To enroll in classes or summer camps
Contact the Chaffee Art Center:

1-(802)-775-0356

Or by email: mary@chaffeeartcenter.org

Summer Camp: Multi-Media Extravaganza

Multi-Media Extravaganza will be a weeklong Summer Arts Camp where students can experiment with a mélange of materials and techniques. From printmaking to painting and life drawing, this course will empower younger students to express their creativity in many different mediums. This workshop will embark on a fieldtrip to Mass Moca in North Adams Massachusetts where we look at installation-based media, and will be an opportunity to explore contemporary forms of visual art.

 

Ages 8-14

August 16-20 • 9 am-3 pm

Ages 8-14

August 16-20 • 9 am-3 pm
$ 140 non-members
$ 125 members

 

Summer Camp: Focus on Photography

This exciting workshop will trace the roots of the photographic medium, and will be a weeklong tour through several photographic processes. Leading up to a field trip to the Ansel Adams Exhibition at the Shelburne Museum, this will be a hands on class where students can learn traditional and digital photography techniques. Students will be given the opportunity to exhibit their work in our 3rd Annual Amateur Photography Contest and see their hard work displayed on the walls at Chaffee Art Center. Students need to bring their own digital camera.

 

Ages 8-14

July 26-30 • 9 am-3 pm
$ 140 non-members
$ 125 members 

 

Introduction to Oil-based mediums

Instructor: Carol Ruzicka

Learn how to paint with oils starting with the very basics: Simple subjects, learning how colors work together and how to pick specific colors for specific projects. Learn about types of paint, types of media to paint on and how to see colors as they are in reality. This is a chance for artists with no experience with oil based media to jump right in and paint with oils.

Mondays: July 12, 19, & 26 • 6-8 p.m. 

 

Class Cost:
$100  Non-Members
$ 90 Members

Carol Ruzicka is a professional graphic designer and illustrator with over 20 years of experience with both private clients and large design and publishing companies. She has illustrated 3 major fiber arts books, one children’s math book with several more scheduled for the coming year plus countless renderings both hand drawn and digital for the web and all types of print materials. She is a self taught but accomplished fine artist specializing in oil paints. She also has spent several years studying Buddhist meditation techniques that have been a tremendous asset to her creative ability/stability.

 http://www.carolruzicka.com/

Elements of Collage

Instructor: Lisa Kriauciunas

In this class we will explore and experiment with the various techniques of collage, examine its history and work on several projects incorporating self-exploration designed to refine individual style and technique. Upon completion of this class students will have gained an expanded portfolio, as well as an enriched artistic ability which emphasize careful reflection of our daily routines within a larger cultural framework, which when combined with careful selection and symbolic use of everyday materials creates powerful works of art.

Saturdays: June 17, 24, & 31 • 5-8 p.m.
Class Cost:
$100  Non-Members
$ 90 Members

 

Elements of Artistic Photography

Instructor: Andrew Christie

Taking photographs means making a number of conscious decisions before you press the shutter. As photographer, giving expression to your ideas requires knowing a number of things about photography. Exploring your own ideas, looking at other photographers, studying composition, and looking at your work will help you become a better photographer. Looking at what influences great photography students will discuss aesthetics, take better photographs and refine their own sense of personal vision.

Thursdays: July 15, 22, 29 6-8 pm
Class Cost:
$100  Non-Members
$ 90 Members 
Born in Scotland I lived in the United Kingdom for the first sixteen years of my life. With direction in the arts since a young age I’ve always used my creative side. Starting out with a traditional point and shoot when I was younger, I became more seriously involved with photography ten years ago. Shooting a lot of film around Vermont with a SLR I am primarily self-taught. Picking up what I could from books and other sources I built a strong foundation in photography. I have studied photography in New York at the International Center of Photography. Recently I studied video at Castleton. Professionally, I have my own business as a website designer and I work daily with digital media.
http://andrewdchristie.com/

Sculptures in Fabric

Instructor: Andrea Stoher

A class experimenting with various techniques to create  fabric sculptures.
We will look at Omiyage, the Japanese custom of presenting gifts in sewn containers, pouches, boxes, and fabric sculptures.We will all sew a small project together, and you will also learn to make a ball shaped pillow that you can embellish in your own way.
I will lead you through the process of sewing the kimono stitch, with the option to bring your own working sewing machine to class for larger sized projects.

Wednesday: August 4, 11, 18
6-8 pm
Class Cost:
$100  Non-Members
$ 90 Members 
Andrea Stoehr lives in Danby,Vermont, and has been making things from fabric, since she was ten years old. She earned a BFA in Sculpture from the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, Ma, and worked for many years in the Toy Industry as an Industrial designer of toys, for Kenner Products, and Hasbro Industries.
She had a decorative pillow business while living in Ohio, and created toy and bag prototypes for a design firm while living in Cincinnati.
She has worked in many mediums, including clay, glassblowing,metals,but always seems to go back to working with fabric.
She has taught classes in Omiyage,and pillow making, and was a para educator at the Danby Currier memorial School.

Portraying Mind, Body, and Self: A Discussion through Self-Portraiture

Instructor: Ava Freeman

The self-portrait has taken shape in the lives of many artists reappearing throughout the history of art to serve as a tool for self reflection and self justification. The self portrait is always changing. Each one marks a moment it time, space, and memory; preserving a pool of conversation between the artist and the art-world. This class will consider issues of identity, keeping its definition open and malleable. Each student will be challenged to create their own self portraits in order to excavate and unveil their individual ideas of expression and inner beauty. Students will participate in small brainstorming activities such as blind portraits, found object collage, and reflection prints before creating their final portraits on canvas. Although the basic elements of portraiture will be taught, students are encouraged to develop portraits that speak to their unique and individual minds, bodies, and selves.

August 10, 17, 18
6-8 pm
Class: $100-non-members
Members: $ 90

Monotype Printmaking

Instructor: Peter Wallis

Being a reductive and an additive process, this printmaking process can be richly detailed and gestural.  This straightforward approach to the Monotype process is great way carefully map out and plan out your composition.  This process reveals many “happy accidents” along the way, and can result in leading your creative practice in new directions.  Whether your artistic tastes lean towards abstraction or realism, this workshop will outline all the techniques and processes of monotype printmaking, and offers up a fresh approach to the printmaking medium.  Whether you are a printmaking veteran or a complete beginner, bring your passion, talents and ideas to the printmaking press.

August 8, 15, 22
6-8 pm
Class: $100-non-members
Members: $ 90

Peter Wallis is from Pittsford, Vermont.  He holds a B.F.A. from the Maine College of Art in Illustration with a double minor in Art History and Drawing.  He recently worked as an artist in residence in El Bruc, Spain on a Graphic Novel about the Spanish Civil war in conjunction with his graduate work at Goddard College.