Friday, October 21 / 5:30 – 6:30 pm

Learn about the Mexican tradition of Dia de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) and create and decorate colorful sugar skulls!  This centuries old tradition honors and celebrates the souls of those who have passed. This class will provide demonstration of the steps of making a sugar skull from scratch. Each student will receive two sugar skulls to decorate and take home.

Instructor: Maria Segura
Ages: 1 – 12 (ages flexible)

Friday, October 21 / 4 – 5 pm

Learn about the Mexican tradition of Dia de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) and create and decorate colorful sugar skulls!  This centuries old tradition honors and celebrates the souls of those who have passed. This class will provide demonstration of the steps of making a sugar skull from scratch. Each student will receive two sugar skulls to decorate and take home.

Instructor: Maria Segura
Ages: 1 – 12 (ages flexible)

Thursdays, October 13 – November 17 / 4 – 4:45 pm 

Children ages 4 to 7 will have fun learning Spanish through play, music, games, books and art. Each day, we will begin with circle time and will end with an original art activity. 

Instructor: Maria Segura 
Ages: 4-7

Thursdays, September 29 – October 13 / 6 – 9 pm

NOTE: This class has been rescheduled for Thursdays, October 13 – 27. Please click here to register for the new dates.

Instructor: Jeff Ross
Ages: Adult (15+) and Up

Tuesdays, October 18 – November 15 / 6 – 9 pm

This beautiful, clear, and simple style of calligraphic writing is based on a circular “o.” The analysis of these lovely rounded shapes is a great place for students to begin a calligraphy education or to improve and refine skills for those who have previously studied lettering. Students will artfully letter minuscule and majuscule forms with pen and ink on paper to illustrate words.

Instructor: Carol Pallesen
Ages: Adult (15+)

Required Supplies:

Notebook (optional), 3mm Brause nib, nib holder, Higgins Eternal Ink, ink dishes (small to hold ink, larger to hold small dish), paper (Strathmore 300 Series Sketch 9×12″ tapebound), rag, apron, baby wipes.

If you have any questions regarding these supplies, please call Carol Pallesen directly (775 329-6983) and she will be able to assist you.

Sunday, October 23 / 10 am – 4 pm

This workshop will explore different collage and mixed media transfer approaches for use in journal books and small art works. Techniques you will learn include gelli-plate prints, gel skin transfers, building backgrounds with ephemera and acrylic paint; and using Xerox transfers as a source material to draw and paint with. 

Supply List: 

• Your Journal Book – good to have one with thick paper and/or loose sheets of thick paper
• Matte or Gloss Heavy Acrylic medium
• Inexpensive crafting brushes in various sizes 
• Gelli Arts Printing Plate (6”x6” or 8”x10”) 
• X-acto knife 
• China Marker 
• Uni-Ball white pen 
• Fine-point pigment pens or markers for detail work and writing 
• Craft Matte acrylic paints – the inexpensive ones in the bottles (at Wallmart they are around $1.50) in white, cream, and your favorite colors 
• Images in color and black and white that are printed out on a laser printer or color-copied
• Ephemera items: magazine images, decorative papers, copies of old letters, newspaper articles, tickets, receipts, junk mail, fabric pieces, different tapes like the decorative ones found in the scrapbooking section of stores. 
• A old credit card or gift card

Instructor: Candace Garlock
Ages: Adult (15+) / All Levels

Thursdays, September 29 – November 3 / 9 am – noon

This course teaches the basics of painting landscapes with traditional oils. Students will gain a good foundational working knowledge of equipment, supports, brush selection, brushwork, mixing color and mediums. The direct painting techniques of landscape painting will be taught without the use of solvents. Each lesson has demonstrations of the techniques with hands on experience.

Ages: 15 and Up / All Levels
Instructor: David McCamant

Required Supplies:

SUPPORTS 
Inexpensive canvas boards or panels.
Students who wish to do the homework will need to double the number of panels. 

• 1 – 11″ x 14” (OPTIONAL – add one more for homework*)
• 2 – 8″ x 10″ (OPTIONAL – add two more for homework*) 
• 3 – 6″ x 8″ (OPTIONAL – add three more for homework*) 

OIL PAINT

• 1 – 37 ml tube of oil paint in the following colors: 
• WHITE Titanium White (2 tubes are suggested) 
• YELLOW Cadmium Lemon, Windsor Yellow, Hansa Yellow Medium or Cadmium Yellow Light 
• RED Cadmium Red Hue, Cadmium Red Medium or Cadmium Berium Red (not deep) 
• BLUE French Ultramarine Blue or Ultramarine Blue 
• BLACK Ivory Black 
• MAGENTA (OPTIONAL*) Permanent Rose or Quinacridone Red 
• CYAN (OPTIONAL*) Thalo Blue or Phthalo Blue 
• You may bring whatever paint you have as long as they are the correct hues or colors. I recommend inexpensive Windsor Newton Winton student colors. 

PAINTING MEDIUM

• Neo MeGilp Medium 2oz or Larger 

BRUSHES 

• Recommend Connoisseur brand #2106 pure synthetic oil paint brushes or any artist quality manufacturer 
• VERY IMPORTANT 1 each #6 and #8 Long-Handled Filberts 

PALETTE 

• Gray Matters, palette paper or equivalent 

CLEANING JAR 

• Silicoil cleaning jar or other small jar with lid 

CLEANING SOLUTION 

• 1 – 8oz bottle of artist grade Walnut oil 

BRUSH CLEANER

• 2.5 OZ small cake of The Masters Brush Cleaner

PAPER TOWELS 

• 1 roll of BLUE shop paper towels (OPTIONAL – add one more for homework*) 

WET PANEL CARRIER 

• Inexpensive cookie sheet covered in aluminum foil or aluminum roasting pan for wet painting transport

Approximate Materials Cost $100. With optional items $130.

Thursdays, September 15 – October 6 / 7 – 9 pm

Students will enjoy this four-week gallery and classroom based series on the art of learning to look while analyzing the exhibition Tilting the Basin: Contemporary Art of Nevada. Students will develop a visual literacy and will build on their visual language while examining the diverse artwork of Nevada-based contemporary artists.

Instructor: Katty Hoover
Ages: Adult (15+) / All Levels

Sundays, November 6 – December 4* / 1 – 4 pm

NOTE: Class does not meet on Sunday, November 27.

Students will enjoy developing their painting techniques and skills in this observational open studio class.  Weekly subject matter will rotate focus between portrait painting, observational painting from nude and clothed models and still-lifes. Each class will begin with brief instruction followed by an open studio format painting class. Students may use acrylic or oil paint. Dry media is also welcome.

Instructor: Daniel Helzer
Ages: Adults (15+) / All Levels

Supply List:

• Color recommendations are as follows: Titanium White, Ultramarine Blue, Cadmium Red Medium or Light, Lemon or Cadmium Yellow, Light Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna, Viridian Green, Burnt Sienna
• Selection of brushes
• Pallet
• Palette knife
• Painting Board or Canvas 
• Container/jar water and brushes
• Paper towels
• Cheap Plastic Ruler
• Gamsol mineral spirits (if working in Oil)

Saturday, September 17 / 10 am – 2 pm

NOTE: This class is now sold out, but will be offered again on Saturday, October 22 and again on Saturday, November 19. Please click here to see all available dates.

Create a miniature pine needle basket using natural materials. Learn from the basket making tradition of Audrey Frank’s native Nevadan Washoe/Paiute culture. Explore weaving methods by combining pine needles, sinew and raffia in this one-day workshop. *Supply list. 

Instructor: Audrey Frank
Ages: Adult (15+) / All Levels