Painting – Beginning Watercolor, Groundwork for Adventure
Students will learn the basic skills of watercolor painting that create colorful and glowing effects. We will demonstrate the properties of paints, paper and brushes, wet and dry techniques, washes, glazes and traditional methods of developing a watercolor painting. Students will gain an understanding of how pigment and water work along with specific brush skills. Skills to be taught include: use of color wheel, how values work, the importance of leaving your whites and mixing bright colors, neutrals and darks. Students provide their own supplies. A supply list is included. Instructor: Rick Bennett. (6 sessions)

173775
Thursdays 7:00PM – 9:30PM
June 4th – July 9th
$85

Image: Rick Bennett, Side Street

Pottery – Teen Beginning and Intermediate Wheel
Hey teens! If you're new to clay or if you have taken a wheel class before, this class is for you. Beginning students will learn the basics of wheel throwing, including wedging, centering, and making small pots! Intermediate students will learn how to pull clay taller, use larger amounts to make bigger objects and attach handles, knobs and feet. (This class does not qualify students for a studio card.) All supplies included. Instructor: Anne Terry. Five sessions.

172362
Fridays  9:30AM – 12:30PM
June 22nd – June 26th
$95 

Pottery – Little Potters
Bring your little potter for an hour of fun with you in the clay studio! We will guide you and your child in a clay project designed with young artists' skills, abilities and attention span in mind. Explore textures, form and function, and enjoy the creative process together. Pieces will be glazed and fired after the class for pickup at a later date. Please register child only; one caregiver must attend with each child. Instructor: Emily Malpass. One session.

172319
Saturday 9:30AM – 10:30AM
June 27th
$20

During the month of June, Pullen Arts Center’s gallery will feature new woodcuts and magical realism woodcut prints by Jaclyn Bowie and paintings by Jenn Hales. 

Meet the artists and join us for a reception in celebration of this show on Saturday, June 13 from 3-5pm.

Jaclyn Bowie recently completed teaching a 6-week course in Japanese woodblock printing at Pullen Arts. Missed it? You’re in luck. She’ll be offering the class again this fall – stay tuned!

Reflections from Emily Malpass, instructor of Little Potters and Intergeneration Clay classes for kids and their adults at Pullen Arts Center.

Saturday morning: Get dressed for a mess and head to Pullen with creative juices overflowing all the way into the clay studio. Elsewhere in Raleigh, a kindergartner has donned her clay clothes and is on her way with Mom or Dad to the very same place. You’re about to help me make this kid, and a handful of others, feel like the luckiest little potter in the world as they co-create in our studio for an hour on this morning. Thank you for helping us practice what we preach in our brochure: “At Pullen Arts Center, you’ll find people of all ages, from all walks of life, and at every stage of artistic development, learning together and sharing studio spaces in an inviting, inclusive and informal atmosphere.”

As these little ones and adults explore clay, they learn about each other and the creative process. The parents are new to art-making as often as the children are, and this class, and others like it, make art feel fun and do-able to that full range of folks. By coming to a class in a “real” studio, they glimpse the full picture of making, seeing pallets of clay boxes to shelves of in-process work of all kinds, and even cleaning up their tables themselves, rather than having a sanitized, prepackaged “creative” experience. They listen and learn as artists talk about their work, share materials, solve problems and ask for support and feedback.

So, thank you in advance for your patience, for your generosity in sharing our spaces, for planning ahead and checking the studio calendar, and for every kind word and nod of encouragement you give to me and my students. Each one of us is making art now because someone made space for us when we were beginners (little or otherwise). Thanks for making space for this to continue, right at Pullen.