You know who you are for this year-long class, and I appreciate you! Please prioritize and sticker it appropriately to avoid conflicts, or be ready to make significant personal compromises to stay in it, should you choose not to sticker it to fit your full commitment to the year-long experience.
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Fearless English (Scobie)
This is the class where each week, you write something you’re genuinely excited to read aloud to your classmates, mostly fiction, but sometimes other kinds of work.
If you’re still feeling it, extend the winter term into Spring, If you’ve heard great things, and are feeling brave about trying a few rounds of Fearless, come on in!
- There is always work outside of class because we use class for reading your pieces aloud. You get your pieces written between classes!
- This class is FIRE, people, based on the idea that you should only bother writing what you’re super-pumped to share. When you do this the way it’s meant to be done, it feels like being in the best writing class there ever was.
Sculpting to the Bone (Scobie)
This sculpture class, part of Scobie’s “Art School” curriculum, will change your brain’s ability to see and understand what you see, whether you want to be an artist or not. You’ll use clay to make a real sculpture* of a real thing, in this case a Pleistocene Bison’s leg bone. You’ll do some drawings to study the bone, and then begin adding clay to an armature to make a scaled copy of this complex, organic form.
Each day of class, two days per week, will be a quiet, coached studio session of focused work on your sculpture, requiring standing and walking and drawing and measuring and observing.
You’ll finish the class with a new ability to see and understand all the shapes around you.
*(Note: These sculptures will be photographed at the end of the class, then recycled; they are learning tools, not something to keep.)
Shop Life (Scobie)
If you like making things, fixing things, and being competent with tools, you should always take as much Shop Life as you can possibly get your hands on! Here’s what we’ll be doing:
- Learning about tools and the skills to use them effectively and safely.
- Working on improving, organizing, stocking, and cleaning our ever-developing shop.
- Contributing to the school and our larger community with fixes, furniture, and projects.
- Completing projects that result in gifts you can give to yourself or others.