Non-Credit Courses

Beginning Bird Watching

Learn how to find and identify birds through sight and sound.

Class Schedule: Monday, September 14 (raindate 9/21) 8:00-11:00am Desmond Campus
Fee: 30.00

Instructor: Peter Bedrosian

Scrapbooking

Scrapbooking is a great way to express our creativity and save pictures and memories. get a jump start on your scrapbooking along with techniques. Beginners or Advanced.

Class Schedule: July 20, 21, 22, & 23 6:00-9:00pm Desmond Campus Supplies included.
Fee: 85.00

Instructor: Cindy Senese

Scrapbooking

Scrapbooking is a great way to express our creativity and save pictures and memories. get a jump start on your scrapbooking along with techniques. Beginners or Advanced.

Class Schedule: August 1,8,15,22 9:00am -12 noon Desmond Campus Supplies included.
Fee: 85.00

Instructor: Cindy Senese

Creative Writing

Do you have a story to tell? Is there a poem in you screaming to get out? Why not share your creative efforts with others in a supportive, artistic environment? Discover how to jump-start your muse and find markets for your short fiction, essay, poems and novellas.

Class Schedule: 5 sessions : Wed. July 1-29 6:30-8:00pm Desmond Campus
Fee: 70.00

Instructor: Felicia Hodges
Felicia Hodges is a writer and photographer from Newburgh, NY. She is a published fiction writer and poet and is currently working as a freelance writer for several area publications. Felicia is a regular contributing writer for a variety of regional and national parenting and women’s issues magazines. In addition, she is working on her first novel.

Beading

Beading is an enjoyable art form that allows much creativity. Using color and different techniques is a great way to express yourself artistically. In this class you will create and complete earrings, a necklace and a bracelet. Supply fee: $50 includes materials to make the jewelry and will also include items needed to continue with other projects when class is over. Limit 6 people.

Class Schedule: Friday, Sept. 11 & 18 10:00am -12:30pm Desmond Campus material fee extra
Fee: 35.00

Instructor: Sandy Sperano
Sandy Sperano has been beading for 19 years. she lvoes creating her own personal beaded jewelry and for gifts.

Beading

Beading is an enjoyable art form that allows much creativity. Using color and different techniques is a great way to express yourself artistically. In this class you will create and complete earrings, a necklace and a bracelet. Supply fee: $50 includes materials to make the jewelry and will also include items needed to continue with other projects when class is over. Limit 6 people.

Class Schedule: Monday Sept. 14 & 21 10:00am-12:30pm Desmond Campus material fee extra
Fee: 35.00

Instructor: Mary Mailler

Advanced Beading

Class for continuing students or those with beading experience. Supplies will be sold as needed.

Class Schedule: Friday, September 25 10:00-1:30pm Desmond Campus materials extra
Fee: 40.00

Instructor: Sandy Sperano
Sandy Sperano has been beading for 19 years. she lvoes creating her own personal beaded jewelry and for gifts.

The Photo-graphic Garden

Recently featured in Country Gardens magazine, Matthew Benson will discuss and demonstrate key techniques and ideas behind successful garden and landscape photography in this Powerpoint presentation. There will be an emphasis on composition, design, light, and technology.

Class Schedule: Tuesdays July 7, 14, 21 6:30-8:30pm Desmond Campus
Fee: 150.00

Instructor: Matthew Benson
Matthew Benson's photography is in the permanent collection of the International Center of Photography, NY as well as numerous gallery and private collections. Please see www.matthewbenson.com for an example of his work. Architecture, horticulture, and design are ongoing interests, as is the restoration of Stonegate Farm, the 1860s Carpenter Gothic farm he shares with his wife, Heidi and children Daisy and Miles.

From Fuzzy Snapshot to Fine Art

Learn how to turn your photographs into framable fine art with this introduction to esssential Adobe Photoshop techniques.

Class Schedule: Tuesdays July 28, August 4, 11 6:30-8:30pm Desmond Campus
Fee: 150.00

Instructor: Matthew Benson
Matthew Benson's photography is in the permanent collection of the International Center of Photography, NY as well as numerous gallery and private collections. Please see www.matthewbenson.com for an example of his work. Architecture, horticulture, and design are ongoing interests, as is the restoration of Stonegate Farm, the 1860s Carpenter Gothic farm he shares with his wife, Heidi and children Daisy and Miles.

Figure Drawing

Learn this art through short poses as well as long, in any medium you prefer. (Instructor suggests a drawing medium).

Class Schedule: Saturdays July 11, 18 & 25 9:00am -12noon Desmond Campus
Fee: 60.00

Instructor: Dr. Barry Pariser

Oil Painting and Acrylics

Learn how you can transform a stark canvas into a vivid still life or landscape. Working with experienced artist, Carol Galietta, you will learn how to analyze and depict form using color, highlights, and shadow, so that your work will begin to take on meaning and beauty. Instruction on perspective and medium application techniques will help you create paintings anyone will enjoy and of which you can be proud. Class size will be limited to 10 students.

Class Schedule: Wed. July 22, 29 & Aug. 5. & 12 9:00-12noon Desmond Campus
Fee: 60.00

Instructor: Carol Galietta
Carol Galietta has taught many art courses at MSMC with a strong and loyal following. She has studied with many well known artists such as Daniel Green, John Gould, and Susan Goetz.

Beginning Drawing Class

Have you always wanted to learn to draw? In this beginning drawing class, students will work in black and white using pencils, charcoal, and pen and ink.

Class Schedule: 4 sessions July 7, 9 14 & 16 10:00am-12noon Desmond Campus
Fee: 55.00

Instructor: Diane Kominick-Ouzoonian
Diane is a Hudson Valley artist who studied art at the University of California at Santa Cruz, SUNY New Paltz, School of Visual Arts adn got her teaching degree at Montclair State University in NJ. She has exhibited everywhere from Santa Cruz, CA., to NYC. To see examples of her work; visit www.kominick-ouzoonian.com.

Watercolors

Students will observe a watercolor demonstration from a sketch to a completed painting. Choosing their own subject, students will then demonstrate the use of watercolors from a basic drawing to a completed painting.

Class Schedule: 5 Mondays Aug. 3-31 9:00-12noon Desmond Campus
Fee: 80.00

Instructor: Len DeVirgilio
Len DeVirgilio has been a graphic designer for over 40 years. All his work experience has been in New York, working in advertising agencies and design studios on national accounts. He is a graduate of the School of Art and Design and also attended the School of Visual Arts. Since retiring from the commercial art field, he has been doing the one thing he truly enjoys - painting in the watercolor media.

Summer Intensive Sumi-e Camp

Create spontaneous sketches on campus with sumi-e ink and watercolor, of outdoor landscapes & found nature subjects.

Class Schedule: Thursday and/or Fri. Aug. 13 & 14 10:00am-4:00pm Desmond Campus Bring a bag lunch
Fee: 62.50

Instructor: Roberta Rosenthal
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Summer Intensive Sumi-e Camp

Create spontaneous sketches on campus with sumi-e ink and watercolor, of outdoor landscapes & found nature subjects.

Class Schedule: Thursday and/or Fri. Aug. 13 & 14 10:00am-4:00pm Desmond Campus Bring a bag lunch $62.50/120.00
Fee: 62.50

Instructor: Roberta Rosenthal
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Summer Intensive Sumi-e Camp

Create spontaneous sketches on campus with sumi-e ink and watercolor, of outdoor landscapes & found nature subjects.

Class Schedule: Thursday and/or Friday Aug. 20 & 21 10:00am-4:00pm Desmond Campus Bring a bag lunch $62.50/120.00
Fee: 62.50

Instructor: Roberta Rosenthal
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