Maine Adult Education Program
with Asia Cole
Next session: September 19th, 2026
Come spend a relaxing afternoon making beautiful beeswax candles. We will be hand-dipping taper candles of your chosen shape and color design. Join us for this slow yet oh-so-rewarding traditional craft! A $10 materials fee, payable to the instructor, must be paid the day of class.
with Ed Higgins
Next session: January 11th to February 8th, 2027
If you’ve never tried to work non-objectively, you’ll find that it helps you learn important lessons that will serve you well in any of your future artistic endeavors. It helps you cure the dreaded fussies, as well as getting you to think more deeply about color, brushwork, and composition. This class combines an introductory studio course with an art appreciation talk. Every studio class will end with a short presentation spotlighting some of the great abstract painters of the modern era. If you’ve ever looked at abstract art and said to yourself “I could do that!” Here’s your chance to give it a try. There is no set materials list for this class. The instructor will be able to supply enough materials to get you started, but eventually you will develop your own projects and media preferences. Contact Ed Higgins directly with any questions ed_higgins@icloud.com.
with Asia Cole
Next session: December 5th, 2026
Welcome in the holiday season with colorful window stars. Made from folded kite paper, these magical decorations are perfect to illuminate your home or give away as gifts. All students will receive their own kite paper booklet so they can continue making stars at home. A $20 materials fee, payable to the instructor, is due the day of class.
with Ed Higgins
Next session: February 22nd to March 22nd, 2027
If you’re the kind of artist who doesn’t want to limit your work to one medium, this is the class for you! Many people don’t realize how many conventional painting media play nice with each other. For example, pastel (or oil sticks) and oil paints, acrylic and pastel, watercolor and ink, and on and on. This class will emphasize experimentation and expressive mark making. Artists will be able to create visual depth and tactile appeal by combining diverse elements. Mixed Media Painting allows artists to build rich, three-dimensional textures and layers that traditional paintings cannot achieve. Contact Ed Higgins directly with any questions ed_higgins@icloud.com.
with Steve McGrath
Next session: December 1st to 22nd, 2026
In this Nature and Bird Photography online class, we will go over camera settings and compositions and how to get great images of Nature's best like moose, birds, seals and other subjects! We will also learn how to set up a blind to get great images, the best lenses for this type of photography and tripods to get the best stability for your images! And this is for a Digital Camera or a Smartphone!
with Ed Higgins
Next session: January 13th to February 10th, 2027
Working with gouache is a fast, easy way to do studies for larger paintings, helping you with color relationships and composition, but you’ll also find that adding your notes and thoughts turns your gouache journal itself into a work of art. Gouache paint is similar to watercolor, but it is modified to make it opaque. Gouache can be rewetted and dried to a matte finish, and the paint can become infused into its paper support, like watercolor. Contact Ed Higgins directly with any questions ed_higgins@icloud.com.