We're excited to bring you our Spring art class schedule, hot off the presses. Classes begin the first week of March. What can you expect? Watercolors, mosaics, photography, fused glass, poetry and writing, clay for kids, cartooning, and much more. All at the Petaluma Arts Center! We offer classes and workshops for people of all ages. Whether you're an artist looking for continuing education, an adult or teen interested in a hobby or new skill, or a parent who wants to enrich a child's life, we have classes for you.
Click below to view the new schedule:
Attention Art Instructors
We are soliciting proposals from talented instructors to teach in our 2010 Summer Arts for Kids and Summer Arts for Teens sessions, as well as our Fall '10 Art Classes for all ages. Our summer programs include weekday morning and afternoon sessions. The Fall sessions will include weeknight, after school and weekend classes. If you would like to propose a course, please review our Instructor Guidelines and Course Proposal documents:
Proposal deadline for Summer: March 15
Proposal deadline for Fall: March 30
If you need additional information about our Education program, please call Vicky Kumpfer, Executive Director, at 762-5600, ext. 101, or email Vicky at vkumpfer@petalumaartscouncil.org.
Docent Tours and Training at the Arts Center
The Petaluma Arts Council is offering free docent-guided tours of current Arts Center exhibitions for third and fourth-grade classes. Tours are 1 to 1.5 hours long, and include art games and a take-home art project. Click on the following PDF document for more details: DocentTours_0210.
If you are interested in being a children’s art docent for our tours, we offer one to two-hour docent training. It’s easy, fun and you get to introduce the arts to local school children. For more information, call 707-762-5600 (press option 7), and leave a message for Sue Borsian, our terrific Docent Coordinator.
Paint or Draw From a
clothed model
We’re pleased to bring back this popular class, now located at the Petaluma Arts Center. Featuring a live clothed model, this drop-in class will meet the first Monday of each month, from 6:30 – 9:00pm. Fee is $15 per class; non-instructed with all levels of experience invited. Bring your easel and medium of your choice. Oil painters: Only Gamsol allowed in the studio (no turpentines or other alternative turpentines). For further information, please email Jewell Scanlon at jewellscanlon108@yahoo.com, or call 526-9110.