ART, MUSIC & CULTURE Courses

Get the Most out of Drawing with Color (Ages 13 and up)

Experiment with colored pencils and chalk pastels while exploring the basic elements of design, composition and color theory. Discover your own style and begin to rely on your own approach to rendering powerful figures, rich landscapes and robust ideas. All skill levels are welcome.

Materials Needed: set of colored pencils and chalk pastels, a sketchbook or sketch pad and a kneaded eraser.

AE227 - John David Berdahl

2 Thursdays, 8/10-8/17, 6-8 PM

Vista Room 204, 2777 34th St S

$54 ($49)*

NEW Painting the Mountain Majesties

for Adults

Portrait Drawing Explained in Detail

Why take a picture when a portrait drawing of your own can express so much more? In this class John David Berdahl will slowly explain the finer elements of completing a portrait drawing of a model or a subject and help you have fun while doing so.

Materials Needed: a graphite drawing pencil set, a stick of charcoal, sketchbook or sketch pad and kneaded eraser

AE109 - John David Berdahl

4 Wednesdays, 5/10-5/31, 5:30-7:30 PM

Vista Room 203, 2777 34th St S

$45 ($39)*

Drawing Types of Flowers for Fun

Flowers are not only delightful to grow and to cultivate, but they can also be pleasing and enjoyable to draw as well. In this class, John David Berdahl will cover the steps necessary to compose your color study of certain buds, petals, and leaves and sketch your favorite blossom.

Materials Needed: a set of colored pencils and chalk pastels, a sketch-book or sketch pad and kneaded eraser.

AE107 - John David Berdahl

4 Wednesdays, 8/9-8/30, 5:30-7:30 PM

Vista Room 203, 2777 34th St S

$45 ($39)*

Do you long to capture the beauty and the splendor of a mountaintop in acrylic paint on canvas? Join John David Berdahl as you discover how to pick a reference and prepare your materials and medium to render the peaks and valleys of your favorite rocky ranges.

Materials Needed: a set of acrylic paints, two to three acrylic paint brushes, a canvas pad or a few stretched canvases of any size and a container to hold tap water and brushes.

AE104 - John David Berdahl

4 Tuesdays, 5/16-6/6, 5:30-7:30 PM

Vista Room 203, 2777 34th St S

$69 ($65)*

Tile Mosaic

You will have expert instruction while creating your own framed tile work. Ceramic, glass, metal, even wood are just some of the materials provided. Learn a new skill, and create some amazing art.

AE39 - Bracken Rourke

3 Tuesdays, 4/4-4/18, 6-8:30 PM

Cotton Lake Tile, 415 15th St N, Fargo

$155 ($150)*

NEW Beginning Spanish for Adults

This is an in-person, interactive beginning Spanish class that uses comprehensible input. Join us to get familiar with a new language and practice in person.

Materials Needed: pencil, notebook and an open mind.

AE47 - Cara Cody-Braun

6 Tuesdays, 4/4-5/9, 6-7:30 PM

Horizon Middle School East, Room 217, 3601 12th Ave S, Door E1

$65 ($60)*

American Sign Language Basics for Adults

MORE American Sign Language for Adults

Michele Rolewitz is Deaf and has taught ASL for 20+ years. Learn additional signs for conversational communication and some of the culture of the deaf in this introductory course. Fee includes handouts.

Materials Needed: folder for handouts.

AE21 - Michele Rolewitz

8 Tuesdays, 4/4-5/23, 6-7:30 PM

Vista Room 209, 2777 34th St S

$105 ($99)*

Michele Rolewitz is Deaf and has taught ASL for 20+ years. Learn basic signs for conversational communication and some of the culture of the deaf in this introductory course. Fee includes handouts.

Materials Needed: folder for handouts.

AE20 - Michele Rolewitz

7 Mondays, 4/3-5/22, 6-7:30 PM

Vista Room 209, 2777 34th St S

$89 ($85)*

NEW Look, Listen, and Learn: A Class About Autism

Living can be challenging, especially if you have a neurocognitive condition that can cause you to interpret or to understand the world much differently. Join John David Berdahl as he discusses the symptoms of autism spectrum disorder that can keep us from reaching our full potential. Examples and exercises will be implemented to help you overcome the limits or the obstacles that autism may be putting in your own way. Live your most fulfilling and best life.

AE100 - John David Berdahl

4 Thursdays, 4/27-5/18, 5:30-7:30 PM

Vista Room 203, 2777 34th St S

$10