Summer Session 2022
10-Week Session: May 16 – July 23 | 7 Week Session: June 7 – July 23
N0 Class:
June 9 (Versus) | July 2 (Independence Day Observation)
Member Enrollment: April 12 | Public Enrollment: April 19
TUESDAYS
PAINT YOUR BEST FRIEND
“Paint Your Best Friend” is a class for those who want to paint their dog, cat, llama, chicken or even their human mate or bestie. Every one of these subjects is unique and your instructor will be your painting guide. All mediums are welcome in the class so bring your oils, acrylics, gouache, watercolor along with your favorite brushes. You will need primary colors, red yellow and blue, in addition to white and black. Bring along any other fun colors you have in your toolbox.
Ages: 14+ | Instructor: Mary Binford Miller
Tuesdays, 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
10 Week Course
Dates: May 24 – August 2
(No Class June 7)
Location: Easel Studio
Nonmember Price: $258| Member Price: $232.20
BEGINNING ACRYLIC PAINTING
This class will cover the basics, like color mixing and how to apply acrylic paint with various techniques. Additional topics include perspective, proportion and color theory. Students will choose the subject matter for their paintings with guided instruction. Various creative styles of painting will be explored for further inspiration. Materials will be discussed on the first day of class.
Ages: 13+ | Instructor: Doug Billings
Tuesdays, 2:00 – 4:00 p.m.
10 Week Course
Dates: May 17 – July 19
Location: Easel Studio
Nonmember Price: $172 | Member Price: $154.80
INTERMEDIATE ACRYLIC PAINTING
Continue to build upon the techniques and painting skills covered in Beginning Acrylic Painting. Develop your own artistic voice using fundamental formal ideas and processes.
Ages: 13+ | Instructor: Doug Billings
Tuesdays, 6:00 – 9:00 p.m.
10 Week Course
Dates: May 17 – July 19
Location: Easel Studio
Nonmember Price: $258 | Member Price: $232.20
DIGITAL PAINTING WITH PROCREATE
The tools of Procreate are vast and can be overwhelming. This class will help you learn what those tools are and how to use them practically. You might find it’s one of the most fun and easy apps use for digital art.
Students must supply their own iPad with the ProCreate app and a charger.
Ages: 14+ | Instructor: Alec Lang
Tuesdays, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
10 Week Course
Dates: May 17 – July 19
Location: Metals Studio
Nonmember Price: $120 | Member Price: $108
AFTERNOON ABSTRACT PAINTING
Explore past and current trends in nonobjective painting, exploring acrylic, water-based media and drawing with collage. Students work at their own pace on personal projects with instructor guidance. All experience levels are welcome, and experimentation will be encouraged.
Ages: 18+ | Instructor: Jim Gross
Tuesdays, 1:00 – 3:00 p.m.
7 Week Course
Dates: June 7 – July 19
Location: Tables Studio
Nonmember Price: $120 | Member Price: $108
WEDNESDAYS
PAINTING WITH STRONG LIGHT & SHADOW
The important elements of a well-designed and beautifully “lit” painting will be practiced and discussed. Students will paint from their own photographs. This class is for those who want to immerse themselves in painting for longer periods of time. This will allow more time for instruction and more time to complete your work.
Ages: 14+ | Instructor: Mary Binford Miller
Wednesdays, 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
10 Week Course
Dates: May 25 – August 3
(No class June 8)
Location: Easel Studio
Nonmember Price: $515 | Member Price: $463.50
ABSTRACT PAINTING
Explore past and current trends in nonobjective painting, exploring acrylic, water-based media and drawing with collage. Students work at their own pace on personal projects with instructor guidance. All experience levels are welcome, and experimentation will be encouraged.
Ages: 14+ | Instructor: Matthew Hilyard
Wednesdays, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
7 Week Course
Dates: June 8 – July 20
Location: Tables Studio
Nonmember Price: $120 | Member Price: $108
THURSDAYS
LIMITED PALETTE, UNLIMITED COLOR
One red, one blue, one yellow, with white can make any color in the world from the brightest bright to the grayest gray. If you struggle to mix the color you desire or have never mixed any color ever, we will take the color wheel down to the primaries without sacrificing saturation – a limited palette with truly unlimited color. This class is suitable for beginners to the seasoned artist. Come enter the wonderful world of color!
Ages: 16+ | Instructor: Melinda Weis
Thursdays, 9:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
7 week Course
Next Session: June 16 – July 28
Location: Easels Studio
Nonmember Price $150 | Member Price $135
PAINTING WITH PAPER
Learn to create beautiful hand-made paper art. They can be framed individually, used to add color, texture and interest to your artwork and or be used to create artwork made entirely from printed papers. We will cover all of these processes and more!
Ages: 16+ | Instructor: Charlotte Patterson
Thursdays, 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
7 Week Course
Dates: June 16 – July 28
(No class June 9)
Location: Printmaking Studio
Nonmember Price $130 | Member Price $117
PAINTING IN AMAZING TECHNICOLOR
Each artist makes palette choices that dramatically affect the feel of a painting, but choosing the right colors is not as easy as it seems. This class will explore all the facets of color — hue, chroma, value and mixing. All media are welcome, but painting experience is required.
Ages: 16+ | Instructor: Melinda Weis
Thursdays, 1:00 – 4:00 p.m.
7 Week Course
Next Session: June 16 – July 28
Location: Easels Studio
Nonmember Price $180 | Member Price $162
ADVANCED WATERCOLOR PAINTING
Students will work on individually driven projects with instruction on professional techniques and use of color. Students are encouraged to discuss ideas, techniques and learned skills with fellow students in this friendly studio environment.
Ages: 18+ | Instructor: Bernadette Bradshaw
Thursdays, 1 – 3:30 p.m.
10 Week Course
Next Session: May 19 – August 4
(No Class June 2 & June 9)
Location: Tables Studio
Nonmember Price $215 | Member Price $193.50
BEGINNING / INTERMEDIATE WATERCOLOR
Learn the art of watercolor painting, including the three characteristics of the medium (transparent, translucent, opaque), forms of watercolor, painting equipment, painting composition guidelines and basic color theory.
Ages 14+ | Instructor: Caryl Morgan
Thursdays, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
7 Week Course
Next Session: June 16 – July 28
Location: Tables Studio
Nonmember Price: $120 | Member Price: $108
WATERCOLOR EN PLEIN AIR
Come paint amidst the stunning vistas of Botanica. This course is an ideal introductory course for beginners and a perfect class for intermediate students to develop their skills. The class will begin at Mark Arts with basic watercolor instruction and a review about setup and supplies required for En Plein Air. This foundation enables students to take full advantage of outdoor painting possibilities.
Ages: 18+ | Instructor: Tracie Lyn Huskamp
Wednesdays, 1 – 3:30 p.m.
7 Week Course
Dates: March 9 – April 27
Location: Mark Arts Tables Studio and Botanica
Nonmember Price $182 | Member Price $167
**Price includes entry to Botanica. If you have a Botanica membership or plan on purchasing one prior to this class, please call 316-932-1798 for a discount
SATURDAYS
BEGINNING MIXED MEDIA: MATERIAL EXPLORATION
Learn the possibilities with found objects and techniques with mixed media. Class will be centered on an abstract style. Emerging and established artists welcome.
Ages: 14+ | Instructor: Matthew Hilyard
Saturdays, 12:30 – 2:30 p.m.
7 Week Course
Next Session: June 11 – July 30
(No Class on July 2 for Independence Day)
Location: Tables Studio
Nonmember Price: $120 | Member Price: $108
Painting Drop-in Open Studio
Fridays, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Painting students enrolled in the current semester class can attend Open Studio every week for no charge.
If you are not currently enrolled in painting Open Studio is available for $25 a day.
Advance registration is recommended but not required.
Access to studio space is on a first-come, first-served basis.
GOUACHE
All skill levels are invited to try this medium that has been in use for 12 centuries. Gouache is a water-medium paint similar to watercolor in that it can be re-wetted, but similar to acrylics and oil paints in its opacity.
Ages: 14+ | Instructor: Mary Binford Miller
Tuesdays, 9 – 12 p.m.
7 Week Course
January 11 – February 22
Location: Easel Studio
Nonmember Price: $180 | Member Price: $162
BEGINNING OIL PAINTING
This class will cover using oil paints to generate compositions and improve brush handling and color mixing. Students will complete multiple sketches per class. Explore still life, landscape, and portrait work.
Ages: 14+ | Instructor: Mark Birchfield
Wednesdays, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
7 Week Course
Next Session: March 9 – April 27
Location: Easels Studio
Nonmember Price: $120 | Member Price: $108
INDEPENDENT ABSTRACT PAINTING
Returning Abstract Painting students will work on individually driven projects in this friendly, open studio format course. This course is ideal for students who are interested in exploring past and current trends in nonobjective painting, exploring acrylic, water-based media and drawing with collage. Students are encouraged to discuss ideas, techniques and learned skills with fellow students.
Ages: 18+ | Instructor: None
Wednesdays, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
7 Week Course
Session 1: January 5 – February 16
Location: Tables Studio
Nonmember Price: $105 | Member Price: $94.50
INDEPENDENT WATERCOLOR
Students will work on individually driven projects with instruction on professional techniques and use of color. Students are encouraged to discuss ideas, techniques and learned skills with fellow students in this friendly studio environment.
Ages: 18+ | Instructor: None
Thursdays, 1 – 3:30 p.m.
7 Week Course
October 21 – December 9
Location: Tables Studio
Nonmember Price $120| Member Price $108
COFFEE AND ART HISTORY
Each engaging session will cover a variety of movements ranging from the pre-historic to modernism, as illustrated by art educator Jim Gross.
Ages: 14+ | Instructor: Jim Gross
Thursdays, 10 – 11 a.m.
7 Week Course
Dates: June 3 – July 15
Location: Digital Arts Studio
Nonmember Price: $102 | Member Price: $91.80
This is a lecture style class, students will not need any supplies as this is a lecture class focused on expanded learning.
PAINTING LIGHT IN THE STUDIO
Increase your skills to translate imagery from your tablet or photograph to canvas. Work on principles of design, color harmony, temperature, value and more. Demonstrations and short presentations will help refine skills to develop one’s unique voice.
Ages: 14+ | Instructor: Virginia Grass Simmons
Tuesdays, 9 a.m. – 12 p.m.
7 Week Course
Session 2: March 9 – April 27
(No Class March 22 – March 27 for Spring Break)
Location: Easel Studio
Nonmember Price: $150 | Member Price: $135
MATERIAL ABSTRACTION - 16 WEEKS
Learn the possibilities with found objects and techniques with mixed media. Class will be centered on an abstract style. Emerging and established artists welcome.
Ages: 14+ | Instructor: Mathew Hilyard
Saturdays, 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Dates: January 9 – May 1
Location: Tables Studio
Nonmember Price: $232 | Member Price: $209
BLENDED COLLAGING - 4 WEEK COURSE
Repurpose found materials and convert them into thought-provoking, colorful masterpieces. Explore ideas using various collaging and color techniques. The content of work created can range from poignant and purposeful to abstract and formal. Bring in magazines, old prints and photographs and meld them together with tape, paint, and oil pastels to create fresh, contemporary artwork.
Ages: 14+ | Instructor: Tim Stone
Tuesdays, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Dates: June 1 – June 22
Location: Tables Studio
Nonmember Price: $58| Member Price: $52
PROCESSES IN COLLAGE - 4 WEEK COURSE
Repurpose found materials and convert them into thought-provoking, colorful masterpieces. Explore ideas using various collaging and color techniques. The content of work created can range from poignant and purposeful to abstract and formal. Bring in magazines, old prints and photographs and meld them together with tape, paint, and oil pastels to create fresh, contemporary artwork.
Ages: 14+ | Instructor: Tim Stone
Fridays, 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Dates: January 8 – January 29
Location: Tables Studio
Nonmember Price: $58| Member Price: $52
SKETCHING WITH PAINT
This class will cover using oil paints to generate compositions and improve brush handling and color mixing. Students will complete multiple sketches per class. Explore still life, landscape and portrait work.
Ages: 14+ | Instructor: Mark Birchfield
Wednesdays, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
7 Week Course
Session 2: June 9 – July 21
Location: Easels Studio
Nonmember Price: $102 | Member Price: $91.80
MODERN TRADITIONS IN PAINTING
Students will develop their painting skills in the representational or abstract style of their choice. The emphasis will be on the techniques and methodology of painting and on individual problem solving. Topics covered include color, composition, texture, tools and materials.
Ages: 16+ | Instructor: Brian Hinkle
Tuesdays, 2 – 4:30 p.m.
Dates: October 20 – December 8
Location: Easels Studio
Nonmember Price: $125 | Member Price: $112.50
On the first day of class, students will need to bring the supplies they already have along with note-taking supplies as the instructor will be going over the supply list and discussing student projects.
INDEPENDENT ABSTRACT PAINTING
Returning Abstract Painting students will explore past and current trends in nonobjective painting, exploring acrylic, water-based media and drawing with collage.
Ages: 18+ | Independent Study
Wednesdays, 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
7 Week Course
Upcoming Session: March 10 – April 28
(No Class March 22 – March 27 for Spring Break)
Location: Tables Studio
Nonmember Price: $102 | Member Price: $91.80
BACK TO COLOR BASICS
Let’s take color down to the very basics. If you struggle to mix the color you desire or have never mixed any color ever, we will take the color wheel down to the primaries without sacrificing saturation – a limited palette with unlimited color. This class is suitable for beginners to the seasoned artist.
Ages: 16+ | Instructor: Melinda Weis
Thursdays, 9 a.m. – noon
Dates: May 14 – July 2
Location: Easel Studio
Nonmember Price: $210 | Member Price: $189
BEGINNING WATERCOLOR
Learn the art of watercolor painting, including the three characteristics of the medium (transparent, translucent, opaque), forms of watercolor, painting equipment, painting composition guidelines and basic color theory.
Ages: 16+ | Instructor: Tracie Lyn Huskamp
Wednesdays, 1 – 3:30 p.m.
7 Week Course
Dates: March 10 – April 28
Location: Tables Studio
Nonmember Price $102 | Member Price $91.80
** The instructor will distribute the class supply list at the first session but, if possible, asks students to bring to the first class the book “The Encyclopedia of Watercolor Techniques” by Hazel Harrison Second Edition Hardcover.
COLLAGE AND ASSEMBLAGE
Learn how to combine, drawing, painting, collage and assemblage. Improve your creativity, sense of composition, and use of color and texture. Students will learn about elements and principles of design to apply to fine art. Intermediate students. Bring media that you are interested in.
Ages: 18+ | Instructor: Tracie Lyn Huskamp
Wednesdays, 1 – 3:30 p.m.
7 Week Course
Dates: June 2 – July 14
Location: Tables Studio
Nonmember Price $102 | Member Price $91.80
