Start your day with guided meditation followed by a discussion and then exploratory painting. Through mindfulness practice you gain practical skills and take essential steps toward living a more fulfilling life. You will work in a variety of mediums and materials. The teacher has studied with Thich Nhat Hahn, the Dalai Lama in India and many other meditators. With Ian Schaff

Open studio time for students who wish to work independently. This is a wonderful opportunity to use ACA’s classroom space to help expand your body of artwork, without the costs of renting your own studio. No instruction or supplies in­cluded, just a dedicated time & space to create!

For students who've taken a drawing class before.  This lively and engaging class will build on the fundamentals.  We'll combine skill building exercises with longer drawings that will allow students to strengthen and refine skills, explore a variety of media and build a personal aesthetic.  A slide show at the beginning of class will introduce each weeks topic and inspire.  Topics include:  conceptual drawing, artists sketchbooks and sketchbook page design, botanical art, the live model and much more!

With Helen Payne

With an eye towards watercolor's unique qualities of fluidity and transparency, students learn to  de-mystify the watercolor process. Exploring subject matter of your own choosing along with specific assignments from the instructor, you'll learn concepts and strategies that allow you to paint with clarity and spontaneity.  Color, light,  atmosphere, and figure/ground relationships will also be addressed. Through individual mentoring and critiques you will strengthen your skills and deepen your understanding of color.  Students will be encouraged to complete additional work at home.  References to contemporary and traditional watercolor included.

Adult students currently enrolled in ACA clay classes are encouraged to come to open clay studio for additional studio practice time.  Sign up & clay purchase is ongoing but registration is required one week in advance.  Mike the monitor will be present at the open studio hours.

Wednesdays, 1-4pm (8 individual sessions)

Draw from the figure, water based painting and drawing media. No instruction or supplies provided, except easels and drawing boards. A studio monitor will be present to facilitate each session.

In this fresh approach to figure drawing students gain core fundamentals while exploring how artists’ visions of the body were shaped by their time and place.    You’ll gain great seeing skills, anatomical understanding, proportion, tone and more, all the while gaining insight into how that innate human urge to draw the human body has evolved from the paleolithic to present.   Each class starts with a slideshow that introduces the week’s theme, followed by drawing from the model.  The body and its context will have a companion website.  With Helen Payne Meet Helen and learn more about her classes on our blog.

Work with still-life, landscape, and some abstraction to learn concepts and strategies that allow you to paint with clarity and spontaneity. Beginning with demonstrations and guided exercises in washes, layering, wet-into-wet, and color mixing, learn to de-mystify the watercolor process. Utilize various techniques to resolve issues of light and shadow, volume, space and depth, texture, and transparency. References to contemporary and traditional watercolor included.  With Marjorie Glick

This is an all levels watercolor class which will begin with the basics of wash, wet into wet and color mixing. Students may work at their own pace with still life and landscape as well as on subjects of their own choosing.

With Marjorie Glick

For students with little or no clay experience who would like to learn the basic skills needed to throw on a pottery wheel.  Learn wedging, centering and forming shapes, such as plates, mugs, bowls and vases will be covered. Finishing techniques trimming, handles, lids  and glazing will also be covered.   Tuition includes clay & glazes, and firing. See below for additional practice times.