ACE Watercolor Class - Insight Segment

Watercolor students refine their talents while in the company of like-minded friends.

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Fine Crafts
Whether looking for a short, project-oriented workshop or seeking a comprehensive introduction to a complex art form or rewarding life skill, you will find a wide choice of opportunities to pique your interest. View fine crafts classes.

Studio Art
Each term ACE offers a comprehensive schedule of studio classes for beginning and continuing and advanced students. Classes are open to adults as well as young students 16-18. We suggest that students new to art register for introductory classes, such as AE02090-Beginning Drawing.  It is best to possess competent drawing skills before registering for a painting class. 

Many second-level drawing classes offer opportunities to gain skills with more challenging techniques and drawing mediums. Continuing and advanced painting and drawing students will find stimulating opportunities to experience new materials and methods while developing and polishing personal styles within a supportive peer environment led by instructors who are professional artists. View studio art classes.

Materials
Continuing and advanced studio art students bring their own materials to class. Instructors discuss materials and supplies for new students during the first class. Some art materials will be provided to get you started; a supply list for your own kit of materials will be suggested. If stated in the class description, needed materials may be purchased in the first class.

Fine craft classes generally provide a kit of materials to be purchased in class or provide the materials as part of the class cost. Consult the class description for details. A few classes, such as the picture matting and framing workshops, have a supply list that is mailed in advance of class, so that students may customize their projects.

Instructors
ACE instructors are professional artists working in the metro area and beyond.

Leo Deege and his beginning, intermediate and advanced oil and acrylic painting students will be exhibiting their work at the Fairfax County Government Center, 12000 Government Center Parkway, Fairfax. Sponsored by the Fairfax County Arts Council, the exhibition will be on view from April 12 through July 11.

We’re pleased to introduce professional photographers Robert Burgess and Anthony Dauer, new faculty members who will help meet the burgeoning interest in photography and add further excellence to the ACE arts program.

We are proud to spotlight advanced watercolor instructor Jean Gill, a signature member of the National Watercolor Society, whose 2007 exhibition selection will tour with this years' traveling show.

Congratulations to instructor Relene Schuster who has been juried into the Arts Center at Lorton as a studio artist with both gallery and studio space. 

Our continuing partnership with the Capitol Area Woodturners offers students the opportunity to experience the “cutting edge” of this art form in the region. 

An archeologist and anthropologist as well as a gifted mosaic artist, Gene Sterud shares an unprecedented wealth of technical and cultural insights with his students. 

Lynn Goldstein, pastel and drawing instructor, was recently awarded honors by the Pastel Painters of Maine 8th International Juried Exhibition. Ms. Goldstein also has two works selected for inclusion in the 2007 Shades of Pastel National Juried Exhibition in at Strathmore Hall in Bethesday, Maryland.

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