• ¡Fiesta! Music & Dance from Mexico - FREE New!
• Introductory Puppetry New!
• Let's Make a Theater Mask New!
• Nature Prints New!

• Drawing for Kids New!
• Beginning Watercolor, Acrylic Painting & Drawing Technique New!
• Alla Prima Oil Painting Techniques New!
• Reniassance & Flemish Painting Method New!
• Painting at Parkview

• A+ Art Club: Summer Art Mart

• Precious Metal Clay - A New Art Medium New!
• Rings, Rings, Rings! New!

• Acting Dialects Workshop New!
• Acting Techniques New!
• Fun With the Bard New!
• Young People's Theater Workshop
• Shakespeare Inside Out: Twelfth Night
• First Annual Kids Film Festival New!

• Natural History Writing New!

• Music Together®
• Group Voice Lessons for the Contemporary Singer New!
• Garage Band Camp New!

• Dances of Shakespeare's Time
• Dances of Jane Austen's Time New!
• Ballet 4 & 5 Pointe
• Dance Theater Company

• Introduction to Pottery New!
• Garden Lanterns New!
• Open Studio Clay

Ballet Folklórico of Northfield launches its ninth year with an opportunity to spend two afternoons sampling the music and dance of Mexican while exploring its culture. Dancers will twirl and stomp in the downstairs studio while musicians learn their music in the dance studio. For dancers, no prior experience is necessary. Shoes and skirts are available on loan. Musicians need to bring their own instruments; sheet music will be provided for violin, trumpet, vihuela-guitar, and guitarrón.

Create and perform with several simple puppets. Fun for all ages: kids and grownups!

Build and perform with a simple neutral mask. You will also get an introduction to the performance art of the mask.

Adults and kids alike can enjoy this spontaneous art adventure. Together you will do nature printing, nature collages, a leaf painting, create cards, and stamps. Dress for a mess. Sign up for one or both days.
Bring lunch and a beverage.

Learn to create your vision. Use basic planning with charcoal drawing and evolve into pencil with detailed lines. Finish your final pieces with color and shading.

This course is designed as an introduction of watercolor, oil/acrylic painting and drawing techniques, which include pastels and charcoal. The class will cover brush stroke techniques, color choices, and palette. Come and develop your individual artistic viewpoint.

This class will introduce the Renaissance Method of painting in seven consecutive layers. The first layer of "imprimatura" will be followed with two umber layers focused on form and value in order to arrive to "grisalle" (gray layer) and to three layers in color. The student will get full understanding why old masters build the paintings with this method and gain practical use of the method in modern painting. This method systematically considers form, values, light, edges, and color.

This intensive Alla Prima workshop introduces the concept of painting "wet in wet". The instructor will demonstrate "site size method" designed to provide a quick and efficient way to locate the forms in proper perspective and spatial relations prior to paint application. It will be followed with detailed demonstrations of controlling all formal elements of painting: forms, values, color, edges, brushwork and use of materials. The students study composition and rhythm as well as all technical aspects of building a painting from beginning to end.

In this class/workshop students can bring their preferred medium - watercolors, acrylics, oils, pastels, color pencils - and work on various projects over the course of 4 weeks. The instructor will provide ideas, feedback, and individually tailored direction as needed. Beginners are welcome!

The A+ Art Club will be making artful objects to sell during the Riverwalk Market Fair on July 27. Participants work with local professional artists and volunteer mentors . Please contact program director Laura Goodwin at 507 301-2824.
To learn more about A+ Art Club, visit their website.

Learn the basics of working with Precious Metal Clay (PMC) and see how easy it is to design and create beautiful silver jewelry. Each piece is 99.9% silver. PMC can be rolled, folded, shaped and carved. In this class students will design and create a one of a kind piece of jewelry and learn how to set stones. If you can work with Play-Doh® this class is for you! Just bring your creativity and a bag lunch.

Using Precious Metal Clay (clay composed of silver particles, water and an organic binder) students will be able to create the ring of their dreams. For additional enhancement, a man-made stone (CZ) can be incorporated into the pieces. There is no hammering, sawing or soldering. The final rings are all 99.9% silver. Just bring a lunch and your creativity.

Create a visual journal or sketch book you can use for the entire camp or for your summer vacation memories.

Learn to create exciting underglaze decoration techniques such as wax resist on fired clay tiles.

Learn to create pottery using different types of coiling techniques. Be sure to sign up for the glazing class on the 24th!

Create pottery using everything from a single slab of clay to multiple slabs of clay. Be sure to sign up for the glazing class on the 24th!

Maybe you've seen "Face-Off" on the SyFy Channel? Now create your own fantastic masks in clay.
Be sure to sign up for the mask painting class on the 24th!

Create a sculpture of your pet or another one of your favorite animals.

We’ll be building towers out of paper and cardboard. How structurally solid and tall a tower can you create in this morning camp session?

Create "surprise" sculptures that pop-up when you open them.

Decorate and glaze your fired pieces from last week. (Work can be picked up on Thurs, June 27.)

Your masks have been fired and are ready for painting.

Create a colorful and imaginative print.

Create drawings using a variety of drawing tools and mixed media materials.

Create paintings in acrylic paint while learning different painting techniques.

Explore more ways to use acrylic paints. Part 1 is NOT a prerequisite.

Create paintings using a variety of watercolor techniques.

Create watercolors using more painting techniques. Part 1 is NOT a prerequisite.

You'll hand-make your own original paper for use in painting or turn your paper into a Book Arts project this week.

Use your handmade paper or other papers to create a paper vessel or bowl.

Create amazing designs using a variety of techniques and colors. You’ll use your paper in other projects.

Create unique and different types of book using a variety of accordion bookmaking techniques.

Turn your amazing Notan designs into books.

We all need small boxes to store our treasured items. Create a decorative box for your mementos.

Create some "action" books using a variety of pop-up techniques.

Post-Hole books let you add or remove pages as you wish. You can use them as a journal, diary, or photo album.

Have fun learning how to speak in the most common dialects used, including Southern, Brooklyn, and standard British.

Bring out your inner ham. We will cover fundamentals of acting techniques including gesture, vocal/speech technique, physical creation of character, and improvisation skills.

Bring all of your life experience to the wonderful world of Shakespeare's language. You will learn first-folio technique by using one of Shakespeare's best comedies, A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Our staff of theater artists is excited to lead young students in creating an original production! Workshop mornings are filled with classes in creative dramatics and dance. In the afternoons, participants take part in writing an original script, rehearsing, and performing it. YPTW is a three week program, meeting from 9:15 am to 2:00 pm, Monday through Friday. The YPT Workshop will culminate with live performances for the public on the last three days of the session. This high quality program offers young people the mostin-depth theater education available locally.

Use the summer to make a film that is no more than 5 minutes long.

• Submit your DVD to the Arts Guild by August 16
• Watch your film at the Arts Guild Theater on August 23 and 24
• Films can be anime, realistic, funny, serious,abstract, and/or any other form you want. The only rule is that no one is treated with disrespect.
Be inventive and creative - use your brilliant imagination!

Join us as we dive in for a discussion of Twelfth Night and give yourself a new perspective before you see the play! Deception, disguise and love all meet in Shakespeare’s comedy Twelfth Night. Relationships in the new digital age of social media allowing immediate access to people across the globe make the themes in this Elizabethan play perhaps a bit more modern. With "phishing" and identity theft becoming ever more prevalent we take a look at Twelfth Night to discuss the modern parallels to today. What does this beloved Shakespearian comedy teach us about the dangers of disguise? Where is the line between who we are and who we pretend to be?

We will explore the tradition and techniques of natural history writing. Depending on the weather, one hour of each class will be spent outdoors at a local park and nature preserve making observations and taking notes. In addition, examples of classic and modern natural history writing will be presented and discussed.

All children are musical! Spend 45 minutes each week singing, playing instruments and dancing with your infant, toddler or preschooler in a playful, non-performance-oriented atmosphere. These developmentally appropriate classes guide young children through the crucial early stages of music development and feature great arrangements of original and traditional songs of various tonalities, meters, and cultural styles.

This class is for singers of all ages, voice types, and levels who are interested in contemporary, non-classical singing styles. We're talking musical theater, pop, jazz, and rock! We will improve our breath support, tone production, range, agility, sound, and overall expressive power. Come sing with us!

Garage Band Camp is being scheduled for late June. Watch this space for more details in May!

Whether you fancy yourself prince or page, princess or peasant, you’ll enjoy learning dances both lively and stately from around 1600.

You've marveled at the books and enjoyed the movies, now learn dances from Jane Austen's time. The class will include dances enjoyed by high society as well as dances from the countryside.

This class level builds on the physical and mental strength developed in Ballet 3. Additionally, exercises developed to strengthen the feet and legs as a preparation for pointe work will be introduced. The study of pointe work begins after a student has acquired proper placement and a considerable amount of strength on demi-pointe.

Join others from the Dance Theater Company to develop outdoor performance pieces for Bridge Square and the Pedestrian Bridge on Saturday, July 27. Students must receive permission from an instructor before enrolling.

Learn the basics of wheel throwing and slab construction in this exciting four week series. Discover how to throw a cylinder and bowl, to trim, add handles, and glaze. Leave with a variety of pottery projects to include a small bowl or cylinder for a vase, flower pot or mug.

We will build pretty lanterns for your patio or garden. In the Arts & Crafts Style, they will be finished in a green glaze with what looks like a patina of bronze. Recommended prerequisite: Introduction to Pottery (see above)

for ages 18+

Open Studio allows people to explore their own individual interests in clay whether it be hand building, wheel throwing, sculpture, clay jewelry, glazing techniques, or different types of firing. Previous experience is required.