classes + events
The studios at Common Street Arts provide a unique, safe, and supportive environment for creative endeavors for all ages and levels of experience. Common Street Arts is dedicated to providing a diverse array of educational experiences that enrich, engage and inspire. All of the programs at CSA are designed to reflect and promote diversity, creativity, and accessibility for the community.
For information on our current available classes, please see our list below.
CSA is pleased to provide afterschool art clubs. On Tuesdays, CSA offers unique projects for teenagers interested in developing their creative skills. On Thursdays, the afterschool art clubs are directed toward children ages 6-12 with specific projects and themes developed from semester to semester.
CSA oversees week long camps during the months of February and April and offers a series of summer camps with special themes devoted to that encourage participation and an appreciation for the creative arts.
The clay studio at CSA offers workshops, classes, and special demonstration events throughout the year. The 800 square foot studio has 6 wheels, a kiln, and a full range of tools and supplies.
A limited number of scholarships are available to teenagers interested in participating in teen afterschool clubs and other programs. For more information on classes, camps, clubs, or the clay studio at CSA, please call 207.872.arts or email serena@watervillecreates.org.
Join artist Barbara Sullivan for a hands-on exploration of the medium of fresco painting. Students will develop an understanding and working knowledge of true buon fresco (painting into freshly laid wet plaster). Learn the many steps involved, how to prepare substrates, arriccio, and intonaco layers of plaster and how to grind pigments like the old…
teen tuesdays: printing the streets of waterville- with ink and rollers in hand, create unique prints of the manhole covers, grates and metal work of our town. participants will go home with a t-shirt that they create on the walk about town. ages 13+.
First and Third Wednesdays, 5:30-8:00 p.m., $5.00/session-new price! Seasoned and aspiring artists are invited to participate in the Life Drawing program hosted by Common Street Arts. This program provides a unique opportunity for emerging and established artists to hone their drawing skills in a supportive environment. Participants bring their media of choice: charcoal, pastels, paint, clay, etc. and…
moderated by justin mccann, curator for whistler studies, colby college museum of art. join into the forest artists barbara sullivan and juliet karelsen as they discuss their work with justin mccann, curator for whistler studies, colby college. free + open to the public.
elementary thursdays: create a unique nature journal of your own to bring home. fill it with collected items on a walk and observational drawings of the natural world. ages 6-12.
sponsored by the chewonki foundation common street arts and the chewonki foundation present “owls of maine” a program that provides a unique introduction to the habits and adaptions of maine’s native owls. this special presentation features an opportunity for close observation of a great horned owl, a barred owl, and an eastern screech owl. learn…
teen tuesdays: create your own zoetrope animation- using the exhibit “into the forest” as inspiration, we will make a zoetrope, a fun way to create your own animation. ages 13+.
elementary thursdays: giant mask making inspired by nature- create large masks inspired by the nature around us and animals in the current exhibit “into the forest.” ages 6-12.
reception at 5:00pm at common street arts 6:00 pm presentation at waterville opera house animal migration is a topic of many dimensions. It involves behavior, physiology, and ecology. there are also migratory similarities and differences between birds, mammals, insects, and fish. In collaboration with the exhibition into the forest, please join common street arts for…
Would you like to learn how to identify some common trees in the Waterville area? Come stroll around town with Dr. Drew Barton, author of "The Changing Nature of the Maine Woods" and Professor of Biology at UMF. You'll stretch your legs, learn some simple techniques for tree identification, and take part in a wide-ranging…
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October 2017
fresco workshop with barbara sullivan
Sat. Sep 30
Common Street Arts
printing the streets of waterville
Tue. Oct 3
Common Street Arts
life drawing
Wed. Oct 4
artist conversation: barbara sullivan + juliet karelsen
Wed. Oct 4
Common Street Arts Gallery
nature journals: flora, fauna, lichen moss
Thu. Oct 5
Common Street Arts
owls of maine, chewonki foundation
Sat. Oct 7
Common Street Arts Gallery
create your own zoetrope animation
Tue. Oct 10
Common Street Arts
giant mask making inspired by nature
Thu. Oct 12
Common Street Arts
fall migration talk with bernd heinrich
Thu. Oct 12
Common Street Arts Gallery
city forest walk with drew barton, forest ecologist and biologist
Fri. Oct 13
Common Street Arts Gallery
