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Classes and Workshops
To find out how you can support these classes via scholarships, call us at 530-274-8384.

The Center for the Arts presents SUMMER ART CAMP Four Art-Filled Weeks - June 14 - 18, June 21 - 25, June 28 - July 2, July 5 - 9 A Fine Arts Immersion Experience! Students enjoy exploration in a variety of art mediums with quality instruction by Denise Wey and Sharon Griffith. Click HERE for details. Click HERE for application.

June 21 - 24,  9:30AM – 12:30PM
Writing Wide Open
Exploring the Writing Process from a First Idea to a Finished Product
A Writing Workshop for teens at The Center for the Arts 
led by young adult author Kim Culbertson 
Limit 20 participants $150 per student
Click HERE for application.

Enjoy four days working on your own creative writing process with a published author!

With an emphasis on specific detail, original voice, and creativity, students will read short selections of fiction, study the craft of writing, write to prompts, and work on revisions as a way of moving towards a more finished piece of writing in a supportive environment.  Throughout the four days, Kim will facilitate students in a discussion of craft and style, guide them through writing exercises, and work alongside students in a workshop setting so that each student will create a finished piece of writing – either fiction or creative nonfiction – by the last day of class.

Kim Culbertson technically writes for teenagers, but there are some grown-ups who like her work.  Her first novel, Songs for a Teenage Nomad, was published by Hip Pocket Press in June of 2007.  Songs won the 2008 Ben Franklin Award for Best New Voice in Children's/Young Adult Fiction, tied for the silver 2008 IPPY medal for YA fiction, and won several other awards. Kim has also written short fiction for print and online venues including  Cicada, Canary, and The Smoking Poet.  Songs for a Teenage Nomad will be reissued by Sourcebooks Fire in September of 2010.  Sourcebooks Fire will also publish her second young adult novel, Traveling Instructions, in Spring of 2011.

When she's not writing for teenagers, she's teaching them, and has taught high school English, Creative Writing and drama for over ten years in both public and private schools. Currently, she works at Forest Charter School, a progressive personalized learning program. The fact that she’s a published author doesn’t seem to dazzle her students who still complain about how much homework she gives them.  She lives in the Northern California foothills with her husband and daughter where she drinks more coffee than perhaps she should. 

Visit her at www.kimculbertson.com.

June 28 - July 1, 9:30AM – 12:30PM
Extraordinary Characters that Pop off the Page
A Writing Workshop for teens at The Center for the Arts 
led by Ann Keeling, M.F.A 
Limit 20 participants $150 per student
Click HERE for application.

Spend four days with a passionate teacher and writer developing an unforgettable character.

Ann Keeling, MFA, UCLA, will receive her MFA in Creative Writing at Goddard College in July 2010. She is an editor and personal writing coach who has taught at universities and high schools. Most recently, she taught Creative Writing at Ghidotti Early College High School. Her passion lies in helping students increase their writing mastery and finding the brilliance of their unique voice.

Student testimonials:
“The instructor helped me to perceive things and ideas for what they could be,
or represent, instead of what they are. Thinking out of the box.  She is an extremely
fun and enthusiastic teacher. I couldn’t ask for more.” – Rowen, 15, student
 “She was awesome.” - Hayley, 15, student
“Less Green Day, more Kate Nash.” - Olivia, 16, student

Extraordinary Characters that Pop off the Page
Have you ever written or read about a boring, ho-hum character? Discover how to identify your character’s crutch, dark side, mask, greatest strengths and fears, Achilles heel, dark side, and true self. T.S. Eliot talked of encoding the emotions of a character’s interior by what is exterior. Explore how character and scene can work together through action and implication. Move beyond conventions. No more straight out tiresome trait-telling or relying on a mirror to convey a character’s looks. Weave a fantastic tale around who your character is and make us love them, hate them, and demand to know what happens to them.

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