Listen to your creative calling and realize that art is a form of self-care. Taking an art class can improve your life in many ways – sign up today and take advantage of just a few of the benefits of art:
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Please register at least one week in advance, to allow time to purchase class supplies (if needed). See registration receipt for supply list, if applicable.
Drawing - Beginners Learn basic drawing skills to gain understanding of form and shape. Practice lines/drawing values to form an object and then apply the skills to create a drawing. This is a great class for beginning artists and doers who want to try something new. Class is limited to those with no, or very limited, drawing experience. Instructor: Dana Schoeneshoefer
Drawing – All Levels Explore drawing skills and start to understand forms, using lights and darks to shape the subject. Practice line/drawing values, edges and planes in learning about design and perspective. Apply these skills to create a drawing. Great for beginner and intermediate artists who want to continue learning about drawing. Instructor: Dana Schoeneshoefer
Testimonial from a past participant: "Class has brought me so much joy and I have learned how to express myself through art."
Oil Painting Beginners Give painting a try! Learn the basics of composition, oil painting materials and their use, then progress to colors and color mixing, values and composition. Start with a landscape, then proceed to your choice of subject. Each class includes a demonstration taught by a patient instructor who knows how to make class fun! Instructor: Marva Moir
Testimonial from past participant: "This was my first art class and I was absolutely blown away by my teacher!"
Oil Painting Intermediate Join this class of serious artists to paint, discuss techniques and share your passion for art. Color and value are emphasized. Tips and techniques are presented to help artists grow their work in an encouraging, informal setting. Instructor: Marva Moir
Beginners Learn about surfaces, mixing and controlling paint, various types of watercolor paint, brushes and other materials. Complete a small painting to frame at home. $10 supply fee due at first class. Half-hour lunch break. Instructor: Dana Schoenshoefer
Intermediate If you want to further your skills, this is the class for you. Demonstrations are followed by guided independent work on your project. $10 supply fee. Half-hour lunch break. Instructor: Dana Schoeneshoefer
Testimonial from past participant: "My stress level is through the roof but this outlet has been a true gift. The community I find myself a part of now is unbelievable."
Benefits
Appreciation Mixed Bouquet Made with love to give as a heartfelt thank you! Bring props to add, as we create and share heartfelt notes for those we appreciate. $25 supply fee due at class.
Pumpkin Surprise Clean out a pumpkin and create your own festive centerpiece with fall leaves and seasonal flowers! $25 supply fee due at class.
Give Thanks Centerpiece Create the perfect fall centerpiece as a gift for your hostess or to be placed on your Thanksgiving table! Bring your favorite pumpkin seed recipes to share. $25 supply fee due at class.
Christmas in Colorado Get ready for the holidays with a centerpiece highlighting Colorado greenery! Enjoy the smell of berries, pinecones, and flowers that are local to Colorado. $25 supply fee due at class.
Wire Wrap Techniques Set a stone in wire for a simple or fabulous pendant. $35 supply fee due at class.
Wood Carving From European chip carving to relief and carving-in-the-round, receive step-by-step instruction on using hand tools. Class focuses on individual projects with technical aid from the instructor. $8 supply fee for new students payable to instructor. Experienced students can use the class as studio time. Instructor: Joseph Sikora
Quilting - Beginners Learn the fundamentals of quilt piecing including reading and understanding a pattern, using rotary cutters, proper quarter inch seam sewing, and pressing techniques. Complete one 12 inch quilt block during class. Instructor: Beth Hester
Quilting - Intermediate Make a quilt top from beginning to end during this four-part class. Be guided through proper cutting, piecing & pressing to complete the Sunny Days quilt pattern from Missouri Star Quilt Company. Instructor: Beth Hester Quilting and Binding Learn how to sandwich and baste a quilt. Practice stitch in the ditch and echo quilting. Learn how to make your own binding, and attach it to your quilt. These are essential skills to use on every quilt you create. Learn how to make a hanging sleeve for the back of your quilt as well. Instructor: Beth Hester
Enjoy the restorative qualities of working with glass! In this class, you will learn the full process of the copper foil technique to make a stained glass panel to hang in your window. Fee includes the glass, supplies, and use of tools for your project. Instructor: Laura Beth Konopinski
Discover how to create with clay – the preparation, the response, the process and the total transformation of a basic material from the earth into something functional and/or decorative. Learn how to use both hand-building and wheel throwing techniques. The therapeutic value is measured in stress reduction, maintaining connections in the brain, creating unique things that reflect your interests and spirit, and building new friendships.
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Adult pottery classes include 25 pounds of clay, glazes, and two firings. A second 25-pound bag of clay may be purchased for an additional fee. Cone 10 reduction is taught. Tools are purchased separately. The City Park Pottery Studio is a recreational learning environment; production pottery is not permitted. Ages: 18+.
Pottery All Levels Let pottery become your therapy. Learn techniques for throwing on the wheel as well as hand-building. A great class if you are new to clay and for those with experience, continue your understanding of beginning techniques while extending skills in forms, decorating, and "being centered". Demonstrations are provided for both beginning and intermediate students. Daytime and evening classes are offered.
Clay Explorations Explore new avenues in ceramic art and receive instruction designed for intermediate to advanced potters.
Practice Time (POTS - Pottery Open Time Slots) Practice your craft and explore your own direction without instruction - choose one day or several as needed. For intermediate and beyond potters. Glazing and firing is included; clay is an additional fee. POTS and POTS-DC (During Class) are limited to students currently enrolled ina session class.
Majolica Workshop - Intermediate and Advanced potters only Learn this colorful Italian decorating technique–includes demonstration, discussion, creating and decorating. For intermediate and advanced potters only. Fee includes 25 pounds of low-fire clay, glaze and firing. Instructor: Johanna O’Connell
Clay Saggar Firing Workshop Explore this alternative low firing technique. Class includes demonstration, discussion, making and firing pieces. Includes 10 lbs of clay and additional clay needed to make saggars. For intermediate to advanced potters only. Instructor: Johanna O’Connell
Every child can benefit from an art or craft class. Children will:
Create with Clay Kids’ imaginations will spark and spirits soar as they make several hand-built and wheel-thrown objects from clay. AGES: 8-12 Instructor: Stefanie Howard
Pottery on the Wheel Learn the techniques necessary for throwing pottery on the wheel. Make a variety of functional and decorative items. AGES: 13-17 Instructor: Stefanie Howard & Brenna Johnson
Flora Cardenas Flora is a Colorado native and earned a degree in business management from Metropolitan State University of Colorado. She started her own floral and gift business “Flowers By Flora & Gifts, Inc.” located in Arvada. Her passion and love of flowers is centered on sharing, caring, and designing beautiful floral creations for others. Flora teaches floral design for the City of Westminster.
Chromatix Afsheen Ahmad and Rafya Faridi design and teach all of the Chromatix classes. Their classes are simple and easy to do, and they allow students to explore their creativity and imagination. Afsheen’s background is in architecture and art has always been a big part of her life. She has studied drawing, painting and sculpture. Rafya has always had a knack for arts and crafts and has a background in business marketing. She loves to sew, draw, design Henna paintings, and create recycled art pieces.
Caren Johannes Caren has a degree in geological engineering but has had a life-long interest in rocks, minerals, jewelry, and gems. She began her journey as a jewelry artist in 1989 and branched into wire working and silversmith work in 1995. Caren has been teaching jewelry-making classes for more than 20 years.
Marva Moir Born in Toronto, Canada, Marva is a self-taught artist that has been painting fmost of her life. From a very young age Marva had a deep desire to draw and work with colors, and when she moved to the U.S. in 1980 she started teaching at an art studio. Marva has taught oil painting for the City of Westminster for 14 years.
Melissa Burkhardt Moore Melissa Burkhardt Moore loves all things art! After receiving her BFA and MFA in studio art, she began a career as a scenic artist in professional theater, working all over the country and eventually landing at the Denver Center Theater Company. She painted there for six seasons, before heading to Santa Fe, NM to raise a family. There she started her business Re.Cycle.D where she made and sold jewelry and purses from upcycled bike parts and tubes. She also created an ETSY store where she sold hand sewn mermaid skirts. Melissa teaches batik and jewelry classes for the City of Westminster.
Dana Schoeneshoefer Dana is a fine art sculpture and painter from Colorado. She studied at the University of Northern Colorado and then went on to study in Italy. Her love of traveling has highly influenced her art. As an artist she studies her subjects’ mass, movement, and lighting and applies this to her work. Each piece has a sketch done before to look at these elements then the piece can be set in motion. Dana teaches drawing and watercolor classes for the City of Westminster.
Joseph Sikora Joseph was trained in small woodcarving studio in Bavaria, Germany. He worked under the guidance of a master carver for 8 years. In 1991, he returned to the U.S. and opened his own business in Colorado. He teaches wood carving classes for the City of Westminster.
Cyndi Baker Cyndi’s love for clay began in high school when she had a wonderful pottery teacher. She went on to attend Red Rocks and Pikes Peak Community College and then pursued a career as a graphic designer, but Cyndi was continuously working with clay in her spare time. Cyndi has been teaching pottery at the City of Westminster for 12 years and teaches Thursday evening classes.
Martha Cofran Although Martha didn’t take pottery classes until she was in college, she’s been fascinated with ceramics since childhood. Once her children were grown and she was well into her career as a software engineer, she took night classes to become proficient in working with porcelain, her medium of choice. She retired early and has been working in her ceramics studio in Evergreen, CO, and teaching adult pottery at City Park Recreation Center in Westminster, CO ever since. Working in porcelain, Martha creates one-of-a-kind functional pottery with elegant shapes and with surface designs that try to achieve a balance between positive and negative spaces, light and dark colors, and curved and straight lines. In the September/October, 2020 issue, Pottery Making Illustrated published an article she wrote titled “Functional Mandalas” that details the entire process.
Shannon Long Shannon began working with clay in high school and then earned his BFA in Ceramic Art from Arizona State University in 1990 and his MFA in Ceramic Art from Texas Tech in 1996. He has taught ceramics at Texas Tech University and Metropolitan State University. His ceramic art has been exhibited in AZ, NM, TX, CO, KS, OK, and AL. Shannon works as the Studio Coordinator for the City of Westminster and teaches many of the pottery classes as well.
Alicia Maddison Alicia has had a passion for clay for about a decade. She is a certified k-12 art teacher. She enjoys working with students of all ages and different skill levels. Alicia teaches youth and parent & child pottery classes for the City of Westminster.
Will Mantor Will Mantor has a BFA from Oklahoma State University and a MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. He has taught a Pottery All Levels class for the City of Westminster since 2019 and loves working with beginners!.
Johanna O'Connell Johanna originally enrolled in a pottery class offered at City Park Pottery Studio as a student and was later hired as an instructor. Her background is in elementary education and she has lived in Westminster since 1975. She has worked for the City of Westminster as a pottery instructor for the past 30 years and teaches teaching all levels and Majolica workshops.
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