Tag Archive for: ACCC Classes

Watercolor Class by Anne Krocak

Intro to Watercolor Classes – 3 times and styles

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Intro to Watercolor Painting Classes

The Arts Consortium of Carver County, in conjunction with the Chaska Community Center (CCC) Parks and Recreation, is offering 3 Watercolor Painting classes for different ages and in-person or virtually.

We invite you to visit our CLASSES page to learn more! You can read about our Instructors too.

ACCC Members receive a 10% Discount for all Classes and Workshops! Not a member? Consider joining the ACCC! Membership Info

Members – Log into your ACCC Account to get the Discount Code before you Register (changes monthly). You will be sent to the Chaska Community Center Parks and Rec website to complete your registration.

Watercolor Class by Anne Krocak

Empowering Workshop by Anne Krocak

Empowering Self Through Art Workshop Series Starting Mar 18

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Empowering Workshop by Anne Krocak

Empowering Self Through Art Workshop Series

Come enjoy this free art workshop geared to people with and without disabilities to learn about Public Art – Photography and Improv. comedy, sharing your perspectives, learning about inclusion while finding your voice and creating a community wide outdoor display. No experience required! We will meet via ZOOM for an hour and a half for six weeks. During this fast-paced workshop we will share our beliefs and voice, learn strategies for handling difficult conversations, meet new people, gain deeper understanding our similarities and differences while learning techniques in photography. We will see a live performance by BLACKOUT-Improv Comedy, and have a 45 minute intensive improv. experience – led by Joy, a professional Improv performer. We will discuss a different topic each week and work in small groups to have discussions to support each other while having FUN!

All community members are encouraged to come learn from each other, share your voice and make an impact in our community through art. We will also build confidence and use your new skills to share your message in a Carver County Public Art Display! BIPOC, LGBTQ+ and people with disabilities are encouraged to participate and welcome to this community building workshop! ASL interpretation available.

Dates: March 18, March 25, April 1, April 8, April 15, and April 22
Time: 6:30-8:00pm
Skill Level: (ALL) All Skill Levels
Age Range: Youth (Ages 12-15) and Adult (Age 16+)
Registration Deadline: 2 days prior to each class date
Class Size: Limited to 20 attendees
Class Location: via Zoom. A Zoom link will be sent via email to all registered participants two days before the program begins.
Class Fee: FREE! This opportunity is free thanks to a grant from The MN State Arts Board and the Clean Water, Land and Legacy Amendment)

Limited child care is available for the Empowering Self Through Art Workshops, indicate at registration for needed dates. Contact elink@chaskamn.com or call 952-227-7797

Instructor: Anne Krocak, Phoenix Designs
612-251-0536
annekrocak@aol.com

REGISTER on the Chaska Community Center Parks and Rec Website

The Opalescent World of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night (5 Classes in FEB)

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THE OPALESCENT WORLD OF SHAKESPEARE’S TWELFTH NIGHT

Discover the joys of one of Shakespeare’s most successful comedies, Twelfth Night, or What You Will. The only play with two tantalizing titles suggests the important role an audience takes in the production. Learn how to be a good audience for this most “opalescent” play. In five sessions we will explore the theatrical qualities that have made this play a playable delight since February 2, 1601 right up through the Guthrie’s last live performance this past year.

Dates February 9, 11, 16, 18, 23
Total Number of Classes 5
Time of the Class 9:30AM – 11AM
Skill Level (ALL) All Skill Levels
Age Range Adult (Age 16+)
Minimum # of Students 4
Maximum # of Students 12
Registration Deadline Date February 7
Class Location Your own home or office space
ACCC NONMEMBER Class Registration Fee $65.00
ACCC MEMBER Class Registration Fee (10% discount) $58.50
Material Details Have available any good, relatively modern edition of Twelfth Night, preferably one with good notes

REGISTER on the CLASSES page

ACCC Members, please SIGN IN to your ACCC Account first and refresh your browser so you get the reduced Class Fee, then register.

Instructor: Walter Cannon
641-295-9025
cannonw@central.edu

Walter Cannon Walter W. Cannon is Professor of English Emeritus at Central College in Pella, Iowa where he taught early modern literature including Shakespeare and his contemporaries and a variety of writing courses. His reviews and essays have appeared in The Upstart Crow, Theater History Studies, Cahiers Elisabethains, and Inside Shakespeare: Essays on the Blackfriar’s Stage. He is co-editor with Laury Magnus of Who Hears in Shakespeare?: Auditory Worlds on Stage and Screen, (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2012) and Shakespeare’s Auditory Worlds: Hearing and Staging Practices, Then and Now (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2020).

 

The Opalescent World of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night

Mary Williamson

Creating Through COVID

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Written by: Board Member at Large, Mary Williamson, Multi-media Artist

As the Board has been adjusting and keeping up with all of the changes we are experiencing due to change in physical location as well as COVID, we have been working towards a couple new interactive platforms.

Online education has swept across the world as students and businesses have needed to accommodate their employees in training or students in schools.  As a non-profit, we are no different, we want to continue to add value to your experience with the ACCC.

As an art instructor I have realigned my own teaching to online.  It has allowed me to stay in touch with students and continue their lessons as well as reach so many more than I ever could have by myself in my studio. If you’d like help coordinating an online class to teach, please reach out to us at classes@artsofcarvercounty.org with your ideas. We can help bring your craft, skills, technique or instrument to our audience. You can also learn more on our How to Submit A Class page.

The ACCC has provided some amazing classes in the past, but as COVID happened we were forced to stop all in person classes and events.  I can tell you now that we are not going leave you all without classes again.  Check out our website for one of the lessons I taught last spring (it was a little rough around the edges), but it was so much fun connecting and of course teaching and creating!

I want to encourage you to check out the lesson I have provided, try it out if you haven’t had a chance to follow along with an online lesson before.  It is free, fun, and easy!

I also want to encourage all our member artists to consider creating video lessons to provide to other members as well as anyone interested in the arts that visits our ACCC website or follows us on social media.  If you have ever considered teaching your craft, skill, technique, or instrument to another, this is an amazing time in our lives where you can serve so many others doing what you love!

Our long sun filled days of summer are over for now, Art Fairs and events were canceled, leaving so many of us feeling a bit off as we didn’t have a chance to walk around tents filled with amazing original creations, sell our amazing creations, and more to the point, we were unable to participate in our favorite classes at the ACCC Arts Center.

Realize the gift you have as an artist and realize how easy it is to share and serve others. Consider creating one or several online lessons.  The lessons will be made available for a fee and can be streamed to the user’s device.  The fees collected will be to pay the artist as well as a percent goes towards continuing the efforts of the ACCC.

Using your smartphone and a tripod, you can turn your studio space into a classroom!  We are encouraging our artist members to contact us for more details and direction on how to create a video lesson to provide an amazing service to those interested in the arts.

ACCC

Mobile Phone Photography I Class

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This class has been cancelled due to the MN “Stay At Home” order during the COVID-19 outbreak.

This class will cover the basics of using your mobile phone’s camera and how to edit the images in the phone’s existing software. We will also go over basic photography skills to help you capture better images.

During the class, we will be taking photos, editing photos and discussing the photos. Weather permitting, we will have the option to go outside to take some pictures so be sure to dress appropriately and comfortably. We will also be taking some photos indoors.

“I can’t believe my phone took this!”

Saturday, May 2, 2020
9am to 12pm

Skill Levels
Ages: 8+

Minimum Students Required: 3
Maximum Students Allowed: 8

Registration Deadline: April 30, 2020

Location: ACCC Arts Center
7924 Victoria Drive, Studio Level
Victoria MN 55386

Nonmembers: $30
ACCC Members: $27
Enjoy family discounts at the Advocate ($100) Membership Level! Includes 10% off each registration for everyone in the family. Membership Info

Materials Detail: Students should bring their mobile phones. If students would like to bring some images they have taken with their phones that they are not happy with (or that they are happy with but want to repeat that more often!), they can bring those in as well and we can discuss how to improve them.

Instructor:
Kristin LebbenKristin Lebben
952-221-8689
kristin@kristinlebben.com

Kristin is a professional photographer who shoots both portraiture and commercial photography. Additionally, she is a sculptor and is very active in the arts community. Her work has been published and won awards. As an artist, she loves to have fun with art and strives to bring that into her classes as well.

Kristin holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Studio Art from Lawrence University in Appleton, WI and an AAS degree in Commercial Photography from Hennepin Technical College in Eden Prairie, MN where she was a member of Phi Theta Kappa, a national academic honor society.

 

WorkinProgress Workshop

Work In Process Workshop

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This class has been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Something just not working with a piece?
Stuck with how to resolve something in the work?
Want some feedback on your work or ideas?
Need inspiration?
Want to bounce something off other artists?
Just want to talk art?

This workshop is for visual artists of any skill level. Bring in up to 3 pieces you are working on, have completed or are contemplating starting to have the group discuss and critique. This discussion tends to include a deep dive into techniques, processes, design & composition, resources, community, selling art, social media, etc. You do not even have to bring art in; maybe you just want to talk to the other artists and get inspired. You will come away with new ideas and inspiration, new avenues to pursue with your art and a great art community. This is a lot of fun!

Saturday, May 16, 2020
9-11am

Skill Levels: All
Ages: 16+

Minimum Students Required: 5
Maximum Students Allowed: 15

Registration Deadline: May 14, 2020

Location: ACCC Arts Center
7924 Victoria Drive, Studio Level
Victoria MN 55386

Nonmembers: $10
ACCC Members: $9
Membership Info

Materials Detail: Bring your own artwork. It can be a work-in-progress or a finished piece that you would just like some feedback or have a discussion regarding. Each artist can bring up to 3 pieces.

Instructor:
Kristin LebbenKristin Lebben
952-221-8689
kristin@kristinlebben.com

Kristin is a professional photographer who shoots both portraiture and commercial photography. Additionally, she is a sculptor and is very active in the arts community. Her work has been published and won awards. As an artist, she loves to have fun with art and strives to bring that into her classes as well.

Kristin holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Studio Art from Lawrence University in Appleton, WI and an AAS degree in Commercial Photography from Hennepin Technical College in Eden Prairie, MN where she was a member of Phi Theta Kappa, a national academic honor society.

Needle Felting Class

2D Needle Felting: Valentine’s Day Project Feb 2

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Needle Felting Class

Create a beautiful Valentine’s Day picture with the magic of using the simple tools of a barbed needle and wool! Instructor will provide techniques to create this 2D picture framed by an embroidery hoop, and how to create similar projects. Supplies and instruction focus on eco-friendly and sustainable techniques. No experience needed. Ages 8+

Date: Sunday, February 2, 2020
Time: 3:00-5:30pm
Skill Level: (B) Beginner, (AB) Advanced Beginner
Age: Youth (Ages 8-15), Adult (Age 16+)

Minimum Students Required: 2
Maximum Students Allowed: 10

Registration Deadline: January 31, 2020

Location: ACCC Arts Center
7924 Victoria Drive, Studio Level
Victoria MN 55386

Nonmember Fee: $30
ACCC Member Fee (10% Discount): $27

Materials Detail: $15 material fee payable to instructor. Materials include all items needed to create the needle felted picture, including hoop, barbed needles, and pad.

Stephanie FriantInstructor:
Stephanie Friant
815-592-3207
stephaniehfriant@gmail.com

Stephanie Friant processes and reflects the world through her art and writing.  Her art celebrates nature by embracing natural, eco-friendly, recycled, and vintage materials.  As a writer, Stephanie uses words to draw out the nuances and details of the world around her.  Stephanie leads classes, workshops, and retreats to provide opportunity for personal growth, and as much fun as possible!

Needle Felting Class

Needle Felting Class