Booth Western Art Museum

Location: Classes are held at the Resource Center building at 1 North Gilmer Street unless otherwise noted.

Summer is fast approaching and many parents are busy looking for fun and educational activities for their children.
If you find yourself in that category, consider enrolling your children in Art Camp at the Booth this summer.
The Education Department at the Museum has planned exciting and fun-filled summer camps just for kids.
Booth Western Art Museum Members receive a discount on registration.

Try it all…all kinds of different art-making materials and techniques…in this fun-filled art camp. Explore the fabulous art collection of the Booth Western Art Museum. Meet and work with a professional artist. Try your hand at a variety of art projects throughout the week including drawing, painting, printmaking and mixed media.

Instructor: Peggy Cline
Tuesday - Friday, June 3 - 6
9:00 am - Noon
Fee: $100 members, $110 non-members
Includes supplies
Min. 5, Max. 15

Note: This class begins at the Booth Western Art Museum each day at 9:00 am.

Move from the 2 dimensional world of paper and canvas into the third dimension of sculpture. Discover the 3-D world of art production using model magic, polymer clay, paper, wire and found objects as you take your artistic skills to the next level.

Instructor: Peggy Cline
Tuesday - Friday, June 17 - 20
9:00 am - Noon
Fee: $100 members, $110 non-members
Includes supplies
Min. 5, Max 15

Note: This class begins at the Booth Western Art Museum each day at 9:00 am.

Booth Art Camps at The Resource Center

Jr. Pottery (Ages 7 and Up)

Come play in the clay! There will be all new hand-building projects, and plenty of time to work on the potter’s wheel. This program is for all levels of clay enthusiasts.

Instructor: Natalie Goodwin
Monday - Friday, June 2 - 6
9:00 am - Noon
Fee: $125 members, $135 non-members
Includes supplies
After firing is complete, students will need to return to glaze projects.
Glazing days: students may choose either June 13 or 16, 9:00 am – Noon.
Min. 5, Max. 15

Cartooning (Ages 7 and Up)

Do you love to draw? Do you enjoy cartoons and comic books? Then this is the camp for you! Learn from a real cartoonist who has worked with the Cartoon Network. Learn about concept design, character design, and other techniques that cartoonists and video game designers use.

Instructor: Joseph Falligan
Monday - Friday, June 9 - June 13
1:00 - 4:00 pm
Fee: $130 members, $150 non-members
Includes supplies
Min. 5, Max. 20

Art Bugs (Ages 4 - 6)

Bring a rainbow of color to your summer! Come get your hands on different types of art media with all new activities. Explore everything from paints to shadow puppets in this fun-packed camp.

Instructor: Natalie Goodwin
Tuesday - Thursday, June 24 - 26
9:00 - 11:00 am
Fee: $60 members, $70 non-members
Includes supplies
Min. 5, Max. 15

Jr. Wheel (Ages 7 and Up)

This is a great opportunity for those of you who have already spent some time in our studio, but want more time on the wheel. Learn how professional potters pull handles, trim the bottom of pots, and create pitchers.

Instructor: Natalie Goodwin
Monday - Friday, July 21 - 25
9:00 am - Noon
Fee: $125 members, $135 non-members
Includes supplies
After firing is complete, students will need to return to glaze projects.
Glazing days: students may choose either August 1 or 4, 9:00 am - Noon.
Min. 5, Max. 7

Jewelry Making (Ages 7 - 12)

Make your summer sparkle! Create your own bracelet that will last a lifetime.

Instructor: Charlene Such
Wednesday, July 16
10:30 - 11:30 am
Fee: $20 members, $25 non-members
Includes supplies
Min. 5, Max. 15

Use forged (hammered) copper washers and nickel silver to create your own wearable piece of art.

Instructor: Charlene Such
Wednesday, July 16
1:00 - 2:30 pm
Fee: $30 members, $40 non-members
Includes supplies
Min. 5, Max. 20

Creative Writing (Ages 7-12)

Come explore the world of art through creative writing. Each day's storytelling adventure will begin with a different painting or sculpture at the Booth Museum. Writing activities will range from short stories to poetry.

Instructor: Brittney Holland
Tuesday - Friday, July 8-11
9:00 am - Noon
Fee: $60 members, $75 non-members
Includes Supplies
Min. 5, Max. 10

Poetry Writing for Beginning and Intermediate Poets (Ages 14 and Up)

Do you write poetry? Come explore the relationship between the visual arts and the written word through writing instruction that incorporates paintings and sculptures in the museum. Experiment with a variety of poetic styles and forms in a workshop environment and receive personalized feedback on your work.

Instructor: Brittney Holland
8 Thursdays, June 5, 12, 19, 26 and July 10, 17, 24, 31
6:00 pm- 8:00 pm
Fee: $60 members, $75 non-members
Includes Supplies
Min. 5, Max. 10

Location: Classes are held at the Resource Center building at 1 North Gilmer Street unless otherwise noted.

Anyone Can Draw

Do you think you can’t even draw a stick figure? Try contour line drawing, better known as drawing from the right side of the brain. We all have this skill, but don’t know how to access the right side of the brain to learn to draw. Learn to access the artist within you in this fun and easy drawing class that will leave you with the ability to draw anything.

Instructor: Nikki Davidson
2 Saturdays, June 21 and 28
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Fee: $195 members, $220 non-members
Materials list provided at registration
Min. 5, Max. 15
© Nikki Davidson, Vintage, graphite, 2008

Adult Wheel

Do you have basic knowledge of wheel throwing techniques but want to learn more? Find out how professional potters pull handles, trim the bottom of pots, and create pitchers. Each student will have a potter’s wheel to use for the duration of this class.

Instructor: Ronnie Payne
Monday - Friday, June 16 - 20
7:00 - 9:00 pm
Fee: $120 members, $145 non-members
Includes supplies
For more information, check out www.paynepottery.com
After firing is complete, students will need to return to glaze projects.
Glazing days: students may choose either June 27 or 30, 7:00 - 9:00 pm.
Min. 5, Max. 7

Jewelry Making

Enjoy this introductory class to metal jewelry making. Design a pendant or pin and use it as a template to cut out a 2 to 3 layered metal (copper, nickel, silver, or brass) piece using coping saws. Learn the process of cold-joining layers of metal using wire or rivets.

Instructor: Charlene Such
Tuesday and Thursday, July 15 and 17
7:00 - 8:30 pm
Fee: $60 members, $80 non-members
Includes supplies
Min. 5, Max. 10

Take advantage of this rare three- day opportunity to learn by creating a portrait sculpture in clay from a live model. The teacher, Bruce B. Everly, Sr., a master sculptor, will guide you individually through this sequential process regardless of your skill level, in a non-competitive and friendly atmosphere.

Instructor: Bruce Everly
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, July 18, 19, and 20
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Fee: $440 members, $490 non-members
Includes supplies
Min. 8, Max. 15

Do you want to take better photographs this summer? Do you love your new digital camera, but are not sure about all the things it can do? Take this beginning photography class from a professional photographer and learn to take better pictures for all your upcoming special summer events.

© Amanda Carder Oil Paintings
Introduction to Oil Painting

The best way to learn to paint is by painting. Develop your own unique painting style by exploring supplies, subject matter, and techniques, but mostly by hands-on experience. Each student will receive individual attention and a constructive critique.

Location: Classes are held at the Resource Center building at 1 North Gilmer Street unless otherwise noted.

Amanda Carder has spent twenty plus years in the field of Graphic Design and Advertising, specializing in print advertising and brand development. She credits this experience for the development of her eye for composition. Making the commitment to become a full time painter she has had the fortune to study with such greats as David Leffel, Bill Davidson, and Peggy Everett. Carders style is realism with an appreciation of impressionism. She has a fascination with light, reflection and movement. Whether she paints a landscape, a still life of a portrait, she hopes to include the viewer in her intriguing journey.

Peggy Cline works in the Education Department at the Booth Museum and teaches art classes in their community outreach program. She has her BFA from the University of Georgia in Fabric Design and her Art Education certification from GA State University. She worked 8 years in Advertising and Graphic Design. Since 1990, she has worked in Art Education at various schools, art centers and museums.

Nikki Davidson is an artist & teacher with more than 35 years of experience in drawing, oil painting, acrylics, graphite and colored pencils. Her subject matter covers a wide spectrum from still life to the Southwest & Native Americans. Her work has won awards at both local & national levels & the artist who inspires her most is Paul Calle.

Bruce B. Everly, Sr. is a classical sculptor of portrait, figurative and wildlife subjects. Everly born in 1937 in Glencoe, IL, attended New Trier High School, Northwestern University, and graduated from Sir George Williams University in Montreal. He studied art at Cranbrook Academy the Chicago Art Institute and the Evanston Art Center. After retiring from the business world, Bruce again focused his activities towards his passion for sculpting. His love for classical sculpture has earned him recognition as a dedicated professional and a teacher of his chosen art form. He sculpts and teaches in his studio in Buford, GA, where he and his wife, Elizabeth, reside.

Joseph Falligan is trained as a medical illustrator and a talented cartoonist that has worked with the Cartoon Network. He is dedicated to working with people and teaching them to enjoy and learn their own creativity in the visual arts.

Natalie Goodwin teaches science and art classes at the Resource Center in Cartersville. Her undergraduate degree is in folklore and ethnomusicology from Indiana University and her Masters degree is in Creative Arts & Learning from Lesley University. She has received additional training in the ceramic arts at the J. C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, NC.

Brittany Holland has served as the English Department Chair at Cass High School for six years. She has over fourteen years of classroom experience working with students of all ages and is currently pursuing her Masters in Professional Writing degree at Kennesaw State University.

Ronnie Payne is a full time Potter. His first pieces of pottery were turned at the age of 17, at Cass High School with Art Instructor, Bill Amos, on a handmade kick wheel that he helped build. He apprenticed with Ron Cooper from 1997-2001 and opened Payne Pottery in 2001. In the studio, he formulates his own stoneware clay and glaze colors and turns Utilitarian Art Pottery and Traditional Folk Pottery. His work has been on display at the Bartow County History Museum and the Cultural Arts Alliance in Cartersville, Georgia, the Crawford County Historical Society Museum in Knoxville, Georgia, and the Swan Coach House Gallery in Atlanta, Georgia.

Charlene Such graduated from LSUS in 1994 with a degree in art education. She taught middle school in Shreveport, Louisiana for two years before moving to Salem, Oregon. As a high school teacher in Salem she taught pottery, drawing, painting, stained glass, jewelry making and mixed media for eight years. During this time she earned a Masters degree from Portland State University in curriculum and instruction. For two years before moving to Georgia her family lived in Texas. During this time she was a stay at home mother that painted interior murals and faux finishes on commission. She also began learning the tricks and trades of face painting (see the Snazaroo web site). Currently, Charlene enjoys working in various media including but not limited to painting, mixed media and jewelry making.

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