Next Session At Art Center Features Virtual And In-Person Classes

Spring—and the active vaccine
rollout—is bringing a renewed energy to the Falmouth Art Center,
reflected in a variety of new classes, both virtual and in person.

Session
3 classes and workshops begin over the next two weeks with classes for
adults and children. All ages are welcome. Current students range in age
from 5 to 99 years old.

A
brand-new class is called From Drawing to Painting, with award-winning
artist Linda Walker of Falmouth. The six-week class for advanced
beginners and intermediate students meets Fridays in person from 9:30 AM
to noon. The class is primarily focused on oil painting but acrylic
painters are welcome.

Another
new class—this one virtual—is Folding and Sewing Papers to Make Books
with Christine Anderson. The four-week Monday morning class starts
Monday, March 29, on Zoom.

Classes
continuing on Zoom include All Levels Watercolor with Andrew Kusmin;
Art 201 with Claudia Smith-Jacobs; Drawing for the Fun of It with Susan
Jensen; Painting Landscapes, Still Lives and More with Diana Lee; and
Traditional and Contemporary Pastel Painting Techniques with Betsy Payne
Cook.

Also continuing on Zoom
are two classes with Hyannis artist Mellissa Morris: Color and Abstract
Acrylic Painting on Tuesday afternoons; and Mixed Media Collage on
Friday afternoons.

Kitchen
Table Printmaking with Ashley Wolff, a children’s book illustrator from Vermont, another popular Zoom class, will continue in Session 3.

New for beginners is Betsy Payne Cook’s Beginner and Refresher Pastel class on Wednesday mornings on Zoom.

Bill Noble will continue his in-person classes: Oil Painting for Beginners; and Level 2 Oil Painting for Beginners.

A few spots remain in the upcoming Clay session, which features in-person beginner and intermediate classes, as well as special woodfire classes, unique in the region. A new Clay Woodfire class with Hollis Engley and Kim Sheerin on Monday mornings beginning Monday still has spaces.

Upcoming spring workshops include a beginner/intermediate iPhone camera workshop with Lisa Jo Rudy on Zoom scheduled for Friday, April 9, from 3 to 5 PM.

Woods Hole artist Crickett Warner’s popular Patch-making Workshop: Visible Mending with Sashiko is an in-person workshop on June 12 from 9 AM to noon.

Accomplished instructor Marian Colman will teach Moving along with Watercolor—the
Landscape, a three-day class on Zoom on April 16, 17 and 18.

Also coming up this spring are several sessions of Big Brush Painting with Joe Gallant, which is a three-hour, in-person paint-along workshop, scheduled for April 17, May 15 and June 19.

Classes for children and teens are all in person at Falmouth Art Center. Art Quest with Alicia Buccino is an after-school art class on Tuesday afternoons for children ages 6 to 11. The next session starts March 30.

Pottery Studio for Tweens and Teens with Kim Sheerin is on Monday afternoons for ages 9 to 16. The next session starts April 12. There is one more Early Release Day art class scheduled on May 4. Art center staff walk Mullen-Hall School students to the class. Students who attend other schools are dropped off at the center.

In-person April Vacation Week children’s camps with Teen Wheel in the morning and Spring Fling in the afternoon take place from April 19 to 23. The Spring Fling camp will include building fairy houses and environments.

Registration is open for Falmouth Art Center’s summer camps. The weekly art and clay camps take place from July 5 through August 27.

Sign up for classes through the center’s website or by calling 508-540-3304.

The Falmouth Art Center, at 137 Gifford Street, is free and open to the public Monday to Friday from 9 AM to 4 PM, Saturday from 10 AM to 2 PM, and Sunday from 1 to 4 PM.