Registration for Fall Classes at the Baird Center has begun, with a variety of options in activities for adults, young teens and children. The classes include dancing, art, music, sports and more ranging from beginner to intermediate.
Most classes begin the week of September 15, and cost $110 and up. Registration is online at the Official Baird Center Website.
Here’s a full listing of classes, from an email from The Baird Center:
FOR KIDS
Academic Enrichment
The Good Times Math Gang
9/15/2014-11/17/2014
4:00PM-5:00 PM, Mondays
Grades 3-8
$10 + materials fee
Teaching Mathematician,Steven Greenstein
Hate Math? It’s not your fault. Love Math? We get it. Explore all things mathy in this pioneering, inquiry-oriented club that will boost your math morale.
Art!
Clay Time
9/20/2014 – 12/13/2014
9:30 AM-10:15 AM Saturdays
3-7 years
Teaching Artist, Joan Tamasco
$110 + materials fee
What’s better than making mud pies in the backyard? Clay Time presents a clean, safe opportunity for wee ones to explore tactile experiences with clay.
Story Collage New!
9/18/2014-12/11/2014
4:00 PM-5:00 PM Thursdays
Grades 1-3
Teaching Artist, Bonnie Maranz
$110
This hands on cut and paste class for children in grades 1- 3 follows the likes of artists Picasso, Miro and Bearden, inspiring kids to create compelling visual stories from old magazines and books.
Comic Book Capers I
9/16/2014-11/25/2014
4:00 PM-5:00 PM Tuesdays
Grades 1-3
Teaching Artist, Vicki Arlein
$110+ materials fee
Calling all comic book lovers! Design and write your OWN comic books featuring your OWN characters or superheroes! Students will learn how to plan, draft, draw and color their own comic books with a ‘published’ color copy to take home and share with family and friends.
Comic Book Capers II
9/16/2014-11/25/2014
5:15 PM-6:30 PM Tuesdays
Grades 4-6
Teaching Artist, Vicki Arlein
$138 + materials fee
Calling all comic book lovers! Design and write your OWN comic books featuring your OWN characters or superheroes! Comic Book Capers I, II and III are adapted to grade levels as well as students’ interests and abilities.
Comic Book Capers III New!
9/16/2014-11/25/2014
6:45 PM-8:00 PM Tuesdays
Grades 7-9
Teaching Artist, Vicki Arlein
$138 + materials fee
Students will plan, draft, draw and color their own comic books with a ‘published’ color copy to take home and share with family and friends. Comic Book Capers I, II, and III are adapted to grade levels as well as students’ interests and abilities.
Intermediate Photography for Kids
9/17/2014-11/19/2014
5:00 PM-6:00 PM Wednesdays
Grades 6-8
Teaching Artists, Jeremy Moss
$110
So you like taking pictures, but now you want to know how to have a sharp subject matter with a blurred background. You want to know how to shoot in pan. You want to find out the relationship between the shutter and the aperture. Well, this will be the class for you. Students will need a camera that has full manual control as an option, preferably a SLR. Point and shoot cameras with automatic settings will not be used in this class. Beginners also welcome.
Advanced Photography for Teens New!
9/17/2014 -11/19/2014
6:15 PM-7:15 PM, Wednesdays
Grades 8-10
$110
Teaching Artist, Jeremy Moss
This class teaches more advanced techniques for older students who are familiar with the basic controls of their cameras or have taken Intermediate Photography for Kids. Students must bring a camera that has full manual control as an option, preferably a SLR. Point and shoot cameras with automatic settings will not be used in this class.
Drawing New Day!
9/17/2014-11/19/2014
5:00 PM-6:30 PM Wednesdays
6th-Adult
Teaching Artist, Larry McKim
$165 + materials fee
Learn to draw what you see and feel. Drawing introduces students to the ideas and techniques of both representational and expressive drawing.
Kids Dance
Thursday Afternoon
Funky Freestyle
9/18/2014-12/11/2014
3:45 PM-4:30 PM Thursdays
3-4 years
Teaching Artist, Shona Roebuck
$110
This is a wonderful class for your little movers at home who are not as interested in the discipline of ballet. This drop-off class is for 3 and 4 year olds where they will work on body and special awareness as well as flexibility, coordination and technique through floor work, choreography and creative movement.
Pre-Ballet
9/18/2014-12/11/2014
4:45 PM-5:30 PM Thursdays
3-5 years
Teaching Artist, Shona Roebuck
$110
This is a wonderful introduction to ballet. This class is a drop-off for 3 and 4 year olds. Children will learn in age appropriate and creative ways the basics of ballet through positions, floor work and vocabulary.
Ballet I (5 and 6 years)
9/18/2014-12/11/2014
5:30 PM-6:15 PM Thursdays
Teaching Artist, Shona Roebuck
$110
Ballet I is a wonderful class to turn any little dancer into a ballerina. This drop-off class is for children ages 5-6 years old. Children will build on technique from pre-ballet through positions, barre work, floor work, choreography and vocabulary. First-time ballerinas are welcome.
Saturdays
Pre-Ballet Creative Movement w/Guardian
9/20/2014-12/13/2014
9:15 AM-10:00 AM Saturdays
2-3years
Teaching Artist, Shona Roebuck
$110
This class is a wonderful introduction to the world of dance while focusing on the ballet basics. This class is for 2 year olds with guardians. Children will learn age appropriate fundamentals of ballet and movement through imagination and play.
Pre-Ballet Creative Movement w/Guardian
9/20/2014-12/13/2014
10:00 AM-10:45 AM Saturdays
2-3 years
Teaching Artist, Shona Roebuck
$110
This class is a wonderful introduction to the world of dance while focusing on the ballet basics. This class is for 2 year olds with guardians. Children will learn age appropriate fundamentals of ballet and movement through imagination and play.
Pre-Ballet SOLD OUT!
9/20/2014-12/13/2014
11:00 AM-11:45 AM Saturdays
3-5 years
Teaching Artist, Shona Roebuck
$110
This is a wonderful introduction to ballet. This class is a drop-off for 3 and 4 year olds. Children will learn in age appropriate and creative ways the basics of ballet through positions, floor work and vocabulary.
Pre-Ballet
9/20/2014-12/13/2014
12:00 PM-12:45 PM Saturdays
3-5years
Teaching Artist, Shona Roebuck
$110
This is a wonderful introduction to ballet. This class is a drop-off for 3 and 4 year olds. Children will learn in age appropriate and creative ways the basics of ballet through positions, floor work and vocabulary.
Funky Freestyle
9/20/2014-12/13/2014
1:00 PM-1:45 PM Saturdays
3-4 years
Teaching Artist, Shona Roebuck,
$110
This is a wonderful class for your little movers at home who are not as interested in the discipline of ballet. This drop-off class is for 3 and 4 year olds where they will work on body and special awareness as well as flexibility, coordination and technique through floor work, choreography and creative movement.
TEENS AND ADULTS
Art
Comic Book Capers III New!
9/16/2014-11/25/2014
6:45 PM-8:00 PM Tuesdays
Grades 7-9
Teaching Artist, Vicki Arlein
$138 + materials fee
Students will learn how to plan, draft, draw and color their own comic books with a ‘published’ color copy to take home and share with family and friends. Popular Baird teaching artist Vicki Arlein leads the class. Comic Book Capers I, II, and III are adapted to grade levels as well as students’ interests and abilities.
Painting: The Experimental Way New!
9/16/2014-11/18/2014
7:30 PM-9:00 PM Tuesdays
10th-Adult
Teaching Artist, Bonnie Maranz
$165
Study color, form, harmony and the ideas that make painting exciting and innovative. Each class will begin with a series of warm-up exercises followed by a concentrated design concept using various materials and paint mediums. All levels welcomed.
Advanced Photography for Teens New!
9/17/2014 -11/19/2014
6:15 PM-7:15 PM, Wednesdays
Grades 8-10
$110
Teaching Artist, Jeremy Moss
This class teaches more advanced techniques for older students who are familiar with the basic controls of their cameras or have taken Intermediate Photography for Kids. Students must bring a camera that has full manual control as an option, preferably a SLR. Point and shoot cameras with automatic settings will not be used in this class.
Drawing New Day!
9/17/2014-11/19/2014
5:00 PM-6:30 PM Wednesdays
6th-Adult
Teaching Artist, Larry McKim
$165 + materials fee
Learn to draw what you see and feel. Drawing introduces students to the ideas and techniques of both representational and expressive drawing. This class is open to all levels of experience and anyone is welcome from middle school through high school.
Life Drawing New Evening Time!
9/17/2014-11/19/2014
7:00 PM-9:00 PM Wednesdays
12th-Adult
Teaching Artist, Larry McKim,
$220 + Model Fee
Students will draw from live models each week and do both gesture and longer-term drawings, experimenting with charcoal, as well as brush and various paint and ink media.
Art With A Master
9/16/2014-11/18/2014
12:30 PM-3:00 PM, Tuesdays
Adults
Teaching Artist, Philip Sherrod
$275 + model fee
Students of all levels in all mediums work with Master Artist Philip Sherrod. Professional and non-professional artists are welcome to this long-standing Baird favorite.
Book Arts Workshop: Layering and Excavating SOLD OUT
10/16/2014-10/17/2014 Th F
10:00 AM-4:00 PM
Teaching Artist, Jane Davies
$140
Layering and Excavating with Jane Davies. This workshop is for members of the Book Arts Roundtable only.
Painting Portraits New!
9/17/2014-10/29/2014
2:00 PM-4:00 PM Wednesdays
Adult
Teaching Artist, Tina Stonefield Ishihara
$154
This course uses a basic color system that divides skin tones into three color groups and utilizes a traditional seven layer method of painting, particularly good for beginners. This seven week course covers: Transferring a portrait onto canvas, composition, working up the grisaille or dead layer, fat over lean and use of mediums, blocking in background, hair and clothing in harmonious ways, glazing, scumbling and impasto.
Dance
Flamenco Dancing, Beginners
9/18/2014-12/4/2014
7:30 PM-8:30 PM Thursdays
Teaching Artist, Toni Messina
$110
Put some passion in your life with Flamenco Dancing. Professional dancer/instructor Toni Messina, (Viva Flamenco), teaches beginners the basics of movement, rhythm, and expression. Go to VivaFlamencoNJ.com or visit NPR for more information about Toni.
Flamenco Dancing, Intermediate
9/18/2014-12/4/2014
8:30 PM-9:30 PM Thursdays
11th-Adult
Teaching Artist, Toni Messina
$110
Passionate flamenco for students with basic knowledge of flamenco movements and vocabulary. Toni works on new choreographies, strengthening technique and improvisation. Go to Viva Flamenco NJ or visit NPR to learn more about Toni.
*Classes are open to all. There is a $10 discount on most class fees for South Orange residents with a current Recreation & Cultural Affairs ID badge
