Randy Fein will guide you on your creative journey to explore multiple ways to create unique vessels and sculpture in clay. This class is geared for both continuing adult education clay students and newcomers to the art of clay. Students will experience guided instruction in a variety of clay hand-building and wheel-thrown pottery techniques. Students can find inspiration from instructor-led presentations of visual and hand-on clay objects made by ancient cultures and various contemporary artists. All participants will explore the use of low fire glaze application to complete their handmade work. No experience necessary, just bring your desire to create in clay! The first three weeks of classes meet twice a week on Tuesday & Thursday. The last class meets on Thursday only. Each class builds on the other so it's advisable to attend all classes. Class meets: 9/26, 9/28 (work in wet clay), 10/3, 10/5 (work in wet clay), 10/10, 10/12 (glaze), and 10/19 (pick up work).

Learn to play the guitar in this foundational course. You will learn guitar features, parts, and construction; simple maintenance and tuning; and basic music. At the end of the course you will be able to prepare the instrument to play, follow basic sheet music and play two or three simple folk songs.

Learn about using wild mushrooms. The various mushrooms are like vegetables. They have different flavors and widely varying textures, colors, moisture content and water absorbency. Hence, the various species respond to cooking processes differently. We will learn about matching mushroom species to cooking techniques. Also discussed will be the appropriate foods and wines to match with wild mushrooms and which species may be mixed together in a recipe. The book "Edible and Medicinal Mushrooms of New England and Eastern Canada" will be available for purchase in class for $21. $10 ingredients fee included in registration.

This class is for students who have taken Beginner Guitar in prior semesters or have already learned to play and want to get together with others at a similar level to practice. In this informal gathering of musicians, you will play improvised or unrehearsed music in an "open studio” class ideal for you to work on songs and techniques not finished in class or that you need help with. Class is suitable for acoustic 6 string guitar or bass. You must be able to play sufficiently including being able to play basic chords.

The instructor will show you how to save files with Microsoft Word and your free installed Windows 10 word processors. We will also cover how to create a PDF file and why we would use them. You will see how to view, organize, and find your documents, as well as place them on flash drives, external drives, and the cloud. We'll explore features to preview documents without opening them and attach documents to your email for sending. Learn all these features in the Zoom classroom! (Not for Apple/Mac users.)

This course is designed to present a strong vocabulary of embroidery stitches, with particular attention to the beauty and function of each stitch. You will learn successful, simple practices that insure (and improve) beautiful, and secure, stitching. The instructor will be responsive to participant's requests for specific stitches and skills, giving support to individual styles and aesthetics. The instructor will provide class materials; individual supplies will also be welcome. Open to all skill levels. Materials fee of $5 included in registration.

During this class you will learn how to manage pictures on your computer. Also, find out how to name, rename, and move pictures into folders to get organized. We will take a look at using the Photo Gallery and minor editing of pictures, such as cropping and making enhancements. We will use pictures for desktop backgrounds and insert a picture into Microsoft Word to manipulate for flyers, invitations, and other printed materials. (Not for Apple/Mac users.) This is a great class held over Zoom.

Instructor will demonstrate how to navigate and interface with Excel’s basic features. See how to create a simple contact list. You will view how to use calculations such as autosum and see how to generate simple formulas. Also, learn to use the fill handle, sort existing data, merge and center, move cells and ranges, and wrap text. These easy steps will be held over Zoom.