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All Creative Arts Workshop Events on Saturday, October 12, 2024
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Centering with Clay: Focusing on Foundations
September 3, 2024 at 6:30pm to December 10, 2024 at 9:30pm – Creative Arts Workshop Are you looking to improve your throwing skills? Seeking to center your clay and yourself? Do you need a hand... with building a hand? My class offers an opportunity to work towards your goals in cla… Organized by Creative Arts Workshop | Type: pottery class
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Intermediate Metal Sculpture
September 3, 2024 at 6:30pm to October 29, 2024 at 9:30pm – Creative Arts Workshop For those already comfortable making metal sculpture, take your practice to the next level and develop new ideas using all types of materials. Includes one 3-hour weekly practice session during monit… Organized by Creative Arts Workshop | Type: metal sculpture class
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All Levels Pottery A + B
September 4, 2024 at 9:30am to December 11, 2024 at 12:30pm – Creative Arts Workshop Make functional ceramic pieces using the potter’s wheel as our primary tool. We will cover clay preparation, forming pots on the wheel, and glazing. Every class includes both demonstrations and indiv… Organized by Creative Arts Workshop | Type: pottery class
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Floor Loom Weaving
September 4, 2024 at 6pm to October 23, 2024 at 9pm – Creative Arts Workshop Learn the basics of preparing and operating a loom. Participants will weave a sampler piece combining a wide range of useful weaves. Beginning students will complete one or two simple projects of th… Organized by Creative Arts Workshop | Type: fiber arts class
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All Levels Pottery A + B
September 4, 2024 at 7pm to December 11, 2024 at 10pm – Creative Arts Workshop Make functional ceramic pieces using the potter’s wheel as our primary tool. We will cover clay preparation, forming pots on the wheel, and glazing. Every class includes both demonstrations and indiv… Organized by Creative Arts Workshop | Type: pottery class
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Pottery Beyond the Basics
September 5, 2024 at 9:30am to December 12, 2024 at 12:30pm – Creative Arts Workshop Want to try something new? Build your existing skills to grow ideas in a stimulating group of intermediate and advanced potters. Individual projects are encouraged, with demonstrations designed to in… Organized by Creative Arts Workshop | Type: pottery class
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All Levels Metal Sculpture
September 5, 2024 at 10am to December 12, 2024 at 1pm – Creative Arts Workshop Learn the various approaches to creating metal sculptures, including welding (oxyacetylene and MIG), brazing, cutting (torch and plasma cutter), hammering, and more. Includes one 3-hour weekly practi… Organized by Creative Arts Workshop | Type: metal sculpture class
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Afternoon Clay
September 5, 2024 at 3:30pm to December 12, 2024 at 6pm – Creative Arts Workshop Using both hand-building techniques and the potter’s wheel, participants learn the foundational skills needed to create basic ceramic cups, bowls, and floral containers. As students refine these skil… Organized by Creative Arts Workshop | Type: pottery class
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Making Functional Pots
September 5, 2024 at 6:30pm to December 12, 2024 at 9:30pm – Creative Arts Workshop If you are interested in making ceramic pieces for the home, this class is for you. Making functional pots is important to all levels of students, whether you throw pots on the wheel or prefer to bui… Organized by Creative Arts Workshop | Type: pottery class
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Silkscreen/Serigraph Printmaking
September 5, 2024 at 7pm to November 7, 2024 at 10pm – Creative Arts Workshop Silkscreen/serigraph printmaking is a highly versatile process used to transfer images onto a variety of surfaces. Students will transfer photo images (photography, drawing, painting, or multimedia a… Organized by Creative Arts Workshop | Type: printmaking class
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Centering with Clay: Focusing on Foundations
September 6, 2024 at 9:30am to December 13, 2024 at 12:30pm – Creative Arts Workshop Are you looking to improve your throwing skills? Seeking to center your clay and yourself? Do you need a hand... with building a hand? My class offers an opportunity to work towards your goals in cla… Organized by Creative Arts Workshop | Type: pottery class
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Drawing Humans
September 6, 2024 at 4:30pm to October 25, 2024 at 6:30pm – Creative Arts Workshop Students will familiarize themselves with human body proportions and shapes and begin understanding how different body parts relate to each other. Using a manikin and each other as models, students w… Organized by Creative Arts Workshop | Type: young people class
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Sketching With Markers
September 6, 2024 at 6pm to October 25, 2024 at 7:30pm – Creative Arts Workshop Using a variety of markers, learn basic shapes like circles, squares, triangles, and rectangles to get a feel for how the markers interact with the paper. Explore different techniques such as stippli… Organized by Creative Arts Workshop | Type: young people class
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Advanced Pottery Lab
September 6, 2024 at 6:30pm to December 13, 2024 at 9:30pm – Creative Arts Workshop Monitored sessions for participants with experience, and approved by an instructor or department head. Please note there is no instruction during these sessions. Wear clothes that can get dirty. Organized by Creative Arts Workshop | Type: pottery open studio
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Fashionable Look!
September 7, 2024 at 10am to October 26, 2024 at 11:30am – Creative Arts Workshop Creating bright costumes and dresses for fairy princesses, dolls, and supermodels in Procreate on an iPad allows for endless creativity with colors, textures, glitter, and styles. Use the sketching b… Organized by Creative Arts Workshop | Type: young people class
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Junior Artists
September 7, 2024 at 10am to November 23, 2024 at 11:30am – Creative Arts Workshop Creativity meets skill development for our youngest artists! Students will learn representational drawing and painting through observation of real objects and images. They’ll explore color theory, te… Organized by Creative Arts Workshop | Type: young people class
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Art Playground
September 7, 2024 at 12pm to November 23, 2024 at 1:30pm – Creative Arts Workshop No typical sand or slides at this playground! CAW’s playground has colored sand, wood, clay, tempera and watercolor paints, markers, tissue paper and more items than we have space to list here. Stude… Organized by Creative Arts Workshop | Type: young people class
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Anime Character Design using Procreate
September 7, 2024 at 12:30pm to October 26, 2024 at 2pm – Creative Arts Workshop Delve into the popular art of anime using Procreate software. Anime is a style of Japanese animation known for its blazing graphics, energetic characters with large eyes, untamed hair, lengthy arms a… Organized by Creative Arts Workshop | Type: young people class
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Let’s Get Sewing
September 8, 2024 at 1pm to October 13, 2024 at 3:30pm – Creative Arts Workshop Overcome the mysteries of the sewing machine and discover how fun and easy it can be! Learn the basics of machine sewing including threading, operating, and troubleshooting. Practice using the machin… Organized by Creative Arts Workshop | Type: fiber arts class
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Techniques for Wheel Throwing
September 9, 2024 at 9:30am to December 16, 2024 at 12:30pm – Creative Arts Workshop New and experienced students will focus on making pottery on the wheel. Start by using methods of wedging, centering, hand and finger positioning for raising a vessel, and positioning one’s body for… Organized by Creative Arts Workshop | Type: pottery class
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Techniques for Wheel Throwing
September 9, 2024 at 9:30am to December 16, 2024 at 12:30pm – Creative Arts Workshop New and experienced students will focus on making pottery on the wheel. Start by using methods of wedging, centering, hand and finger positioning for raising a vessel, and positioning one’s body for… Organized by Creative Arts Workshop | Type: pottery class
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Sew Easy for Young People
September 9, 2024 at 4:30pm to October 14, 2024 at 6pm – Creative Arts Workshop Yes, kids can safely sew on a machine! Learn all about how the machine works and then get sewing with simple projects like a pin cushion and small bags. Students will also learn hand stitching utiliz… Organized by Creative Arts Workshop | Type: young people class, sewing class
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Let’s Get Sewing
September 9, 2024 at 6:30pm to October 14, 2024 at 8pm – Creative Arts Workshop Overcome the mysteries of the sewing machine and discover how fun and easy it can be! Learn the basics of machine sewing including threading, operating, and troubleshooting. Practice using the machin… Organized by Creative Arts Workshop | Type: fiber arts class
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Introduction to Painting
September 9, 2024 at 7pm to October 14, 2024 at 10pm – Creative Arts Workshop Don’t be intimidated any longer—come learn to paint. This class will unfold the mysteries of painting by introducing students to the basics: selecting materials, setting up a palette, handling paint,… Organized by Creative Arts Workshop | Type: painting class
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Beginning/Intermediate Pottery
September 9, 2024 at 7pm to December 16, 2024 at 10pm – Creative Arts Workshop This class is for beginners eager to learn all aspects of pottery, as well as returnees who wish to hone their skills. Although the primary focus is on wheel throwing, we will also explore hand-build… Organized by Creative Arts Workshop | Type: pottery class
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Intermediate and Advanced Pottery
September 9, 2024 at 9:30pm to December 10, 2024 at 12:30pm – Creative Arts Workshop Develop your pottery skills as you focus on wheel-throwing techniques in stoneware and porcelain. Lessons will cover both functional and decorative pottery with emphasis on classical forms as we know… Organized by Creative Arts Workshop | Type: pottery class
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Saturday Drawing Club
September 14, 2024 at 10am to November 2, 2024 at 12pm – Creative Arts Workshop Show up for your creative self in 2024 with the Saturday Drawing Club. Explore weekly prompts and materials combined with a mix of conversation, creative time, and feedback. Bring an ongoing project… Organized by Creative Arts Workshop | Type: drawing, class
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Collagraph Printmaking
September 16, 2024 at 6pm to October 21, 2024 at 9pm – Creative Arts Workshop Explore the versatile technique of collagraphy, a printmaking process in which materials are glued or sealed to a rigid substrate (such as paperboard or wood) to create a plate. Once inked, the plate… Organized by Creative Arts Workshop | Type: printmaking class
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Metalsmithing/Jewelry
September 17, 2024 at 11am to December 3, 2024 at 2pm – Creative Arts Workshop Learn basic metalsmithing for making jewelry, developing new skills, or strengthen existing ones. Weekly demonstrations introduce tools and techniques required for working with nonferrous sheet metal… Organized by Creative Arts Workshop | Type: jewelry class, sculpture class
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Intermediate and Advanced Printmaking
September 18, 2024 at 10:30am to October 30, 2024 at 3:30pm – Creative Arts Workshop You decide – explore multiple printmaking techniques and processes or deepen your practice in one area. Use etching, drypoint, woodcut, linocut, monotype, transfer prints, paper lithography, polymer… Organized by Creative Arts Workshop | Type: printmaking class
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Developing a Portfolio - ONLINE
September 18, 2024 at 6:30pm to November 13, 2024 at 8:30pm – Creative Arts Workshop This advanced five week on-line course is designed to strengthen an understanding of how to form a body of work. It will consist of critiques, assignments, and presentations of master photographers. … Organized by Creative Arts Workshop | Type: photography class
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Metalsmithing/Jewelry
September 19, 2024 at 6:30pm to December 5, 2024 at 9:30pm – Creative Arts Workshop Learn basic metalsmithing for making jewelry, developing new skills, or strengthen existing ones. Weekly demonstrations introduce tools and techniques required for working with nonferrous sheet metal… Organized by Creative Arts Workshop | Type: jewelry class, sculpture class
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Water-based Printmaking
September 21, 2024 at 9:30am to November 2, 2024 at 2:30pm – Creative Arts Workshop Explore print processes using safe water-soluble inks and novel plate supports. Develop personal imagery utilizing woodcut, linocut, etching, drypoint, monotype, monoprint, trace monotype, collagraph… Organized by Creative Arts Workshop | Type: printmaking class
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Printmaking Sampler
September 25, 2024 at 6:30pm to October 30, 2024 at 9:30pm – Creative Arts Workshop Learn traditional and experimental printmaking processes, concentrating in one area or exploring many. Etch like Rembrandt, Goya, and Kentridge; monotype like Degas, Masur, and Oliveira; woodcut like… Organized by Creative Arts Workshop | Type: printmaking class
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Saturday Sketching
September 28, 2024 at 10am to December 7, 2024 at 11:30am – Creative Arts Workshop Explore, learn, and practice drawing exercises and techniques in a supportive environment. Increase visual perception, skills and confidence, and develop your unique style. Work with drawing pencils,… Organized by Creative Arts Workshop | Type: young people class
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Saturday Sketching
September 28, 2024 at 12:30pm to December 7, 2024 at 2pm – Creative Arts Workshop Explore, learn, and practice drawing exercises and techniques in a supportive environment. Increase visual perception, skills and confidence, and develop your unique style. Work with drawing pencils,… Organized by Creative Arts Workshop | Type: young people class
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Fall Color Painting
September 28, 2024 at 1pm to November 2, 2024 at 3:30pm – Creative Arts Workshop Inspired by the autumnal colors, learn to create your own colors for painting. Expand your awareness of color using the phenomenon of simultaneous contrast (two adjacent colors influencing each other… Organized by Creative Arts Workshop | Type: painting class
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Multimedia Exploration
October 5, 2024 at 12:30pm to November 30, 2024 at 2pm – Creative Arts Workshop Approach new subjects and media with curiosity and excitement as students learn who they are as creators. Focus will be on the basic principles of drawing and painting with an emphasis on exploration… Organized by Creative Arts Workshop | Type: young people class
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Open Street Project
An Open Streets Family Reunion: Reflections from the 2018 Open Streets Summit
By Ryan O’Connor, Director of Programs, 8 80 Cities Recently 8 80 Cities wrote a blog post about open streets being a labour of love. That being the case, the 2018 Open Streets Summit in New Orleans felt like a family reunion of sorts. It was rejuvenating to see old and new friends who share our passion for open streets and are working tirelessly to create healthier, happier, and more connected communities across the world. The event, which took place on September 15-16, brought together more than 50 leaders who currently organize open streets programs or are interested in bringing the...
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Open Streets Summit Draft Agenda
We hope you are getting ready and feel excited about the Open Streets Summit in Gretna/New Orleans! Taking place from September 15-16, 2018, the Summit will feature tours, presentations and networking opportunities with open streets champions and organizers from across the continent. Attendees will learn about the nuts and bolts of starting or scaling up open streets programs, including: Route design and planning Partnerships with business and officials Social inclusion Safety and logistics Marketing and promotion Program evaluation through measurable goals and metrics If you haven’t done it yet, click here to register for the Open Streets Summit only or...
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Open Streets Summit Speakers Announced!
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Local Initiatives Support Corporation
Creating Opportunity in Rural America: Why Our Funders Support Rural LISC
Funders make realizing our mission possible. At our recent Rural Seminar in Little Rock, Arkansas, we asked our funders why they support Rural LISC. Hear what our friends from USDA Rural Development, Mastercard Strive, U.S. Bank and Walton Family Foundation had to say.LISC and American Express to Help Small Businesses Prepare for and Recover from Future Natural Disasters with $5 Million Grant
A new $5 million grant from American Express will help LISC and its business development organization partners equip small business owners with the knowledge and tools they need to prepare for and recover from natural disasters. The work will focus on communities in Chicago, Detroit, New Orleans and Puerto Rico.In Memoriam: Beth Marcus, Former LISC EVP of Development
Beth Marcus, who died on Dec 1, was a 16-year veteran of LISC who led the organization’s fundraising to unprecedented levels of success, with an unwavering eye to forging maximum impact for underserved communities. In a tribute to her life and legacy, LISCers past and present reflect on Marcus’s extraordinary vision, effectiveness and heart.
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