ADULT AND TEEN CLASSES

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Adult/Teen Classes:
**To register for a class click on classes on the orange bar at the top of the website. Download a registration form under class registration. ** Class deadline is one week prior to the start date.

Date Night: Pottery

Get a little dirty on Friday night! Join us at YorkArts in the pottery studio for an evening of romance and throwing on the wheel. Our skilled instructors will walk you through a few simple projects, or you are free to make your own creations. Refreshments, clay and tools are included. Wear or bring clothes to change into that you don't mind getting dirty.
Instructor: Rebecca Quattrone

Location: YorkArts, 10 N. Beaver St York

Friday, March 1, May 10, June 14, August 16; 7-9pm

$30 per couple Ages 18+

Recycled Glass- Bead and Pendant Making

Designed for the beginner, we provide the tools, supplies and instruction needed to create pendants and beads using recycled glass. Come learn the fun techniques used to melt glass into unique works of art. Participants will learn to cut, score, drill, and sand their pieces. The instructor will fire the finished pieces.
Instructor: Harry Smith
Location: YorkArts, 10 N Beaver St York
Thursdays (3), May 9-23
10am-Noon or 6-8pm (choose one)
$60 Ages 18+

Domino Bracelet Workshop
In this 2 hour workshop participants will learn several methods to upcycle dominoes to create a one-of-a-kind bracelet. Make an original piece of art that you can wear or give as a gift. .

Instructor: Rae Ann Neyman
Location: YorkArts, 10 N. Beaver St York

Saturday, May 11; 10am-Noon

$25 Ages 16+

Mixed Media Journal
Learn several Mixed Media techniques to get you started in this altered art form. Participants will create their own art journal to sketch ideas, store found treasures or write creative entries. Personalize it for yourself or give as a gift. Please bring a bagged lunch.

Instructor: Rae Ann Neyman

Location: YorkArts, 10 N. Beaver St York

Saturday, March 16 or June 22; 10am-2pm

$35 Ages 16+

Domino Necklace Workshop

Participants will learn several methods to upcycle a domino to create a one-of-a-kind necklace. Make an original piece of art that you can wear.

Instructor: Rae Ann Neyman
Location: YorkArts@CityArt, 118 W. Philadelphia St York

Saturday, April 27; 10am-Noon

$25 Ages 16+

Date Night: Picture Tumblr

Join us in downtown York for a fun evening of picture-taking with your date! Beginning at YorkArts Gallery, we'll talk about a few photo basics, and then we'll head out to snap up the lovely downtown area. We'll return and pick our favorite captures, and submit them all to a collective Tumblr blog for everyone to see. Bring your own digital camera (with USB cable) or a camera smartphone.

Instructor: Matthew Artz

Location: YorkArts, 10 N Beaver St York

Friday, April 5, May 3 or June 7; 5:30-7:30pm

$25 Ages 18+

Basic Applique Beading Workshop

This 2 hour workshop will teach you the basics of appliqué beading, a technique widely used by Native Americans and First Nations peoples across the continent to create incredible works of functional, wearable art. Students will bead their own designs. Designs should be brought to class on standard weight paper, drawn or printed the size of the desired product with a half inch margin. All students will be given guidelines on purchasing materials after registering for the class. You can get enough supplies to get your project started and well under way for less than $15.

Instructor: Jess McPherson

Location: YorkArts, 10 N Beaver St York

Saturdays, April 13, May 11; 10am - 12pm
or Friday, June 7; 5:30 - 7:30pm

$40 Ages 18+

Mixed Media Mosaics
Mosaics, clay, and painting are just a few mediums students will explore in this class. This class features a special emphasis on color theory while enhancing skills working with many different mediums in order to stimulate interest and encourage creativity, while providing a good foundation in craftsmanship. Some supplies provided.

Instructor: Rebecca Quattrone

Location: YorkArts, 10 N. Beaver St, York
Tuesdays (5), May 7-June 4; 9-11:30am

$130 Ages 18+

Ladies Night: Painting

Uncork your creativity at YorkArts! Become inspired by a local artist and paint your own masterpiece. Participants are encouraged to bring their own snacks and beverages.

Instructor: Maggie Moran and Trisha Harris

Location: YorkArts, 10 N. Beaver St York

Friday, April 26, or May 11; 6-9pm Theme: Spring Flowers

Friday, June 26, July 11, or July 26; 6-9pm Theme: Wine Glasses

$40 Ages 18+

Kids Sport Photography

Students will work with their equipment, shutter speeds and ISO settings and then shoot techniques to create great images of different sports. The basics are the same in almost every sport, either capturing the peak moment of action and/or the emotions of the game. One of the greatest barriers to youth sports is the lack of great lighting at night or indoors, we will discuss and work on the best options for any situation.

Instructor: Neal Palumbo

Location: Studio 11 West, 11 W Philadelphia St., York

Thursday, June 13; 1-4pm

$30 Ages 18+

Digital Photography & Editing

Learn intro to digital photography, camera functions, composition and photography techniques, various types of subjects, and basic editing and photo manipulation. Students will learn studio lighting tricks for a variety of subjects. Students need to bring a digital camera with manual mode settings and zoom lenses, and a laptop with internet capability.

Instructor: Trish Harris

Location: YorkArts, 10 N Beaver St York

Wednesdays (6), June 26-July 31; 6-8pm

$95 Ages 18+

Taking Great Kid Pics

This one day workshop will make you a better child photographer. Students will learn a quick overview of basic exposures, and then jump right in to taking photos of children using simple techniques in exposures and composition. We will discuss using your environment in the frame and how to think on the fly to capture unique images of your kids. Participants should bring a Smartphone camera or a full 35 mm DSLR.

Instructor: Neal Palumbo

Location: Studio 11 West, 11 W Philadelphia St., York

Thursday, June 27; 1-4pm

$30 Ages 18+

Digital Scrapbooking

An intro to photography basics – how does this camera actually work? Students will learn how to edit their photos, how to email photos and how to make a digital scrapbook and send it off for printing. Make a digital scrapbook using sites like ShutterFly and Scrapbook Flair. Students should being their own camera and laptop.

Instructor: Trish Harris

Location: YorkArts, 10 N Beaver St York

Tuesdays (6), June 25-July 30; 5:30-8:30pm

$105 Ages 18+

Environmental Art Workshop

Environmental artwork can include many materials. This workshop will focus on post consumer plastics, primarily colorful detergent bottles. These bottles are unique because of their range in color, pattern, textures, shapes, and sizes. There are limitless possibilities plastic can be manipulated through experimentation. Learn to work with the material in a safe, low-tech, and successful way. Learn excellent ways to immerse students in teamwork, community, and collaboration, all skills important in Twenty First Century Thinking.

Instructor: Roxanne Hotaling

Location: YorkArts, 10 N. Beaver St, York

Saturday, June 29; 1-4pm

$40 Ages 18+

Date Night: Painting

Uncork your creativity at YorkArts! Become inspired by a local artist and paint a masterpiece together. Supplies included. Participants are encouraged to bring their own snacks and beverages. Theme: Wine glasses.

Instructor: Trisha Harris

Location: YorkArts, 10 N. Beaver St York

Saturday, July 6, July 20 or August 2; 6-9pm

$40 per couple Ages 18+

ART + YOGA

Discover simple yet profound ways to combine yoga, meditation, and the arts to explore and enhance your creative focus and flow. We will combine yoga postures with breath work and guided meditation to open up your creative pathways, letting them flow into a unique art activity each week. Students will work individually and together, exploring creative writing, collage, life-size body mapping with paint, personal mandalas, and other mixed media techniques. We will also discuss yoga-related themes, such as nonviolence, impermanence, unity in diversity and more. Join us for an amazing journey into your creative Self. Supplies included.

Instructor: Christel Emenheiser, RYT200

Location: YorkArts@CityArt, 118 W. Philadelphia St York

Saturdays (4), July 6-27; 9:30-11:30am

$80 Ages 16+

Writing Classes and Workshops:

Storytelling

Telling stories instead of always reading from a book, is a fun and creative way to present a story. But, like music and dance, it is an art form that needs to be practiced. Strategies and techniques on how to effectively tell a story, bringing it to life, are demonstrated, and participants will have an opportunity to use these skills to tell a story. This is an excellent workshop for parents, grandparents, teachers, speakers and presenters - or anyone involved in communicating with others.

Instructor: Judy Wolfman, Professional Story Teller

Location: YorkArts@CityArt

March 16; 10:30-11:30am

$20 Ages 18+

Writing Artist Statements

There is no template for an artist statement, but there are some simple guidelines to make the writing process easier and the final product truly reflective of you and your work. In this workshop we will discuss some effective strategies you can employ to ensure that your artist statement is the best that it can be, and that readers will have a clearer sense of who you are and why you create after reading your statement.

Instructor: Carole Poppleton-Schrading

Location: YorkArts, 10 N Beaver St York

Saturday, May 4 and Sunday, May 5; 1-3pm

$40 Ages 16+

Kick-Start Your Muse

This Writing-intensive class is loaded with prompts, suggestions, and inspiration to get your poetic muse into action! You will play Poetry Poker, translate the work of established poets, share ideas and phrases, and master forms like the sonnet and villanelle. The final two classes will employ analysis and critique, culminating in a public reading of your own poems.(Ages 18+)

Instructor: Carol Clark Williams, poet laureate emeritus of York

Location: YorkArts, 10 N Beaver St York

Wednesdays (4), 6-8pm, May 8-29

$85 Ages 18+

Finding Your Own Story

If you're thinking about pulling together your memoirs as a legacy for your family, but you're not able to dig deep enough into your memory bank to pull out your stories - this workshop will help. Using several techniques and triggers, you'll bring the memories to the surface, then construct them into personal stories that can be told, or written, for others to enjoy.

Instructor: Judy Wolfman, Professional Story Teller

Location: YorkArts@CityArt

Saturday, June 1; 10am-1pm

$60 Ages 18+

Introduction to Memoir

In this introductory workshop, students will be asked to tap into several powerful memories in order to gather material for writing. We will attempt to understand the genre of memoir by reading excerpts from published memoirists and then discussing strategies employed within those texts. We will also practice our own prose through a series of timed in-class writings (flash or sprint memory writings) and at-home writing assignments that will focus on specific areas, such as sensory details, dialogue and structure. Since this is a workshop, students will be asked to share their written work in small groups and in open readings to the class.

Instructor: Carole Poppleton-Schrading

Location: YorkArts, 10 N Beaver St York

Tuesdays, June 4-25; 10am-Noon

$80 Ages 18+

Techniques and Strategies for Reading Aloud

Do you enjoy reading stories to your child? Can you bring the story to life? Reading aloud is more than merely reading words on the page; it's how you read those words that are important. You'll discover various techniques, such as expressiveness, inflection, and pause for effect in this class, and will have an opportunity to practice them. We'll also cover questioning techniques, interaction with your child, and several subtle educational aspects of reading aloud. Please bring one or two of your child's favorite books to use in class.

Instructor: Judy Wolfman, Professional Story Teller

Location: YorkArts, 10 N Beaver St York

Saturday, July 13; 10:30-11:30am

$20 Ages 18+

The Elements of Poetry Series

In this workshop, we'll define the elements of poetry that apply to the experience of writing in our time. We'll talk about the true meaning of inspiration and find the balance between improvisational and compositional methods, between structural concerns and play of mind.

Instructor: Keith Baughman
Location: YorkArts Gallery, 10 N Beaver St York

Sundays, 3-5pm

$30, each session Ages 14+

May 5- 19: BANG! A Poem

July 7- 21: Re / Vision

Sept. 4-18: Hello Walls

SUMMER TEEN CLASSES:

**To register for a class click on classes on the orange bar at the top of the website. Download a registration form under class registration. **

Photography101

Learn the workings of cameras, both digital and film, exposure combinations and ISO relationships. After learning the basics, it's all about shooting techniques and how to create images. Students will work in studio and out around Downtown York. This is a great camp for teens interested in art and photography, especially if you are thinking of either as a college major.

Instructor: Neal Palumbo

Location: Studio 11 West, 11 W Philadelphia St York

June 17-21; 9am-Noon

$110 Ages 14-17

Mosaic Madness for Teens

Learn the history of this age-old art, recycle broken pieces and create your own unique designs. Basic safety techniques and use of simple tools will be demonstrated. Note: For personal pizzazz, bring broken bowls and plates with you to camp.

Instructor: Rebecca Quattrone

Location: YorkArts, 10 N. Beaver St York

July 8-12; 1-4 pm

$120 Ages 14-17

Digital Photography and Editing for Teens

Instructor: Trish Harris

Location: YorkArts, 10 N Beaver St York

July 8-12; 1-4pm

$110 Ages 13-17

Mixed Media Madness

Using junk art, recycled art, and Dr. Suess’ “The Lorax” for inspiration, students complete a mixed media project on 8x8 hard boards, while developing an appreciation for the environment, the earth and recycling and learning a new art form most teens have not experienced.

Instructor: Trish Harris

Location: YorkArts, 10 N Beaver St York

July15-19; 1-4pm

$120 Ages 13-17

Teen Ceramics: Throwing and Handbuilding

This class is designed for beginners to learn the basics of handbuilding, wheel throwing, and glazing functional and sculptural pieces. With a focus on experimentation and expression of individuality through pottery, students experience the magic of throwing their own pots as well as learning hand building techniques and sculpture.

Instructor: Rebecca Quattrone

Location: YorkArts, 10 N. Beaver St York

July 22-26; 1-4 pm

$130 Ages 14-17

Storytelling in a Digital Age

This photojournalism class focuses on how photos contribute to a news story and familiarizes students with multimedia tools. Students will learn to create their own photo documentary, working closely with other students to select and edit the best photographs for the story. Students need to bring a digital camera with manual mode settings and zoom lenses, and a laptop with internet capability.

Instructor: Trish Harris

Location: YorkArts, 10 N Beaver St York

July 29-August 2; 1-4pm

$110 Ages 13-17

Art College Prep

Looking to pursue a degree and ultimately a career in visual arts? Students will receive guidance on how to develop their artistic process, how to build a strong portfolio, and how to discuss their artwork with perspective art schools and art collectors.

Instructors: Maggie Moran and Rita King

Location: YorkArts, 10 N Beaver St York

Tuesdays (3), July 30-August 13; 2-5pm

$65 Ages16-18

Advanced Ceramics

Ideal for students who have taken a pottery class in the past, the class will build upon skills achieved by introducing techniques for working on the pottery’s wheel. This class will present step-by-step instruction on how to center, open and pull up clay to create bowls, cups and plates. Surface decoration, glazing and hand-building projects also will be explored. On the first day of class, students will discuss and decide on the project theme(s) for the session.

Instructor: Rebecca Quattrone

Location: YorkArts, 10 N. Beaver St York

August 5-9; 1-4 pm

$130 Ages14-17

Relief Printmaking

Students will learn how to carve an original design into a soft surface block that can be printed multiple times. Students will work on projects individually and as a group. Print your original design onto a T-shirt to create a one-of-a-kind shirt.

Instructor: Tyler Bailey

Location: YorkArts, 10 N Beaver St York

August 5-9; 1-4pm

$120 Ages 14-17

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