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| Freshwater Arts - Classes for Adults and Youth Freshwater Arts Announces its Spring 2008 Session Special Opportunities:
Past Class Offerings View the Freshwater Arts Slideshow to see our classroom, students, and more! (Please note that the slideshow file is very large - 5MB!) General Information/Policies Art Supplies | Location & Parking| Registration Information | Discounts | Refunds & Cancellations | Volunteer Helpers | Note to Parents | The Art Instructors Art Supplies The classroom is located above SBS Carbon Copy in downtown Waterville. Enter at 33 East Concourse and proceed to the second level. There is ample parking in the Concourse parking lot. If attending a daytime class, please try to park toward the middle of the lot, if convenient for you. HOW TO REGISTER IN PERSON: Stop in the WMSt office located at 177 Main Street, downtown Waterville, from 8:00 a.m.-2 p.m., Monday-Friday. BY MAIL: Mail completed form and check to: WMSt, 177 Main Street, Waterville, ME 04901. Attention: Art Class Registration. Checks are payable to: WMSt. BY PHONE: Payment by MasterCard or Visa is now accepted over the phone. Call 680-2055. BY FAX: A registration form for each student may be faxed to Waterville Main Street at 680-2056, but is not considered complete until payment is also received. Registration not accompanied by proper payment will be placed on a waiting list until payment is received in full. RECEIPTS: Your cancelled check is your receipt. Written receipts are also available from the WMSt office (address above), Attention: Art Class Registration. FEES All classes (single or multi-week) require a single $5.00 nonrefundable registration fee per family per session. Example: Families with multiple siblings or adults taking art classes are charged a single $5.00 registration fee per session in addition to the individual instruction and materials fees listed for each class or course. FOOD ALLERGIES AND PERMISSION SLIPS A 10% discount is applied if five or more classes are taken. Please deduct this amount from the sub-total of your class fees on your registration form. To calculate 10%, multiply the sub-total of class fees by.10, then subtract that amount from the fees charged. Example: $100 in fees X.10 = $10. Subtract $10 from $100 for a sub-total of class fees = $90, plus a $5.00 registration fee per family per session = $95. An (optional) $1 donation to the Freshwater Arts Scholarship Fund may be added at that time to help students attend Freshwater Arts classes in the future. A limited number of scholarships are available for students 17 and under to cover class fees and materials. These are made available on a first come, first served basis, with a limit of two per student. Scholarships may be used by families with multiple siblings to reduce costs and also by families with limited household incomes. No proof of household income or need is required. A $5.00 nonrefundable registration fee is still required for each student registered. Refunds & CancellationsREFUNDS If you are unable to start a class, notify WMSt one week prior to the first scheduled class and you will receive a refund of your class and materials fees. The $5.00 registration fees are not refundable. There will be no refunds for withdrawals after the second class. Students not able to attend a rescheduled class due to illness of an instructor or weather will have their class and materials fees refunded. Full refunds will be made if a class is cancelled due to insufficient enrollment (less than six students). Refund payments will be made by check and mailed to the address on the registration forms. There will be no cash refunds. Allow 2-4 weeks for processing. CANCELLATIONS If Waterville Public Schools cancel classes during the day, WMSt art classes held during the day will also be cancelled. Evening classes may still be held. Please call the Waterville Main Street office at 680-2055 before 2 p.m. to find out whether evening classes will be held. Daytime classes will be rescheduled and students notified. Classes may also be cancelled due to insufficient enrollment. See REFUNDS above. CLASS MAKE UP Every effort will be made to reschedule classes cancelled due to instructor illness or weather, and all students notified. Please see REFUNDS and CANCELLATIONS above. Art teachers, Colby College Museum of Art docents, members of the Waterville Area Art Society, members of the Freshwater Arts Curriculum Committee, and college level art or education students often assist with classes. If you are interested in volunteering your time for this program, please call 680-2055. * Please make sure that your child is dressed appropriately for art class. While smocks are provided, students should still wear clothing on which you won't mind seeing a few paint stains! * In an effort to foster a sense of limitless creativity and freedom of expression, Freshwater Arts requests that parents and guardians remain outside of the classroom setting once class has begun. We appreciate your cooperation with this and look forward to watching your child explore and develop his or her own self expression through the Arts. Freshwater Arts is pleased to present the following art teachers, whose collective experience represents over 150 years of teaching art to children and adults in all kinds of places, from villages in Thailand to studios and schools in Central Maine. Many have advanced degrees and all are practicing artists who enjoy sharing their knowledge and love of art with other artists and arts explorers of all ages and levels of experience. Cynthia J. Ahlstrin, Winthrop, is an interdisciplinary artist whose current focus includes non-toxic printmaking on non-traditional surfaces, drawing, digital imaging and metal sculpture. She also finds herself continuously exploring how time places marks on vessels with varying levels of intensity and how the marks alter our perception. Cynthia received her B.A. in Studio Art from the University of Maine at Augusta where she graduated Summa Cum Laude. She has received several art awards, and exhibits her work throughout the state of Maine. Cynthia is a member of the Kennebec Valley Art Association and the Gardiner Artwalk Committee. In addition to creating art at her Talking Heads Studio, Cynthia teaches comprehensive art classes to students with developmental disabilities. Her classes emphasize foundations, individual process and visual history. Kate Barnes, Oakland, comes to Freshwater Arts from Muir Beach and San Francisco, California where she taught farming and craft skills to children. She studied painting at the Maine College of Art and at the University of Southern Maine. Her paintings have been exhibited in Portland and in New York. Kate taught some of the first art classes offered by Freshwater Arts in the spring of 2005, including the memorable "stringless puppets." Kate grew up in Seattle and is a new mother! Patricia Binette, Fairfield, owns Earth Spirit Studio, where she has taught classes for over 20 years. She is also one of the founders of the Waterville Area Art Society. Many of her students have gone on to study art throughout the United States. She attended the University of Maine at Augusta, Auburn and Thomaston, and studied under many artists, among them, Skip Lawrence and Albert Handel. Pat is a member of Phi Theta Kappa. Her work is in collections throughout the United States and England, and has been accepted in many juried shows, including one international show. One of Pat's greatest joys in life is participating in her students' discovery of their artistic talent. Bonnie Bishop, Cornville, is a book and paper artist with a B.S. in Art from Skidmore College and an M.F.A. in Illustration from Syracuse University. She has taught at Colby College, the University of Maine, Kennebec Valley Community College and the Maine College of Art, as well as participating in Artist-in-Residence programs at various public schools. She is represented in the juried section of the Maine Arts Commission directory of artists. Her concentration is paper and book arts, which are on view in the United States and Canada. Bonnie's passion is to foster creativity in herself and others by sharing her work and teaching classes. Kim Brennan, Manchester, is the creative spirit behind Helping Hands Pottery. She is a state-certified art teacher in Maine, with an M.F.A. from the School of Visual Art, University of Vermont, and a B.A. from the University of Maine. She has taught workshops in clay at the University of Maine at Augusta and classes in art basics at Gardiner Adult Education. She is one of the founding members of Without Walls, an artists' collective dedicated to making art more accessible to the public by reclaiming the visual space in our culture. In addition, Kim works for the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley College as an artist mentor for their M.F.A program and is an adjunct professor of art at Kennebec Valley Community College. Kim's artwork has appeared in ArtWorld Digest. Liz Cole, Waterville, has been drawing in the professional, Disney-style technique for over 10 years. She studied Elementary Education at Thomas College and aspires to enroll at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco for a bachelor's degree in animation. At age 22, Liz is the youngest art instructor at Freshwater Arts. She is currently working toward earning her Online Bachelor's Degree in Illustration in the upcoming year with the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, CA. Amy K. Cyrway, Winslow, is an illustrator, working primarily in marker, ink and colored pencil, though sometimes dipping into pastels and watercolors. Amy has been seriously pursuing art since she was in high school and currently works at the Framemakers in Waterville. She graduated from Central Maine Technical College (now Central Maine Community College) with a B.S. in Graphic Arts and Printing Technology. Kiri Guyaz, Oakland, graduated from the University of Maine at Farmington in 1994 with a B.F.A. in Creative Writing and a minor in Art. Although born in Montana, Kiri has lived in Maine for most of her life. Instilled with a deep love of wilderness by her naturalist-artist parents,Kiri enjoys traveling, hiking, camping, swimming and canoeing. She is currently an assistant librarian at Messalonskee High School, and her passions are the magic of nature, art and writing. Kiri loves to paint moods, feelings and dreams, whether in words, watercolors or photographs. Huey, Portland, received the first "Huey" award from the Maine Film Commission. This award is given to an individual who makes "exceptional contributions in film and education in Maine.” He was awarded a fellowship in film from the Maine Arts Commission and is the recipient of the First Annual Center for Children's Media Award presented by Peggy Charren. He is the director of the Maine Student Film and Video Festival, now in its 30th year. He has been a consultant to Maine Learning Technology Initiative, Wheelock College, and Multi-Lingual Program, Portland Public Schools, Portland, ME. He is a member of the Maine Touring Artists Program & New Hampshire Arts-in-Education Program. He has led workshops at educators conferences throughout the US. His film “Wilderness and Spirit, A Mountain Called Katahdin” was released in 2002. His latest film ”Tony Montanaro, Theatre & Inspiration” has been shown at the Maine International Film Festival and Atlantic Film Festival. Huey taught his first class, in “Claymation,” at Freshwater Arts in the summer of 2006. For more information on Huey visit www.filmsbyhuey.com. Joel LeVasseur, Damariscotta, received his MFA in Visual Art from Vermont College in 2004. Each summer for the past decade, as Director of Backroads Gallery & Sculpture Garden, in Damariscotta, Maine, he has curated exhibitions which have included artists from across the US and Canada. Through the University of Maine, he has led plein-air drawing and painting workshops in Quebec and Monhegan Island. He has completed several Percent for Art projects through the Maine Arts Commission, and his work has been exhibited, most recently, at SOHO20 in Chelsea, NY, and Gallery 500X in Dallas, TX. His aerial paintings were recently exhibited in the Center for Maine Contemporary Art's 2006 Biennial in Rockport, Maine. Abbott Meader, Oakland, is a painter, filmmaker, and teacher, now retired from the Art Department of Colby College. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the University of Colorado, with a Master's degree in Fine Arts. Currently, his work is represented at The Clown in Portland, Belfast, and Stonington. Heidi Pomerleau, Smithfield, is an artist and art teacher who works for the Messalonskee School District teaching grades K-5 at the James H. Bean School and grade 6 at the Messalonskee Middle School. Heidi graduated from the University of Maine at Augusta with an Associate of Arts Degree and from the University of Southern Maine with a B.S. in Art Education. With a focus on clay work, she creates ceramic sculptures, some in vessel form, with nature as her general theme. Heidi also works in tile form, carving and sculpting in various shapes and sizes. Laurie Proctor, Fairfield, started drawing when she was in the Peace Corps in Thailand in the late 1980's. She would draw animals and scenery to make puzzles and games for the village children. She continued her education by attending graduate school for her Master's degree in Social Work. Laurie is President of the Waterville Area Art Society, and member of the Kennebec Valley Art Society and UpCountry Artists. She shows her work locally in a number of venues. Ann Rhinehardt, Vassalboro, received a BA in Art and Biology from Colby College and an MS in Cell Biology from the University of Connecticut. Throughout her career as a cancer researcher/chemist, Ann continued to create art and study with a variety of artists. Now a full-time artist, Ann works in pastel and watercolor and is also a woodcarver. She has been teaching art at the Adult Day Program at the Muskie Center for the past 12 years. Ann's work has won awards in juried shows and she exhibits at a number of local venues. Her memberships include the Waterville Area Art Society, the Kennebec Valley Art Association and the Pastel Painters of Maine. Sandra Stewart, Winslow, has been involved in the arts for many years. A retired art teacher with B.S. and M.S. degrees in Art Education, she is an enameler, working with glass on metal. She is a member of the Enamel Guild North East, and the Enamellist Society, an international organization. She teaches enameling at the Round Top Center for the Arts in Damariscotta, Maine, and shows her work at the Colby Craft Show each year. Sandra is active in theatre as an actor and singer and also as a designer, building and painting many sets over the years for local productions. She sings in her church choir and with the Colby-Kennebec Choral Society. |
