$10 fee per week to cover model costs.  Tuesday evenings, 6:30 - 8:30.   This group will follow a "one week off, two weeks on" schedule as follows:

• May 13 - DRAWING GROUP CANCELLED
• May 20 - model, short poses
• May 27 - model, long pose
• June 3 - no drawing group
• June 10 - model, short poses
• June 17 - model, long pose

Contact shelley@theartcentre.org to be included in email alerts for this group.

The Arts Centre is please to welcome back the Goose Route Arts Collaborative for New Live Arts, a performance series featuring dancers, musicians, poets, and more.  This FREE performance starts at 6 p.m.  All ages are welcome to attend.

New Live Arts is a series of informal showings of new works and works-in-progress.  Each event is different - performers sign up "open-mic" style.  Expect a vibrant, diverse, thought-provoking good time.  Audience members are invited to share their comments in a post-performance discussion.   Performers: to contact Goose Route for a chance to share your work, email gooseroute@frontiernet.net.

Goose Roote organizes and performs in many area venues and alternative spaces, including the performance "Remember" at the National Conservation Training Center in November 2007.  The Goose Route Dance Festival, held each summer in Shepherdstown, features innovovative performances and interactive workshops.  http://www.gooseroute.org/

Highlights of the New Live Arts Fall 2007 season included Tim Whittemore playing the Australian didgeridoo; writer Earl Hairston reading from his novella; dancers Beth Burkhardt, Colleen Tracey, and Tosha Tillman; poets Ed Zahniser and Elizabeth Kennedy; Rob Northrup and his men’s choir from Shepherd University; and young dancers from Hedgesville High School.

The Color Wheel, oil on canvas, 18x24 (c) Ralph Basford

Master painter Ralph Basford offers a class in oil painting for both beginners and advanced students.  The focus of the class will be mastering the basic elements of painting (composition, color, value) and developing a strategy for approaching and completing an oil painting.  The subject matter will be the still life.  Students will work at their own speed.  Small class size ensures personal attention, tailored to the individual student.

Ralph Basford's work can be seen at http://ralphbasford.tripod.com/.

This class will meet every Wednesday evening, June 4 through July 16, from 6:30 to 9:00 p.m.  Tuition is only $90 for seven weeks of classes. 

Download a registration form here.

Suggested supplies for Ralph Basford's oil painting class (easels are provided):

• Oil Paints: white, yellow ochre,  cadmium yellow light (hue), cadmium red light (hue), alizarin crimson, burnt sienna, chromium green, ultramarine blue, black  
• Brushes: Bristle type 4, 6, 8  
• Canvas: Three canvas panels 10x12 or 11x14
• Other: Mineral spirits “Liquin” medium or equivalent, cloths/rags for wiping brushes

 Art supplies can be found locally at:

• Not Right Minded - 406 W. Race Street, 283-6657 www.notrightminded.com
• Queen Street Gallery - 213 N. Queen Street, 263-9495

Learn the basic skills of guitar playing in a small group setting. Proper posture, tuning, chording and rhythm patters and picking techniques will be covered. Teacher David LaFleur is a professional musician who is well known for his performances and original compositions. Class will feature both group instruction and individual breakout sessions. 

Open to teens and adults.  Tuition is $90 for six weeks.  Class meets Wednesday evenings from 6:30 - 8:30.  Class size: 5-10 students.  Students must provide their own guitar.  To download a registration form, click here.

Tuition is $90 plus a $40 supply fee.  Supply fee covers paint, brushes, palette, paper, and misc.  Current members of The Arts Centre pay just $75 tuition, plus $40 supply fee. 

A registration form is available here.

About the artist/teacher:

Wayne Peterson tends to paint in an impressionistic style, and primarily works in acrylics and watercolors. You can see the strong influences of Paul Cezanne, Edward Hopper, Charles Burchfield, John Marin, and Winslow Homer in his work. Wayne began winning prominent juried art shows in 1962 while he was still an M.F.A. student, and he's still going strong. In the national, regional and area juried shows in which his paintings have hung, he has come away with a prize over 80% of the time; and of those prizes, 72% were either First Place or Best of Show. Wayne's paintings have been exhibited at such prestigious venues as the Smithsonian, the Corcoran, the Butler Institute of American Art and the Chautauqua Institute. He has art works in the Permanent Collections of George Washington University, Edinboro University, Lock Haven University, and in more than 500 private collections.

In his own words:

"Inspiration for my work is found in everyday forms. I usually deal with representational themes from nature or religious subject matter. As the work progresses, a dialogue occurs among the paint, the painting, and me as I struggle to pull everything together. I think about color, value and shape in an abstract way in order to judge whether they work together for an effect, mood, feeling or quality --always feeling free to distort, change and simplify for a purpose. I am excited by the relationship of color, texture, value, contrast and shape."

(excerpts from http://www.waynepeterson.20m.com/)

A Gocco (rhymes with loco) is a compact screen printing system.  Any kind of artwork - original drawings, collages, found images, computer generated artwork - can be reproduced with a Gocco.  This system is fun and easy to use.  Try it once and you will be "loco for Gocco"!

In this one-day workshop, you will learn how to use a Gocco press and create a limited-edition print.  Your print can be used as a greeting card, or even framed.  Students may make a one-color or multi-color image. 

All the materials necessary to create a master screen and print a limited edition are included in the price of the workshop.  Students should bring ideas for printing and sample artwork.  (Suggested source images: personal photos, images from magazines, drawings, rubber stamps, etc.  Bring more than you think you will need.)  The class will take a brief walk to the public library to copy images (part of the printing process).

Class will be held from 1:30-4:30 on Saturday, June 21.  This class is limited to 6 students.

A registration form is available here.

For ideas on what can be made with a Gocco press, try:

• http://www.flickr.com/groups/loco4gocco/pool/
• http://www.flickr.com/groups/goccomotion/pool/
• http://www.etsy.com/search_results.php?search_type=tag_title&search_query=gocco