Start: 8:00 am
End: 9:00 am
Yoga with Maryann Sims
Instructor: Maryann Sims
Tuesday 8 - 9 am, Class # Y10
Walk in - $10 per session payable at class.
Learn and practice calming the mind, while developing strength, balance and increased flexibility in your body. All levels welcome. Please bring a large towel or yoga mat to class and wear loose comfortable clothing.
Maryann Sims is a moving arts instructor with 30 years of experience teaching dance and yoga. She creates a supportive and empowering environment for her students. She currently teaches at Cheltenham Adult School, the Gym in Elkins Park, Abington Fitness and also instructs teachers at local elementary schools.
Start: 9:00 am
End: 10:15 am
Draw, Paint, Print and More (Ages 5 - 8)
Instructor: Kathleen Hope Smith
Saturdays, 9 – 10:15 am, Class#: C10
Tuition: $110 (Members: $95)
Explore the many ways that art is made. Children will be introduced to various drawing materials and techniques as well as painting, printmaking and collage. Students are given individual attention and are encouraged to express their unique personality within each project.
Kathleen Hope Smith
Kathleen is an accomplished artist who has been teaching childrens classes at the Center for the past few years. She also works with students independently. She is kind, patient and an excellent art teacher.
Start: 9:00 am
End: 10:30 am
Clay for Kids! (Ages 5 -8)
Instructor: Ellen Pine-Litwin
Saturdays, 9 – 10:30 am, Class# C16
Tuition: $130 (Members $115)
Children will be encouraged to develop their creative skills learning the basics of working with clay. Throughout the 8 week session they will create themed works of art emphasizing imaginative use of traditional techniques.
Ellen Pine LitwinBFA, Ceramics, Phila. College of Art, Grad. studies in Ed., MCCC, Temple U., Cheltenham Clay Guild, Vermont Craft Center, League of New Hampshire Craftsmen. Taught at (GYW-YWCA), Mount Airy learning Tree, Wyncote Academy, Vermont CC. Exhibited at The Clay Studio, Abington Art Center, Cheltenham Art Center, Vox Populi Gallery, Artists League of Mount Airy.
Start: 9:30 am
End: 12:30 pm
Color, Form and Function
Instructor: Barbara Hansleman
Tuesdays, 9:30 am - 12:30 pm, Class #D12
Tuition: $260 (Members: $245)
Treatments of sculptural, hand built and pinched forms will be explored in this class. This is an advanced class where weekly demonstrations will be given in "tricks of the trade" hand building techniques as well as instruction on working with glazes, under glazes, slips and terra sigillatas. Colored engobes combined through or layered into clay will also be demonstrated.
This class is limited to ten students.
Barbara Hanselman
Barbara considers herself a maker and mentor of all things clay. Her pots, constructed from slabs or using a pinch-strip method I developed, bear the look of fabric, metal, leather or whimsical china. In addition, she addresses how what she is going to make will look before asking the question, what's it going to be - an approach quite out of the norm for most potters. Her signature pieces evolve from the stoneware 'fabrics' she create and enhance with patterns, texture and color. It is her unorthodox methodologies coupled with classic hand building techniques - pinching, coiling, extruding - which result in these whimsical pieces which beg to be handled.
Start: 10:00 am
Painting, Mixed Media and Collage
Instructor: Anthony Ciambella
Fridays, 10 am - 1 pm, Class #D37
Tuition: $235 (Members: $220)
With growing interest in mixed media art, the lines between painting and sculpture become blurred. This hands on course will help students make informed practical decisions about the most appropriate materials and how to delineate their idea. All levels of students are welcome. Individual attention is given to each student.
All media and levels of experience welcome!
Anthony Ciambella
Anthony is a painter, sculptor, mixed media and digital artist. He received a Certificate from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and completed the Conservation Apprenticeship Program. He was a conservator at the Academy for many years and now maintains a private practice in art conservation. He also teaches at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and at the Cheltenham Center for the Arts.
Start: 10:00 am
End: 12:30 pm
Foundation Drawing (Ages 13+)
Instructor: TBA
Saturdays, 10 am – 12:30 pm, Class #: C-26
Tuition: $135 (Members $120)
Developed for the beginning artist, the foundation drawing class is intended to serve as a thorough introduction to technical and aesthetic issues in drawing, covering all aspects of representation in black and white media. Students will have a solid grasp of rendering light and shade, line, mass and volume, as well as depicting perspective with respect to still life compositions and the figure in the environment at the end of the class.
Start: 10:30 am
End: 12:00 pm
Draw, Paint, Print and More (Ages 9 - 12)
Instructor: Kathleen Hope Smith
Saturdays, 10:30 am – 12 pm, Class #: C11
Tuition: $130 (Members: $115)
Explore the many ways that art is made. Children will be introduced to various drawing materials and techniques as well as painting, printmaking and collage. Students are given individual attention and are encouraged to express their unique personality within each project.
Kathleen Hope Smith
Kathleen is an accomplished artist who has been teaching childrens classes at the Center for the past few years. She also works with students independently. She is kind, patient and an excellent art teacher.
Start: 10:30 am
End: 12:00 pm
Clay for Aspiring Artists (Ages 9 -12)
Instructor: Ellen Pine-Litwin
Saturdays, 10:30 am – 12pm, Class #: C17
Tuition: $130 (Members: $115)
This class is open to all aspiring artists of any skill level. Students will work on both wheel and hand building projects planned for each class. Students will produce decorative and functional pottery as well as sculpture.
Ellen Pine LitwinBFA, Ceramics, Phila. College of Art, Grad. studies in Ed., MCCC, Temple U., Cheltenham Clay Guild, Vermont Craft Center, League of New Hampshire Craftsmen. Taught at (GYW-YWCA), Mount Airy learning Tree, Wyncote Academy, Vermont CC. Exhibited at The Clay Studio, Abington Art Center, Cheltenham Art Center, Vox Populi Gallery, Artists League of Mount Airy.
Start: 12:30 pm
End: 4:30 pm
Let's Print!
Instructor: Rona Richter
Mondays, 12:30 - 4:30 pm. Class # D22
Tuition: $250 (Members: $235)
A survey course of printmaking methods. Find your "niche"!
Demonstrations and instruction of various techniques including: monotype, chine colle, paper lithography and collographs will be taught.
Various papers and their uses will be explored. Individual instruction will be provided for all students. Advanced students will be encouraged to explore additional techniques.
All levels of experience are welcome!
Rona Richter
Rona received her BFA in Painting from the University of the Arts. She continued her graduate studies at Columbia University, the New York Studio School, and at Tyler University. Rona has also studied hand papermaking in Japan, Thailand and Burma. She is an award winning exhibitor in the American Color Print Society show, Artists' Cultural Exchange and various other national shows. She has taught at Bucks County Community College, Perkins Center for the Arts and the Abington Art Center.
Start: 1:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm
Observation, Memory and Imagination
Instructor: John Sevcik
Mondays, 1 - 4 pm, Class # D29
Tuition: $235 (Members: $220)
This course is open to both abstract and realist painters. Working from still lives at first, we proceed to a method of painting from memory, using drawings. Our aim is to express a direct response from the student's own imagination. Drawing exercises are used in addition to painting.
John Sevcik
John is an accomplished Philadelphia painter. He trained at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and has taught at the Fleisher Art Memorial, Delaware College of Art and Design, Immaculata College and Bucks County Community College. His work can be seen at: www.tothestudio.com. He and his wife Lynn also have a blog: http://viewfromthestudio.blogspot.com.
Start: 4:00 pm
End: 5:00 pm
Pre-School Clay (Ages 5 -6)
Instructor: Louise Sussman
Wednesdays, 4 – 5:00 pm, Class #: C28
Tuition: $100 (Members: $85)
Children will discover the wonderful world of clay in a caring and nurturing environment. Snacks and clay will be provided.
Start: 6:30 pm
End: 9:30 pm
Intermediate and Advanced Jewelry - Evening
Instructor: Marthe Roberts Shea
Mondays, 6:30 - 9:30 pm, Class # E39
Tuition: $260 (Members: $245)
Students with basic skills will be able to further their work by exploring a wide range of jewelry making processes. You will learn non-complex metal forming, mechanisms and joining techniques.
Marthe Robers - Shea
Marthe Robers/Shea graduated from Moore College of Art, in Philadelphia, with a double Major in Advertising and Illustration. She has been Managing Art Director for Dupont de Namours Pharmaceuticals - Delaware, and CIGNA Corporation - Philadelphia. She has successfully run her own business, Taxi Graphics, Incorporated, since 1990. Skilled in electronic illustration and Graphic Design, she has created numerous award-winning pieces. She illustrates regularly for several Magazines. Her ability to communicate and grasp sometimes obscure ideas and concepts, and translate them into "client-pleasing" pieces is her primary strength. Marthe is a member of the Art Directors' Club of Philadelphia. Marthe was recently elected the President of the American Society of Goldsmiths.
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 10:00 pm
Special Projects in Slip and Plaster
Instructor: Patti Nelson
Wednesdays, 7 - 10pm, Class #E16
Tuition: $260 (Members: $245)
This class is designed for students with some clay experience or who are transitioning from another medium. Both functional and sculptural artists will be introduced to new methods such as using slip, plaster, firing techiques, burn-out and more. Potters and hand-builders alike will find tools to expand their current repitoire with embellishment and production methods. You are sure to find exciting new ways of working in this class.
Patti Nelson
Patti Nelson has an MFA in Ceramics from SUNY New Paltz, where she was a Sojourner Truth Fellow. She has a BA in Fine Art with departmental honors from Hunter College, NYC, and majored in Integrative Studies, International Relations and Women Studies with a minor in Comparative Religion from Hendrix College, Conway, AR. Patti Nelson has shown nationally and internationally including DC, Seattle, and NYC (Chelsea and Brooklyn), and Budapest, Hungary. She has taught at the university level, in elementary schools, at the Clay Art Center in Port Chester, NY and currently teaches at the Cheltenham Center for the Arts in Philadelphia where she is the ceramics artist in residence.
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