<div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:center">SHAC announces a series of community virtual art classes and webinars.<span> </span>SHAC is presenting these classes July 12 – August 7, 2020 as part of<em> Stay-in-Place Productions</em>, the arts council’s response to COVID -19<br>
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<div style="text-align:left"><font size="5"><u><em>Art Classes</em></u><br>
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Appreciating Photography</font><br>
Program Description: A survey of creative photography to see how
different image makers have used the camera to create meaning throughout
the history of the medium.<br>
Instructor: Benjamin Hauser<br>
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<font size="5">Building An Online Craft Business Using Etsy</font><br>
Program Description: Etsy is a popular marketplace for selling handmade
goods. Learn to open your own shop and build your online business.
Topics include creating compelling listings, finding your target
customers, getting found in search, branding, marketing, taking good
photos, pricing strategies, and customer service. <br>
Instructor: Karen Koch<br>
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<font size="5">Class Piano</font><br>
Program Description: Class Piano provides students with an exploration
of the piano and beginning musical concepts such as high vs. low, piano
orientation, steady beat/rhythm patterns and playing/reading music.
This exploratory course is great for students to find out if they might
be interested in beginning piano lessons or for students who have
already begun piano lessons. Students will participate in a variety of
games and activities in each session.<br>
Instructor: Alex Piepenbrink<br>
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<font size="5">Chalk Pastel Portraits</font><br>
Program Description: Chalk Pastel Portraits is a course that teaches
students to use chalk pastel to render the likeness of a face. We will
study the proportions from different angles of the face and techniques
for blending and matching colors of skin tones and textures for hair.
Students should have chalk pastels, and a recommended supply list will
be provided.<br>
Instructor: Casandra Harner<br>
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<font size="5"><span style="font-weight:normal">Graffiti: Text as Image</span></font><br>
Program Description: Graffiti is ubiquitous in major cities, but more
than being an eyesore, it has actually gone through it's own artistic
evolution. This series will explore how graffiti artists develop letters
and how the interaction between text and image can be blurred. We will
learn how to draw block letters as well as using color, shape, and line
to express our own personal message.<br>
Instructor: Ki Charm John Kim<br>
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<font size="5"><span style="font-weight:normal">Handcrafted Paper Art</span></font><br>
Program Description: Create a hand-crafted object out of paper, flour,
water and decorate! Paper mache can be used to build masks, wall art,
pencil holders, vases, even model animals! We’ll build our frame from
newspaper/circulars and small amount of flour paste. The second session
we cover our creations in paper mache. The last day we decorate the
dried object using paint or materials from around the house.<br>
Instructor:<a href="https://shakerartscouncil.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0a5b07734a7329020b0e19b75&id=dcd75615a1&e=9b2cb8fee2" style="color:rgb(0,124,137);font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"> </a>Sheela Das<br>
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<font size="5">Mixed Media Fun </font><br>
Program Description: Create fun and funky postcards or greeting cards
using materials easily found at home! Upcycle empty cracker boxes or
cereal boxes along with art supplies already you have to make cheerful
postcards you can send to your friends, family, and neighbors.<br>
Instructor: Karen Koch<br>
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<font size="5">Poetry Sandbox </font><br>
Program Description: In this workshop we will examine and experiment
with a variety of poetic forms, tools and goals. We will write during
and between classes, then share and discuss our efforts. Prior poetry
writing is not required, but participants must be interested in putting
pen to paper to capture and explore the human experience.<br>
Instructor:<a href="https://shakerartscouncil.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0a5b07734a7329020b0e19b75&id=aaeba1b4ce&e=9b2cb8fee2" style="color:rgb(0,124,137);font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"> </a>Bill Newby<br>
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<font size="5">Programming for Artists using Processing</font><br>
Program Description: Using the Processing Language (a free and open
source language based on Java), students will learn the basics of
programming as applied to programming graphic images and
shapes.Depending on time, we will touch on programming animation of
these shapes and graphics.<br>
Instructor: Steven Gutierrez<br>
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<font size="5"><u><em>Free Webinars</em></u></font></div><div style="text-align:left"><font size="5"><u><em><br></em></u></font></div><div style="text-align:left"><font size="5">
How I Got to Perform with an Oscar Winner: Tips on Building Your Acting Career </font><br>
Program Description: During the one hour session, Peter Lawson Jones
will provide guidance on how you, as a Cleveland-based actor, can build
an acting career; share stories of his evolution as an actor; and, most
importantly, answer your questions. Peter is a member of both SAG-AFTRA
and Actors Equity.<br>
Instructor:<a href="https://shakerartscouncil.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0a5b07734a7329020b0e19b75&id=5af3e4115e&e=9b2cb8fee2" style="color:rgb(0,124,137);font-weight:normal;text-decoration:underline" target="_blank"> </a>Peter Lawson Jones<br>
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<font size="5"><span style="font-weight:normal">Metheny Weir Signature Finishes </span></font><br>
Program Description: Join us as we demonstrate our most popular
finishes. Start by learning the step by step basics of painting
furniture and cabinets. Next, we will show you how to simulate a wood
grain on a table top. Lastly, we will walk through our elegant
“Severance Finish” for walls and furniture. <br>
Instructor: Kim Metheny and Sue Weir</div><div style="text-align:left"><br><div style="text-align:left"><b><font size="2">Click<a href="https://www.shakerartscouncil.org/art-class-33808.html"> here</a> for more information and to register.</font></b><br></div></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><span><i><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153)">---<br>Amara Romano</span></i></span><span><i><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153)"><br>Administrative Assistant </span></i></span><span><span><i><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153)">Shaker Arts Council </span></i></span></span><span><i><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153)"></span></i><span><i><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153)"><a href="http://shakerartscouncil.org" target="_blank"> shakerartscouncil.org</a></span></i></span></span></div><div><span><i><span style="color:rgb(153,153,153)"><br> </span></i></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>