Classes and workshops
Wool Felt Making Workshop
Instructor: Joann Murdock
Saturday, March 21, 10:00am
Registration: $60.00
Create a pocket purse to carry your phone, credit cards, or other small items. All it takes is a bit of colorful wool, soap and water. Embellish your purse with texture and sparkle from handmade yarns or give it a luxe sheen with a bit of silk or rayon to adhere to the wool.
Instructor Joann Murdock is a multimedia fiber artist who loves to stretch the boundaries of felt making. She uses silk, sequins, upcycled materials, even paper in her felt creations.
Joann also has some of her other work on display here currently.
Instructor: Joann Murdock
Saturday, March 21, 10:00am
Registration: $60.00
Create a pocket purse to carry your phone, credit cards, or other small items. All it takes is a bit of colorful wool, soap and water. Embellish your purse with texture and sparkle from handmade yarns or give it a luxe sheen with a bit of silk or rayon to adhere to the wool.
- Each item is one-of-a-kind, very strong and sturdy, yet light weight.
- For beginning and intermediate felt makers.
- All supplies included.
- Registration deadline is March 14
Instructor Joann Murdock is a multimedia fiber artist who loves to stretch the boundaries of felt making. She uses silk, sequins, upcycled materials, even paper in her felt creations.
Joann also has some of her other work on display here currently.
Glass Butterfly Workshop
Instructors: Clarence & Valerie Butcher
Saturday, March 28, 10:00am – 12:00pm
$65.00 registration (Must be 15 or older)
Instructors: Clarence & Valerie Butcher
Saturday, March 28, 10:00am – 12:00pm
$65.00 registration (Must be 15 or older)
- Create a butterfly fused glass garden yard art patterned after a lunar moth.
- Choose your own colors
- All supplies included with safety glasses provided
- Please wear long pants and closed toe shoes
- Must be 15 to register and attend
- Registration deadline is March 21
April 4 - 10:00am - Local history presentation by Tom Wadsworth, PhD
April 18 - 10:00 a.m. - ”Grandma Goes to Antarctica” presented by Jeanne Roppolo
Journey to the coldest, driest, windiest, and most barren place on earth. Experience life at the bottom of the world in comfort and safety. Tag along with Grandma on her extreme excursions. Partner with the scientists and support personnel at McMurdo Station, the largest research station on the continent of Antarctica.
Journey to the coldest, driest, windiest, and most barren place on earth. Experience life at the bottom of the world in comfort and safety. Tag along with Grandma on her extreme excursions. Partner with the scientists and support personnel at McMurdo Station, the largest research station on the continent of Antarctica.
May 18 - 10:00 a.m. “I Walked Among Heroes: Serving With the Most Decorated Boat Co. in Vietnam”
presented by Clarence Butcher
Vietnam was a war unlike any America had ever fought before. Many of the battlefields were jungles or rice paddies. Combatants were hard to distinguish from innocent civilians. And the road system was inadequate for transporting war materials in many places where they were needed.
To help alleviate the transportation problem, the Army reached out to the 1099th Transportation Company, Medium Boat. These ARMY sailors modified their landing craft using scrap lumber and canvas, to allow them to live aboard the boats 24 hours a day. The “River Rats” became the “long-haul truckers” of the Mekong Delta, where they were known for their ability to haul anything, anytime, anywhere, and under any conditions. They participated in a wide range of missions, including transporting personnel and cargo, supporting tactical operations, and providing humanitarian assistance. The 1099th was a COMBAT boat company engaged in direct combat support. One veteran River Rat described these missions as “ranging from scary to terrifying beyond comprehension”.
presented by Clarence Butcher
Vietnam was a war unlike any America had ever fought before. Many of the battlefields were jungles or rice paddies. Combatants were hard to distinguish from innocent civilians. And the road system was inadequate for transporting war materials in many places where they were needed.
To help alleviate the transportation problem, the Army reached out to the 1099th Transportation Company, Medium Boat. These ARMY sailors modified their landing craft using scrap lumber and canvas, to allow them to live aboard the boats 24 hours a day. The “River Rats” became the “long-haul truckers” of the Mekong Delta, where they were known for their ability to haul anything, anytime, anywhere, and under any conditions. They participated in a wide range of missions, including transporting personnel and cargo, supporting tactical operations, and providing humanitarian assistance. The 1099th was a COMBAT boat company engaged in direct combat support. One veteran River Rat described these missions as “ranging from scary to terrifying beyond comprehension”.
Weekly Art Class
Want to get back to creating art? Always wanted to learn how to paint or draw? Do you have paintings or drawings that never quite got finished because you just weren’t sure how? If yes to any of these, read on!
Carolyn McKee-Freese offers a class that lets you work and learn at your own pace, in your own chosen medium, and your own chosen themes and subjects. You will receive professional guidance and personalized, individual instruction and tutoring, as you learn to create, evaluate, and improve your art no matter what your style. Media can include watercolor, acrylic, graphite pencil, charcoal, colored pencil, or pastel. Bring your own supplies and let’s create better art! No supplies, no problem. We’ll help you create a minimal shopping list to get you started.
Flexible Schedule!
Need to take a day or maybe a week off for vacation, birthday or rainy day?
No problem! Register for four classes and use the as you wish.
- Wednesdays, 10:00am - 12:30pm
- Instructor: Carolyn McKee-Freese
- Four-Week Tuition (18 or older)
- Members: $65 or Non-Members: $85
Want to get back to creating art? Always wanted to learn how to paint or draw? Do you have paintings or drawings that never quite got finished because you just weren’t sure how? If yes to any of these, read on!
Carolyn McKee-Freese offers a class that lets you work and learn at your own pace, in your own chosen medium, and your own chosen themes and subjects. You will receive professional guidance and personalized, individual instruction and tutoring, as you learn to create, evaluate, and improve your art no matter what your style. Media can include watercolor, acrylic, graphite pencil, charcoal, colored pencil, or pastel. Bring your own supplies and let’s create better art! No supplies, no problem. We’ll help you create a minimal shopping list to get you started.
Flexible Schedule!
Need to take a day or maybe a week off for vacation, birthday or rainy day?
No problem! Register for four classes and use the as you wish.
Art Instructor: Carolyn McKee-Freese
Carolyn McKee-Freese received her Bachelor of Education from NIU, retiring after 25 years in the public school system as a visual arts instructor for middle school and high school. She has also served as a district visual arts curriculum developer and worked as a private contractor for the Chicago Field Museum’s Education Department and Paleontology Department. Now a private and group art instructor in a variety of media, Carolyn has been published in many magazines and exhibited at numerous venues including Norris Gallery and the New York State Museum.
You may register online below. Registration forms are available at the Coliseum. You may also call 815-595-5810 or email us at [email protected] for more information.
Carolyn McKee-Freese received her Bachelor of Education from NIU, retiring after 25 years in the public school system as a visual arts instructor for middle school and high school. She has also served as a district visual arts curriculum developer and worked as a private contractor for the Chicago Field Museum’s Education Department and Paleontology Department. Now a private and group art instructor in a variety of media, Carolyn has been published in many magazines and exhibited at numerous venues including Norris Gallery and the New York State Museum.
You may register online below. Registration forms are available at the Coliseum. You may also call 815-595-5810 or email us at [email protected] for more information.