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Summer 2025

ADULT COURSES

General Information

• Please register early to avoid disappointment. You may register online at www.ssac.org, call 781.383.2787 to register by phone with a credit card or see registration page for mail-in information. A $25 non-refundable registration fee is included in tuition. If a student cancels a registration at least ten days before a course or workshop begins, a refund will be granted. Visiting Artist Workshops require a 30 day cancellation notification.


• Students must provide their own materials for Adult Courses and Workshops unless noted.

• Young adults, 15 years and older, are welcome to enroll in most adult courses with the permission of the instructor.


SUPPLY LISTS ARE ALL ONLINE (they are not mailed out)
Click here for Supply Lists

 

 




Summer Classes:

300 Basic Drawing / Beg to Intermediate

Anthony Pilla

 

Tuesday: 1:00 – 3:30 pm
July 22 - August 26
$250M $295NM 6 classes

 




303 Exploring Pastel - Beginner to Intermediate

Rita Berkowitz

 

Wednesday: 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
July 9 - August 27

$305M $350NM 8 classes

 

310 Layering - Pencil, Paper, to Paint

Nathan Nottingham

 

Wednesday: 12:30 – 3:30 pm
June 25 - July 23 / No Class July 2
$155M $200NM 4 classes

 

 

322 Exploring Plein Aire - OUTSIDE

Bob Beaulieu

 

Tuesday: 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
July 8 - August 26

$305M $350NM 8 classes

 

 

328 Realism to Abstraction

Santiago Hernandez

 

Friday: 9:30 am –12:30 pm

July 11 - August 15
$250M $295NM 6 classes


 

329 The Painting Experience

Bob Beaulieu

 

Monday: 9:30 – 12:30 pm

July 7 - August 25

$305M $350NM 8 classes

 

 

324 Acrylic Landscape Painting from Photos

Lisa Marder

 

Tuesday: 12:30 – 3:30 pm

June 24 - August 5 / No Class on July 8
$250M $295NM 6 classes

 


Printmaking:

345 Continuing Solarplates

Esther Maschio

 

Monday: 9:00 am – 1:00 pm

July 7 - August 25
$400M $445NM 8 classes

 




347 Gelli Plate Printmaking

Esther Maschio

 

Thursday: 9:00 am – 12:00 pm

July 24 - August 14
$160M $205NM 4 classes

 


348 Impress Yourself: Intro to Printmaking

Rachel Maguire

 

Thursday: 6:00 – 9:00 pm

July 10 - August 21
$275M $320NM 7 classes

 


Ceramics:

350 Intro to Pottery for Adult Beginners

Ann Conte

 

Wednesday: 2:00 – 5:00 pm

June 18 - July 30 / No Class July 2
$350M $395NM 6 classes

 




351 Exploring Ceramics

Ann Conte

 

Wednesday: 6:00 – 9:00 pm

June 18 - July 30 / No Class July 2

$350M $395NM 6 classes


354 Clay Decorating Techniques

Ann Conte

 

Thursday: 6:00 – 9:00 pm

June 19 - July 31 / No Class July 3
$350M $395NM 6 classes

 


Photography & Mixed Media:

371 Basic Digital Photography

Keith Conforti

 

Wednesday: 6:00 – 8:00 pm

July 9 - August 13
$185M $230NM 6 classes

 




375 Photoshop Photography Salon - ONLINE

Sarah Anthony

Wednesday: 6:00 – 8:00 pm

July 9 - August 13

$185M $230NM 6 classes

 

 

380 - iPhone Photography

Mike Dick

 

Wednesday: 6:30 – 8:30 pm

June 18 - July 23 / No Class July 2
$155M $200NM 5 classes

 


Summer Workshops:

417 Felted Flowers & Stems

Patrice Kelley

 

Wednesday: 1:00 – 4:00 pm

August 6
$95M $140NM 1 class

 




470 Intro to Cyanotype

Sarah Anthony

 

Sat & Sun: 10:00 am – 2:30 pm

July 26 & 27

$250M $295NM 2 classes

 



450 Create a Book Using Cyanotype Printing

Laura Blacklow

 

Sat & Sun: 9:30 am – 3:30 pm

July 19 & 20
$395M $440NM 2 classes

 



460 Large Scale Image Transfer on Wood & Canvas

Kimberley Majury

 

Thursday & Friday: 10:00 am – 3:00 pm

August 21 & 22

$250M $295NM 2 classes

 


Learning Lab

Adults & Children grades 5 and up

 

Develop your artistic skills, talent, and creativity! Our highly skilled artist-teachers will train you in techniques and use of tools and materials, to help unlock your own unique style. Customized instruction for beginners to advanced levels.

 

1. The cost for private 1 on 1 instruction is $60M $80NM per hour.

 

2. The cost for group instruction, with a maximum of 4 students, decreases to $45M $65NM per hour.

 

3. Review the learning opportunities below to tailor your lessons.

 

4. Have fun!

 

Two-hour blocks. dates to be mutually determined by student and instructor and must be completed within the term.

 

Possibilities Include


801 BASIC DRAWING—This is the place to start. Everything stems from drawing.
802 BEGINNING PAINTING—Learn the wonders of color alchemy, slosh around in oil or acrylics. Make a mess or be neat. Compose on the stage of the canvas.
803 Self Portrait—Embrace your ever-changing expressions with charcoal, wire, and monoprints.
804 Life Drawing—Working from a clothed model—with gesture drawings to 30 minute poses—discover new ways to express the ever-moving form of the figure.
805 Pastel Landscape—Amp up the color of the landscape using soft pastels. Learn many techniques while creating beautiful landscape paintings.
806 Printmaking—Express your inner animal through printmaking. We will create multi-colored prints based on the animal in you.
807 SCRAPBOOKING—Collect your travel or memoir experiences and memories.
811 Art Explorations for Teens
812 Portfolio Works in Progress
814 Artist Choice—Students will request their own medium and direction.
815 private lessons for students with special needs


Call to schedule sessions—781 383 2787


Studio Art Foundation Program


South Shore Art Center offers a new program for students looking to formalize their art studies. Upon completion of a specially designed curriculum, SSAC will award students a Certificate in Studio Art Foundation. Participants in the program will have ongoing support of Art Center faculty to evaluate work and assist in course selection. Certificate Students will have priority registration and be assisted in creating a portfolio of work from their selected courses for presentation and exhibition. They also will have the opportunity to exhibit at SSAC in Certificate Student shows. Courses must be completed within three years of registration. (One course, taken prior to January 2015 is eligible for inclusion in the Certificate Program.)

Registration fee for this program is $50.
Contact 781-383-2787 for more information.



First Year Focus
Basic Drawing (48 hours minimum)
Color Theory (10 hours minimum)
Intro to Painting (24 hours minimum Oil, Acrylic, or Watercolor)
Elective choice (24 hours)


Second Year Focus
Drawing II (24 hours minimum)
Art History (12 hours)
Painting Elective (24 hours minimum)
Elective choice (24 hours)


Elective Courses
Advanced Drawing (24 hours)
Printmaking (24 hours)
Photography (16 hours)
3D ceramics (24 hours)
Visiting Art Workshops (18 hours minimum)


Studio Art
Foundation Program


Professional Development

Attention Teachers! We are pleased to provide a certificate of completion for any of our adult courses or workshops.