Facilitator: Sarah McKenzie

Location: Sterling Correctional Facility

Dates: Tuesdays Feb 17-May 5

Program Description:

This weekly hands-on class will offer participants the opportunity to learn or build upon basic drawing skills to explore how the activity of drawing both changes how we see the world and offers opportunities for self-expression. This course is available to those with no prior drawing experience or extensive drawing experience. All are welcome! Incorporating a peer support model, over ten weeks, we’ll cover a range of drawing concepts, including contour lines, line weight, value, contrast, gradation, and perspective. Assignments will include still-life subjects, interiors, portraiture, and imaginative drawing.

Facilitators: Lilly Stannard, Joanna Rotkin & Rick Merrill

Location: Limon Correctional Facility

Course Dates: Ongoing from mid-March

Program Description:
In collaboration with The Sky Inside, Impact Arts offers a movement-based creative practice that invites participants to slow down, listen inward, and rediscover imagination through the body. Guided by gentle, accessible movement and reflective exercises, we quiet the analytical mind and make space for intuition, curiosity, and play. Together we explore how creative expression can resource us through grounding, restoring, and reconnecting us to possibility, to one another, and to our own artistic voice. No dance experience is needed, only a willingness to notice, feel, and imagine.

Facilitator: Sarah McKenzie

Location: Sterling Correctional Facility

Dates: Tuesdays Feb 17-May 5

Program Description:
This class will offer an introduction to basic painting techniques using student-grade acrylics. We’ll explore the potential “plasticity” of wet media, building the illusion of three-dimensional forms on a two- dimensional surface. You’ll be introduced to the basics of color theory and learn to mix a wide range of colors using a limited palette of red, yellow, blue, white, and black paint.

Facilitator: Sarah McKenzie

Location: Sterling Correctional Facility

Course Dates: Tuesdays Feb 17 - May 5

Program Description:

This weekly hands-on class is designed expressly for students who have successfully completed our intro-level class, Seeing & Drawing, Inside & Out, and are ready for an in-depth study of linear perspective drawing.

Over ten weeks, we’ll tackle a range of complex perspective challenges, including cubes, ellipses, chairs, tables, and other furniture, and architectural interiors and exteriors. We’ll apply the fundamentals of one-, two-, and three-point perspective to our work, but the majority of these challenges will be solved using the technique of “sighting.”