Monday, December 22, 2008

Creative Arts Center of Dallas announces winter/spring classes and workshops

By Pegasus News wire

The Creative Arts Center of Dallas (CAC), a non-profit school of visual arts and community arts organization geared to beginning, emerging and working artists announced its winter and spring schedule of 150 classes and workshops. For more than 40 years, CAC has offered visual art classes to students from teenagers to senior citizens. Classes and workshops are held at CAC’s two-acre campus in Dallas, 4 miles east of downtown at 2360 Laughlin Dr., off Ferguson Road in East Dallas.

There will be two sessions: the first session will begin January 12 through March 1 and the second session will be March 9 through May 3. More than 35 workshops will be held throughout the two sessions with a heavy concentration held during workshop week, March 2 - 8. Workshops include Christmas Camera, Tempered Glass Mosaics, Diva Dolls, Sketchbook Journaling and Japanese Bookbinding.

Class offerings include Mugs, Jugs and Throwing Large; Fused Glass; Figure Drawing A-Z; Painting from Life; Mosaic Stained Glass; and Pastels. Additional classes are offered in Jewelry Making, Stone Carving, Metal Arts, Photography, Printmaking, Ceramics and Clay Sculpture. Instructors include well-known artists and art educators whose work are in public and private collections, including Sonia King, Michael Blackwell, Dave Kramer, Tomas Bustos and Rebecca Romanek Johnson.

According to Executive Director Diana Pollak, the Creative Arts Center of Dallas is a top destination for artists of all media to gather in North Texas. “CAC is not only a dynamic arts organization, it is also a thriving arts community,” said Ms. Pollak. “It’s a safe-haven for artists to exchange ideas, share techniques and explore new creative avenues.”

The Creative Arts Center of Dallas was founded as a public arts center in 1965 and is now located in a converted elementary school building built by the WPA during the Great Depression. The CAC Gallery provides a venue for exhibition and sale of student and faculty artwork. Last year, more than 1,500 students took more than 350 classes and workshops at the Creative Arts Center of Dallas.

Source: CAC

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