Monday Class Dates
- Session I: September 12,19,26, October 3,10,17
- Session II: October 31, November 7,14,21,28, December 5,12
Tuesday Class Dates
- Session I: September 6,13,20,27, October 4,11,18
- Session II: November 1,8,15,22,29, December 6,13
Wednesday Class Dates
- Session I: September 7,14,21,28, October 5,12,19
- Session II: November 2,9,16,23,30, December 7,14
Thursday Class Dates
- Session I: September 8,15,22,29, October 6,13,20
- Session II: November 3,10,17, December 1,8,15
Friday Class Dates
- Session I: September 9,16,23,30, October 7,14,21
- Session II: November 4,11,18, December 2,9,16
Saturday Class Dates
- Session I: September 10,17,24, October 1,8,15
- Session II: October 29, November 5,12,19, December 3,10
Sunday Class Dates
- Session I: September 11,18,25, October 2,9,16
- Session II: October 30, November 6,13,20, December 4,11
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Classes
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NEW! Blogging About Your Fine Art
Promote your artwork by blogging! You will create a place on the internet where you can post images and add original content. Learn how to blog about art related activities by posting new work, announcing exhibitions, workshops and publications, and how to get it noticed. By the end of the class you will have a free WordPress.com blog with your artwork on it. You are welcome to bring your own laptop or use one of Kendall's. -
NEW! Stonesetting for Jewelers
Once you've made a ring, learn to set your own stones! Start with fun variations on the basic bezel setting, then move into setting round, faceted stones into prongs.Finally explore more complex shapes or styles of settings like ovals and squares or bead and flush settings. You will use the state-of-the-art GRS Benchmate system to work with imitation gems, or you can bring that special gem from home to incorporate into your finished piece. Some previous experience with jewelry/metalsmithing preferred. -
NEW! How to Repair Jewelry
Have broken gold or silver jewelry in your drawer? Learn how to repair or restore jewelry by first distinguishing karat gold and sterling jewelry from costume pieces. Then learn to repair broken chains, re-size rings, fix earrings, and brooches. Bring it all in and sort through it to find what you can work with. Note that some precious stones may restrict the use of some repair techniques. Students without their own pieces will be provided materials with which to work. Beginning to advanced students are welcome. -
NEW! Jewelry Open Studio
Continue exploring and working on jewelry pieces in Kendall's state-of-the-art metals studio. Bring your own materials and projects to finish, or start something new. Standard tools and facilities will be accessible for use with fabrication techniques (no casting). Studio instructor will be available to monitor safety and provide light guidance. Students must have previous experience. -
NEW! Lost Wax Casting for Jewelers
Learn the lost wax casting process from start to finish, including wax carving, spruing, investing, and finally pouring molten metal. Students will also learn the finishing techniques necessary to complete their own unique jewelry or small sculptural pieces in precious metal. Beginning to advanced students are welcome. -
NEW! Repurposing Your Fabric Stash
Learn to make clever and creative fashions for yourself and your home using fabrics you have stored in your closet, or that you find on the remnant table at the fabric store. A variety of patterns and techniques will be introduced, and you will have the opportunity to complete one or more projects. -
NEW! Art in Photoshop
What's so hot about Adobe Photoshop? Here's the chance to find out while creating your own digital artwork. Focus on the different styles of coloring available to the user in Photoshop. You will explore mimicking traditional coloring such as pencils, painting, and paper cutouts, as well as thoroughly digital coloring techniques. You will be able to both scan hand drawn work into the computer, as well as draw directly in Photoshop. Focus on the style and project that most appeals to you. This class is open to both beginning and advanced students. Instructor will work with students individually at their own level. -
NEW! Make Your Own Website
Learn about the processes and technologies used to create a website from the ground up. Starting in Dreamweaver with HTML5 and CSS 3, you will be guided through creating a website to fit your own needs, and how to embellish it with Flash, Javascript and more. -
NEW! Architectural Photography
Explore the subject of architecture while looking at photographs of other artists and taking some of your own. Learn the intricacies of your digital camera and how to make simple adjustments on Adobe Photoshop. Any type of digital camera is acceptable, but you must have experience downloading photos to a computer. -
NEW! Painting Your Online Image
Living in today's world where many of our identities are maintained in digital space, be sure to hold onto what makes you who you are. Express your identity through creative self-portrait painting while learning about composition oil painting techniques and conceptual development. Your completed painting can be photographed and used on your social network profile. All skill levels are welcome. -
NEW! Google Painting
Using mixed media, you will find images on the web to use as sources for paintings. The electronic images you choose will serve as references, collage materials, and conceptual starting points for your work. Using oil or acrylic paint, explore different directions, with the goal of learning visual language and invention. All skill levels are welcome. -
NEW! Timeless Watercolor
Create vivid watercolor paintings utilizing subject matter that is never outdated such as landscape, portraiture, and still life. Digital photographs, prints, and compositions are also welcome as sources for paintings. Learn how to use your paintings in digital forms such as prints, cards, and more. Tips on matting and framing will be included. Open to beginning or intermediate level painters. -
New! Post-Impressionist Painting
Learn about impressionism, post-impressionism, abstract impressionism, and pointillism, while researching the work of artists such as Monet, Van Gogh, Seurat, and Pollock. Complete a minimum of three acrylic paintings demonstrating their styles. Use arbitrary color or lighting in your paintings. Open to beginning or intermediate level painters. -
Upstyled Fashion
Create your own unique fashions by restyling clothing, sweatshirts, denim, and much more. Make a no-sew T-Shirt in the first class. Bring your sewing machine to subsequent classes and go to work making fashions similar to those found in upscale galleries and boutiques. -
Intro to Jewelry Design
Learn the fundamental techniques and craftsmanship necessary to create original metal jewelry pieces. Learn soldering, sawing, filing, buffing, polishing techniques, and incorporating stones and their settings into metal jewelry. Complete one finished piece in silver. -
Improvisational Art
Using the materials at hand, immerse yourself in the creative process by drawing, painting, and printing with unconventional tools and techniques. Train your eyes to see the possibilities in improvised and accidental marks. Course will include drawing, oil or acrylic painting, and transfer processes. All skill levels are welcome. -
Introduction to Jewelry/Metalsmithing
Learn the fundamental techniques and craftsmanship necessary to create an original metal jewelry piece. You will also learn about safety, equipment and set-up ideas for a home studio situation. -
Intro to Jewelry Casting
Learn three different types of casting metal from primitive sand casting to modern lost wax casting. Explore the properties of different non-ferrous metals including aluminum, bronze, and silver, and the techniques necessary to make unique jewelry or small sculptural pieces. -
Fundamentals of Interior Design
Explore the practical interior design applications of space planning, lighting, color principles, architecture, and furniture arrangement. This course has the flexibility for students to work on design solutions for either residential or commercial interests. -
Fashion Pattern Drafting
Learn how to construct women's fashions by drafting your own patterns. Draft basic sleeve, pant, skirt, and bodice styles into patterns, then go to the sewing machine to achieve a perfect fit. -
Introduction to Adobe Photoshop®
Learn how to use Adobe Photoshop to edit and combine photos, create simple page layouts and more. This class will cover basic and advanced features of Photoshop CS5. -
Adobe Flash®
Interested in animation or interactive design? You will learn about buttons, animation shortcuts, simple scripting and how to work between Flash and other Adobe programs. -
Adobe InDesign®
Adobe InDesign is used to create printed documents including brochures, newsletters, magazines, menus, and more. Learn how to format text; develop layouts using columns, grids, and styles; add photos and graphics, prepare your files for print, and create PDFs. -
Introduction to Adobe Illustrator®
Adobe Illustrator is the premier vector program used by professional designers and illustrators today. Learn how to use Illustrator to create original logos, graphics, page layouts and illustrations. -
Basic Adobe Dreamweaver ®
You will be introduced to the basic features of the Adobe Dreamweaver web development application. You will learn about creating, organizing, and managing websites and how to create and edit web pages using Dreamweaver. You will learn to design basic web pages. -
Digital Photography
Ready to move past auto mode and explore the advanced options on your digital camera? You will learn how to use your camera's program, manual, and priority capabilities to produce more creative photographs by controlling light, speed, and depth-of-field. You will also learn color management, digital workflow and image enhancement methods that will lead to higher quality prints. Students should be able to shoot photos in the auto mode and transfer images to the computer. Your digital camera must have aperture priority, shutter priority, and manual shooting modes. -
Digital Photography
Ready to move past auto mode and explore the advanced options on your digital camera? You will learn how to use your camera's program, manual, and priority capabilities to produce more creative photographs by controlling light, speed, and depth-of-field. You will also learn color management, digital workflow and image enhancement methods that will lead to higher quality prints. Students should be able to shoot photos in the auto mode and transfer images to the computer. Your digital camera must have aperture priority, shutter priority, and manual shooting modes. -
Painting with Oils
Explore the medium of oil using still life and photo reference to develop paintings from sketchbook studies. Learn how to enhance your compositions with an understanding of the principles of design and color. This course has the flexibility for both the beginner and more advanced oil painter. -
Observational Drawing: From Pencil to Paint
Working first with drawing tools and techniques, learn how to transition into painting with either oil or acrylic paint. Subject matter will include still life, landscape and the figure. This class is suitable for both beginners and those with painting and drawing experience. -
Right Brain Drawing for Non-Artists
You can learn to draw! By gaining access to the part of your mind that works in a style conducive to creative, intuitive thought,you will learn a fundamental skill of visual art: how to put down on paper what you see in front of your eyes. In learning how to draw, you will learn an entirely new way to see, which can impact your creativity in other areas of your life. This class is based on the book Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards. -
Art of Photography
While other photography classes include extensive instructions in downloading and altering photos on the computer, this class focuses on the basics of learning to use your camera and taking pictures. Learn to take pictures in natural, artificial and flash lighting using a digital camera. View examples of photographs of some contemporary photo artists, and discuss content. -
NEW! Intro to Digital Art
Most of the text and print you read and see every day is made using only three major computer programs: Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign. Designed for beginners, this class will help you understand digital art technology and how to apply it in the creation of several simple projects.
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Drawing
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Traditional Portrait Drawing
Learn the art of portraiture! Beginning with contour line, develop shading techniques and lighting effects that will bring your drawings to life. Begin drawing from photographs, and later in the class, from a live model. This class is suitable for beginning or intermediate level students. -
NEW! Realistic Drawing From A Digital Photo
Using Prismacolor pencils, discover tips and techniques that will help you achieve a layered, realistic drawing based on a digital photo of your choice. This class is suitable for beginning to advanced level students. -
Drawing Level One
Intended for beginners, you will develop skills through still life and basic figure observation. Through individual instruction, you will come to an understanding of gesture, contour, shading, and overall composition. You'll explore a variety of charcoal, pencils, ink, and other materials. -
Observational Drawing: From Pencil to Paint
Working first with drawing tools and techniques, learn how to transition into painting with either oil or acrylic paint. Subject matter will include still life, landscape and the figure. This class is suitable for both beginners and those with painting and drawing experience. -
Right Brain Drawing for Non-Artists
You can learn to draw! By gaining access to the part of your mind that works in a style conducive to creative, intuitive thought,you will learn a fundamental skill of visual art: how to put down on paper what you see in front of your eyes. In learning how to draw, you will learn an entirely new way to see, which can impact your creativity in other areas of your life. This class is based on the book Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards. -
Figure Drawing
Learn to use line, shape, value, and texture to describe the human figure with a variety of drawing materials. Problems of composition and proportion will be explored, using nude models. This course is open to both beginning and advanced students.
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Painting
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NEW! Painting Your Online Image
Living in today's world where many of our identities are maintained in digital space, be sure to hold onto what makes you who you are. Express your identity through creative self-portrait painting while learning about composition oil painting techniques and conceptual development. Your completed painting can be photographed and used on your social network profile. All skill levels are welcome. -
NEW! Google Painting
Using mixed media, you will find images on the web to use as sources for paintings. The electronic images you choose will serve as references, collage materials, and conceptual starting points for your work. Using oil or acrylic paint, explore different directions, with the goal of learning visual language and invention. All skill levels are welcome. -
NEW! Timeless Watercolor
Create vivid watercolor paintings utilizing subject matter that is never outdated such as landscape, portraiture, and still life. Digital photographs, prints, and compositions are also welcome as sources for paintings. Learn how to use your paintings in digital forms such as prints, cards, and more. Tips on matting and framing will be included. Open to beginning or intermediate level painters. -
New! Post-Impressionist Painting
Learn about impressionism, post-impressionism, abstract impressionism, and pointillism, while researching the work of artists such as Monet, Van Gogh, Seurat, and Pollock. Complete a minimum of three acrylic paintings demonstrating their styles. Use arbitrary color or lighting in your paintings. Open to beginning or intermediate level painters. -
Improvisational Art
Using the materials at hand, immerse yourself in the creative process by drawing, painting, and printing with unconventional tools and techniques. Train your eyes to see the possibilities in improvised and accidental marks. Course will include drawing, oil or acrylic painting, and transfer processes. All skill levels are welcome. -
Painting with Oils
Explore the medium of oil using still life and photo reference to develop paintings from sketchbook studies. Learn how to enhance your compositions with an understanding of the principles of design and color. This course has the flexibility for both the beginner and more advanced oil painter.
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Fashion
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NEW! Repurposing Your Fabric Stash
Learn to make clever and creative fashions for yourself and your home using fabrics you have stored in your closet, or that you find on the remnant table at the fabric store. A variety of patterns and techniques will be introduced, and you will have the opportunity to complete one or more projects. -
Upstyled Fashion
Create your own unique fashions by restyling clothing, sweatshirts, denim, and much more. Make a no-sew T-Shirt in the first class. Bring your sewing machine to subsequent classes and go to work making fashions similar to those found in upscale galleries and boutiques. -
Fashion Pattern Drafting
Learn how to construct women's fashions by drafting your own patterns. Draft basic sleeve, pant, skirt, and bodice styles into patterns, then go to the sewing machine to achieve a perfect fit.
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Interiors
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Fundamentals of Interior Design
Explore the practical interior design applications of space planning, lighting, color principles, architecture, and furniture arrangement. This course has the flexibility for students to work on design solutions for either residential or commercial interests.
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Metals
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NEW! Stonesetting for Jewelers
Once you've made a ring, learn to set your own stones! Start with fun variations on the basic bezel setting, then move into setting round, faceted stones into prongs.Finally explore more complex shapes or styles of settings like ovals and squares or bead and flush settings. You will use the state-of-the-art GRS Benchmate system to work with imitation gems, or you can bring that special gem from home to incorporate into your finished piece. Some previous experience with jewelry/metalsmithing preferred. -
NEW! How to Repair Jewelry
Have broken gold or silver jewelry in your drawer? Learn how to repair or restore jewelry by first distinguishing karat gold and sterling jewelry from costume pieces. Then learn to repair broken chains, re-size rings, fix earrings, and brooches. Bring it all in and sort through it to find what you can work with. Note that some precious stones may restrict the use of some repair techniques. Students without their own pieces will be provided materials with which to work. Beginning to advanced students are welcome. -
NEW! Jewelry Open Studio
Continue exploring and working on jewelry pieces in Kendall's state-of-the-art metals studio. Bring your own materials and projects to finish, or start something new. Standard tools and facilities will be accessible for use with fabrication techniques (no casting). Studio instructor will be available to monitor safety and provide light guidance. Students must have previous experience. -
NEW! Lost Wax Casting for Jewelers
Learn the lost wax casting process from start to finish, including wax carving, spruing, investing, and finally pouring molten metal. Students will also learn the finishing techniques necessary to complete their own unique jewelry or small sculptural pieces in precious metal. Beginning to advanced students are welcome. -
Intro to Jewelry Design
Learn the fundamental techniques and craftsmanship necessary to create original metal jewelry pieces. Learn soldering, sawing, filing, buffing, polishing techniques, and incorporating stones and their settings into metal jewelry. Complete one finished piece in silver. -
Introduction to Jewelry/Metalsmithing
Learn the fundamental techniques and craftsmanship necessary to create an original metal jewelry piece. You will also learn about safety, equipment and set-up ideas for a home studio situation. -
Intro to Jewelry Casting
Learn three different types of casting metal from primitive sand casting to modern lost wax casting. Explore the properties of different non-ferrous metals including aluminum, bronze, and silver, and the techniques necessary to make unique jewelry or small sculptural pieces.
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Other Media
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NEW! Blogging About Your Fine Art
Promote your artwork by blogging! You will create a place on the internet where you can post images and add original content. Learn how to blog about art related activities by posting new work, announcing exhibitions, workshops and publications, and how to get it noticed. By the end of the class you will have a free WordPress.com blog with your artwork on it. You are welcome to bring your own laptop or use one of Kendall's. -
Etsy 101
Etsy is a popular art, craft, and vintage e-commerce website which has exceeded tens of thousands of users worldwide. Pave the way for your first Etsy sale with adequate preparation. Learn tips and tricks for listing and selling your art on Etsy, including navigating Etsy, hints for photography, listing and tagging your work, creating treasuries, teams, circles, showcases, and much more. -
Writing for Digital Media and Film
Learn how to apply the classical argument in story writing with resource material from YouTube as inspiration. You will see some of the best short communications in the world, from Academy Award winning animation, to advertising and wartime propaganda, you will analyze how they were conceived. The process of story-boarding will be discussed.
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Computers
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NEW! Art in Photoshop
What's so hot about Adobe Photoshop? Here's the chance to find out while creating your own digital artwork. Focus on the different styles of coloring available to the user in Photoshop. You will explore mimicking traditional coloring such as pencils, painting, and paper cutouts, as well as thoroughly digital coloring techniques. You will be able to both scan hand drawn work into the computer, as well as draw directly in Photoshop. Focus on the style and project that most appeals to you. This class is open to both beginning and advanced students. Instructor will work with students individually at their own level. -
NEW! Make Your Own Website
Learn about the processes and technologies used to create a website from the ground up. Starting in Dreamweaver with HTML5 and CSS 3, you will be guided through creating a website to fit your own needs, and how to embellish it with Flash, Javascript and more. -
Introduction to Adobe Photoshop®
Learn how to use Adobe Photoshop to edit and combine photos, create simple page layouts and more. This class will cover basic and advanced features of Photoshop CS5. -
Adobe Flash®
Interested in animation or interactive design? You will learn about buttons, animation shortcuts, simple scripting and how to work between Flash and other Adobe programs. -
Adobe InDesign®
Adobe InDesign is used to create printed documents including brochures, newsletters, magazines, menus, and more. Learn how to format text; develop layouts using columns, grids, and styles; add photos and graphics, prepare your files for print, and create PDFs. -
Introduction to Adobe Illustrator®
Adobe Illustrator is the premier vector program used by professional designers and illustrators today. Learn how to use Illustrator to create original logos, graphics, page layouts and illustrations. -
Basic Adobe Dreamweaver ®
You will be introduced to the basic features of the Adobe Dreamweaver web development application. You will learn about creating, organizing, and managing websites and how to create and edit web pages using Dreamweaver. You will learn to design basic web pages. -
NEW! Intro to Digital Art
Most of the text and print you read and see every day is made using only three major computer programs: Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign. Designed for beginners, this class will help you understand digital art technology and how to apply it in the creation of several simple projects.
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Photography
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NEW! Architectural Photography
Explore the subject of architecture while looking at photographs of other artists and taking some of your own. Learn the intricacies of your digital camera and how to make simple adjustments on Adobe Photoshop. Any type of digital camera is acceptable, but you must have experience downloading photos to a computer. -
Digital Photography
Ready to move past auto mode and explore the advanced options on your digital camera? You will learn how to use your camera's program, manual, and priority capabilities to produce more creative photographs by controlling light, speed, and depth-of-field. You will also learn color management, digital workflow and image enhancement methods that will lead to higher quality prints. Students should be able to shoot photos in the auto mode and transfer images to the computer. Your digital camera must have aperture priority, shutter priority, and manual shooting modes. -
Digital Photography
Ready to move past auto mode and explore the advanced options on your digital camera? You will learn how to use your camera's program, manual, and priority capabilities to produce more creative photographs by controlling light, speed, and depth-of-field. You will also learn color management, digital workflow and image enhancement methods that will lead to higher quality prints. Students should be able to shoot photos in the auto mode and transfer images to the computer. Your digital camera must have aperture priority, shutter priority, and manual shooting modes. -
Art of Photography
While other photography classes include extensive instructions in downloading and altering photos on the computer, this class focuses on the basics of learning to use your camera and taking pictures. Learn to take pictures in natural, artificial and flash lighting using a digital camera. View examples of photographs of some contemporary photo artists, and discuss content.
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Workshops
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Etsy 101
Etsy is a popular art, craft, and vintage e-commerce website which has exceeded tens of thousands of users worldwide. Pave the way for your first Etsy sale with adequate preparation. Learn tips and tricks for listing and selling your art on Etsy, including navigating Etsy, hints for photography, listing and tagging your work, creating treasuries, teams, circles, showcases, and much more. -
Writing for Digital Media and Film
Learn how to apply the classical argument in story writing with resource material from YouTube as inspiration. You will see some of the best short communications in the world, from Academy Award winning animation, to advertising and wartime propaganda, you will analyze how they were conceived. The process of story-boarding will be discussed.
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