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Artists Association of Nantucket
ART CLASSES EVENTS

Course Description

Join the 2025 Erin Donohue and Family Ceramic Artist in Residence, Heather Martin, in this colorful and creative class!

This course focuses on development of surface designs through exploration and creation of images on the iPad, creating screen prints from those images, and the various ways to apply them to their artwork. Students will become familiar with Adobe Illustrator, Procreate (on the iPad), creation of screen prints, and how to create underglaze transfers with their screens. Students should come to the first class with some initial images and ideas. Class time will be spent optimizing and digitizing images to be transferred to the screen prints through the traditional screen printing process. Students will leave class with a full understanding of how to digitize their own images, how to create the screen prints, and best practices for applying to their artwork.

OPEN STUDIO TIME Additional studio hours are available to adult students who are registered for a class to practice the skills you have learned.

AAN is able to provide scholarships/tuition aid through the Wellness Through the Arts Program. This program is made possible through funding from the Town of Nantucket Human Services Department. For questions or assistance please contact Elizabeth Buccino, Director of Education

Cancellation Policy

AAN depends upon student tuition to continue to offer classes and workshops. Due to our commitment to small class sizes and the hands-on nature of art education, we are greatly impacted by cancellations. Nevertheless, we do understand that plans change. If you need to cancel your reservation for a class or workshop, please note our cancellation/refund policy here and let us know as soon as possible.

Materials

Tuition includes 25lb bag of clay, glazes and kiln firings.
Additional clay available for $50 a bag (includes glaze & firing cost)

Clay in the Digital Age: Creative surface design approaches using the iPad and screen printing, 18+

Heather Martin

Heather Martin grew up on the South Shore, spending her summers in Fairhaven and eventually relocating there in 2021. She received her BA in Visual/Media Arts from Emerson and a Master's of Art Education from UMass Dartmouth in 2022. An artist for most of her life, she worked in corporate communications and several radio stations before starting her first arts-based business The Pour Artist, in 2013, while at the same time beginning her teaching career. Beginning her career as a classroom teacher in 2017, she was first required to teach ceramics which led to her intense focus on abstraction and a fascination with texture in clay, especially what can be found in nature. Heather now owns Rising Tide Pottery Studio in New Bedford, MA which opened in August of 2024.
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