Ages 7 and up.

Learn to use the basic tools, materials, techniques and design ideas for making sculpture. You can work with clay, stone, plaster, found objects and other materials to make three-dimensional work you will be proud of. No prior experience necessary.

• depth and volume
• mass and weight
• texture and pattern
• tools and techniques
• material and medium problems

You will receive individualized instruction and learn basic sculpture skills and the differences between two and three dimensional art forms and how they are created.

    3 to 6 students per class.

Ages 10 and up.

This class will help you develop your sculpture skills by building on what you have already learned.

You will be able to work in your choice of clay, assemblage, plaster or stone so that your sculpture is more satisfying and interesting. We will pay as much attention to technical issues as you need while also examining work by accomplished sculptors.

Making a portrait head from a live model will take eight weeks -- two 4-week classes. We will use methods that date back at least to the Renaissance and which were detailed by Malvina Hoffman (a student of Auguste Rodin) in her 1939 book Sculpture Inside And Out. This method involves the use of calipers to make direct measurements from the model in order to get the portrait the right size and shape. After that is accomplished, each artist makes his or her own interpretation of the details of the face, with as much guidance as  wanted from the instructor.

Along the way, we will study enough anatomy, mass, form, and other elements of sculpture to ensure that you will know how to make a mass of clay look like a specific person. This class is hard work, but worth it.

All materials, including firing of clay works, model fees, use of tools and sculpture equipment are included in fee (except Portrait Sculpure, which has a firing fee of $10).