Workforce Development and Community Education: Fall 2023

Visit us online at www.sunywcc.edu/wdce | 36 LIFELONG LEARNING & PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT IN-PERSON Silk Floral Arrangements 101 Learn the basic principles of flower arranging including everything you need to produce creative floral arrangements for your home, office, friends, etc. Practice principles of floral design such as how to utilize color intensity, shape and form to design breath taking floral arrangements. No prior knowledge of floral arrangement principles required. The list of materials will be given out the first day of class and can be obtained from the instructor or any arts and crafts store. At SUNY Westchester Valhalla: CE-CRAFT 2029, 7 Fri., Sept. 8-Oct. 27 (skip 9/29), 6:00-8:00 pm, KNC-4, $166. M Desire. #92080 IN-PERSON Cartooning For Beginners Would you like to learn how to draw outrageously funny cartoon characters quickly? How about drawing action figures and superheroes using just 25 basic shapes? Do you want to create fantastic scenes where creatures from another world can roam about freely? Highly instructional class with easy to follow stepby-step instruction taught by a professional cartoonist. At SUNY Westchester Valhalla: CE-ART 2122, 8 Sat., Nov. 16-Nov. 4, 11:00 am-1:00 pm, AAB-304, $195. V Davis. #91901 Learn the Arts at Peekskill The following courses are offered by SUNY Westchester Peekskill, located at 27 North Division Street, Peekskill, NY. To register for these classes, call 914-606-7300 or email peekskill@sunywcc.edu NEW! IN-PERSON Digital Painting & Animation with Procreate This course will take students interested in digital painting and animation from understanding the Procreate interface to advanced techniques. Students will explore the basics of drawing such as designing sketches and painting with different brushes and textures. This class will cover various aspects such as canvas properties, brushes, alpha lock, clipping masks, animation, and other topics. Whether you are looking to learn the basics or find a new way to create digital art students will build their portfolio in an exciting new way. At SUNY Westchester Peekskill: CE-DGART 2146PE, $400. 4 Thurs., Oct. 5-26, 6:30-9:30 pm. #92126 NEW! IN-PERSON Comic Illustration for Adults in 30 Hrs This class focuses on the fundamentals of sequential storytelling in comics and graphic. Students will develop short stories, create character sheets, environments, scripts, and professional comic pages. In our journey industry-standard software will be used as well as traditional tools to design content across multiple mediums. The objective is for students to produce a portfolio piece at the professional level that can be used to secure freelance or industry-based opportunities. This class will have bi-weekly critiques. At SUNY Westchester Peekskill: CE-ART 2360PE, $440. 10 Sat., Sept. 9-Dec. 2 (skip 9/23, 10/14 & 11/25), 1:00-4:00 pm. #92127 NEW! IN-PERSON Museum Best Practices & Exhibition Design Get real world gallery experience working directly with museum staff. Students will have the opportunity to speak directly with curators, museum educators, art handlers, graphic designers, and the founder of KinoSaito art center. The focus of this course is getting hands-on experience working in a non-profit gallery setting. On completion of the course students will have a fuller understanding of everything it takes to make an exhibition come to life. This class will be offsite at the KinoSaito Museum 115 7th St. in Verplanck, NY. CE-ART 2358PE, 6 Thurs., Oct. 12-Nov. 16, 5:30-8:30 pm, $330. #92128 IN-PERSON Painting En Plein Air in 24 Hrs Students will focus on outdoor landscape painting. Various locations throughout the local area will be selected. Rain dates TBA. Focus will be on color mixing, light and shadow, and composition. Students will be informed of the great plein air traditions of the Impressionists and the Hudson River School painters. Various approaches to landscape painting will be introduced, including water-mixable techniques in oil painting. This class will be offsite. CE-ART 2020PE, 8 Sat., Sept. 23-Nov. 11, 10:00 am-1:00 pm, $287. #92129 IN-PERSON Painting & Drawing for Adults in 24 Hrs Get your ideas out of your sketchbook! Students will enjoy painting in the studio in class and outdoors in an interactive environment. In this class, students will learn from discussion, group critique, examples of art while honing art skills of observation, gesture, composition, value, color mixing, and brushstroke, etc. The teaching artist demonstrates painting and drawing techniques for portraiture, representing the human form, and landscape, abstraction. At SUNY Westchester Peekskill: CE-ART 2146PE, 12 Mon., Oct. 2-Dec. 18, 6:30-8:30 pm. $287. #92130 IN-PERSON Mixed Media Printmaking for Adults in 24 Hrs Discover innovative ways to make handmade prints in addition to how technology such as computers and jet printers make printing contemporary. Make a portrait print based on a photograph, drawing from observation, and imagination. The instructor will introduce soft linocut, monotype, stenciling, and how to marbleize paper, to create prints on rice paper and other printmaking papers. At SUNY Westchester Peekskill: CE-ART 2334PE, 8 Tues., Oct. 10-Dec. 5, (skip 11/21), 6:30-9:30 pm. $322. #92131

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