Create your own works of art in this 2-D drawing and painting course that utilizes several mediums, including watercolor and acrylic. You’ll learn the history of different art styles and be shown how to use artists’ methods in your own finished pieces. You will work on a variety of projects and will complete one or more items to take home at the end of the course. In most of the projects, all materials will be provided by the instructor.

Create your own works of art in this 2-D drawing and painting course that utilizes several mediums, including watercolor and acrylic. You’ll learn the history of different art styles and be shown how to use artists’ methods in your own finished pieces. You will work on a variety of projects and will complete one or more items to take home at the end of the course. In most of the projects, all materials will be provided by the instructor.

You can create your own fused glass projects in this hands-on course. You can learn the fundamentals, theory and techniques of glass fusing as well as safety, creative ideas and kiln preparation. Projects include making a coaster set, bowl, plate and a drape or vase.

Want to start building stained glass panels? Come enroll with us and learn glass cutting and construct your own stained glass panel. You will choose from several patterns for your projects. The first panel will be assembled using the copper foil (Tiffany) method. The second panel will be leaded, using traditional techniques. After you have completed your first basic projects, you will be ready to move on to larger and more complex works. Students enrolling in this course need to visit the facility prior to the class start date to pick out a pattern and to get a supply list.

By coil, slab and use of the wheel, you’ll learn to create your own pottery pieces. This multi-level course is designed to meet individual needs. The course covers beginning throwing, altering and combining hand-built forms with thrown forms. In addition to creating pieces, you will have the opportunity to use different types of kilns for finishing the work, including wood, soda, raku and reduction. Glazes and firing are included in the tuition but clay and tool kits are not.

This course will primarily focus on the process of firing a cone10 reduction kiln. We will also cover alternative firing techniques such as raku, horse hair, aluminum foil saggar and naked raku. Since firing a high-fire kiln takes all day, or at least six to eight hours, each student will be asked to spend at least one full Sunday watching and participating in the entire kiln-firing process as it takes place.

If you love the sensual pleasure of beautiful aromatic candles, but hate to pay the high prices, there is no reason why you can’t enjoy your own creations at a fraction of the price. It’s easier than you think in these hands-on classes, where you will learn everything you need to continue at home. Each style of candle making requires the use of different wax and wicks as well as a different process. To make the best container or votive candles, you will need to learn the correct wax and wicks, wicking, measurements and conversions, usage of color and fragrance and tips on candle making safety. We highly recommend that all students begin with this course before taking the Pillar Candles course. In this course you will make 13 candles, five container-style and eight votives.

If you love the sensual pleasure of beautiful aromatic candles, but hate to pay the high prices, there is no reason why you can’t enjoy your own creations at a fraction of the price. It’s easier than you think with this hands-on course, where you will learn everything you need to continue at home. Making the perfect pillar candle requires that you learn the correct wax and wicks, measurements and conversions, and the correct usage of color and fragrance. You also will learn tips on candle making safety. We highly recommend that all students begin with the Container/Votive course, before taking Pillar Candles. In this course you will complete 12 candles and be prepared to set up your own candle workshop at home.

Learn to make your own personalized greeting cards for all occasions using blank cards, card stock and a wide assortment of ribbons, buttons, and a vast array of decorations. You will start by making six holiday cards, but learn tips and techniques that may be used to make any type of greeting card.

For all aspiring writers or those students who just want to explore the possibility of putting their thoughts into words, this hands-on workshop will explore ways to ignite your creativity. We will examine different genres of writing and the styles common to each, narrative voice, ways to enrich language, metaphors and similes, and introduce you to the workshop method used in prestigious creative writing programs across the nation. Come prepared to write! There is nothing like a writers group to inspire your creativity.

If you've taken our Creative Writing course or an Introduction to Creative Writing on any campus, you are welcome to take the next step to learn and exercise deeper development of characters, plot, dialogue, narration, structure, voice, setting and your favorite genre. You also will learn the importance of editing and rewrites, valuable exercises to cure writers block, and share your work with your writing colleagues using the workshop method.

In this course, we will study the intersection between yoga and creative writing. Using yoga exercises for the first half of each session moves us from the inner to the outer body, giving us the freedom to write our personal narratives in the second half of each session. Karen X is a registered yoga instructor, certified at the 200 and 500 hour levels. She was an apprentice of the late poet, Allen Ginsberg, and she is the producer of the Performance Collective, Dharma Broads, as well as being the author and events curator for WordSpace.

Using the same approach incorporating yoga and writing, this course builds upon the work developed in Body Text I, moving it into generating performance work. Karen X is a registered yoga instructor, certified at the 200 and 500 hour levels. She was an apprentice of the late poet, Allen Ginsberg, and she is the producer of the Performance Collective, Dharma Broads, as well as being the author and events curator for WordSpace.

Children see the world with their own kind of magic. Find out ways to tap into that magic and become a successful writer in the children’s market. We will help you discover your inner child by teaching you what it takes to write for children, the types of children’s literature, and why children’s literature is different. You also will receive tips from a published children’s author on ways to find inspiration, what to do if you’re not an illustrator and need one, how to market your work, and how to make connections with the Dallas writers’ community. Feel free to bring story ideas, illustrations, and/or draft manuscripts and be prepared for plenty of hands-on experience.

Brookhaven College offers the finest in state-of-the-art online training in partnership with Ed2Go / Course Technology. For course descriptions and to register on a secure Web site, go to http://www.ed2go.com.

Brookhaven College offers the finest in state-of-the-art online training in partnership with Education To Go. For course descriptions and to register on a secure Web site, go to http://www.ED2GO.COM/bhcce.

Brookhaven College offers the finest in state-of-the-art online training in partnership with Education To Go. For course descriptions and to register on a secure Web site, go to http://www.ED2GO.COM/bhcce.

For details on courses offered in partnership with Education To Go, go to http://www.ED2GO.COM/bhcce.

Brookhaven College offers the finest in state-of-the-art online training in partnership with Education To Go. For course descriptions and to register on a secure Web site, go to http://www.ED2GO.COM/bhcce.

Brookhaven College offers the finest in state-of-the-art online training in partnership with Education To Go. For course descriptions and to register on a secure Web site, go to http://www.ED2GO.COM/bhcce.

Brookhaven College offers the finest in state-of-the-art online training in partnership with Education To Go. For course descriptions and to register on a secure Web site, go to http://www.ED2GO.COM/bhcce.

Brookhaven College offers the finest in state-of-the-art online training in partnership with Education To Go. For course descriptions and to register on a secure Web site, go to http://www.ED2GO.COM/bhcce.

Brookhaven College offers the finest in state-of-the-art online training in partnership with Education To Go. For course descriptions and to register on a secure Web site, go to http://www.ED2GO.COM/bhcce.

Brookhaven College offers the finest in state-of-the-art online training in partnership with Education To Go. For course descriptions and to register on a secure Web site, go to http://www.ED2GO.COM/bhcce.

Brookhaven College offers the finest in state-of-the-art online training in partnership with Education To Go. For course descriptions and to register on a secure Web site, go to http://www.ED2GO.COM/bhcce.

Brookhaven College offers the finest in state-of-the-art online training in partnership with Education To Go. For course descriptions and to register on a secure Web site, go to http://www.ED2GO.COM/bhcce.

Find encouragement for your interest in drawing, painting or both avenues of expression with this experimental and expressive approach to these topics. You will be able to explore a variety of materials including watercolor, acrylics, charcoal, graphite, colored pencils and ink. In addition, students will investigate various approaches to various styles by combining materials, using alternative drawing and painting surfaces and building collages. The topics allow for this to become an exciting and adventurous course for all levels.

Take this opportunity to explore the variety of drawing and oil painting techniques with color theory. Your art will develop, using traditional and non-traditional subject matter; including still-life, landscape, figure and abstraction. This course allows you to develop your personal idea and concept as you create including your personal expressions and experiments. Additionally, you will investigate various approaches to a variety of modern and post-modern painting styles by combining materials, using alternative drawing and painting surfaces, and building collages. This course is taught in both English and Korean.

Brookhaven College offers the finest in state-of-the-art online training in partnership with Education To Go. For course descriptions and to register on a secure Web site, go to http://www.ED2GO.COM/bhcce.

This sampler series is just the spark you need to generate luscious hues and spectacular designs. Get introduced to the use of color and design to create patterns on cotton, silk and other fabric blends by using the resistance dyeing, printing and batik methods. You also will learn various techniques of knotting, binding, folding, dipping and pleating. You will then apply these techniques to selected scarves, wraps or another garment of your own choosing. This course is suitable for teens and adults.

Learn the popular, even-count Peyote technique and make a beautiful, one-of-a-kind bracelet with beading thread and 6/0 seed beads. Once students learn the basic even-count Peyote stitch, they will be able to make bracelets, chokers and even beaded beads and tubes to use in their jewelry designs. Tools will be provided for class use.

Love rings? This is the class for you! Using a variety of materials including artistic wire, stretchy beading elastic, various beads and crystals, and sterling silver findings, you’ll learn how to make a variety of beautiful and fun rings. Students should be able to complete three to four rings in class. Tools will be provided for class use.

Using different stringing materials, various clasps and bindings and the beads of your choice, you will create different pieces of jewelry. Using everything from flexible beading wire to memory and craft wire, you will go home each week with new jewelry as well as knowledge and confidence to be your own jewelry designer.

Have fun creating different pieces of jewelry using different stringing materials, various clasps and bindings and the beads of your choice, students will create different pieces of jewelry. Using everything from flexible beading wire to memory and craft wire, students will go home each week with new jewelry as well as the knowledge and confidence to be their own jewelry designer.

Learn to use a variety of materials to make unique earrings. You will use a variety of earring findings, wire, chain, head pins, eye pins, jump rings and more to create your own designs. You also will learn various techniques such as making wrapped loops. You will have the opportunity to choose the beads and materials for your designs and will make up to four pairs of earrings to take home!

Learn to use different clasps, bindings and stringing materials such as flexible wire and memory wire to create unique jewelry pieces. You will have the opportunity to choose the beads and materials that work for your design and take a completed piece of jewelry home each week with the knowledge that you created your own design.

Make a beautiful matching jewelry set with the materials you choose. Using different stringing materials, clasps, bindings and beads, students will create different pieces of jewelry. Each week you can go home with new jewelry as well as the knowledge and confidence to be your own designer. You’ll have the opportunity to use a variety of supplies including flexible beading wire or memory and craft wire.

A beautiful piece of jewelry can inspire the desire to create. Take this course and practice designing jewelry to wear, give as gifts or to sell. In this course, students will discover how to design, texture, saw, file, cold-connect, solder and polish. Students will be able to create pins, pendants, earrings, bracelets, and necklaces. This course is for every skill level.

A continuation of our popular beginning jewelry making course, in this course the instructor will work with students individually on more complex projects, with an emphasis on design. Techniques include etching on metal, firing metals, using epoxy mixed with pigments and chain making.

Get an introduction to the fun and excitement of making your own jewelry in this two-day workshop. You don’t need any metalworking experience. Silver metal clay consists of microscopic particles of fine silver, mixed with an organic binder, to give it the consistency of clay. This remarkable clay can be rolled, textured, molded, carved and shaped to create original silver jewelry. You will have the opportunity to create as many as four finished pieces of jewelry while learning the basic metal clay skills using lump, syringe and paste forms of the clay. Tools will be furnished by the instructor for in-class use.

Take silver metal clay to another level. In this course, you will learn the proper way to fire silver clay to be able to enamel your piece successfully. Once the piece you create is ready to be enameled, you will learn how to pack and shake the pigment to achieve the desired colors and designs. You are limited only by your imagination. The instructor will furnish tools.

Learn how to make beautiful earrings or pendants. After learning how to make detailed molds you will begin to make earrings, pendants or other piece of your own design. Attention to finishing and polishing techniques will be taught including Liver-of-sulfur. The instructor will furnish tools.

From the first day you’ll begin creating your own piece of jewelry with silver metal clay, before applying the gold foil. The instructor will demonstrate and teach students how to adhere gold foil with a torch and craft the piece to your own choosing. We furnish tools for in-class use, but if you choose to bring your own please have them marked for easy identification.

Taking skills in silver metal clay to the next level, this workshop will teach you different methods for making rings. Using rolled, coiled and texturized methods, you will have the opportunity to create rings to allow for different designs and learn how to size your rings to allow for shrinkage of the silver clay. Tools will be furnished for in-class use, but please mark any tools you choose to bring for easy identification.

Add to your abilities to make in silver metal clay jewelry by learning soldering skills. You will create a piece and then solder on bails, earring posts or jump rings. Depending on your preference, you will make a pendant or earrings. Students also are encouraged to bring pieces made in previous classes to solder on jump rings and other findings for additional soldering practice.