Do you Homeschool in the Cleveland Area?

The following classes are offered at your home or at your homeschool coop location.

Core Creativity: A prerequisite. The basics. Slide show instruction and creativity-building exercises using solid shapes, angles, spaces, stripes, shadow shapes, and mat windows. No art experience necessary.
Drawing I: Based on a college course. Learn techniques and how to use different media, shading, negative space, composition, gesture drawing, and composition.
Learning from the Masters: Great works of art are great opportunities for learning. We will use drawings by Rembrandt, paintings by the Impressionists, and key 20th Century art as creative inspiration.
Landscape Drawing: Using charcoal on white paper, chalk on black paper, pastels or graphite, the student will learn composition, perspective, and technique. Classes will be outdoors when weather permits.
Stamping as an art form: Create rose windows, mandalas, abstract art, or put together layered stamping plates for multiple prints.
Artist-in-Residence: See how to plan, start, and complete a charcoal drawing. pastel, or acrylic painting.

Call for available times as Kristen's schedule changes each semester due to graduate classes at ursuline College in Art Therapy and Counseling.

For Grade School, Middle School & High School.

Free Art Class, Greater Cleveland area

Classes are ongoing at Bedford Studios and are tailored to meet your needs. Want to learn to draw? Create a painting? Play with art materials? Learn by making your own versions of the art of the Masters? Try your first class for free. No need to print this coupon. Just give Kristen a call at (two one six) 577-9874.

Family Activities: Stamping Fun

Happy Halloween!

Contact Kristen at (two one six) 577-9874 for details on classes and workshops.

Sign up to sell your art at Shadybrook event

Holiday gift shopping at its best: no snow!

Purchase (or sell) made-by-hand arts & crafts and coupons for services by Cleveland area talent. No booth fee but a 15% commission, and bring item for the potluck salad bar. More information at www.shadybrook.org under "events".

Sellers: download and print mail-in registration form below. Call 216-556-5683 for information or use email below.

Attendees may register or ask questions by email or phone: programs@shadybrook.org.

Must register to attend or to sell by July 5. Only registered guests of Shadybrook gain admittance, so be sure to register by July 5th!

Location: Elmwood Cabin in Elmwood Park, 600 Elmwood Rd., Rocky River OH 44116

When: Sunday, July 19, 2009, 3:00 PM to 8:00 PM. Rain or Shine!

Live music! Musicians and entertainers: Use the form below to sign up and share your music. Wellness practitioners: sell coupons for treatments.

Play area for children.

There is no fee to attend, but bring money to shop! (Cash or checks accepted.)

Art Classes for Children, Cleveland area, East Side

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There are very few activities parents and children can do together where both parent and child are equally challenged, equally experiencing something new, and equally vulnerable. Such a sharing between parent and child creates new bonds of closeness, awareness, and understanding of each for the other.

All ages, from five up, can do these drawing-based exercises. No one is looking at the paper while making marks on paper to correspond to their eye movement as they observe the edges of a wide variety of objects. Since you are not looking at the paper, you are not responsible for how the drawn image looks! This process is both a beginning drawing lesson and a way to access the relaxation response, an important function that brings inner peace, awareness of others, and personal empowerment to manage everyday difficulties. Yes, children can do it. (So can moms and dads.)

Learn easy exercises for connecting with the world and with each other.

Experiential: do the exercises, feel the results.

Useful: Learn a technique to do at home, in the car, while waiting in lines, to help change mood.

Ages 5 and up. At least one parent must accompany children.

TIME: Saturday, April 18, 9:00 to 10:30

COST: $15 per family

LOCATION: Chagrin Falls Middle School Library, 342 E. Washington St., Chagrin Falls, OH 44022

INSTRUCTOR: Kristen Boyesen

REGISTER: Call 440-247-5375 - (Voice Message 24 Hours a Day.) Leave your name, phone number, course title (Parent-Child Bonding), and if you are a resident or non-resident. You will be contacted for further information.

Kristen Boyesen is a Life Learning and Creativity Coach, member of COSE, Cleveland Coach Federation, American Holistic Medical Association and Eldercare Professionals of Ohio. She has over twenty years’ experience as an art instructor and exhibits her art in galleries in New York and Ohio. She is pursuing graduate studies in Art Therapy at Ursuline College.

Beginning Art classes, Cleveland area

Active Imagination Interactive Workshop

Have you always wanted to be creative? Are you jealous of those who can draw? Are you "bad" at drawing stick figures?

This class is for you. Awaken your hidden creativity. This class will prepare the way for you to discover your hidden artistic creative self.

Experience “aha’ moments, ignite creativity and feel a sense of community through meditative practices, word games and interaction with percussive instruments. Learn an easy meditative drawing (without looking) technique for inner peace, wellness, and activating intuition. Short lectures are followed by instruction, practice, and group discussion.

Excite, feed and retrain your brain.
Let go and be free.

Materials are included. No art, writing, or musical experience necessary. (Follow-up advanced classes are available on request.)

TIME: Saturday, April 25, 9:00 AM to Noon

COST: $22

LOCATION: Chagrin Falls Middle School Library, 342 E. Washington St., Chagrin Falls, OH 44022

INSTRUCTOR: Kristen Boyesen

REGISTER: Call 440-247-5375 - (Voice Message 24 Hours a Day.) Leave your name, phone number, course title (Active Imagination), and if you are a resident or non-resident. You will be contacted for further information.

Art Classes, Greater Cleveland

Due to the snow and ice, parking and access to the Bedford studio site is difficult. Classes are on hold until the weather warms.

Meanwhile, art classes are mobile.

Need a guest instructor or teacher for a series of classes? Call (two one six) 577-9874. Kristen Boyesen has over twenty years experience as a private art instructor, guest lecturer, artist-in-residence, and/or college adjunct art instructor.

February Art Classes, Cleveland Area

February schedule for Art Classes and Imagination Arts (for "non-artists") Bedford OH 44146

Note the new Saturday class!
(Classes at other locations are listed at the end of this message.)

Morning classes: 9:30 to 11:30
(Please arrive 15 minutes prior to the start time, or earlier if you are working on Imagination Arts and want extra practice.)
There are now five in this class. There is room for five more.

Wed, February 6, 11, 20, 27

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NEW! Saturday classes: 9:30 to 11:30
Please arrive 15 minutes prior to the start time.
February 9 & March 1
RSVP three days in advance, as this is a new class.
Need a minimum of two, or one person paying $40.

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Evening Classes: 7:00 to 9:00
(Please arrive 15 minutes prior to the start time)
This class needs to be re-started, so be sure to RSVP at least two days prior. If there are not at least two signed up, it will be cancelled.

Wednesday, Feb 6
Monday, Feb 11
Wednesday, Feb 20
Wednesday, Feb 27


This message is sent out once a month, unless there is a date change. Please mark your calendars, and call to RSVP when you are sure you can make the class. Class minimum, two.

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Class fees:
The pay-as-you-attend rate is $20.
After 5 consecutive classes, the 6th is free. ($16.67 per class)
Paying for 10 classes in advance for $150 will lower the rate to $15 per class, to be used at your convenience. Members from the same family may use this account together.
Parents and their school-age children attend for one fee. (In fact, parents are strongly encouraged to participate.)

RSVP by phone (Two One Six) 577-9874) or respond to this email.
Classes are ongoing. There is no beginning and end.
You may jump in or out at any time.

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Join the Imagination Arts LunchBreak Retreat Group

Every other Monday, Beginning February 4 at ART Showcase Gallery in the Galleria, Cleveland OH 44114

Feb 4,18. Mar 3,17,31. Apr 14,28. May 12,26.

Imagination Arts™ participants learn to achieve a meditative state through Recorded Eye Movement™

The exercises help access the non-linear right-brain to enter a state of calm, open awareness, and create
opportunities for “aha” moments.

12:15 - 12:30: Eat your lunch during
instructions and demonstrations.
12:30 - 1:15: Do the exercises at your own pace, using the materials provided
$20 per person
The LunchBreak Retreat Group is ongoing.
Beginners are always welcome.
Walk-ins welcome if space allows, or
Register by phone or email.
Call Kristen Boyesen at (Two One Six) 577-9874
email: artexperiences at sbcglobal.net

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Imagination Arts™ for Wellness, Rehabilitation, and Fun

With Bedford artist, motivational speaker, and art teacher Kristen S. Boyesen

A workshop to relieve stress, reduce pain, exercise the brain and activate intuition. Based on the book, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards, the exercises, developed by Boyesen especially for “non-artists”, ease access to right-brain global thinking, timelessness, “aha” moments and creative thinking for life enrichment through heightened awareness and perceptions. Interesting objects are used for observation and meditation, and, without looking at the paper, participants do Recorded Eye Movement™ drawings. After the observational/recording period, the drawing is a fun surprise! No art experience needed. Materials are provided.

“This exercise was unlike any other. I’ve never really thought of something so simple being so relaxing.” (Niki, Burning River Fest, 2007, Cleveland)

“I get relief from the severe pain while doing art, my memory... is improving, and (my) depression ... is lifting.” …“My kids have ADHD. When I see they are on a path to losing control, we do the exercises, and they calm down.” (Dennis, stroke and broken neck survivor doing art and Imagination Arts™ with Kristen since 02/02/05.


Saint Mary's Women’s Guild presentation

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Bedford, OH 44146

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Imagination Arts in North Olmstead:

Need a Break From Stress?

Want to Awaken Creativity?


Imagination Arts participants learn to achieve a meditative state through Recorded Eye Movement™ exercises, for access to the non-linear right-brain. In this global thinking part of the brain, one enters a state of calm, opens awareness, and sets the stage for creating “aha” moments. There will also be a slide presentation, music movement, group discussion, and other group activities.

Testimonial:

I have been studying art, meditation and intuition for many years.

However, all that has been dramatically advanced once I began to study with Kristen Boyesen. Her art class is far more than drawing lessons. I am learning about life, paying attention to my energy field, and experiencing sheer joy just being around her! Her passion for life and art are wonderfully contagious! I heartily recommend Imagination Arts to anyone who wants to gain access to their dormant creativity and joy.



Linda Schiller-Hanna

Founder, Natural Psychic School of Metaphysics

www.lightworker22.com

Saturday, February 16

1:00 to 5:00 PM



Register with:
Pamela A. McCue
Securely Anchored Wellness Center
4991 Dover Center Rd.
North Olmsted, OH 44070
(Four Four Zero) 376-7041

Cost $55 per person
Materials are provided.

Presenter: Kristen S. Boyesen

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