`

Winter 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

 

 




Winter Classes:

300 Basic Drawing / Beg to Intermediate

Anthony Pilla

 

Tuesday: 1:00 – 3:30 pm
January 14 - March 11 / No Class Februay 18
$250M $295NM 8 classes

 




301 Studio Drawing / Intermediate to Advanced

Bob Beaulieu

 

Friday: 9:30 am – 12:30 pm
January 10 - March 7 / No Class February 21

$305M $350NM 8 classes

 

304 Painting the Landscape with Pastels

Christine Bodnar

 

Wednesday: 1:00 – 4:00 pm
February 5 - March 19 / No Class February 19
$250M $295NM 6 classes

 

 

305 Master Class for Pastel, Acrylic & Oil

Guest Artists TBA

 

Wednesday: 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
January 8 - March 5 / No Class February 19

$305M $350NM 8 classes

Please Call to Register

 

 

306 Understanding Perspective

Bob Beaulieu

 

Monday: 9:00 am –12:00 pm

January 6 - February 10 / No Class January 20
$200M $245NM 5 classes


 

307 Advanced Life Drawing & Painting

Uninstructed

 

Friday: 9:30 – 12:30 pm

January 10 - March 7 / No Class February 21

$305M $350NM 8 classes

 

 

309 The Gifts of Winter

Sarah Roche

 

Wednesday: 1:00 - 4:00 pm

Jan 29, Feb 4, Feb 12
$120M $165NM 3 classes


 

315 Basic Watercolor Demystified

Jack Haran

 

Thursday: 9:30 am - 12:30 pm

January 9 - March 6 / No Class February 20

$305M $350NM 8 classes

 

 

324 Landscape Painting from Photos in Acrylic

Lisa Marder

 

Tuesday: 12:30 am – 3:30 pm

January 7 - March 4 / No Class February 18
$305M $350NM 8 classes

 


328 The Painting Experience in Acrylic

Bob Beaulieu

 

Tuesday: 9:00 am – 12:00 pm

January 7 - March 4 / No Class February 18

$305M $350NM 8 classes

 

 

329 Redefining Portraiture

Nathan Nottingham

Tuesday: 5:30 – 8:30 pm

January 7 - March 4 / No Class February 18
$305M $350NM 8 classes

 


Printmaking:

345 Continuing Solarplates

Esther Maschio

 

Monday: 9:00 am – 1:00 pm

January 6 - March 10 / No Class Jan 20 and Feb 17
$400M $445NM 8 classes

 




347 Gelli Plate Printmaking

Esther Maschio

 

Thursday: 9:00 am – 12:00 pm

January 9 - February 13
$225M $270NM 6 classes

 


348 Impress Yourself: Intro to Printmaking

Rachel Maguire

Thursday: 6:00 – 9:00 pm

January 9 - March 6 / No Class February 20
$305M $350NM 8 classes

 


Ceramics:

350 Intro to Pottery for Adult Beginners

Carolyn Daly Shedd

 

Wednesday: 9:00 am – 12:00 pm

February 12 - April 9 / No Class February 19
$450M $495NM 8 classes

 




351 Intermediate Pottery for Adults

Carolyn Daly Shedd

 

Tuesday: 9:00 am – 12:00 pm

February 11 - April 8 / No Class February 18

$450M $495NM 8 classes

Please Call to Register

352 Potter's Wheel & More

Jeanne Wiley

 

Saturday: 10:30 am – 1:30 pm

January 11 - March 8 / No Class February 15
$450M $495NM 8 classes


 

353 Exploring Ceramics

Ann Conte

 

Tuesday: 6:00 – 9:00 pm

January 7 - March 18 / No Class February 18

$550M $595NM 10 classes


355 Intermediate - Advanced Wheel Throwing &
Hand Building with Clay

Ann Conte

 

Thursday: 6:00 – 9:00 pm

January 9 - March 20 / No Class February 20
$550M $595NM 10 classes

 


Photography & Mixed Media:

380 Using Apple as Your Photography Platform

Mike Dick

 

Wednesday: 1:30 – 3:30 pm

January 29 - March 5 / No Class February 19
$150M $195NM 5 classes

 




375 Cut & Paste Collage - ONLINE

Stephen Sheffield

 

Wednesday: 9:00 – 11:00 am

January 8 - March 5 / No Class February 19

$245M $290NM 8 classes

 

 

Winter Workshops:

472 - Photoshop for Beginners - ONLINE

Sarah Anthony

 

Monday: 7:00 – 9:00 pm

January 6 - February 10 / No Class January 20
$185M $230NM 5 classes

 




402 Designing the Landscape

Christine Bodnar

 

Saturday & Sunday: 10:00 am – 4:00 pm

March 29 - 30

$275M $320NM 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.