Visual Arts
kids-teens-adults
Come and enjoy art classes in a variety of subjects in a variety of media. Your downtown art center offers art classes, workshops, special events, artist studios, birthday parties, gallery and meeting spaces, and more! Weekly classes and workshops are offered in drawing, painting, and ceramics. Each class is unique and small in size. Students focus on growing as individuals with a lot of personal attention from instructors. The projects are fun and creative and will be taught by our accomplished artists and teachers.
Our art classes meet in 8-week sessions as follows:
Session 1: August 11, 2025- October 3, 2025
Session 2: October 6, 2025- December 12, 2025
***No classes week of October 13, November 24
Session 3: January 12, 2026 - March 6, 2026
Session 4: March 16, 2026– May 15, 2026 ***No classes week of April 6
visual arts classes
2024-2025
Principal: Kim Riner
Call 912.212.2787 to register!
kids
KidShop Studio - Registration Closed for session 3
Mondays @ 4:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Ages: 5-10 years old
Instructor: Lois Harvey
Tuition: $99 per 8-week session ($90 member) + $15 supply fee
Explore your creativity! Classes offer students the chance to experience a variety of media including sculpture, painting, drawing and more. Students will work on a variety of projects with an emphasis on fun, creativity, and self-expression all while learning valuable artistic techniques. This class is appropriate for all levels from the beginner just looking for fun to the avid artist looking for new ways to experiment and improve their work!
Youth Wheel Throwing
Wednesdays @ 4 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
Ages: 9-18 years old
Instructor: Lois Harvey
Tuition: $120 per 8-week session ($100 member) + $15 supply fee
Come have fun with clay! This class is an introduction to the potter's wheel for beginning students. Basic throwing skills will be taught, as well as the technical skills needed to make beautiful creations. Surface treatments will also be explored to finish your artwork with style. This course is limited to seven students per session.
Youth Wheel Throwing
Thursdays @ 4 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
Ages: 9-18 years old
Instructor: Madeline Shelor
Tuition: $120 per 8-week session ($100 member) + $15 supply fee
Come have fun with clay! This class is an introduction to the potter's wheel for beginning students. Basic throwing skills will be taught, as well as the technical skills needed to make beautiful creations. Surface treatments will also be explored to finish your artwork with style. This course is limited to eight students per session.
Hand-Building in Clay for Kids
Tuesdays @ 4 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
Ages: 5+ years old
Instructor: Madeline Shelor
Tuition: $110 per 8-week session ($100 member) + $15 supply fee
Kids will have a blast expressing themselves artistically through the medium of clay. In this class kids will learn to design and make hand-built pottery and ceramic sculpture using various techniques such as slab construction, coiling, and pinching. Glazing techniques will also be covered in this course. This is a great class for all levels; we start with the basic construction methods and explore the limitless possibilities of the material.
Kids on Canvas: Drawing & Painting
Tuesdays @ 4:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
Session 4 Only!
Ages: 9-14 years old
Instructor: Cheyenne Smith
Location: Upstairs Studio, Roxie Remley
Tuition: $99 per 8-week session ($90 member) + $15 supply fee
Students will explore the world of drawing and painting in this class. They will be encouraged to let their own creativity guide them with the paints while learning about the materials and techniques. For inspiration, we will look at various artists throughout history to understand how they made creative and inventive artwork. We will draw and paint on a variety of surfaces. For each new technique, students will receive a class demonstration at the beginning of class.
Printmaking for Kids!
Mondays @ 4:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
Session 2-4 only
Ages: 10+ years old
Instructor: Madeline Shelor
Location: Upstairs Studio, Roxie Remley Center
Tuition: $99 per 8-week session ($90 member) + $10 supply fee
This class is all about printmaking and bookbinding. Your student will learn all about making prints from everyday home items and nature straight from your yard. We will explore and learn the ins and outs of hand carving, learn basic western/eastern bookbinding, design our own sketchbooks and make tons of printable designs. We will play with ink, paint and even make a unique stamp!
Homeschool
Homeschool: Clay for Kids
Thursdays @ 2:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
Ages: 5-13 years old
Instructor: Madeline Shelor
Tuition: $110 per 8-week session ($100 member) + $15 supply fee
This class is designed for home-schooled children who want to enrich their educational experience by exploring their creativity with clay. Students will create a variety of projects using basic hand-building techniques such as: pinching, coiling and slab construction. Students will have fun creating projects that are functional and artistic as they explore the medium of clay. The projects will be adapted to meet the ability level of the student while challenging the student to reach mastery of the clay techniques. Students will explore their creativity through construction and decoration of clay projects; but most of all the student will experience the joy of creative and artistic expression through clay.
teens & adults
Painting with Watercolors
Two sessions only:
Painting, portraits and figures in watercolors
Wednesday, August 7th to Wednesday, September 12th
Time 9:30-12:00
Painting, flowers, and watercolors
January 8th to February 12th
Time: 9:30-12:00
Note: please come early to setup
Instructor: Rebecca Hibbs
Location: Roxie Remley Center
Tuition: $110 per 6-week session ($100 member)
In this class, both beginners and intermediates will learn the ins and outs of watercolor painting. Join Rebecca to delve into the basics of the medium and studies of value, light and color mixing. Small class sizes ensure personalized time with the instructor. Please call Rebecca Hibbs 912-224-7593 for a supplies list.
Adult Drawing
Tuesdays @ 6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Session 4 Only!
Ages: 14+
Instructor: Cheyenne Smith
Tuition: $110 per 8-week session ($100 member)
If learning to draw has always been a desire, but a lack of skills or knowledge has been a fear factor, this class is for you. Join Cheyenne as she guides the class through the basics of drawing through perception. We will begin with the very basics such as how to perceive what you are drawing, how to use shading to create form and how to draw with more confidence. Supplies needed: Drawing pencils, eraser and a quality sketchbook.
Landscape Painting in Depth - Registration Closed for session 3
Thursdays @ 6 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Ages: 16+
Instructor: Syrin Webb Johnson
Location: Olson 2-D Studio, Roxie Remley Center
Tuition: $145 per 8-week session + Supply fee: $5
Great landscape painting can center us and connect us more deeply with the natural world; it can awe, inspire, mystify–stir something deep within our hearts that connects us all to something bigger. This course aims to demystify why some landscape paintings hold entire rooms by themselves, while others are lucky to get a second glance. With technical perspective and aesthetic inspiration from historical giants of the genre like J.M.W. Turner and the Hudson River School painters, students will explore traditional landscape techniques in depth, moving from life-drawing to color and master studies, and finally fully realized works in watercolor, oil paint, and pastel. Emphasis will be given to color theory and composition as well as the intricacies of rendering atmospheric effects across several media and various subgenres of landscape (city, aquatic, nocturne, etc.). The goal of this course is not only learning to paint moving landscapes but also learning to perceive the world more richly. Purchasing supplies will be discussed at the first class.
teens & adults Ceramics
Classes will meet once a week for either 4 or 8 weeks.
Class fee includes:
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instruction
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use of equipment
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25lbs. of clay for 8-week classes or 12 pounds for 4 week classes
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studio glazes and firings
Additional clay may be purchased. All clay is $40 for a 25lb. bag. The price of clay includes the cost of firings and studio glazes.
Ceramic Sampler Classes
Tuesday Ceramic Sampler | Tuesdays @ 5:30 p.m.-8 p.m.
Wednesday Ceramic Sampler | Wednesdays @ 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
Friday Ceramic Sampler | Fridays @ 5:30 p.m.-8 p.m. -- Registration Closed for session 3
Ages: 14+
Tuesday Instructor: Kimberly Riner
Wednesday Instructor: Madeline Shelor
Tuition: $224 per 8-week session ($205 member)
​No matter how young or old you can be successful in clay. Employing a variety of hand building and wheel throwing techniques we will have fun making functional and sculptural pieces. We will glaze and fire our work to take home and enjoy. This is a perfect class for all levels! Pick the day and time that works best for you. Our instructor will individualize instruction to your needs. Tuition includes 25 lbs. of clay with glazes and firings, as well as practice time during Open Studio hours. Additional clay and tools can be purchased for $40.
Beginning Wheel Throwing
Wednesdays @ 6:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Ages: 14+
Instructor: Syrin Johnson
Tuition: $224 per 8-week session ($205 member)
Want to focus only on learning how to throw on the wheel? This class is designed for you! In this eight-week course, you will learn the techniques to throw cups, bowls and small vases on a pottery wheel, apply colorful glazes, and fire your work. All of your work will be functional in the home.
Creatures & Characters in Clay: Sculpting with Feelings
Mondays @ 5:30 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Ages: 16+
Instructor: Syrin Webb Johnson
Location: 3-D Studio, Roxie Remley Center
Tuition: $224 ($205 member)
This class will teach students to bring creative creatures from their imagination to life in clay–whether they be elegant, finely-finished portrait busts, miniature animals or massive monsters. Students will be introduced to fundamentals of gesture and characterization, capturing expression, animal anatomy, and the basics of handbuilding, surface decoration, and glazing techniques in clay. By studying some of art history’s most famous creatures both real and mythical, those enrolled will explore new creative horizons in character building and rendering emotion in their imagined humans or whatever-the-heck-they-may-be creatures. Students will leave with several ceramic sculptures of their own creation and a richer ability to imbue the inanimate with life.
Advanced Wheel Throwing Class
Thursdays @ 5:30 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Ages: 14+
Instructor: Linda Whitt Smith
Location: 3-D Studio, Roxie Remley Center
Tuition: $224 per 8 week session
These classes are designed for the wheel throwing student who has some experience. In these 8-week sessions, our instructor, Linda Whitt Smith will focus on furthering your skills in specific areas. Linda will also share her secrets to glazing! 12 pounds of clay included.
Newly Updated!
Stacking Forms in Clay
Thursdays @ 5:30 p.m. - 8 p.m. One Session Only!
Dates: September 9 - October 4
Ages: 16+
Instructor: Crystal Holman
Tuition: $112 per 4-week session ($103 member)
Stack wheel thrown forms to create new and unique ceramic vessels! Combine simple wheel-thrown forms to create complex ceramic vessels! Students will learn extra tips to join and manipulate the clay to form candlesticks and flower vases. During the class, students will learn several ways to use simple tools to achieve amazing results! This class will allow students to create larger ceramic vessels that will be accented by glaze. The class is best for the student who has wheel throwing experience, and who wants to increase their technical skills. Plus, the class will have a few fun projects to practice stacking and joining skills.