Wednesday, January 17, 2007




INTERGENERATIONAL ART CLASSES AT NATURE CENTER

Center for Community Arts (CCA), in partnership with the Nature Center of Cape May, announces a series of art and craft classes starting in February 2007.

Pictured are Jean Dougherty, Judy Ballinger and Rose Law: Jody Swope’s class, Watercolor on Chinese Parasols, will be offered again in April and May. Classes February through May include new Drawing Together and Printing Together parent and child classes with Janet Payne (children can be 6 or 60), Experimental Watercolor with Shannon Sterner, Portrait Drawing with Cheryl Crews, Oil & Acrylic Painting with M. Simkins-Federici, Eco-Crafts with Gretchen Ferrante, Pottery with Amanda Vernon, and much, much more.

Most classes meet at the Nature Center of Cape May, 1600 Delaware Avenue, and are wheelchair accessible. Tuition is on a sliding scale, with discounts for CCA members, seniors, active military and those on fixed incomes. Advance registration is required; for a detailed brochure and registration form, stop by CCA at 712 Lafayette Street in Cape May, call 884-7525, email info@centerforcommunityarts.org or download one: click the following link and then click on "click here for a PDF brochure": http://www.centerforcommunityarts.org/classes.htm


Center for Community Arts received a Citation for Excellence from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. These programs are made possible in part by grants from the Lower Cape Alliance, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, and many generous businesses, families and individuals.

Center for Community Arts is a multicultural educational nonprofit organization whose arts and humanities programs foster creativity, community building, and appreciation for the rich diversity of our world.