If you're someone who dreams in full color and loves to create with your hands, this is the perfect class for you. You'll get to try a little bit of everything in a super supportive studio. You'll learn how to stretch your own canvas and paint with acrylics, get your hands dirty with ceramics, and even design and make your own jewelry. It's the perfect way to explore different materials and find your creative path.

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to: 

Ceramics:

1. Produce a vessel utilizing wheel thrown techniques and methods learned in class.

2. Create a large-scale coil built piece using optional methods of construction.

3. Construct beautiful and unique surfaces utilizing surface design techniques and underglaze.

4. Create unique glazed surfaces not only using learned basic glazing techniques, but also with experimental gloop and foam glazes.

5. Raku fire ceramic works to create metallic and organic looking surfaces.

Painting:

1. Learn the importance of experimentation and representation through an art historical context.

2. Construct, Stretch, prime, and mount their own canvases from scratch.

3. Paint through a mixture of representational and experimental means.

4. Demonstrate the fundamentals of painting through various experimental methodologies, including play with color, mixed media, and image transfer.

5. Mix colors, both to match representational images and abstract intent.

6. Critique each other's work in a professional manner.

7. Observe, analyze, and draw conclusions from artwork presented.

Metals:

1. Research and design pieces of wearable jewelry

2. Demonstrate basic fabrication skills relevant to jewelry making.

3. Follow step by step finishing procedures determined by the design

4. Build confidence around metalsmithing tools within a studio environment. 

5. Exhibit proper safety protocol within a studio setting. 

6. Display wearable jewelry in a gallery setting