Spring/Summer 2008 Schedule

All classes are held at Chesterfield Arts

Call Chesterfield Arts to register at (636) 519-1955,

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"Say Yes to Art" with ArtMart's Artist Ambassador!

Session I: Oil Pastels

Session II: Acrylics

Session III: Watercolor

Session I: Saturday, Feb 9, 2008

Session II: Saturday, March 15, 2008

Session III: Saturday, April 26, 2008

Kids: 10:00 - 11:00 am
Adults: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Fee: FREE

Parent and Me and Picasso Makes Three

with Nicole Dutton

Allow your child some messy play time without making your house a mess. Come join us for a fun-filled time in paint, clay, foam and and a variety of sensory-integrating materials. (4 classes)

Dates: Tuesdays, February 5 - 26

Time: 10:00 - 11:00 am

Fee: $50 (includes all supplies)

Crazy for Color with Sukanya Mani

What color do you get when you mix blue and yellow? Allow your child to expand their knowledge of primary, secondary, and tertiary colors. Your student’s projects will help them learn to mix, blend and make fun color combinations. (6 classes)

Session I:

Wednesdays, February 6 - March 12

Session II:

Wednesdays, March 26 - April 30

Time: 10:00 - 10:45 am

Fee: $75 (includes all supplies)

Ceramics (Homeschool) with Emily Hemeyer

Explore sculpture and ceramicsc working with kiln-fired clay. Create useful items or artistic gifts and learn a unique, but simple, ceramic technique. Your objects will be artistically glazed and completed as finished pieces in this class. (6 classes)

Grades 1 - 3

Session I:

Wednesdays, Feb. 6 - March 12

Session II:

Wednesdays, March 26 - April 30

Time: 10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Fee: $75 (includes all supplies)

Basic Cartooning (Homeschool) with Sukanya Mani

In this fun and creative class, your student will learn how to draw a dinosaur, a penguin, a superhero, and many other characters. The class will focus on line, shape and color while using a variety of media. (6 classes)

Grades 1 - 3

Session I:

Wednesdays, Feb. 6 - March 12

Session II:

Wednesdays, March 26 - April 30

Time: 11:30 am - 12:30 pm

Fee: $60 (includes all supplies)

Drawing (After-School) with Dib Dunker

Do you love to draw? In this class, students will explore drawing through a variety of media including charcoal, chalk and more! Students will exercise and improve their drawing skills, work with diverse materials, and create several finished pieces throughout the class. (6 classes)

Grades 1 - 3

Session I:

Mondays, Feb. 4 - March 10

Session II:

Mondays, March 24 - April 28

Time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm

Fee: $75 (includes all supplies)

Painting (After-School) with Dib Dunker

For the young painter! In this class, students will explore painting through a variety of media including acrylics, watercolor and more! Students will exercise and improve their painting skills, work with diverse materials, and create several finished pieces through this class. (6 classes)

Grades 1 - 3

Session I:

Thursdays, Feb. 7 - March 13

Session II:

Thursdays, March 20 - April 24

Time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm

Fee: $75 (includes all supplies)

Creative Clay for Grades 2 - 4 with Craft Alliance

Come and explore the wonders of working with clay - from imaginary creatures and animals to colorful clay tiles.  Each artistict creation will be glazed and fired in a new ceramic kiln (3 classes)

To register:

visit www.craftalliance.org or call 314-725-1177

Instructor: Carol Rominger

Grades 2 - 4

Session I:

6031   Saturdays, March 1 - 15

Session II:

6032   Saturdays, April 5 - 19

Time: 10:00 - 11:30 am

Fee: $73 (includes all supplies)

Ceramics (Homeschool and Saturday)

with Emily Hemeyer

Explore sculpture and ceramics working with kiln-fired clay. Create useful items or artistic gifts and learn a unique, but simple ceramic technique. Your objects will be artistically glazed and completed as finished pieces in this class. (Session I & II: 6 classes; Session III: 4 classes)

Grades 3 - 5

Session I:

Wednesdays, Feb. 6 - March 12

Time: 1:00 - 2:30 pm

Fee: $75 (includes all supplies)

Session II:

Wednesdays, March 26 - April 30

Time: 1:00 - 2:30 pm

Fee: $75 (includes all supplies)

Session III:

Saturdays, February 2 - 23

Time: 1:00 - 2:30 pm

Fee: $60 (includes all supplies)

Learn from the Masters (Homeschool)

with Sukanya Mani

This class focuses on special techniques we might learn from the masters like cubist collage from Picasso, painted pointillism from Seurat, and contour line drawings from Lichtenstein. Discover how your student might reuse these clever techniques in their own artwork. (6 classes)

Grades 3 - 5

Session I:

Mondays, Feb. 4 - March 10

Session II:

Mondays, March 24 - April 28

Time: 10:00 - 11:00 am

Fee: $60 (includes all supplies)

Drawing (After-School) with Gabriella Toujas

Do you love to draw? In this class, students will explore drawing in a more sophistacted manner. They will improve their drawing skills while using a variety of media including charcoal, chalk and more. (6 classes)

Grades 3 - 5

Session I:

Thursdays, Feb. 7 - March 13

Session II:

Thursdays, March 20 - April 24

Time: 4:40 - 5:40 pm

Fee: $75 (includes all supplies)

Painting (After-School) with Gabriella Toujas

For the young painter! In this class, students will explore painting through a variety of media including acrylics, watercolor and more! Students will exercise and improve their painting skills and create several finished pieces throughout this class. (6 classes)

Grades 3 - 5

Session I:

Mondays, Feb. 4 - March 10

Session II:

Mondays, March 24 - April 28

Time: 4:40 - 5:40 pm

Fee: $75 (includes all supplies)

Marbling Socks with Ricky Cook Peterson

Marbling is a really exciting process that has nothing to do with marbles! We will learn to float colored paint on special water as you tease designs to print onto socks. You will not believe the things you can do once you learn this process!

Grades 4 and up

Date: March 15, 2008

Time: 1:30 - 4:00 pm

Fee: $30 (includes all supplies)

Bookmaking with MJ Goerke

Create your own book! Learn how to make paste paper for your pop-up or accordian book. You will learn different techniques in folding and binding and walk away with a book that you can fill with drawings, journal entries, poems or stories. (3 classes)

Grades 6 - 8

Session I:

Tuesdays, February 5 - 19

Session II:

Tuesdays, March 11 - 25

Time: 4:30 - 6:30 pm

Fee: $60 (includes all supplies)

Drawing with Gabriella Toujas

This class is designed for tweens interested in exploring drawing at a higher level . Using conte, charcoal, graphite and pen, students will learn how to focus on techniques, concepts and subject matter. (6 classes)

Grades 6 - 8

Session I:

Thursdays, Feb. 7 - March 13

Session II:

Thursdays, March 20 - April 24

Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm

Fee: $75 (includes all supplies)

Painting with Gabriella Toujas

This class is designed for tweens interested in exploring painting at a higher level. Using both oil and acrylic paints, this class focuses on both traditional and contemporary techniques. Learn about the materials used in painting, how to handle them and develop your skills through a variety of exercises and projects in painting.

(6 classes)

Grades 6 - 8

Session I:

Mondays, Feb. 4 - March 10

Session II:

Mondays, March 24 - April 28

Time: 3:30 - 4:30 pm

Fee: $75 (includes all supplies)

Painting Intensive with Jennifer Klemp

For the high school student interested in pursuing art in college or just advancing your studio painting skills. Using oil and acrylic paints, this class focuses on both traditional and contemporary techniques. Create work to submit into a college portfolio, find out what colleges look for and improve your understanding of painting. (6 classes)

Grades 9 - 12

Dates: Mondays, Jan. 28 - March 31 Time: 6:30 - 8:30 pm

Fee: $150 (includes all supplies)

Photography Intensive with Garry Rose

The goal of this class is to give the high schooler a greater knowledge base and more technincal skills to fully enjoy photography. The student will be introduced to tools that can help with composition, focal points and much more. Digital and manual camera users are welcome! (6 classes)

Grades 9 - 12

Dates: Thursdays, Jan. 13 - March 13

Time: 4:00 - 5:30 pm

Fee: $75 (includes all supplies)

NEW!  Board Game Making with Mary Beth Shaw

Explore the creativity behind inventing characters, places and reasons to skip ahead and fall behind in your own classic board game. Collage a canvas board, create a spinner, paint your own die, and repurpose found objects into game pieces. Materials may include canvas boards, collage materials, boxes, paint, clay, beads, etc.

(4 classes)

Ages: Teens & Adults

Dates: Thursdays, Feb. 14 - March 6

Time: 6:00 - 8:30 pm

Fee: $75 (includes all supplies)

Painting for the Beginner

(Oil or Acrylic)

with Jennifer Klemp

Dates:  Tuesdays, Jan. 29 - March 4

Time: 10:00 am - 12:30 pm

Fee: $150 (includes all supplies)

Painting for the Intermediate and Advanced (Oil and Acrylic) with Jennifer Klemp

This class is intended for those who have either taken Beginning Level I or for those who have some experience with painting. The class will focus on proportion, composition, color theory and color mixing using paintings mainly of still life objects. (6 classes)

Dates: Tuesdays, Jan. 29 - March 4

Time: 1:30 - 4:00 pm

Fee: $150 (includes all supplies)

Painting for the Beginner and Advanced Beginner (Oil and Acrylic) with Kathy Koenig Ladd

During this six week session, students will be introduced to painting from life and portraiture while working with oil or acrylic paints. Underpainting techniques, the utilization of a medium or mediums with oil paints, and color mixing are only some of the concepts you will learn in this class. This class is intended for those who are just beginning or would like to get back into painting. (6 classes)

Session I:

Wednesdays, February 6 - March 12

Session II:

Wednesdays, March 26 - April 30

Time: 6:00 - 9:00 pm

Fee: $150 (includes all supplies)

Drawing for the Beginner and Advanced Beginner

with Kathy Koenig Ladd

During this six week session, students will be introduced to the fundamental concepts of drawing including composition, technique and concept. Learn to draw from life and portraiture using a variety of drawing mediums including charcoal, conte, and and graphite. The class will pay special attention to formal ideas such as gesture, line, shape and value. (6 classes)

Session I:

Wednesdays, February 6 - March 12

Session II:

Wednesdays, March 26 - April 30

Time: 1:00 - 3:30 pm

Fee: $125 (includes all supplies)

Watercolor with Beverly Hoffman

Come paint with professional watercolor artist and instructor Beverly Hoffman. Paint an array of subjects including still life, landscape, figures or your own unique theme. This class will teach each student how to reach their own goals in watercolor. (4 classes)

Session I :

Wednesdays, Feb. 13 - March 5

Session II:

Wednesdays, March 26 - April 16

Time: 9:00 am - 12:00 pm

Fee: $100 (supplies not included)

Supply List

Batik Silk Painting with Julie Dubrouillet

Batik is the process of creating art on fabric by applying melted wax to silk, creating separate sections in which applying dye creates pictures and figures. In the class you will batik a scarf and a number of small pieces suitable for matting and framing. Be prepared with ideas of what you would like to create. (3 classes)

Dates: Saturdays, February 2 - 16

Time: 11:30 am - 2:30 pm

Fee: $100 (includes all supplies)

NEW!  Board Game Making with Mary Beth Shaw

Explore the creativity behind inventing characters, places and reasons to skip ahead and fall behind in your own classic board game. Collage a canvas board, create a spinner, paint your own die, and repurpose found objects into game pieces. Materials may include canvas boards, collage materials, boxes, paint, clay, beads, etc.

(4 classes)

Ages: Teens & Adults

Dates: Thursdays, Feb. 14 - March 6

Time: 6:00 - 8:30 pm

Fee: $75 (includes all supplies)

Creative Writing with Julie Earhart

Join internationally published, award-winning author Julie Failla Earhart to practice the craft of fiction and to learn the nuts and bolts of getting published. Topics include the basic elements of fiction and how they work to how to study the literary marketplace and correct manuscript format. Includes lecture, discussion and writing.

(8 classes)

Dates: Wednesdays, Mar. 5 - April 23

Time: 6:30 - 8:30 pm

Fee: $150 (includes all supplies)

Children's Book Illustration with Richard Bernal

Children’s book illustration is both a fine art in its own right as well as an essential aspect of the literary composition of the book in its entirety. In this class, the student will learn a variety of illustrative styles, media, and techniques represented in children’s literature. Join Richard Bernal in creating your own children book illustrations.

(6 classes)

Session I :

Tuesdays, February 5 - March 11

Session II:

Tuesdays, March 25 - April 29

Time: 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Fee: $100 (includes all supplies)

Introduction to Photography

with Garry Rose

The goal of this class is to give you, the student, the knowledge and skills to more fully enjoy photography as a hobby and art form. You will be introduced to the “tools of the trade” and shown how to use these tools and skills to capture what you see in your mind. Digital or manual camera users are welcome! (3 classes)

Dates: Thurdays, Feb. 21 - March 6

Time: 7:00 - 9:00 pm

Fee: $75 (you must bring your own digital or manual camera; all other supplies included)

Glass Beads for Adults 16 and Up with Craft Alliance

Learn to work with hot glass to make colorful beads.  Using small torches, glass rods and mandrels, you will learn the techniques of making glass beads for jewelry or sculptures. (3 classes)

To register:

visit www.craftalliance.org or call 314-725-1177

Instructor: Erica Weinberg

Session I:

6021   Saturdays, Feb 23 - March 8

Session II:

6022   Saturdays, March 22 - April 5

Time: 1:00 -3:00 pm

Fee: $90 (includes all supplies)

Marbling Technique with Ricky Cook Peterson

Marbling is an ancient art that involves floating colors on size or thickened water.  You will start by marbling several sheets of paper, then learn to mix the size and the paints.  Finally, you will marble socks and scarves.  If time permits, you will create journals and cards from the marbled paper.  (3 classes)

Dates/Times:

Saturday, April 19; 1:00 - 4:00 pm

Friday, April 25; 6:30 - 9:30 pm

Saturday, April 26; 1:00 - 4:00 pm

Fee: $75 (includes all supplies)

Painting with Pastels with Barbara Remley Martin

Using pastel in a painterly method, students will become more familiar with color and texture, under-painted supports, and the various types of pastels. Each class will include color exercises, painting demontrations and painting time. Still-life and photographic references are used with an emphasis on skill development and understanding color combinations. (8 classes)

Dates: Thursdays, Feb. 21 - April 10

Time: 10:00 am - 12:30 pm

Fee: $150 (supplies not included)

Supply List

PRE-K AND KINDERGARTEN

Art Sampler
Campers will participate in a variety of activities including painting, collage, mixed media work and more! In this discovery of colors, textures, shapes and design, your camper will not only learn the fundamentals of art, but also create artwork that challenges their creativity and personal expression. Session I: June 2 - 6 AM

Session II: July 7 - 11 AM

Messy Play
Allow your child some messy play time without making your house a mess. Come join us for a fun-filled time in paint, clay, foam and a variety of sensory-integrating materials.

Session I: June 9 - 13 PM

Session II: July 14 - 18 PM

1ST - 3RD GRADE

Mixed Media
Campers will use a variety of media to make unique and inventive works. Explore traditional and non-traditional media to create original works of art reflective of the artist’s own sensibilities.

Session I: June 16 - 20 AM

Session II: July 21 - 25 AM

Drawing Explosion
Come for an exciting week of drawing exploration! Campers will use charcoal, conte, colored pencil, pencil and more! Take home many finished pieces.
Session I: June 23 - 27 PM

Session II: July 28 - August 1 PM

Comicking and Cartooning
Campers will learn drawing skills specific to comicking and cartooning characters and learn the basics of text, storylines and more.

Session I: *June 30 - July 3 AM

Session II: August 4 - 8 AM

The Young Ceramicist
Explore sculpture and ceramics working with kiln-fired clay.  Create useful items or artistic gifts and learn a unique, but simple, ceramic technique.  Your objects will be artistically glazed and completed as a finished piece in this camp.
Session I: June 2 - 6 PM

Session II: July 7 - 11 PM

Garden Party!
Each camper will complete a garden art project using various techniques and mediums while learning about artists, insects, and flowers. Take a look at Monet, Van Gogh and Matisse to get inspired!

Session I: June 9 - 13 AM

Session II: July 14 - 18 AM

Playing with Paint
Join us for a week of painting camp where each participant will paint a canvas and work on many different painting activities! Students will work with a variety of paints and complete several pieces to take home.

Session I: June 16 - 20 PM

Session II: July 21 - 25 PM

3RD - 5TH GRADE

Mixed Media
Campers will use a variety of media to make unique and inventive works. Explore traditional and non- traditional media to create original works of art reflective of the artist’s own sensibilities.

Session I: June 2 - 6 AM

Session II: July 7 - 11 AM

Drawing Explosion
Come for an exciting week of drawing exploration! Campers will use charcoal, conte, colored pencil, pencil and more! Take home many finished pieces.
Session I: June 23 - 27 AM

Session II: July 28 - August 1 AM

Comicking and Cartooning
Campers will learn drawing skills specific to comicking and cartooning characters and learn the basics of text, storylines and more.

Session I: *June 30 - July 3 PM

Session II: August 4 - 8 PM

The Young Ceramicist
Explore sculpture and ceramics working with kiln-fired clay.  Create useful items or artistic gifts and learn a unique, but simple, ceramic technique.  Your objects will be artistically glazed and completed as a finished piece in this camp.
Session I: June 9 - 13 PM

Session II: July 14 - 18 PM

Garden Party!
Each camper will complete a garden art project using various techniques and mediums while learning about artists, insects, and flowers. Take a look at Monet, Van Gogh and Matisse to get inspired!

Session I: June 16 - 20 AM

Session II: July 21 - 25 AM

Playing with Paint
Join us for a week of painting camp where each participant will paint a canvas and work on many different painting activities! Students will work with a variety of paints and complete several pieces to take home.

Session I: June 23 - 27 PM

Session II: July 28 - August 1 PM

Board Game Making
Explore the creatvity behind inventing characters, places and reasons to skip ahead and fall behind in your own classic board game. Collage a canvas board, create a spinner, paint your own die, and repurpose found objects into game pieces. Materials may include canvas boards, collage materials, boxes, paint, clay, beads, etc.
Session I: *June 30 - July 3 AM

Session II: August 4 - 8 AM

6TH - 8TH GRADE

Board Game Making
Explore the creatvity behind inventing characters, places and reasons to skip ahead and fall behind in your own classic board game. Collage a canvas board, create a spinner, paint your own die, and repurpose found objects into game pieces. Materials may include canvas boards, collage materials, boxes, paint, clay, beads, etc.
Session I: June 2 - 6 AM

Session II: July 7 - 11 PM

The Pottery Wheel
Want to try the pottery wheel, but a little nervous of slinging mud? Take this introductory pottery wheel course and you’ll be astounded at what you can create. Students will walk away with finished glazed ceramic pieces.
Session I: June 9 - 13 PM

Session II: July 14 - 18 PM

Comicking and Cartooning
Campers will learn drawing skills specific to comicking and cartooning characters and learn the basics of text, storylines and more.

Session I: June 16 - 20 AM

Session II: July 21 - 25 AM

9th - 12th GRADE

Action Art
Action painting is a style of painting in which paint is dribbled, splashed or smeared onto the canvas, rather than being carefully applied. Be prepared to get messy with acrylic and regular house paint!

Session I: June 23 - 27 AM

Session II: July 28 - August 1 AM

Found Art
This camp offers the opportunity to explore design concepts and fabrication techniques important in assemblage of found objects. This eco-friendly artwork includes unlimited media opportunities.
Session I: June 2 - 6 PM
Session II: July 7 - 11 PM

The Pottery Wheel
Want to try the pottery wheel, but a little nervous of slinging mud? Take this introductory pottery wheel course and you’ll be astounded at what you can create. Students will walk away with finished glazed ceramic pieces.
Session I: June 9 - 13 AM

Session II: July 14 - 18 AM

"Say Yes to Art" with Artmart's Artist Ambassador!

Session I: Oil Pastels

Session II: Watercolor

Session III: Acrylics

Session I: Thursday, June 26

Session II: Thursday, July 21

Session III: Thursday, August 7

Kids: 10:00 - 11:00 am
Adults: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Fee: FREE

ST. LOUIS WRITERS GUILD

The Big Write WRITE A STORY! Workshop 

June 28 * Grades 4 - 8

1:00 - 2:30 pm or 3:00 - 4:30 pm

FREE!

Harvey Stanbrough Poetry Workshop

July 12, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm * Adults

$60 or $53 (member)

Register at www.stlwritersguild.org

Intensive 8 week classes intended to get the students' portfolio ready for college!

Drawing with Jennifer Klemp: Tuesdays, June 3 - July 22, 6 - 8:30 pm, $125

Metal Designs with Sherri Jaudes: Thursdays, June 5 - July 10, 1 - 3:30 pm, $185 + $35 materials

Painting with Jennifer Klemp: Thursdays, June 5 - July 24, 6 - 8:30 pm, $125

Painting for the Beginner and Advanced Beginner (Oil and Acrylic)

Students will be introduced to painting from life as well as portraiture while working with oil or acrylic paints. Underpainting techniques, the utilization of a medium with oil paints, and color mixing are only some of the concepts you will learn in this class. This class is intended for those who are just beginning or would like to get back into painting. (6 classes)

Session I:

Wednesdays, May 7 - June 11

Instructor: Kathy Ladd

Session II:

Wednesdays, June 18 - July 23

Instructor: Jennifer Klemp

Time: 6:00 - 9:00 pm

Fee: $150 (includes all supplies)

Plein Air with Barbara Remley Martin

This Open Air experience will focus on getting comfortable with painting in an outdoor studio.  This is a class for those wanting to get their feet wet, sometimes literally! A variety of media may be used, including pastels, watercolor and oil.  We will be meeting in different locations each week.  Call Chesterfield Arts for full details.

Dates: Tuesdays, May 6 - June 3

Time: 9:30 am - 12:00 pm

Fee: $100 (supplies not included)

Watercolor with Beverly Hoffman

Come paint with professional watercolor artist and instructor Beverly Hoffman. Paint an array of subjects including still life, landscape, figures or your own unique theme. This class will teach each student how to reach their own goals in watercolor. (4 classes)

Session I :

Wednesdays, June 4 - June 25

Session II:

Wednesdays, July 9 - July 30

Time: 9:00 am - 12:00 pm

Fee: $100 (supplies not included)

Supply List

Book Illustration with Richard Bernal

Illustration is both a fine art in its own right as well as an essential aspect of the literary composition of the book in its entirety. In this class, the student will learn a variety of illustrative styles, media, and techniques represented in literature. (5 classes)

Dates:

Tuesdays, June 10 - July 8

Time: 4:00 - 6:30 pm

Fee: $100 (includes all supplies)

In the Field Photography

with Garry Rose NEW!

Chesterfield Arts is proud to present this NEW class at Faust Park!  Perfect for small group learning and one-on-one time with the instructor.  Take your photography to the next level through learning the mechanics of your camera and the importance of subject matter.  Plus, Faust Park has some beautiful opportunities for great shots!

(5 classes)

Dates: Thursdays, May 8 - June 5

Time: 6:00 - 8:00 pm

Fee: $100 (you must bring your own digital or manual camera; all other supplies included)

Metal Designs with Sherri Jaudes NEW!

Join nationally-recognized metalsmith Sherri Jaudes in this new metals course.  You will be introduced to the techniques of cutting, joining and finishing metal. The students will learn the 7 joints and beginning fabrication techniques. (6 classes)

Session I:

Thursdays, June 5 - July 10

Time: 9:30 am - 12:00 pm

Session II:

Thursdays, June 5 - July 10

Time: 4:00 - 6:30 pm

Fee: $185 + $35 materials fee

Pottery with Janny Lai NEW!

Want to try the pottery wheel, but a little nervous about slinging mud?  Take this introductory pottery wheel course and you'll be astonished by what you can create.  Students will walk away with finished glazed ceramic pieces.

(6 classes)

Session I:

Mondays, June 16 - July 21

Session II:

Wednesday, July 23 - August 27

Time: 5:00 - 7:30 pm

Fee: $150