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2008 Robert Lahm Returns to the Athens Cultural Center for Five More Free Teen Classes Acrylic Painting: Drawing, Transfer & Underpainting Five Sundays: January 11, 18, 25, and February 1 and 8 The Athens Cultural Center is offering five free lessons in Acrylic Painting with Robert Lahm especially for young people, ages 13 to 19, on five Sundays (January 11, 18, 25, February 1 and 8) from noon to four o’clock. All skill levels are welcome.  Class size is limited and all materials will be provided. These five classes will continue teaching an understanding of the elements of drawing – form, perspective, values, shading and composition – explored in a hands-on, individual instruction forum. In addition, a completed drawing of a still life will be transferred to a painting structure and developed into a monochromatic underpainting in the early Flemish tradition - in preparation for the color glaze technique. Robert Lahm has given numerous classes for adults at the Athens Cultural Center and also Columbia-Greene Community College. His previous class for teens at the Cultural Center was well attended and had a relaxed yet serious atmosphere. To register for the classes, call the Athens Cultural Center at 518 945-2136 and clearly leave the name and telephone number of the interested teenager. The Cultural Center is located at 24 Second Street in Athens.   If you have specific questions, please email us at info@athensculturalcenter.org. Free Program on Small Product Photography Ken Bovat will offer useful tips and tricks Wednesday, October 15 from 7 to 9 PM. The next program sponsored by the Greene County Camera Club at the Athens Cultural Center will take place on Wednesday, October 15 from 7 to 9 PM. For those with a fundamental knowledge of camera operations and general lighting, Ken Bovat will offer useful tips and tricks on photographing small products using materials you already own or that can be readily obtained. Ken Bovat, a Member of the Greene County Camera Club, is a Master Photographic Craftsman.  He is the owner and sole photographer of Photo credit: Ken Bovat Photo-Art by Ken Bovat in Claverack, New York and has 32 years of experience specializing in weddings, portraits and commercial photography. Ken earned Master of Photography as well as Photographic Craftsman degrees and has received numerous photographic awards on the local, state and international level.  He has lectured and given demonstrations to many photographic groups, both professional and amateur. The Athens Cultural Center is located at 24 Second Street in Athens. Parking is available around the corner in the Municipal Parking Lot on North Franklin Street.  There is easy access to the Cultural Center from the rear of the lot.  The public is welcome to share this informative talk as well as light refreshments.  For information, contact Nora Adelman at (518) 945-2866 or brphoto@mhcable.com. Pastel Workshiop with Dot Chast Fridays, August 8 through August 21 1-4 PM. Free. Limited space.  For registration, leave name and telephone number clearly at 945-2136 or brphoto@mhcable.com A free three-session course on Working with Pastels will be presented by Dot Chast at the Athens Cultural Center. It will begin on Friday, August 8, 1-4 pm and continue on August 15 and 22. Adult and teen participants will be provided with all art supplies needed. Dot Chast, a local artist and experienced teacher, encourages the freedom to follow ones own ideas while providing explanations of the basics: materials (pastels, oil pastels, colored pencils and types of papers) and seeing and understanding variations in using color.   She will provide a few objects to observe and draw from or students may go in their own directions with encouragement and help as needed. A native New Yorker, living in Greene County who works in pastels, pencil, printmaking, watercolors and oils, she is a member of the Woodstock Artists’ Association, the Tivoli Artists’ Co-op, the Greene County Council on the Arts, All Arts Matter and, of course, the Athens Cultural Center at 24 Second Street in Athens where these workshops will take place. Interested people may reserve a place in the group by calling (518) 945-2136 and mention the Pastels Workshop and clearly providing their name and telephone number.  Space is limited. Summer Kids Art Classes with Teacher Natalie Boburka Tuesdays-Thursday, July 8 through August 14 Athens Cultural Center, 24 Second Street, Athens. 10-12 AM, 7-11 year olds and 1-4 PM, 12 years old and up.  Free.  Limited space. Details of the program under Children’s Classes at www.athensculturalcenter.org. For registration, leave information including child’s name, age and sessions to be attended at 618-7203 or boburkastudios@yahoo.com.     Free Adult Watercolor Workshop with Painter William Carbone Saturdays, July 19 through September 13 12:30-3:00 PM, Phase I Community Room, Rivertown Senior Apts., 19 Third Street, Athens Sponsored by the Athens Cultural Center.   For information, call 828-4943 Plein Air Painting and Photography Contest Judging sponsored by the Athens Cultural Center Sunday, August 17 2 PM, Athens Riverfront Park For information, contact Ron Coons 945-3731 “Pinhole Photography,” talk and demonstration by Eddie Aleo Wednesday, August 20 7-9 PM, Athens Cultural Center, 24 Second Street, Athens Sponsored by the Greene County Camera Club. For information, contact Eileen Camuto at 678-9044   Painting in the Park Spring Plein Air Class in Athens with Robert Lahm Classes begin May 27th and run ten weeks through July 29th Back by popular demand and extended an extra two weeks - "PAINTING IN THE PARK" (Landscape) Oil/Acrylic/Watercolor/Pastel/Pencil returns to the Athens Cultural Center and the Athens Waterfront Park. Classes begin May 27th and run ten weeks through July 29th. They are Tuesday Evenings 5:30-8:30 pm. There is a fee of $137. Please make checks payable to: The Athens Cultural Center. Checks may be mailed to: The Athens Cultural Center, Attention: Nora Adelman, 24 Second Street, Athens, NY 12015. Many of last year's students agree - this was the most enjoyable class they ever attended and did not want to see it end! Come early and enjoy your dinner at Ursula's Restaurant (located across the street) or dine "plein air" on a picnic table overlooking the scenic Hudson River. As the class begins, enjoy the company of your fellow artists, some good, solid instruction and loads of inspiration. This class is for beginner, intermediate and advanced students who are interested in studying traditional methods of painting. This course is designed to take advantage of the historic Hudson River School landscape painting techniques and will explore painting sunsets on the Hudson River. The class will meet at The Athens Riverside Park, weather permitting, or at the Athens Cultural and Arts Center during inclement weather. Oils, Acrylics with "wet" pallets, Watercolors, Pastels and Pencil (Graphite, Colored or Charcoal) can be used. Classes begin at 5:30pm through 8:30pm. To ensure individual instruction there is a maximum enrollment of twelve. Instructor: Robert A. Lahm - Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts (advertising design & illustration); Montclair Art Museum School. Mr. Lahm has worked as a commercial illustrator for more than 35 years and is an avid landscape and wildlife painter. Robert Lahm's telephone number is 518 634-2305.View his work on line at: www.francomm.com\home\ralahm “How to Make Books,” a class by Esther K. Smith of Purgatory Pie Press Sunday, June 22, 1-4 pm Athens Cultural Center, 24 Second Street, Athens 1-4 PM.  For information, contact Randy Evans at stonloon@mhcable.com or 945-3432. “Poetry on the Hudson” Saturday, August 16 Guests Poets, T. G. Vanini and Susan Hoover and Open Mic 2-4 PM, Athens Cultural Center, 24 Second Street, Athens $3 suggested donation.  For more information, call 444-4561
Children's Classes   Click here to download the complete schedule for Children' Classes You will need Adobe Reader to view the file which is in .pdf format. If you do not have Adobe Reader you can download it here for free: Summer Kids Art Classes with Teacher Natalie Boburka Tuesdays-Thursday, July 8 through August 14 Athens Cultural Center, 24 Second Street, Athens. 10-12 AM, 7-11 year olds and 1-4 PM, 12 years old and up.  Free.  Limited space. Details of the program under Children’s Classes at www.athensculturalcenter.org. For registration, leave information including child’s name, age and sessions to be attended at 618-7203 or boburkastudios@yahoo.com.  Teen/Adult Pastels Workshop with Dot Chast Fridays, August 8 through August 21 1-4 PM. Free. Limited space.  For registration, leave name and telephone number clearly at 945-2136 or brphoto@mhcable.com Teen/Adult Monotype Workshop with Dot Chast Fridays, July 11 through July 25 Athens Cultural Center, 24 Second Street, Athens 1-4 PM. Free. Limited space.  For registration, leave name and telephone number clearly at 945-2136 or brphoto@mhcable.com.