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Nov 13-14 – Paula Ford – Back by popular demand, Paula will teach two one day Pastel Workshops. More Info...

BEGINNING BLACKSMITHING - Starting with Fire - October 23 & 24. Details here

Oct 11 - Storytelling: Civil War - Dr. Michael Bradley. 5 pm in the Theater.
Free admission. More Info...

Sept 27 – World War II Storytelling – Charles Frye – 5 pm in the Theater.
Free admisison. More Info... Photos

The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe, August 22-23, 2009. Featuring David Payne as Aslan the Lion! More details... Photos

Sweet Tooth Theater: February 21, 6:30 pm

Join us for coffee, desserts, and entertainment on Saturday evening, February 21, for the annual Sweet Tooth Theater. The doors will open at 6:30. Tickets are available at the Artisan Depot, 207 Cumberland Avenue, East for $20 per person.

Sweet Tooth Theater functions as the primary fundraiser for the Franklin County Arts Guild. As the name implies, Sweet Tooth Theater has its culinary focus on desserts. There will be a wide variety of desserts available, ranging from cakes, pies, and cookies to the chocolate fountain. Coffee will be served and you are welcome to bring your own wine. Some of the proceeds are used to award a scholarship to a graduating senior living in Franklin County who plans to study art or art education in college.

Floorcloth Painting Workshop
Susan Turner will be teaching a floorcloth painting workshop workshop on Saturday, January 24, at the Cowan Training Center from 9 to 4. The cost will be $75. Most of the supplies are included, but participants are asked to bring a few items. To sign up for the workshop or for more information, call Denise at 308-6631.

Paula Ford Workshop:
October 25, 2008, all day Saturday. Paula Ford wil conduct a workshop on Landscapes. Advance registration is required. Fee is $75 plus materials.

Ancient Egypt and the Nile, Slideshow Oct. 16

October 16, 2008, 6:00 p.m. Thursday evening in the Training Center.  See slides taken by the Hubbards on their trip to Egypt. Coffee and cookies will be served. Free admission.

Charles and Sally Hubbard will show slides of their trip to Egypt--last May 28 to June 7--at the Cowan Center for the Arts on Thursday evening, Oct. 16, at 6 p.m. Sally’s brother Waring McCrady accompanied them on the Grand Circle trip which began in Cairo and went south to near the Sudan border. Egypt is the exotic destination of a lifetime and less expensive than Europe, and tourists are welcomed and protected with great care and attention.

During five days in Cairo, they visited the Egyptian Museum, the sphinx, pyramids at Giza and Sakkara, a hand-woven rug factory, the Alabaster Mosque at the Citadel, a Coptic church, the Khan el-Khalili Bazaar and historic homes in the oldest part of the city. A day trip by train north to Alexandria allowed them to see Roman and Greek ruins near the blue Mediterranean and the fabulous new Alexandria Library, built in honor of the world-famous library established by Alexander in the third century B.C. and destroyed in the time of Caesar and Cleopatra.

They flew south on Cairo Air to Abu Simbel to see the two temples built by Pharoah Ramses II and incredibly relocated uphill when the waters of Lake Nasser began to rise in 1960. In Aswan they boarded the Anuket, their floating hotel for seven days, enjoyed felucca rides on the wide river Nile and visited the lovely Philae Temple complex, dedicated to Isis, also relocated to the highest point of its island in the lake. They watched a demonstration of papyrus paper being made. In both ancient Egypt and at present, civilization stretches within a mile to the east and west of the river; the Nile is lined with towns and temples. Cruising north/downriver, they stopped at Kom Ombo where Sobek, the crocodile god was worshiped, and at Edfu’s Temple of Horus. From Luxor they visited the Valleys of the Kings and Queens, the tomb of Queen/King Hatshepsut, Karnak and Luxor. An overnight trip to Quena provided an opportunity to see the Greco-Roman Temple of Dendera dedicated to Hathor.

Other Hubbard Slideshows

2008 DRAMA DAY CAMP – Heather Thompson – instructor

If your child is 8 to 12 years of age and loves performing for family and friends or wants to learn the creative process, this camp is for him/her. Your child will be exposed to several different types of dramatic activities during the five days of camp. We will be doing work involving Readers Theatre, which focuses on voice expression through oral reading. We will also concentrate on Odyssey of the Mind and DestiNation Imagination activities, which rely on spontaneous answers to questions and solving a problem through writing and performing a skit. The class will hold a performance for family and friends on Friday, June 13th.

Camp Fee $100.00 for 5 days paid with registration. Supplies needed are a writing tablet, 2 pencils, a red pen, a black pen, and a highlighter. Your child will also need to bring a drink and a snack daily. When: June 9th-13th; Class time 9:00am til 1:00pm

HUBBARD’S SLIDE SHOW PERU - Quechua Weaving Workshop

One of the most beautiful towns included in Charles and Sally Hubbard’s slide show of Peru at the Cowan Training Center on Tuesday, Oct. 17, will be Chichero, at 12,000’ the highest place they visited. Two sisters, Nilda and Rosa Alvarez established the Quechua Weaving Workshop to teach historic ways to dye and weave alpaca wool. Rosa told the guests that the paracas tradition of natural dyes and cotton and wool weaving is 5,000 years old, older than ceramics. The women and girls were in a walled, grassy compound, brilliantly dressed in regional costume with their town’s unique broad, flat-topped, decorative hats. They drove stakes into the grass and started threading wool back and forth between them to begin a length of woolen fabric. Others secured sticks in the ground and started weaving belts with small back-strap looms in the ancient Andean tradition. Thirty-six weaving patterns represent as many towns; of particular beauty was the edging binding the material, which was rounded and featured a double-eye motif. After the presentation the group walked to a local home for a lunch of cuy (guinea pig), potato, and vegetables, served by young women with babies tied in their brightly woven mantas.