Upcoming Classes

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Cultural Arts Center of Glen Allen

2880 Mountain Road, Glen Allen, VA 23060
www.artsglenallen.com

Classes held at Regency Square Mall are located at
1420 N. Parham Rd, Richmond, VA 23229

Classes held at Walkerton Tavern are located at
2892 Mountain Road, Glen Allen, VA 23060

Call (804) 261-2787  now to sign up!

 

Recycled Paper Bag Wrapping Paper For All Ages
Upcycle paper shopping bags into personalized gift-wrap with acrylics, rollers, stamps, fancy pens, and lots of imagination. Create the perfect finishing touches: paper bows, ribbons, gift tags, and cards. Bring your used paper shopping bags to reduce clutter before the holidays! Deconstruct bags and decorate them with various acrylic media to create charming handmade prints and patterns. Either take your creations to use at home or wrap the gifts you buy at Regency Square Mall and have your gift giving done no matter what the celebration. Materials provided but you can also bring: bags, paint, pens, rollers, stamps, corks, bubble wrap, and other mark making tools!
Wednesday, December 10, 6-8pm
Location: Regency Square Mall, Garden Room 
Cost: $10 plus $10 material fee. Children must register with an adult.

Abstract Acrylics
Abstract painting is a great, low-pressure introduction to materials and techniques for beginning artists as well as a fun way to shake things up if you’re a working artist. Look to painters of the 1940’s and 50’s for inspiration. The artist’s devoted, intimate relationship to materials connects Abstract Expressionism while encompassing a broad range of styles and approaches. We will discuss specific artists and experiment with their methods. Use and combine master’s techniques and tools to make new, original works.
Thursdays, January 15 – March 5, 1-4pm
Location: CACGA -Walkerton Tavern
Cost: $160, plus $5 materials fee for first class only. Additional materials discussed in first class for student to purchase confidently. Materials list at www.artsglenallen.com
Thursdays, April 14 – May 26, 6-9pm
Location: CACGA -Walkerton Tavern
Cost: $160, plus $5 materials fee for first class only. Additional materials discussed in first class for student to purchase confidently. Materials list at www.artsglenallen.com

Portfolio Development for Teens 
Through peer/instructor critique, serious art students can take their work to the next level by building a body of work they can submit for gallery exhibitions, school admission, or achieving other artistic goals. Work on writing artist statements and a professional resume. Most artwork to be done at home based on personalized assignments and peer feedback. Bring 3 pieces of your art to the first class with a sketchbook and pencil.
Thursdays, January 27 – February 24, 6-8pm
Location: Regency Square Mall, Garden Room
Cost: $100, plus $10 materials fee

Handmade Greeting Cards and Valentines
Create unique cards for your loved ones. Decorate each card individually or work on one design that you can then have printed. Use stamps, punches, acrylic pens, markers, inks, watercolors, and found papers to draw and collage your personalized sentiments for friends and family.
Tuesday, February 3, 6-8pm
Location: Regency Square Mall, Garden Room
Cost $20 plus $15 material fee.

Beginner Jewelry Beaded Bracelets
Learn how to construct simple bracelets with toggle closures. Get tips on combining colors and shapes to keep the compliments coming. Leave with two finished bracelets designed by you! If you have beads you want to use, bring them, otherwise everything is provided.
Thursday, March 5, 6-8pm
Location: Regency Square Mall, Garden Room
Cost: $20, plus $15 material fee

Fashion History as Art Inspiration
Use fashion as muse in this unique class experience. Each week will focus on a different decade’s flavor. Listen to music, peruse art and history books, and discuss. Then, make art! Roar into the 1920’s and JUMP! out of the 1990’s. Take a page from fashion designers and look back to inspire contemporary works of art. This is a discussion driven studio class rather than a technique instruction class. No prerequisites required; daring beginners welcome! Bring your own art supplies.
Class Material List
Thursday, March 12 – April 9, 6-8pm
Location: Regency Square Mall, Garden Room
Cost: $100

SPRING BREAK ARTS Beaded Jewelry for Teens
Make beads out of paper and polymer clay then choose accent beads to design and assemble a bracelet, necklace, two pairs of earrings and a keychain. Go back to school in style or with gifts for your besties!
Monday – Friday, April 6 – 10, 1-3pm
Location: Regency Square Mall, Garden Room
Cost: $100, plus $10 material fee

Tie Dying with Acrylics
Create one-of-a-kind garments or fabrics using various tying, folding, dripping, dunking, and painting techniques. Bring in white, light, or stained clothing or fabrics and give them new life. Use various ties and folds to manipulate and control the pigments. Create unique colors and visual textures you can’t get from a kit. This class is for the bold as you never know how your creations will turn out. Take works home wet with directions on heat-setting.
Saturday, May 9, 1-5pm
Location: CACGA – Studio D
Cost: $45, plus $30 materials fee plus students bring white or light
fabrics or garments (bring more than you think you’ll need!) and white
on white print fabrics (optional)

Smashing Pots! Pique – Assiette Mosaics
Learn how to make a mosaic image from start to finish using the pique-assiette style. Pique Assiette mosaics are created using broken ceramics and found objects. Students will learn to design, layout, set, and grout a small mosaic for in-home decor.
Sundays, May 31-June 21,1-4pm
Location: CACGA – Studio D
Cost: $100, plus $60 materials fee plus student may bring sketchbook
and inspirational materials if desired.

Beginner Jewelry Beaded Earrings
Learn how to construct simple dangly earrings with fishhook, post, or clip-on findings. Get some tips on combining colors and shapes to keep the compliments coming. Leave with two finished pairs of earrings designed by you! If you have beads you want to use, bring them, otherwise everything is included.
Thursday, June 4, 6-8pm
Location: Regency Square Mall, Garden Room
Cost: $20, plus $15 material fee ……………………………………………………………………………………

Visual Arts Center

1218 W. Main Street, Richmond, VA, 23220
www.visarts.org • (804) 353-0094

Solar Silk Screens on Paper Workshop
Silk screens made easy with light-sensitive film. Design and burn screens with the sun, and print delicate unique images.
All levels
Start with a photograph or drawing, trace the essential information onto a transparency, clip film into burn stack. Let the sun shine! Rinse screens. Then learn the secret to keeping liquid ink from running in a screen print.
Saturday, TBD ,10am-4pm
cost: $135
member cost: $120