
Classes, Workshops, Camps
Classes
Montpelier has two new classrooms and several new class offerings!
Art classes for children, teens and adults are offered year round at Montpelier in four sessions. Courses can be special one-day workshops addressing a particular theme or skill or six to eight week-long sessions.
New classes include Digital Photography and Digital Animation for both children (10 yrs+) and adults. Learn how to operate your camera properly as well as about the importance of lighting, depth of field and other camera controls. The course will also cover processing and printing with software programs such as Photoshop. In Animation students will learn how to create their very own short films using the computer.
Unique to Montpelier are courses in welding, raku-fired ceramics, and bronze casting. Also offered are beginning to advanced levels in painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, ceramics, stained glass, darkroom photography, and rug hooking. Independent study opportunities are also available including an ongoing life drawing session. All instructors are practicing artists. Children's classes begin at age eight. They explore drawing and painting concepts, ceramics, and cartooning with working artists. These classes are available after school and Saturdays during the year and in weeklong classes from July through August. Opportunities are also available for home-schooled children. Interested groups should contact the Center. Descriptions of classes and registration information can be found online or in the Prince George's County Parks and Recreation Guide published three times a year. To view descriptions of offerings for each session or to sign up, visit SMARTlink, choose your language and browse classes under "visual arts."
Registration for spring classes is underway. Most spring sessions begin the week of April 13. Go to SMARTlink for listings, choose your language and browse classes under "visual arts."
Workshops
One- two day master workshops are offered for artists or students with some prior experience. Upcoming fall workshops include a welding workshop, polymer gravure printing (NEW!), advanced rug hooking, and collage. Montpelier also holds a self-directed life drawing class for artists looking for ongoing practice drawing the figure. For more information visit SMARTlink.
Camps
Montpelier Arts Center offers special summer camps in the visual arts for children and teens. Usually held throughout the summer, registration for these and other parks and recreation camps is Saturday, March 15, 2008. Camp booklets can be picked up from park facilities and county libraries beginning in February 2007.