After-school classes at Seed Studio
Seed Studio, Room 114 in the Smiley Building at 1309 East Third Ave., will offer these classes and workshops:
Creative art workshops will take place from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Mondays for four weeks. The workshops will be held Monday, Jan. 11, Feb. 1 and Feb. 8. The workshops are open to children ages 8 to 12. The cost is $92. The workshops will focus on printmaking techniques such as sun prints, mono prints, block prints and relief prints.
The After School Art Club will meet from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Wednesdays for six weeks. The club is open to children ages 6 to 12 and will be held from Wednesday to Feb. 10. The cost is $90. Students will explore different art mediums, themes and a variety of techniques.
Lotus Girls – Art & Yoga will be held from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Thursdays for six weeks. The group is open to girls ages 8 to 12 and will take place from Thursday to Feb. 11. The cost is $115. Girls will meditate, create, practice yoga and explore what it means to be a young woman in today’s world.
For more information, call 903-3918, visit www.seedstudiokids.com or email seedstudiokids@gmail.com.
Exhibits to open at Durango Arts Center
“The White Season,” a group exhibit celebrating the ephemeral beauty of winter, will have an opening reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Jan. 8 at The Durango Arts Center, 802 East Second Ave.
The exhibit will run from Jan. 8 to 30. The White Season will include works by local and regional artists – Sandra Butler, Charlene Geiss, Mary Ellen Long, Andrea Martens, Maureen May, Catherine Nash and Joan K. Russell.
The White Season will interpret how winter recollections for many people embrace serenity, silence, grace, tranquility and eternity.
Also at DAC, Jen Pack’s show, “Irregularities,” will be in the Art Library from Jan. 8 through Feb. 20, with an opening reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Jan. 8.
Pack’s lecture, “Miss Straightjacket: Or How I am Learning to Become Comfortable with Visibility,” will follow the opening from 7 to 8 p.m. and is free.
“Irregularities” will display works “embodying a space in the seam between painting and sculpture” and focuses on the state of duality and how irregular shapes encourage conversations that examine perception and process.
For more information, visit www.DurangoArts.org.
January art walk coming Thursday
The First Thursdays Art Walk will take place from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday at participating venues around downtown Durango.
First Thursdays Art Walk welcomes new venues Open Shutter Gallery and Lively, a Boutique, to the list of Durango galleries and alternative art places that open their doors to art lovers to celebrate the art and artists in the community.
For more information, visit www.DurangoArts.org/first-thursdays.
Herald Staff
