Saturday, June 27 / 9:30 – 10:15 am

Bring your baby or toddler and go beyond finger-painting by blobbing, smushing, and smearing colors with hands and feet! Witness baby’s first painting with no mess at home. Your wee one will make a creative keepsake for the family to cherish. Dress for a mess!

Supply List: Change of clothes/diaper and a towel

Instructor: Lisa Kornze
Ages: 6 months – 3 years

Thursdays, July 23 and 30 / 5:30 – 8:30 pm

Work from favorite photographs to create realistic interpretive drawing using just pen and ink. Instructor will introduce students to the various techniques in pen and ink including stippling, cross hatching and washes.

Supply List: Smooth drawing paper, precise rolling ball pens, quill pens and inks, brushes for ink washes, pencil (for preliminary sketching), personal or collected photos for reference.

Instructor: Erik Holland
Ages: 15 and up / All Levels

Monday – Friday, July 13 – 17 / 9 am – noon

Students will enjoy this introductory level course designed to teach basic acrylic painting techniques including blending, impasto, and dry brush. Students will paint from still life installations, paint portraits, and create abstract compositions combining various techniques. Each class will approach acrylic paint differently to provide an introduction as to how the medium can be utilized for different styles and subject matter.

Supply List:

• Artist Grade Acrylic Paint (Golden, Liquitex, or Grumbacher) *Not Liquitex Basics: Cadmium Red, Cadmium Yellow Medium, Phthalo Blue, Raw Umber, Alizerin Crimson, Titanium White, Mars Black in 2, 3, or 5 oz tubes 
• Jar for Water 
• Palette Sheets 
• Synthetic Brushes: Flat, Bright and Round Sizes 2, 4, 8, 10 and 12 
• Palette Knives (Variety of Sizes) 
• The Masters Brush Cleaner and Preserver 2.5 oz 
• (5) 9 x 12” or 11 x 14” Canvases 

Instructor: Ashley Follmer
Ages: 13 – 18 / All Skill Levels

Monday – Friday, August 3 – 7 / 1 – 4 pm

Students will enjoy this introductory level course designed to teach basic acrylic painting techniques including blending, impasto, and dry brush. Students will paint from still life installations, paint portraits, and create abstract compositions combining various techniques. Each class will approach acrylic paint differently to provide an introduction as to how the medium can be utilized for different styles and subject matter.

Supply List:

• Artist Grade Acrylic Paint (Golden, Liquitex, or Grumbacher) *Not Liquitex Basics: Cadmium Red, Cadmium Yellow Medium, Phthalo Blue, Raw Umber, Alizerin Crimson, Titanium White, Mars Black in 2, 3, or 5 oz tubes 
• Jar for Water
• Palette Sheets 
• Synthetic Brushes: Flat, Bright and Round Sizes 2, 4, 8, 10 and 12 
• Palette Knives (Variety of Sizes) 
• The Masters Brush Cleaner and Preserver 2.5 oz 
• (5) 9 x 12” or 11 x 14” Canvases

Instructor: Ashley Follmer
Ages: 15 an up / All Skill Levels 

Sundays, July 19 – August 23 / 1 – 4 pm

Student new to oil or looking for a quick refresher will enjoy this introductory level course designed to teach basic oil painting techniques. Students will learn the properties of oil paint, application techniques, and color theory while recreating simple still life installations. Each class will focus on different painting techniques which will include a review of brushes and their function, blending techniques, color use and the grayscale and an introduction to textures.

Supply List:

• Oil Paint: Ivory or Mars Black, Titanium White, Cadmium Yellow, Cadmium Red, Pthalo Blue, Yellow Ochre, Raw Umber, Alizerin Crimson (Windsor & Newton or Gumbacher Small Tubes 1.25 oz) 
• Synthetic Brushes: Flat and Bright Sizes 2, 4, 8, 10 and 12 
• Palette Sheets 
• Turpenoid
• Jar for Turpenoid 
• Rag, Old T-Shirt, or Blue Mechanic’s Shop Towels 
• The Masters Brush Cleaner and Preserver 2.5 oz 
• (5) 8 x 10” or 9 x 12” Canvases
• (2) 8 x 10” Canvas Boards 

Instructor: Ashley Follmer
Ages: 15 and up / Beginners Welcome!

Tuesdau, July 7  / 6 – 8 pm -and- Saturday, July 18  / 10 am – 4 pm

Design and print your own business cards or personal stationery on the letterpress. Photopolymer plates allow one to letterpress print from any digital file. In the evening session of this class on July 7, letterpress printer Katherine Case will give students a step by step guide to creating a letterpress-ready PDF file. We will discuss the in’s and out’s of printing from photopolymer plates and look at lots of handouts and examples. Students will then email their own PDF’s to a service bureau (there will be a fee of $60-$75 each) to get photopolymer plates made. On day-two, Saturday, July 18, clas will meet at Meridian Press, Katherine’s letterpress studio in SW Reno to print individual polymer plates on a Vandercook letterpress. While we are printing everyone’s work, students will learn how to lock up, ink and print. No letterpress experience is required. Some design experience is required to create the personalized pdf for the polymer plate.

Supply List: Pencil, 18” metal ruler, Xacto knife, bookbinding awl, bone folder, medium and large binder clips, 1” glue brush.

Instructor: Katherine Case
Ages: 15 and Up / Some design experience

Thursday, July 16 / 10:30 am – 4:30 pm

Create a beautiful hardcover journal with exposed sewing on the spine and inventive book covers. The Coptic-Style book is an ancient structure that combines beauty and durability. In addition to learning this extraordinary technique, you will learn how to easily adapt the structure to create a photo album and create permanent collage book covers with gel medium. Some bookbinding experience is helpful but not required.

Supply List: Pencil, 18” metal ruler, Xacto knife, bookbinding awl, bone folder, medium and large binder clips, 1” glue brush.

Instructor: Katherine Case
Ages: 15 and Up / All Levels

Sunday, May 17 / 10:30 am – 4:30 pm

This class features new non-adhesive book structures so returning students will find new challenges and new students will enjoy learning from start-to finish. Create a miniature book with pockets, a folded “Guest Book” and a flag book, as well as variations on the Asian stab binding and Katherine Case’s tricky two signature sewn chapbook. These fun projects are a great way to become acquainted with the tools and materials of bookbinding, or to further hone and develop your bookbinding skills.

Supply List: Pencil, 18” metal ruler, Xacto knife, bookbinding awl, bone folder, scissors, medium binder clips, doublestick tape

Instructor: Katherine Case
Ages: Ages 15 and Up / All Levels

Tuesdays, May 12 – June 16 / 6 – 9 pm

Students will be introduced to portrait painting techniques in the first two class sessions (without a model). The following four classes will have brief instruction at the beginning of class followed by an open studio format painting class working from a live model. Students may use acrylic or oil paint.

Instructor: Daniel Helzer
Ages: 15 and up / All Levels

Supply List:

Color recommendations are as follows:

• Titanium White 
• Ultramarine Blue 
• Cadmium Red Medium or Light
• Lemon or Cadmium Yellow 
• Light Yellow Ochre 
• Burnt Sienna 
• Viridian Green 
• Burnt Sienna 

Selection of brushes
Pallet
Palette knife
Painting Board or Canvas (16×12 or smaller, is appropriate)
Container/jar water and brushes
Paper towels
Cheap Plastic Ruler
Gamsol mineral spirits (if working in Oil)

Monday – Friday, July 20 – 24 / 8:30 am – 12 pm

Young campers will explore stop-animation, claymation and “humanimation” in this half-day camp for kids ages 7 – 12. Campers will work though concept development, storyboarding and animation techniques. Short videos will be created on table tops in the Museum School, in the Museum’s galleries and outside the Museum. All campers will need to bring a charged iPad (with the power cord) to class each day. Students must all have downloaded Stop Motion Studio Pro software to create their original animations. Snack and materials are included.

Instructor: Dominic Ariganello
Ages: 7 – 12

Required Supply List: 

• iPad with charger (both labeled with student or family name)
• Students must download “Stop Motion Pro” by cateater llc. There is a free download available, though the paid $5 version is highly recommended.