MONDAYS, 4:00PM-5:30PM
5 weeks; October 16 – November 13, 2023
Grades 3-5
Instructor: Satsi Schimelpfenig In this class, students will learn the basic skills of fashion design and garment structures. Using a variety of hand sewing, machine sewing, pattern-making, and fashion illustration techniques, the instructor will help guide students to create their own unique pieces. At the end of the session of classes, students will be invited to walk the runway in their very own fashion show to showcase their pieces to their friends and family!
MONDAYS, 4:00PM-5:30PM
5 weeks; October 16 – November 13, 2023
Grades 3-5
Instructor: Hannah Medovnikov Ceramics class offers young artists the opportunity to explore their creativity while experiencing everything clay! Students will experiment with a variety of hand-building techniques as well as demonstrations on the wheel. All projects will be fired in the kiln and students will learn basic glazing applications to finish the work that they create to cherish for years.
TUESDAYS, 4:00PM-5:30PM
6 weeks; October 10 – November 14, 2023
Grades 6-8
Instructor: Hannah Medovnikov
Ceramics class offers young artists the opportunity to explore their creativity while experiencing everything clay! Students will experiment with a variety of hand-building techniques as well as demonstrations on the wheel. All projects will be fired in the kiln and students will learn basic glazing applications to finish the work that they create to cherish for years.
TUESDAYS, 5:30PM-7:00PM
6 weeks; October 10 – November 14, 2023
Grades 6-8
Instructor: Leah Payne
Learn from a professional illustrator how to tell a story with your art! The first part of this class will teach you about different methods of visual storytelling, and the second part of this class will help you develop your technical skills to tell your own visual story! We will learn about character design, dynamic composition, and which medium will best work for you to depict your ideas. Each student will be able to create their own unique visual story, whether it be a comic book, a fairytale, a standalone illustration, or anything else they can imagine!
WEDNESDAYS, 3:30PM-5:00PM
6 weeks; October 11 – November 15, 2023
Grades 3-5
Instructor: Leah Payne
In this class, children will learn painting techniques to help them feel successful with a brush in their hands. Artists will explore color and shape to help them discover their individual artistic styles. Explore color mixing, creating texture, as well as choosing materials. Artists will learn how to use their new skills to continue making art far into the future! Students will work on various surfaces including canvases, rocks, traditional paper, and more!
WEDNESDAYS, 4:00PM-6:00PM
6 weeks; October 11 – November 15, 2023
Grades 9-12
Instructor: Sophie Olmsted
Ceramics class offers young artists the opportunity to explore their creativity while experiencing everything clay! Students will experiment with a variety of hand-building techniques as well as making pottery on the wheel. All projects will be fired in the kiln and students will learn basic glazing applications to finish the work that they create to cherish for years.
THURSDAYS, 10:00AM-11:00AM
6 weeks; October 12 – November 16, 2023
Recommended child age: 2-4
Instructor: Satsi Schimelpfenig
This class presents an opportunity for a parent and their toddler to create art together! You’ll be able to leave with projects and fun memories (without the mess for you to clean up in your own home). Each project will be centered around a children’s book or song to activate all of their senses, and get them exposed to the excitement and creativity of feeling like they are in an art studio. Projects may entail sensory elements such as painting, gluing, and sculpting clay.
THURSDAYS, 12:00PM-2:00PM
6 weeks; October 12 – November 16, 2023
Recommended ages: 7-12
Instructor: Satsi Schimelpfenig
This series of art classes will offer young artists the opportunity to explore their creativity while using several different art mediums which may include ceramics, painting, drawing, weaving, and collage. Students will be encouraged to follow their own creative process with guidance from the instructor.
THURSDAYS, 4:00PM-5:30PM
6 weeks; October 12 – November 16, 2023
Grades 3-5
Instructor: Emily Bider
Do you love to make your own jewelry and accessories? Then this class is for you! Each week, Emily will invite students to explore a variety of media and materials such as wire, beads, baubles, ribbon, buttons, textiles and fabric paint etc. to create earrings, necklaces, bracelets, rings, hair accessories, key chains, wall hangings/charms and broaches/pins. In addition to learning the basics of working with wire and jewelry findings like jump rings and clasps, students will also learn how to hand-sew (without a machine) their own bags/pouches and deconstruct/reconstruct and embellish a plain white t-shirt! Students will be encouraged to think-outside-the-box and harness their creative powers to create their own unique designs!
• September 28 through November 2 (Fall, six-week series) REGISTER HERE
• November 9 through December 1 (Winter 1, six-week series) REGISTER HERE
• January 11 through February 15 (Winter 2, six-week series) REGISTER HERE
Instructor: Miss Abby
Creative Movement is a fun way for little ones to explore movement through music, dance, and storytelling. During a creative movement workshop, children can simultaneously develop motor skills, rhythmic awareness, coordination, and balance in a fun and safe environment.
Members: $70 | Non-Members: $80
Early Release Workshops
Ceramics
Grades K-5
Instructor: Sophie Olmsted
In this fun hands-on workshop, students will have a blast in the ceramics studio. Kids will get their hands dirty in the clay and create a unique piece to treasure forever. This introduction into the process of ceramics requires firing pieces in the kiln, so the artworks will have to be picked up a week or two after the class. You will be contacted by the instructor when the pieces are ready to be picked up!
If there are any allergies or serious medical conditions that RTA needs to be aware of, kindly notify us as soon as possible so that we can make the necessary arrangements.
PROGRAMS ARE SUBJECT TO CANCELLATION DUE TO LOW NUMBERS, SO DON’T DELAY; REGISTER TODAY!
