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Zentangle®

ART1     Session I:   February 25, March 4, 11, 18

Mondays 1:00 - 2:15 pm

Zentangle® is a fun, relaxing, easy-to-learn method of drawing beautiful images from structured patterns. If you can write your name, you can create a Zentangle. Really! For more examples of what Zentangle looks like go to www.zentangle.com.   Beginning level, limited to 20 students.   Materials fee of $12 payable to instructor at the first class.

Instructor Sandra Westcott is a certified Zentangle teacher and has taught workshops at the Summer Arts Festival, galleries around Fairbanks, and in Anchorage as well as private workshops for educators and other professional groups.

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Knitting Mittens

ART2       Session I:   February 27, March 6, 13, 20

Wednesdays 9:30 am   - 12:00 noon

Are your mittens full of holes after the long winter? Come and knit a new pair, knowing winter will come again soon enough. We will select a pattern appropriate to your skill level and check and adjust knitting gauge, then learn new techniques as needed for your project. Your mittens can be plain colors or stripes, stranded color patterns, or cables and bobbles—the world of techniques is open! If you can cast on, knit, and purl, you are welcome in this class. A basic supply list will be provided after registration.

Instructor Gail Davidson is a retired geologist and a PhD student in linguistics. When not playing outdoors, she knits in her spare moments, something she’s been doing since dinosaurs walked the earth.

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Paste Paper & Projects

ART3     Session I: February 28, March 7, 14, 21

Thursdays 1:00 – 4:00 pm

Paste Paper is like a grown-up version of finger paint.   We will make several papers using different methods, and then use these papers in projects like simple journals, covered boxes, etc. You can also use the scraps to make cards and other projects. Most of the materials will be provided by the instructor. This is a new and fun class. Materials fee of $20 is payable to the instructor at the first class.

Instructor Sue Cole has taught arts and crafts classes for over 40 years in everything from knitting and crocheting to watercolor, oil, and acrylic painting, machine knitting, and bookbinding.

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Making Books: 1, 2, and 3 Section Bindings

ART4      Add-On I:   March 26, 27, 28

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 9:30 - 12:00 noon

In this workshop we’ll make three booklets: one each of 1, 2, and 3 sections.   Sewing patterns along the spine, both functional and decorative, become increasingly intricate as we add sections to the structure.   We’ll also explore using different papers for both covers and text blocks, and articulate some of the interior pages with pockets and foldouts.   If you have any of the following tools, please bring them with you: cutting mat, X-Acto knife, quilting rulers (clear plastic, any size), bone folder, pencil, scissors.   Beginning level, limited to 10 students.   Materials fee of $15 payable to instructor at the first class.

Instructor Margo Klass is a book artist who shows her books and mixed media constructions throughout Alaska.   She teaches bookmaking workshops at UAF through Summer Sessions and is active in Northwoods Book Arts, a program of Boreal House Art & Science Center.

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Fair Isle Knitting

ART5       Session II:   April 3, 10, 17, 24

Wednesdays 9:30 am   - 12:00 noon

Are you fascinated by the interplay of colors? Scottish knitters developed Fair Isle knitting to showcase small repeated patterns in many colors that blend, contrast, and intertwine. This class will play with charted colors and patterns. Bring your colored pencils, your knitting needles, and bits of colored yarn to share! You need to know how to cast on, knit, and purl, as a minimum; knitting above beginner level is a plus. A materials list will be sent after registration.

Instructor Gail Davidson is a retired geologist and a PhD student in linguistics. When

not playing outdoors, she knits in her spare moments, something she’s been doing since dinosaurs walked the earth.

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Color and Composition

ART6     Session II: April 4, 11, 18, 25

Thursdays 1:00 – 4:00 pm

Learn why different colors react the way they do when combined with other colors and why composition is important.   Understanding both will make your paintings better.   We will be doing some exercises first to learn this, then some paintings using these principles. Materials fee of $20 is payable to the instructor at the first class.

Instructor Sue Cole has taught arts and crafts classes for over 40 years in everything from knitting and crocheting to watercolor, oil, and acrylic painting, machine knitting, and bookbinding.

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Watercolor Journaling

ART7 Add-On Session II:   April 29, 30

Monday & Tuesday 10:00 am - 12:00 noon

Learn why sketching with pen and ink and/or watercolors can be a fun and worthwhile part of your life.   We will discuss various types of entries in a sketchbook and ways of journaling in the out-of-doors.   Weather permitting, we will work outside part of the time.   Instructor will provide a basic materials kit for a fee of $15, payable to the instructor at the first class.   You will also need to bring some other supplies on the materials list provided after registration.

Instructor Sue Cole has taught arts and crafts classes for over 40 years in everything from knitting and crocheting to watercolor, oil, and acrylic painting, machine knitting, and bookbinding.

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Book Binding

ART8    Add-on II: April 29, 30: May 1, 2

Monday - Thursday    1:00 - 4:00 pm

Learn the history and principles of basic bookbinding using everyday materials and methods as practiced in bygone years.   In this class we will start by talking about paper and the other materials used in making books and then we will make a traditional hardbound book.   If you are looking for a simple, decorative, artsy book, this isn’t the class for you.   Toward the end of the class we’ll talk about other bookbinding methods that might be useful to you.   Be prepared to get your hands dirty – maybe even a paper cut or two.   Bring a rotary cutter, a cutting mat, ruler, pencil, scissors, a cheap paint brush (about an inch wide), a small jar with lid to hold paste, and cloth that you would like to use for the cover material of your book.   The instructor will bring paper and other materials required and we’ll share costs.   Limited to 10 students.

Instructor Arvid Weflen is a UAF professor emeritus who taught aviation maintenance for 30+ years.   He enjoys many varied interests including blacksmithing, traditional farming methods, restoring old buggies, genealogy, amateur radio, and solar energy.

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Drawing Nature: A Way of Learning

ART9      Add-on II **Special dates: May 28, 29, 30, 31**

Tues, Wed, Thurs, Fri 1:00 - 4:00 pm     *Location: Creamer’s Field

Explore a local wildlife refuge of fields, forest and wetlands while learning to observe nature and record your discoveries through sketching, drawing and journaling with pencil on paper.   Instruction will be outdoors in the natural environment of the refuge whenever possible, so dress appropriately. Required materials: bring 3 pencils (1 hard, 1 medium, 1 soft), 8.5x11” sheets of smooth white paper and a firm backing such as a clipboard or journal book. You are welcome to bring additional drawing tools such as pens or colored pencils if desired. Meet at the Farmhouse by the barns at Creamer’s Field.

Instructor Mark Ross’s job at the Alaska Dept. of Fish and Game includes running educational programs at and about Creamer’s Field Migratory Waterfowl Refuge.   His sketches of wild animals at Creamer’s Field appear regularly in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner.

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