Education
MAIN STREET ARTS OPEN HOUSE
Sunday, Sept 26: 4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Meet Main Street Arts Faculty members and take a tour of our building. Potluck around the fire pit and join in a song session.
Covid Policy: For your own protection and that of the community, we ask that everyone wear a mask while participating in MSA classes and events. We’ve requested all staff and faculty to be fully vaccinated and are limiting class size to ensure we can be distanced.
Scholarships: Thanks to the generosity of our donors, MSA has a scholarship fund available to make sure our courses are accessible to all. Please call to discuss how we can help.
Scholarships: Thanks to the generosity of our donors, MSA has a scholarship fund available to make sure our courses are accessible to all. Please call to discuss how we can help.
Upcoming Fall Classes
ART
Figure Drawing with Charles Norris-Brown: An opportunity to draw unsupervised from live, unclothed models in the upstairs theater space with a maximum of 10 participants. Bring your own materials, but please don’t use wet media that can spill!
Starts Oct 7 Thursdays 5:30 - 7:30 pm LEARN MORE |
Beginning Watercolor with Jean Cannon: Explore the luscious medium of watercolor! These sessions will focus on basic watercolor skills such as color mixing, wet-in-wet washes, dry brush, and glazing. We will also work on techniques for enhancing the illusion of depth and expanding textural variety.
Starts Sept 28 Tuesdays 5:30 - 7:30 pm LEARN MORE |
Playing GorMatt StrangePeak, a Collage Workshop: Artist Matthew Peake and poet Gordon Korstange will introduce the game-playing approach to creating with word and image. Participants will collaborate on making collages using readily available materials and then write museum labels about the works created.
Oct 16, 23 Saturdays 3:00 - 5:00 pm LEARN MORE |
THEATER
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Shakespeare's Game with John Hadden:
Shakespeare’s language belongs to all of us. This is a free-wheeling class that explores scenes and monologues in order to get good at playing what playwright William Gibson called “Shakespeare’s Game.” In time, we might form an ensemble to perform the plays! Starts Oct 3 Sundays 3:00 - 5:00 pm LEARN MORE |
Theater Lab with John Hadden:
A practical course for actors, directors and/or playwrights with any level of experience (including no experience)—and for people with curiosity about how theater works. This is an acting/directing class—and an incubator for productions that can blossom and take on a life (or start a company) of their own. Starts Oct 5 Tuesdays 6:00 - 8:30 pm LEARN MORE |
WRITING
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Drawing with Words with Catherine Despont: What do we observe when we write? We will approach writing as a multidimensional tool aimed at providing insights about the mind and our relationship to the world. A conversation for all levels of writing experience—a chance to share and discuss relationships to perception and craft.
Starts Nov 3 Wednesdays 6:00 - 8: 30 pm LEARN MORE |
Poetry in the Village, a Monthly Poem Bath: Bring the poems you love, your own or your favorite authors’, and let the words wash over you. We will gather in a circle. Maybe around a fire. We will share and explore poetry as a register of experience. We will read for an hour, round-robin, then talk about what we heard. Hosted by Catherine Despont, and guests.
Starts Oct 16 Third Saturdays 6:00 - 8:00 pm LEARN MORE |
MOVEMENT
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QiGong Practice with John Bohannon: Participants in this class will learn and practice a variety of exercises, postures, and poses developed in China over many centuries. All of these fall under the title of Qigong, or “healthy breath cultivation” and are designed to help maintain a healthy body and spirit. This class is appropriate for both beginner and experienced practitioners.
Starts Sept 21 Tuesdays 11:00 - 12:00 pm LEARN MORE |
Feldenkrais Method Workshops with Paris Kern : The Feldenkrais Method® focuses on utilizing the potential of the brain and the nervous system to learn new patterns of movement while at the same time releasing old patterns that may be causing dysfunction, pain, or discomfort.
Oct 16, Nov 20, Dec 11 9:30 - 12:30 pm LEARN MORE |
MUSIC
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String Band with Jill Newton: String Band welcomes new members! Come and enjoy Main Street Arts’ longest running educational class. Play your instrument in a group setting and practice traditional square dance and fiddle tunes from around the world. Jill provides most of the music, choosing selections that are accessible but still beautiful, while at the same time keeping the group focused and in tune.
Starts Sept 8 Wednesdays 5:00 - 6:15 pm LEARN MORE |
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Main Street Arts has consistently offered educational programming throughout its history. We've provided regular classes in the fine arts, motion, music, and theater with specific offerings targeted to virtually all ages and abilities from the disabled amateur to the established arts professional. We offer a scholarship program that is open to everyone of all ages, so no one will be unable to attend our classes because of lack of funds. |
Here is a sampling of some of the types of classes we've offered ing the past: String Band, Drawing Studio Sessions, Altered Art, Felting, Musical Instrument instruction, Watercolor and Acrylic Painting, Home-school Theater, Dance Workshops, Printmaking, Creativity Journals, Selling on Etsy, Puppetry, and Colored Pencil in addition to many others. If you have a suggestion for a class you'd like to teach or attend, contact us at info@mainstreetarts.org. |