Prescott Community Eucation – Fall 2021
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Community Education is Excited to Return to the Prescott Campus this Fall! Community Education will be offering in-person classes and a variety of WebLive classes delivered via Zoom. We have many new offerings and plenty of favorites that will keep you motivated with interesting topics to choose from. To register visit: www.yc.edu/commed or call 928-717-7755. Yavapai College is recommending everyone wear a mask, practice social distancing in the classroom, especially while riding in EDventures vans. Please conduct a wellness self-check and temperature check PRIOR to coming on campus. Some Adult classes remain online/WebLive. Do you want to take a WebLive class but don’t know how to use Zoom? Just call us at 928-717- 7755, for step-by-step instructions and support. EDventures are back in the van! Fall in Northern Arizona is a glorious time to be outdoors! We have 12 van trips scheduled this fall. Trips fill up fast, so register early. Check out our EDventures trips on pages 23-26. To register visit: www.yc.edu/edventures or call 928-717-7755. For those not wanting a bumpy van ride on dusty roads, take a virtual EDventures trip with Chris and Rita Wuehrmann (see page 26)! Teach a Non-credit Class! Do you want to teach a class for spring Community Education or for the summer College for Kids program? To share your passion or area of expertise, please contact us at [email protected]. We look forward to seeing you on campus! Nancy Ostapuk Director of Prescott Community Education / EDventures PRESCOTT COMMUNITY EUCATION – FALL 2021 ARTS & CRAFTS Clay for the Spirit Colored Pencils: Beginning Water Soluble FA21-001 ● Sat & Sun, 10/9, 10/10 & 10/24/21 FA21-003 ● Thu, 9/30 to 11/4/21 9:30 - 4 pm ● Offsite: Denise Incao Studio 11 am - 1:30 pm ● Bldg 31, Room 102 This workshop takes place at the instructor’s home art You like to draw, but are you curious about studio and allows for a personal exploration into the painting? Water soluble colored pencils are perfect idea of hand-building with clay as a doorway to the to help you transition from a dry drawing media to a spirit. Art making is inherently spiritual, and spirituality painting media. You will complete 6 exercises is an important ingredient in becoming more whole. learning how to create an accurate drawing from This workshop is designed to explore the idea of photo reference supplied by the instructor. You will creating art as a spiritual practice, a way to access the be introduced to when and how to use the divine and to foster healing and wholeness. The visual appropriate colors. The application of the media, dimension of art and the visceral experience of compositional theory, and good work habits will be creating has a wisdom of its own, a healing power, emphasized. The instructor will complete each of and the potential for connection with the divine that the 6 exercises along with the class. Students will words cannot achieve. Projects will be inspired by be shown how to capture the subject by tracing and spiritual and ritual objects. No previous experience transferring the image onto their chosen platform. with clay is required. Basics of hand-building will be See examples of Ken’s work at covered. https://sites.google.com/site/kenottingerteaching/. This workshop includes 13 hours of instruction on the Supply list available online. weekend of Oct. 9 & 10 (9:30 – 4:00 both days), Ken Ottinger ● $125 and concludes on Saturday Oct. 24 (9:30 – 1:30). Denise Incao ● $155 Colored Pencils: Beginning Wax Base Collage Gone Wild FA21-004 ● Thu, 9/30 to 11/4/21 FA21-002 ● Sat & Sun, 11/13 & 11/14/21 2 - 4:30 pm ● Bldg 31, Room 102 9:30 am - 12:30 pm ● Offsite: 2Kat Studios This class is an introduction to learning the secrets Join in some creative fun with paper, paints, of the pros and how to free yourself from the stencils, stamps, and more! We will spend time in my seemingly overwhelming process of eye to hand studio preparing our papers with a variety of collage drawing. You will learn how to create an accurate elements. I will demonstrate a number of ways to drawing from photo reference supplied by the make your collage truly “wild.” Once the collage is instructor. You will be introduced to when and how created, we can cut the large paper into cards, tags, to use the appropriate colors. The application of the or wall art for your home. A $15 materials fee media, compositional theory, and good work habits payable to instructor at first class. will be emphasized. The instructor will draw each of Kat Kirby ● $80 the 6 exercises along with the class. Students will be shown how to capture the subject by tracing and transferring the image onto their chosen platform. See examples of Ken’s work at https://sites.google.com/site/kenottingerteaching/. Supply list available online. Ken Ottinger ● $125 3 Visit www.yc.edu/commed ● www.yc.edu/edv ● call 928-717-7755 to register PRESCOTT COMMUNITY EUCATION – FALL 2021 Creative Clay Learn to Knit FA21-005 ● Tue, 9/28 to 11/9/21 FA21-008 ● Wed, 9/29 to 10/20/21 12 - 2:30 pm ● Bldg 31, Room 102 10 am - noon ● Bldg 31, Room 102 Feeling a little ungrounded and disconnected from Cast on! This class will walk you through the basics your creative side? Then come and get your hands of knitting and purling, reading a knitting pattern, dirty and reconnect to your personal creative understanding yarn and needles. We start out with expression using Earth's most primal element - Clay! a simple scarf, next move on to a cowl (in the Emphasis will be on relaxing and enjoying the round), learn how to fix those mistakes, and finally process of opening to creative expression through finishing your project. Students should purchase in the experience of working with clay. We will start advance: straight knitting needles US#7 or US#8; with a basic introduction, and then students will 16" US#7 or US#8 circular knitting needles; progress through hand-building techniques, smooth, 2 balls lighter colored worsted weight yarn including pinch pots, coil building, slab construction, (one for scarf, one for cowl). Students should also press molds and more. We will finish with glazing all bring basic knitting tools: scissors, tape measure, of our pieces on the last day. Arrangements will be tapestry needle, pencil, paper. Supplies may be made for project pick-up. This is a beginner level purchased anywhere, however, a student discount class. Class is limited to 10 students. Sign up Early! and expert assistance will be provided at Fiber All supplies included in tuition. Creek in Prescott. (No class 10/12.) Kristin Hansen ● $105 Denise Incao ● $155 Leather Working & Tooling: Beginning Drawing Like the Masters FA21-009 ● Thu, 10/7 to 11/11/21 FA21-006 ● Wed, 10/6 to 10/20/21 6- 8 pm ● Offsite: Double H Leather Works 2 - 4 pm ● Online ● WebLive An introduction to leather working – the art of There is a key foundational drawing technique that tooling leather to make art or useful leather items was once routine to the “old masters” but is largely that are both attractive and personalized. Learn the ignored today. It is material technique that helps terms and history of leather working and how to use artists understand and effectively render a 3- the tools. Build tooling skills with guidance as you dimensional subject on a 2-dimensional surface. create a beginner’s project. Supply list provided for Unfortunately, (probably because the materials are students to purchase at estimated cost of $195. inexpensive) it isn’t widely taught now. Here is your Steve Long ● $95 chance to learn this secret to 3-D rendering in a fun and easy-to-follow 3 session mini-course taught online by award-winning cartoonist and picture book illustrator, Tom Paul Fox. Tom Paul Fox ● $95 Handmade Keepsake Journals FA21-007 ● Sat, 10/9/21 10 am - 1 pm ● Offsite: 2Kat Studios Join me in my studio and create a small handmade book made from 2 fille folders. This journal can be used to remember a special person, a fun vacation, or a blank slate for future use. Learn this simple but astonishingly easy technique and enjoy spending time in an artist’s studio filled with inspiration! A $15 materials fee payable to instructor at first class. Kat Kirby ● $65 4 Visit www.yc.edu/commed ● www.yc.edu/edv ● call 928-717-7755 to register PRESCOTT COMMUNITY EUCATION – FALL 2021 Pet Portraits: Using Water Soluble Colored Portraiture: Using Colored Pencils Pencil FA21-012 ● Mon, 10/4 to 11/8/21 FA21-010 ● Mon, 10/4 to 11/8/21 3 - 5:30 pm ● Bldg 31, Room 102 9 - 11:30 am ● Bldg 31, Room 102 Learn the steps to create an accurate portraiture Learn the steps to create an accurate drawing of and how best to apply the media of colored pencils. your pet and how best to apply the media. This fun The challenge of drawing eye to hand will be class will avoid the challenge of eye-to-hand- replaced by the proven method of trace and transfer drawing by using the proven method of trace and drawing. The students will be asked to supply their transfer drawing. Students will supply their own own photo reference. Photograph your subject with photo references of different poses each week.