Visual & Performing Arts   

This course is designed to develop the participants' awareness of the actor’s process and a general sense of theatre as an area of human endeavor. Participants will be introduced to basic theater terminology, communication skills, including physical and vocal presence in front of an audience. The course will also develop an introductory level of acting skill through regular warm-ups, theatre games, improvisation, and simple scene study.

Sketch noting is a visual way to take notes. It can be used in nature and vacation journals, meetings, lectures, book groups, podcasts, and even sermons. Sketch noting captures ideas with quick techniques such as using words, simple drawings, lettering, connectors, containers, lines, and star people. It can help organize any page. The class will begin with learning the basics. Anyone who takes notes can benefit from this visual way to take notes; it can really be fun.

Get that camera out and start exploring the wonders around you! This course will benefit beginners and advanced photographers. Weekly photo walking explorations and critiques will take place while learning the ins and outs of participants’ cameras. The first week of class, participants will select the locations of our photo explorations. Join the “foto phun!”

This highly interactive course piggybacks on the author’s award-winning book of the same title. Participants will learn creative in-camera concepts, principles, and techniques, without having to spend hours in front of the computer, manipulating images. Members will learn two photography paradigms/models. Included in those models are concepts and techniques like intuition, extracting, impressionism, surrealism through photography, and eastern philosophy applications to photography.

Zentangle™ is an easy, relaxing and fun art form based on creatively drawing repetitive patterns. It is traditionally done in black and white on small 3.5” squares of paper, but in this course, we will explore larger formats using a variety of media, including watercolor, colored pencils and pens, and background variations. In addition to abstract pattern imagery, we will apply Zentangle™ techniques to animals, geometric drawing, origami designs, and more. No previous experience is needed, just a willingness to play and experiment.