Summer 2008 Session StartingJuly 7th

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Making Art Accessible To ALL  

School of Service - Access Arts is a teaching program offering quality experiences in the arts with accessibility to people of all ages, origin, background, to the abled and to those with disability, to the disadvantaged as well as the privileged. Its focus is to elevate all people to a higher level of creativity in which art becomes a threshold to life.

Anticipated Benefit to our Community and its Children

  • 200 annual classes scheduled weekly throughout the year in pottery, weaving, writing, drawing, sculpture, music, photography & mixed media
  • Classes includes those of all ages, financial circumstance, ability/disability and ethnic background
  • Scholarships or fee waivers for those unable attend classes without financial assistance (ac. 400 annually in value of $14-17,000)
  • The place to bring humanity to life in children and adults; the means is expression; one way, art. Art is an important way and very positive step for human growth.

 

  
 
 
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School of Service - Access Arts
1724 McAlester Street
Columbia, Missouri 65201

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School of Service - Access Arts
1728 McAlester Street
Columbia, Missouri 65201

Phone: (573) 875-0275
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News & Notes



  		 
 

Access Arts would like to welcome its newest instructor, Bob Hartzell. Bob will be teaching photoshop & graphics design along with drawing and mixed media starting July 9th. www.bobhartzell.com

 

  
 
5/3/2008 Spring Sale "Complete Success"-Read More?

2/28/2008 "Something To spout About" Juried Teapot Exhibition 2008 -Read More?
 
 
 
 

Investment casting dates back thousands of years. Its earliest use was for idols, ornaments and jewellery, using natural beeswax for patterns, clay for the moulds and manually operated bellows for stoking furnaces. Examples have been found in India's Harappan Civilisation (2000 BC - 2500 BC) idols, Egypt's tombs of Tutankhamun (1333 – 1324 BC), in Mesopotamia, Mexico, and the Benin civilization in Africa where the process produced detailed artwork of copper, bronze and gold.

The earliest known text that describes the investment casting process (Schedula Diversarum Artium) was written around 1100 A.D. by Theophilus Presbyter, a monk who described various manufacturing processes, including the recipe for parchment. This book was used by sculptor and goldsmith Benvenuto Cellini (1500 - 1571), who detailed in his autobiography the investment casting process he used for the Perseus and the Head of Medusa sculpture that stands in the Loggia dei Lanzi in Florence, Italy. -Read More?