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January 29, 2022
Improvisation in Historical Styles: Reviving a Lost Practice
DOCTOROW CENTER FOR THE ARTS, VILLAGE OF HUNTER, NY
Please join us for the first Fortepiano Salon of 2022: Improvisation in Historical Styles: Reviving a Lost Practice
June 6 - July 25, 2022
Basics & Beyond: Weaving
SUGAR MAPLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS
This is a project-based class designed to teach students the mechanics of four-harness floor weaving
June 17 - 21, 2022
Walking the Edge Along Cone 6 Salt
SUGAR MAPLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS
This workshop with one of the country’s dynamic newcomers will provide a wonderful opportunity to work alongside Ms
June 17 - 19, 2022
Capturing the Great Outdoors: Plein-Air Painting
SUGAR MAPLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS
This Plein Air Painting workshop is appropriate for beginners, intermediate and advanced landscape painters
June 22 - August 24, 2022
Basics & Beyond
SUGAR MAPLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS
This enjoyable class adds a spark to the mid-week and introduces students to the amazing world of wheel-thrown ceramics
June 22 - August 24, 2022
Clay for Seniors
SUGAR MAPLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS
This enjoyable class, taught each year by renowned potter Susan Beecher, is offered to senior citizens living in the Mountain Top area
June 24 - 28, 2022
Zoomorphics, Contemporary Vessels, and Other Good Things
SUGAR MAPLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS
This course will cover both throwing and hand building techniques and include discussions about design considerations and conceptualization. Ken will focus on thrown and altered/hand built animal sculptures while Galen will cover thrown and altered functional forms, including topics such as handles, spouts, and combining thrown parts. We will also explore surface treatment both pre and post firing
June 25 - 26, 2022
Chinese Brush Painting
SUGAR MAPLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS
Nature is the heart of Chinese Brush painting
July 1 - 5, 2022
Alternate Ways Towards New Forms
SUGAR MAPLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS
This workshop will focus on different hand-building methods for creating pottery forms, using a combination of coiling and slab-work
July 1 - 5, 2022
Minimalist Forming and Atmospherics at Cone 2
SUGAR MAPLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS
This 5-day workshop will cover numerous making techniques focusing primarily on wheel throwing with additional emphasis on altering, bisque molds, handles, spouts and trimming on and off the wheel. We will use red earthenware clay to develop several functional forms and talk about surface solutions using tape, wax, slips and underglazes
July 8 - 12, 2022
Delicious Dishes and Appendages
SUGAR MAPLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS
This workshop provides the opportunity to study with a beloved teacher who will help students refresh and improve their throwing skills. Students will be introduced to ways to shape round pots into various other geometric forms such as ovals, squares, and rectangles thus breathing new life into the ordinary
July 9 - 10, 2022
Intro to Rigid Heddle
SUGAR MAPLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS
In this introductory level rigid heddle weaving class you will learn to warp the loom and practice basic weaving techniques
July 15 - 19, 2022
Just Add Plaster: Mold-Making for Ceramics
SUGAR MAPLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS
Adding plaster to your studio practice will open new possibilities for form and function
July 15 - 19, 2022
Facet and Frame: Surface Composition of the Altered Form
SUGAR MAPLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS
Explore how the natural world provides a rich playground for image creation and use the dynamic shapes of pottery as your canvas
July 15 - 17, 2022
Light on the Figure
SUGAR MAPLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS
The ability to observe and accurately represent the fall of light on the figure can be developed with practice and perspective
July 22 - 26, 2022
Melt It Perfect But Just for You: Glaze and Materials Technology for the Ceramicist
SUGAR MAPLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS
A first for Sugar Maples Center for the Creative Arts, this workshop offers participants the rare opportunity to study with one of the world’s foremost scientists who delve into the ceramic arts as part of his life’s curiosities
July 22 - 24, 2022
Introduction to Painting and Synesthesia
SUGAR MAPLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS
In this introduction to painting workshop, participants will learn about acrylic painting tools, techniques, and mediums, basic color theory, two-dimensional design principles, and gain a deeper understanding of their own subjective experience in the process
July 22 - 26, 2022
Image. Form. Surface
SUGAR MAPLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS
This exciting workshop focuses on integrating image/picture design into a 3-dimensional form using wheel-throwing and hand-building skills
July 29 - August 2, 2022
The Complexities of the Straight Forward: Approaches in Sculpture
SUGAR MAPLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS
This 5-day workshop will cover the basic techniques of hand building
July 29 - August 2, 2022
Pouring Vessels: Techniques, Mechanics, and Inspirations
SUGAR MAPLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS
From the whimsical to the austere, pouring vessels have an outsized place in the pantheon of pottery forms
August 5 - 8, 2022
Cut, Fold, Sew, Glue: Bookbinding as Collage
SUGAR MAPLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS
This hands-on workshop will introduce participants to basic techniques and materials of bookbinding with an emphasis on how the process can inform the product
August 5 - 9, 2022
Finding Inspiration in Your Cultural Heritage
SUGAR MAPLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS
In this workshop, we will study images of historical ceramics from our own cultural backgrounds to inspire our work
August 12 - 23, 2022
Building the Sugar Maples Train Kiln
SUGAR MAPLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS
Come be a part of a project that has been in the planning since early in the worldwide pandemic; to build a wood-fired train kiln for this amazing art center high in the Catskills
August 19 - 21, 2022
Transforming the Landscape with a Camera
SUGAR MAPLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS
This workshop will help participants hone and conceptualize a project, organize and strategize their work, create and execute landscape photography in the wondrous Catskill Mountains.The workshop will include discussions about and preparations for project-based images and historical work as reference, making photographs, and learning to critique one’s own work
August 19 - 23, 2022
Cyanotype Workshop
SUGAR MAPLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS
This workshop does not require any previous experience and will start with the basics of how to make a cyanotype print from mixing chemistry, coating paper and/or fabric and developing the print using the sun (or occasionally a UV light if inclement weather)
August 26 - 30, 2022
Pictorial Porcelain Vessels
SUGAR MAPLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS
In this 5-day workshop the student will explore color and surface design by creating etched relief painted vessels using layered washes of underglazes painted with watercolor-like techniques
August 26 - 28, 2022
Natural Dye Workshop
SUGAR MAPLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS
In this workshop you will learn the basic steps of natural dyeing
September 9 - 13, 2022
First Things First: Composition, Planning and Execution
SUGAR MAPLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS
The first decision that we make as painters is, what am I going to paint
September 16 - 18, 2022
Introduction to Soda Firing
SUGAR MAPLE CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS
“Soda firing” refers to the addition of soda ash to the kiln to create a rich atmosphere that adds a variety of flavors (colors, surfaces) to the work. Soda firing offers artists interesting possibilities in their personal aesthetic