Classes + Groups

Masks of Change -Winter 2008

Masks for Change
A personal growth group

April 16 to May 21st
1 to 3
$135 includes materials for 6 weeks

Are your ready to recreate your life through art? Here is your hands-on opportunity to make your own MASK OF CHANGE. We use the metaphor of the Mask to look at our lives, see what we need to do and find the courage it takes to make the changes. Jo Ann has created a supportive, non-judgmental setting, where creativity and search are welcome. You will work with a varied array of art materials, journaling, sound and movement to develop your own spirit mask to bring forth transformation in your life.

Highlights

Visual arts experience
Movement
Drama
Personal exploration in a supportive group atmosphere
Applications for play therapy


Winter Puppet Class

Saturday mornings, starting January15th

10-noon
ages 8 to adult

Puppet projects may include

sock puppets
rod puppets
giant puppets
shadow puppets
moving-mouth hand puppets
marionettes.
Learn the basic papier mache process, wood and glue construction and costume making. Become a puppeteer, making puppet shows and performing them. Learn problem solving, collaboration and brainstorming. No experience necessary

Fee $135 for a six week session

Winter Session

The Puppeteers at the Farmers Market

PATHFINDERS

New Art Therapy Group for Teens at the Art Experience

Saturday Afternoons from 4 to 6 beginning January 22nd, 2011.

at the Art Experience 641 W Martin Luther King Blvd in Fayetteville.

Art making in groups is a very fun and powerful way to find your own solutions to problems, share your work, thoughts and feelings with others your own age. We will be working with lots of different materials so that you can get a chance to try out your creativity with lots of different materials. Some examples of what we will use are: drawing, painting, sculpting with clay, paper, plaster or found objects, of using collage, mask-making, puppet-making. Creating our stories in art to express ourselves and find some solutions to personal problems at the same time.

We will meet weekly to do art and talk for six sessions. No experience is necessary.

$120 for 6 two-hour sessions. Sliding fee scale possible