Starting October 15, 2012, the Arkansas Craft School will be offering community craft classes in Pottery, Weaving, and Glass Bead Making. Three nine-week sessions will be offered again this year. Session I, which will begin October 15 will run until December 21, 2012. Each class will be held at the Craft School’s Artisan Studios at 110 East Main Street; conveniently and safely located right off the Square and next door to the Arkansas Craft Gallery.
Tuesday afternoons from 1:30 until 4:30, Terri Van Orman will be offering ‘Four Harness Weaving’. Terri learned to weave in 1978, and has been teaching the craft since 1990. Her weaving has been exhibited widely in galleries, museums and at weaving conferences; and is in the permanent collection of the Arkansas Arts Center in Little Rock. In addition, her work has been published in Handwoven magazine, The Crafts Report and Craft in America. She has served on the Board of Directors of both the Arkansas Arts Council and the Arkansas Craft Guild; and currently is the Executive Director of the Arkansas Craft School. New students may start from the beginning and learn to weave; or those who already possess skills can study a new technique such as lace weave or overshot.
Wednesday evenings from 6:00 – 9:00 will be set aside for ‘Glass Bead Making’ with Beau, Anderson. . Beau has demonstrated and instructed the art of glass bead making throughout the Americas, both at a grassroots level and at such prestigious institutions as Corning Museum of Glass, Pittsburgh Glass Center and Pilchuck Glass School; as well as internationally in France, Germany, Denmark and Spain.Bead making students will be individually mentored during the class according to their experience, and all skill levels are invited to participate.
Thursday afternoons from 1:30 – 4:30, ‘Pottery’ will be taught by local ceramic artist, David Dahlstedt. David and his wife Becki have been creating their line of decorative and functional ceramic wares produced under the name of Mountain View Pottery for many years. David is looking forward to sharing the skills he has mastered in a lifetime of pottery making with local beginning and intermediate pottery students
Session II classes, which will begin in January 7, 2012 will be announced later in the fall.
Tuition for each individual nine-week class will be $225.00 plus materials fees according to the instructor, and scholarships are available to qualifying students. Class registration forms, scholarship applications and further information on these and other class offerings of the Arkansas Craft School may be found on the website: www.arkansascraftschool.org. Students may also sign up for classes by calling Terri Van Orman at (870) 269-8397
The Arkansas Craft School, located in Mountain View, Arkansas is dedicated to the education of aspiring and practicing craft artisans for success in the Creative Economy. The Craft School partners with Ozarka College which offers Continuing Education credits for all of its courses. Support for the Arkansas Craft School is provided, in part, by the Arkansas Arts Council, an agency of the Department of Arkansas Heritage, and the National Endowment of the Arts.
