Commit one week to learning to paint landscapes in oil. Color, value, surface: we do it all, step by step, from Monday, August 23 - Friday, August 27, 2010 at the Brookline Arts Center. Full day, or half day classes available. For more information, visit http://www.brooklineartscenter.com/classes/intensive.html#2 To register, call 617-566-5715.

A wonderful chance for beginning or intermediate painters to learn with Kim Mellema in the great outdoors!

The Brookline Arts Center's widely-respected and fun art class for toddlers 2 and 3, with a parent, will begin for a short, special 2-week session (4 classes: pick Monday and Wednesday or Tuesday and Thursday) next week. Advance registration is required: learn more at http://www.brooklineartscenter.com/classes/children.html#11

This is a great opportunity for fun and creativity together!

Call to register, at 617-566-5715.

Don't miss the Brookline Arts Center's exciting Color Your World Gala, with international music, local and "colorful" dinner and desserts, with a live auction of Palette Project palettes, from Stanley J. Paine.

More information at http://www.brooklineartscenter.com/events/exhibitions/coloryourworld.html and tickets available on line or by calling: 617-566-5715.

The Brookline Arts Center is organizing a major project to place art by Brookline artists throughout the community in April 2010. The Palette Project was created by Brookline Arts Center board members as a community-building project to raise awareness of local art, Brookline artists, and the art education programs at the Brookline Arts Center.

A class for ages 13 and up who want to begin or continue learning about pottery. Open for both handbuilding and wheelthrowing, you will develop your skills with lots of important technical information combined with artists' techniques for finding your own personal style. Perfect for those putting together a portfolio of work for high school or college, or just use this class as a way to relax at the beginning of each week by connecting with your creative side!

 Kids 6 to 9 get to draw, paint, make 3-D sculpture and crafts while learning more about the Arctic world and wildlife. Arctic Artventures at the Brookline Arts Center is fun, friendly and an encouraging, creative environment.

Despite the winter’s cold, the Brookline Arts Center’s second floor photography gallery is filled with the light and color of spring, because of Deanna Christo’s exhibition Color Photography…Mostly Flowers. The exhibition presents new work by a Brookline photographer who came to the medium after she retired from a 34-year teaching career.

Macro photography by a Brookline photographer: the light and colors of spring return early.

Meet the artist at an opening reception, Saturday, January 23, 2 - 4 p.m. Exhibition free and open to the public, open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Brookline Arts Center.

On view through February 26.

After school and adult education classes in art are registering now at the Brookline Arts Center, and will start Jan. 11 and afterwards.

Advance registration is generally required, by calling 617-566-5715. See the class listings on line:

For children: http://www.brooklineartscenter.com/classes/children.html

For adults: http://www.brooklineartscenter.com/classes/adult.html

And for shorter, workshop classes: http://www.brooklineartscenter.com/classes/intensive.html

See you soon at the Arts Center!

Introduction to the techniques of handbuilding and wheelthrowing, to make sculptures, bowls, mugs, vases, platters and more in clay. The possibilities are endless.

This class runs for 9 sessions (through March 13) and costs $243 for tuition, and $40 for materials. Register at 617-566-5715. Advanced registration is required.

Learn more here: http://www.brooklineartscenter.com/classes/children.html#13

The Brookline Arts Center is a friendly, welcoming place to learn art and meet other people interested in art and creation. Call 617-566-5715.