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Period 1
9 - 10:15 am
Period 2
10:30 - 11:45 am
Period 3
1 - 2:15 pm
Period 4
2:30 - 3:45 pm
Period 5
4 - 5:30 pm
Evening Events
6:45 pm +
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Period 3
Class Spans
1 Period
Building Community Through Mural Making with Ellen and Don Elmes
Available:
Week 2
Skill Level:
N/A
All Levels
Gather the community! Gain the skills to plan and implement a community art project from start to finish.
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Period 1
Class Spans
2 Periods
Chinese Painting and Calligraphy: History and Practice with Qin Fang
Available:
Week 1
Skill Level:
N/A
All Levels
An introduction to Chinese calligraphy and painting.
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Period 3
Class Spans
2 Periods
Colored Pencil Illustration with Kelsey Wailes
Available:
Week 1
Skill Level:
N/A
All Levels
Learn the techniques to create a wide variety of illustration types, from cartoonish to realistic.
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Period 1
Class Spans
2 Periods
Commotion of Motion in Photography with Randall Gornowich
Available:
Week 2
Skill Level:
N/A
All Levels
Capture movement in photos
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Period 5
Class Spans
1 Period
Creative Card Making with Carolyn Seabolt
Available:
Week 3
Skill Level:
N/A
Create your own cards with a creative twist
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Period 4
Class Spans
1 Period
Documentary Filmmaking Workshop with Richard Anderson
Available:
Week 2
Skill Level:
N/A
All Levels
A basic guide for how to make an independent documentary film.
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Period 3
Class Spans
2 Periods
Drawing Nature in Still Life with Rachel Wojnar
Available:
Week 3
Skill Level:
N/A
All Levels
Explore different drawing media and techniques
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Period 3
Class Spans
2 Periods
Earth Colors with Pat Brodowski & Ken Koons
Available:
Week 2
Skill Level:
N/A
All Levels
Making pigments extracted from plants and minerals
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Period 1
Class Spans
2 Periods
Foraged Colors for Dyeing and Printing with Pat Brodowski
Available:
Week 3
Skill Level:
N/A
All Levels
Plants collected from the field become dyes and printing ink on cloth.
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Evening Events
Class Spans
1 Period
Gallery Talks
Available:
Week 2
Available:
Week 1
Available:
Week 3
Skill Level:
N/A
All Levels
Learn more about the work of our many wonderful Traditions Weeks Visual Arts instructors!
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Period 1
Class Spans
2 Periods
Guided Owl Drawing in Colored Pencil with Claudia Tonne Konkus
Available:
Week 2
Skill Level:
N/A
All Levels
Learn to use colored pencils to build depth and definition by drawing a lifelike owl.
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Period 1
Class Spans
2 Periods
IPhone Macro Photography: Up Close in the Garden with Sasha Lane
Available:
Week 1
Skill Level:
N/A
Get into your garden like never before with iPhone Macro Photography!
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Period 1
Class Spans
2 Periods
Knots and Spirals: Creating an Artist Book with Celtic Flair with Shawn Lockhart
Available:
Week 3
Skill Level:
N/A
All Levels
Carve Celtic knotwork and spirals into a linoleum block to print for your own artist book.
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Period 2
Class Spans
1 Period
Matting and Framing Matters with Don Elmes
Available:
Week 2
Skill Level:
N/A
All Levels
Learn how to protect and frame your artwork.
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Period 3
Class Spans
2 Periods
Painted Screens: The Iconic Baltimore Folk Art with Michael Seipp
Available:
Week 2
Skill Level:
N/A
All Levels
Learn about the iconic Baltimore art of screen painting and create a screen to adorn your home.
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Period 1
Class Spans
2 Periods
Painting Plants and Their Pollinators with Barbara Steele
Available:
Week 3
Skill Level:
N/A
All Levels
Paint close up and realistic images of flowers and the insects that pollinate them.
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Period 3
Class Spans
2 Periods
Pastels: A Sense of Color and Theory with Susan Maseth
Available:
Week 3
Skill Level:
N/A
All Levels
Explore a variety of techniques using soft pastels.
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Period 3
Class Spans
2 Periods
Photography - Capturing the Beauty Around You with Stuart Dahne
Available:
Week 3
Skill Level:
N/A
All Levels
Learn to capture the beauty around you through photography.
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Period 1
Class Spans
2 Periods
Plein Air Photography with Sasha Lane
Available:
Week 3
Skill Level:
N/A
All Levels
Create captivating photographs outdoors.
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Period 3
Class Spans
2 Periods
Silkscreen Printing Influenced by Chinese Papercut Patterns with Irene Chan
Available:
Week 2
Skill Level:
N/A
All Levels
Silkscreen printing with paper stencils inspired by Chinese papercuts
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Period 3
Class Spans
2 Periods
The "i" in iPhone Stands for IMAGINATION with Cary Wolfson
Available:
Week 2
Skill Level:
N/A
All Levels
Learn to use the sophisticated features of your iPhone to create art.
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Period 1
Class Spans
1 Period
Watercolor Sketching with Paint and Pen with Ellen Elmes
Available:
Week 2
Skill Level:
N/A
All Levels
Learn to quickly capture the essence of a subject in watercolor and pen & ink sketch, to develop into a finished work later.
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Something For Everyone
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Week 1
6/23/25
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6/27/25
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Week 2
7/7/25
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7/11/25
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Week 3
7/14/25
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7/18/25
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