Programs & Classes

	Programs & Classes Learn how to make just about anything from professional artists and crafters at these formal programs and classes. All the website owners have also included their favorite crafty tips for getting the most out of formal crafting programs and classes. Classes and programs will be grouped by state and states will be added as needed.
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Decorative Painting Art Classes
	Art studio in Western PA with classes in decorative arts and crafts, with an emphasis on acrylic and oil painting. Attending an Art Class Crafty Tip Excerpt from 'Painting Tips and Advice' on Acrylic paint: If I am going to an art class seminar outside my studio, I take along a commercial cleaner, either liquid or solid, and just leave the soap in the bristles until I return home (I should mention that after putting the soap in the bristles, I stroke the bristles to put them back to their natural shape).
30 Visitors Since Jul 24, 2006 Additional Details



Pottery and Sculpting Programs and Classes
	Lakeside Pottery is a ceramic art educational resource for the community working with clay located in Stamford CT. In our facility, learn the art of decorative and functional pottery, using the potters wheel and ceramic sculpting. Activities include group classes, private lessons, teachers professional development, after school programs and summer camp. Open Studio time can be purchased for independent work. Workshops offered include Raku, Altered Forms, Large Forms, Sculpting and guest artists Working with Clay Crafty Tip Clay is an extraordinarily tactile, honest and alluring medium; an ideal vehicle through which to explore, express and discover ones creative inner world. Working with clay is also an excellent tool for exploring fears, attitudes, thoughts and feelings. The use of clay encourages self-discovery and adds to sensory stimulation. It can be an outlet for frustration and improves motor skills. You can tell a lot about people by the way the use their hands and how they explore new limits and experience success or failure. The use of the potter’s wheel in particular requires one to be focused, patient, decisive, delicate and fearless. One can gain these attributes apply them to not only their pottery work but also to their everyday lives.
5 Visitors Since Dec 24, 2009 Additional Details