2008 Workshops
All workshops meet daily Monday through Friday. Workshops have enrollment limits and are filled on a first-come, first-served basis. Early registration is strongly encouraged. Some workshops have required supplies and/or a materials fee payable onsite to the instructor. Complete supply lists for each class are available.
Skill Level Guidelines: No special qualifications or skills are required for students to attend the School of the Arts. However, for the convenience of participants, you will find listed with each class the suggested level of skill needed.
College credit is available through Learning Through the Arts.
Details registration and instruction fees can be found on the SOA General Information page.
Workshops areas for SOA 2008 included:
These descriptions are sorted alphabetically by class topic. Download the schedule at-a-glance sheet for a listing of classes and instructors organized by class time.
Class enrollment notes will be updated twice weekly.
Art and Folk Art
For detailed descriptions visit the Art and Folk Classes page
The Art of Composition
Basic Relief Carving
Basics of Drawing
Beginning Watercolor
Broom Making - A Lost Art
Dyeing and Surface Design on Fabric
Exploring Mandalas
Fundamentals of Plein Air Painting
Intermediate Drawing
Introduction to Woodcarving
Jewelry Making: Beading, Embroidery and Embellishment
Keeping A Visual Journal
Lay Down Color Fast and Easy with Pastels
Portraits of Homes, Churches, and Other Structures
Painting Portraits
Radical BookWorks
Sand Carving
Studio for Artists: Drawing
Studio for Painters
Watercolor & Beyond
Watercolor Techniques
Computer Classes
For detailed descriptions visit the Computer Classes page
Basic Website Design using Dreamweaver
Basic Photoshop Elements
Desktop Publishing with Microsoft Publisher
Culinary Arts: Food Artistry with Linda Arndt (D35)
Skill Level: All
1:30-4:30 pm
We eat first with our eyes. When food looks beautiful it seems to taste even better. This class will explore the artistic tricks of the culinary arts industry that transform good food into incredible creations.
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Mind, Body and Spirit
For detailed descriptions visit the Mind, Body and Spirit Classes page
Sunrise Yoga
Jump Start Your Creativity
Keeping A Visual Journal
Meditation and Relaxation
Exploring Mandalas
Enhancing Creativity with Yoga and Meditation
Music
For detailed descriptions visit the Music Classes page
Beginning Guitar
Fingerstyle Blues
Dulcimer Ensemble
Individual Music Lessons
SOA Chorus
Photography
For detailed descriptions visit the Photography Classes page
Basic Photoshop Elements
Community Portraits
Digital Photo Management - only 4 spots left.
Taking Great Photographs with Digital Cameras - only 3 spots left.
Theatre and Drama
For detailed descriptions visit the Theatre and Drama Classes page
Acting
Introduction to Playwriting
Introduction to Improvisation
Playwriting Lab for Actors
Playwriting Lab for Writers
Storytelling
Writing
For detailed descriptions visit the Writing Classes page
Advanced Poetry - only 1 spot left
Busting Through Writer’s Block - only 1 spot left
Creative Nonfiction - class is full
Elements of Fiction
Exploring Mandalas through Drawing and Writing
Fiction Workshop: Read like a Writer
Introduction to Playwriting
Marketing and Selling What You Write
Novelist’s Boot Camp
Novelist’s Boot Camp: Advanced Tactics for the nearly- and newly- published
Playwriting Lab for Writers
Poetry as Peace-Maker - session 1 is full
Poetry Books: Create a Manuscript from Your Stack of Poems
Poetry: Sounds and Images
Poetry without Tears: A Workshop on the Reading of poetry
Short Story Magic
Subtext in Fiction & Critique