"Painting with Nancy" starts June 9 at AVA Center

WAC offers summer professional development courses

The Wyoming Arts Council is offering several professional development opportunities in the arts this summer. All of these classes offer opportunities to learn and hone arts skills, and get credit towards re-certification or lane changes! Classes are open to anyone interested. Please click on the links to learn more about them:

Beginning Glass, Riverton, June 13-15 
Advanced Fused & Slumped Glass, Riverton, June 19-24 
Theatre Intensive, Casper, July 24-29 
Vocal Jazz Camp, Douglas, July 25-27 

Clay Day May 12 with Barbara Wolf at the Cheyenne Artists Guild

Clay Day at the Cheyenne Artists Guild
Thursday, May 12
$50 for Guild members; $60 non-members
plus $10 material fee

If you have always wondered how it would feel to have clay between your fingers and see the miraculous transformation from a clump of clay into a recognizable human shape, this is the class for you. The May class will focus on creating a face in 3D You will have the opportunity to experiment with different modeling techniques, usage of various sculpting tools using a self-drying clay, which hardens without firing. No prior experience is necessary, so why not give it a try? The class is small so you will receive plenty of one on one attention and leave with your own sculpture.

Barbara Wolf is a graduate of Central Michigan University, with masters from Aquinas College. With a background in dance as a performer, teacher and choreographer, she always had a passion for sculpting. Her first experience with sculpting clay began in high school and her bust of a man won her a state award of a blue ribbon. Her more recent work is a study in a series of women figures that she sculpted and in addition, wrote a book based on these figures. Barbara enjoys teaching sculpting of the human body and finds that it is expressive, complex, challenging and rewarding. She feels working with the human form affords the artist the ability to express feelings, purpose and emotions that may be hard to verbalize.

Take a day to come play with clay!
Sign up at the Cheyenne Artists Guild

Open Noon to 4:30 Tuesday through Friday.
Call 307 632-2263 for info
http://cheyenneartistsguild.org

Get into the swing of country swing at Casper College

Two popular dance classes, Country Swing (Beginning) (CMSV 0040 80) and Country Swing (Intermediate) (CMSV 0041 80), will begin on Sunday, March 27, at Casper College.

Country Swing (Intermediate) will run from 4 to 6 p.m. each Sunday through April 17. According to Machelle Holloway, instructor, those taking the class will “expand on the dance steps learned in the country swing beginners class and learn the two-step, waltz, and some ballroom.”

County Swing (Beginning) will run from 6 to 8 p.m. The country swing class is a beginner’s level class and “students will learn three fun and easy dances; country swing, two-step, and country waltz,” Holloway said. The class runs from 6 to 8 p.m. each Sunday and will also run through April 17.

Both four-week classes are open to all ages. To register or for more information contact Laura Burnett, Casper College events and programs specialist, at 268-3399.

WOW starts Introduction to Classical Life Drawing class March 24

Join Works of Wyoming for its Introduction to Classical Life Drawing Class on Thursday, March 24, 5:30-8:30 p.m. at WOW in Laramie.

Mack Brislawn, a local artist skilled in portraiture, figure drawing and western landscapes, will be teaching participants an academic approach to tonal figure drawing in this three hour class.  Some materials will be provided, but if you have any of the following, please bring them: hard drawing board (at least 18x24"), portable, upright easel, vine charcoal, 18x24" charcoal paper, chamois, and kneaded rubber erasers. Class is only $20.

  

Click the link below to register. Please note that you must pre-register because of limited spots. We can have a maximum of 10 participants, so sign up before class is full.

If have any questions about the class or how to register, please contact me at the below email or phone number.

We look forward to seeing you at our class!

Register Now!

FMI: Sarah Dahlberg, wow@uwyo.edu, 307 742 6574

AVA Center offers "Early Release Day" art classes

Still time to register for AVA's Life Drawing Series

Arrowhead Forge School of Blacksmithing

Arrowhead Forge School of Blacksmithing

David W. Osmundsen

Offering Beginning,

Intermediate and Advanced Classes in Blacksmithing 

47 N. Lobban Ave.

Buffalo, Wyoming 82834

307-684-2338

www.arrowheadforge.com

Beginning Blacksmithing Class
Five-Day Class (Mon.-Fri.)
Tuition Cost $950.00
No Experience Necessary
Limited to Two Students Per Class

Lessons will cover shop layout and safety, tool selection, fire and hammer control, basic metallurgy and heating treating, shaping, cutting and joinery. Some of the techniques you will learn are a mortise and tenon joint, a forge weld, an upset, a square and a round taper, a twist, and how to slit and drift a hole.

Projects throughout the week may include forged nails, hot cut chisel, decorative hook and flux spoon. There will be ample time to design and complete a project of your choice during the last two days.

Each step of the way the instructor will describe what will be done next, give a demonstration, then supervise as you do it yourself. This class is designed to give you a successful start.

Toolsmithing Class
Five Day Class (Mon.-Fri.)
Tuition Cost $1,000.00
Intermediate Level
Limited to Two Students Per Class

Every blacksmith should have a hammer and a pair of tongs to use what they have made themselves.

This class focuses on making tools for the forge shop. Meallurgy and heat treating of steels will be addressed as well as steel selection from salvaged metal to stock tool steel choices. A variety of tools including a cross pein forging hammer, turning and bolt tongs, hot cut chisel, slitting chisel and drift, round and square punch, bending fork, jigs, assorted vise and anvil tools will be covered. Students will have some input as to the selection of the tools made throughout the week and all tools made by students are theirs to keep.

Primitive Knife Class
Five-Day Class (Mon.-Fri.)
Tuition Cost $950.00
Intermediate Level
Limited to two Students Per Class

The American frontiers of the 18th and 19th centuries were both demanding and remote. The common work-a-day knife of the hunter, trapper and pioneer was often not crafted by a knife maker but rather hastily made by the common blacksmith using simple materials on hand.

In this class each student will forge, heat treat and finish two primitive knives using similar designs, materials and techniques of the frontier crafted to contain them. The basic bladesmithing techniques learned in this class can be used by the students to forge other more refined knives on their own.

Journeyman Class
Twelve-Day Class (Mon.-Sat, two weeks)
Tuition Cost $2,850.00 
Advanced Level
Limited to One Student Per Class

This class is approached differently than the five-day classes that the instructor offers. First, he only accept one student at a time for this session. This will allow the student to progress through the list of journeyman skills, registered with the Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training United States Department of Labor, at their own speed. This can be best accomplished on a one on one environment. Second, a sample grille or gate will be designed and built to use as an example of one's accomplishments as a blacksmith. It is this final project that will show your level of skill as a blacksmith to a potential employer or give you the confidence that you are at the level that one would expect to be called a journeyman.

Class Schedule

Beginning Blacksmithing
The first full work week,
Monday-Friday of each month

Primitive Knife Making or Toolsmithing
Call for Schedule or See Website

Journeyman Class
Scheduled at a time convenient for the student and instructor

No classes in December

Art classes for homeschoolers Fridays at AVA Center in Gillette

HOMESCHOOL ART CLASS

Fridays at AVA Center, Gillette

January 21, 28 February 4, 18, 25 • 3-4pm

Friday afternoon sessions that teach homeschool children drawing and painting techniques. 

Pre-registration is required. 

Class Fee: $12.50 per class or register for a whole month for $40

Learn More

Sign up now for Lander Art Center classes

Casper College to offer digital photography night class for spring semester

From Casper College:

If you are like most people with a digital camera you have some great photos on your computer that you would like to turn into prints, but just don't know how. It may be easier than you think, with the help of a digital photography class being offered for the spring semester at Casper College.

"Electronic Digital Photo" (ELTR 2145) will include the basic techniques of digital photography and an overview of what is needed to acquire, store, retouch, and print digital and hybrid photographs.

Miles Hecker, digital photography professional, will teach the class on Wednesdays, 6-9 p.m. According to Hecker, students will learn the fundamentals of digital photography, how to make quality prints on their inkjet printer, how to scan their old slides and negatives, and how to master Adobe Photoshop CS skills to create better photos.

For more information or to register, call Casper College at 307-268-2929. The class begins on January 19, 2011.

AVA keeps the kids busy with art classes on early release days

LCCC/WCM offer "fast filmmaking" course

Wyoming Community Media sends this:

Wyoming Community Media is offering a fast filmmaking course through Laramie County Community College. Check out the fast filmmaking course on page 10 of the LCCC fall catalogue.

One session will be repeated three times September 11 and October 9 -- 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; October 12 and 13 -- 6:30-9 p.m.

Participants will learn basic story telling and produce a short video during the course of the day using sound and lighting techniques.

This is the perfect way to practice for The Shoot Out Cheyenne 24 hour film making festival.

Northwest College and BBHC offer "Art of the American West" class

From a BBHC press release:

Students and aficionados of western art have a chance to delve deeper into the subject—and earn three college credits—with this fall’s Art of the American West class through Northwest College. The course takes place at the college’s Cody Center and at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center on Thursdays beginning August 26, 6:30 – 9:10 p.m. and is taught by Acting Curator Christine Brindza of the Whitney Gallery of Western Art at the Historical Center.


Through lecture and discussion, the course introduces western American art, and the many themes it represents, through a variety of media, including paintings, sculpture, prints, and photography. The Whitney Gallery’s collection will serve as the primary resource in studying the artistic conventions, traditions, styles, and perspectives represented.

Lesson topics include Emerging Themes in American Western Art; Indians of North America—First People of the West; Inspirational Western Landscape; Western Wildlife; Heroes and Legends—Cowboys and Other People of the West; among others.

“The course is a wonderful way for students to further make use of the Buffalo Bill Historical Center collections,” Brindza explains. “Students learn about the ‘whole picture’ of western art while using our collections. By personally engaging with artwork, it can greatly enhance students’ learning experiences. This course is a positive move toward further partnerships and collaborations between the Historical Center and Northwest College.”

Class size is limited so Brindza encourages interested persons to contact Northwest College as soon as possible to register. NWC classes begin August 23.

For more information, contact Brindza at christineb@bbhc.org or 307.578.4051. To learn more about Northwest College, visit www.northwestcollege.edu, and read more about the Buffalo Bill Historical Center at http://www.bbhc.org/.

YUPO art class at AVA Center July 10

From the AVA Center in Gillette:

YUPO Class on Saturday, July 10, 9 a.m.-noon.

Experience this painting method that uses hand-made & highly pigmented liquid watercolors, and spray bottles instead of paintbrushes!

All materials included!

All skill levels welcome!

Pre-Registration is required.

Children under 7 must be accompanied by an adult.

Class Fee $45

FMI: http://www.avacenter.org/

Haylee Bolinger to teach children's arts classes

Announcement from the Johnson County Arts & Humanities Council:

Buffalo High School alumnus and University of Wyoming fine arts graduate Haylee Bolinger will be the visiting artist for the 2010 Buffalo Summer Art Guild children's arts classes June 7-11 at Clear Creek Elementary School.

For preliminary registration and fee information, e-mail Amber at buffalosummerartguild@yahoo.com

Quilting is Dinomyte

The Wyoming State Quilt Guild Southwest Region is hosting Quilt Wyoming 2010's "Quilting is Dinomyte," July 15-18 at Western Wyoming Community College. Quilt classes, a vendor mall and quilt display will be offered, as well as quilt entries in the Challenge and Opportunity categories for judging.

Registration must be postmarked by April 15, 2010.

Go to http://www.wsqg.org/ for more information, a complete brochure listing hotel information, classes, and registration forms, which can be printed and mailed.

"Canvas Bag Painting" at AVA Center April 20

The AVA Community Art Center in Gillette is offering "Canvas Bag Painting" on Tuesday, April 20, 6-8 p.m.

In celebration of Earth Week, Dara Corkery is teaching this class to decorate your own reusable bag for shopping or whatever! Create your own canvas bag using a variety of paints, stencils, sponges, shapes and other cool stuff from AVA's art supply. All ages are welcome, 8 and under require parent participation in the class.

Pre-register today! Class fee is $10

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"Ductogami" at Carbon Co. Library in Saratoga

Georgia Rowswell conducts Pysanky egg class

From Cheyenne artist (and WAC roster artist) Georgia Rowswell:

Pysanky is a traditional Ukrainian craft for decorating Easter eggs. It is a wax resist technique which is basically batik for eggs! This Saturday, March 13, I will be teaching a Pysanky class from 9 a.m. until noon in my studio at 302 East 1st Avenue. The class is $25 and includes supplies and the all-important homemade cookie snack! The class is open to ages 8 and up. So join the fun and make as many eggs as you can in three hours. Call Georgia to reserve a spot at 229-546-5183. See you there! More info at http://artfulhand.org/