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Adult  Art Classes/Workshops (in person)

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Explore the beauty of brush art through culture, creativity, and mindful weekly practice (

Chinese Calligraphy
Ages 9 to Adults
 

Instructor: Geng Wang

Saturdays 3:30PM-5:30PM

 

These weekly sessions invites students into the quiet, expressive world of brush and ink. Through guided demonstrations, hands-on practice, and creative exploration, participants learn foundational techniques while discovering the rhythm, balance, and cultural stories behind traditional forms, as well as their dialogue with Western lettering and contemporary design. Designed for beginners of all backgrounds, the class requires no prior art or Chinese language experience.

I teach with patience and care, encouraging students to slow down and find confidence in each deliberate stroke. Each session blends technique with personal expression, allowing students to progress at their own pace while cultivating focus, creativity, and appreciation for this timeless art. Open to young learners, families, retirees, and creative professionals alike, the course offers a calm, welcoming space to create, reflect, and enjoy the simple pleasure of making with the hands.

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Collage Lab
Kids and Adults

Instructor: Laura Shefler

Host: Susan Chuang

Saturdays 1-3PM/ Weekly/Starts Jan 17

Fee $20 for 1 person/$10 for each additional family members. 

Drop in. Reservation online appreciated.

Materials included.

Join us for collage making on a weekly basis. We will have a theme weekly along with a short slide presentation to help get your creativity flowing. You are welcome to work with the theme or do your own project. 

Painting From Life, Oil
[weekly classes]

Instructor: Felicia Forte

This class is studio style (practical). Each week you will engage in painting from life. This may be a model, still life, portrait, or interior.

The practice/assignment will remain the same: paint an alla prima study in three hours from life. Around that repeated structure you grow and develop your skill, taste, and voice.

Felicia offers guidance in the form of advice, philosophy, and demonstration as you need it throughout this practice. 

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Weekly, In Person Classes 

Wednesday, 7pm-10pm

Get $50 discount by registering quarterly 

instead of monthly

Register at Feliciaforte.com

“Your voice is found in the small actions: technique, marks, and problem solving in paint, as well as in the subject matter and overarching themes you choose. You uncover these essential characteristics in your work by strengthening intuition, calming the nervous system and allowing curiosity to inspire the structure of your practice.”-Felicia

* “Colorspace Arts’ mission to promote a living wage by charging low classroom rental fees for instructors allows me to forward the savings onto you by deeply discounting my fees for this class.” F.F. 9/3/2025

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Still Life Lab

Still Life Lab is an uninstructed still life session where you can experiment, play and build skills. There will be various still life setups with themes and props each week TBD. Setup and lighting will be consistent throughout the 3 hour sessions. All media welcome. Coffee, tea and light snack provided. 

Hosts: Norman Bonney and Maggie Winslow

Mondays 10-1PM/ Weekly/Starts Jan 26

Fee $15 pay in person via cash, Venmo, or Zelle. (Proceeds goes to Colorspace Arts after cost deducted).  

Contact Norman at normanbon@gmail.com for more information and to be put on the mailing list. 

RSVP by email is appreciated.

 

Watercolor Basics Workshop

Instructor: Ilah Jarvis

Sunday March 22 from 1-4PM​

Demystify watercolor and discover how fun painting can be! You will gain an understanding of how watercolor behaves and have fun experimenting with different easy, abstract exercises and techniques.

You will learn basic color theory, the wet into wet technique, the dry technique, and how to mix colors and build darker values through glazing.

No drawing or art experience is needed, and you will begin to develop the skills to create the effects that you want. All supplies are provided by the instructor.

 

Enrollment fee: $120

Class supplies included

Register at Ilahjarvis.com

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Watercolor Collage Workshop

Instrutor: Ilah Jarvis

Sunday April 19 from 1-4PM

Try a variety of exciting watercolor techniques to decorate papers in a variety of colors. Then we will cut up and combine these papers with magazines and other art supplies to make beautiful, original collages. The teacher will provide all supplies for this class, but students are encouraged to bring any additional materials they would like to use. No drawing or art experience is required for this class. 

 

Enrollment fee: $120

Class supplies included

Register at Ilahjarvis.com

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Still Life Watercolor Class
 

Build on the skills you learned in Beginning Watercolor to create compelling, original still life compositions. We will practice light and shadow, capture different textures, add interesting background to our compositions and practice perspective with circles to help you paint flowers and vases.​ 

6 classes from January 14 to February 18

Wednesdays from 10AM to 12PM

Enrollment $240

Class is Full

Register at Ilahjarvis.com

Instructor: Ilah Jarvis

Drawing and Painting Studio

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Instructor: Mildred Hankinson

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In this ongoing studio workshop, students will have a chance to draw and paint in a relaxed, welcoming environment while receiving hands-on critique, live demonstrations, and weekly lectures. Each month, we will progress from drawing to painting, focusing first on still-life and landscape before moving on to portrait/figure from a live model. Lectures will cover a wide range of topics appealing to both the beginning and advanced artist, with the goal that everyone will learn something new (and useful!) each week of the year.

Colorspace Arts
10512 San Pablo Ave, El Cerrito,
(Enter on Waldo Ave)
susan@colorspacearts.com

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