Course Description: With help from the instructor, you will create several acrylic paintings of landscapes and seascapes. No experience is necessary. This is a 4-week double session class meeting January 16 - February 6.

Notes: $40 supply fee, non-refundable fee due at first class. Double session 4-week course meeting January 16, 23, 30 and February 6.

Class Leader Bio(s): Pat Roberts is a local artist. She is an active member of the Arts and Design Society and Okaloosa Public Arts. Pat exhibits as well as teaches at ADSO and HH Arts.

Course Description: Learn more about Artists and the paintings you know and some you will have fun finding out about. We will start with impressionists and move from Monet to more modern ones, like Moudigliani and O’Keefffe. This is a 4-week class.

Notes: 4-week class meeting January 16, 23, 30 and February 6.

Class Leader Bio(s): Judy Faust loves to travel, and everywhere she goes she looks for museums, galleries and art exhibits to visit. She’s taken lots of pictures and has lots of information she wants to share.

Course Description: Do you wish you could draw? If you can write your name, you can learn to create beautiful and interesting drawings with The Zentangle Method. Zentangle is an easy-to-learn, relaxing, and fun way to create beautiful images by drawing structured patterns. It increases focus and creativity, provides artistic satisfaction along with an increased sense of personal well-being, and is enjoyed all over the world. No artistic talent or previous experience is required. This class takes the learner from the very basics of the Zentangle Method through the ability to create Zentangle Inspired Art. Students who complete the 5 classes will qualify to join a free Zoom group that meets twice monthly and is led by Shannon Flynn, another Certified Zentangle Teacher (CZT) in the area who also teaches Zentangle through the CLL program.

Notes: This is a 5-session IN PERSON class, meeting January 16, 23, 30, February 6 and 13. At the first class you will purchase a Zentangle Toolkit, containing the supplies we’ll use, for a fee of $18. The class will meet in Room 1 at the Niceville Senior Center

Class Leader Bio(s): Lynn Walton was happily working as a software engineer for almost 30 years, when Zentangle waltzed into her life unexpectedly in early 2023. She fell in love. She had not previously been engaged with any kind of visual art form, but with the Zentangle Method, she found a new way to explore and express her creativity. In September 2023, she became a Certified Zentangle Teacher. She has since semi-retired in order to have more time to share the joy of this wonderful meditative art form with others. This is a 5-week class.

Course Description: You will learn songs as well as the fundamentals necessary to continue to progress with the instrument.

Notes: Students must bring to class an acoustic guitar w/guitar strap and the following Hal Leonard instruction book:Guitar Method Book 1By Will Schmid and Greg Koch. Make sure the edition states, “Audio Access Included” on the front cover. The book is available @ UpBeat Music, Playgound Music, and Amazon for about $15.

Class Leader Bio(s): Nick Barlotta has been playing guitar for over 30 years. It is a fantastic, expressive instrument. What can be better than helping others learn the instrument I love to play?

Course Description: Get out your old photos and video clips and put them in a format that can easily be displayed and shared. Using the Windows Movie Maker program on the classroom computers students will learn how to group their photos and movie clips into a single movie with music, narration and titles which can be displayed on any computer, TV or smart phone. Special effects and transitions between photos and movie clips will be demonstrated. Conversion of your hard copy photos and negatives into digital format will be discussed. This is an intermediate class requiring basic Windows computer skills. The movie files we make can be played but not created or edited on Apple computers. However, photos taken and stored on iPhones can be used in your movie.

Class Leader Bio(s): Billy Walker has taught Video Processing, iPad and Drone classes at CLL for several years. Two of his favorite hobbies are videography and photography. Walt Spodeck has assisted in this class and the Drone class for several years.

Course Description: Listen and learn about great R&B Music from the 50's & 60's.

Class Leader Bio(s): Bob Butler holds an MBA from Central Michigan University. He has been a Junior H.S. Math teacher, a Buick dealer, and has a lifelong passion for “My kind of Music.”

Course Description: Fused glass creations are beautiful and easy to create. This is not stained glass or blown glass but is known as kiln formed glass. During the 4-week class we will make 4 projects with sheet glass, noodles, stringers and dots of glass. We will fire your projects bi-weekly in our kilns. You’ll learn new techniques in glass every class and can make dishes, suncatchers and two other projects. The art glass we are using is handmade, very unique and beautiful. It is very expensive glass and we fire the pieces in the kiln for up to two firings that take almost 24 hours each. You will be amazed at what you create! 4-week class meeting January 21, February 4, 18 and March 4. This is the same as Creative Fused Glass A.

Notes: There is a $45 per class fee ($180 total) to cover materials and firing. If you pay for the classes in full at the first class, the charge will be $40.00 per class. ($160 total)This is a 4-week class meeting alternate Tuesdays, January 21, February 4, 18 and March 4. This gives us ample time to fire your projects in our kilns. Students need to wear closed toed shoes (like sneakers) in the studio. Eye glasses are required in the studio which we provide or you may use your own. Paradise Glassworks2 David Street, Unit E,Fort Walton Beach, 32547There is a Paradise Glasswork sign next to the door.Located in the office complex on the corner of David Street and Skipper Avenue to the right of “Just Think Cake”, off Racetrack Road.

Class Leader Bio(s): Anita Vasquez is a lifelong crafter and loves making things out of glass. You can see pictures at our website for Paradise Glassworks at: paradiseglassworks.com. Things are also for sale at Artesano Boutique in Fort Walton Beach and Blue Morning Gallery in Pensacola.

Course Description: There is so much more to knitting than just Knit 1 and Purl 2. Come join us to learn the basic knit stitch and purl stitch and expand those skills to include casting on, increases, decreases, lace work, in-the-round projects and pattern reading. Once you learn these building blocks, you can make hats, mittens, scarves, sweaters, shawls, blankets, socks and so much more. This is a 7-week class starting January 24.

Notes: This is a 7-week class starting January 24. The class requires around 200 yards of worsted weight yarn (not cotton) and a pair of size 8 straight or circular needles. You have the option of purchasing these supplies from me on the first day of class for $15.

Class Leader Bio(s): Kristine Matthews initially learned to knit in a junior high school home economics class and she picked it back up when she was pregnant with her second child. That was 22 years ago and today she’s rarely without a pretty yarn and needles somewhere close by.