Woodcut Class in Ocean Grove

Here are two photos of things that will never be exactly the same again.  The classes go on, but the settings have changed a bit.

Above is a linocut class I once taught in my Studio at the Jersey Shore Arts Center in Ocean Grove.  Below is an image of a woodcut printmaking class I taught at the Belmar Arts Council.  Classes will happen again, but they won't look quite like that.

For example, my Studio space in Ocean Grove no longer has that bright red wall.  After some leaks, it was decided the solution was to repaint the walls with an ugly gray paint, and the windows were eventually replaced, taking the green trim with it.  (Those colors live on in other parts of the room and on our outside doorways.) I have no immediate plans to teach linocut there or anywhere.  However they are finally ready to start offering art classes at the Jersey Shore Arts Center.  Individual artists in the building always have had them (the linocut class was part of a series called "Creativity By the Sea" from several years ago) but this is the first time that the whole organization has organized  them.  And they won't be held in our spaces, but in what was known as the cafeteria in the old school, but now they are calling "The Green Room".  Don't have any good photos of it right now.  They are hoping to have more of the resident artists involved eventually, but I get to be the first.  Round 1 is in July, with Basic Drawing on Tuesdays from 2:00 to 4:30 (July 9, 16, 23, 30) and Woodcut Printmaking on Wednesdays from 6:00 to 8:30 (July 10. 17, 24, 31).  See their website for more information and registration. Scroll down past the calendar.

As for Belmar, that space you see above, which was built to be a classroom space, has been claimed by the photographers to be their new lounge, but they can't stop woodcut from happening.  So it will be like days past, where I set up the tables in the front or back gallery, depending on what else was going on.  That class will be on Tuesdays from 6:30 to 9:00 (July 9, 23, 30, Aug 13) with information and registration available on the BAC website under Classes.