The Cooperstown Art Association-Classes

Classes

The CAA offers a variety of art classes running in Spring and Fall sessions with occasional workshops in the Summer. In addition to working with inspirational and encouraging teachers, while taking classes at the CAA, students also have access to our exstensive classroom art technique library. You can view the Fall Class schedule here. Please call (607) 547-9777 for more information.

Monday Night Drawing Group

Mondays year round from 7-9 pm
Classes are subject to weather and model availability. Join our friendly, small drawing group! The class meets in our upstairs classroom space at 22 Main Street, Cooperstown. Artists are given the unique opportunity to sketch from a live model without an instructor. $10.00 per class donation.
Girl at Monday Night Drawing Class

Sewing Class with Catherine Lake Ellsworth
Catherine Lake Ellsworth has a Masters Degree in Costume Design and has taught Costume Design at Boston University and Hartwick College. She is also a quilter and was a long-time member of the Fenimore Quilt Club in Cooperstown, well known for its successful annual Quilt Show held every February at the CAA.
This class is open to all levels and small enough for each student to receive individual attention and learn what they need to on a one on one basis. A portable sewing machine should be brought to each class unless prior arrangements are made with the CAA at the time of enrollment.
Sewing class with Catherine Lake Ellsworth

Beginning Watercolor Class with Elaine Wentworth

Elaine Wentworth is one of New England’s Prominent watercolor painters, and has won many national and regional awards over the years including gold and silver medal awards. Elaine states, “I try to capture the elusive spirit of the changing seasons and atmospheric conditions. always based on a foundation of strong design concepts. My inspiration has long evolved from sketching and painting on location in broad vistas and close-up views, whether of the sea and its estuaries, mountains and valleys, streams and rapids, or fields and wildflowers.”
In her 8 week course, ”Beginning Watercolor” Elaine guides the students through the basic techniques to gain confidence in this elusive medium. Elaine demonstrates at each session, first with limited color and simple compositions, progressing to full color using not more than 7 or 8 different pigments. Class time includes individuals and group critiques.
Elaine Wentworth

Watercolor Class with W.Ralph Murray
W.Ralph Murray is a charter member and past president of the Central New York Watercolor Society (CNYWS). He teaches classes at Munson-Williams-Proctor School of Art in Utica and at Kirkland Art Center in Clinton. In addition to his teaching, Murray is a professional artist and shows his work extensively.
This course is open to all levels of skill with the beginners class (Beginners Class is a one day course introduction to the basics of the medium but is not always offered. Call for details.) Students (ages 15-adult) with strong art interest are encouraged to attend. A suggested materials list will be provided upon registration.
Watercolor Class with W. Ralph Murray

Drawing Class with Amy Cannon
Amy Cannon has a degree in Illustration from Parsons School of Design and her artistic fervor spans a wide breadth of mediums including ceramics, design, drawing and jewelry making.
This class will work with basic drawing skills (composition, contours, values and perspective) but encourages individuals to explore and experiment with new ways of seeing and translating feelings and observations of 3D forms to the 2D page. The class is also open to serious younger students. Students will need a 14x17 sketchbook, a variety of pencils, charcoal, kneaded erasers and stumps for blending. The class will be working primarily in black and white.
Drawing Class with Amy Cannon

Basic Floral Design with Holly Hren
Holly Hren is from a family of horticulturists. She was a horticultural TA at Cornell University and has continued her education on the subject of floral design through specialty courses in specific areas such as Ikebana (the art of Japanese floral arrangement).
The course proposes to teach familiarity with plant life as well as a sense of placement and the ability to work with on-hand materials. Most materials are provided.
Basic Floral Design with Holly Hren

Watercolor Possibilities with Lonni Sue Johnson
Lonni Sue Johnson is an illustrator whose watercolors have appeared on the covers of New Yorker Magazine, In the New York Times, in children's books and on cards for the Museum of Modern Art in NYC.
This class will explore all ways of using watercolor, realistic or abstract. She wants her students to bring curiosity and a willingness to open up to the possibilities of the medium. Adults without art experience are welcome. A suggested materials list will be provided upon registration.
Watercolor Possibilities with Lonni Sue Johnson

Healing Arts Program
The Healing Arts Program is an art therapy class specifically designed for cancer patients and survivors. The free eight-week program, funded by the Glimmerglass Foundation of Exeter, NH is normally held during both our fall and spring semesters. Instructors vary from year to year, but past teachers have included oil artist, Mary Nolan and ceramicist/collage artist Sue Holmes.

With weekly sessions, the Healing Arts Program uses art as a means to foster creativity and allow participants a safe outlet for their fears, desires, hopes and sometimes for their grief. Drawing, painting, writing and sculpture can give vent to powerful emotions and release feelings of stress, regardless of the participant's artistic skills. No previous art experience is necessary for this free program.
Healing Arts Program

Monday Night Drawing Group
Mondays year round from 7-9 pm Classes are subject to weather and model availability. Join our friendly, small drawing group! The class meets in our upstairs classroom space at 22 Main Street, Cooperstown. Artists are given the unique opportunity to sketch from a live model without an instructor. $10.00 per class donation.
Sewing Class with Catherine Lake Ellsworth
Catherine Lake Ellsworth has a Masters Degree in Costume Design and has taught Costume Design at Boston University and Hartwick College. She is also a quilter and was a long-time member of the Fenimore Quilt Club in Cooperstown, well known for its successful annual Quilt Show held every February at the CAA. This class is open to all levels and small enough for each student to receive individual attention and learn what they need to on a one on one basis. A portable sewing machine should be brought to each class unless prior arrangements are made with the CAA at the time of enrollment.
Beginning Watercolor Class with Elaine Wentworth
Elaine Wentworth is one of New England’s Prominent watercolor painters, and has won many national and regional awards over the years including gold and silver medal awards. Elaine states, “I try to capture the elusive spirit of the changing seasons and atmospheric conditions. always based on a foundation of strong design concepts. My inspiration has long evolved from sketching and painting on location in broad vistas and close-up views, whether of the sea and its estuaries, mountains and valleys, streams and rapids, or fields and wildflowers.” In her 8 week course, ”Beginning Watercolor” Elaine guides the students through the basic techniques to gain confidence in this elusive medium. Elaine demonstrates at each session, first with limited color and simple compositions, progressing to full color using not more than 7 or 8 different pigments. Class time includes individuals and group critiques.
Watercolor Class with W.Ralph Murray
W.Ralph Murray is a charter member and past president of the Central New York Watercolor Society (CNYWS). He teaches classes at Munson-Williams-Proctor School of Art in Utica and at Kirkland Art Center in Clinton. In addition to his teaching, Murray is a professional artist and shows his work extensively. This course is open to all levels of skill with the beginners class (Beginners Class is a one day course introduction to the basics of the medium but is not always offered. Call for details.) Students (ages 15-adult) with strong art interest are encouraged to attend. A suggested materials list will be provided upon registration.
Drawing Class with Amy Cannon
Amy Cannon has a degree in Illustration from Parsons School of Design and her artistic fervor spans a wide breadth of mediums including ceramics, design, drawing and jewelry making. This class will work with basic drawing skills (composition, contours, values and perspective) but encourages individuals to explore and experiment with new ways of seeing and translating feelings and observations of 3D forms to the 2D page. The class is also open to serious younger students. Students will need a 14x17 sketchbook, a variety of pencils, charcoal, kneaded erasers and stumps for blending. The class will be working primarily in black and white.
Basic Floral Design with Holly Hren
Holly Hren is from a family of horticulturists. She was a horticultural TA at Cornell University and has continued her education on the subject of floral design through specialty courses in specific areas such as Ikebana (the art of Japanese floral arrangement). The course proposes to teach familiarity with plant life as well as a sense of placement and the ability to work with on-hand materials. Most materials are provided.
Watercolor Possibilities with Lonni Sue Johnson
Lonni Sue Johnson is an illustrator whose watercolors have appeared on the covers of New Yorker Magazine, In the New York Times, in children's books and on cards for the Museum of Modern Art in NYC. This class will explore all ways of using watercolor, realistic or abstract. She wants her students to bring curiosity and a willingness to open up to the possibilities of the medium. Adults without art experience are welcome. A suggested materials list will be provided upon registration.
Healing Arts Program
The Healing Arts Program is an art therapy class specifically designed for cancer patients and survivors. The free eight-week program, funded by the Glimmerglass Foundation of Exeter, NH is normally held during both our fall and spring semesters. Instructors vary from year to year, but past teachers have included oil artist, Mary Nolan and ceramicist/collage artist Sue Holmes. With weekly sessions, the Healing Arts Program uses art as a means to foster creativity and allow participants a safe outlet for their fears, desires, hopes and sometimes for their grief. Drawing, painting, writing and sculpture can give vent to powerful emotions and release feelings of stress, regardless of the participant's artistic skills. No previous art experience is necessary for this free program.