Programs for Adults
(16+ years)

At A Glance

2020 Classes
​at a Glance:

Intermediate Level Pastels & Oils – (Session 1) 
Jeneane Lunn
Sundays:  Jan. 19; 26; Feb. 2; 9 & 16 (see note, below)
10AM-1PM
NOTE: Feb 16 will be a longer session, 10AM – 4:30PM  (This serves as a make-up day for a snow day or if students miss a session or a portion of a session during the series.)
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​ARTIST TALK:
It Hurts So Much: Adaptive Gardening
Layne Tharp
Sat., Feb. 1
2:30 – 4PM
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Botany for Artists
Susan Sawyer
Sun: Feb. 2; 9; 16; 23; Mar. 1; 8
2-5PM

Introduction to Acrylics
Robert W. Brunelle, Jr.
Saturday, Feb. 8th: 10am - 4:30pm
Friday, Feb. 14th: 11am-4pm*
*rescheduled date due to snow

Secret Belgian Binding
Elissa Campbell
Mon & Tues:  Feb. 10, 11
5:30-7:30PM

Stained Glass Workshop
​(Session 1)
Chris Jeffrey
Sat. Feb 15
10AM – 5PM​
THIS CLASS IS FULL 
(Enrollments are closed)

Introduction to Pastels
(ages 14 yrs +)
Jeneane Lunn
Sat., Feb. 22
10AM-3PM (bring a lunch/snack

Pop-Up Basics & the Moving Book
Elissa Campbell
(ages 14 years +)
Sat., Feb. 29 (during Winter Break)
10AM-4PM (bring a lunch/snack)

Free Form Knitting
Leslie Roth
Wed: Mar. 4; 11; 18; & 25
5-7PM (bring a snack)

Intermediate Level Pastels & Oils – (Session 2) 
Jeneane Lunn
Sundays:  Mar. 8; 15; 22; 29; and Apr. 5 (see note, below)
10AM-1PM
NOTE:  April 5 will be a longer session, 10AM – 4:30PM  (This serves as a make-up day for a snow day or if students miss a session or a portion of a session during the series.)
UPDATE: This class has been canceled. 

Creative Landscape Painting & Beyond
(all painting media)
Robert Chapla
Saturday, March 14
9:30AM-4PM​
UPDATE: Class Postponed. Rescheduled dates TBA

Color Theories and Practices
Susan Sawyer
Sat:  March 21 & 28
9:30AM-4PM (bring lunch/snack)
UPDATE: Class Postponed. Rescheduled dates TBA

Cartooning & Graphic Novels
(ages 14 yrs+)
Robert W. Brunelle, Jr.
Sat., April 4
9:30AM – 4:30PM ​
UPDATE: Class Postponed. Rescheduled dates TBA

Stained Glass Workshop
​(Session 2)
Chris Jeffrey
Sat. April 11
10AM – 5PM​
UPDATE: Class Postponed. Rescheduled dates TBA

Make Sculptural Clay Whistles
(ages 14 yrs – adults)
Robert W. Brunelle, Jr.
UPDATE: Class Postponed. Rescheduled dates TBA

Spring Season Pastels & Oils:
Intermediate Level
Indoors & Outdoors!
Jeneane Lunn
Sun: Apr. 26; May 3; 10; 17; (skip May 24); 31; June 7
10AM-1PM​
UPDATE: This class has been canceled. 

​Introduction to Garden Sculpture 
(Using Pal Tiya Premium)
Amber Geneva
Fri & Sat:  May 1 & 2
10AM-4PM
UPDATE: Class Postponed. Rescheduled dates TBA

Contemporary Impressionist Landscapes and Florals in Pastel
Robert Carsten, PSA 
Thurs & Fri, May 14 & 15
10AM-4PM
UPDATE: Class Postponed. Rescheduled dates TBA

3-D Star & Tunnel Books 
Elissa Campbell
Rescheduled Date:
Mon & Tues:  July 20 & 21
5-7:30PM

Japanese Bookbinding
Elissa Campbell
Rescheduled Dates:
Mon & Tues:  June 29 & 30
5:30-7:30PM
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Class Details

2020 Class Details

Intermediate Level Pastels & Oils – (Session 1) 
Jeneane Lunn
Sundays:  Jan. 19; 26; Feb. 2; 9 & 16 
10AM-1PM

This class is appropriate for all levels of students working in pastels or oil paints.  It’s a wonderful workshop for people building their skills in both media.  Each session will begin with Jeneane providing a short demonstration.  Learn and practice the fundamentals of drawing, design, composition, light and color and how to put it all together.  Critique and coaching will be individual.  Participants will do still life and work from photographs.  Contact SPA for a suggested materials list for this class; please let SPA know which medium you will be using.  If you already have oil paints and other materials, the instructor asks that you bring odorless paint thinner for this class.
 
Members $140/Non-Members $160
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Jeneane Lunn attended the Art Students League of New York. She has been an artist and teacher in Vermont for the last twenty five years. She has participated in many national and local art exhibitions including the Pastel Society of America, National Arts Club, NYC, Salmagundi Club, NYC, Pen and Brush Club, NYC, St. John the Divine Cathedral, NYC, Shelburne Farms Exhibition, Shelburne, Vermont, and Frog Hollow Vermont State Art Center to name a few. She has created posters for Vermont Symphony and T-shirts for Farm-aid, a national organization to help farmers started by Willie Nelson.
Her work can be seen at: http://sites.google.com/site/jeneanelunn/paintings


ARTIST TALK:
It Hurts So Much: Adaptive Gardening
Layne Tharp
Sat., Feb. 1
2:30 – 4PM

Some of us have no choice, due to aging or disability, and others only want to garden smarter. Learn strategies to improve your experience through physical conditioning, garden design, and adaptive tools.  (Be sure to come early to view the main floor gallery exhibit, “Botanical Blitz.”) 

​Free Inspiration!

Layne Tharp became a professional gardener and garden designer in her mid-40’s having never been involved in physical labor.  Twenty years later, she has retired from her gardening business and has taken on the new challenges of vegetable gardening. 



Botany for Artists
Susan Sawyer
Sun: Feb. 2; 9; 16; 23; Mar. 1; 8
2-5PM

What are plants up to?  They’re living all around us, and in ways strange for us animals to think about.  With all their variety, their tiny parts, their seasonal changes, there is no end of things to look at and draw.  We’ll get some inspiration from the naturalist-explorers and artists who worked with them, who produced beautiful images by way of documenting their discoveries for science.  Artists, naturalists and gardeners who spend a lot of time with plants will enjoy learning more about how they work, using drawing and mixed water media to depict our subjects, from seed to leaf and flower.  This class is for students at all levels.

Members $175/Non-Members $195

Susan Sawyer is an artist-naturalist from South Woodbury with many years of experience teaching, mostly adults in college and non-formal settings. After starting life as a printmaker and decades of making art quilts, her current practice consists of drawing, painting, and biological illustration, in graphite, ink, watercolor, and silverpoint. She believes in an experimental and experiential approach to all kinds of education, as well as careful observation of worlds without and within.


Introduction to Acrylics
Robert W. Brunelle, Jr.
Saturday, Feb. 8th: 10am - 4:30pm
Friday, Feb. 14th: 11am-4pm *rescheduled date due to snow
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Learn about the advantages of using acrylic paints in your creative repertoire.  (Robert used oils for years and never looked back after he started using acrylics.)  During this two day class students will learn all they need to know about working with acrylic paints to capture the brilliant colors and rich textures of the fall season.  The class is open to students at all skill levels.  Among the topics covered will be; color mixing, adding additives to make the paints thicker or thinner, slowing drying time, using acrylics as washes, sculpting with acrylics, brushstrokes for creating various effects, using fast drying time to your advantage, and how to control blending colors.   We will also talk about composing your picture, stretching canvases, transferring drawings to canvas, various surfaces to paint on, as well as some useful hints on drawing, shading and shadows, and creating the illusion of depth on a flat surface. 
 
A materials list will be provided to students prior to the class.  (NOTE:  SPA has a good supply of acrylic paints that you are welcome to use – let us know if you are interested in this.)  Bring 1-3 seasonal photographs from which you would enjoy working.  If you have any questions, feel free to email Robert Waldo Brunelle, Jr., at brunelles3@aol.com.  Visit his website at www.mrbrunelle.com to see examples of his acrylic paintings.
 
Members $90/Non-Members $100

Robert Waldo Brunelle is a painter, book illustrator, retired art teacher and political cartoonist.   He taught cartooning and computer animation techniques at the Browns River Middle School for 31 years, and has taught cartooning workshops for adults at the Fletcher Farm School for Arts and Crafts.  In 2007 he was one of the Vermont cartoonists featured in the "Drawn Here" series produced by WCAX Channel 3 T.V.  He creates a weekly cartoon for Seven Days, Vermont’s art news source.  His political cartoon strip "Mr. Brunelle Explains It All" appears monthly in the humor magazine "Funny Times", and weekly on the website of the humor magazine "Humor Times", at [www.humortimes.com].  To see more of Mr. Brunelle's art and cartoons, visit his website at [www.mrbrunelle.com], or email him at [brunelles3@aol.com]


Secret Belgian Binding
Elissa Campbell
Mon & Tues:  Feb. 10, 11
5:30-7:30PM

The not-so-mysterious Secret Belgian binding was developed to have the appearance of a Japanese stab binding, but also to have the ability of opening flat.  The structure was invented by Anne Goy in the mid-1980's and was relatively unknown until Hedi Kyle introduced it to the United States.
The text block is sewn is first, before attaching the covers with an intriguing woven sewing pattern - no glue is needed!  This hard cover binding is perfect for use as a journal or sketchbook. 

You will receive a detailed handout and resource list for all materials we use.  Some previous experience with bookbinding is helpful, but not required.

Supplies:  Bone folder, scissors, X-Acto knife, metal ruler, awl, cutting mat, bookbinding or tapestry needle (bring them if you have them – don’t feel obligated buy anything)

Materials fee: $10.00

Members $40/Non-Members $50

Elissa Campbell has been making books for the past 25 years and sells her work professionally under the business name of Blue Roof Designs.  She is a big believer in the power of using books for self-expression.  Elissa is currently chair of the Book Arts Guild of Vermont and is on the Vermont Arts Council's Teaching Artist Roster.  For more info:             
http://www.blueroofdesigns.com & https://www.instagram.com/blueroofdesigns/


Stained Glass Workshop (Session 1)
Chris Jeffrey
Sat. Feb 15
10AM – 5PM
THIS CLASS IS FULL (Enrollments are closed)

For the beginner, this class teaches the basics of stained glass.  Students will learn how to cut glass and how to assemble a stained glass window using the copper foil technique.  They will then build a small panel from a design provided by the instructor that they will be able to take home with them.  By the end of the class students will know all they need to in order to begin making stained glass pieces on their own. 
Materials fee to the instructor:  $20.
Members $75/Non-Members $85

Chris Jeffrey has been working with glass for close to 30 years.  His glass studio is now in South Hero but for 18 years he maintained a full-time studio at SPA, making stained glass windows for homes and public buildings throughout Vermont and beyond.   Recent major commissions include a window for the Christ Episcopal church in Montpelier as well as a number of mausoleum windows for the Rock of Ages granite company.  Chris has many years of experience teaching complete beginners how to make beautiful stained glass pieces.   

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Introduction to Pastels
(ages 14 yrs +)
Jeneane Lunn
Sat., Feb. 22
10AM-3PM (bring a lunch/snack

Learn the basics about creating with pastels or get better acquainted with your pastels in this workshop.  Enjoy a pastel demonstration in the morning and in the afternoon, with time to work on pastel works of your own.  Jeneane will demonstrate different pastel techniques that will allow you to explore abstract and figurative pastel works.  Students will learn about the tools and advance their creative process through seeing things differently and developing expression and style.  Contact SPA for suggested materials.  (SPA has some start-up materials if you prefer to test pastels before you purchase your own.)

Members $45/Non-Members $55
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Jeneane Lunn attended the Art Students League of New York. She has been an artist and teacher in Vermont for the last twenty five years. She has participated in many national and local art exhibitions including the Pastel Society of America, National Arts Club, NYC, Salmagundi Club, NYC, Pen and Brush Club, NYC, St. John the Divine Cathedral, NYC, Shelburne Farms Exhibition, Shelburne, Vermont, and Frog Hollow Vermont State Art Center to name a few. She has created posters for Vermont Symphony and T-shirts for Farm-aid, a national organization to help farmers started by Willie Nelson.
Her work can be seen at: http://sites.google.com/site/jeneanelunn/paintings



Pop-Up Basics & the Moving Book
Elissa Campbell
(ages 14 years +)
Sat., Feb. 29 (during Winter Break)
10AM-4PM (bring a lunch/snack)

If you want to add more magic to your cards and artist books, then give pop-ups a try!  Also known as paper engineering, pop-ups use cuts and folds to create motion and energy in paper structures. 
 
Through the creation of a series of pop-up cards, you'll learn the basics of three-dimensional construction, including box supports, props, and straddles.  You'll then bind these cards into a book, which will become a handy reference for future work.

You'll receive a detailed handout and resource list for all materials we use.  No previous experience is required – this is a great class for a beginner. However, you'll probably feel more comfortable if you have experience using an X-Acto knife.

Materials fee to the instructor:  $12. (All materials are included in the materials fee, but feel free to bring materials for use in creating your cards.)  Several ideas are:

• Collage materials (paper)
• Photographs
• Rubber stamps and pads
• Markers, pens, colored pencils, etc.
• Decorative scissors/punches

Supplies: Bonefolder, ruler, X-Acto knife, cutting mat, scissors, pencil.  
 
NOTE:  Bring the supplies if you have them – don’t feel obligated to buy anything.  Elissa will have extras available. For younger participants: This is an all day, intensive workshop requiring focus and the use of sharp tools.

Members $50/Non-Members $60

Elissa Campbell has been making books for the past 25 years and sells her work professionally under the business name of Blue Roof Designs.  She is a big believer in the power of using books for self-expression.  Elissa is currently chair of the Book Arts Guild of Vermont and is on the Vermont Arts Council's Teaching Artist Roster.              
http://www.blueroofdesigns.com & https://www.instagram.com/blueroofdesigns/


Free Form Knitting
Leslie Roth
Wed: Mar. 4; 11; 18; & 25
5-7PM (bring a snack)
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This is a creative skills class that will take you through the process of planning and executing a knitting project without a pattern.  Come play with color and texture, and break free from the need to follow specific directions. Each student will knit a scarf or pair of fingerless mitts of their own design using a variety of yarns and techniques that are put together in a non-traditional, artistic manner.  Students for this class can be beginning knitters, but should be able to cast on, knit, purl, bind off and be willing to experiment. 
 
Materials:  Medium weight/worsted weight yarn in a variety of colors (at least 3 colors, approximately 200-300 yards total), knitting needles size 7 or 8 (straight or circular), DPN’s size 7 or 8, crochet hook size G or H, yarn needle, scissors.  The instructor will bring additional yarns to supplement.  There will be a $5 materials fee to the instructor.
 
Members $80/Non-Members $90
 
Leslie Roth is a sculptural artist and published knitwear designer with more than a decade of teaching experience.


Intermediate Level Pastels & Oils – (Session 2) 
Jeneane Lunn
Sundays:  Mar. 8; 15; 22; 29; and Apr. 5 (see note, below)
10AM-1PM
NOTE:  April 5 will be a longer session, 10AM – 4:30PM  (This serves as a make-up day for a snow day or if students miss a session or a portion of a session during the series.)
UPDATE: This class has been canceled. 

This class is appropriate for all levels of students working in pastels or oil paints.  It’s a wonderful workshop for people building their skills in both media.  Each session will begin with Jeneane providing a short demonstration.  Learn and practice the fundamentals of drawing, design, composition, light and color and how to put it all together.  Critique and coaching will be individual.  Participants will do still life and work from photographs.  Contact SPA for a suggested materials list for this class; please let SPA know which medium you will be using.  If you already have oil paints and other materials, the instructor asks that you bring odorless paint thinner for this class.

Members $140/Non-Members $160
​
Jeneane Lunn attended the Art Students League of New York. She has been an artist and teacher in Vermont for the last twenty five years. She has participated in many national and local art exhibitions including the Pastel Society of America, National Arts Club, NYC, Salmagundi Club, NYC, Pen and Brush Club, NYC, St. John the Divine Cathedral, NYC, Shelburne Farms Exhibition, Shelburne, Vermont, and Frog Hollow Vermont State Art Center to name a few. She has created posters for Vermont Symphony and T-shirts for Farm-aid, a national organization to help farmers started by Willie Nelson.
Her work can be seen at: http://sites.google.com/site/jeneanelunn/paintings


Creative Landscape Painting & Beyond
(all painting media)
Robert Chapla
Saturday, March 14
9:30AM-4PM
UPDATE: Class Postponed. Rescheduled dates TBA

Beginners through advanced painters are welcome to this class which explores color, rhythm, movement and textures in nature.  Drawing and composition basics will be covered as needed.  Time will be spent on understanding the strengths and visions of students and guiding them toward a style of painting that brings out the best in them. 
 
Primary emphasis will be on acrylic painting, but watercolor, oil (odorless turps, please) and mixed media are welcome.
 
The class sessions will begin with a short demo emphasizing a technique and/or subject for the students to work on in developing a painting during the majority of class time.  The last half hour will be dedicated to a group technique and discussion of the work done.  Acrylic paints and panels will be available from the instructor for a very low fee (under $5).
 
Members $55/Non-Members $65
 
Robert Chapla, a resident of Newbury, Vermont for the past 7 years, has a BA in Art History from Columbia College, NYC, with graduate work in studio art at Washington U., St. Louis, Cleveland Inst. of Art, and the S.F. Academy of Art. He has exhibited his work extensively and has taught drawing and painting in Yosemite Valley, as well as Walnut Creek (CA.) Civic Arts Adult Ed. where he also coordinated the drawing and painting program.  Robert Chapla has taught painting and exhibited his work for more than 30 years.  For more information, go to:  www.robertchapla.com


Color Theories and Practices
Susan Sawyer
Sat:  March 21 & 28
9:30AM-4PM (bring lunch/snack)
UPDATE: Class Postponed. Rescheduled dates TBA
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It might be the first thing you notice in a work of art.  Using mixed media including colored pencil, gouache, and collage, this class will go from basic color vocabulary to practice in mixing color and using multiple colors in combinations that communicate things we can’t say any other way.  This class is for students at all levels.

Members $110/Non-Members $130

Susan Sawyer is an artist-naturalist from South Woodbury with many years of experience teaching, mostly adults in college and non-formal settings. After starting life as a printmaker and decades of making art quilts, her current practice consists of drawing, painting, and biological illustration, in graphite, ink, watercolor, and silverpoint. She believes in an experimental and experiential approach to all kinds of education, as well as careful observation of worlds without and within.


Cartooning & Graphic Novels
(ages 14 yrs+)
Robert W. Brunelle, Jr.
Sat., April 4
9:30AM – 4:30PM 
UPDATE: Class Postponed. Rescheduled dates TBA

We will learn how to:  design characters, set up panels for a strip or comic book, how to write dialog balloons and set up punch lines.  We will also learn about the different types of cartoons (political, single panel gags, comic strips, comic books, graphic novels) as well as a brief history of cartooning.  Also, we will learn about how to use graphic tablets, digital pens, and various software to draw and color cartoons and illustrations on a computer.
 
Participants need to bring pens/color pencils, paper and rulers and bring their own computers or tablets (and have basic knowledge about the use of their design programs).
 
Members $50/Non-Members $60
 
Robert Waldo Brunelle is a painter, book illustrator, retired art teacher and political cartoonist.   He taught cartooning and computer animation techniques at the Browns River Middle School for 31 years, and has taught cartooning workshops for adults at the Fletcher Farm School for Arts and Crafts.  In 2007 he was one of the Vermont cartoonists featured in the "Drawn Here" series produced by WCAX Channel 3 T.V.  He creates a weekly cartoon for Seven Days, Vermont’s art news source.  His political cartoon strip "Mr. Brunelle Explains It All" appears monthly in the humor magazine "Funny Times", and weekly on the website of the humor magazine "Humor Times", at [www.humortimes.com].  To see more of Mr. Brunelle's art and cartoons, visit his website at [www.mrbrunelle.com], or email him at [brunelles3@aol.com]

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Stained Glass Workshop (Session 2)
Chris Jeffrey
Sat. April 11
10AM – 5PM
UPDATE: Class Postponed. Rescheduled date TBA

For the beginner, this class teaches the basics of stained glass.  Students will learn how to cut glass and how to assemble a stained glass window using the copper foil technique.  They will then build a small panel from a design provided by the instructor that they will be able to take home with them.  By the end of the class students will know all they need to in order to begin making stained glass pieces on their own. 
Materials fee to the instructor:  $20.

Members $75/Non-Members $85

Chris Jeffrey has been working with glass for close to 30 years.  His glass studio is now in South Hero but for 18 years he maintained a full-time studio at SPA, making stained glass windows for homes and public buildings throughout Vermont and beyond.   Recent major commissions include a window for the Christ Episcopal church in Montpelier as well as a number of mausoleum windows for the Rock of Ages granite company.  Chris has many years of experience teaching complete beginners how to make beautiful stained glass pieces.   


Make Sculptural Clay Whistles
(ages 14 yrs – adults)
Robert W. Brunelle, Jr.
Sat., April 25
1:30-4PM ​
UPDATE: Class Postponed. Rescheduled dates TBA

Students will learn how to make single or multi-tone, sculptural whistles out of clay.  The whistles can be made into a wide variety of whimsical shapes, such as animals, monsters, people, aliens, cartoon characters, etc.  The whistles can be made into two tone or ocharenas by adding more holes.  We will be using air dry clay, so students can bring them home the same day.  Once the clay is dry, students will have the option of painting their whistles at home.  There should be time for students to make 2-4 whistles in this workshop, depending on how elaborate.  (Materials are included in the class fee.)
 
Members $35/Non-Members $45
 
Robert Waldo Brunelle is a painter, book illustrator, retired art teacher and political cartoonist.   He taught cartooning and computer animation techniques at the Browns River Middle School for 31 years, and has taught cartooning workshops for adults at the Fletcher Farm School for Arts and Crafts.  In 2007 he was one of the Vermont cartoonists featured in the "Drawn Here" series produced by WCAX Channel 3 T.V.  He creates a weekly cartoon for Seven Days, Vermont’s art news source.  His political cartoon strip "Mr. Brunelle Explains It All" appears monthly in the humor magazine "Funny Times", and weekly on the website of the humor magazine "Humor Times", at [www.humortimes.com].  To see more of Mr. Brunelle's art and cartoons, visit his website at [www.mrbrunelle.com], or email him at [brunelles3@aol.com]


Spring Season Pastels & Oils:  
Intermediate Level, Indoors-Outdoors!
Jeneane Lunn
Sundays:  April. 26; May 3; 10; 17;
(skip May 24/Memorial Day); May 31; June 7
(See note, below)
10AM-1PM
UPDATE: This class has been canceled.  

This class is appropriate for all levels of students working in pastels or oil paints.  It’s a wonderful workshop for people building their skills in both media.  Each session will begin with Jeneane providing a short demonstration.  Learn and practice the fundamentals of drawing, design, composition, light and color and how to put it all together.  Critique and coaching will be individual.  Participants will do still life and work from photographs.  Contact SPA for a suggested materials list for this class; please let SPA know which medium you will be using.  If you already have oil paints and other materials, the instructor asks that you bring odorless paint thinner for this class.
 
NOTE:  When the weather is beautiful as we head into late-May and June, join Jeneane at beautiful central Vermont locations for plein air oil or pastel painting.   Participants will receive a notification about plans to be outdoors and directions to the painting site on the Friday before each scheduled session. 
 
Members $155/Non-Members $175
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Jeneane Lunn attended the Art Students League of New York. She has been an artist and teacher in Vermont for the last twenty five years. She has participated in many national and local art exhibitions including the Pastel Society of America, National Arts Club, NYC, Salmagundi Club, NYC, Pen and Brush Club, NYC, St. John the Divine Cathedral, NYC, Shelburne Farms Exhibition, Shelburne, Vermont, and Frog Hollow Vermont State Art Center to name a few. She has created posters for Vermont Symphony and T-shirts for Farm-aid, a national organization to help farmers started by Willie Nelson.
Her work can be seen at: http://sites.google.com/site/jeneanelunn/paintings


​Introduction to Garden Sculpture 
(Using Pal Tiya Premium)
Amber Geneva
Fri & Sat:  May 1 & 2
10AM-4PM
UPDATE: Class Postponed. Rescheduled dates TBA

Learn to make permanent outdoor sculpture using minimal tools.  Pal Tiya Premium is a new cement based sculpting material, designed to be fast, accessible and strong enough to stay outdoors year round.  This class will teach the fundamentals of handling, modeling and curing. Students will develop up to 3 pieces to take home.  

Materials fee to the instructor:  $50 (this may vary if student is working on large scale pieces).  Wear or bring work clothes and closed toe shoes.

Members $150/Non-Members $170

Amber Geneva is an artist, art teacher, and dog trainer in Vermont.  With an extensive knowledge of materials and their applications, it is her joy to make sculpting accessible for anyone.  For more info:  https://www.ambergeneva.com/

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Contemporary Impressionist Landscapes and Florals in Pastel
Robert Carsten, PSA 
Thurs & Fri, May 14 & 15
10AM-4PM
UPDATE: Class Postponed. Rescheduled dates TBA

Celebrate the beauty of impressionism in landscape and floral still life. Create breathtaking pastels using broken color techniques as discussed and demonstrated by Robert. Lots of painting time, helpful critiques. All levels welcome.
Day1:
We’ll work from landscape/waterscape photos and convey excitement and spontaneity of response through quick-sketch impressionist techniques in layering pastels. Concentration will be on design, underpainting techniques, overpainting, mark-making and completion stage strategies. All levels welcome. 
Day 2:
We’ll work from photos or arrangements to create Impressionist florals — your choice of still life or garden scenes. Concentration will be on composition, shape variation, color application techniques and mark making.
 
Members $175/Non-Member $195
 
Robert Carsten, a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and was a scholar to the Academia di Belle Arti in Carrara, Italy. He is a Board member and signature member of the Pastel Society of America and is a contributing writer to the Pastel Journal and The Artist's Magazine. His pastel paintings have been shown in many museums and galleries and are collected worldwide. His work was recently part of a selections exhibition at the Butler Institute of American Art and was featured in American Artist's Workshop Magazine, The Artist's Magazine, Pastel Journal, and Strokes of Genius/The Best of Drawing as well as in Pure Color/The Best of Pastel, and American Art Review.  Visit his website: www.robertcarsten.com


3-D Star & Tunnel Books 
Elissa Campbell
Rescheduled Date:
Mon & Tues:  July 20 & 21
5-7:30PM
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These beautiful, three-dimensional books are sure to capture the imagination!  Don’t let the appearance of these books fool you – they’re much easier to create than it looks.

Participants will create the books from layers of paper and collage materials.  The star book opens up completely to form a star shape when the covers are held back-to-back.  You can use the attached ribbon ties to secure the book when open or closed.  The tunnel book has pages suspended between two, thin folded accordions.  Openings in the pages allow you to see through the book to the back, creating layers of depth.

In this workshop, each participant will leave class with a completed book and the basic knowledge of bookbinding technique.  You will receive a detailed handout and resource list for all materials we use.  You might feel more comfortable having some previous bookbinding experience in this workshop, but it is not required.

Materials fee to the instructor:  $15.  All materials are included in the workshop fee, but feel free to bring materials for use in creating a theme/concept for your books.  Several ideas are:  Collage materials (handmade paper, fibers, fabric); Photographs (sized at least 12” wide x 5” tall.  Bring multiples of each image); Rubber stamps and pads; Markers, Pens and colored pencils; and Decorative scissors/punches.

Members $45/Non-Members $55

Elissa Campbell has been making books for the past 25 years and sells her work professionally under the business name of Blue Roof Designs.  She is a big believer in the power of using books for self-expression.  Elissa is currently chair of the Book Arts Guild of Vermont and is on the Vermont Arts Council's Teaching Artist Roster.              
http://www.blueroofdesigns.com & https://www.instagram.com/blueroofdesigns
 

Japanese Bookbinding
Elissa Campbell
Rescheduled Dates:
Mon & Tues:  June 29 & 30
5:30-7:30PM

Would you like to take a trip to Asia without getting on a plane?  In this workshop, you'll try your hand at Watoji or Japanese bookbinding. 

You'll start off by learning the Yamato Toji, a binding which uses strips of paper instead of sewing thread.  Next, four more traditional binding styles will be explored - Yotsume Toji (Four-hole Binding), Koki Toji/Kangxi (Noble Binding), Asa-No-Ha Toji (Hemp Leaf Binding) and Kikko Toji (Tortoise Shell Binding).  Time permitting, you'll also create an account book known as Daifuku Cho.

In this workshop, each participant will leave class with 5-6 books and a basic knowledge of bookbinding technique.  You will receive a detailed handout and resource list for all materials we use. 

No previous experience required – this is a great class for a beginner.  Materials fee to the instructor: $12.

Supplies (Bring them if you have them – don’t feel obligated buy anything): 

• Bone folder
• Scissors
• X-Acto Knife
• Ruler
• Awl
• Cutting Mat
• Needle

Members $35/Non-Members $45

Elissa Campbell has been making books for the past 25 years and sells her work professionally under the business name of Blue Roof Designs.  She is a big believer in the power of using books for self-expression.  Elissa is currently chair of the Book Arts Guild of Vermont and is on the Vermont Arts Council's Teaching Artist Roster.              
http://www.blueroofdesigns.com & https://www.instagram.com/blueroofdesigns/

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*NOTE:  Youths ages 16 and older may take Adult classes; a $10-$20 discount is provided to students 16-19 years of age for Adult classes.​

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SPA REFUND POLICY:

• Cancellations at least 9 days before first class:  Refund for full paid amount minus $10 registration fee OR 100% credit towards a future class.
• Cancellations that occur within 8 days before the first class:  50% refund minus $10 registration fee OR 50% credit towards a future class.
• Cancellations after the first class, but before second class:  50% refund of remaining class tuition OR 75% credit towards future class.
• Full refund if SPA cancels.  Credits towards future classes must be used within 12 months of date of cancellation. 

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