The Visual Arts Department at the Ashtabula Arts Center offers education for all ages and experience levels, as well as year-round opportunities for artists to showcase their work and network with other artists. The accessibility of our Visual Arts programming is a priority, and classes, workshops, and community art events are offered both on site at the Arts Center and as outreach throughout Ashtabula County. Our facilities include an art studio, clay studio, and gallery. In addition to classes and workshops, individual instruction is available in multiple art forms. Artists and art students also have opportunities to be part of our 13th Street and Straw Hat production teams, helping to create set pieces and projections.
AAC Wooly Wonders Knitting & Crochet Club
for teens/adults with knitting/crochet experience
with Pam Amy, facilitator
Tuesdays
March 3, 17
April 7 & 21
May 5 & 19
9:30 a.m.
free to participate; no registration required
Help the Wooly Wonders Club keep the community warm! We’re making baby bonnets for Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital, and scarves for Samaritan House. If you cannot attend in-person, you can also donate premade baby hats and scarves to the AAC; we will deliver.
Life Drawing Club
for adults with life drawing experience
with Ralph Bacon, facilitator
Sundays, 6-8 p.m.
Advance registration required; no walk-ins
June 14
modeling fee: $12 per workshop
This series of studio-style workshops will be held in the green room, and will feature both nude and clothed models. Artists will need to bring their own drawing supplies. Ralph Bacon will be facilitating, but please note that this time is for self-guided drawing, not introductory-level instruction, and anyone registering should have experience in life drawing.
Needle Felting
for teens/adults
with Nancy Nelson-Brotz
Tuesdays, 7:30-9 p.m.
workshop fee $22, materials fee $11
Mar 24 – 3D Toadstools
Mar 31 – 3D Pet Snail
Apr 7 – 3D Potted Succulent
Apr 14 – 2D Redbud Tree
Apr 21 – 2D Gnome Buddies
Apr 28 – 2D Robin Redbreast
May 12 – Highland Cow
May 19 – 2D Nibbling Bunny
May 26 – 2D Grape Hyacinths
Jun 2 – 2D Seeds on the Wind
