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Marketing Yourself as an Artist

Instructor: Lisa Goren
Are you ready to get your artwork "on the market"? Marketing your artwork and focusing your efforts are important elements in moving to a professional level. In this class, an artist and marketing professional will lead discussions on how to create realistic goals, how to get over stage fright and how to organize inexpensive exhibitions that can be financially rewarding. Other points of discussion will be the advantages and disadvantages of website and moving your work into reporductions. Most importantly, this class will help you learn to think and act like a businessperson in the art world. Limited to 15.

Fall: Nov 1 & 15
Thursdays 6:30-9:30pm

Winter: Jan 24 & 31
Thursdays 6:30-9:30pm

2 Sessions M: $50 NM: $54

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Book Making

Instructor:Angela Liguori
Open to ages 12+
Learn some basic bookbinding techniques, while creating three different books: an accordian, a pamphlet stitch and a Japanese stab binding. By using beautiful paper, glue and book board, you will learn some basic skills to continue making your own books, portfolios or photo albums.

Fall: Oct 14
Sunday, 11:00am-4:00pm

M: $36 NM: $40 Materials: $25

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Tour Boston's Public Art

FREE! With Susan Navarre
Join BAC's Director Susan Navarre for an art historical tour through one of her favorite places: the Boston Public Library. We will explore and learn more about the architecture by McKim, Mead and White and the artwork by John Singer Sargent, Puvis de Chavannes, Edwin Austin Abbey . . . and more!

Meet at the Main Entrance of the Library
Winter: Thursday, March 6th 1:00-4:00pm

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Ceramic Raku Workshop

Instructor: The Potters Shop
Friday Full-day Workshop
We have arranged a special fieldtrip to the Potters Studio for an alternative firing opportunity. This semester we will be doing a Raku firing which is a Japanese method of glazing where the artist, heat, glazes, and clay are part of the creation. Spend the day learning and participating in this old art form. Open to all students. Bring three medium size bisque pieces. Call with any questions. This is sure to be a magical workshop!

Fall: Oct 19th,
Friday 10:00am-6:00pm

Winter: Mar 2nd
Friday 10:00am-6:00pm

M: $58 NM: $65

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Kinetic Sculpture: Making Mobiles Workshop

Instructor: Vladimir Barsukov
There is something magical about mobiles. like living creatures, they move and have personaities; they can be humorous, meditative, or garaceful. In this workshop we will explore ways to balance, assemble, and hang mobiles and students will be encouraged to create their own unique designs.

FALL: Oct 27 or Nov 3rd
Saturday, 12:00-4:00pm

WINTER: Feb 16
Saturday, 12:00-4:00pm

1 session M: $32 NM: $35 Materials: $15

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Mini-class
Metal Clay

Open to ages 14+
Instructor: Stephanie Houston
The invention of Precious Metal Clay, better known as PMC, is a new approach to making jewelry. Pure silver or gold is suspended in an organic binder that burns away when the material is fired in a kiln. This is an exciting class where students mold, sculpt and use household tools to create earrings, pendants, and even rings. Students are encouraged to experiment and develop new designs with this new media.

Fridays, 6:00-9:00pm
FALL:1 Session. Sept 21 - Oct 26
2 Session. Oct 12 - Oct 26
WINTER: Mar 7 - 21

3 sessions M: $76 NM: $85 Materials: $60

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Free Lecture & Demo: Alternative Tools & Surfaces

Presenter: Declan Halpin
Ready to try something new? Using acrylic paints, we'll take a look at painting on things other than canvas, and using tools other than brushes. the workshop will cover substrate preparation, making your own painting tools, and creating unique textures/effects. All materials will be supplied by Golden Artist Colors

FALL: Saturdays, Sept 29
Lecture/Demo: 9:00-12:00pm
Workshop: 1:00-4:00pm Workshop fee: $40

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