ADULT CLASSES

Weekend Intensives / And Weekly Classes

People from around the world have come to study Mask Making with Jeff Semmerling, one of few mask makers at his level of expertise to teach the craft in his own working studio. To make that easier in 2003 he began offering quarterly Weekend Intensive Workshops in "Shaping Leather Masks." Now every Summer the weekend after the Shaping Leather Masks Class he offers his "Advanced Leather Mask Making" Intensive Workshop when he teaches the rest of what he can teach about the process of sculpting leather masks. A good number of mask makers got started with Jeff's generous tutelage and are making masks for a living today. But more importantly, whatever your art skills or ambitions, "These classes are therapy on so many levels." Step out of the normal and let Art Making excite your genetic memory.... Seriously, Masks are the GREATEST!

SHAPING LEATHER MASKS
offered quarterly

2018 ~ April 21 & 22~ 1:00PM to 4:30 PM

    &      July 21 & 22  ~  1:00PM to 4:30 PM

Learn the Semmerling methods for shaping leather masks. Jeff will show you what you need to know about leather how to shape masks from it and 2 basic methods for sizing and finishing them that will get you started making fabulous masks. In two days you will make and finish two to three leather masks and leave with a list of sources for materials and tools.

Tuition is $300 all materials included.
(1/2 deposit required to hold your space)

ADVANCED LEATHER MASK MAKING
offered each Summer

2018 ~July 28 & 29 ~ 1:00 to 4:30 PM 

Return to the studio and learn what’s next after the “Shaping Leather “ workshop. Sculpting, Skiving & New Sizing Methods will be taught. Feel free to bring projects you are working on. Students will sculpt one leather clown nose as the main focus of our class.

Tuition is $300.
(1/2 deposit required to hold your space)

WEEKLY CLASSES
enrollment ongoing, join at any time

8 week sessions classes(on going. join at any time)

MONDAY NIGHTS

Practicing Mindfulness through Painting & Drawing
7:00 - 9:00pm
8 weeks $200, most materials included.
Develop Seeing as a practice of mindfulness through drawing and painting, based on the work of Ellen J. Langer, 
“All it takes to become an artist is to start doing art.”
–from On Becoming an Artist
Instructor: Jeff Semmerling



THURSDAY NIGHTS

Beginning Mask Making           
6:30 - 8:30pm
8 weeks $200, most materials included.
Students learn fundamental mask construction, making masks in cardboard, Venetian Style papier mache', found objects and plaster gauze.
Instructor: Jeff Semmerling

Intermediate Mask Making
6:30-9:30pm
8 week session $200.00 plus $40 for materials
Start with casting your own face for two mask making matrices, then learn sculpting and casting your own creations in paper mache'. You should take beginner mask making before this class.

Advanced Mask Making
6:30 - 9:30pm
$30 per class plus materials
More experienced mask makers get involved with more expensive materials, develop their own tool kit and pursue projects of their own with guidance from our resident master Jeff Semmerling.