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Fall
2009 Course Offerings
Classes for Adults
Unless
otherwise noted, tuition is $95 for ACAC members,
$105 for nonmembers. Materials fees are payable
to the instructor at the first class.
Abstract Acrylics
Tuesdays, October 6-27, 1-3 p.m.
Express yourself by experimenting with acrylic
paints in non-representational paintings. Color
becomes a structural element which combines with
abstract lines to create an artistic image.
Brush application, impasto techniques, and
design elements will become your artistic
vocabulary. One week we’ll paint to music to
create an expressive mood painting. A materials
list will be provided.
Dorothea Barrick
Celtic Harp
Wednesdays, October 7-28, 6-8 p.m.
The Celtic Harp is a beautiful and expressive
instrument, accessible to students of all ages.
You’ll learn the basic hand position and
technique for playing the harp, how to
coordinate right and left hands, and how to
construct simple chords and arrangements. You’ll
also learn about the types of Celtic tunes and
the differences between them. The course is
suitable for beginners and those who have not
played for a long time – no musical knowledge
required! By the end of the class, you’ll be
able to play at least two simple pieces and have
some basic theoretical knowledge about music.
Harp rentals are required for this class, unless
other arrangements are made with the instructor.
The rental fee is $65 for the four weeks
of class; further information about rentals will
be provided by the instructor.
Sharon Knowles
Ballroom Dance
Wednesdays, October 7-28, 7-8 p.m.
An
introduction to the American Ballroom Dance
style of foxtrot, waltz, swing, and Latin dance.
No experience necessary. Bring a partner!
Classes will be held at the Gettysburg Dance
Center, 775 Old Harrisburg Road, Gettysburg.
Holly Fox
Member couples $95, nonmember couples $105
Knitting Hats
Saturdays, October 10-31, 10 a.m.-12 p.m.
Learn to knit hats without using a pattern!
You’ll learn about the concept of "gauge" and
incorporate new skills into improvising
personalized headwear for the winter months.
You’ll learn how to "knit in the round," as well
as how to make increases and decreases in order
to add shape and dimension to your knitting.
Other techniques will be introduced as needed to
allow knitters to bring their garments to life.
You're only limited by your imagination. Class
is appropriate for all knitters, but will be
geared toward beginners. A materials list will
be provided.
Jessica Haines
Introduction to Watercolor Painting
Tuesdays, October 13-November 3, 6-8 p.m.
Designed for beginning painters, this class will
include an introduction to the materials and how
to handle them. The focus will be on completing
a simple painting. A materials list will be
provided.
Ron Schloyer
Introduction to
Digital Photography
Thursdays, October 15-November 5, 6:30-8:30
p.m.
This class is for the individual who is new to
digital photography and would like to understand
the basics. You’ll learn how to work your
camera, take good photos, load your photos onto
your computer, manipulate them using your
camera’s software, and make great-looking
prints. For this class you should have a digital
camera or be in the process of getting one.
Bring it to class with its instruction manual.
Bert Danielson
Painting “As You Like It”
Tuesdays, November 3-24, 10 a.m.-12 p.m.
Improve your painting skills in the medium of
your choice – oil, acrylic, or watercolor. This
class will focus on composition, color, drawing,
and design, taking your painting to the next
level. Some painting experience is preferable,
even if it's just a little. A materials list
will be provided.
Marti Yeager
Narrative Collage and 3D Assemblage
Saturdays, November 7-December 5, 10 a.m.-12
pm. (No class Saturday, November 28.)
Starting with Picasso, we’ll review the origins
of mixed-media art to the present day. You’ll
get plenty of inspiration and knowledge of
various techniques in the exciting realm of
mixed media. We’ll work on 3-D cigar box
assemblages and 2-D collages. Bring any “found
objects” you might like to use. A materials list
will be provided.
Andrew Dreves
Digital Photography: The Basics of Adobe
Photoshop Elements
Thursdays, November 19-December 17, 6:30-8:30
p.m. (No class Thursday, November 26.)
Learn the basics of digital photo manipulation
and enhancement using Adobe Photoshop Elements.
You’ll learn how to improve digital photographic
quality and alter digital photographs for
artistic expression. Designed for those
experienced in digital photographic work.
Bert Danielson
Short-Term Seminars
Basic Crochet 101
Sundays, October 4 & 11, 1-4:30 p.m.
Crochet is the art of creating fabric from yarn
using a crochet hook. If you’ve never crocheted
before, this is the class for you to learn four
basic crochet stitches to turn a strand of yarn
into anything you like. You’ll make swatches
using the different stitches and learn to finish
and join them together, creating a small
sampler. A materials list will be provided.
Joh Ricci
$83 members, $92 nonmembers
Crocheted Socks
Sunday, October 25 & November 1, 1-4:30 p.m.
To
get you through the long and cold days of
winter, wouldn't you love to wear a pair of
socks that you made? In this class, you’ll learn
how to make a pair of socks from cuff to toe
using a washable sock yarn. Prior experience
with crochet is highly recommended. A materials
list will be provided.
Joh Ricci
$83 members, $92 nonmembers
Photographic Transfer to Fabric
Mondays, November 9 & 16, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Learn how to develop a photographic image that
you can print onto fabric. In the first class,
we’ll discuss different types of transfers and
how to make them work. In the second, we’ll put
your image onto transfer paper and transfer it
to fabric. Bring your digital camera and a
T-shirt or other fabric item on which you’d like
to print your image.
Bert Danielson
$48 members, $53 nonmembers, plus a $5 materials
fee payable to instructor at first class.
Crocheted Beaded Bracelets
Saturday, December 5 & 12, 1-4:30 p.m.
Bead-crochet is a technique that incorporates
beads into a crochet fabric. Using a finer
thread and glass beads, you’ll start with a
simple design to create a unique piece of
jewelry and gain the skills to develop designs
of your own. Prior experience with crochet is
highly recommended. A materials list will be
provided.
Joh Ricci
$83 members, $92 nonmembers
About the Faculty
DOROTHEA BARRICK founded the art department
at Mount St. Mary’s College in 1973. She has taught
with Frederick County Adult Learning, Frederick
Community College, Common Ground at Western Maryland
College, Hoffman Homes for Youth, El Centro, HACC,
and Gettysburg College. Barrick has exhibited
internationally, and her work is included in
numerous private and public collections. She holds a
BFA and MFA from Maryland Institute College of Art.
MARK BROCKMAN is a full-time artist working
in oils and pastels. He works in the studio as well
as outdoors, en plein air. He has given numerous
demonstrations and workshops for art groups and has
taught oil painting and pastel classes in Frederick,
Md. for the past twelve years. His goal as
instructor is not only to help students learn the
basics of painting but to instill in them a love of
creating and expression.
BECKY BROWN has worked in pen and ink for 30
years. She has studied art throughout her life and
participated in various solo and juried shows. Most
recently, she has exhibited at the Adams County Arts
Council’s juried shows in Gettysburg. Brown is
intrigued by the contours of graceful plants and
flowers as well as the more complex play of light
and shadow on buildings.
BERT DANIELSON is a photographer focusing on
scenic images and some cityscapes. His images have
appeared in such regional publications as Carroll
magazine and Celebrate Gettysburg. He has shown his
work regionally at art shows across the Eastern
Seaboard, and locally at Gallery 30 and the Adams
County Arts Council’s fine art show. Danielson
received his photographic training at Howard
Community College. He shoots and processes all of
his work digitally.
ANDREW DREVES is an award-winning mixed-media
artist whose background as an architectural interior
designer has been instrumental in his ability to
work successfully with diverse materials and
techniques. He earned a BFA from The College of New
Jersey and practiced interior architecture in
Princeton (NJ) for 10 years before moving to
Gettysburg. His collage and assemblage constructions
are included in many private and corporate
collections nationwide.
HOLLY FOX has performed with the Towson
Ensemble Dancers, Towson University Dance Company,
Broadway Dance Center, and the Martha Graham Dance
Ensemble. Her choreography has been staged locally
at the Gettysburg College Summer Theater Festival,
Gettysburg Area High School, and the Gettysburg
Dance Center, of which she is founder and director.
She holds a BFA in dance performance and education,
and teaches at the Gettysburg Dance Center and
Harrisburg Area Community College.
JESSICA HAINES graduated from Gettysburg
College with a degree in history and is currently
features editor of the Gettysburg Times. She is a
textile historian and an avid knitter.
JACK HANDSHAW has been a potter in Adams
County since 1979 and is an active member of the
Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen. From his studio in
the mountains outside Fairfield, he has conducted
classes and workshops for many organizations. He
traveled for many years selling at shows under the
name, “Hobbitt House Pottery” (www.hobbitthousepottery.com).
He has done Raku but now works in porcelains and
does some commissions in Redware.
SHARON KNOWLES emigrated from Scotland to the
United States in 1997. She has been teaching harp
for more than fifteen years and is sought after as a
teacher and performer of Celtic harp from Alaska to
Pennsylvania as well as in Scotland and Ireland.
Knowles gives individual lessons and group classes
to harp students of all ages and runs a teaching
studio out of her home near Biglerville. She also
performs widely with her band, Fynesound.
KIM DANA KUPPERMAN is the author of the essay
collection, I Just Lately Started Buying Wings
(forthcoming from Graywolf Press, 2010), recipient
of the 2009 Katharine Bakeless Nason Prize in
Nonfiction, awarded through Middlebury College’s
Bread Loaf Program. Her work has appeared in Agni
online, Alaska Quarterly Review, Alimentum, the
Baltimore Review, Best American Essays 2006,
Brevity, the Cimarron Review, Fourth Genre, Hotel
Amerika, ISLE, Louisville Review, the Maine Scholar,
Nightsun, Ninth Letter, River Teeth, and elsewhere.
Kupperman’s honors include a Pennsylvania Council on
the Arts Individual Literature Fellowship in 2009; a
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellowship and
a scholarship from the Center for Book Arts in 2008;
notable mentions in Best American Essays and the
Pushcart Prize anthologies in 2007 and 2008; the
Robert J. DeMott Prose Prize from Quarter after
Eight in 2003, and first place in the Elie Wiesel
Prize in Ethics Essay Contest in 1996. Kupperman is
the founder of Welcome Table Press, devoted to
publishing and promoting the essay. She works as the
managing editor of The Gettysburg Review, an
award-winning quarterly of art and ideas.
ANTIGONI LADD is academic director of
Historic Leadership Training. Prior to establishing
the leadership company with her husband, Antigoni
was senior vice-president of the Consumer Bankers
Association and served for fifteen years as director
of the Graduate School of Retail Bank Management at
the University of Virginia. She has more than 25
years’ experience in leadership education, as both
program designer and instructor.
EVERETT LADD, JR., is president of Historic
Leadership Training, its business manager, and a
guiding spirit for the organization. Formerly
president of Northampton (Massachusetts) National
Bank, he has served on college boards, chambers of
commerce, museums, as well as business and arts
groups. He co-founded Historic Leadership Training
with his wife in 1984.
LORI NELSON received her fine arts degree
from Messiah College in 1988, concentrating in clay,
sculpture, and textile design. She taught art to
home-school students for five years, teaches fine
arts at Camp Nawakwa, and was recipient of an art
award for WITF’s Art Auction. She has been a working
artist since 1987 and continues to work in her
Gardners studio, Nelson Pottery, from which she
sells her work wholesale.
JOH RICCI began experimenting with hand
bead-weaving techniques in 1992. Since then she has
exhibited and sold her work at juried art and craft
shows along the East Coast and across the Midwest.
She holds a BFA from Kutztown University with a
concentration in fibers and has taught bead-weaving
classes at the Milwaukee Art Museum, Alverno
College, and a number of local bead shops.
RON SCHLOYER traces his love of watercolor to
an Andrew Wyeth exhibition he saw as a young adult;
he has been painting with watercolor ever since. He
has studied at the Schuler School of Fine Arts,
McDaniel College, and in many workshops. An
award-winning member of the Pennsylvania Watercolor
Society and the Baltimore Watercolor Society,
Schloyer was also recently inducted into the
American Watercolor Society and has received awards
from the WITF-TV Art Auction, the York Art
Association, the Adams County Arts Council, and the
Hanover Area Arts Guild.
MARTI YEAGER is a full-time painter living
and working in Fayetteville. Born and raised in the
Washington, D.C. area, she moved to south-central
Pennsylvania as a young woman and became smitten
with the beauty of the rural landscape. She studied
painting at Wilson College and has been painting
ever since – in her studio and outdoors, in
workshops, in life-drawing and portrait-painting
sessions, etc. Yeager has taught individual and
group lessons and workshops in oil, watercolor,
pastel, and acrylic painting, as well as drawing.
She has shown her work extensively in commercial
galleries including Gallery 30 in Gettysburg and has
won numerous awards for her paintings.
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