Art Instruction

In-Person Art Classes

The Adler Center reserves the right to cancel any class that does not meet its minimum student enrollment prior to the first class.

If a class is cancelled by the Adler Center due to lack of enrollment, the Adler Center will offer a full refund or credit to the student in the manner in which tuition was paid. (Cash payments will be refunded by check.)

Student cancellations up to 7 days prior to the start of class will receive a full refund or credit, minus a $20 withdrawal fee.No refunds are available after this time.

Refund requests must be made in writing and submitted to Ellen Williams at ellen@adlercenter.org.

To make our in-person art class experience as safe as possible, with guidance from the CDC, we are implementing new required safety procedure and ask all families to read and adhere to the following.

HEALTH MONITORING:

Students are asked to self-monitor for the following symptoms:

  • Fever or chills
  • Cough
  • Shortness of breath
  • Difficulty breathing
  • Fatigue
  • Muscle or body aches
  • Headache
  • New loss of taste or smell
  • Sore throat
  • Congestion or runny nose
  • Nausea or vomiting or diarrhea

If a student(s) has had any of the listed symptoms OR if anyone living in the same household has exhibited symptoms or tested positive for COVID-19 in the past 14 days DO NOT attend class.  Please call the Adler Arts Center at 847-367-0707.

At any time during the session, if your student begins to experience the above symptoms, is tested positive for COVID-19, or is exposed to someone who has tested positive for COVID-19, call The Adler Arts Center office immediately to report the possible exposure to our students and staff. 

MASK POLICY

The Adler Arts Center is mask optional.

Instructors have authorization to continue to require masks during lessons in their studio or art classes.

Please confirm your Instructor’s mask requirement upon entering the studio.

The Adler Arts Center supports our Instructors in their mask requirements for their studio.

Additional mitigations, such as quarantining, social distancing and hand washing will continue to provide the safety we need to continue to operate in person.

The Adler Arts Center gives financial aid to both children and adults for private lessons and classes based on financial need.  You must show valid proof of family income, which must include income of both parents, guardians, or any other adults in the applicant’s address. 

Total (Gross) Income / Number of Family Members

Subsidy123456
75%$14,580$19,720$24,860$30,000$35,140$40,280
50%$18,080$24,720$30,860$37,000$43,140$49,280
25%$21,580$29,720$36,860$44,000$51,140$58,280

Questions?  Email ellen@adlercenter.org

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spring art session

Youth Classes

Drawing & Painting

(Ages 5-8)

Students will be introduced to drawing and painting and will learn to utilize the elements of shape, composition, and color.  We’ll use many different supplies and student will create a new drawing weekly, learning about art history in the process!  Students will create at least two finished paintings to take home!

$200

mondays 5:30 - 7pm
(6 weeks)
April 15 - May 20

Instructor : John Kirkpatrick

Youth Clay: Assemble a Set

(Ages 8-12)

Assemble your own ceramic set using pinch, slab, and coil methods!  What will it be?  A bouquet of flowers? A set of race cars? A tea set?  Each student’s set will include 3-4 related objects.  The texture and surface decoration for your set will use carving and painting techniques that explore line, shape and colors of your own choosing.  Colorful underglazes will be used to make your set pop!

$225

Thursdays 4:30 - 6pm
(6 weeks)
April 18 - may 23
Spring art session

Teen/Adult Classes

Intermediate Color Pencil

(Ages 13 & Up)

This class will advance the student’s skills in the use of the colored pencil. Additional drawing techniques with blending, color under-painting, blurring effects and backgrounds. Students will be working on more complicated renderings.

Prerequisite: Students must have color pencil drawing experience.  The Adler Beginner Color Pencil Class or previous drawing experience.  

$175

mondays 6 - 9pm
(4 weeks)
april 29 - may 20

Adult Ceramics

(Ages 13 & Up)

Explore using both soft and stiff earthenware to construct and assemble your own set of objects.  Sets will be made using hand building techniques, coiling, pinching, and surface decoration will include slip, trailing, carving, sgraffito underglazes, glazes and more!  Class structure: 6-6:30pm- Welcome/overview, 6:30-7pm – class construction demo, 7-8:45pm- work time, 8:45-9pm – clean up and reflection.

Open studio time will be included in this six-week class.  Studio time is based on our class schedule.  Hours are limited and change each session.

$275

Tuesdays 6:30 - 9m
(6 weeks)
April 16 - may 21

Adult Painting & Drawing

(Ages 13 & Up)

In this class, students will learn painting and drawing techniques by watching demonstrations and then applying those techniques with instructor guidance.  Students will focus on drawing for the first three weeks, then will move on to painting in acrylic for the remaining class sessions.

$225

thursdays 6:30 - 8:30pm
(6 weeks)
April 18 - may 23

Instructor: John Kirkpatrick

Monthly Art Drop-in

Figure & Life Drawing

(Ages 13 & Up)

Join us in the Adler Ballroom for a monthly drawing drop-in the third Wednesday of every month.  Focus will change monthly, but we will primarily work on life and figure drawing.  We’ll focus on gesture drawings, allowing the artist to move and flow with the pencil.  The goal is to show expression and to work on “letting go” of trying to be perfect in your practice.

A live model or still life table setting will be used every month.

Artists MUST bring their own supplies to work with. 

Adler will provide model, instructor, drawing boards, and easels ONLY.

$20/class

first march drop-in free!

3rd wednesdays 6-8pm
beginning march 20, 2024

Instructor: John Kirkpatrick

Adler Art Faculty

John Kirkpatrick Jr is an Abstract Expressionistic Painter from the northern suburbs of Chicago, Illinois.  His use of color, texture and line represent the busy hustle and bustle of the big city life.  He incorporates a loose and energetic style that highlights his expressionistic fun lifestyle.

John’s subjects are usually full of life and personality.  John’s favorite subject is the human form, and he likes to show the form full of emotion by using color, texture and heavy line. 

John received a Bachelor’s degree in ART from Northeastern Illinois University.  John currently works for the Non-Profit organization, Libertyville Civic Center in Libertyville Illinois and shows his paintings in many galleries in the Northern Illinois area. 

Phil is a color pencil artist that paints with the pencil. His botanical renderings are not drawings of plant specimens as seen in scientific books, rather, they are renderings of plants as seen through the eye of an artist. 

In his drawings, he focuses on achieving realism and tries to put in as much detail as possible, wanting the viewer to look and then get lost in the scene as if they were standing in it.

He attended Eastern Illinois University with an Art Scholarship, and received his Bachelor of Arts with a double major in Graphic Design and 2D Studio Art 1984. Since that time he has worked for printing companies and, since 1993, has been a self employed Graphic Artist. 

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Roberta is a working artist who’s media is usually clay, but recently has been welding metal to support, display, and complement ceramic objects. Her path to making has been constant, although circuitous, with professional time being applied as a potter, graphic designer, and art educator.  Her hope is to create work inspired by subconscious and intuitive leanings with triggers from gestures, memories, and patterns.

“Why do I make objects? It is a way for me to express feeling and thought about my experience as a human; it connects me to the earth, her inhabitants, and my own shadowed light.”

Website

The Adler Center reserves the right to cancel any class that does not meet its minimum student enrollment prior to the first class.

If a class is cancelled by the Adler Center due to lack of enrollment, the Adler Center will offer a full refund or credit to the student in the manner in which tuition was paid. (Cash payments will be refunded by check.)

Student cancellations up to 7 days prior to the start of class will receive a full refund or credit, minus a $20 withdrawal fee.No refunds are available after this time.

Refund requests must be made in writing and submitted to Ellen Williams at ellen@adlercenter.org.