Cost: $75.00

Date: Thursday, October 29th 

Time: 6:00p-8:30p

Glaze Date: Wednesday November 4th at 6pm. 

Level: Adult Beginner

Instructor: Lindsey Samotis

Class Notes: Bring a smock or wear clothes that can get a little messy.

Class Description: 

Interested in a relaxed crash course on using a potter's wheel? This course is for you! In this two and a half hour session, students will learn the basics of working with clay on a potter's wheel and receive guided hands-on experience from an instructor.

Each student leaves the class with two handmade creations. Students in the class can expect to:

-Learn Mud Room basics including emergency procedures, room rules, and clean up expectations

-Learn to prepare clay for the wheel

-Watch a wheel throwing demo with guided discussion of the steps 

-Spend time practicing basic wheel throwing techniques

-Have fun!

Registration includes all supplies and materials, wheel time, a glaze day, and two firings in the kiln. 

Disclaimer:

A refund minus the processing fees is issued if registration is canceled more than seven days before the class begins. No refunds after that time. Full refunds if AAV cancels the class at any time. 

Creations must be picked up within four months of the class.

AAV is handicapped accessible.

AAV takes precautions to provide a safe environment and our instructors are educated in providing options for individual limitations.

Please make your own individual decisions regarding health precautions.

Cost: $75

Date: Sunday, November 1st

Time: Morning session is from 10:00a - 12:30p

Glaze Day: Wednesday, November 18th 6-8pm

Level: Adult Beginner

Instructor: Lindsey Samotis

Class Notes: All materials included. No experience necessary 

Class Description:

Pinch a pumpkin from the patch for your harvest table! Join us for this beginner friendly pinch pot pumpkin class. Learn to make a basic pinch pot, then transform the pinch pot into a small pumpkin using carving and shaping techniques. 

Class Disclaimer:

Full refunds if AAV cancels the class. Refunds minus the processing fees up to seven days before class begins. No refunds after that time.

AAV is handicapped accessible. 

AAV takes precautions to provide a safe environment and our instructors are educated in providing options for individual limitations.

Please make your own individual decisions regarding health precautions.

Cost: $75

Date: Sunday, November 1st

Time: Afternoon session is from 2:00p - 4:30p

Glaze Day: Wednesday, November 18th 6-8pm

Level: Adult Beginner

Instructor: Lindsey Samotis

Class Notes: All materials included. No experience necessary 

Class Description:

Pinch a pumpkin from the patch for your harvest table! Join us for this beginner friendly pinch pot pumpkin class. Learn to make a basic pinch pot, then transform the pinch pot into a small pumpkin using carving and shaping techniques. 

Class Disclaimer:

Full refunds if AAV cancels the class. Refunds minus the processing fees up to seven days before class begins. No refunds after that time.

AAV is handicapped accessible. 

AAV takes precautions to provide a safe environment and our instructors are educated in providing options for individual limitations.

Please make your own individual decisions regarding health precautions.

Cost: $40 for series, $15 cash for drop-in (correct change only, please)

Date: Monday mornings, November 2nd, 9th, 16th, and 23rd

Time:  10:00 - 11:00 AM

Instructor: Patti Clark, ERYT. 

Level: Adult

Class Notes:  Wear comfortabe clothes.  Patty Clark ERYT (Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher)& Vippasana meditation facilitator whose life long practice has led her to greater inner peace and her intention is to share that with others.

Class Description:

 "A still pond reflects the moon without distortion. A still mind reflects reality  as it is".  Zen Teaching

This meditation series combines ancient mindfulness traditions with modern brain science to help you find calm, clarity and focus.

Cognitive function is improved, creative ability enhanced and emotional regulation achieved.

The collective energy and shared focus of practicing with others helps you reach deeper states of calm and stay committed to your intention. 

Mindful.org 

Class meet downstairs in the original gallery building; the AAV Creativity Center.

Class Disclaimer: 

A refund minus the processing fees is issued if registration is canceled more than seven days before the class begins. No refunds after that time. Full refunds if AAV cancels the class at any time. 

AAV is handicapped accessible.

Please make your own individual decisions regarding health precautions. 

Cost:  $210 but with EARLY registration (you must sign up before or ON October 27th to qualify for this price) the cost is reduced to $200. You will need to use the code CARDDISCOUNT for early registration.

Date:  Tuesdays, November 3, 10, 17, 24, and December 1, 8

Time:  Afternoon, 1:00 - 2:30

Level:  Adult

Supplies:  All supplies will be provided by the instructor,  they will include one grey kneaded eraser, 140# watercolor paper, HB Pencil, a variety of mixed media including watercolor paint, colored pencils, subject matter.

Instructor:  Sherry Graziano 

Class Notes:  this class will assist you in developing a variety of ideas for creating greeting cards.   You do not need to come in with any experience or abiities, both the experienced and inexperienced person is capable of designing some awesome cards.

Class Description:  This class will provide inspirational ideas and fun techniques that you can use to create a broad variety of greeting cards. You may create cards that fit a particular holiday event (such as Thanksgiving, Christmas, the New Year, a Birthday or Anniversary) There is no end of the  reasons for wanting to create a special card to gift a person that is an important part of your life.  Working on a small surface (such as that a greeting card) is a very liberating activity; you do not face the sometimes overwhelming blank space of a canvass or large sheet of paper.  Sherry will encourage you to use mixed media  (paint, colored pencil, pencil, etc) to add to the appearance of your creative choices.  You may be using glue stick and pieces of paper  to that card and will enjoy the freedom of using a variety of items to make your art. Each week will add increasing excitement as you develop a series of greeting cards.  Class will meet downstairs in the original art gallery buiildihng, in the AAV Creativity Center

About the Instructor:  

As an experienced teacher, local artist teacher, author, and illustrator Sherry will make the class comfortable for all experience levels of students. Especially those who are just starting out! Don't worry if you haven't had lessons before or if you have just a little exposure creating art. Sherry Graziano graduated from Central Michigan University. She has experience teaching children and adults in  Grayling, Roscommon, and St. Helen public school and at the Saginaw tribal college.

 Sherry has served the community for many years and was the program director for the Devereaux Memorial Crawford County Library. Sherry was published in "60 Quick Knits" and worked with Bambi Mansfield as illustrater on her book, "Through the Eyes of a Child."  She loves animals and has many hobbies, including knitting!  Sherry has mentioned that she may be bringing along some special guests: her tortoise pets may provide some fun interaction as they meander about attached to a coorul balloon!

DISCLAIMERS:

A refund minus the processing fees is issued if registration is canceled more than seven days before the class begins. No refunds after that time. Full refunds if AAV cancels the class at any time. 

AAV is handicapped accessible.

Please make your own individual decisions regarding health precautions. 

Cost: $100 for all 4 sessions

Dates:

Session 1: Saturday, Nov. 7th

Session 2: Saturday, Nov. 14th

2 week break

Session 3: Saturday, Dec. 5th

Session 4: Saturday, Dec. 12th

Time: 10:00a-12:00p 

Level: Adult Beginner to Advanced

Instructors: Jan Wachowski and Terry Dickinson

Class Notes: 

There will be a two-week break between the second and third sessions to allow enough time for the clay to dry and get bisque fired. Please plan accordingly 

Mud Club members will get a 50% discount.

Class Description:

Terry Dickinson and Jan Wachowski team up to create a safe space to explore out-of-the-box ideas and practical techniques to push your creativity to a whole new level.

Combine your prior knowledge and personal skills to stimulate your imagination… “What would happen if…” is the cutting-edge question that will take your art to new levels of miserable failure and astounding success. This is a four-session experience;

Session 1: We will be creating the piece either on the wheel or hand-built.

Session 2: We will jump into the creative process exploring unusual ways to alter the work by gouging, scrapping, carving, adding sculpture or whatever else will push the limits of ceramics.

*2 week session break*

Session 3: Dedicated to the glazing process from oxidation, to reduction to Raku or Saggar. We will introduce concepts and techniques that will open your mind to endless possibilities.

Session 4: A mind-blowing learning experience in which each person will share their work from creation to altering to glazing.

Mud Club members will get a 50% discount.

Class Disclaimer:

Full refunds if AAV cancels the class. Refunds minus the processing fees up to seven days before class begins. No refunds after that time.

AAV is handicapped accessible.

AAV takes precautions to provide a safe environment and our instructors are educated in providing options for individual limitations.

Please make your own individual decisions regarding health precautions

Cost:  $40

Date:  Sunday, Nov. 8

Time:  12:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Level:  Adult (ages 13 and up)

Supplies:  Instructor will demonstrate with all equipment and materials. Registrants may bring their own laptops (MAC, Linex, or Window) No Androids, No Chome as the software will not download onto those.  

Instructor:  John Clements

Class Notes:   After a basic presentatin showing how a 3-D printer is set up and works, the software (AKA slicer) will be set up and registrants will be able to download  software for a 3-D printer.

Class Description:  A 3-D printer is capable of creating objects using plastic material (filament). Now widely popular in industry  as well as STEM in schools,  this presentation will show what 3-D printing is capable of creating, how to set up and use a 3-D printer, and how to create a wide range of three dimensional objects. As heard in this popular phrase, 'The world is your oyster" once you see the endless creative opportulnities available to you with a 3-D printer.  

The instructor has taught a multitude of groups how to set up 3-D printers and has assisted a wide variety of groups in creating products that that the group needs.  He has a large number of 3-D printers that he uses to produce objects and will be discussing various models for purchase and the variety of plastic filaments available for use. He will assist all registrants with setting up the appropriate software onto their own laptop so that each registrant  will be able to purchase the 3-D printer and filament and start to use it in the comfort of one's own home.   You will be given suggestions as to where one can find better prices online and types of 3-D printers that are available in the marketplace.

Class will meet downstairs in the original gallery building; the AAV Creativity Center.

CLASS DISCLAIMERS: 

A refund minus the processing fees is issued if registration is canceled more than seven days before the class begins. No refunds after that time. Full refunds if AAV cancels the class at any time.

AAV is handicapped accessible.

Please make your own individual decisions regarding health precautions. 

COST:  $150 for a TWO CLASS SERIES.  If you sign up early (by the end of day NOV. 1) you may receive a $10 discount.   ($140)  Use the word EARLY PAINTER to get the discount when you register for the classes.

DATE: Saturday, November 14th and November 28th

TIME:  10:00 am -  12:30 pm

LEVEL:  Adults, age 18 and older

SUPPLIES:  All supplies  will be provided by the instructor.  Supplies incude heavy weight paper or boards, a variety of acrylic paints, a variety of tools, and mixed media, and materials.

INSTRUCTOR:  Linda J.  Kane

Class Notes:  You are invited to provide favorite photos or images for inspiration.  Nothing is required.

Class Description: This acrylic painting class is designed so that the student will better understand Abstract Art (art that is not intended to represent a specific object) and to engage the painter to paint in a playful and experiental approach.  Students will be making Abstract Art by using:  colors, shapes, lines, and textures to communicate ideas, moods, or pure visual design.  You will enjoy the creative freedom to not worry about painting to recreate an image in the 'real world'.  It is a two class series and the material you learn in both classes will give you a wealth of ways to approach painting.  There will be both demos and hands on experiences which focus on abstract imagery methods. 

Class ONE:  the Focus of this class is to learn how to start a painting and work on a blank paper, then to let go of trying to be perfect and work with your own unique creative flow of mark making.  You will work with layers of paint, using a variety of acrylic paints and gel mediums.  You will create layers with choices that include:    wet materials  such as  markers, acrylic paints,  and dry materials that may include  graphite, chalk, and torn paper. You will learn that there is "No Wrong or Right Way" to make abstract images.

Class TWO:  In this class experiementation continues when you   experience using a wide variety of tools such as: brayers, cardboard, toothbrushes, masking tape, bubble wrap, palette knives, feathers, and  straws.  You will actully build tools in class and then be able to take them  home to use in your own indepedent paintings.  There will be demos,  workhop activities, ,and the opportunity to learn more by the  sharing of student's  work.

Classroom is located in the lower room in the original Au Sable Artisans' Village gallery, in the AAV Creativity Center. 

Class Disclaimers: 

Full refunds if AAV cancels the class. Refunds minus the processing fees up to seven days before class begins. No refunds after that time.

AAV is handicapped accessible.

AAV takes precautions to provide a safe environment and our instructors are educated in providing options for individual limitations.

Please make your own individual decisions regarding health precautions.