Adult Education

COVID-19 PRECAUTIONS in RED DOOR & STUDIO COLORADO

We are working hard to ensure your safety as we continue classes in Red Door and Studio Colorado. Below are the things we will do for you: • Tables (and students) are limited to 5 at a time. Chairs are 6 feet apart. • We will supply gloves for those who want them.

To ensure we are all safe, we need your help with the following: • EVERYONE must wear a mask at all times while in the classrooms. • Procedures will be in place to clean tools and environment between use.

We will update this list as new information is received. Our primary focus is your safety.

Winter Registration Opens Tuesday, December 8, at 9am

Open Studio for Mixed Media

Gayle Gerson

Gayle Gerson Beginner/Intermediate Mondays 1pm-4pm, January 4 – March 8, skipping February 15 $143 member / $183 non-member

Join Gayle Gerson in the Red Door Studio for three hours of moodling and puttering in mixed media projects. This class is designed for the experienced student and artist who would like to spend some time in an environment of camaraderie and inspiration. Please bring your own projects and supplies for mixed media and collage. Ideas and creativity will be shared with generosity and abandon by all. Gayle will provide coaching, some demos, and lively conversation on the latest trends in the world of mixed media art. Participants should be prepared to work, laugh, and provide feedback to their fellow artists.

Gayle Gerson Beginner/Intermediate Wednesdays 9am-12pm, January 6 – March 3 $143 member / $183 non-member

Gayle Gerson is teaching a workshop-like class to give artists of all skill levels practice in working with experimental painting and collaging techniques to create beautiful compositions, both representational and abstract. Students will be able to devote plenty of time to each of 4 or 5 artworks, creating a pleasing image that releases the sparkle of the artist’s personality. At the beginning of each class, Gayle will present a “mini-workshop” to build compositional skills and strengthen the “creative habit.” Art journaling and drawing sessions will also be part of this dynamic class.

Painting 1

Communicating Through Watercolor Loren Eakins Mondays 6-9pm, January 4 – March 8, skipping February 15 $143 member / $183 non-member

Watercolor is an extremely brave and beautiful way to paint, with a history as rich as its colors. The way pigment and water flow on a piece of paper can create near-magical effects that truthfully describe the world as we experience it. Often these effects happen when and where we least expect them. When first painting in watercolor you can feel as if you need to restrain the medium. This class is designed to help move you past that to unlock the hidden mysteries of watercolor and allow you to communicate freely with this exquisite paint.

Drawing 1

Dalton Carlson Thursdays, 6-9pm, January 7 – March 4 $143 member / $183 non-member

Dalton Carlson is teaching an introduction to drawing that is primarily for individuals looking to learn basic perspective drawing. The class will focus on the fourteen elements and principles of design and how to use them to create a dynamic drawing. Students will work from life, drawing still-lives to train their eye and hand when drawing. Issues of perspective, form, volume, composition, light and shadow, and markmaking will be explored in this class.

Philosophy and Art

Art History (Online) Art Center Curator Matthew Jones Wednesdays 6:30-7:30pm, January 6 – March 3 $90 member / $135 non-member

“What is art and why do human beings have the instinct to carry out its creation? Is art subjective, or is it bound up in the objective world? Is the essence of creation immutable or subject to change?” ~Matthew Jones

This course will engage with the big questions regarding the phenomena surrounding people’s impulse to create symbols of the human experience. We will dive into the development of outward expressive forms of language and iconography while facilitating dialogue and critical thinking for some of the world’s most elusive and puzzling questions relating to art.

Broadway Musical Theatre

From Opera to Hamilton (Online) Zoom Jeremy R Franklin Mondays 6:00-7:30pm, January 4 – February 8 $90 member / $135 non-member

The resounding success of Lin Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton is based in a genre that has developed over centuries. Broadway Musical Theatre: From Opera to Hamilton will study the genesis of the musical from its early roots in opera to its development throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. In the exploration of several landmark shows, students will trace the origins of present-day musical theatre through those shows’ social, historical, musical, and theatrical contexts.