Classes

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Discover new ways to approach digital photography by taking photos during class and editing them using Adobe Photoshop! Explore composition, exposure, digital editing and inkjet printing to understand what photography is and how it can be used. The goal of this class is to learn the technical approaches to photography and to develop your own individual style. At the end of the week, students will have digital files and a select number of prints to share. Bring a digital camera and the camera instruction manual on the first day.

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Transform your personal space with patterned wallpaper that you design! Students will create two to three patterns of wallpaper with single color and multiple layers.

Skill Level: Beginner/Intermediate

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Interested in incorporating stained glass into your next woodworking project? Join us as we review a brief history of the use of stained glass in works of art, religious ornamentation and contemporary art, and then learn how to select, cut and incorporate glass into your woodworking. Students will purchase and fabricate a project of their choice with one-on-one support from the instructor.

Skill Level: All Levels

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In this course, students will be taken through the basics of screen-printing on fabric. They will learn how to coat and expose a screen using photo-emulsion and an exposure unit, how to print with screen-printing inks, as well as dyes unto silk and cotton fabric. Students will also learn how to create repeatable patterns, to make yardage, scarves or t-shirts and tote bags.

Skill Level: Beginner/Intermediate

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Interested in incorporating stained glass into your next woodworking project? Join us as we review a brief history of the use of stained glass in works of art, religious ornamentation and contemporary art, and then learn how to select, cut and incorporate glass into your woodworking. Students will purchase and fabricate a project of their choice with one-on-one support from the instructor.

Skill Level: All Levels

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Get outside and draw! Take advantage of the summer with this outdoor observational drawing class. Students will be led on drawing excursions in and around Evanston to learn to draw the urban landscape. Elements of linear perspective, observational drawing, and color will be brought together in this unique class.  Alternate indoor locations will be used in the event of inclement weather. 

Skill Level: All Levels

Throughout history, artists have trained by learning from artists that came before them. We will focus on different areas of art history with particular emphasis on technique, including composition, line quality, values, etc. and then practice these techniques firsthand.

Skill Level: Beginner

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This introductory drawing class emphasizes representational drawing of still life arrangements and other subjects. Students will learn about fundamental drawing concepts: line, shape, form, value, proportion, and perspective. Students will explore drawing media including graphite, charcoal, inks and pastels. Short demonstrations and presentations will introduce students to application techniques and the inspirational drawings of artists throughout history. A clothed model will be used for 3 sessions.
Skill Level: Beginner/Intermediate

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This class offers an overview of the history of photography as both an art and a science. Class will begin with the birth of the photographic process, in the 1830s, (and its inspiration by the camera obscura) and end with our present day digital photography. Discussions will include the science and technique behind various photographic processes, and will concentrate on reviewing the work of many of the most significant, creative, and influential photographers, and events, throughout photographic history.

Skill Level: All Levels