May 04 Saturday
For Adult Students
$48
Saturday, May 4, 2024
10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Caricature is an old and respected art form. It’s also a lucrative sideline for a professional artist. In this workshop, we’ll discuss the ways to exaggerate and simplify an individual’s distinctive features to depict someone in a way that’s both funny and instantly recognizable. The instructor has been drawing caricatures professionally for over 30 years, and has learned to draw them both at leisure and under intense time pressure. He’ll draw a caricature of each of the students, and they intern will draw each other and celebrities from the worlds of entertainment, politics, and sports.*Pre-registration is required for Art School classes; classes will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis. Students will be registered ONLY on receipt of payment.
May 06 Monday
$48 + $15 material fee
Monday, May 6, 2024
12 – 4 p.m.
My original Unity Baby animals are hand sewn out of fleece (you can also use wool) and embellished with embroidery. This is a four-hour workshop in which you will make “Birdy”.
*Pre-registration is required for Art School classes; classes will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis. Students will be registered ONLY on receipt of payment.
3 SESSIONS · MONDAYS, MAY 6, 13, AND 20 • 5:30 TO 7 PM
Teens & Adults · Take a trip down memory lane for the 50th anniversary of Expo ‘74 in this three-session poetry and short prose workshop with local writers Benjamin Van Voorhis and Leah Dawdy. The first two workshop sessions will include discussions about the craft of writing, as well as prompts, readings, and images based around the history of Spokane that will inspire you to create work celebrating the city’s growth and change. In the third meeting of this workshop, edit and refine your writing generated from the earlier prompts alongside other participants with the help of our project leads.
Participants’ final pieces will be published in a professionally-bound book featuring original art. Participation in the first two sessions of this workshop and community event release will be asked of all participants who are able to attend. Registration for this program is free thanks to financial support from Spokane Arts and the City of Spokane. Donations are still welcome via your registration, which supports other Spark Central programming, keeping costs free for our community.
Book project writing workshop dates: 5/6, 5/13, and 5/20 for an optional revision session, all from 5:30 - 7 PM. Register today to attend!
May 07 Tuesday
$96
Tuesdays, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m.
April 9, 23, 30 and May 7, 2024 No class the week of April 14th
Perspective is to drawing what grammar is to writing and scales are to music. It provides a structure to art by dictating where objects must be placed and which directions the angles go to achieve that vital third dimension of depth. From one-point, two-point and three-point perspective, we move on to circles, shadows, and reflections. Best of all you don’t have to be an artist to draw well in perspective — when you know how to use the tools, they do the drawing for you.*Pre-registration is required for Art School classes; classes will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis. Students will be registered ONLY on receipt of payment.
$96 + $40 model fee
Tuesdays, 12: 30 – 2:30 p.m.
It’s a common belief that no subject is more difficult than a human likeness. Actually, a good portrait calls for the same skills of observation and experience as a landscape or a still life. An artist who attains confidence at drawing portraits will have the confidence to draw anything. We begin with the anatomy and proportions of the human head, and move on to the skills of creating a convincing likeness.*Pre-registration is required for Art School classes; classes will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis. Students will be registered ONLY on receipt of payment.
May 09 Thursday
Join us for an inward journey of prayer. Spiritual directors Kathy McFaul, Kathy Villemure, Andrea Nelson LeRoy, and Christi Ortiz will provide guided prayer practices as well as opportunities for individual spiritual direction.
May 11 Saturday
$72 + $25 material fee
Saturday, May 11, 2024
9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
This is an all-day workshop where you will learn many fun printing techniques on your own 6” x 6” Gelli plate.
For students 13 years old and up (please no students under 13 years of age)
$120+ $50 Lab Fee
Saturdays, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m.
April 20, 27, May 4, 11 and 18, 2024
Students will learn how to throw on the potter’s wheel while learning about the different stages of working with clay including how to glaze.
Grades 6-8 · Travel back in time to the World’s Fair, 1974! In this comics workshop, we’ll create short panels exploring Expo ‘74. Our characters will ride the gondolas and magically appear 50 years in the past! What will your characters explore? Work produced for this program has the option of being included in Spark Central’s 2024 book project, Gondolas & Garbage Goats — but we’ll need a guardian’s permission to do so! If you want your youth’s work included, please RSVP using the link. We’ll have paper forms available during the program, as well.
May 13 Monday