Cook County Community Education is offering a number of classes for the potential artists in the community. This winter you can learn basic drawing and painting, create a stained glass sun catcher or try your hand at dying a scarf.
Basic Drawing and Painting with David
Hahn
will be offered Saturday, Jan. 23, 9 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. at the Arrowhead Center for the Arts, room 303. Hahn, a Hovland resident and local artist, will teach the basics of drawing and painting. In this class, students will examine these two instruments and their proper use as they apply them to watercolor, still life, and landscape painting. Emphasis will be made on layout and drawing with pencil before applying the brush. Beginners to experienced artists are welcome.
Bring: HB or # 2 pencil, eraser, watercolor paper, #6 or #8 watercolor paint brush with point and either tube or cake paint set. Thefee is $50.
Hahn’s work can be seen at the Coho Cafe in Tofte, outside the Cook County High School gym, Johnson Heritage Post in Grand Marais, and the Grand Marais Art Colony.
Beginning Stained Glass
will be offered Saturday, Jan. 23 and Feb. 13 from 8:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. at Epiphany Works in Grand Marais. Students will spend the day in Kathy Peterson’s workshop as she takes you through the steps. Students will take home a 6”x 6” sun catcher. Participants will learn to cut, grind, copper foil, and solder. Bring a bag lunch.
The fee is $45, payable to Community Education, and $35 for materials, payable to Epiphany Works.
Dying a Silk Scarf
will be offered on Saturday, Jan. 30 with Diane Fedyna, an artist from Silver Creek Township. The class will be held at the Birch Grove Community Center in Tofte from 1:00 – 2:45 p.m. Students will create their own color and design on a 100% silk scarf—wearable art!
Thefee is $28.
Don Hammer, a local artist and blacksmith, will offer Jewelry from the Sixties
on Feb. 10 from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. or 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. The class will be held in Cook County High School room 202 where Hammer will lead students in making a braided copper bracelet and spoon ring—the unique pieces of jewelry favored in the ‘60s.
The fee is $20 plus a $5 material fee to Hammer.
For more information on classes or to register, contact Community Education at (218) 387-2000 or e-mail comed@isd166. k12.mn.us.
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