WINTER CLASSES: The Center for Contemporary Art in Bedminster is offering in-person and virtual art classes and workshops this winter for adults, teens, and children in a variety of media including oil and acrylic paint, pastel, watercolor, drawing, and ceramics. 

The Center for Contemporary Art in Bedminster is offering in-person and virtual art classes and workshops this winter for adults, teens, and children beginning January 10. Select classes will be offered in a hybrid format. Classes and workshops are offered for artists with all levels of expertise in a variety of media including oil and acrylic paint, pastel, watercolor, drawing, and ceramics. 

There are more than 60 winter adult classes including, Portrait Drawing, Watercolor Step-by-Step, The Power of Pastels, Introduction to Acrylics, Morning Oil Landscape, Watercolor Portraits of People and Animals, Evening Painting, and ceramics classes such as Beginner Wheel Throwing, and Wheel Throwing and Hand Building. New classes this winter include Intro to Oil Painting, Classical Portraiture, Drawing Like the Old Masters in Pen Ink, Introduction to Drawing, Tricolor and Colored Pencil Drawing, Introduction to Basic Sculpting Technique, Media Sampler, Art and Literature, Video Art, and The Art of Comedy.

Winter workshops offer students the opportunity to try something new. Workshops include Pen & Ink Techniques, Needle Felting, The Behavior of Pigments, Watercolor for Absolute Beginners, Easter Pysanky Egg Dyeing, Birds and Bird Nests in Watercolor, Pastels Step-by-Step, and more.

In-person classes are available for teens and children. For children ages 5-8 in person classes include Mixed Media, Painting in Depth, Drawing in Depth, Glow in the Dark Art, and Pottery. Students ages 9-11 can select from in person classes Drawing in Depth, “Painting in Depth, as well as Mixed Media, and Pottery. Teen offerings include in person classes Drawing Intensive, Pottery, Painting In Style, and a virtual class in “Cartooning.”

In-person classes will also be offered for children with autism spectrum disorder and other special needs beginning January 24.  Students will explore a variety of art projects specifically geared to their interest and ability both in two-and-three dimensional approaches.

The Center for Contemporary Art is located at 2020 Burnt Mills Road in Bedminster. For more information or to register for a class, visit ccabedminster.org.