These sessions provide an opportunity to work in a studio environment from a live model in the artist's preferred medium. Sessions meet year round except on national holidays. This is not an instructional course. Silvermine students enrolled in the current term pay $10 per session. Senior Citizens pay half the prices listed below. No sign-up is required.
Howard Pabst Memorial Sketch
Poses are short and athletic
Monitors: Peter Millward & Eddie Nino
Monday · 6:30pm – 9:30pm
$20
Daytime Sketch
Poses are longer and changing
Monitor: Kathy Coe
Wednesday · 1:00pm – 4:00pm
$20
Leo Lances Memorial Sketch
The model presents one pose for the entire session.
The first Friday of each month is usually clothed.
Monitor: Christy Gallagher
Friday · 10am – 3:30pm
$30
The Ceramic Open Studio gives current term students enrolled in an instructional ceramic course at Silvermine an opportunity to work on their own projects and improve skills. At the first class, students will receive a card to be punched by the monitor at each Open Studio session. Students must have their card to attend. This is not an instructional class.
Students enrolled in a CURRENT term are entitled to 3 hours of open ceramic studio time for each week of the current semester:
Day
Time
Monday
9:30am - 12:30pm
Monday
7pm - 10pm
Tuesday
12:30pm - 3:30pm
Wednesday
1pm - 4pm
Wednesday
7pm - 10pm
Thursday
1pm - 4pm
Friday
1pm - 4pm
Saturday
1pm - 4pm
Fees for Clay
Amount
Type
Cost
25 lb. bag
Brown Stoneware Clay
$15
25 lb. bag
Porcelain
$22
25 lb. bag
White Stoneware Clay
$14
Students can purchase a tool kit for $18 at the first class.
Fees for Firing
All ceramic work fired in the school kilns are subject to a firing fee of 4 cents per cubic inch. Firing fees MUST be paid at the end of the semester. Credit cards will be taken upon registration to pay for all firing fees.
