The Arts   

We are so excited to welcome you into a space where you can connect with your body and experience the grace and joy of belly dance. This course offers a fun, dynamic workout where you will master essential movement techniques like precise body isolations, fluid hip work, graceful sways, and energetic shimmies. Each session provides a supportive and welcoming environment where you can build grounded movement, deeper body awareness, and a radiant sense of confidence. Ultimately, this expressive class is all about bringing joy to your routine, helping you feel good in your own skin, and unlocking your creative potential through dance.
Please wear comfortable clothes and shoes (optional to also wear a hip scarf for some dance movements), and bring a water bottle.
 

Participate in rehearsals and a performance of traditional jazz band and authentic salsa repertoire. We welcome trumpets, trombones, saxophones, piano, guitar, bass, drumset, and percussion. The band enjoys relationships with local professionals who serve as guest artists and clinicians, providing instruction and guidance in big band and salsa styles!

If you will be joining for the first time, prior to registering, please contact comed@edmonds.edu for an audition and more information.

 

Have you ever had a brilliant lyric line or a haunting melody stuck in your head, but weren't quite sure how to bring it to life? Welcome to a supportive, beginner-friendly space designed to turn those creative sparks into finished songs! If you have a deep love for lyrics and a basic grasp of music theory (like knowing what a chord is), you have everything you need to get started. Together, we will demystify the creative process by breaking down how to write meaningful lyrics, explore how simple chord progressions can evoke deep emotions, and build predictable song structures that effortlessly guide your listeners. All you need is a willingness to learn and a passion for storytelling—let’s collaborate, experiment, and turn your musical ideas into something real!
Requirements: knowledge of chord basics (piano or guitar) and beginning music theory.
Note: Class will meet twice a week, on Mondays and Thursdays.
 

Woodwinds, brass, and percussion musicians of all levels are welcome! The Edmonds College Concert Band offers a large ensemble experience for instrumentalists and provides South Snohomish County with a local concert band. Members of the community are invited to join. The band will meet for rehearsals and one performance each quarter. Enrollment for this class remains open until Oct. 16th.
 

Have you ever listened to a commercial, animation, or audiobook, and thought, “I wonder if I could do that?” Voice acting can be a flexible way to earn money from home. This introductory class answers questions about getting started, competition, and equipment. In a 90-minute, one-on-one session, you’ll meet a professional voice actor via live video chat and learn industry trends and home setups. You’ll explore voiceover styles, read a script, and receive coaching and feedback. Learn more: http://www.voicesforall.com/ooo.
After registering for the class,  you will be contacted by VFA to schedule the class.
Participants must be 18 or older. 
Requirements: Students must have internet access and video chatting capabilities using a method such as: Zoom, Skype (Win/Mac/Mobile), or iChat/FaceTime (Mac/iOS).

Living in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, one can be inspired by our amazing environment on a daily basis. In this class, you'll learn how to draw and paint the fascinating world of nature, scenery, and the environment, with pencil, pen, and watercolor, in this exciting new class. 

Supply List will be posted soon; pending instructor review/updates. Thank you!  

Have you ever wanted to draw in color? Colored pencils and oil pastels are wonderful media that combine the detail you can get in drawing with the vibrant colors available in painting. In this class, learn the basic skills of colored pencils and oil pastels, and apply them to create beautiful, finished drawings. By developing skills and techniques with colored pencils and oil pastels, you can add a whole new dimension to your art exploration. They are easy to use and portable, and you can easily find sets with a broad and exciting variety of colors. Colored pencils and oil pastels allow you to capture the vibrancy, detail, and colors in your subjects whenever and wherever you wish. 

Supply List will be posted soon; pending instructor review/updates. Thank you!  

 

In Drawing 2, you’ll continue to use your imagination, creativity, and perception through the practice of drawing. In this class, you’ll continue to learn more of the fundamentals of drawing: 3-dimensionality, light, shadow, proportions, details, and perspective. You’ll learn how to draw even more subjects, including nature, people, still lives, and animals.  You’ll be surprised at how quickly your skills develop as you observe and draw along with step-by-step class presentations, which make it easy to understand and put these techniques into practice. Once you learn these skills, you’ll find them becoming second nature, and you’ll significantly increase your creativity and your ability to represent the world around you. Drawing 2 is the sequel to Drawing 1, and you'll get a chance to learn a variety of additional drawing skills and subjects beyond what you learned in Drawing 1. Additionally, there will be a section on colored pencils in Drawing 2. 
Supply List will be posted soon; pending instructor review/updates. Thank you!  

Expand your horizons in the beginner-friendly class with the amazing painting medium: gouache! Gouache is opaque watercolor, an amazingly versatile medium with rich, vibrant colors. Gouache is opaque like acrylics and oils (so you can easily paint over previous layers), yet it can be blended after it dries like watercolors. It is also a very portable medium for travel painting, etc. This makes gouache one of the most adaptable and user-friendly painting media. In this class, you'll learn the basics of gouache painting, including color mixing, blending, contrast, values, details, brush handling, and how to apply them to a variety of painting subjects. Expand your artistic abilities in this interactive, hands-on-class, and bring home some beautiful paintings in a new medium that you can enjoy for years to come!

Supply List will be posted soon; pending instructor review/updates. Thank you!  

Drawing is the fundamental basis of all visual art, and it can provide a lifetime of enjoyment. In Drawing 1, you’ll use your imagination, creativity, and perception through the art of drawing. In this class, you’ll learn the fundamentals of drawing: 3-dimensionality, light, shadow, proportions, details, and perspective. You’ll learn how to draw many subjects, including animals, nature, people, and still life. You’ll be surprised at how quickly your skills develop as you observe and draw along with step-by-step class presentations, which make it easy to understand and apply these techniques in practice. Once you learn these skills, you’ll find them becoming second nature, and you’ll significantly increase your creativity and your ability to represent the world around you. 

Supply List will be posted soon; pending instructor review/updates. Thank you!
 

Animals are a fascinating part of our world. In this class, you'll learn to draw the intriguing world of animals in black and white and color with pencil, pen, and markers. This class is for anyone fascinated by animal life and interested in learning more about drawing them.

Possible subjects include: mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, insects, crustaceans, mollusks, and more. You’ll also learn about form and function, anatomy, highlights, shadows, details, proportions, three-dimensionality, value, contrast, and color.

These principles of drawing will help you learn to depict animals in a variety of ways, and you'll learn to produce vibrant, exciting, realistic works of animal art in this exciting new class!

Supply List will be posted soon; pending instructor review/updates. Thank you!  

 

 

Acrylic Painting is a fun, wonderful, versatile paint medium that can provide a lifetime of enjoyment! In this class, you will learn how to express yourself in this colorful medium. You’ll learn the techniques of acrylic painting, including blending, texturizing, brush handling, detailing, stippling, dabbing, glazing, wet-on-wet, and dry brushing. You’ll also learn about color mixing, complementary colors, warm and cool, hue, value, intensity, and proportions. You will be surprised at how quickly your skills improve by observing and painting along with step-by-step class presentations, which make it easy to understand and put these techniques into practice. Once you learn these skills, you’ll find them becoming second nature, and you’ll greatly increase your ability to paint the world around you. 

Supply List will be posted soon; pending instructor review/updates. Thank you!  

You will explore the highly expressive and versatile media of pen and marker in this fascinating class. Discover the bold, detailed mark-making of pen and ink, combined with the expressive color of marker. In this class, we will be learning both of these media and how to combine them to create beautiful, expressive works of art!

Supply List will be posted soon; pending instructor review/updates. Thank you!  

This class takes travel sketching to the next level, and explores a fascinating variety of urban scenes from around the world! In this class, you'll learn how to draw and paint the intriguing world of cities, towns, and urban scenes, in pencil, pen, and watercolor.
Note: participation in the Travel Sketching 1 class is not required in order to enroll in this class.
Supply List will be posted soon; pending instructor review/updates. Thank you!  
 

Have you ever wanted to learn how to draw people, characters, and portraits? Learn all of this and more in this fascinating, beginner-friendly class! In this interactive, hands-on class, you'll learn all about drawing a wide variety of action poses, gestures, facial expressions, clothes, facial features, hands, value, proportions, contrast, shading, and detail. You will expand your horizons with the fascinating subject of drawing people, and bring home a variety of intriguing drawings as well.
Supply List will be posted soon; pending instructor review/updates. Thank you!  

Feel like something is missing in your photography? Explore photography by learning to visualize a photograph and then create it through lighting, composition, and exposure. This class focuses on discovering new ways of seeing and an artistic approach to composition. Discover the steps beyond basic composition and exposure to create artistic photographs. There will be lectures, examples, and weekly assignments. The instructor will critique assignments and help students grow their photography knowledge. Some topics covered will be fall color, creative use of light, and composition.

Class begins in less than 2 business days or is already in session... Please call 425.640.1243 or email comed@edmonds.edu to register.

VFA will contact students directly to schedule the 90-minute one-on-one session.