Thursdays from 5pm – 6:30pm, March 6 – April 3, 2025

Class Session: March 6th, 13th, 27th and April 3rd from 5:00-6:30pm

Optional Class on March 20th from 6:00-8:30pm. Come join a live drawing class with a live fully clothed model! 

Description: Explore your growing creative practice and expand your understanding of your chosen medium(s) in a group of independent artists. In this class, the format is up to you! Work with your choice of media including pen and ink, acrylic, colored pencil, collage, watercolor, tablet drawing, and beyond. The class meets once a week and focuses on individual skill and concept development. This can be helpful for growing portfolios for further opportunities and also building a vocabulary around your current artistic interests.

Course Overview: Each class begins with a group conversation and a brief presentation by the instructor to inspire/direct ideas. The presentation will introduce a few artists (a mixture of historic and contemporary artists) that will relate to individual and group conversations.

Each student will then begin work on their projects. For some, this will be brainstorming and research, moving towards bigger projects (drawing, sketching, collaging, photoshopping, etc.). For others, this will be jumping right into executing projects with a variety of materials. This instructor will teach in a roaming style to help facilitate ideas and offer formal reactions.

Each class with wrap up with a small critique to grow students’ visual verbal language skills. Here, we will stress avoiding evaluative phrases such as “I like” or “I don’t like” and rather encourage using aesthetic description and even visual connections/relations when speaking to one another about the projects.

Supplies List: Participants are required to have a sketchbook as a mode of individual research. While materials for some mediums will be provided by the Arts Center, students should bring their own supplies for the medium they wish to explore. If the student does not already have their desired tools, the instructor can provide the student with a recommended supply list for that medium.

Teacher Bio:
Seán Boylan is a practicing artist and has been an arts educator for the better part of the last twenty years. From drawing and painting to installation and video/film work, Seán covers a wide gamut of subject matter and material exploration in his practice. As a teacher, he currently works at Carroll Community College teaching painting and fundamentals of art. He has an MFA from the Slade School of Fine Art in London.