2011 February | The Creamery Arts Center

Youth Classes March 2011

Art Instruction –Mondays 4pm-6pm Serious about your art? Terrific opportunity to learn from the best. Materials and instruction will be provided free of charge to motivated students. We will be exploring many exciting media through this program.

After School Program – K-6 Tuesday-Thursday 3:30p-5:30p $ 9 one day – $85 for a 10 card punch

After School Clay – 5th-12th grades Wednesdays 3:30p-5:30p. Basic instruction in clay techniques both hand build and wheel . $9 per class or $85 for a 10 card punch includes limited clay.

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Adult Classes March 2011

Mark your Calendar! Upcoming classes

Ceramic Drum Making with Michael McKenna Mondays and Thursdays April 4th- 28th 6pm-8pm. Create a hand built drum with coiling, slab and other techniques. Learn to stretch and attach a skin covering. Final class, April 28th will include a drum lesson. $100 plus $25 for materials and skins.

Stained Glass Lamp Shade with Chokecherry Studios Thursdays April 7th – 28th 1pm-3pm.
Create a beautiful Stained Glass Lamp Shade at our glass studio, for beginners and intermediate.

Encaustic Painting Workshop with Dianna Fritzler April 9th 9a-5p Learn several techniques
including layering, stenciling,relief “painting”, monoprints and more to paint multiple layers using
found objects, photographs and wax. $135 includes all materials.

Afternoon Clay with David Strong – Wed 1p-3p $14 per class plus $25 per 25lbs of clay
Portrait Sketching Workshop with Seth Weber March 5 10- 4 $35 plus $10 materials

Introduction to portrait sketching from a live model. Students will learn basics of facial planes, showing techniques, methods and measurements of facial features, type of sketching pencils.

Nature Journaling with Maria Hodkins March 15, 22, 29 1-3pm $50
Explore the artistic, scientific, and reflective pursuit of keeping a nature journal. This workshop will acquaint you with basic tools and techniques, and includes both classroom and outdoor instruction.

Fused Glass Class with Peggy Papon March 19 1-3 $20 Learn the basics of fused glass and create 3 pieces of glass jewelry.

Beginning Oil Painting with Barbara Churchley March 22, 29 April 12, 19 6-8pm $125 plus $50 materials Paint your winter blues away and get ready for the spring with a lively oil class. Barbara, an award winning artist, makes it easy for the beginner, supplying you with all you need to get started.

Advanced Oil Painting March 26 April 2 9 –4pm $150 Bring your own materials This is a great workshop for working oil painters. Learn new techniques for seeing a and painting light, shadow and values through still life setups

Beginning Pastel Drawing with Barbara Churchley Thursdays, March 24, 31, April 14, 21 6-8pm
$125 plus $50 materials. There is no better way to experience the fun and creative side of yourself than through pastels. Barbara will bring out the artist in you whether you like it or not.

Last Saturday Open Studio Fused Glass with Peggy Papon. Feb 26th 11:00am until 3:00 pm. Cost depends on material used and number of firings required but usually is about $20.

Upcoming with Details to follow: Tile making with Pete Halliday; Wool Dyeing with Joy Beason;
And Nano Felting with Pennie Alexander.

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Peach Gallery March 2011

The Peach Gallery downstairs will host an innovative show called “Emily and Friends,” created by Emily Matteson and inspired by the book The Rest Is Up To You. Emily, age 15, has been creating art since she was 8, and has founded the
North Fork Young Artists program. For her show, Emily has invited other artists to finish one of her “Beginning Pieces,” resulting in a unique collaboration. For each piece which Emily has started in a given medium, another artist completes it in his or her style and manner of choice. Emily hopes that this cooperative art show will encourage other young artists to create, and to work with others in the community.

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Churro Gallery March 2011

Wanda Brunemeier began painting thirty years ago, and says, “I have not found my niche yet because I paint all types of things from whimsy to fine art detail, including animals, flowers, native art, and ocean scenery. If I like the subject, I’ll paint it; even if I don’t, I’ll try it.” Wanda currently operates her antique store and works part time at Mattes & More, a business she started 17 years ago with her daughter that offers artists affordable matting and framing. She enjoys helping customers see their artwork come to life as she helps them create custom displays without breaking the bank.
Sherry Polcyn, active for seven years in two Chaffee County Art Guilds, still displays her art at the Courtyard Gallery in Buena Vista, but now brings her art to the North Fork Valley as well. She credits her sister Wanda with helping her with her first painting, and she continues to take private lessons, college art classes, and workshops. A member of the Western Colorado Watercolor and Delta Fine Arts Societies, she currently takes weekly classes at Dani Tupper’s studio in Delta “with a great group of fun and helpful artists.” She prefers to paint simple, uncomplicated compositions inspired by nature, using the wet into wet technique. Sherry loves bird watching, and has recently begun a series of bird-related paintings. With her husband, she travels the continent in their camper whenever possible.

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Youth Classes February 2011

After School Program – K-6 Tuesday-Thursday 3:30p-5:30p $ 9 one day – $85 for a 10 card punch

After School Clay – 5th-12th grades Wednesdays 3:30p-5:30p. Basic instruction in clay techniques both hand build and wheel . $9 per class or $85 for a 10 card punch includes limited clay.

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Adult Classes February 2011

Afternoon Clay with David Strong – Wed 1p-3p $14 per class plus $25 per 25lbs of clay

Evening Clay with David Strong – Wednesday’s 6pm–8pm , call for dates. This 10 week class will cover basic techniques for beginning and intermediate students. $125 if paid in full, $14 per session plus $25 per 25lbs of clay

Adult Beginning Clay with Amber Kleinman 4 sessions Tuesdays Feb 1st – 22nd . 1p-3p. Learn the basics of hand building and basic wheelwork. $12 per session plus $25 for #25 of clay.

Long Needle Basket Coiling with Elaine Kemming Wednesdays Feb 2nd, 11a-12:30p, 9th & 16th 11-12p. Complete a finished basket. Learn ancient “long pine needle” coiling techniques perfected 2000 years ago in Egypt and still used today by Native American Tribes. $20 for all 3 session, plus $10 for the kit.

Sculpture and Introduction to Bronze Casting with Sam Small Saturdays Feb 5th – 26th 1p-5p. Learn basic sculpting techniques as well as armature building, mold making and introduction to the steps of bronze casting. The last class will held at the foundry. $100 plus ~$25 materials

Winter Nature Journaling Illustration & Bookbinding Workshop with Maria Hodkins Sat. Feb 19th 10a-3p (followed by 3 sessions in March). Make a handmade book – featuring winter with multimedia paper and decorative hand bound with Coptic stitch. $40 plus $25 materials.

Last Saturday Open Studio Fused Glass with Peggy Papon. Feb 26th 11:00am until 3:00 pm. Cost depends on material used and number of firings required but usually is about $20.

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Churro Gallery February 2011

Jodeen Stephenson has the Churro Gallery for a show titled “Under Western Skies”.
Jodeen Stephenson’s passion for photography dates back to childhood, when her mother first handed her an old box camera, which she used to make hundreds of pictures. Her parents recognized and encouraged her emerging talent, and by middle school she spent afternoons locked in an impromptu bathroom darkroom, printing and experimenting with her photos.

Just as Jodeen eventually graduated from her trusty box camera and the family bathroom, her vision has matured and deepened to include a story-telling bent. She works hard to make sure each final image includes at least three composition elements, while striving to make some sort of emotional connection with her viewer. For a further challenge, Stephenson, who occasionally writes stories to accompany her photographs for journals, loves to tell a story through images alone.
“I like a very graphic image,” explains Stephenson of her work. She often likes to take that image to abstraction to capture the emotion of the moment.
For instance, her photograph of an aspen grove seems to shimmer and shift, making the colors far more vibrant and alive. “I’m trying to capture a very fleeting feeling,” she says. Doing so goes against years of training, she admits. “In art school, everything had to be absolutely perfect,” recalls Stephenson, who has a degree in art education. “This is more expressive.” She has image perfect pictures of the same aspen grove, but, she says, “there’s no story, it’s just a pretty grove.”
As an experienced artist and wildlife photographer, Stephenson has developed patience along with an eye for capturing creative composition and beautiful light. “Using Photoshop as a digital darkroom, I optimize images to best communicate my experience of a magical time and place.”

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