No Experience Needed

Pastel Plus 6 sessions

with Jill Shaffer

April 7th to May 12th, 2026

$150 More Info

Pastel Plus

Tuesday April 7, 2026 thru May 12, 2026 1:00pm - 3:00pm

Six weeks of a creative learning experience. SOFT PASTEL is pure pigment in stick form. You will learn how to use this stick tool to create your Art. You will also learn how to transform this pastel to a liquidpaint, as a background wash. Pastel pencils will also be used.

Bring to class: Sketchbook, any soft pastels you have, a printed photo reference, apron, paint cloth.

ACA will furnish: Papers, some pastels, easels and backboards.

$15 materials included 

Age 16 and up

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Take Flight (6 sessions)

with Pi Benio

March 16th to April 20th, 2026

$175 More Info

Take Flight

Learn subtractive sculptural technique where you take material away to release the form, think Michaelangelo, while rendering bird forms in clay, wood, stone, found and mixed media. You will work with wire loop tools in clay, chisels and rifflers in stone, the bandsaw with wood and mixed media learning the cabriole technique to create your unique designed by you bird forms.

Five birds, each unique in six weeks!

Mon March 16-April 20-April 13, 6 weeks, 6-8pm

Materials: $22 included in class fees

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Introduction to Portraits (5 weeks)

with Carol Duncan-Poore

March 18th to April 15th, 2026

$150 More Info

Introduction to Portraits

Creating portraits looks fun but can be intimidating. Working from photographs you will learn about proportions and how to draw facial features accurately. Using charcoal you will then learn how use light and shadow to create the form of a face and render eyes, nose, lips, chin, forehead proportionally.

Wednesdays, 6-8pm March 18-April 15 Poore

Materials: $10 each (included)

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Pinecone Windchime

with Pi Benio

March 8th, 2026

$60 More Info

Pinecone Windchime

Using nature as our guide we will create multiple forms in descending sizes to create an attractive and musical chime for your home, patio, deck or garden. Cones can be formed either handbuilt or for those with throwing experience on the wheel.

Sun March 8, 2-4 pm

$15 materials included

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Mono-print Plates

with Deb Allen

$50 More Info

Mono-print Plates

Create your very own decorative plate using a reverse painting technique called mono-print. Participants will use colored slips to reverse paint a design that will be transferred onto a plate that you will throw on the wheel. The possibilities are only limited to your imagination.

Projects will be bisque and glazed fired and ready for pickup appropriately 2 weeks after the class.

Ages 18 and up

March 7, 12:00-2:00

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