From the centerpiece of your dining room wall, to textiles and crystal and pearl jewelry: You Need Art!

ART!!

Bright Spring Colors warming the Ipswich Arts Cooperative!

The twelve artists of the Cooperative are proud to show and share their latest creations with you! Watercolors, mosaics, oils, phototgraphy, textiles, jewlery pottery, wood turning, and floor mats are on display.

Searching for new, unique gifts for family and friends? Ipswich Arts Cooperative makes suggestions, from the highlights of a room to the smallest keepsake, from traditional pieces to unusual jewelry. Stop in and see what people are talking about!

Looking for a fun party idea?
A "Girl's Night Out"? A Unique Children's Birthday Party?
Call Ipswich Arts Cooperative!

Beaded Jewelry
Holiday Ornaments
Sea Glass Jewelry
Hand dyed Silk Shawl
Canvas Floor Mats
Keepsake Tin Boxes
Crystal Sun Catchers
Beaded Eyeglass Chains
Decorated Flip Flops

Contact Ipswich Arts Cooperative at 978-3536-0239, or email

Seaglass Jewelry
Jane Schaller
Living by the ocean, we all love seaglass! Jane's classes instruct you how to create your own designs of seaglass and wire. Classes fill up quickly, register early!
2/2/08, 2 to 4PM. $30.00 includes materials.

Astrological Discoveries
Carolyn Chase.
Carolyn is a local astrologer and artist. She is a Certified Astrological Counselor, and designs unique and individual Astrological Charts, tailored to meet the specifics of one's birth, time and date. These Charts are accompanied by a detailed "map" and description of aspects of the personality of the person being researched. Carolyn has also agreed to offer Astrological Readings, as requested.
Astrological Charts $50.00
Astrological Reading $100.00
Call for Appointment

Beadworks
Ali Hamlin
Ali and leads another favorite making beaded necklaces, anklets, and bracelets in unique patterns! Beading experience is helpful. Material list provided at registration.
Class size limited to 6.
$30.00
3/1/08, 2 to 4PM

Watercolors
Robin Silverman
This class is designed for the beginning artist, to develop your skill as a landscape watercolor artist. Classes will focus on the different techniques of brush stroke and color to create your own visual images of the beauty that is our own backyard, the North Shore. Call for materials list.
6 weeks: $125.00
Ongoing Classes on Tuesdays 6:30 to 9 PM
and Fridays 10:00 AM to 12:30 PM,
Private Classes: 4 two-hour sessions for $125.00

Drawing
Jack Turnbull
DRAWING AND ART BASICS 101: Exercise for your hands, eyes and heart
This ten week course is intended for anyone interested in learning the basics of drawing, acrylic painting and/or image making. Through weekly drawing and painting exercises, one-on-one critiques, group critiques and weekly art history lectures, each student will create an individual traditional portfolio of work that will simultaneously showcase a wide vocabulary of artistic techniques and also illustrate why your visions are excellent and distinctive. In class we will discuss the many varying elements of what makes certain images successful: composition, color balance, light, mark making, perspective, likeness, style. Master examples of these elements will be shown through slides from Van Gogh, Caravaggio, Hockney, Picasso, Goya and more.

Materials: Please come to the first class with a variety of pencils of varying lead weights (2B, HB, etc.), charcoal, kneaded rubber eraser and a pad of newsprint paper. Materials will increase as the class continues. If you also have copies or photographs of pre-existing work it would be useful, but this is not a requirement. This class is open to the public.
Call for dates.

Blessings Bowl
Bill Skelton
We all have unrecognized and uncounted blessings in our lives. Create a slab/coil-fired bowl to put your blessings in. You can write your blessings down and put them in the bowl, or the bowl can be a reminder all the blessings in your life. There is a certain Zen spirituality found in creating pottery. It is the process of the active imagination, and the encounters with the elemental forces of earth, air, fire and water.
Materials are included in the class fee of $210.
Thursdays 6-8 PM, 8 weeks; Call to arrange dates.

Birthday Party Pottery
Bill Skelton
This class is for kids aged 8 and above (limit of 12), to design personalized Chinese Kanji (symbols of well-being) plates to use for special occasion for themselves, or to give as gifts.
$35.00 includes materials.
Saturdays 9 to 11 AM Call to schedule your individual party!

Intro to Digital Photography
David McGahey
What to do with my new Digital Camera?? David is an avid photographer who teaches how to use your digital camera using principals of composition and editing. How you can get beyond 'point and shoot' to results that sparkle. This class can also help you choose and buy a camera.
7:00-8:30 PM Classes begin the first Wednesday of each month.
4 weeks: $100.00

Wood Turning Introduction
Michael Souter
Local wood turner Mike Souter leads a lecture and demonstation on the creative process of making turned bowls and goblets. Investigate if this type of imaginative creating is for you! No prior experience necessary.
Call for Dates.
6:30 - 8:30 PM
$25

Oil Painting with Susan Guest McPhail
Beginning Tuesday Mornings 10 to 11:30 am
Su Guest-McPhail is one of the premier and best-known artists in New England, and we are lucky enough to be able to say she will be teaching at the Ipswich Arts Cooperative.
Ongoing four-week sessions.