This class continues the lessons based on the Basic Zentangle course. By drawing intentionally structured patterns, students will use Kothy’s design of The Tree of Life as seen through techniques of Zentangle.
Students who have taken the previous class should bring their supplies. Optionally, all students can purchase supplies as needed. Students will be given the special paper required for the class work.
The fee for the 4-week class is $150. Class size is limited to 15 Students.
Kothy is a certified Zentangle instructor who has taught hundreds of students the principles of the sophisticated and specific “doodles” unique to this art form.
Please join us for a panel discussion and Q&A with Western Connecticut State University students and teachers who have collaborated on Breathing Space, a student project involving visual art generated by poetry. Attendees will then participate in a short writing exercise inspired by visual art produced by the Arts Escape community.
Original posters (broadsides) from Breathing Space will be on display. This event is co-hosted by Arts Escape and Western Connecticut State University, one of our community partners.
See the 2022 “Breathing Space” digital book HERE. (Scroll down on left column.)
Light refreshments will be served. The event is free; registration is required.
Because Americans are often not well informed about countries that influence our foreign policy, these lecture/discussions will focus each week on a different country briefly outlining their history and culture to increase our understanding of the context of geopolitics. In these sessions we will consider Russia, China, Japan, and India.
The series is for adults who are looking to engage in lively conversations about newsworthy issues in a friendly and open-minded environment. Each participant should be willing to learn and listen and will come away with myriad perspectives to consider, as well as a better understanding of the world we live in. Handouts and at-home reading will be provided.
Dr. Alfred Hunt, who will moderate the discussion, is a retired Professor from SUNY Purchase. He has given lectures throughout New England for over 20 years. He is an author, has twice been a Fulbright scholar, and was a host of an award-winning cable TV Show.
The fee for the four-week series is $75. A minimum of 8 participants is required, with a maximum of 20.
*Students must be registered and paid in full three business days before the start of the class/workshop. Exceptions only with permission from the Director of Writing Programs.
COVID POLICY – Until further notice, proof of vaccination is no longer required to attend classes and workshops. Masks remain optional.
For students who have completed Writing Memoir-Let’s Begin, this is a writing group where students can workshop their pieces at a weekly gathering. Students will bring in material to read aloud and receive feedback from fellow students and the instructor.
Prompts will be given for students to use at home during the week.
Payment options are for 8-weeks, 6-weeks, and 4-weeks. Please use the dropdown menu to make your selection. The workshop is limited to 7 participants.
COVID POLICY – Until further notice, proof of vaccination is no longer required to attend classes and workshops. Masks remain optional.
Nancy McMillan of Bethlehem is the award-winning author of March Farm: Season by Season on a Connecticut FamilyFarm (www.marchfarmthebook.com). She holds a graduate degree in writing from The Graduate Institute and one in music from Lesley University, where she studied historical women composers. She also studied in the MFA program at Manhattanville College. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her essays and articles have appeared in Connecticut newspapers and magazines as well as online. In her writing classes, she helps students embrace and inhabit their innate creativity. She is the Director of Writing and Literature Programs at Arts Escape. Find more at www.nancymcmillan.com.
This workshop series is for all levels of actors, from beginners to seasoned community theatre actors and professionals.
Building on the exercises in the the introductory acting “Playshop,” OX will guide students in developing their acting skills while customizing workshop content to the group. In a user-friendly environment, students will learn by doing. Attendance at the introductory session is not a prerequisite for attending this four-week class.
Theatre games and exercises will include non-verbal and verbal communication, creating characters, and script analysis. Participants will do both very short monologues and dialogues. No memorization will be necessary.
Dress in comfortable clothes you can move in.
The cost for the four-week workshop is $100. The minimum enrollment is 6 participants, and the maximum is 20.
OX
OX has been a professional actor for twenty years with work on Broadway, Off-Broadway, in feature films, TV movies and daytime, commercials, and voice-overs. OX is the creator of Acting is Easy, a user-friendly acting technique that works for all genres.
He has taught acting technique to over 5,000 actors, models, athletes, and amateurs of all ages, including work with physically and mentally challenged students. OX is the owner of The Acting Laboratory, one of the first on-camera acting training centers in the East. As a casting director, he has overseen 50,000 individual auditions and has directed over 100 plays, musicals, revues, television commercials, and promotional videos.
COVID POLICY – Until further notice, proof of vaccination is no longer required to attend classes and workshops. Masks remain optional.
This free PLAYSHOP is for all levels of actors, from beginners to seasoned community theatre actors and professionals.
Acting is about playing. That is why they call it a Play.
Participants will begin with non-verbal communication theatre games. In a user-friendly environment, students will learn by doing. Then students will venture into verbal communication and be introduced to script analysis and creating characters, all of which works for any genre. Participants will do both very short monologues and dialogues. No memorization will be necessary.
Dress in comfortable clothes you can move in.
This workshop will be followed by a four-week class on Saturday mornings in May. See this listing on our website.
This introductory workshop is free! The minimum is 6 participants, and the maximum is 20.
OX
OX has been a professional actor for twenty years with work on Broadway, Off-Broadway, in feature films, TV movies and daytime, commercials, and voice-overs. OX is the creator of Acting is Easy, a user-friendly acting technique that works for all genres.
He has taught acting technique to over 5,000 actors, models, athletes, and amateurs of all ages, including work with physically and mentally challenged students. OX is the owner of The Acting Laboratory, one of the first on-camera acting training centers in the East. As a casting director, he has overseen 50,000 individual auditions and has directed over 100 plays, musicals, revues, television commercials, and promotional videos.
COVID POLICY – Until further notice, proof of vaccination is no longer required to attend classes and workshops. Masks remain optional.
The lens you choose is in many ways more important than the camera you buy. Your photos can only be as good as the lens they are taken through. A great camera with a crummy lens will give you unsatisfying photos, yet a crummy camera with a great lens will give you photos you can be proud of. Lenses also capture the world around you in different ways. As the eyes are the window to the soul, the lens is the window to the world.
The topic of lenses can become overwhelming. There are so many lenses to choose from and sorting through the mumbo jumbo of lens terminology such as focal length, prime, zoom, telephoto, macro, wide angle, etc., can be confusing. Lenses can be a major investment, so knowing which lenses will best cover your photography needs is important. And knowing which lenses to use to tell a story with your photos is critical.
In this class, the instructor will review the ins and outs of lenses to help you choose what lens or lenses are the best for your needs. You will see lenses in a whole new light and know which ones to purchase for your needs.
The fee for the class is $45 Class Limit is 20 students.
COVID POLICY: Until further notice, proof of vaccination is not required to attend classes. Masks remain optional.
*Students must be registered and paid in full three business days before the start of the class/workshop. Exceptions only with permission from the Director of Art and Photography Programs.
This is a 2-day, 4-hour, colored pencil workshop with award-winning artist Sandie Daignault and is designed for beginners. Students will work in a small group setting and will start with value exercises and basic layering techniques that will serve as a foundation for more advanced work. This is not an adult coloring activity.
Once basic skills are taught students are welcome to join the intermediate and advanced workshop where students work more independently on their own work. Each student will receive their own box of 23 Prismacolor colored pencils for the class, which can be used in future classes.
The fee for the 2-day class is $130 which includes all supplies.
Workshop is limited to 6 students.
Sandie has had a passion for art and art education since college. After retiring in 2011 from a 35-year corporate career, she began teaching art education in Loveland, Colorado to middle school students in after-school programs. She was a substitute teacher there for two years from 2012 – 2013.
In 2013, she came back to CT and began volunteering in the ASAP (After School Arts Program) in Washington, participating and assisting teachers in Region 12 primary school. She became involved with Washington Arts Association, volunteering at art shows and events.
Sandie began taking art classes through WAA, Silvermine Art Center, Rowayton Arts Center, Brookfield Craft Center and several other adult education programs across New Haven and Litchfield Counties. Most recently she has been with Arts Escape since 2018 taking classes in Colored Pencil and Pastel with Rita Paradis, Watercolor with Betty Ann Medieros, and Acrylic with Anda Styler and Souby Boski.
Her art has been awarded prizes during the Threads member juried shows at Arts Escape in 2019 and 2020. Several pieces were published in the 2019 Fresh Ink annual journal of Naugatuck Community College. Her work has been shown at WAA and at the 275th celebration event at Averill Farm in Washington, CT.
She has self-published two books of her poetry and artwork, Poetry Expression I and II.
Sandie has two works in acrylic accepted into the 2021 Ridgefield Guild of Artists 44th annual juried show.
***Students must be registered and paid in full three business days before the start of the class/workshop. Exceptions only with permission from the Director of Fine Art/Photography.
COVID POLICY– Until further notice, proof of vaccination is no longer required to attend classes or workshops. Masks remain optional.
Students will work in a small group setting of no more than 9 students. This class is designed for students who have taken the Beginner/Intermediate workshop and have completed the Pear exercise. Once basic skills are taught, students are welcome to join the Independent Colored Pencil workshop. Students in this workshop will work more independently but still with instruction on their own work.
The fee for the 2.5 hour workshop is $75. Supplies are not included. Students are expected to bring whatever project they want to work on along with all the supplies they need to complete their work (paper, pencils, tools, etc.) Class size is limited to 9 students.
Student may contact the instructor Sandie Daignault with questions at sandiedano@gmail.com
*Students must be registered and paid in full three business days before the start of the class/workshop. Exceptions only with permission from the Director of Fine Art/Photography.
COVID POLICY: Until further notice, proof of vaccination is not required to attend classes. Masks remain optional.
Sandie has had a passion for art and art education since college. After retiring in 2011 from a 35-year corporate career, she began teaching art education in Loveland, Colorado to middle school students in after-school programs. She was a substitute teacher there for two years from 2012 – 2013. In 2013 she came back to CT and began volunteering in the ASAP (After School Arts Program) in Washington, participating and assisting teachers in Region 12 primary school. She became involved with Washington Arts Association, volunteering at art shows and events. Sandie began taking art classes through WAA, Silvermine Art Center, Rowayton Arts Center, Brookfield Craft Center and several other adult education programs across New Haven and Litchfield Counties. Most recently she has been with Arts Escape since 2018 taking classes in Colored Pencil and Pastel with Rita Paradis, Watercolor with Betty Ann Medieros, Acrylic with Anda Styler and Souby Boski. Her art has been awarded prizes during the Threads member juried shows at Arts Escape in 2019 and 2020 and several pieces were published in the 2019 Fresh Ink annual journal of Naugatuck Community College. Her work has been shown at WAA and at the 275th celebration event at Averill Farm in Washington, CT. She has self-published two books of her poetry and artwork, Poetry Expression I and II.
This class will provide step-by-step instructions with tips and techniques for the creation of a final painting. This class is for students who have taken Beginner Colored Pencil (Pear exercise) or have the instructor’s approval.
Students are required to bring the supplies listed below to class. Check the sets of pencils you purchase to make sure the required colors are included. Prismacolor does sell pencils separately if not found in their sets.
The fee for the four-hour class is $120.00 and no supplies are included. Class size is limited to 6 students.
*Students must be registered and paid in full three business days before the start of the class/workshop. Exceptions only with permission from the Director of Art Programs.
COVID POLICY: Until further notice, proof of vaccination is not required to attend classes. Masks remain optional.
Contact the instructor Sandie Daignault at sandiedano@gmail.com if you have any questions.
SUPPLY LIST Note: Please bring your set of pencils from the beginner class.
>> General supplies:
Stylus pen (available to purchase at Arts Escape – $10)
Kneaded eraser
Museum putty
Battery operated eraser (optional)
>>Prismacolor pencils:
Lemon
Sky blue light
Kelp green
Indigo blue
Canary yellow
Yellowed-orange
Pale vermillion
Carmine red
Spanish orange
Burnt ochre
Artichoke
Greyed Lavender
Pale sage
Cream
Salmon Pink
Goldenrod
Jasmine
Mineral Orange
Tuscan Red
Black
White
Colorless blender
Col-erase light grey pencil (for tracing)
Sandie has had a passion for art and art education since college. After retiring in 2011 from a 35-year corporate career, she began teaching art education in Loveland, Colorado to middle school students in after-school programs. She was a substitute teacher there for two years from 2012 – 2013. In 2013 she came back to CT and began volunteering in the ASAP (After School Arts Program) in Washington, participating and assisting teachers in Region 12 primary school. She became involved with Washington Arts Association, volunteering at art shows and events. Sandie began taking art classes through WAA, Silvermine Art Center, Rowayton Arts Center, Brookfield Craft Center and several other adult education programs across New Haven and Litchfield Counties. Most recently she has been with Arts Escape since 2018 taking classes in Colored Pencil and Pastel with Rita Paradis, Watercolor with Betty Ann Medieros, Acrylic with Anda Styler and Souby Boski. Her art has been awarded prizes during the Threads member juried shows at Arts Escape in 2019 and 2020 and several pieces were published in the 2019 Fresh Ink annual journal of Naugatuck Community College. Her work has been shown at WAA and at the 275th celebration event at Averill Farm in Washington, CT. She has self-published two books of her poetry and artwork, Poetry Expression I and II.
