglazes, and various other surface decoration techniques are incorporated. Techniques covered: fusing, counter enameling, wet-packing graphite drawing, glass etching, under and overglazes, basse-taille, luster.
Young artists explore drawing, painting, paper arts, mixed media, fibers and found objects while learning art techniques and history through engaging, inspirational projects.
