Art Camp for Adults
Nancy Blank
Thursday evenings: 7-9 pm
Fee: Each workshop is $30
Location: Pottery Studio & The Pebble Ever want to do the artful fun things your kids do? Materials provided or you will be told what to bring (just like in school).


July 10 - September 4    
Ceramics –handbuilding
July 17 – September 11
Ceramics – handbuilding
July 24 - September 18
Collage
July 31 – September 25
Acrylic painting
August 7 - October 2
Basic Drawing
August 14 – October 9
Wire sculpture
August 21 - October 16
Ceramics - wheel-throwing
August 28 – October 23
Ceramics - glazing

Basic Beeswax Collage Workshop
Elena De La Ville
Tuesday, July 1
Time: 10 am – 4 pm
Fee: $75 Supply fee due instructor: $ 12/student

Minimum students: 4
Learn how to create a collage entirely with beeswax - no other glues or adhesives are necessary! You’ll discover and practice techniques including layering, transparency and wax stamping. Supplies will be provided for basic collages, but feel free to bring your favorite images and ephemera as well to personalize your art. Any images you bring should be on regular computer paper, or Xerox. The thinner the better, (reduce and enlarge these to have choice in scale). Glossy photos won’t work well with this process, but fabric, stencils and small 3-D object work great!
Elena De La Ville is a Mixed Media artist working with Photography, Encaustic, and Collage. She studied painting at the School of Fine Arts, Venezuela; Textile Design at the Chelsea School of Art in London and  Photography at the Art Institute of Boston. Her work has been exhibited at the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Venezuela; Danforth Museum of Art in Massachusetts; Shaw Cramer and Dragonfly Galleries on Martha’s Vineyard. She is Instructor at:  Ringling College of Art; Continuing Studies and Special Programs, Long Boat Key Center for the Arts, St Petersburg Art Center, and Art Center Manatee.
www.edelaville.com

Beeswax Collage Workshop
Supply List:
Clayboard or hardboard panels
Oil paints and brushes
Heat Gun or Hairdryer (I have found the heat gun works better), Images on Paper, (Thinner is better!) Xerox your photographs, Crayons, Scissors, Paper towels, iron, old book page, X-acto knife, newspapers.

Flower Power
Else Membreno
Saturdays, July 19, August 2, 16 or September 6
Time: 10 am – noon
Fee: $30/class
Location: The Pebble Bring your favorite flowers, wild or from the Farmer’s Market and Else Membreno will how to best arrange them into an informal bouquet or a centerpiece.  She will show what flowers work best for different containers.  If you have a favorite knife or scissor you use for flower cutting or if you have other flower arranging materials such as a frog, bring it along.  There will be an additional material charge if we provide the flowers… and besides it is much more fun if you bring your favorites flowers for the arranging.  Else provides all of the beautiful flower arrangements for our Featherstone gallery openings.

Make My Jewelry
Karen English-Malin
This onetime workshop will be offered Tuesday each week, July and August
Dates: July 8, 15, 22, 29, Aug. 5, 12, 19, 26
Time 5:30 - 7:30 pm
Fee: $125. - includes $45 for supplies
Location: Studio ( I think) Treat yourself to the KEM Design jewelry look of hand-hammered sterling on cord. Learn the hammering technique and make three bangles and one necklace. ( $165.00 retail value)
Any child ages 9 – 13 must be accompanied by an adult
Karen’s designs are trademarked and may not be sold by anyone other than KEM Design
*a minimum of 4 students need to register for each class in order for them to take place

French: French language workshop
Francoise Duffau
Dates: Thursdays July 10, 17, 24, 31,
August 7, 14
Times: 2 – 6 pm
Fee: $50/class meeting
Location: Studio

Content: This Interactive and fun 4 hours workshop will help you to manage in typical tourist situations, from your arrival in France up to your departure. You will understand better the French culture and the cultural interactions.

One class may be enough or  you may want to repeat this fascinating experience again and again.

Program: You will learn through various methods, using audio, dialogues, visual aids, authentic material (Paris’ maps, etc….), role playing and fun exercises.
The topics will include “the hello” words, how to find your way, dealing with taxis, phrases for various situations: airport, subway, train, hotel, restaurant, cafe, shopping, phone, health services…
Level: This workshop is addressed to beginners, intermediates, and also more advanced students who would like to review these French practical language interactions.

Further instruction: Francoise will be glad to respond to the group’s further needs and request for additional instruction.
She could be available either in MV through Featherstone or privately, and also in Paris with her long distance learning program, where she calls her students, free of charge for the phone call.

Monoprinting
Issa Van Dyk
Session 1: Mondays, July 7 – 28
Session 2: Mondays, August 4-25
Time: 1 – 4 pm
Fee: $150 or $40/class
Location: Barn Studio Monoprinting is a quick, fun and playful art form that has painterly roots utilizing  modern printmaking techniques.  This class is open to any skill level and both realism and abstract renditions will be encouraged.   .  After this four week class you will have a good amount of work produced.

Sculpture workshop: Wall Relief
Jack Greene
Thursdays: July 17, 24,31
August 7, 14, 21
Time: 1 – 3:30 pm
Fee: $175 for the 6 classes or $30
Location: Lower Barn Studio Develop your relief wall piece by making a simple study of your idea in clay (portrait, figurative, abstract forms plant forms, sea shells), whatever fascinates you visually. The using the clay study as a maquette, make a mold for casting the final piece. The final cast may be glazed or painted. Various simple tools will be used for the sculpting/shaping. Plaster will be used for making the mold and for casting.
 

Advanced Calligraphy 2008
Lynn Hoeft
Dates: 3 Saturdays: 10 am - noon
June 7 - 21
Fee: $75
Location: The Pebble If you have previous calligraphy classes and are at an advanced level, you will want to enroll in this class to perfect your skills and design many specific projects

Ceramics – Open Pottery Studio
with Nancy Blank & Carl Mueller
Wednesdays 2 – 5 pm
Fee: Fee: $5/hour
Location: Pottery Studio

Wheelthrowing
Frank Folts, Jr.
Monday evenings 7 – 9 pm
June 2, 9, 16, 23
July 7, 14, 21, 28
August 4, 11, 18, 25
September 8, 15, 22, 29
Fee: $30 / class or $115 /four classes
Location: Pottery Studio

Hand-built Ceramics
Washington Ledesma
Session 1: Mon – Thurs , July 14-17; 1-4 pm
Session 2: Mon – Thurs, August 4-7: 1-4 pm
Fee: $165 for each series/session. Clay is an additional cost
Location: Pottery Studio In this intensive four day course participants will learn how to build sculpture and other larger pieces of ceramics.  Slab construction and slab coils will be used to create human and animal shapes.  We will work on and experiment with different ways of putting shapes together so as to get a finished fired product…  great explorations!!!

Drawing
Nancy Blank
Tuesdays in July and August 7 – 9 pm
Session One: July 8, 15, 22, 29 will focus on line drawings
Session Two: August 5, 12, 19, 26 will focus on shadows and lights
Fee: $35/class or $120 for four classes
Location: Studio Nancy Blank has taught college level drawing for many years.  Her students will have working knowledge of drawing techniques which will be invaluable in many art media.
Beginners as well as repeaters are welcome.  Materials will be discussed at the first meeting, however a large newsprint pad and a #6 drawing pencil would be helpful.

Tom Maley Life Drawing Group
Tom Maley
Tuesdays 9:30 – 11:30 am
Fee: $13/meeting
Location: Studio This group met for many years at the home of Tom Maley and now they meet at Featherstone for two hours each Tuesday morning.  New participants are welcome. There is no instruction.  Participants paint or draw as they wish.  Call Anne Gallagher for details at 508-693-9566

Firehouse figure Drawing Group
Wednesday evenings from 7 – 9 pm
Fee: Determined by the group
Location: Studio This group met for years at Firehouse Gallery and now meets at Featherstone. New participants are welcome. This is a figure drawing session, open to the public. There is no instruction. Participants paint or draw as they wish. Call Tom Carberry for details at 508-693-3651.

Needle felting
Christa Fischer
Tuesday, July 1; 10 am – 1pm
Time: 10 am – 1 pm
Fee: $45
Location: Barn Studio Participants will explore using a special felting needle to create a small 3-D sculpture or and to make a flat design. Students may need to purchase a felting needle for $5 which they may keep.

Feltmaking: Wet Felting
Christa Fischer
Session A: Tues July 8 Exploring Flat Wet Felt
Session B: Wed July 9 Exploring 3_D Wet Felting
Time: 10 am – 1 pm
Hours: 3 hours each session
Fee: $45
Location: Featherstone

Session A- students will learn about and execute several different methods of flat wet felting including basic flat felt, openwork felting, bonding felt to silk and felting with a resist.

Session B- students will learn about and execute several different methods of 3-D wet felting including felt cords, spheres and felting around a 3-D resist

Materials the student should provide -
lg. sponge, 2 old towels, 1 bar kiss my face soap, large scissors.
Additional materials the student needs to purchase: felting wool available for purchase at class; $10 total.

Beginning/Intermediate Piano
Charles Blank: Instructor Charles Blank holds a M.Mus. from Indiana University.
Fee: $25 for 45 minute private lesson Accepted: Beginners through intermediate; teens through adults.
Required:  Access to piano or touch sensitive keyboard.

Learn to play from a Fake Book
Charles Blank
Fee: $100

Required: At least 1 year of piano lessons or ability to read music, access to a piano or keyboard.

Contact Charles Blank at his studio,
140 Barnes Road, Oak Bluffs,
(693-1186) to schedule lesson.

4 sixty minute private lesson sessions.
Gives you easy access to hundreds of songs. For teens through adult.

Transcendental Flute
Ronn Speed
Time: Wednesdays, 5 - 7 pm
Session 1 – June 6 – 27
Session 2 – July 9 - 30 Session 3 – August 6 - 27
Fee: $120 (own flute) $130 (rent flute)
Location: The Pebble Learn the unique tones and techniques captured in the spirit of the Native American Flute. Enjoy the natural method for stress relief, relaxation and meditation. Lessons are for beginners. Visit many of our gallery openings where the former students perform as the Featherstone Flute Circle

Introduction to airbrush painting/drawing
Jack Greene
Wednesdays, July 16, 23, 30, August 6, 13, 20
Time: 1-3 pm
Fee: $175 or $30/class
Location: Lower Barn Studio

You will learn how the airbrush works along with simple masking techniques. The types of airbrushes available will be discussed. The class will create their own airbrushed drawing, painting or textile design in ink, watercolor, acrylic or textile paint using stenciling/masking and free hand airbrushing techniques. A list of suggested materials will be available for the first class.

Student materials: Ink or acrylic paints with empty bottles (4 to 8 ox);  Paper:  Bristol board or 120lb hot press watercolor paper; Masking film, liquid masking, blue tape, manila stencil paper.
Workshop materials:  Homosote reinforced with wood frames

Acrylic Painting
John Holladay
Wednesdays, 9 am – noon
Fee: $50 per workshop
Location: The Pebble July 2    background/skies
July 16  landscapes
July 23  flowers
July 30  ocean/water

Pastel Painting in the Summer
Ellen McCluskey
Four Thursdays: July 10, 17, 24 and 31
Time: 9 am – noon
Fee: $180 for the series or $50 /class
Location: various sights as Ellen pre-determines. Sign up before July 1 so that all participants can be contac Ellen is one of the Vineyard’s foremost pastel painters.  Join her or paint with her at four outdoor locations.  

Pastel Painting Workshop
Ellen McCluskey
Wed., August 13
Time: 9 am – 2:30 pm
Fee: $80
Location: Under the summer tent Learn Ellen’s pastel techniques and secrets as you create your own vineyard masterpiece.  Register early for this summer opportunity to learn from an Island legend. Ellen’s demonstrations will amaze you and inspire you.

Watercolor for Cowards II
(for former students) Carolyn Daniele
June Session: Tuesdays: June 3, 10, 17, 24
Time: 12:30 – 3:30 pm
Fee: $145 or $40/class

July Session: Mondays: July 7, 14, 21, 28
Time: 12:30 – 3:30 pm
Fee: $145 or $40/class

August Session: Mondays: August 11 & 18
Time: 12:30 – 3:30 pm
Fee: $75 or $40/class

Watercolor for Cowards 101
Carolyn Daniele
June Session: MondaysJune 2, 9, 16, 23
Time: 9 am – noon

July Session: Wednesdays July 9, 16, 23, 30
Time: 12:30 – 3:30 pm

August Session: Wednesdays August 6 & 13
Time: 12:30 – 3:30 pm
Fee: $75 or $40/class
Fee: $145 or $40/class Watercolor for Cowards 101 is a beginning program. If you think watercolors are too difficult and you can’t fix mistakes, then this is the class for you. Have fun with this luminous art form. Complete a finished painting suitable for matting and framing. No drawing required.  A supply list will be available in the gallery.

Oil Painting
Washington Ledesma
Session 1: Tuesday -Friday
July 8–11
Session 2: Mon– Thurs. August 11 – 14
Time: 6:30 – 8:30 pm
Fee: $115 for each session of 4 classes
Location: The Pebble Participants will learn through hand-on sessions about different oil painting techniques.  From paper to masonite we will experiment with mixing and values of colors. We will work as well with stretched canvas and students will create an oil painting after their favorite painter or subject.

Watercolor: Indoor Watercolor
John Holladay
Mondays, 9 am – noon
Fee: $50 per workshop
Location: The Pebble June 30  summer                      
July 14   lighthouse                   
July 21   picket fences & flowers    
July 28   boats/ocean     

Plein Air Painting
Thaw Malin
Days: Mondays
Dates: July 7, 14, 21, 28, August 4,11,18,25
Time: 4:30 – 7:30 pm
Fee: $50 per class meeting
Location: The Pebble Studio at Featherstone

Many opportunities to work with Thaw Malin and learn his Plein Air techniques.
This is an Advanced Class... Set up and work at fabulous Vineyard painting locations. Thaw again returns to the Vineyard to teach you his techniques for painting quickly and intuitively to capture the drama of morning and evening light. This is an intense workshop for creating a painting a day. *
A minimum of 4 students need to register for each set of these classes in order for them to take place.

Or 

Days:  Tuesdays – Fridays
Dates:  July 8 – 11, 15 – 18, 22-25, 29 – Aug 1
           Aug 5 – 8, 12 – 15, 19 – 22, 25 – 29
            Sept 9 – 12, 23 – 26
Location & Time:  On location at 6 am or 7am(depending on the sunrise) – 8:30/9:30 am or (depending on weather) 4:30/5:30 p.m. - 7/8 p.m. (depending on sunset) for a total 2 1/2 hours per day, total class hours 13.
Fee:  $250 + $45 for oil paints and painting panels
A minimum of 4 students must register for each class to take place.
You will need to bring a portable French easel (Julian French Easel) with enclosed palette for outdoor work, a brush cleaning container (Anderson Brush Washer) for paint thinner, roll of paper towels (Bounty), brushes (flats), plastic grocery bag for used towels, palette knife to mix paints, a hat, a medium to small bungee cord. Thaw will supply paint and canvas panels to paint on. Contact him (thaw3@mac.com) before class starts if you need more info.

Digital Photography 101
Kathy Rose
Session 1: Wednesdays, July 2,9,16 and 23
Session 2: Wednesdays July 30, Aug.6, 13, 20

7 - 9 pm
Fee: $150
Location: Computer Lab Through lecture, demonstration and hands-on practice learn more about your digital camera and develop relevant computer skills for organizing digital photos. We will discuss metering, exposure, lenses and flashes. We will cover shooting techniques, camera settings and on-camera framing.
Participants select a few of their best images and take them to another level on the computer by creating a slide show with titles, a book or DVD of your photos of a trip or any subject you love.
Materials: Digital camera with or without extra lenses.
Laptop computer -- Mac or PC.
Photo program in your computer such as iPhoto, Picasa, or Photoshop elements. (Version 7 for Mac or PC)
Instructor Kathy Rose has been doing digital computer art for the last fifteen years. She has taught at Boston University, Henry Ford College and Wayne State Community College.  She studied photography at RISD with Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind. She also printed professional dye prints and color and black and white photo prints for publishers and book writers during the past years.

Open Darkroom Studio
Kathy Rose
Mondays 6 - 8 pm
(July 7, 14, 21, 28, Aug. 4 & 11)
Fee: $10 per hour without assistance; This is a chance to work in the dark room at our barn studio.
Bring your own paper and film to develop.  
We provide chemicals.

Polaroid Transfer Workshop
Kathy Rose
Date/Time: Saturday,
July 12, 1 – 4 pm
or Saturday, August 9, 1 – 4 pm
Fee: $80
Location: Barn Studio Enrollment limited
to 6 people

Bring your old slides and prepare to have fun making prints on Arches paper with Polaroid film (the kind that you pull apart after exposing). We will try to do 3 – 4 prints each.
Family portraits, your pet photos, etc. come out the best with this method.
Fee covers Polaroid film, special paper, brayers and other materials as needed.

How Can I Do That?
Tim Mathiesen
Date:
Session 1: Tues.July 15 & Wed. July 16
9 -11 am
Session 2: Tues. August 12 & Wed. August 13 9-11 am
Fee: $100/per session
Location: Computer Lab An interactive workshop using basic and intermediate techniques for in creating better digital images. Apply filters and effects, manipulate settings and work with layers and overlays. Learn new techniques in editing; get tips for taking better photos. You’ll graduate from taking mere snapshots to building a digital portfolio and preparing images for publication or web use.
Workshop is taught on a Macintosh, lessons are applicable to PCs as well.
Some digital camera instruction is included.  Be prepared to share images with the group for editing.

Digital Photography
- Individual Camera Tutorial with Kathy Rose
Choose any Tuesday between July 1- August 12 to schedule your own private instruction with our premier photographer.
Time available: 10 am - noon or 1 - 3 pm
Fee: $50 per class
Location: Computer Lab Materials:  your own digital camera, instruction manual and computer connections.
Tired of reading the poorly translated 200 page guidebooks??? A one-on-one hands-on session teaching details about your digital camera.
Come to Featherstone and learn the proper way to use your camera and methods to improve photos and save your battery. We go through the menu and setting options to make your photos even more appealing.  Bring your own camera, all connections, battery and charger and laptop computer if you have one.

Beginning and Continuing Tapestry
Julia Mitchell
Dates: Six Mondays: April 14, 28 - May 5, 12, 19; June 2
Time: 6:30 - 8:30 pm
Fee: $175
Location: Barn Studio

Materials: Sketch pad, pencils, eraser, 3 ring binder ruler

Tapestry is the most expressive and individual of all forms of weaving. This class is for novices as well as continuing students. Beginning weavers learn the basics of tapestry, including weaving techniques, choice of
appropriate materials, design considerations, the history of the medium and current trends. Continuing students receive instruction according to their respective levels, including tapestry design, weaving, finishing and hanging of a completed piece. Students are encouraged to work on their projects athome. Featherstone¹s beautiful new portable tapestry looms will be warped and ready to weave.

Taking it to the Next Level
Bethany Anne Putnam
Dates: March 8, April 12, May 10
Time: 3:30 pm - 5 pm
Fee: $25
Location: The Pebble

Do you have business cards? Does your website reflect your most recent work? Do you wish you were represented in more galleries ( on-island or off-island )? Are you proficient in spreadsheets, email blasts, mailings, advertising and marketing your artwork? How is that database of individuals who have purchased your work coming along? Would you like to participate in additional shows or festivals? Do you have professional materials to promote your many attributes?

Overwhelmed? Bethany Anne Putnam of Aquinnah Sound will help you assess your needs in your current career. She will help you to realize your immediate goals and long-term goals - and how to get there. This initial workshop will introduce you to her organizational abilities, give you a sense of her administrative skills, and lay the groundwork for discussions regarding a long-term promotional relationship.

For further information contact:
Bethany Anne Putnam
Aquinnah Sound
PO Box 301
Aquinnah, MA 02535
(o): 508-693-0396
(c): 774-521-7296
bethany@aquinnahsound.com

Vacation Cultural Collaborative Adventure

The Martha’s Vineyard Museum, The Polly Hill Arboretum, The FARM Institute, Featherstone
Center for the Arts, Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary and The Yard have collaborated in order to provide Vineyard families meaningful cultural experiences for their school age children during their school vacations. These six Vineyard cultural facilities are offering a Vacation Cultural Collaborative Adventure during the weeks of spring break, April 21 - April 25 and at the end of school, June 23 - June 27. These weeks of cultural exploration
will take place during the hours that Island youth would be in school from 8:30 am - 3 pm each day, therefore providing parents the opportunity to have their children experience the Vineyard during these transition times rather than offer traditional child care. Parents will deliver their children to a different facility each day for their day-long experience.

We believe that these adventure weeks will enrich their lives and give them an inside look of their Island treasures at a time reserved just for them. The Program will be offered to Martha’s Vineyard children in grades 1 -5 during the 2007/2008 school year.

At the beginning of each week, children will be given a blank journal for notes, artwork, writing and journaling throughout the week.

The program can accommodate up to 20 children for the week. The cost will be $250 for the week. Scholarships are available.

Monday: MV Museum (morning) - Explore some of Martha’s Vineyard’s historic treasures in downtown Edgartown and at the Museum through “Quests”, community treasure hunts. We will create our own personal stamps to “leave our mark” and show we have completed the Quests.
Polly Hill Arboretum (afternoon) - What better place to discover tree lore, than amongst the beautiful plantings at Polly Hill Arboretum! With puppet master April Thanhauser,
we will create woodland puppets and a puppet show to tell those stories.
(Transportation between the Museum and Polly Hill will be provided as part of this program.)

Tuesday: The FARM Institute - Sheep on the farm means lots to do in the spring. Join us for a day-long immersion into the world of sheep & fiber to learn more sheep and the many uses of their wool. We will become shepherds in the field, nurture newborn lambs and spend time down in the Fiber Center where we learn through the art of doing. Carding, spinning and weaving are just a few of the options for the day.

Wednesday: Featherstone Center for the Arts - A day at Featherstone Center for the Arts will give the children an opportunity to explore the six and a half acres of this pastoral campus and incorporate nature into their arts experiences - ranging from opportunities to create pottery, explore traditional and digital photography and explore creativity through drawing, printmaking, weaving, and other forms of creativity at the four studios on the campus. They will also learn about and experience the aspect of the meditative and healing arts by venturing through the path of the new in-ground labyrinth.

Thursday: Felix Neck - Explore forest, field, marsh, freshwater pond, and salt water habitats to observe and investigate the wonders of nature. Using our journals, we’ll discover how these habitats are the same and how they are different. Our goal is to help your child have fun, and to enjoy, understand and appreciate the natural world around them through hands-on, inquiry based activities.

Friday: The Yard - The Yard will offer acting, singing, movement and improvisation. The Yard approach combines classic theatrical skill-building, creative thinking and group participation. The Yard’s all-star-no-star approach insures that all students participate equally. The day is designed to nurture talent, expand self-confidence and engage the imagination.