LILLSTREET ART CENTER 10-Week Classes Begin September 14. 5-Week Classes Begin September 14 & October 19. FALL CATALOGUE save ly and ear up n- ig Pay in full by S August 31 and receive $20 off your 10-week class and $10 off your 5-week class. CONTENTS First-Time Artist 3 Ceramics 4 Metalsmithing 6 & Jewelry Painting & Drawing 8 Kidstreet Special Section 11 Policies & Procedures 14 Glass 15 Printmaking 16 Textiles 18 Full Schedule 22 REGISTER TODAY! Gallery Information 24 VISIT WWW.LILLSTREET.COM OR CALL 773.769.4226 THIS IS YOUR ART CENTER When you take a class as Lillstreet Art Center, you'll enjoy professional instruction from our outstanding faculty. But being a student here means so much more. Many of your materials are included in your class fee, you'll have access to our facilities during generous open studio hours, and you'll be part of a unique community of artists sharing experiences and techniques with one another. You won't find a better value! Pay in full by August 31 and receive $20 off your 10-week class and $10 off your 5-week class. Book Your Holiday Party Here! Create a memorable event at Lillstreet. Choose from casual cocktail hours in the gallery, to hands-on workshops with projects to take home. Bring in your own caterer or select from First Slice's delicious options. Evenings and weekends available. Call 773-769-4226 for details. FIRST SLICE PIE CAFE‘ Stop by First Slice Pie Cafe before or after your class! Enjoy a cup of coffee with your friends, a quick snack, or a complete meal, and support this great nonprofit organization that helps fight hunger while satisfying yours. MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS Be a part of the Lillstreet Community by becoming a member today. You will join a supportive and friendly art community and have access to all the great benefits listed below: Household Membership: $75/ year (for 2 people) Artist Membership: $40/ year Receive all the benefits of an Artist Membership plus: • Discounts on classes and workshops • Attend an available workshop and receive a 2-for-1 offer (one per year) • VIP membership card • Members’ price on children’s camps (for 2 people) • Discounts at participating art supply stores and other community services Family Membership: $110/ year (for 3 or more people) • Invitations to exciting and unique workshops and events Receive all of the benefits above plus: • Free gift • One free family workshop per year, subject to availability • 10% off of gallery purchases • Member’s price on children’s camps (entire family) Please note that the membership discounts only apply to the person or people whose names are on the membership card. 2 Fall Classes Begin the Weeks of September 14 & October 19 (unless otherwise noted) FIRST-TIME ARTIST Explore a new medium in a no-pressure environment. Each of our adult departments offers five-week introductory classes for beginning students with no previous experience. Unleash your creativity! FIRST-TIME POTTER FIRST-TIME GLASS FIRST-TIME FIRST-TIME SEWING A five-week introductory sampler: BEADMAKING SCREENPRINTING ON Learn how to operate and control try your hand at a variety of clay Make beautiful glass beads using FABRIC a sewing machine, and the basics techniques. You’ll have fun learning basic techniques for shaping and Prepare a screen, shoot, and of materials and construction. the basics of handbuilding and decorating with twisties, dots, finally print an image on cloth. Work on two projects from start to wheelthrowing before you choose and stringers. A $30 materials fee Most materials provided, students finish. Machines and materials are your focus. Includes 12 lbs. of clay. includes assorted colors of glass provide their own ink and cloth provided. and mandrels. Closed-toe shoes after first night. Tuesday 1:30-4:30pm Tuesday 2-5pm required. Saturday classes are Mary Drabik Monday 10am-1pm Amy White open to ages 14 and up. Session I: Starts September 15 Andrea Myers Session I: Starts September 15 Session II: Starts October 20 Monday 6:30-9:30pm Session I: Starts September 14 Session II: Starts October 20 John Landin Session II: Starts October 19 Thursday 6:30-9:30pm Thursday 6:30-9:30pm Session I: Starts September 14 Les Orenstein Thursday 6:30-9:30pm Amy White Session II: Starts October 19 Session I: Starts September 17 Camille Canales Session I: Starts September 17 Session II: Starts October 22 Thursday 2-5pm Session I: Starts September 17 Session II: Starts October 22 Sunday 10am-1pm Judy Zeddies Session II: Starts October 22 LAC Members $160 Session I: Starts September 17 Chris Chaney Wednesday 2-5pm Non-members $165 Session II: Starts October 22 Session I: Starts September 20 Andrea Myers Session II: Starts October 25 Saturday 10am-1pm Session I: Starts September 16 FIRST-TIME PAINTER LAC Members $160 Jenny Sider Session II: Starts October 21 Session I: Starts September 19 You’ll be introduced to line, value Non-members $165 LAC Members $160 Session II: Starts October 24 and color using charcoal and Non-members $165 paint. Expect to work from still life FIRST-TIME LAC Members $160 as well as abstractly. All materials Non-members $165 SCREENPRINTING ON PAPER FIRST-TIME KNITTING provided. Prepare a screen and print an Learn to knit, purl, work in the Monday 6:30-9:30pm image on paper using stencils and FIRST-TIME JEWELER round, rib, cast on, bind off, Annie Davis photo-emulsion. Most equipment Sample basic skills including decrease, and fix mistakes while Session I: Starts September 14 and inks provided. Students supply saw piercing, texturing, cold making a scarf and a hat. Session II: Starts October 19 their own paper after the first night. connections, and a soldering a Tuesday 10am-1pm Saturday 10am-1pm Dress for mess. band ring. Most materials included. Patrick Miceli Meryl Kleiman Silver and additional materials may Session I: Starts September 15 Saturday 10am-1pm Session I: Starts September 19 be purchased from the instructor. Session II: Starts October 20 Tom Lucas Session II: Starts October 24 Session I: Starts September 19 Wednesday 6:30-9:30pm Thursday 6:30-9:30pm Sunday 10am-1pm Session II: Starts October 24 Molly Schafer Tamra Gentry Lisa Whiting Session I: Starts September 16 Sunday 5-8pm Session I: Starts September 17 Session I: Starts September 20 Session II: Starts October 21 Matt Ginsberg Session II: Starts October 22 Session II: Starts October 25 Session I: Starts September 20 Sunday 10am-1pm Friday 10am-1pm LAC Members $160 Session II: Starts October 25 Steve Amos Judy O’Connell Non-members $165 Session I: Starts September 14 LAC Members $160 Session I: Starts September 18 Session II: Starts October 19 Non-members $165 Session II: Starts October 23 FIRST-TIME DRAWING Sunday 2-5pm LAC Members $160 Steve Amos Non-members $165 Work from still life to learn line, value and how to find proportions Session I: Starts September 20 using charcoal. All materials Session II: Starts October 25 Save 10% with our Collaborator's Discount. Just tell your friends to mention provided. LAC Members $160 that you referred them when they register for a class, and we'll discount Monday 6:30-9:30pm Non-members $165 your next class. Got lots of friends? Earn an additional 10% off for every Steve Amos person that takes a class through your recommendation. Session I: Starts September 14 Session II: Starts October 19 Saturday 10am-1pm Tony Porter Session I: Starts September 19 Session II: Starts October 24 LAC Members $160 Non-members $165 REGISTER TODAY! VISIT WWW.LILLSTREET.COM OR CALL 773.769.4226 3 CERAMICS Lillstreet’s long-established clay department offers classes for all skill levels in wheelthrowing, handbuilding, and sculpture. Advanced students can fine-tune their work or experiment with soda firing. Take advantage of over 200 glaze combinations, firing, and state-of-the-art equipment in our generous open studio hours--included with all classes! Beginner/ Advanced BEGINNING/ SURVEY OF PRINTMAKING FUSION: Handbuilding and Beginner ADVANCED BEGINNING TECHNIQUES ON CLAY Wheelthrowing WHEELTHROWING The first weeks of this beginning- Make functional or sculptural Explore the mystery of the potter’s level class will be spent in the ceramic forms by throwing and/ or FIRST-TIME POTTER wheel as you develop the funda- Printmaking Department to handbuilding. Experiment in both (5 weeks) mental techniques of throwing a learn techniques such as relief, functional and sculptural directions A five-week introductory sampler: pot. Learn to center, throw, and trim lithography and screenprinting working with thrown cylinders, try your hand at a variety of clay a variety of functional forms includ- on clay. Then we’ll move to the slabs, and coils. Try various exterior techniques. You’ll have fun learning ing cups, bowls, and plates. Embel- Ceramics Department and use expression such as altering, the basics of handbuilding and lish the surface of your work with different slips, stains and glazes faceting, carving, inlaying, and wheelthrowing before you choose slips, washes, glazes, and applied to apply those techniques to painting. This course will have class your focus. Includes 12 lbs. of clay. elements. Move at your own pace. greenware. A materials list discussions, slide presentations, Tuesday 1:30-4:30pm Returning students will continue to will be provided the first day of and demonstrations such as Mary Drabik refine technique and create more class. Includes access to both throwing, handbuilding and surface Session I: Starts September 15 complex forms. the Ceramic and Printmaking decorations. Departments facilities. Session II: Starts