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28
Jun
2024

Inner Secrets

June 28, 2024 9:00 am - June 30, 2024 4:00 pm
Instructor(s): Kelly Odden
$500 Member Price/ $575 Non-Member Price

Kelly Oden Workshop

Our ancestors all had stories and secrets; some are passed down through the generations and others are kept hidden forever. Often, it’s the secrets of the heart that are kept under wraps. Let’s create a sculpture that tells a story of those secrets, either current day or past! All skill levels welcome as we create a bust (male or female) in this three day workshop. 

05
Jul
2024

Awareness of Legacies - Mindful Reflections: Exploring Legacies, Deepening Connections

July 5, 2024 9:30 am -10:30 am
Instructor(s):
Free

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I had an inheritance from my father,
It was the moon and the sun.
And though I roam all over the world,
The spending of it’s never done.
― Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

Through mindfulness we become more aware of influences in our lives including those that we have taken in from others. As we become more conscious of these gifts and challenges, we can more effectively choose whether and how to express them. To begin the series, we will engage in mindfulness practices exploring our personal legacies and how these inheritances have contributed to our lives. We will then practice slow art applying awareness-based skills to viewing the works of two generations of glassblowers.

09
Jul
2024

Resident Artist Series: Christmas in July using the Slab Machine

July 9, 2024 10:00 am - July 18, 2024 12:00 pm
Instructor(s): Frank Vickery
$175 for Members; $250 for Non-Members

Christmas in July

Christmas in July using the Slab Machine - All the basics you need to know about using the slab machine to make a Christmas house or two.  Glaze the 2nd week of class.

Class Meets:

July 9th, 11th, 16th, and 18th

10
Jul
2024

Learn to Turn: An Intro to Woodturning

July 10, 2024 9:00 am - July 12, 2024 4:00 pm
Instructor(s): John Tagliarini
$400 for Members; $475 for Non-Members

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Students will make beautiful and useful turnings using the three basic cuts of woodturning with gouges. We will begin in “spindle orientation” by turning a mallet, a tool handle, a goblet, and a twig pot. Then we hope to make at least two bowls, one with a round top and one with a natural edge. We will practice safe technique at the lathe as we also learn to sharpen the gouges using various jigs and tables.
12
Jul
2024

Trays All Kinds of Ways

July 12, 2024 9:00 am - July 14, 2024 4:00 pm
Instructor(s): Josh Copus
$450 Member Price/ $525 Non-Member Price

Josh Copus Workshop

If you want to learn how to make all kinds of different serving trays and unique dishes, then this is the class for you!

We will cover a variety of hand building techniques such as slab construction, coiling, pinching, carving and cutting to give you the skills to make any kind of tray that you can dream up.

This class will include both daily demonstrations and hands-on instruction in a fun and supportive environment that will help you unlock your hand building potential.

12
Jul
2024

Inner Reflections - Mindful Reflections: Exploring Legacies, Deepening Connections

July 12, 2024 9:30 am -10:30 am
Instructor(s):
Free

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Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
– Carl Jung

Communication skills are, in part, a legacy from our families and transform or strengthen through non-judgmental awareness and self-compassion. Honest communication with others is based upon acceptance, curiosity, and openness. As we strengthen our ability to bring deep listening to our own experiences, we enhance our capacity to be present with and available to others, to nature, and to artistic works. After learning brief, self-listening skills, we will become aware of our sensations, thoughts, and feelings as we view artists’ images.

16
Jul
2024

How to Nail Color Harmonies and Color Pops for Killer Skies and Atmospheric Paintings

July 16, 2024 9:00 am - July 19, 2024 4:00 pm
Instructor(s): Bill Davidson
$675 for Members; $750 for Non-Members

Bill Davidson

"Using my simplified values and design techniques, I will step by step show you how to add harmonious color pops and atmospheric skies that take your paintings to a moody, atmospheric level in a fun and positive way.In addition we will cover new mental tips that automatically enhance your abilities. I have further researched new techniques to help you advance more easily and swiftly .We will continue to cover how to easily establish a great design , strong value base foundation and make great shapes, and use of the illusive but powerful edges tool. We will paint together step by step some great paintings or you can paint what you desire from your own images. Looking forward to working with you."  - Bill Davidson

19
Jul
2024

The Clarity and Strength of Vulnerability - Mindful Reflections: Exploring Legacies, Deepening Connections

July 19, 2024 9:30 am -10:30 am
Instructor(s):
Free

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Mindfulness is the open-hearted energy of being aware in the present moment. It is the daily cultivation—practice—of touching life deeply.
 Laurie Buchanan, PhD

Artists make themselves vulnerable through sharing with us works that express their visions of the world. In this way, their images touch and transform us. Sharing their visions is an act of courage and strength. A similar vulnerability allows us to live fully and from our hearts. Our daily presence and vitality in living our lives may be our greatest legacy to those we love. We will engage with gallery images using mindfulness practices that support our connection with presence and our heart’s wisdom. We will conclude by discussing how to apply these same principles to our daily lives.

24
Jul
2024

Using Cold Wax medium with Oils

July 24, 2024 10:00 am - July 26, 2024 4:00 pm
Instructor(s): Cath Connolly Hudson
$450 for Members; $525 for Non-Members

Cat Connolly Hudson Cold Wax

Build complexity and richness to your work with cold wax and oils. In this workshop we will explore how to use wax and other mediums to build up translucence and texture in your oil paintings.

26
Jul
2024

Transparency – Furthering Relationships Through Art and Mindfulness - Mindful Reflections: Exploring Legacies, Deepening Connections

July 26, 2024 9:30 am -10:30 am
Instructor(s):
Free

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The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility.
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

Loving Kindness Practices increase positive emotions, strengthen health, and enhance the quality of our lives. Moreover, these practices help us to navigate relationships with greater tolerance and appreciation for those we love. These same practices can help us to forge a connection with the artists who help us to envision our worlds in new ways and with the images they create. In this session, we will practice open-heartedness and apply this open-heartedness to our experiences of the artwork. Take homes will include brief skills for bringing an open heart to our daily interactions with others.

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Exhibitions & Shop:
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Sunday; Noon - 5 pm

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Visit: 323 Franklin Road
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This project was supported by the North Carolina Arts Council, a division of the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources. Learn more at http://www.ncarts.org.

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Funded in part by a grant from South Arts
in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts.