Continuing Education Classes Summer 2012

How to register:  call the CCCC office in Siler City at 919-545-8663 or  919-545-8033 in Pittsboro.  

You may pay in person or with a credit card by phone.

Continuing Education Classes

Beginning Wheelthrowing, Instructor, Raymond Edwards

Monday nights 6—9pm.  Clay Studio. This class will provide hands-on learning of basic pottery skills in a structured, supportive, fun setting. Students must bring  tools and a dust mask; beginner’s kits cost around $11.00.  Cost of course $80.  Materials fee $10. includes 25 lbs. clay & glaze, to be paid at registration

First Session:  May 14 through June 25 (6 weeks) CCCC closed May 28.

Second Session:   July 2 through July 30 (5 weeks).

 

Intermediate Wheelthrowing, Instructor, Raymond Edwards

Thursday nights 6—9pm.  Clay Studio.  This class will challenge students with some wheel experience by providing more time to practice and improve skills and techniques. 

Cost of course $65. Materials fee $10  to be paid at registration.  Bring clay tools and a dust mask.

First Session:  May 17 through June 21 (6 weeks).

Second Session,  June 28 through August 9 (6 weeks) CCCC closed July 5.

Advanced Wheelthrowing, Instructor, Darlene Brady

Tuesdays 10am—2pm.  Clay Studio.  Students will explore new forms, design techniques and  methods of glazing.  Bring clay tools and dust mask.

Cost of course $65.  Materials fee $10. includes 25 lbs. clay & glaze, to be paid at registration. 

First Session:  May 15 through June 12 (5 weeks).

Second Session:  June 26 through July 31 (5 weeks), no class July 10.

Clay Open Studio

Tuesdays 2:00—6:00pm.  Clay Studio.  Students bring supplies.

Open to current curriculum students and those registered in Continuing Education classes.

Cost $70.00.

May 22 through July 10 (8 weeks).

Beginner MIG Welding, Art & Hobby, Instructor, Kevin Kuhnel

Mondays 6:00—9:00pm.  Siler City Center (new facility).  Students will learn about safety, use of shop tools, and basic welding techniques working with welding equipment.  Bring leather apron, welding gloves, and safety glasses.  Steel toed boots preferred.

Cost of course $121.25.  Materials cost to student $40. to be paid at registration.

May 14 through July 30 (10 weeks), no class May 28, June 4.

Metal Art, Sculpture and Function (Advanced) Instructor, Kevin Kuhnel

Wednesdays 6:00—10:00pm.

Prerequisite:  one class or other experience in welding.  Learn about safety and use of shop tools for light cutting and welding of metals in the creation of steel sculptures with twists, turns and bronze highlights.

Bring:  welding apron, gloves, helmet, safety glasses.  Siler City Center. 

Cost $151.25.  Materials cost to student $45. to be paid at registration.

May 16 through August 1 (10 weeks).  No class June 6, July 4.

Joyce Bryan, Stoneware

Community Cone 10 Reduction Fire, Instructor, Joyce Bryan

Tuesdays, May 15 to June 19 (no class June 5), 5 weeks, 5:30 to 8:30pm.   June 12, 8:00am to 5:00pm.  Clay studio and Siler City Center. 

Calling all local potters to participate in CCCC's first cone 10 reduction fire in the Bailey kiln!  Bring your already-bisque-fired cone 10 pots and we will glaze and fire them. Talk pots, enjoy some good food and go home with nice looking pots to keep or share.

Cost of class $66.25.  Materials fee $10.00.

Introduction to Woodturning, Instructor, Bob Moffett

Mondays, 6:00 to 9:00, June 4 to June 25 (4 weeks), Siler City Center

Students will be introduced to woodturning, lathe safety, nomenclature, turning small projects and will develop skills as a woodturner.  Bring safety glasses.

Bob Moffett, Wood Bowl

Cost of class $66.25.

Continuing Education Workshops

Raku:  Night Firing, Instructor, Raymond Edwards

Friday, May 18, noon to 10:00pm (4 weeks), SAGE Academy metal shop

Students in this workshop will enjoy the excitement of the colors of their hot ceramic pieces as they are revealed after firing.  Each will mix glazes, set up the kiln, and safely fire using the Raku kiln.  Bring bisqueware.
Cost of workshop:  $46.25.




 Raymond Edwards Raku

Phillip Ashe, Encaustic

New Dimensions in Encaustics, Instructor, Phillip Ashe

Wednesdays, 6:00 to 9:00pm, June 13 through 27, 3 weeks

Students in this class will learn to manipulate encaustic paint medium both with and without pigment for the purpose of creating finished paintings and/or 2-dimensional mixed media.

Cost of workshop $90.00. Sculpture studio, Siler City Center

New Classes for Fall

Fine Arts Classes

Stoneware, Debbie Englund

Next fall Central Carolina Community College will be offering fine arts classes which will be transferable to four-year colleges and universities.   Pending final approval the Professional Arts and Crafts:  Sculpture program will change to offer an Associate in Fine Arts Degree. 

·         Classes offered will be:

·         Sculpture—students will explore creative and technical methods of sculpture with focus on traditional processes.  Students will work with a variety of media including clay and wood.  Stone carving is an exciting element of this course.

·         Ceramics—provides an introduction to three-dimensional design principles using the medium of clay.  Emphasis is placed on fundamentals of forming, surface design, glaze application, and firing.

·         2-D and 3-D Design—this course introduces the elements and principles of design as applied to two-dimensional and three-dimensional art.  Emphasis is placed on the structural elements principles of visual organization, and theories of color mixing and interaction.

·         Drawing—introduces the language of drawing and the use of various drawing materials.  Emphasis is on drawing techniques, media and graphic principles.

·         Painting—introduces the language of painting and the use of various painting materials.  Emphasis is on understanding and using various painting techniques, media, and color principles.

·         Printmaking—covers history, development techniques, and processes.  Emphasis is on basic applications with investigation into image source and development.  Upon completion, students should be able to produce printed images utilizing a variety of methods.

       

Students can expect to begin a four-year degree at a much lower cost ($22,000.00 over 4 years), quality instruction, small classes, creative atmosphere, well-equipped studios, and many opportunities.

Alabaster, Greg Bailey