Course Description:
Perfect for beginners interested in learning how to make one-of-a-kind jewelry. Learn basic fabrication skills, such as using a jeweler’s saw, drilling, finishing, soldering, riveting, basic stone setting and color on metal techniques. Expect to complete your own bracelets, rings, necklaces and more!
Skill Level: Beginner
Course Description:
Course Description:
Realize your creative vision in sculpture while advancing your knowledge of hand building with clay. You will receive personalized guidance and advice about constructing for the kiln. An artwork, either historical or contemporary, will be presented each week for inspiration. No experience is necessary.
Skill Level: All Levels
Course Description:
Realize your creative vision in sculpture while advancing your knowledge of hand building with clay. You will receive personalized guidance and advice about constructing for the kiln. An artwork, either historical or contemporary, will be presented each week for inspiration. No experience is necessary.
Skill Level: All Levels
Course Description:
In Guided Open Studio, students will work on individual 3D art forms with guidance and direction from an instructor. Students are welcome to join with works in progress or only a concept. This class is for more experienced sculptors looking for a setting to investigate and experiment with Stoneware clay and other materials. Sculpture experience is recommended.
Skill Level: Intermediate
Course Description:
No previous sculpting experience is necessary as many of the fundamentals will be reviewed as needed by instructor based on previous teaching of Sheila Oettinger, Barbara Goldsmith and Shengsheng Xu over the past two decades at EAC. Explore your particular style while considering the form and proportions and gesture of the model’s pose.“Please bring a sketchbook for 5 or 6 quick sketches to start each class and for studies of each pose.
Skill Level: All Levels
Course Description:
Independent studio time with a nude model holding one pose per session. There is no instructor, and the course is informal with a monitor overseeing all studio sessions. Figure sculpture experience is a prerequisite.
Monitor: Samantha Younis
Course Description:
Have you ever looked at the surface of a coin and wondered how the artist created that intricate portrait image on such a flat surface? Learn about the theory of relief sculpture along with the various types of bas relief sculpture. As Inspiration for your work, Images of reliefs from both the historical and the contemporary prospectives will be shown. Also, learn about line weight, texture, and detail treatment. You will be guided through the process of subtractive and additive sculpting.
Course Description:
Have you ever looked at the surface of a coin and wondered how the artist created that intricate portrait image on such a flat surface? Learn about the theory of relief sculpture along with the various types of bas relief sculpture. As Inspiration for your work, Images of reliefs from both the historical and the contemporary prospectives will be shown. Also, learn about line weight, texture, and detail treatment. You will be guided through the process of subtractive and additive sculpting.
Course Description:
Unleash your creative intuition and transform the beauty of nature into ceramic sculpture. In this hands-on course, you will learn to abstract and reinterpret organic shapes and textures, using hand-building techniques to create a truly unique sculpture. Discover your personal artistic voice and craft a final piece that reflects your own deep connection to the natural world.
Skill Level: All Levels
