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Summer 2010 Classes

The RMAC offers classes on a quarterly basis...

weekday classes

Children's Clay: Animal Pocket Vases
Section I:
Instructor: Georgene Smyth
Monday-Friday
June 7 - 11
3:30 - 4:30 pm
$45 members; $55 non-members

Section II:
Instructor: Aria Finch
Age: first grade - 8 years, beginners and up
Monday-Friday
June 7 - 11
9:00 - 10:00 am
$45 members; $55 non-members

Section III
Instructor: Aria Finch
Age: 9 - Teen, beginners and up
Monday - Friday
June 7 - 11
10:00 - 11:00 am
$45 members; $55 non-members

Students will make sculptural vases inspired by animals of New Mexico. They will draw and paint their designs as they build the form in clay.

Children's Clay: Throwing on the Wheel
Instructor: Aria Finch
Age: 11-Teen
Monday - Friday
June 7 - 11
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
$45 members; $55 non-members

Students will make various thrown bowls and cups with an emphasis on imaginative surfaces. Students must have had a previous class in clay at the Museum.

3-D Box Painting
Instructor: Aria Finch
Age: 8-Teen, beginners & up
Monday - Friday
June 7 - 11
1:00 - 2:00 pm
$45 members; $55 non-members

Students will combine textured paint and cardboard to create a 3-dimensional construction that depicts imaginative stories about the land and sky.

Fused Glass for Children and Adults: Beginners
Instructor: Sue Johnson
Age: 9 - Adult, beginners
Friday & Saturday
June 18 & 26
1:00 - 4:00 pm
$50 members; $60 non-members

This class is designed to introduce novice glass fusers to the basic techniques and tools for fusing and slumping glass. Five projects will give participants the opportunity to explore a variety of glass, tools, and techniques for creating lovely pieces of art. Students under 12 years of age will only cut glass under direct supervision and assistance by instructor. Supply fee is included in class price for ages 9-15.

Children's Clay: Fountain of Fun

Section I:
Instructor: Georgene Smyth
Monday-Friday
July 12 - 16
3:30 - 4:30 pm
$45 members; $55 non-members

Section II:
Instructor: Aria Finch
Age: first grade - 8 years, beginners and up
Monday-Friday
July 12 - 16
9:00 - 10:00 pm
$45 members; $55 non-members

Section III
Instructor: Aria Finch
Age: 9 - Teen, beginners and up
Monday - Friday
July 12 - 16
10:00 - 11:00 am
$45 members; $55 non-members

Fountain pumps will be available for purchase during the first class for about $12.

Students will build working fountains for their gardens inspired by the plants, insects, and animals living there.

Children's Clay: Throwing on the Wheel
Instructor: Aria Finch
Age: 11 - Teen
Monday - Friday
July 12- 16
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
$50 members; $60 non-members

Students will make various thrown bowls and cups with an emphasis on imaginative surfaces. Students must have had a previous class in clay at the Museum.

Summer Swimmers
Instructor: Cate Erbaugh
Age: 8 - 11 Years
Monday - Friday
July 12 - 16
10:00 - 11:30 am
$50 members; $60 non-members

Sea turtles, fish, and wiggly eels are born to swim. Maybe you were too!  Students will create the wonderful colors of water at various depths with tissue paper. Then, with oil pastels they’ll draw their favorite swimmers, corals, and seaweeds.  Instructor will demonstrate ways of creating movement and volume in the drawing.

Constructing Figures
Instructor: Michael Beitz
Age: 14 - 18, beginners and up
Monday - Friday
July 12 - 16
10:30 am - 12 noon
$50 members; $60 non-members

This class will focus on drawing elements of the human figure and using the drawings to create 3-dimensional sculptures. Students will learn a variety of drawing and joinery techniques with paper, wood, and other materials, observing the design and architecture of our own bodies to see how they are reflected in everyday objects.

Fruits in Your Face
Instructor: Aria Finch
Age: 8 - Teen beginners and up
Monday - Friday
July 12 - 16
1:00 - 2:00 pm
$45 members; $55 non-members

Students will study the work of Italian painter Guiseppe Arcimboldo (b.1527-d.1593), then draw and paint faces using vegetables, fruit, and other edible treats to depict facial features.

Gratton Fellowship Workshops

Thanks to the generosity of Lorene Johnson Gratton, a life-long supporter of our studio class program, the Roswell Museum and Art Center is able to offer a concentrated weekend workshop once per annum for adults. These workshops are designed for adults who normally might not be able to take advantage of such opportunities. Gratton Fellowships are open to 12 members of the community who demonstrate a strong art interest and financial need for scholarship assistance. They are awarded on a competitive basis. For details, contact the Education Department.

weekday classes
All day Saturday workshops include a lunch break.


Clay: Open Studio

Instructor: Aria Finch
Age: Adults, beginners & up
May 28 - September 10
Regular Museum hours, except during children's clay classes
$90 members; $115 non-members

This class offers open enrollment during the summer for adult students who wish to use the Museum’s clay studio facilities during Museum hours only. Prerequisite: Participants must be current ceramics students at the Museum (or if past students, see Aria). Lab fee is included in class price.

Fused Glass Open Lab

Instructors: Sue Johnson
Age: 15-Adult
Saturday, June 19, 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Sunday, June 27, 1:00 - 4:00 pm
$50 members; $60 non-members



Students who have completed both Beginning and Intermediate Fused Glass classes may enroll in an open lab to make projects of their choice. A wide variety of glass will be available. The instructor will assist students as needed in designing and completing projects, and will demonstrate how to use frit, cut precise shapes, make buttons and napkin holders, and other techniques as requested. A $20 supply fee will cover the cost of glass for several small projects and one large one (6 x 6 inches). Dichroic glass limit is 3 square inches. Additional costs will be added for larger projects. Students planning projects larger than 2 x 2 inches should notify instructor in advance to ensure that desired glass will be available.

Playful Printmaking

Instructors: Stephen Ackerman
Age: Adult, beginners & up
Saturday, June 26, 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Sunday, June 27, 1:00 - 4:30 pm
$55 members; $65 non-members



Discover new ways of making art through two printmaking processes: etching and monotype printing. Students will work with plexiglass plates using water-based inks, and experiment with layering and composition to create large, one-of-a-kind combination prints. Students should bring drawings and ideas they’d like to work on in the class. Supplies are included in class fee.

Drawing Big and Bold Using Charcoal or Ink

Instructors: Cate Erbaugh
Age: 16-Adult, beginners & up
Saturday, July 31, 1:00 - 4:30 pm
Sunday, August , 1:30 - 4:30 pm
$45 members; $55 non-members



Have you ever felt your drawings were just too tentative, too small, or too forgettable?  Using the evocative, vivid drawings of the Lascaux Cave for inspiration, students will draw large and freely with charcoal on oversize paper. They will capture rolling movement in animal figures, and create volume using a variety of possible techniques. Note: Returning “Ink and Bamboo Brush” students are welcome to work in that medium. Supply list available at registration.

Lorene Johnson Gratton Endowment Workshop: Abstract Drawing from Nature

Instructors: Lea Anderson
Age: Adult, beginning & up
Saturday, August 7, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm
Sunday, August 8, 1:00 - 4:30 pm
$70 members; $80 non-members

Gratton Scholarships Available
Scholarships for this class include instruction and supplies. To be considered for a scholarship for this class, please write a letter of application to Ellen Moore at the Roswell Museum and Art Center, explaining your interest in art and your economic need for free tuition. Questions? Call 575-624-6744, ext. 22. Deadline for applications is Friday, July 2. Please include contact information.

 

In this adventurous workshop, students will use basic drawing skills to explore the artistic possibilities of natural design such as symmetry, harmonious color, organic patterning, and texture. Simple ideas will expand through unique, creative approaches to abstraction that will surprise and inspire you! All levels can benefit, and several finished pieces will result. Graphite, ink, and colored pencil, as well as some unusual media applications, will be explored. Enrollment is limited to 10 students. A short supply list will be available at registration. Checks should be written to the Roswell Museum and Art Center Foundation.

 

 

Register in person or by mail to:

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Roswell Museum and Art Center
100 West 11th Street
Roswell, NM 88201


For online registration, please mail or drop off your payment to the above address.

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Registration fees for each class differ.

Materials for adult classes are normally not provided and a supply list can be obtained at registration.

Materials for children’s classes are normally provided.

Full payment must accompany registration.

Space may not be reserved prior to payment.

Class fees will only be refunded during the first two weeks of class.

Students needing special accommodations should provide advance notice to Ellen Moore, Curator of Education, well before the class starts.

Scholarships for children are available on a limited basis and funded by the Roswell Museum and Art Center Foundation. Contact Ellen Moore, Curator of Education, for details: 575-624-6744, extension 22, or moore@roswellmuseum.org.

faculty

Stephen Ackerman holds a BFA degree from Tyler School of Art, and is currently a M.Ed. candidate through Lesley University. He is a 2008 Japan Fulbright Memorial Fund Scholar and a 2008 National Writing Project Fellow. Stephen is currently the 3rd grade visual arts teacher for the Roswell Independent School District through the Arts Connect! Program.

Lea Anderson is a mixed-media artist working and teaching in Albuquerque, NM. Her work often involves site-specific installations incorporating themes of natural systems and personal philosophies. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally, most recently in Bangkok, Thailand and Los Angeles, California. She has a MFA degree in Painting and Drawing from the University of New Mexico, and teaches art at the University of New Mexico, at the Harwood Art Center in Albuquerque, and at Central New Mexico Community College.

Michael Beitz received a BFA degree in sculpture from Alfred University and then continued technical training as a fine woodworker with world-renowned furniture artist Wendell Castle, and NYC furniture design firm BDDW. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States and he has been awarded several artist grants and residencies including Sculpture Space in Utica, NY, the Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program, the Morris Arts Fellowship at the University at Buffalo, and most recently, the Bemis Artist Residency in Omaha, Nebraska. He currently lives in Roswell, NM.

Cate Erbaugh is a collage artist and biological illustrator with a passion for drawing. She received her BFA degree from the University of Illinois, and is a certified art teacher. Cate worked with the Waikiki Aquarium and the Galapagos National Park to provide drawings of plants and animals, posters, and other visuals. Her artwork is represented in private and museum collections, and has been published in numerous scientific publications.

Aria Finch holds a BA degree from the University of Texas at El Paso, and has attended graduate school at North Texas State University and Texas Women’s University. After seven years of teaching in public schools, she came to the Roswell Museum in 1979 where she built our ceramics program from the ground up.

Sue Johnson, a native of Roswell, has always had a love for glass art and began fusing glass in 2001. She has taken fused glass classes in Santa Fe and Portland, OR. Currently she teaches at WeCree8 Gallery in Ruidoso and at the Roswell Museum and Art Center. Her work can be seen at The Gallery in Roswell and at the Roswell Museum store.

Georgene Smyth is a potter who assists the studio program at the Roswell Museum. She is also a member and past officer of the Pecos Valley Potters Guild, and was a kindergarten teacher and librarian in the Deming Schools.