2010 Classes

	The Basics of Watercolor with Susan Perin Mon–Fri, Jan 11–15, 10am–4pm The Center, Hailey $190 members / $240 nonmembers  $30 supply fee • Register Now Registration deadline: Tue, Jan 5 With just a few colors you can create glorious watercolors, both realistic and abstract. Explore and understand the color wheel—hue, value, and intensity—with your brush. Learn to lay a wash and use wet on wet and glaze techniques. We’ll draw inspiration from our imagination and favorite photos. We will work in the studio on a still life with color, shadows, and reflected light. The week concludes with a critique.
	Indian Cooking: Perfecting the Curry with Gay Bawa Odmark Sun, Jan 24, 3:30pm Gay Bawa Odmark’s home $95 members / $145 nonmembers • Register Now Registration deadline: Mon, Jan 11 Bring India to your home with this introductory class to Indian cuisine. If you’ve been wanting to try making Indian curries for the first time, this is the class for you! Students are asked to bring a knife, cutting board and beverage.
	Italic Lettering and Handmade Books with Wendy Watson Diedrick Mon–Fri, Feb 1–5, 2–5pm The Center, Hailey $165 members / $215 nonmembers • Register Now Registration deadline: Fri, Jan 15 Create a decorative handmade book using your own italic letters! This class will begin with an introduction to the art of italic calligraphy. Beginning with a monoline letterform, students will learn structure and stroke sequence. Advancing to the edged pen, participants will then experience the characteristic thick and thin style of italic lettering. In addition, participants will create a decorative handmade book using colorful, painted paste papers that they will design. Learn about paper grain, folding, tearing, cutting, page layout and design, and sewn and glued bindings. Students can write simple quotations in their books using their italic letterforms or add other embellishments. The completed book could be a memorable gift or a valued personal keepsake.
	Printmaking without a Press: Polyester Plate Lithography with Sandy Marostica Tue–Wed, Feb 9 & 10, 10–4pm The Center, Hailey$100 members / $150 nonmembers + $20 supply fee • Register Now Registration deadline: Tue, Jan 26 Polyester plate lithography was developed to answer the need for a less toxic printing technique. The polyester plate material is approximately the weight of cardstock paper and is porous. Images can be created on the plate through numerous means—litho crayons, Sharpie pens, ink washes or a laser-jet printer. Hand-applied pressure transfers ink from the plate to the paper, eliminating the need for a printing press. This workshop will explore the methods of creating and printing the imaged plates.
	The Art and Craft of Photography with Dev Khalsa Fri–Sun, March 5–7 Fri & Sat, 9am–5pm and Sun, 10am–5pm The Center, Hailey$145 members / $195 nonmembers + $15 supply fee • Register Now Registration deadline: Fri, Feb 19 This digital workshop will take you from the basics of exposure, manipulation of depth of field and shutter speed to the ultimate goal of creating compelling photographs with your digital camera. We will focus not only on the technical aspects of photography, but also take the time to look more closely at our surroundings and to translate light into new and interesting images. The instructor will cover all the necessary ingredients for making great photographs—metering, ISO, lens choice and composition—while strengthening your individual skills. By the end of the workshop, you will be able to control how motion and depth of field affect your photographs and know how to use your camera in manual mode. This workshop will inform, inspire and challenge you to make interesting images in your everyday surroundings. All students are required to have a SLR digital camera.
	Introduction to Pastels with Irene Lester Mon–Fri, Apr 26–30, 9am–3pm The Center, Hailey $275 members / $325 nonmembers • Register Now Registration deadline: Mon, Apr 12 Pastels are a wonderful and versatile medium. They can be an effective bridge between drawing and painting. In this class students will learn to achieve direct, brilliant and spontaneous paintings with soft pastels. Discover how to layer, blend and use different types of pastels on various surfaces. Irene earned a teaching degree from Chico State College and currently resides in California. She is a signature member of the Northwest Pastel Society.
	Drawing Theme Study— Tea Cups, Trees and Faces with Mitsuru Brandon Weds, May 5–26, 5:30–8:30pm The Center, Hailey $90 members / $140 nonmembers • Register Now Registration deadline: Wed, Apr 21 This class will emphasize pictorial composition, style and color drawing techniques. Advanced drawing students will experiment with the proper application of advanced linear perspective, the depiction of complicated shapes and figures and the ability to convey emotion through drawing elements such as composition, color application and line distortion. By the end of the class, students will have created a body of work in both black and white and color that demonstrates an understanding of design principles and color theory. They will be able to demonstrate critical analysis, both visually and verbally, and make drawings that explore specific aspects of style and process.
	Blogging Intensive with Fara Warner Thu–Sat, May 6–8, Thu & Fri, 5–8pm and Sat, 10–4pm The Center, Hailey $100 members / $150 nonmembers • Register Now Registration deadline: Thu, Apr 22 For many people, blogging is an intriguing mystery—something that other people do. In this three-day introductory course, participants will explore the blogging, or self-publishing, phenomenon. Participants will visit a variety of blogs, including political, travel and parenting blogs. They will create a blog, find their blog “voice,” and devise a weekly blog writing plan. Practical skills include creating a blog using free Internet-based tools; adding links, photos and video; and taking advantage of social media tools such as Twitter and Facebook to drive readers to blogs. Participants will contribute to a workshop blog designed to help students reach each other’s blogs and see how blog aggregation works. Participants will finish the course with a blog that includes at least three postings, a blog writing plan and tools to drive readers (and potential advertisers) to their blogs.
	Mixed Media / Collage Class with Vicki Fish Thu–Sat, May 13–15, 10–5pm The Center, Hailey $230 members / $280 nonmembers - $20 supply fee • Register Now Registration deadline: Thu, Apr 29 Think outside the box while making art inside a box! Working with a wide range of traditional and alternative materials, this class will teach you how to transform ordinary objects into something rare and remarkable as you explore the use of the box to make art. Through demonstrations and hands-on projects, we’ll work with assemblage, collage and altered images and learn methods of selection, integration and assembly inherent to this limitless range of materials.

One night workshops

Come to these one evening classes to stretch your creative wings and integrate more art into your life! These classes are designed as introductions and all are welcome. Call in advance to guarantee a space or just show up. To reserve a place, please call 726.9491 ex 10.

Social Networking Series—in Two Parts! with Abbey Christensen
Thu, 5:30–7:30pm at The Center, Hailey
$25 members / $50 nonmembers (individual workshops)
$40 members / $90 nonmembers (both workshops)

If you register yourself online for these classes - and are taking BOTH - please use the "drop down" menu to choose the "both" option. You'll get the discounted price when registering for both classes.
Apr 22—Exploring the World of Facebook • Register Now
Apr 29—To Tweet or Not to Tweet, That is the Question • Register Now

Millions of people use Facebook and Twitter every day to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, share links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet. Join Abbey Christensen for an introductory exploration into the fascinating yet often overwhelming world of Facebook and Twitter.

 

Drawing Sampler-
In 3 parts with Lisa Whitworth
5:30-7:30pm
$20 members/ $25 non-members for each class
The Center, Hailey

Oct 8- Line and Angle
Oct 15- Shading and Proportion
Oct 22- Drawing from 2D Images

Have you ever started drawing and something just didn’t look right? Join us for one or all three of these quick introductions; we’ll practice drawing objects from photographs and from life to learn techniques that will make your drawings more accurate. Watch your drawings change from looking “weird” to looking “wonderful”!

Writers workshops

Every June, The Center offers a writer's workshop with highly respected, award-winning authors. The workshops give local writers the opportunity to work with talented instructors right here in the Wood River Valley. Previous instructors have been Ron Carlson, Danielle Trussoni and Anthony Doerr.

2009 Workshop: "Making things Simple": A Workshop for Fiction Writers with Brady Udall Mon–Fri, June 8–12, 2009 The Center, Hailey I probably don’t have to tell you that writing a story is a supremely difficult enterprise. Stories, by their very nature, are complicated, makeshift things. As the novelist Richard Ford once said, stories “…originate in strong, disorderly impulses and proceed in their creation by mischance, faulty memory and distorted understanding, with the result being a straining, barely containable object held in fierce and sometimes insufficient control.” How do we even begin to approach such difficulty, such chaos? By making things simple, and by asking the right questions. So that’s what we’ll try to do in this class: strip away some of the mysteries of fiction writing, come to stronger understanding of what good stories are, and how they are made. And thereby become better writers ourselves. Please submit a piece of fiction (no more than 15 double-spaced pages) in advance. Scholarships are available, please call for information 726.9491 x10.

Photos

	Weaving Workshop with Stefanie Marvel – February 2008 View Photos
	Beginning Monotype Workshop with Jen Galpin-Mikesh View Photos
	Mixed Media idea generating with Lauren Mantecon View Photos

Registration and Materials

You can register for Center classes by calling the office or registering and paying online at any time! Register for a class now

Please make sure to print out a supply list if there is one here on the website. Keep in mind that some of these supplies may need to be purchased well in advance as our local art supplies are quite limited.

Materials
Please note that is the responsibility of the students to know their own sensitivities to the materials that may be used in any of the classes. All adult classes require students to bring their own supplies. Students can obtain a supply list at the time of registration or through our website. Some supply fees may apply.

Registration, Refund and Credit Policy
For all classes a 90% refund is given upon withdrawal prior to the registration deadline. No credits or refunds will be given after the registration deadline. When a class is cancelled, students are issued a full refund.

College credit is available for most classes through the College of Southern Idaho. Inquire about college credit when registering. An additional fee is charged for college credit and is payable directly to the College of Southern Idaho.