Classes and workshops for adults and children in fine arts and folk arts
CHILDREN'S
CLASSES
OUTDOOR ART FOR KIDS:
Expressing the beauty of life and nature
...is a summer opportunity for preschool children through 9th
graders, featuring an immersion in the combined worlds of art and nature.
The children will explore the Children's Farm and its surrounding natural
areas, such as the pine forest, the oak and maple woods, the fields, the
prairie, the marsh, and the creek. These areas provide not only the subject
matter for the young artists, but also provide fun and action, inspiration,
and raw materials. The classes are kept small in order to encourage
individual self-expression. The children will draw and paint, plus
experience a variety of other artistic media such as pottery, tie-dyeing,
papermaking, and printmaking. Each child is encouraged to bring a personal
sketchbook.
Class Fee $100 each 2-week session
Instructors: Grades Pre-K – K: Lauren
Bushwaller
Grades 1-2: Amanda
Miller
Grades 3-4: Maggie
Martin
Grades 5-9: Carrie
Higgins
Monday, Wednesday,
and Friday mornings for two weeks: 9 a.m. - 11 a.m.
Session 1: June 16 – June 27
Session 2: July 7 – July 18
Session 3: July 21 – Aug 1
In order for children to explore many
different natural areas and all of the artistic experiences available,
we encourage you to sign up for multiple sessions.
FAMILY ART POTTERY CLASS
Thursday evenings, July 10 and 17,
6:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Make a creative clay birdbath or
toadhouse for your yard; come back July 17 to glaze.
Workshop fee per
evening: $15 per family
SUMMER
ADULT CLASSES & WORKSHOPS
The adult summer workshops at
the Log Cabin Center for the Arts encourage participants to grow and
communicate through the artistic process, emphasizing hands-on opportunities
for creativity and the development of skills as students learn both the
techniques and joys of artistic expression. Summer workshops often meet
outdoors, although the cabins are air-conditioned to accommodate our summer
classes.
WEAVING
Instructor: Nettie Botts
Weaving artist Nettie Botts
teaches students on convenient portable 4 harness table looms, on which
new weavers will make samplers and then be assisted in choosing projects
of their own design and color scheme. Returning students design their
own projects. 6 Monday evenings, beginning June 9, 6:30 – 8:30 p. m
Fee:
$75 for each 6 week session, plus $10 materials fee for new weavers’
samplers. Students purchase own threads and yarns for future
projects.
CREATIVE
WRITING-“Plein Aire” style!
Instructor: Frank Coughlin
6 Wednesday evenings,
beginning June 18 (plus an intro session on June 11) 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Writer/poet Frank Coughlin
will guide students in work on short stories, memoirs, editorials,
journaling, or maybe even the beginning of a first novel. Students will
write and work on written exercises, and will share and critique each
other’s writings in a fun and supportive atmosphere. No previous
writing experience is necessary. Check out the class website:
www.want-to-be-writer.blogspot.com.
Class
fee: $75 for 6 week session (No charge for intro session on June 11, but
please call to register for it)
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PLEIN
AIRE SKETCH and WATERCOLOR WORKSHOPS
Instructor: Lois Hrejsa
Thursdays, June 7 –
August 23, 9:30 - 2 p.m.
Artist Lois Hresja is again
offering her special summer schedule of Outdoor Sketch and Plein Aire
Painting Workshops. Everyone paints or draws until noon, and has a
group critique after lunch. These outdoor classes are for folks with
some art experience. Participants usually bring a sack lunch or a
potluck lunch. Sometimes lunch is provided or the group dines out in a
restaurant. Students often arrange to meet at The Center to carpool to
distant locations.
June
5 Sally Cooper’s, Lake Point Tower, Chicago
June
12 Roger and Judy Carlson’s, Frankfort
June
19 No class
June
26 Mark Zahorik’s, 340 E Randolph, Chicago
July
3 St. James of the Sag, Lemont
July
10 Pilcher Park and Birdhaven Greenhouses, Joliet
July
17 Isle A La Cache Museum and Park, Romeoville
July
24 Garfield Park Conservatory, Chicago (Park admission charged)
July
31 Dan and Sonya Snyder’s, Palos Park
Aug
7 &14 Optional extra sessions, if there is interest
Class
Fee: $20 per session.
Please pre-register by
calling The Center. This does not obligate you to attend all the
sessions. Please pay upon arrival at each session with a check made
payable to The Center (no cash please.) Bring your art supplies and a
folding stool or chair. Lunch details and driving directions are
available at the office.
Artist April Schabes leads
these creative workshops in which she encourages you to create your own
mixed-media collages. April sees collage as an opportunity to “play in
your own world of artistic expression with a fun and easy art form!”
Miniature Memory
Boxes: (Treasure box of a favorite place or memory, collaged on a
small tin box)
Wednesday, June 18, 1 - 4
p.m.
Class
Fee: $19 plus $5 materials fee
Handmade Book of Your
Favorite Color: (Simple sewn book, inspired by the delicious names
of paint chips).
Wednesday, July 16, 1 –
4:30 p.m.
Class
Fee: $22 plus $5 materials fee
Secret Book Boxes
(Secret box to hold little books, collaged with decorative papers and
handwritten letters).
Wednesday, August 13, 9
a.m. – noon,
Class
Fee: $19 plus $5 materials fee
Gourd students use leather
dyes, pigment inks, glazes, acrylic paints, woodburning, and
embellishments to create beautiful bowls, drums, or homes for animals in
their gardens. See
www.picturetrail.com/karencaldwell). Early registration is
necessary in order for Karen to have your choice of gourd type or size
ready for you.
Birdhouse, Toad
house, Butterfly house, or Gourd Bowl: (students’ choice*)
Monday, June 16, Choose
either 1 – 3:30 p.m. or 6:30 – 9 p.m.
Class
Fee: $16 plus $10 materials fee
Ocean Drum Gourd:
(for those who love natural sound and want to capture the uncapturable,
as if we could hold the sea in our hands.)
3 Monday evenings, July
21, July 28, and August 4, 6:30 – 9 p.m.
Class
Fee: $48 plus a $40 materials fee for a 13” drum or a $60 materials fee
for a 16” drum.
PAPER-FOLDING WORKSHOPS Instructor: Ann Fowler
Fellowcrafter Ann Fowler
shares the secrets of her beautiful paper-folded creations.
Folded Paper Frames
(Small frames decorated with punched designs, buttons, flowers, and
more, to be used individually, in sets, or hung on ribbons).
Friday, June 13, 9:30 –
11:30 a.m.
Class
Fee: $12.50 plus $5 materials fee
Teabag Folding–Beyond
The Basic 3 Folds (Create 3 colorful notecards with folds not used
in previous classes. Great for beginners and experienced paper
folders).
Wednesday afternoon, July
16, 1 – 3 p.m.
Class
fee: $12.50 plus $5 materials.
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TOLE
PAINTING WORKSHOP: “TOTE” PAINTING! Instructor:
Christine Opp
This is an easy project to
create an earth friendly canvas tote bag, painted with flowers or
butterflies, using wet-on-wet painting and shading for fabrics. No
experience necessary.
Thursday evening, July
10, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Class
Fee: $12.50 plus $15 materials fee
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PAPERMAKING WORKSHOPS Instructor: Marilyn
VandenBout
Papermaking students hand
dip a variety of papers of various colors and shapes and various plant
fibers
Basic Papermaking
(create paper to cover a small notebook)
Monday, June 23, 6:30 –
8:30 p.m.
Class
Fee: $12.50 plus $5 materials fee
Garden Papermaking
(create papers from pressed petals and leaves from the garden)
Wednesday, July 9, 6:30 –
8:30 p.m.
Class
Fee: $12.50 plus $5 materials fee
Naturally Colorful
Papermaking (using natural dyes from plants, plus natural plant
fibers)
Monday, August 25, 6:30
-8:30 p.m.
Class
Fee: $12.50 plus $5 materials fee
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WATERCOLOR WORKSHOPS Instructor: Lenox Wallace
These outdoor workshops will
take place near or at The Center, with a special focus on brush handling
to create the intimation of trees, water, foliage, and flowers.
Intended for painters with some previous experience.
Water Workshop
(learn to create the illusion of water, at nearby Lake Katherine Nature
Preserve)
Tuesday and Thursday,
July 15 and 17, 9 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Class
Fee: $50 Bring lunch and art supplies
Plein Aire Workshop
(learn to create the illusion of foliage at the Center gardens and
woodlands)
Tuesday and Thursday,
August 19 and 21, 9 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Class
Fee: $50 Bring lunch and art supplies
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BASKETMAKING Instructors: Jane Dwyer (p.m. and
Sat) and Ann Fowler (a.m.)
These workshops are designed
to be appropriate for either beginning or intermediate level students,
who will weave and shape beautiful baskets.
Small Nantucket-style
basket (Round wood-bottomed basket made on a mold with cane
weavers.)
Monday, June 30, 9:30
a.m. – 2 p.m.
Class
Fee: $25 plus $6 materials fee
Small market-style
basket (made on a 3x5” wood base with decorated handle and colorful
reed trim)
Monday, August 4, 9:30 –
2 p.m.
Class
Fee: $25 plus $9 materials fee
Market Basket
(12” wood-handled basket with colorful reed trim)
Thursday evenings, July
10 and 17, 6:30 – 9 p.m.
Class
Fee: $32 plus $10 materials fee
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Wild
Basketmaking! (Join Lois Lauer and
Jane Dwyer in the woods to gather grapevines to make a truly “wild” basket!
Previous basketry experience needed for this one: the woods are not the
place to learn!)
Saturday morning, August
2, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Class
Fee: $20 Bring work gloves
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INTRODUCTION
TO QUILTING Instructor: Denise Dulzo
Master quilter Denise Dulzo
will help each student to create a beautiful hand-quilted pincushion
from a variety of fabrics, threads, and buttons. We hope to offer
on-going hand-quilting and machine-quilting classes in the fall, and
offer this short workshop to encourage beginners to try their hand at
this classic folkart. Of course, experienced quilters are also
welcome.
Tuesday, July 1, 9 a.m.–
11 a.m.
Class
Fee: $12.50 plus $3 materials fee
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INTRODUCTION TO SILKSCREENING Instructor:
Nicole Ferrill
Students will learn about
the wonderful art of silkscreening, and then choose a leaf or other
simple natural form to create their own first small screen and print
their first images.
Wednesday, July 23, 6:30
– 8:30 p.m.
Class Fee: $12.50 plus $5
materials fee
ANKLE
BRACELETS Instructor: Linda Harty
Make a beautiful bracelet to
show off your tanned summer ankles (or wrists.) Linda will supply a
variety of beads, silver-plated fittings, and everything you need to
create your own jewelry, perfectly sized for your own body.
Thursday, June 12, 6:30 –
8 p.m.
Class
Fee: $10 plus $12 materials fee
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LIFE
STORY NECKLACES Instructor: Catherine Myers
Storyteller/jewelry-designer
Catherine Myers invites students to bring old beads from broken jewelry,
and to rework them into new designs, adding new beads from Catherine’s
extensive collection to create beautiful necklaces which tell their
“life stories.”
Tuesday, July 29, 2:30—5
p.m.
Class
fee: $16 plus $15 materials fee
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ASTROLOGICAL NECKLACES Instructor: Nicole
Ferrill
Each student will use
beautiful beads to represent the sun and the planets, arranging them
according to their relative locations on the day of the student’s
birth. Information about the time and place of each person’s birth is
needed at registration so that Nicole can download a personal
astrological chart for each to use as a template.
Monday, August 18, 6:30
-8:30 p.m.
Class
fee: $12.50 plus $5 materials fee
GARDEN
BIRDBATHS Instructors: Jackie Riffice and Gina
Reis, the “Prairie Godmothers”
Using large leaves from the
garden, this workshop involves making a leaf cast of smooth concrete
during the first session, then painting and finishing the cast during
the second session to create a beautiful dish, bowl, or birdbath for
your garden.
2 Monday evenings, July
14 and 21, 6 - 8 p.m.
Class
Fee: $25 plus $7 materials fee
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MID-SUMMER’S EVE IN THE GARDEN Instructor: Lois
Lauer
We’ll meet at the farm to
create beautiful mid-summer wreaths of branches, herbs, and flowers,
bedecked with ribbons and raffia. Students are invited to stay for a
bonfire after the class, to celebrate the summer solstice.
Thursday, June 19, 6:30 –
8:30 p.m.
Class
Fee: $12.50 plus $7.50 materials fee
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HERBAL
VINEGARS Instructor: Los Lauer
Harvest herbs from the farm
garden and make three bottles of colorful herbal vinegars, complete with
wax-dipped seals. After brewing on a sunny window for a few weeks, the
vinegars will be great for marinades and vinaigrettes.
Thursday evening, August
14, 6 – 8 p.m.
Class
Fee: $12.50 plus $5 materials fee
In
September, we will resume a full schedule of weekly and seasonal
classes in Calligraphy, Pottery, Silver Jewelry, Lapidary, Basketry,
Watercolor, Woodcarving, Drawing, Nature Photography, Weaving,
Collage, Papermaking, Tole Painting, Gourdcraft, Leather, Beaded
Jewelry, Poetry, Creative Writing, Printmaking, Quilting, Artist’s
Way, Storytelling, Family Art, and various folkarts.
Children’s classes will be offered on Saturday mornings during the
school year.
