PoetHouse is a non-profit art community.  cada|casa and PoetHouse work together to provide an area rich in creativity, artist instructors, and opportunities for everyone to explore and create.  We are very excited to offer some new art classes for Bend, OR for this upcoming 2010 fall.  You do not need to have any artistic experience to take these classes, but just a passion to learn.  Click on the individual class name if you interested in registration and more information.

Upcoming PoetHouse Art Classes:

starting the week of February 14th

• Screen Printing & T-Shirt Design:  Learn the screen printing (silk screening) process used to create poster art, t-shirts, and great reproducible art.

• THREADS: The Half-Recycled, Economic Apparel Design School;  make your own clothing by use of other recycled clothes.

• Photography Exposed:  Learn about the various types of photography, shooting & framing techniques, and showing work.

• SPIT: Spoken Poetry is Transformational.  Students learn how to write and perform slam poetry.

• Contemporary / Hip-Hop Dance Ensemble: A collaborative teaching of performance choreography that entails the techniques and styles of hip-hop& contemporary dancing.

• Portfolio Development: explore examples of contemporary work in order to open up the minds of students to artistic possibilities and expand their own portfolio.

• Hip-Hop Dance:  Learn how to Krunk, Break, Pop n' Lock, and more in this collaborative dance class.

• The Art of Stand-Up Comedy:  Think you're funny?  Learn how to write, develop, perform the craft of being.

• Electronic Music Production: Learn how to create your own dubstep, glitch, hip hop and other genres using software synthesizers, drum machines and MIDI control.