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Education

Celebrate your creativity with a Spring class at Spiva!

Pysanky Eggs
Saturday, April 8 (at Spiva)
Time: 10:00am – Noon
Instructor: Carolyn Trout
Cost: $30, includes materials
Ages: Limited to 8 students, Teens and Adults

You’ve seen those gorgeous Ukrainian eggs, now try one yourself. Carolyn Trout, former director of the Joplin Public Library, has been creating Ukrainian
Easter eggs (Pysanky) for 25 years. This ancient art form uses egg shells, beeswax, and water-soluble dyes to create masterpieces in miniature.

Outrageous Eggs
Saturday, April 8 (at Spiva)
Time: 2:00 – 4:00pm
Instructor: Connie Knudtson
Cost: $15, includes materials
Ages: Kids of all ages, 6–96!

What can you do with an egg besides dye it? Anything! Embellish over-sized papier maché eggs with paint, pebbles, leaves, lace, beads, baubles, buttons, feathers…whatever tickles your fancy. Add wings, beaks, feet...let your imagination run wild.
Bring your own found objects to work with, too!

Silk & Salt Watercolor scarves
Saturday, April 22 (at MSSU)
Time: Noon – 2:00pm
Instructor: Connie Knudtson
Cost: $30, includes two silk scarves
Ages: Teens and Adults

Brush fiber-reactive dyes onto silk, then sprinkle with salt. It’s a recipe for a gorgeous scarf and a wonderful gift for Mother's Day (or for yourself!). No experience necessary.
Location: Art Bldg, Missouri Southern State University. Use the faculty parking lot at the southwest corner of Newman Road and Duquesne.

Beginning Watercolor (5 weeks)
Saturdays, April 22, 29, May 6, 13, 20 (at Spiva)
Time: 10:00am – Noon
Instructor: Paula Giltner
Cost: $100, plus materials
Ages: Adults

Enjoy learning basic watercolor techniques and skills with Paula Giltner, Resident Artist at Ozark Christian College. The class will begin with landscapes and develop into work of the student’s choice.

Papier Maché Sculpture (3 weeks)
Saturdays, April 29, May 6, 13 (at Spiva)
Time: 1:00 - 4:00pm
Instructor: Wendy Millman
Cost: $60, includes materials
Ages: Anyone old enough not to eat wallpaper paste (You know who you are!)

Papier maché is an ancient art form using recycled materials, offering low tech and high possibility FUN! What ideas are lurking in your imagination?
Take this class and find out!

Spiva Spring class registration form

Charge my MC/VISA:
Check enclosed, payable to “Spiva Center for the Arts”
Advance registration is required by 5pm the Wednesday before the first class session.
Register by phone/credit card, walk-in, mail-in.

Spiva Members receive a 10% discount off stated class costs.
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