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Adults

Mug

$65

with Emily Millard

Calendar Apr 8, 2025 at 6 pm

April 8     6:00-8:30pm    Glaze April 15    Adults

(REPEAT of the Mar 18 class)

Using a pop can or a piece of PVC pipe as a form, create a unique mug. 

Add a handle and some texture and drink all the coffee you want.  (Of course we'll fire it for you first, help you add glaze and then fire it again!)

Emily Millard will guide you through the whole process including the glazing of your mug on April 15, Tuesday from 6:00-8:00.

Max 6

Min 2

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.

Will run

Practice Series for the Potter's Wheel

$130

with Pam Meland

Calendar Apr 10, 2025 at 6 pm, runs for 4 weeks

Four Thursday Evenings - April 10, 17, 24, and May 1 from 6:00-8:00pm

Prerequisite: Potter's wheel class at Artisan Village (or contact us)

This class is designed to provide guided practice time for those who have taken a first wheel class. It is not appropriate for those who have not taken an initial class.

Experienced teacher Pam Meland will guide and assist as needed.

6:00-8:00

Final Glaze Day is May 15 from 6-8pm

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

Will run

Improvisation on Canvas - Saturday

$95

with Kathy Kosins

Calendar Apr 12, 2025 at 12:30 pm

This April 12 Saturday class is a duplicate of the one on Sunday, April 13.

12:30-3:30pm

“Improvisation On Canvas”  is a 3 hour workshop, where you'll paint to jazz music, from a curated playlist, focusing on abstract expression using texture and colors. Inspired by Be Bop era artists like Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis alongside modern jazz composers, you'll learn to “hear” in color and “listen” for shapes.

Join recognized artist and experienced teacher Kathy Kosins as she leads you through an exciting adventure. Kathy will provide individual guidance and encourage the use of alternate materials (that she will supply) for applying paints.

Students need to bring a few various sized canvases, paints and brushes they would like to use.  Kathy suggests acrylic paint. (Nothing really large, please.)

At the end of the class, you'll have the opportunity to share your work, learn from others, and discuss your creative process.

About Kathy Kosins:

"I reside in two worlds. One as a composer of music and one as a composer of art. Growing up in Detroit in the 1960s, I was serenaded by many forms of music and I specially soaked up modern jazz and American classics. In my 20’s, I performed as a lead singer in a rhythm and blues band and toured nationally. That propelled me to an award-winning career as a composer and performer of jazz and soul music. I’ve recorded six albums and eight singles and have performed throughout the United States and internationally from Beijing to London. Since 2014, I have become an interdisciplinary artist, merging music and creating improvisational art on the stage, a presentation that blends my two loves, singing and painting. I am self taught, both as an artist and as a vocalist/composer. I hear color and see sound and translate them both onto the canvas. "

Max 16

Adults

 

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. 

 

Improvisation On Canvas - Sunday

$95

with Kathy Kosins

Calendar Apr 13, 2025 at 12:30 pm

This April 13 class is a duplicate of the class on Saturday, April 12.

Sunday 12:30 - 3:30pm

“Improvisation On Canvas”  is a 3 hour workshop, where you'll paint to jazz music, from a curated playlist, focusing on abstract expression using texture and colors. Inspired by Be Bop era artists like Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis alongside modern jazz composers,  you'll learn to “hear” in color and “listen” for shapes.

Join recognized artist and experienced teacher Kathy Kosins as she leads you through an exciting adventure. Kathy will provide individual guidance and encourage the use of alternate materials (that she will supply) for applying paints.

Students need to bring a few various sized canvases, paints and brushes they would like to use.  Kathy suggests acrylic paint. (Nothing really large, please.)

At the end of the class, you'll have the opportunity to share your work, learn from others, and discuss your creative process.

About Kathy Kosins:

"I reside in two worlds. One as a composer of music and one as a composer of art. Growing up in Detroit in the 1960s, I was serenaded by many forms of music and I specially soaked up modern jazz and American classics. In my 20’s, I performed as a lead singer in a rhythm and blues band and toured nationally. That propelled me to an award-winning career as a composer and performer of jazz and soul music. I’ve recorded six albums and eight singles and have performed throughout the United States and internationally from Beijing to London. Since 2014, I have become an interdisciplinary artist, merging music and creating improvisational art on the stage, a presentation that blends my two loves, singing and painting. I am self taught, both as an artist and as a vocalist/composer. I hear color and see sound and translate them both onto the canvas. "

Max class 16

Adults

 

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. 

 

Basic Photography for Adults

$90

with Nancy Hatfield

Calendar Apr 22, 2025 at 4:30 pm, runs for 5 weeks

Learn how to take better pictures by using ALL the settings on your own digital camera-DSLR or Point-and-Shoot. Your instructor will show you how and when to use your settings and make simple adjustments to improve your pictures. The class covers composition, focal point, shutter speed, aperture, white balance, ISO and much more.

Bring your camera and owner’s manual. Wear appropriate clothing to go outside and use the information you learn in class each week. Students will complete the course with their own 8 X 10 matted print to take home. (Mat provided)

Class is for adults.  

Class will be for five Tuesday evenings, beginning April 22 and ending with the last class being May 20. 

4:30-6:00

Max 6 registrants

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.

Please make your own individual decisions regarding health precautions. 

Will run

Handbuilt Decorative Tiles

$65

with Emily Binard

Calendar May 10, 2025 at 1:30 pm

May 10    1:30-3:30   (Glazing May 24 from 1:30-2:30)

Mud Room

Join in on May 10 to create unique stoneware decorative tiles. Using texture rollers, cutters, and molds to design and build highly decorated tile pieces suitable for hanging, easel display, household or mosaic use.

Each registrant will have time to make at least 2 tiles, aprrox 5x5 inch or similar size, with the guidance of Emily Binard, experienced artist and clay builder. Each work will be dried and bisque fired before the second class session.

All clay and toolswill be provided.

Glazing of each piece is set for May 24. Emily will discuss glazing techniques utilizing both underglaze colors and the cone 5/6 firing glazes available in the mudroom room. Following the allplication of the glaze, pieces will be glaze fired and available for pickup by the following weekend after the second session.

 

 

Max 8 students

Min 4 students

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.

Ceramic Planter Class

$75

with Emily Millard

Calendar May 15, 2025 at 6 pm

Thursday, May 15     6:-8:00pm    Glaze, May 29    Adults

Beginner or experienced, join in this class to make a unique ceramic planter using texture rollers, stamps, cutters and molds. Each registrant can design and create a slab-built planter anywhere from 2-7" diameter which will be suitable for indoor or outdoor use.  The planter will be dried and bisque fired prior to the second session. 

During the second session, registrants will choose between a wide variety of glazes and paint the glaze or glazes on their piece.  Following glazing the piece will be fired again and available for pickup by the following week.  

Emily Millard will guide you through the whole process including the glazing of your one of a kind planter.

Max 5 

Min 2

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.

Ceramic Vase Class

$75

with Emily Millard

Calendar Jun 12, 2025 at 6 pm

June 12 6-8 p.m.   Glaze June 19 6-7 pm 

Beginner or experienced, register to enjoy making unique ceramic vase for your garden flowers using texture rollers, stamps, cutters and molds. Each registrant can design and create a slab-built vase anywhere from about 5" to 12" tall.  The vase will be dried and bisque fired prior to the second session.

During the second session, registrants will choose between a wide variety of glazes and paint the glaze or glazes on their piece. Following glazing, the piece will be fired again and available for pickup by the following week."  

Emily Millard will guide you through the whole process including the glazing of your one of a kind vase.

Max 5 

Min 2

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.





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