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.