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We are excited to announce our Winter/Spring 2025 Classes & Workshops. Unleash your creativity at the Arts Center! Join our vibrant community of instructors and explore your creativity through hands-on classes in painting, knitting, cooking, and more! Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced artist, we have something for everyone. We offer scholarships for our
Learn to Play Ukulele! Instruments will be provided, and instruction will begin at a very basic level. Lessons will also be available on guitar and other string instruments if time allows. If in doubt, bring it along. These classes are free for veterans plus a guest. Wednesdays: Sept 18, Oct 2, Oct 16,
Bead Embroider a Posy Pin or Pendant Class Here is an easy, colorful way to experience three basic embroidery stitches in another dimension, with beads.You will pick up the beads with your needle and thread, and you will be stitching on a small piece of somewhat stiff yet flexible fabric, Pellon 70.We will turn that
Does your child enjoy art? Do you want to expand your child’s artistic talents? For the third year, the Arts Council will hold a Summer Art Camp for Kids. There will be separate weekly sessions for 5 to 8-year-olds and for 9 to 12-year-olds, both from 9 to 11 am, Monday through Thursday, at the
Want to explore “The Artist YOU are?” Interested in learning new art techniques, expanding your portfolio, or diving into interests you already have? Mrs. Gennaro’s weekly summer teens camp will run Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 9:30-11:30.There will be additional supervised open studio hours. Mrs. Gennaro will teach a variety of techniques and mediums of your
This is your opportunity to learn and make ceramics in this hands-on class. The deadline to sign up is Friday, March 29. Cost: $200/$180 for current Huntingdon County Arts Council members LocationSouthern Huntingdon County High School
Once again, this year, Ginny Mutti will lead a workshop on Pysanky Ukrainian Egg Decorating. There are two separate workshops: Wednesday, March 6, at 2 p.m. and Thursday, March 7, at 6 p.m. Both workshops are at the Huntingdon County Arts Center. All materials will be supplied.The class size for the workshop is limited to 15,
We are starting a new set of 𝐁𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬 on the first Thursday of every month. Here is your chance for you and/or your family to try out some different art techniques or projects. Each date will offer three separate sessions from 5 to 7 p.m. Here are the 3 sessions for Thursday, September 7:
The Huntingdon County Arts Council is holding a Summer Art Camp for Children. Juniata Valley art teacher Olivia Gennaro and/or Southern Huntingdon art teacher Andrea Darby are teaching the classes. The camp offers two sessions each day (sold separately), with different topics in each. Class sessions are two hours each, Monday through Thursday. Class size
Fiber artist Kari Roslund will explore the basic process of creating kami-ito, paper yarn in the first class. Using a variety of paper sources, this class will experiment with a range of techniques needed to create yarn. Students will then be encouraged to weave, crochet, knit, or sew a finished project that incorporates their spun
Wake up your interest in writing. The Huntingdon County Arts Council is offering 6-weeks of Creative Writing Classes taught by Prudence Ingerman that is designed to ignite the creativity of participants. Each class will feature a new technique and some in-class practice done only by hand. No computers. Classes are on Wednesday, starting on May 25, from 9
Beginning Knitting Classes The start date has been revised. Prudence Ingerman will lead a Beginning Knitting course for absolute beginners starting on Saturday, June 4. The class is held from 10 a.m. to noon for four Saturdays at the Huntingdon County Arts Center, 313 12th Street, Huntingdon. Participants will learn to make a pair of