Classes:
Dance | Fiber Arts | Visual Arts | Furniture | Etcetera | Workshops |
DANCE & MOVEMENT CLASSES:
Constant movement to benefit both body and mind!! Classes will be in three stages: 1) warm-up with stretches; 2) Firming over 50 excercise; 3) Learn easy Jazz steps with fun music. A mini dance will end each class!! Contact HCAC for a supply list.
Instructor: Barbara Raschilla
An adult class for couples or singles to learn the basic moves in the Foxtrot, Swing, Rumba,and more. The basic rhythms and techniques for leading and following will be covered, as well as some styling. The course will promote flexibility, muscle tone, and cardiovascular health. It is great for stress relief, a date night with someone special, or for socializing and making new friends! The method of teaching will make learning simple. This class is taught at the Jitterbugs School of Social Dance in Chicopee, MA.
Instructor: Jitterbugs Staff Member
Students will learn falaps and shuffles arranged into a small combination to give them satisfaction in what they have mastered in a tap step - they will learn other tap steps during this period. Contact HCAC for a supply list.
Instructor: Barbara Raschilla
FABRIC & FIBER ARTS:
Explore Irish knitting patterns and open yourself to endless possibilities from the Emeerald Isle. Some knitting experience is helpful. Contact HCAC for a supply list.
Instructor: Marge Collamore
Take your sewing to the next level by learning professional construction techniques. For example, set in a perfect sleeve every time. Apply centered, lapped, fly front, and invisible zippers with perfect results. Learn two ways to make welt pockets and bound buttonholes, and more. Lecture/demo followed by time to practice your new skills and make samples. Supply list will be sent. Sewing machine experience required.
Instructor: Sue Bennett
Learn the Serti technique to create a stunning scarf to wear home. The method involves drawing fine lines of gutta resist onto silk to outline your design. The lines stop the dyes from flowing into one another allowing separate colored areas to be created. This is just like drawing an outline then "coloring it in; the possibilities are endless!! Beginner friendly. See photo of a Hand Painted Scarve here
Materials fee: $35.00 payable to the instructor due at first class.
Instructor: Nancy Dorian
Instructor: Joan Marsh
Have fun designing and making your own drapery, valances, roman shades, bedspreads, shams, bed skirts & coordinating pillows, you'll be so proud! Sewing machines & sergers are available for student use. Contact HCAC for a supply list.
Instructor: Joan Marsh
Do you have a head full of designs but can't find the styles you want in the pattern books? This class is for you. You'll learn the basics of patternmaking using half scale slopers and flat pattern techniques. We'll cover bodices, skirts, sleeves, collars, pants and more. These skills will not only empower you to create patterns for your original designs, but also allow you to re-style and improve upon commercial patterns.
Instructor: Sue Bennett
Create a beautiful sweater, socks or mittens by enrolling in knitting or crocheting. Learn the basics, choose a pattern and yarn, learn to read and understand patterns, assemble your project, or work on a project you have set aside for a rainy day.
Materials: Beginning knitters bring #8 size needles and a skein of light colored worsted wool yarn. Beginning crochet students bring a Crochet H hook and a skein of light colored worsted wool yarn. Advanced students may bring your own projects and patterns.
Instructor: Nancy Dorian
Learn simple techniques in sewing and working with color to create your own little landscape. Sewing machine experience required. Kits can be purchased from the instructor for $5 each. Contact HCAC for a supply list or to reserve a kit.
Instructor: Marsha Molloy
Learn the art of machine quilting using your sewing machine. You will learn how to use a walking foot, free motion foot and ideas for quilting designs and more! Come and get those quilt tops quilted and finished! Sewing machine experience and some prep work required. Contact HCAC for a supply list.
Instructor: Marsha Molloy
Students will make either a miniature Trip Around the World or a miniature Double Irish Chain. Learn easy strip piecing techniques to make sewing small simple. Sewing experience required. Contact HCAC for a supply list.
Instructor: Marsha Molloy
Need to get away... for a day? Join us for an all day quilting party. Bring your own project and a dish to share. Enjoy a day of no phones, no laundry... no other distractions that keep you from quilting! It is YOUR day!
Instructor: Marsha Molloy
Would you like to hug someone in fabric? Make a quilt! This unstructured quilting class, for beginners and experienced quilters alike, allows you to learn to quilt while you learn about tools and techniques that make quilting fast and fun! Start a project of your own choosing, or bring a project you are already working on, or if you are undecided, a beginner project is ready to welcome you to the satisfying art of quilt making. A supply list includes the yardage needed for the beginner project. Sewing machines are available for your use during class. Contact HCAC for a supply list.
Instructor: Marsha Molloy
Are you afraid of your serger? Step One: Take it out of the box, it won't bite. In this workshop you'll learn to tame the beast and it will become one of your favorite machines. We'll go over threading, tension, and stitches. You'll make samples that utilize various techniques on a variety of fabrics. We all love the fact that it overcasts, but it can also do so much more. Sewing machine experience required. Contact HCAC for a supply list.
Instructor: Sue Bennett
This class will introduce novices to the basics of sewing: using the sewing machine, following a pattern, layout, cutting, marking, construction techniques, pressing, tools and notions. Each week will consist of a lecture/demo with time to work on practice samples, a zippered bag, an apron, and pajama pants. Sewing machines and sergers are available, but if you'd like to learn to use your own machine, please bring it to class with the machine manual, if available. Contact HCAC for a supply list.
Instructor: Sue Bennett
Now that you know the basics, it's time to move on to a more challenging project. In this class you will make a skirt and learn professional methods to sew darts, apply a waistband or facing, insert a zipper and more. Contact HCAC for a supply list.
Instructor: Sue Bennett
This sit and sew class is for those students who have mastered basic sewing skills. You'll work on your own project with help as needed from the instructor. Each class will feature a short lecture/demo on a subject applicable to all. Contact HCAC for a supply list.
Instructor: Sue Bennett
Ready to master more new skills? Learn to sew perfectly spaced buttonholes and buttons, apply cuffs, sleeve plackets, bulk free waistbands and more, with ease. Professional techniques will take the "Becky Home EC-y" out of your projects and take them to the next level. Contact HCAC for a supply list.
Instructor: Sue Bennett
Come join us as we travel back in time to the early 1800's and make our own original Sarah Johnson Quilt. We will work on our way through this quilt as a block of the month. Includes both piecing and applique. Sewing experience required.
Instructor: Marsha Molloy
VISUAL ARTS CLASSES:
The first class will be a demonstration to explain brushes and techniques using a minimum amount of colors. Students will release their creativity in the remaining classes as they learn to paint a Still Life. Contact HCAC for a supply list.
Instructor: Debra Barboza Dunphy
The color pencil is one of the most versatile and easy to use media available today. Learn the basic elements and techniques of sketching, composition and positive/negative space, shading using color pencil or charcoal by enrolling in this class. Contact HCAC for a supply list.
Instructor: Debra Barboza Dunphy
In this class students will learn to paint beautiful artwork on glass using a Q-Tip, small dowell and two painting brushes. Instruction includes easy to follow directions to painting this great quick and easy design on any glass surface. Easy, fun, and quick!! Even for students that have never held a paint brush!! Contact HCAC for supply list and additional material fee.
Instructor: Tammy Clark
Come build on your painting skills. We will explore a variety of watercolor painting styles while emphasing the skills and techniques needed to produce unique effects. You will get assistance turning your own photographs or still life's into interesting composition, with clear focal points. Plan to paint on larger sheets of paper to increase your techniques. Contact HCAC for a supply list.
Instructor: Madeline Calabrese
An individual class designed for beginners and intermediate students although all experienced levels are welcomed. Learn the basics to develop your own style which includes brush work, contrast, texture, and color. Students will work at their own pace on a subject of their choice. Individual instruction provided. Contact HCAC for a supply list.
Instructor: Patricia Welch
Whatever your style of learning, learn to complete your works to their highest level. Classes are used to maximize extreme light to dark or to enhance color; emphasis on drawing, perspective, and composition. A variety of mediums broaden your choice of subject matter resulting on more artistic expressin. Contract HCAC for supply list.
Instructor: Anne Mueller
Get professional guidance in design and composition. Handle lights and darks to create the illusion of three dimensional space. By building a solid core of techniques, brilliance and luminosity can be achieved. Pre-drawn or free hand designs are used so there is no academic training necessary. Contact HCAC for a supply list.
Instructor: Patricia Welch
Learn to paint one stroke with this Autumn Address Sign. This class is session one of a 3 part series. Take one session or all three sessions. If you’ve always wanted to learn how to paint like Donna Dewberry or tried to paint like her but struggled alone now is your chance to learn to paint her beautiful designs with a hands on experienced instructor. Each class will include instruction in different stroke work. It is not necessary to take every session to learn how to paint the One Stroke way. However, every session will have something different to learn.
In Session One we will learn how to paint the beautiful Autumn Address Sign. This wooden plaque can be hung on your front door, your porch wall or displayed in your front yard.
Instructor: Tammy Clark
FURNITURE REFURBISHING:
That chair you found at a tag sale for only so few $'s, that needs a new seat, can perhaps be transformed to a valuable antique. Learn the proper caning method (cane, rush, splint, or tape) appropriate for each chair. Chair should be of good structure, fixed or refinished if needed prior to first class.
Materials: Bring in chair 2 weeks prior to class so that Instructor can help you order your supplies.
Instructor: Kathy MacLean
In this class you will learn to make furniture from dull to alluring vintage pieces. Distressed furniture is the perfect way to add a creative touch to your home! Instruction includes how to properly prep your pieces, the best paint to use for base coating, a dry brush technique, splattering, and following with a lesson in the One Stroke technique of simple leaves & vines. A lesson in antiquing will be provided before finishing with a protecting sealer. These techniques allow students to give their pieces a vintage or old look.
Instructor: Tammy Clark
Don't throw away that favorite worn-out, threadbare chair. Re-upholster it at a fraction of the cost of a new chair. Chairs must be sturdy and of good structure and not taken apart prior to first class. Learn to replace webbing and padding, tie springs, make buttons, welt cord, cover in muslin and then final material to produce a quality chair. Items to be upholstered also include dining room chairs, trunks, headboards, footstools, cornices, screens, etc.
Equipment: Bring your chair to the first class and speak with the instructor about the specific tools you will need for the type of chair you are working on. Measure your chair in the first class to determine your fabric needs before taking it apart.
Instructor: Gary Clarke
ETCETERA:
Learn the art of cupcake making that will surely turn heads! Fun for a birthday or just a great afternoon snack!! Whether you are creating "Circus Animals" or "Spooky Time" cupcakes, your Gremlins will love it. Contact HCAC for a supply list.
Instructor: Jeanette Crumb
Learn to make a necklace, bracelet or earrings; turn trash into treasure and give your ideas a new life!! Beads, wire, and other supplies can be purchased from the instructor, or bring your own! Contact HCAC for a supply list.
Instructor: Trudy Monson
Learn the art of Wood Carving; chip/sign carving, relief carving, folk figures, or decoy/wildlife art. This is a great class for all levels of experience; from beginners with no experience to those who are looking for refresher course as each person works at their own pace. Students may work on their own projects, or chose one of Ed's award winning designs. When completed, each will have a finished work of art to proudly display. Several students, both past and present, have won awards for their carvings at various Wood Carving Shows.
Material Cost: $65 for a "starter" project and $20 for a basic carving knife (materials from sandpaper to finishing oil are included).
Instructor: Ed Cope
WORKSHOPS:
Decorate a Gingerbread House for the Holidays. At this workshop, you will be provided with a gingerbread house and all edible decorations. At the end of the three hour workshop, you will leave with a beautiful, edible table decoration. Adults only. Tuition plus materials fee.
Instructor: Gail Maciorowski
Learn simple techniques in sewing and working with color to create your own little landscape. Sewing machine experience required. Kits can be purchased from the instructor for $5 each. Contact HCAC for a supply list or to reserve a kit.
Instructor: Marsha Molloy
Learn the art of machine quilting using your sewing machine. You will learn how to use a walking foot, free motion foot and ideas for quilting designs and more! Come and get those quilt tops quilted and finished! Sewing machine experience and some prep work required. Contact HCAC for a supply list.
Instructor: Marsha Molloy
Students will make either a miniature Trip Around the World or a miniature Double Irish Chain. Learn easy strip piecing techniques to make sewing small simple. Sewing experience required. Contact HCAC for a supply list.
Instructor: Marsha Molloy
An all day workshop from 9:30 to 3:30 pm.
Instructor: Anne Mueller
Quilt 'til You Wilt
Instructor: Marsha Molloy