Students will develop basic observational drawing skills in six 2 hour sessions. Students will begin working from a provided still life with intricate manufactured and simple natural objects illuminated from a single light source. Students will be “drawing what they see” as compared to drawing what they think they “know”. Weather permitting, students will step into the courtyard and draw from nature & architecture, selecting a scene that most inspires them. Students will learn to organize visual space using the law of thirds while exploring various ways of making marks on a page which might include hatching, cross hatching, smudging, and scribbling. Each class will begin with a drawing exercise to stretch and relax, while developing fine motor skills.

In order to register for this course you should feel confident in the processes of ceramic creation.

This course is predominately student lead with instructor guidance. Each session has a theme/poem/concept to engage students. Students are encouraged to stretch their skills within the confines of our studio offerings. Often students take this course many times and then leave to create their own independent studio.

This course takes place in our bright, sunny pottery studio, which has been loved for decades by our community. This class comes with ample open studio time where you can work on improving your skills at your own pace. These hours will be announced via email prior to the start of your class.

One bag of clay is provided in the cost of the course.

***Barbara Murphy is taking a sabbatical for Oct/Nov pottery session. In her place will be Kileh Friedman whose fantastic work can be found here: https://kilehfriedmanpottery.com

Learn how to make your own prints and then use them on a variety of types of fabrics and papers. Children will go home with multiple print projects.

Is your child interested in learning to sculpt and make amazing things in clay? Join us in our historic Clay and Bunkhouse studios where we have been teaching the joy and art of ceramics for over 70 years. Our students learn the foundations of wheel throwing as well as in hand-building. Through fun imaginative projects that are designed to foster creativity and problem-solving, students will learn how to center, cone, trim, slab build, glaze and prepare pieces for final firings. Our instructors are knowledgeable and cultivate a lively, light hearted, and positive classroom atmosphere.

Does your child enjoy science, technology, engineering, and mathematics? Are they looking for a space to be creative in these fields? In this first of its kind class at SCS, join woodworking teacher, Mike Scully to combine these principles with woodworking. This course can be taken again and again. Theme: Gears

Flip a switch and the entire world becomes the world of your imagination. Bring painting materials along for the journey and you are on your way to developing and refining a truly unique body of work.

This dynamic painting class invites students to “flip the switch” and explore authentic expression by responding intuitively to visual stimuli with a variety of media. Students will learn to see with curiosity, whether seeking purely abstract or more representational outcomes.

Rather than focusing on traditional rendering techniques, this course emphasizes process, experimentation, and the merging of the imagination with the visual world around us. Students will build a personalized “mark-making toolbox” through exercises in line, rhythm, pressure, scumbling, material exploration and more. Over time, they will learn how to trust their instincts, develop visual sensitivity, and cultivate a uniquely personal, embodied creative practice with endless, increasingly meaningful, possibilities.

Open to all levels. Skills for success include curiosity and a willingness to explore.

This is a mixed media class: oil, acrylic, wax pencils, oil sticks, pastels, charcoal are some of the possibilities. Painting on paper is encouraged as an affordable way to experiment. Canvas and panel is perfectly acceptable also.

Learn the basics of throwing or increase your skill--this 8 week course is the bedrock of our pottery community. Instructors will demostrate different forms and help students through the process of creating work, firing and glazing. Additionally, we work with students to learn and improve handbuilding skills. We are a rare student-centered studio that focuses on cone 9-10 firings.

This course takes place in our bright, sunny pottery studio, which has been loved for decades by our community. This class comes with ample open studio time where you can work on improving your skills at your own pace. These hours will be announced via email prior to the start of your class.

One bag of clay is provided in the cost of the course.

If you have never touched clay, please check out our "Beginner Handbuilding" course in order to get an understanding of this medium. This course will continue exploration in the extruder, slab roller and the processes of our studio.

This course takes place in our bright, sunny pottery studio, which has been loved for decades by our community. This class comes with ample open studio time where you can work on improving your skills at your own pace. These hours will be announced via email prior to the start of your class.

One bag of clay is provided in the cost of the course.