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March 20, 2008 issue


Turchin Center’s Community Art School Announces March/April Schedule

Appalachian State University’s Turchin Center for the Visual Arts is offering three classes in March and April at the Community Art School—two for children and one for teens and adults.

Classes meet in the studio classroom on the top floor of the Turchin Center’s Arnold P. Rosen Family Education wing.

Preregistration and payment are required for the classes, and enrollment is limited. Call 828-262-3017 to register or for more information.

Children’s Programs

Drawing and Painting Workshop

This class for children aged 5 to 8 will meet two Saturdays, March 29 and April 5, from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Dr. Vicky Grube’s ART 3021 students will instruct children in drawing and painting. A variety of painting media and all sorts of keen drawing tools will be available. The class costs $5 for Turchin Center members and $10 for nonmembers.

Weaving: A Traditional Appalachian Craft

This class for children aged 6 to 12 will meet on three Saturdays, April 12, 19 and 26, from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Dr. Janet Montgomery’s ART 3021 students will show children how to create their own weaving using a shoebox loom they make themselves and teach them some interesting history about North Carolina's textile industry. The class costs $15 for Turchin Center members and $25 for nonmembers.

Teen/Adult Programs

Abstract Painting

This class for teens and adults meets four Wednesdays—March 19, March 26, April 2 and April 9—from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. In this nontraditional painting class, students will be free to explore the expressive quality of painting. Instructor Jessica Burke will focus on the idea of abstraction through four basic categories: pattern, texture, process and emotional painting.

Each week will focus on a different category. Students will explore the connection between line, color, texture, shape and composition as they create a pattern-based painting that will require the use of complementary or split complementary colors. Students will also gain an understanding of the role emotion plays in art making by creating paintings based on their reaction to music, a passage from a poem and a story—in addition to a free-form painting based on color association.

The cost of the class is $40 for Turchin Center members and ASU students and $75 for nonmembers.