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Classes & Workshops

The Saratoga County Arts Council is dedicated to offering the highest quality of classes to artists of all ages and at all artistic levels.  We work with nearly 30 well-qualified teachers, many whom are exhibiting artists, to develop a course schedule that offers the best classes in a variety of different fine art and decorative art mediums.  We also offer development opportunities for arts professionals and administrators.

Summer Camp

Grab your passports and get ready to take off with The Saratoga County Arts Council’s Around the World Summer Camp! Each week of camp will explore the art, dance and theater of some of the world’s greatest cultures.  There will be a 4:15pm performance and art show scheduled each Friday for campers to show off their work

A week for campers includes a wide range of visual arts, performance and movement activities designed to teach the basics while at the same time be fun and engaging.  Teachers hired by The Arts Council are highly qualified with decades of combined experience working with children at all learning levels. 

For more information click here

Workshop for Arts Center Administrators
The Saratoga County Arts Council will host the New York Multi-Arts Centers Consortium to present an Architectural Workshop for directors, staff and board members of arts and community centers.  Four outstanding architects, including Anne Van Ingen, head of the NYSCA Architecture, Planning and Design Program, will addres the " Care, Feeding, and Greening of Your Non-Profit Facility."

The workshop will occur on Thursday, April 24, from 9am to 4pm. For more information and a registration form, go to NYMAC's website, www.NYMAConline.org  The cost is $20 for participants from NYMAC members and $25 for non-members.

A little about spring classes... a letter from our Executive Director

Thirteen years ago the Saratoga County Arts Council began the process of turning the old Saratoga Springs Public Library into The Arts Center.  The process was neither easy nor inexpensive, but by  investing more than $550,000 over a number of years, the Council created a space that well suits our programs.

We always intended, however, to do more work downstairs in our “educational wing,” and this Spring, in cooperation with the City of Saratoga Springs, those renovations will begin. Classroom #1 - what was the Community Room when the building was the library - will receive a complete make-over as part of a larger project to create public restroom facilities in the underused northeast corner of the building.

By the end of the project, Classroom #1, our most-used space for visual arts education, will have new flooring, lighting, ceiling, and built-in storage. The space will be easier to keep organized, and will feel less like an ad-hoc adaptation and more like a space created for the quality education we deliver.  It will also, unfortunately, be a bit smaller, as some of the current space will be claimed for the restroom project (part  of the price we pay for the pleasure of being in Congress Park). We expect though that the other improvements will compensate for the loss of space, partly by increasing the efficiency of the space we have.

The Arts Council is committed to running our classes without interruption during construction, but doing so requires us to pare down our offerings and enrollment caps as we temporarily use other rooms in The Arts Center. Enroll early to be sure you get into the class you want!
Thank you in advance for your patience - I think we’ll all be pleased with the results of the renovation.

- Joel Reed

March 2008

You can download a Spring 2008 Class Brochure by clicking here (PDF file)

You can learn more about our teachers by clicking here (teacher bios are a PDF file)
 
Students currently registered for classes can now download PDF versions of supply lists:
 
Supply Lists:
 
Watercolor I             Watercolor II                Oil Painting            Drawing with the Live Nude
 
 
 
If you have any questions, please contact:

 
Tanya Tobias, Education Coordinator,
584-4132 ext 202 or e-mail: ttobias@saratoga-arts.org