Dive into the Arts and Educational program at the Kroc Center and start a journey to live a more enriching life. Whether you are an adult, teen or child there is something offered for every age group. Pursue your dreams by learning how to play an instrument, dance or act. If that’s not enough, learn how to excel in drawing, sculpting and painting. Our state-of-the-art performance and classroom areas are what set the Kroc Center apart from all other facilities in Augusta.
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Class Descriptions
The next session of classes will begin on September 25, 2012. Classes will be 9 weeks for $90.00 per session. Discounts will be available for Gold and Standard Members. Registration will begin in August 2012.
Pottery for Kids I
Learn the basic techniques of hand-building with clay. Create pinch pots, coil creations, slab containers, and more. Have fun while learning the different techniques used in pottery.
Intro to African Drumming
Discover your inner rhythm in these fun and instructive drum classes. Hand technique, posture, and basic traditional rhythms of West Africa will be explored. Beginners are welcome. Please bring your own drum if possible and wear loose comfortable clothing.
Pottery and Ceramics for Adults II
Learn the basic techniques of hand-building and clay sculpture. Create various projects that will be fired and glazed and have fun learning the different techniques used in pottery.
Intro to Children’s Ballroom
Children of all ages love music and movement. They will learn the basic steps for the Waltz, Swing and Rumba. Warm-up activities with kid-friendly music and lyrics challenge them to learn new dances and improve their overall coordination.
Intro to Ballroom Dance
Come join this fun, weekly class and learn some basic steps in the Waltz, Foxtrot, Swing and Rumba and be ready to step onto the dance floor with confidence. Bring a potential partner or come alone. Be sure to bring comfortable, supportive shoes - ones with a smooth sole if possible!!
Intro to Painting
To paint, it helps to understand the structure of art. To understand the structure of art- and use that structure in your own art work- you must know its basic elements and the main ideas that form its foundation. Like the color wheel, the elements and principles of design help you simplify and talk about complicated concepts; like a road map, they show you what you need to get where you’re going.
Understanding these elements and principles helps you organize your paintings and gives you a special vocabulary you can use to talk about your art and your visual environment.
Students must have some observational drawing skills.
Fundamentals of Digital Photography
Learn to take control of your digital camera in this six meeting workshop. Before you can make creative photographs you need to learn what your camera is doing and how to control it. This workshop will cover the factors of exposure, the shooting modes, the white balance, and the auto focus systems of digital cameras. Time will be spent with the histogram, a way to assure you have a good exposure, and flash techniques. Basic composition and specific areas of photography (nature, portraits, travel, and holidays) will be covered. How to get the photographs out of the camera and into the computer will also be covered. Learning about your camera and what it is doing will help you take consistently good photographs. Please bring your camera and lens, instruction manual, memory card, a charged battery, and a notebook. Handouts will be provided.
Pottery for Kids II
Learn the basic techniques of hand-building with clay. Create pinch pots, coil creations, slab containers, and more. Have fun while learning the different techniques used in pottery. To take this clay students must have had previous clay experience or have taken Pottery for Kids I.
Little Da Vinci’s Art Class
Children have the greatest imaginations. This class will let the participants explore their imaginations and then create, paint, sculpt and design what they come up with. Participants will create jewelry, paint a canvas masterpiece, figure clay into different sculptures and design an architectural figure and make it with various materials provided, during the session.
Advance Painting
As important as the elements and principles of design are in painting, they are not art in themselves. Art begins with ideas, and ideas do not always come easily. Before you start painting, you should have a plan-an idea, subject or theme- something you wish to portray, explore, express or create. In this class you will learn to search for ideas- to see things in your everyday world from a new viewpoint. You will discover new ways to perceive and select subject matter and different approaches to painting it.
Students must have some observational painting skills.
Pottery and Ceramics for Adults II
Learn advance techniques of hand-building and clay sculpture. Create various projects that will be fired and glazed and have fun learning the different techniques used in pottery. Must have taken Pottery and Ceramics for Adults I to take this class or previous clay experience.
Family Kindermusik
When you bring children of all ages together you get a dynamic and integrated learning experience for everyone. So we took favorite Kindermusik songs and activities like “Shake, Shake the Apple Tree” and “hammocking” and rolled them in to a fun, energetic family class where every child is welcome and a family’s “Together Time” is celebrated and cherished.
Ballet for Kids
The program for is a student’s first introduction to the dynamics of music and movement. The course is designed to gently introduce the young student to the discipline that will be required for study as well as to provide fun activities for learning basic dance elements. During the year, opportunities for motor development, movement exploration, creative play, and problem solving are given in directed activities.
Hip Hop
Hip hop is a dance style, usually danced to hip hop music, that evolved from the hip hop culture. Learn the basic of this style of dance.
Intro to Painting
Explore painting with your fingers using an expressive approach to define light and dark shapes, with colors that vibrate.
West African Dance
This class offers the basics of West African Dance, music, and culture. Classes will include stretching, an energetic African dance workout, and fun! Classes are designed to develop timing, flexibility, balance, and endurance while learning authentic West African dances. Beginners are welcome. Bare fee and comfortable clothing required.
West African Dance and Music
African Dance for children is a fun way for children to learn rhythm in movement. Jumping, clapping, turning, swinging, and other high energy movements build timing, flexibility, balance and endurance. African drum music helps children discover the basics of rhythm while learning music fundamentals. Students will be introduced to West African drums and other musical instruments. Class is designed for beginners. Since both drumming and dance will be taught, the close-knit relationship between music and dance in African Culture will be experienced.
