Learn all about clay, wheel-throwing techniques, hand building, and the process of glazing and firing. Make pots, figures, sculptures and bowls. Exceptional instructor Linda Stec provides guidance and support. New and returning students are welcome. Come and have fun!   Wonders of Clay with Linda Stec May 17 - June 21 Wednesdays, 3:30 - 5:30PM $170 + $15 materials Age: 6-15 Members receive class discounts! Check out our membership program here.    ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR: Linda Stec has been teaching clay at Waterfall Arts for over a decade. She has a degree in Fine Arts and has taken many masters level classes.…

 The FREE Art Together Mornings series continues on June 3 from 10:00am-12:00pm  with Bridget Matros!   Art Together Mornings is a series of monthly, FREE memorable mornings where adult and child create side-by-side! Each project is designed to fully engage all ages and stages; parents get their hands dirty enjoying the materials, while being guided with tips on supporting their young artists’ creativity. Each adult-child group takes home whatever they make as a keepsake of their special morning. Through the Art Together Mornings series, families explore a variety of activities and feel the benefits of the unique experience of…

Whether you want to further develop your established skills or begin with the basics, this tutorial is designed to individualize the needs of each student - a customized learning experience. If it’s linear perspective that has been your nemesis, you want to learn more about the proportions of the figure, or draw still-lifes, these studio sessions are centered around your specific interests with one-on-one discussion, demonstration, and critique. Bring your material or method questions. By working closely with the instructor, you'll have the advantage of direct interaction and intensive exchange to guide you toward your personal artistic objectives. Each day…

It’s summer in Maine and drawing outside is fun! Each week we'll set up in a different location to draw what we see — landscape, seascape, farmscape or townscape. This means learning linear and atmospheric perspective along with attention to measurement, proportion, spacial location, and compositional structure. In addition, various methods and materials will be introduced. If you're new to drawing or have lots of experience under your belt, these day-long sessions bring exploration and experimentation to your artistic expression. We meet at Waterfall Arts each morning for coffee and discussion - then out to spend the afternoons on location…

Intensive 3-day workshop for artists who want to expand their abilities to work digitally with photography or color using Adobe Photoshop.

Students will carve a small pieces of alabaster stone into an organic forms. We will look at examples of nature from the surrounding ecosytem (shells, lichen, plant pods) for inspiration for the forms of our work. Methods of carving including hammering with chisels, filing, sawing, and drilling will be taught. The various methods of finishing the stone from wet sanding to oiling and waxing will be the final part of the workshop.   Stone Carving with Anne Alexander Saturday, June 17th 10:00am - 4:00pm $65 + $20 materials fee Age: 15+ Members receive class discounts! Check out our membership program…

Get your blue on at the Indigo Social! Indigo is an unassuming leafy plant that has been used for centuries  to dye textiles every shade of blue, from the palest sky blue to the deepest blue-black.  Come and party at Waterfall Arts and get your Indigo on! Jackie will teach you how to make an indigo vat, and bring all sorts of gadgets and tools to create designs and resists.  Bring your own fabric/yarn/fiber/clothes/underwear (up to a pound or so total weight) or choose from Jackie's a la carte bar of white things: cloth napkins, tea towels, fingerless mitts/wrist warmers,…

Keep the creativity flowing through the summer with this weekly drop-in art club for ages 8-18! Kids can work on their own projects, get help with a certain skill, or experiment with the many materials in the Bridge Studio. Parents/guardians must come in and fill out a sign up form at drop-off (only the first time) or fill out the online form below before first drop-off. Kids can drop $8 into the jar when they arrive, or visits can be prepaid online or in the office. Headphones are allowed, but we ask that cellphones be used just for calls to parents…

Mugs, tiles and boxes and more are ready for you to add your personal touch. You decorate them, we’ll fire them, and you pick them up in a few days. Join Linda Stec for this paint your own pottery workshop, it’s a great way to have fun with friends or spend time with your family!  Everyone is welcome, kids under 12 must come with a supervising adult. Cover price includes one mug or tile; a small selection of other pieces will be available as well. Not confident with a brush? – no worries!  Use our stamps and easy to use…

The return of the popular make and take camp where we create a whole little world of our own... in addition to painting, printing, sculpting, drawing, building, playing, gluing, weaving and photographing!   Teensy Tiny Town II with Bridget Matros July 10 - 14 Mon - Fri, 9:00 - 3:00 for ages 8 to 12 $225 (10% sibling discount) Members receive class discounts! Check out our membership program here.    ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR: Bridget Matros, Waterfall Art’s Youth & Family Outreach Coordinator, will be leading the fun at Teensy Tiny Town. Matros came to Waterfall Arts with over 15 years of…

Remember film? Believe it or not it still exists and has been making a comeback over the past few years. Here is your chance to learn how to expose, process and print all in 2 days! This course will teach you all the basics one needs to know to get started. Using your own 35mm or 120mm film camera, you will learn how to expose film properly using the camera's manual settings, process it, and make enlargements in a traditional wet darkroom. This course lays the foundation to the many possibilities film photography offers.

Learn all about clay, wheel-throwing techniques, hand building, and the process of glazing and firing. Make pots, figures, sculptures and bowls. Exceptional instructor Linda Stec provides guidance and support. New and returning students are welcome. Come and have fun!   Wonders of Clay with Linda Stec July 12 - August 16 Wednesdays, 3:30 - 5:30PM $170 + $15 materials Age: 6-15 Members receive class discounts! Check out our membership program here.    ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR: Linda Stec has been teaching clay at Waterfall Arts for over a decade. She has a degree in Fine Arts and has taken many masters…

Assembly is a mixed media workshop lead by Karen Gelardi and Anna Hepler that will explore woodblock printing and collage. By printing shaped and simple carved woodblocks onto paper and fabric, we will generate materials and components that can be recombined as a collage or construction. Join us in making 2D and 3D works at the Assembly! This workshop is being presented in conjunction with the current exhibition, SEESAW: Works by Anna Hepler and Karen Gelardi.   ASSEMBLY! Mixed Media Collage with Anna Hepler and Karen Gelardi Saturday, July 22 10:00am - 3:00pm $65 Age: 15+ Members receive class discounts!…

This workshop is about getting out of the studio and into the landscape. Painting outdoors, with your subject facing you with every turn of the head, is unique. It’s immediate, ever-changing, meditative, and a remote cousin of the studio experience. In the words of one artist, it’s a living and vibrant, moment-to-moment transformation of your observations - with its shifts, permutations and deviations - all orchestrated by the passing of the day. With attention to color, method and materials, we’ll spend full days painting small works, with the idea a completing one or more paintings each session. It’s about LIGHT…

This class will explore watercolor's transparent qualities. Students will learn about washes, gradations, tonal values, manipulating and controlling the medium while being open to it's endless surprises.   Watercolor with Lesia Sochor August 2 - 4 Wednesday - Friday, 9:00AM - 12:00PM $95 + $10 materials Age: 15+ Members receive class discounts! Check out our membership program here.    ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR: Lesia Sochor is a graduate of the Philadelphia College of Art. Sochor is a dedicated and enthusiastic teacher who believes "anyone has the ability" to create. Sochor has lived, painted,exhibited and taught in Maine for 30 years. She…

This workshop will introduce methods of screen printing that do not require a dark room, exposure unit or photo-sensitive emulsion. Although the primary use of screen printing is using emulsion and positive-films, there is so much more to the art of silkscreening (seriography is the fancy word). This workshop will transform your understanding of screen printing as one that is no longer the commercial, fast-paced method of getting multi-layered prints, but screen printing as a means of creating monotypes that consist of more painterly marks and dynamic layering of different squeegee and inking techniques. The class will spend a day…

Sequencing is a way for both beginners and more experienced art makers to enter the process of painting at a deep and direct level, by taking away some of the traditional impediments to creative energy. It quickly identifies important elements in our creative work, momentarily suspends part of our thought process, and allows us to begin work without the burdens of self-doubt, memory, and desire. It helps to free us from the idea that quality artwork is wholly dependent on technique. Specifically, it emphasizes metaphor, color, light, the horizon, the physical encounter with the paint, and of course awareness and…

GELATIN PRINT with ABBIE READ Friday, July 11 9:00am - 12:00pm $30 + $10 materials Members receive class discounts! Check out our membership program here.    ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR: Abbie Read has taught a variety of art disciplines for many years – including printmaking, bookbinding, assemblage and painting. She has been working in abstract collage for decades, and loves the freedom to invent compositions and play around with the visual elements of shape, color and line.   Register by filling out the form below or calling the office at (207) 338-2222. Enroll early to ensure a spot![gravityform id="146" title="false" description="false"…

Eco-print uses locally sourced plant materials to capture impressions on cloth and paper. In this workshop we will explore the basics of printing with both silk and paper. Specially prepared papers and fibers are bundled, stacked and steamed, and the results are like unwrapping gifts- one never can be quite certain of the outcome, but the natural world provides us with amazing colors and patterns- from distinct plant images to abstract color effects. Susan Smith teaches in the Intermedia MFA program at the University of Maine-Orono, and uses multi-media in her own art practice, which focuses on unconventional materials and…

Participants will have the opportunity to handbuild vessels or throw on the wheel, then experience the exciting process of firing their pottery outdoors in a raku kiln. The first 3 classes will be for creating and glazing. Firing will take place during the final class.   Raku Clay with Linda Stec August 15, 17, 22, 25 Tues, Thurs, Tues, Fri 5:00PM - 7:00PM $60 + $10 materials Age: 15+ Members receive class discounts! Check out our membership program here.    ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR: Linda Stec has been teaching clay at Waterfall Arts for over a decade. She has a degree…