CLASSES FOR ADULTS
General Information
Waterfall Arts encourages individual participation in the creative process through its art classes for all abilities. We strongly believe that the making of art contributes to a greater awareness of the world and of the connections between humans and their environment. All classes are led by professional artists with significant teaching experience.
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SUMMER CLASSES - July and August
Our classes for adults are grouped under different headings than in previous years. Please call 338-2222 if you have any questions. Classes for adults are generally open to those age 13 and up unless otherwise noted
GLASS CLASSES in MONTVILLE
4 weeks for different ages and abilities
Torch Work for Youth
July 28-Aug 1 Montville
Ages 10-14 ; 9am-12:30pm; Monday-Friday
Ages 14-18 ; 1pm-4:30; Monday-Friday
with Suzanne Southworth $120; plus materials fee $30
A great introductory course in making unique beads - learn basic bead making and glass sculpting skills. With glass torches manipulate glass in it’s “honey” state - the emphasis will be on developing familiarity with glass and individual creativity. The shorter class time is a great way to start!
Torch Work for Beginners
July 7-11 Montville 10am-3pm, Monday-Friday
Ages 15+
with Suzanne Southworth $150 plus materials fee $30
Spend time learning torch work - the art of applying intense heat to glass rods and through manipulation, creating an endless variety of beads, marbles and small sculptures. Beginning students will be taught the basic techniques and then create their own designs using varying patterns, colors, sizes and shapes.
Torch Work - Intermediate
July 14-18 in Montville 10am-3pm, Monday-Friday
Ages 15+
with Marta Bernbaum $150 plus materials fee $40
Enjoy working with hot glass? Here’s a great opportunity to learn to design beads with interesting and complex variations - take your creations to the next level! Ideal for those with some torch experience.
Advanced Molten Glass: Sculptural Flamework
July 21-25 in Montville 9am-4pm, Monday-Friday
Ages 15+
with Marta Bernbaum $180 plus materials fee $40
Those with some familiarity with glass torch work will take on more intricate projects. Instruction tailored to each student’s individual needs. Develop your expertise in making extreme glass beads and intricate forms.
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Words that Impact
Classes for Adults in Montville
Monday--Friday July 7-11
Writer's Workshop in Poetry: The Intimacy of Place
with Joel Lipman
Monday-Friday July 7-11 from
9am-12noon
Fee:$110
Materials list provided. "Intimacy" encourages and enables a sense of the poet's emotional, sensed/sensual, or personal connection to the specific place. The workshop will use source poems as models and launching points, utilize instructor- developed prompts and have an ongoing and outcome objective of the development of original poems by participants. The workshop will discuss one another's work under development and also discuss instructional materials.
The Printed Voice
with Paul Oberst
Monday through Friday
July 7-11 afternoons from 1-4pm
Fee: $110 all materials provided.
An exploration of the power of the printed word on paper, cloth and or sculpture. Students develop personal, direct printing techniques to create finished works of art. Paul’s artwork is simple, direct, honest, primal, layered, meditative, accessible and mysterious. Paul comes to Waterfall Arts with extensive preparatory, teaching, and curating experience from the Cleveland Center of Contemporary Art.
Power of One
with Cathy Plourde
July 7-10
Monday-Thursday from 9am-3pm
Fee: $180 includes all materials.
Join Add Verb Productions Art & Education founder and artistic director to create your own solo performance, or monologue drama to make audiences feel curious or outraged enough to do something! A great workshop to express community-based action and understanding of social issues through theatre, creative expression and dialogue.
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Re:Sourcing in 3D
Classes for Adults
in
Montville Monday-Friday July 14 -18
Weaving Trees
led by Barbara Andrus
July 14-18 Monday through Friday
mornings from 9-12noon
Fee: $110 materials provided
Learn to ply and manipulate branches into textured shapes and spheres. Nationally known Swan’s Island artist demonstrates techniques she uses in her signature striking outdoor sculptures. Students will work collaboratively on a large site specific installation to be unveiled at the mid-summer celebration.
Building ”the nursery”
led by Avy Claire
July 14-18 Monday through Friday
afternoons from 1-4pm
FREE - all materials provided.
Volunteers will work side by side with Avy Claire, eco-artist in residence, to lay the design grid work for this long term project in the Montville forest. Maximum of 8 volunteers per day - register ahead of time to participate.
Crocheted Metal Sculpture
with Leslie Pontz
July 14-18 Monday through Friday
afternoons from 1-4
Fee: $110 + $35 Materials fee
Investigate an old medium from a new point of view. Learn to crochet with wire, introduce the unexpected element and see what can happen. Create textures, manipulate gravity, investigate the possibilities. No previous crocheting experience necessary.
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Art on the Outside Edge
Classes for Adults
in
Montville Monday-Friday July 21-25
Drawing the Figure in Nature
with David Estey
Monday-Friday July 21-25 afternoons from 12-3pm
Fee: $110 materials list provided
Study the figure in an unique outdoor setting. With trees, moss, rocks, and waterfalls as the backdrop this class will study the nude figure with natural lighting in various outdoor environments.
Sensing Our Way Back Into Nature
with Susie O’Keefe
Monday-Friday July 21-25 mornings from 9 - 12noon
Fee: $110 Materials list provided
The course explores our physical and sensual severance from nature, offers techniques to overcome these and explores how, when combined with creative inspiration, our senses, imaginations and dreams can help us rediscover our place within nature.
Strappo Technique
with Harold Garde
Monday-Friday July 21-25 from 10 - 12noon
Fee: $90 plus $15 materials fee
A unique combination of painting and printmaking, Strappo requires no press or special equipment. Developed by Belfast artist and inspiring teacher, Harold Garde. An opportunity to explore this exciting medium with its inventor!
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Seeing Green
Classes for Adults
in Belfast Monday--Friday August 4-8
Teaching Green: Ecological Techniques for Teachers
with Jenn Brown
Monday-Friday August 4-8 from 9 - 12 noon
Fee: $110
Materials list will be provided. Jenn will help educators incorporate green teaching practices into projects that will help raise awareness in the classroom. Brown draws on years of environmental and art education experience with Audubon Expedition Institute and other organizations.
The Little Green House from A-Z
with Richard Tremaglio
Monday-Friday August 4-8 from 9:30am - 4pm
Fee: $220
Materials list provided. Join accomplished Boston architect Richard Tremaglio in designing your own “GREEN” 300 sq foot studio or guest house. Learn hands-on applications to individualize your backyard getaway with an heightened environmental consciousness using site, story and structure.
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Tuesday Night Workshops in Belfast
for Adults
Tuesdays in July and August
Life Drawing - Ongoing
meets every Tuesday from 6:30 to 9 pm
Fee: $10 drop in or buy a punch card for discounted rates.
Non-instructional drawing of the nude figure. Rotating models. Bring your own drawing supplies.
Clay Workshop Series: see description below
Monoprints
Instructor: TBD
Six sessions, Tuesdays; July 8, 15, 22, 29 and August 5 and 12 from 6:30-9pm
Fee:$110 plus $25 materials fee
Monoprinting is a versatile process you can do at home without a press. Students will use rich watercolors and work with multiple plates, which brings depth and versatility to the printmaking process and allows for several prints as opposed to just one. Instant success is a guarantee for all levels.
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Clay in the Summertime for All Ages
in Belfast during July and August
Twice is Nice: A Clay Workshop Series
Tuesday evenings from 6:30 - 9pm for six weeks in Belfast
Teens through Adults
Fee: $65 per 2 night session or $170 for all three sessions
All materials included.
Three great teachers - 3 sessions of 2 nights each dedicated to three different ceramic techniques.
July 8 and 15 - Create your own Teapots with Jamie Oates
July 22 and 29 - Construct Slab Built Clocks with Michael Simon
Aug 5 and 12 - Embellish pottery and tiles using Sgraffito with Russell Kahn
Open Clay Studio
All ages. Monitor: Gus Johnson
Wednesdays, July 9, 16, 23, 30 Aug 6, 13 from 6:30-9pm in Belfast
Fee: $20 drop in or buy a punch card for discounted rates.
Weekly non-instructional clay studio: basic ceramic experience necessary. Studio monitor on site for informal assistance.
Mud Club for Teens
with Linda Stec
for Ages 13+ in Belfast
Wednesday afternoons 2:30 - 5:30pm July 9, 16 , 23, 30 and August 6 & 13
Fee: $25 drop-in or buy a punch card and save.
A dynamic open clay studio program with instruction in basic wheelwork, glazing and hand-building for teens.
Camp Mud for Kids - in Belfast
Two continuous weeks August 4 - August 15 - Mon - Fri both weeks.
Fee: $320 for two weeks of morning classes or two weeks of afternoon classes all materials included.
Mornings with Elissa Garde-Joia for Ages 6-8 from 9am-12noon
Afternoons with Lynn Pussic for Ages 9-13 from 1-4pm
Fun with clay - hand building, wheel work, glazing, decorating and firing.
Side by Side Family Clay
with Squidge Liljeblad Davis
One day workshop for all ages in Belfast
Saturday August 9 from 10am-4pm
Fee: $60 for 1 adult and 1 child - includes all materials
Children and adults inspire and encourage each other when they work side by side in silence as artistic equals. Learn to make anything out of clay! After lunch, continue the morning’s projects, work on a large collaborative sculpture or throw on the potter’s wheel.
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Tuesday Night Classes - Spring Session April 1-June 24
LIFE DRAWING
ages 18+
Tuesdays - ongoing - 6:30-9:00pm
Bring your own materials - Non-Instructional
A group of local artists have been meeting for years on Tuesday nights to draw and paint the figure. The group has moved to Waterfall Arts to continue this non-instructional opportunity to render the figure with different nude models each week. $10 Drop In or buy a 6 Punch Card for $45 or a 12 Punch Card for $75
DESIGNING THE ARISTIC GARDEN
ages 18+
Tuesdays 6:30-8:30pm
12 weeks - starts April 1 through June 24
Instructor: Abby Read
WORKING THE WHEEL
Open to all levels-Ages 18+
Instructor Lynn Pussic
The fundamentals of throwing, hand building, trimming and glazing, with demonstrations and technical information provided- geared to individual needs.
Tuition: $300 includes materials
Meets April 8, 15, 22, 29, May 6, 13, 20, 27 June 3, 10, 17, 24 - 6:30-9pm
GREEN BEAMS - Integrating Green Design into Maine Buildings
Tuesdays, 6:30-9:00pm and Site visits on Saturdays
A course occurring over 12 weeks focused on Green Design in Maine building.
Dates of classes and site visits:
1) Tuesday, April 1; site visit, Saturday, April 5
Benchmarks:Green Design & LEED Ayola Green, Belfast Architect
2) Tuesday, April 15; site visit, Saturday, April 19
Integrated Design Theory
Matt O’Malia, Belfast Architect
3) Tuesday, April 29; site visit, Saturday, May 3
Green by the Numbers: Energy Modeling
Alan Gibson, Belfast Designer/Builder
4) Tuesday, May 13; site visit, Saturday, May 17
Best Practices for Efficient High Performance Buildings
Richard Burbank, Evergreen Home Performance5) Tuesday, May 27; site visit, Saturday, May 31
Energy Systems Integration
Pat Coon, Founding Partner, ReVision (Energyworks)
6) Tuesday, June 10; site visit , Saturday, June 14
Putting it all Together: Case Studies
David Foley and Sarah Holland, Northport Architects
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WEDNESDAY ART NIGHT OUT - SEE ART, MAKE ART EVERY WEEK
Make Wednesday your night to make ART! Fun for parents and kids and anyone who wants to paint or use the clay studio. Plus there's music in the Fallout Shelter!
OPEN PAINTING STUDIO
ages 13-adult Wednesdays, 6:30-9:00
Different clothed model each week- plenty of time to paint or draw. Non-instructional.
OPEN CLAY STUDIO
ages 13-adult Wednesdays, 6:30-9:00
Work the wheel, use the slab roller, build forms, fire and glaze your work. Non-instructional, but there is a studio monitor present for advice.
ARTBLASTS!
Adult+Child - all ages Wednesdays, 6:00-7:00
Weekly art+nature projects in a variety of media; have fun, make arttogether!Projects can be taken home that night.
ART NIGHT OUT Payment options, includes all materials:
Open Painting Studio and ARTblast activity - $10 for Drop In
Open Clay Studio - $20 for Drop In or 2 punches on punch card
6 Punch Card for $45 or 12 Punch Card for $75
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You can register for classes by calling us at 207-338-2222
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