Community Arts Classes
The County Arts Lab offers a range of accessible, arts-focused learning and creative opportunities for residents of all ages!
The County Arts Lab offers a range of accessible, arts-focused learning and creative opportunities for residents of all ages!
The Winter session at the County Arts Lab is now open for registration! Whether you are interested in painting, printmaking, writing, textile arts or media arts, we’ve got something exciting for you to learn with our talented artist instructors! On Monday evenings, Tom Feiler returns with another engaging photography course, this time on Still Life Photography. Our popular and beloved Photoshop for Beginners returns for 6 weeks with Kyle Topping. This course is delivered as a weekly video and weekly in-person or online sessions.
For the painters, Megan Fitzgerald is back with a brand new course called Abstract Places, for those who love both abstraction and landscapes. And speaking of abstraction – Zac Kenny is back again with another session of his Intermediate Abstract Painting course.
Or if you are a writer, dig into Creative Non-Fiction with Thomas Harrison and tackle interesting topics through your own unique lens.
We’ve got another Saturday morning Kids’ Creation Club for the creative kids, this time Lucy Sterezylo will share her extensive knowledge of Printmaking with tons of fun projects! And Lenny Epstein and Gavin North (who make up the comedy duo Short Attention Spa) return to get the kids laughing with two afterschool Improv Comedy courses, one for kids, and one just for teens!
And for workshops we’ve got a great selection! Irene Götz, our fan favourite drawing instructor is teaching an exciting new workshop on the digital drawing app Procreate! Renee Lortie returns to teach another 2-day workshop over Family Day weekend on Tapestry Weaving, and Lucy Sterezylo is back again with a TetraPak Printmaking workshop. And finally we welcome a new instructor, Catalin Ivan, with a Coding for Artists workshop all about making generative art with the online platform p5js.org.
Sign up today and learn something new! And remember – you can give the gift of creativity with a County Arts Lab gift certificate!
Location – The County Arts Lab is located in unit 2E on the Main Street level of the Picton Armoury Building (206 Main Street, Picton). The most convenient access is through the Main Street entrance, but you can also enter through the back/Mary St. entrance and use the interior stairs to reach the main floor (please note there is no elevator in the Armoury). There is one accessible parking spot at the corner of Main and Ross streets across from The Regent Theatre. The entrance to the building is accessible, and there is an accessible washroom right near the Lab.
Note on the Covid-19 pandemic – The safety of our community is a top priority for County Arts, and we are continually updating our Covid-19 Policy and Protocols based on the state of the pandemic. During classes we run the Blueair Pro L Air Purifier, which captures virus particles down to 0.1 microns at 99.97% effectiveness.
Bursaries for children and youth – To increase community access to our programming, we are providing a limited number of bursaries for children and youth (under 18) who wish to attend our paid programs. Please contact Programs Manager Sarah Burtscher at sarah@countyarts.ca to find out more.
Accessibility – We are committed to providing an accessible environment in which all individuals have equal access to County Arts Lab programming in a way that respects the dignity and independence of people with disabilities. Please let us know of any accommodations that County Arts Lab participants with disabilities may require.
If an offering you are interested in has already begun, it may still be possible to join (please send an email to sarah@countyarts.ca to inquire).
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