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
2025-2026
Principal: Kim Riner
Call 912.212.2787 to register! 2025-2026 classes available for registration
kids
KidShop Studio!
Instructor Name: Lois Harvey
Day of the Week: Mondays
Time: 4:00-5:00pm
Location:- Roxie Remley Center for Fine Art
Room: Upstairs studio
Tuition: $99 per 8 week session ($90 Member) + $15 supply fee
Ages: 5-10
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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 Ceramic Sampler
Instructor: Lois Harvey
Day of the Week: Wednesdays
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Location: Roxie Remley Center for Fine Arts
Room: 3-D Ceramics Studio
Tuition: $100 per 8 week session ($100 Member) + $15 Supply Fee
Ages: 9-18
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Come have fun with clay! This class is an exploration of the potter's wheel and hand building for beginning and intermediate students. Basic throwing skills will be taught, as well as the technical skills needed to make beautiful hand-built creations. Surface treatments will also be explored to finish your artwork with style.
Youth Wheel Throwing
Instructor: Madeline Shelor
Day: Thursdays
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Location: Roxie Remley Center for Fine Arts
Room: 3-D Ceramics Studio
Tuition: $120 per 8 week session ($100 Member) + $15 supply fee
Ages: 9-18
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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.
Hand-Building in Clay for Kids
Instructor: Madeline Shelor
Day: Tuesdays
Time: 4:00-5:15pm
Location: Roxie Remley Center for Fine Arts
Room: 3-D Ceramics Studio
Tuition: $110 per 8 week session ($100 Member) + $15 supply fee
Ages: 5-11
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​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
Instructor: Athena Wilson
Day: Tuesdays
Time: 5:30 - 6:30 pm
Location: Roxie Remley Center for Fine Arts
Room: Upstairs Studio
Tuition: $99 per 8 week session ($90 Member) + $15 supply fee
Ages: 9-14
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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.
Homeschool
Homeschool: Clay for Kids
Instructor: Georgina Osuna Diaz
Day: Tuesdays
Time: 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Location: Roxie Remley Center for Fine Arts
Room: 3-D Ceramics Studio
Tuition: $110 per 8 week session ($100 Member) + $15 supply fee
Ages: 5-13
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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.
adults
Painting with Watercolors
Two sessions only:
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.
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Instructor: Rebecca Hibbs
Day: Wednesday
Time: 9am - 11:30 am
Location: Roxie Remley Center for Fine Arts
Room: 2-D Olson Studio
Tuition: $125 non-member ($100 Member)
Ages: 18+
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First Session: ​September 3rd to October 8th, 2025
Painting glass in watercolor
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Second Session: January 7, 2026 to February 18, 2026
Painting Red in watercolor canvas
Oil Painting
Instructor: Marcy Simmons
Day: Tuesdays
Time: 6:15 - 8:15pm
Location: Roxie Remley Center for Fine Arts
Room: 2-D Olson Studio
Tuition: $125 per 8 week session ($100 Member)
Ages: 16+
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This course provides an immersive introduction to oil painting covering materials, safe handling practices, brushwork, and principles of composition and visual balance. Students will learn to examine color relationships and mixing techniques to create a diverse palette, as well as how to identify, analyze, and manipulate value to create depth, form, and dimension in your work. This course also encourages experimentation with various styles to help develop your artistic voice. This class is suitable for beginners and those looking to refine existing skills or explore new methods. This class will require you to purchase your own supplies which will be discussed in the first class.
teens & adults Ceramics
Classes will meet once a week for 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
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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.
Tuesday Instructor: Kimberly Riner
Wednesday Instructor: Madeline Shelor
Location: Roxie Remley Center for Fine Arts
Room: 2-D Olson Studio
Ages: 14+
Tuition: $224 per 8-week session ($205 member)
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​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
Instructor: Syrin Webb Johnson
Day: Mondays
Time: 5:30 - 8:00 pm
Location: Roxie Remley Center for Fine Arts
Room: 3-D Ceramics Studio
Tuition: $224 per 8 week session ($205 Member)
Ages: 14+
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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
Wednesdays @ 5:30 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Ages: 14+
Instructor: Syrin Webb Johnson
Location: 3-D Studio, Roxie Remley Center
Tuition: $224 ($205 member)
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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
Instructor: Linda Whitt Smith
Thursdays @ 5:30 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Location: 3-D Studio, Roxie Remley Center
Tuition: $224 per 8 week session ($205 member)
Ages: 14+
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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!