Workforce Development and Community Education: Spring 2024

31 Textbook Required IN-PERSON Play on Words: Playwriting Workshop All writing levels welcome and encouraged! Come learn from award-winning playwright and founder of Theatrerevolution.org Gabrielle Fox, in a safe and fun environment. Writers will work on the basic structure of a play starting with short scenes and continue on to larger works. Actors will attend the last session so writers can hear their words read aloud by theatre professionals. Work will be considered for future public readings at SUNYWCC. For more information on the instructor, visit www.GabrielleFoxWrites.com At SUNY Westchester Valhalla: CE-THEAT 2008, 6 Wed., Jan. 24-Feb. 28, 7:00-9:00 pm, KNC-5, $150. G Fox. #27284 ART 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 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., TBD, 1:00-4:00 pm. #27317 IN-PERSON Digital Painting & Animation with Procreate (see page 16 for details) 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, $322. 8 Tues., Feb. 6-Mar. 26, 6:30-9:30 pm. #27318 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., Feb. 22-Apr. 4 (skip 3/14), 5:30-8:30 pm, $330. #27319 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, $287. 12 Mon., Feb. 5-Apr. 22, 6:30-8:30 pm. #27322 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 meet offsite. CE-ART 2020PE, 8 Sat., Mar. 23-May 18 (skip 3/30), 10:00 am-1:00 pm, $287. #27323 IN-PERSON Wire Crochet Jewelry You do not need tools to learn how to make wire crochet jewelry. With only a crochet hook and metallic wire threads, you will be able to make fine jewelry. At SUNY Westchester Valhalla: CE-ART 2357, 8 Sat., Feb. 24-Mar. 30, 9:00-11:00 am, Room TBD, $200 (+ 1 crochet hook and 1 roll of wire). B Medina de la Cruz. #27139 IN-PERSON Famous Women Artists An exploration of the art, personal life, and artistic impact of six famous women artists: Mary Cassatt, Berthe Morisot, Camille Claudel, Georgia O’Keeffe, Frida Kahlo, and Sally Mann. At SUNY Westchester Valhalla: CE-ART 2296, 8 Wed., Jan. 24-Mar. 13, 12:00 noon–2:00 pm, Room TBD, $200. S Courtney. #27131 NEW! IN-PERSON The Art Spirit: How to Think and Work like an Artist This course will introduce students to how creativity and innovation comes from artistic thought and activity. This can be a useful approach to problem solving in many areas of life. The course will present many famous artworks with detailed images and share the stories of how these artworks were actually created. Emphasis will be on process, choosing influences from a variety of sources and the creative use of imagination. From Vincent Van Gogh, Picasso and Michelangelo to Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol, the artist spirit has been an incredible influence on Western Culture for millennia. At SUNY Westchester Valhalla: CE-ART 2361, 6 Fri., Apr. 5-May 10, 10:00 am-12:00 noon, Room TBD, $165. J Coppola. #27268

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