Children's Classes
Partial scholarships and customized courses are available… please let us know how we can help you.
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"NEW SUMMER CAMPS" - FOUR CREATIVE KIDS ART PROGRAMS
Summertime Fun Fridays! Pre-K to 12 (under 10 must bring adult to assist them)
June 8, 15, 22, 29 & July 13, 20 and 27 from 10:00 – noon
Eight stations of art and craft activities throughout the School of the Arts and in our historic Mill. Children grades Pre-K to 12 welcome; those under age 10 must be accompanied by an adult/caregiver. Preregistration not required. Please sign in at the outside Mill entrance in time for a 10:00 ‘morning welcome’ each week.
FUN FRIDAYS is sponsored in part by a donation from WestRock.
ART-FULL WEDNESDAYS, WEEK 2- LEARNING FROM GREAT WORKS OF ART: MONET (C-105) for ages 6-10
Wednesday, June 20 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
TUITION: $15. INSTRUCTOR: REBECCA MCKEEVER
Students will create art based on the work Claude Monet. Completed projects will go home each week. Class is limited to 10.
ART-FULL WEDNESDAYS, WEEK 3- LEARNING FROM GREAT WORKS OF ART: AUDUBON (C-105) for ages 6-10
Wednesday, June 27 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
TUITION: $15. INSTRUCTOR: REBECCA MCKEEVER
Students will create art based on the work of John James Audubon. Completed projects will go home each week. Class is limited to 10.
ART-FULL WEDNESDAYS: CREATIVITY AND DESIGN, ALL 3 WEEKS (C-108), for ages 6-12
Wednesdays, July 11, 18 & 25, 11:30 am – 1:00 pm
TUITION: $30. INSTRUCTOR: REBECCA MCKEEVER
Students will create dragon collages, milk carton house sculptures, and self portraits. Completed projects will go home each week. Class is limited to 10 students.
ART-FULL WEDNESDAYS: KIDS CLAY (C-107) FOR AGES 6-12
Wednesdays, July 11, 18 & 25, 1:30 – 3:00 pm
TUITION: $45 (includes clay and firing). INSTRUCTOR: REBECCA MCKEEVER
Students learn clay handbuilding techniques to create a dragon, a marbelized cup, and joined clay characters. All pieces will be painted and fired. Creativity will be encouraged! Class is limited to 10 students
ART EXPLORERS CAMP, age 7 to 12
July 16-19 from 10:00 am to 12:00 noon.
TUITION: $120. INSTRUCTOR: JUDITH SIVONDA
A creative morning art camp for children. This four-day class is designed to have children looking at & discussing art, telling stories with images, drawing proportional faces, & exploring materials & techniques to create art. A week of fun, challenging your child to stretch his/her thinking & art vocabulary, while giving each child enough choices to make their artwork personal. Children are invited to join us at FUN FRIDAY on July 20 to make it a full week of art!
blacksmithing
Gain a strong foundation in the art of blacksmithing in this two-part class. Along with fire maintenance and hammer control, learn core techniques for hand-forging tapers, bending and twisting. Come prepared to have a lot of fun and leave with your own hand-forged iron work. INSTRUCTOR: GLEN BRYANT.
Please bring safety glasses and heavy work gloves. Dress according to weather as The Mill is not heated nor cooled.
Class is limited to 4 students per session. Questions, please call 540-862-7275.
SELECT correct DATE & AGE/COMBO PRICE using the BLUE buttons. ADULTS sign up at this link.
This course was inspired by a customized course that Glen recently taught to the crew of ‘The Barnwood Builders’. They sure had fun! Metal for the tomahawk head and wooden handle provided. Please bring safety glasses and heavy work gloves. Dress according to weather as The Mill is not heated nor cooled. Class is limited to 4 students per session. Customized courses available upon request. Questions, please call 540-862-7275.
SELECT correct DATE & AGE/COMBO PRICE using the BLUE buttons
clay
ART-FULL WEDNESDAYS: KIDS CLAY (C-106) FOR AGES 6-10
Wednesdays, June 13, 20 & 27, 1:30 - 3:00 pm
TUITION: $45 (includes clay and firing). INSTRUCTOR: REBECCA MCKEEVER
Students will create a small textured tray, a pinched bowl, a clay bird, and a miniature house. All pieces will be painted and fired. Creativity will be encouraged. Class is limited to 8.
ART-FULL WEDNESDAYS: KIDS CLAY (C-107) FOR AGES 6-12
Wednesdays, July 11, 18 & 25, 1:30 – 3:00 pm
TUITION: $45 (includes clay and firing). INSTRUCTOR: REBECCA MCKEEVER
Students learn clay handbuilding techniques to create a dragon, a marbelized cup, and joined clay characters. All pieces will be painted and fired. Creativity will be encouraged! Class is limited to 10 students
DRAWING
B-100 DRAWING LESSONS
Saturdays, Noon – 1:00 pm, and, 1:00 - 2:00 pm, or by arrangement
TUITION: $17 per hour, includes materials. INSTRUCTOR: JOSH THOMPSON
Learn about line and shape, light and mass, using pencil on paper, progressing gradually to other mediums (charcoal, ink, pastel).
Add DATE preference in the NOTE section at Check-out.
GLASS
Simple to make, colorful and durable stepping stones set a path through crowded gardens and provide extra color when flowers aren’t in bloom. A fun class for both adults and kids aged 10 and up. Students create a concrete and glass, 8”x8” square stone. Concrete needs 24 hours to harden before removal from molds. Completed stones can be picked up at the School after a few days. If you like, purchase the reusable mold for an extra $12 and take your project with you immediately.
No previous glass cutting experience is necessary. TUITION: $30. INSTRUCTOR: GEORGE AYARS.
Make a colorful, charming fused glass sun catcher in this easy, 3-hour introduction to the basics of glass fusing! No previous glass cutting experience is required for this brief introduction to fused glass. Students will compose a design, approximately 4 x 6”, using small scraps of fusible glass, and fusible glass frit. Each piece is fired to over 1200 degrees, melting the glass into a finished sun catcher, ready to hang in a sunny window. Youth age 10 and up are welcome to register, if also attending with a paying adult. Students may choose to make two fused glass night lights instead of a sun catcher, for an additional fee of $9.00, to cover the cost of two fixtures, bulbs and clips, which are available in class. The night light panels are 2 ½ x 3” each. Finished projects can be picked up at the School office after firing is completed, or mailed for a small additional fee.
TUITION: $35 (All materials included). INSTRUCTOR: GEORGE AYARS
MUSIC
Call NOW to arrange for lessons for Fall 2018
The Clifton Forge School of the Arts is the Alleghany County home teaching center for the Allegheny Mountain String Project (AMSP). An educational program of Garth Newel Music Center, the AMSP offers private lessons in violin, viola (JAIME MCARDLE, Instructor) and cello (JULIA GOUDIMOVA , Instructor) with scholarships available. AMSP students of appropriate playing level have free access to the youth orchestra program run by GRETTA SANDBERG.
Spaces are available for Fall 2017. For additional information or to register, please contact Garth Newel Music Center at 540-839-5018, visit the AMSP webpage, or email jaimemcardle@icloud.com
Our instructor is ALVIS JACKSON, a founding member of the Clifton Forge School of the Arts Brass Ensemble. He is offering daytime lessons on Fridays at $25 per week. Please call the School to select your lesson time. 540-862-7275.
CD-200 PIANO LESSONS
Our instructor, JOANNE HAYSLETT, offers daytime lessons at the School on Thursdays. Please call the School to select your lesson time. 540-862-7275. Tuition is $25 per week.
Needle & FIBER ARTS
Wednesday &/or Saturday, 10:00 am - noon, or by arrangement.
$20 per one-hour lesson, $50 for three one-hour lessons. INSTRUCTOR: JULIE BENNETT. Make fun and useful things. There is nothing like “making it yourself” to keep or to give.
Please add your choice of date & lesson time to the Notes when checking out, or alert the School at 540-862-7275.
WOODWORKING
TUITION: $50 (plus a materials fee based on the project chosen paid to the instructor during class). INSTRUCTOR: JOE WOOD.
Tuition covers ONE ADULT, or ,ONE ADULT + ONE CHILD UNDER AGE 12, making one project.
Learn how to turn wood to make a baseball bat, pen, ice cream scoop, or other small wood project.
This is a wonderful shared parent/child activity for children under age 12. Create memories along with your special project!
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