MAD Art Offers Workshops

RFH 2010, Featured Articles, Arts

Fri, Aug 27, 2010

MAD Art, Inc. begins its Fall workshops on Sept. 8, with Joyce Halliday Smith leading four plein-air painting classes, and by Bud Bolte, who will demonstrate and teach techniques in using aqueous acrylics and watercolor on sealed surfaces, for three sessions, starting the week of Sept. 15.

A three-part series entitled Become a Media-Savvy Artist is designed to help artists and artisans explore the Internet to show their art online. These are scheduled to take place once a month, September through November, each covering a different topic – with an overview of sites and specific help getting started, setting up an Etsy shop, and presenting the artist's image - photographically and in the composition of the artist's statement. Artists John Conti, Leigh Yardley, Sue Lappan, Etsy business owner and textile artisan, and Rich Grant, photographer, will host the discussions at Grant's studio, Digital Art and Media in Hamilton.

Do you like the idea of transforming discarded books into rtistically altered books, or starting from scratch, to construct a lovely book or journal, as one will learn to do in Artists' Books Bookmaking? In each workshop, the books are artful and an expression of one's individuality! Kids 8 years old and up can get in on the bookmaking/bookbinding creations by joining a two-session workshop, Bookworms and Bookbinding.

Golden Paints Decorative Paint artist, Lori Wilson, will present a workshop in Faux Finishes and Decorative Effects. Painting a gingerbread mold (adult/child opportunity), introduction to calligraphy, and making a wet felted handbag round out the workshops.

For class information contact 824-1843 or 824-2446, www.madartinc.org.

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