Portrait Drawing
with Paul Shore
Week 1: Monday, July 19 & Wednesday, July 21 6:30-9pm (2 classes)
Week 2: Monday, July 26 & Wednesday, July 28 6:30-9pm (2 classes)

Portraits reveal as much about the artist as they do about the subject. This workshop will involve the making of self-portraits and those of others. Pursue a variety of approaches from realism to expressionism and use info from memory and subjective experience, using pencil and charcoal. Beginning and advanced students welcome. $75 per session

Magnificent Obsessions
with Paul Shore
Tuesdays, July 20-27, 6:30-9pm (2 week)

Is art making obsessive? Activities that affirm this question will be the focus of this workshop. The class will address issues of obsession: emotional/psychological states, collecting/creating, elements of time, scale and quantity, and specifically how these issues inform and affect the art process. Students may select from a wide variety of materials (traditional & found) and processes in the making of 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional work. Personal experience and inquiry will strongly inform each students’ direction. Beginning and advanced students welcome. $75 (includes materials).

Collaborative Drawing
with Paul Shore
Thursdays, July 22-29, 6:30-9pm (2 week)

1+1=3. Collaboration is about creating something that no one individual could have done alone, and at its best, results in work that is more than the sum of its parts. For anyone interested in giving, taking, sharing, negotiating, teaching, learning, and drawing, this is the workshop for you. Initial assignments will explore material and formal aspects of collaboration. Building on these skills, students will engage in drawings that also require conceptual collaboration. $75 (includes materials).

Marimba
with Tasha Walen
Sat, July 24– Aug 21, 4:30-6pm (5 weeks)

Zimbabwean marimba music is an art discipline steeped in the tradition of the Shona people of Zimbabwe. The music emphasizes community, beautiful polyrhythmic melodies and infectious rhythms that encourage participation by everyone, no matter what your musical experience. $75

Fused Glass Workshop
with Tasha Walen & Rebecca Ord
Sunday, July 25, 1-2:30pm & 2:30-4pm (2 sessions)

Learn how to make fused glass pendants and help the Canvas raise funds for our non-profit. Participants make several pieces of glass art to be sold in the Canvas Gallery and pick one to keep. $25 (includes materials)

Figure Drawing/Painting Workshop
with Jackie Manning
Sunday, Aug 1, noon-5pm

This workshop provides students an opportunity to take a drawing or painting to a completed level by offering a long session with a model.  We will begin with warm up poses and then set a single pose for the rest of the session.  Emphasis will be placed on light and composition.  $55 (includes materials & model fee).

Collage
with Sherri McDonald
Monday, Aug 2 and Thursday, Aug 5, 6-9pm (2 day workshop)

Learn how to create your own one of a kind landscape collage using a variety of decorative papers.  Bring a landscape image or work free form.  Discussion about how to draw a landscape will start the class.  Join the fun as we rip, cut and paste down papers to create something amazing.  $65 (materials included).

Landscape Oil Painting
with Jackie Manning
Wednesdays, Aug 4-25, 6:30-9pm (4 weeks)

Working from personal photographs students will explore landscape painting.  We will examine compositions in nature along with foreground, middle ground and background, as well as learning to use atmospheric space to create depth in painting.  All levels and abilities welcome.  $125 (materials included).

Dungeons & Dragons
with Barbara Lydon
Thursdays, Aug 5-19, 9am-noon (3 weeks)

Kids create their own castle, kings and queens…. and a dragon, of course!  Learn the fundamentals of hand building with clay in this 3-week workshops.  For kids 7 and up.

$95 (materials included).

Clay Wind Chimes
with Barbara Lydon
Thursdays, Aug 5 & 19, 1-4pm (2 weeks)

Create a musical work of art for your garden.  Make one huge wind chime or several so you have some to give as gifts.  All ages welcome.  $55 (materials included).

Teapots
with Barbara Lydon
Thursday, Aug 5-19, 6-9pm (3 weeks)

For beginning or advanced pottery students, create your own one of a kind teapot in this 3 week class.  Explore or expand your hand building skills with this classic project. $95 (materials & 2 additional open studio included).

Creatures from Outer Space
with Barbara Lydon
Fridays, Aug 6-20,  1-4pm (3 weeks)

You don’t have to be from outer space to take this class, just be willing to create creatures out of clay that plan to take a life of their own.  Kids 7 & up.  $95 (materials included).

Kids Wheel Throwing
with Barbara Lydon
Fridays, Aug 6-20, 9am-noon (3 weeks)

Our Kids Wheel throwing classes are designed for kids age 10 and up.  Kids under 10 are welcome to attend with an adult support.  Learn the fundamentals of centering, trimming and glazing.  $85 (materials included).

Glazing Workshop
with Barbara Lydon
Saturday, Aug 7, 9am-1pm

For all of you out there who have unglazed work in our pottery studio, this is a wonderful opportunity to drop in and glaze under the guidance of experienced potter Barbara Lydon.  Free workshop if you have unfinished work in our studio.

Watercolor 101
with Barbara Lydon
Sundays, Aug 8 & 15, 10am-1pm (2 classes)

Learn the basics of watercolor painting while experimenting with different techniques.  Whet your appetite (and your watercolor paper) with this exciting medium.  No experience necessary!   $65 (materials included)

Clay Shoes!
with Barbara Lydon
Mon, Aug 9 & Tues, Aug 10, 9:30am-noon (2 classes)

Describe who you are through a shoe!  Learn hand building techniques and create a sculpture, a vase, a vessel inspired by a shoe.  You design the style, including the sole.  Kids 7 and older (adults welcome too).   $55 (materials included)

Drawing 101
with Barbara Lydon
Mondays, Aug 9 & 16, 6-9pm (2 week)

Never tried drawing, or can’t seem to find the space and time to practice?  This is a class for new and rusty artists interested in learning sketching techniques.  Discover the simplicity and pleasure of drawing. $55 (materials included)

Clay Mirrors
with Barbara Lydon
Wednesdays, Aug 11 & 18, 6-9pm (2 week)

Create a unique mirror frame out of clay.  Explore texture, design and color through clay hand building technique.   $55 (materials included)

Shim Sham Shimmy
with Mignon Benjamin
Thursday, Aug 12, 7-8pm and/or Thursday, Aug 19, 7-8pm

Come and learn a beginning tap dance called the Shim Sham Shimmy.  Choreographed in the 1930's by Leonard Reed, this historic dance is performed by tap and swing dancers world wide. The dance can be learned by beginning or advanced dancers.
No tap shoes required; Recommend sneakers.  $5 per session

Tie Dye
with Barbara Lydon
Monday, Aug 16, 9:30am-noon

Bring two 100% cotton t-shirts to dye; we’ll provide the rest!  Learn a variety of tying techniques and create two wearable works of art.  $20

Raku Workshop with Joyce Payne
Saturdays, Aug 21 & 28, 10am-4pm

Learn about Raku pottery.  Create, fire and glaze your own pieces in this 2 week workshop.  $125 (materials included).

Free Family Day: Fabric Collage
with Kathleen Harper
Sunday, Aug 29, 1-4pm

Fabric Collage is like painting with fabric or quilting without sewing.  Cut and glue varied & colorful fabrics and transform pictures from your imagination into vibrant and tactile works of art.  All ages welcome.  Free.

This project is supported in part by the Juneau Arts and Humanities Council and the City and Borough of Juneau.

Wheel Throwing Pottery Classes

In beginning wheel throwing classes students will learn basic wheel skills including centering, throwing, trimming, and glazing.

In intermermediate/advanced class, students who have the basics down and want to move to the next level work on independent wheel throwing or hand-building projects under the guidence of an instructor. This is your opportunity to ask questions and give yourself new challenges! Hand builders or wheel throwing students welcomed. There are additional open studio times with these pottery classes.

Weaving Studio (for intermediate/advanced students)
Saturdays, 2pm-4pm

For students who have completed a warp to weave class, we are now offering an open studio so you can continue Saori weaving. Please call to reserve a loom in advance. $15 (plus $2 an ounce for materials)

Jewelry Studio (for intermediate/advanced students)
Thursdays, July 1-15, 6-9pm (no studio July 22nd or 29th) 
Thursdays, Aug 12-26, 6-9pm (no studio August 5th)

For intermediate and advanced students, the Jewelry Studio is an opportunity to work independently under the guidance of an advanced artist. Bring your own materials, use our equipment. Drop in, or call with questions. $10 per session (bring your own supplies)

Collage Studio
Tuesday, Aug 10 & 17:  6:30-9pm

Join collage artist Sherri McDonald in an open collage studio.  Bring your own supplies and share ideas and inspiration.  $5 per session.

Pottery Open Studio
Monday-Friday 9am-noon and 1-4pm in July and August
Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays 5-8pm in July
Sundays 10am-1pm and 5pm-8pm in July and August

The Canavs offers open pottery punch cards for experienced potters. With the punch card you recieve one 25 pound bag of clay and five 3-hour visits. Bisque firing, glazes, and glaze fires are included in the cost of the visit. Additional clay is available to purchase. Call or check the Canvas front desk for the current open pottery studio calendar. $125 (5 open studio visits). Must sign up to reserve wheel time.

Open Studio - NEW!
Pottery  
Art Outside (with ORCA) July 12th and 26th, August 9th and 16th

Open Studio
Drawing & Painting
Multi media