Plein Air Watercolor/Oil Workshop

Tuesday – Thursday, September, 8-10
8:30 am -12:30pm

$165

Instructor: Diane Olsen

Paint en plein air (on location) around the beautiful Saugatuck -Douglas area using either watercolor or oil paint in this 4-day intensive painting workshop. Award-winning artist Diane Olsen will lead this interactive course helping students learn a variety of techniques, including capturing light while painting from direct subject matter “en plein aire.” There will be a short demonstration each morning, with lots of individual attention as you compose and paint your own works. Beginners welcome.

Diane Olsen is a member of the National Watercolor Society, the Arizona Watercolor Association, and Allied Artists of America. Olsen’s work can be viewed on her website at www.dianolsenstudio.com

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Full Flavors Cooking Class

6:30 pm - 9:00 pm

$40 per session

Instructor: Chef Jim La Perriere

Ignite your passion for cooking – and tasting bold new foods – during these culinary workshops with Chef Jim LaPerriere. Jim leads a 6-week series including exploration of exciting global cuisines, pro tips for making the most of your kitchen and cooking, and a delicious primer on pastry and baked goods.

For more on Chef Jim LaPerriere visit www.distinctivedining.biz

Wed Sept 23 - The Savory Southwest: A final farewell to summer

Thurs  Oct 1 - The New Basics: Tips, tricks, and shortcuts from a professional chef

Wed Oct 7 - Spice Infusion: Hot new ways to use fresh and dried chiles, spices, and herbs

Wed Oct 14 - Taste of Italy! A pasta primer from noodles to gnochi

Wed Oct 21 - The Global Ladle: Soups, stews and braises

Wed Oct 28 - The delicious art and craft of baking and pastry

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Docent-led tour of “Sit!” exhibition (SCA) and day-trip/tour of Jeup Furniture plant
Tour of “Sit!” exhibition led by exhibit curator Ken Carls

Jeup Furniture tour led by designer Joseph Jeup

Thursday, September 24
10:00 am -1:00pm

$35.00 (includes lunch)

Join us for a very special design focused event. Begin at the SCA with a tour of and conversation about the “Sit!” exhibition, led by guest curator Ken Carls. Carls will take participants through the exhibition sharing insights on creation of the exhibit and generating conversation about design, context, and form.

Then take bus trip to the facility generating buzz in the West Michigan design world: internationally-acclaimed furniture designer Joe Jeup’s innovative plant in Hudsonville. Joe will lead a behind-the-scenes tour of the facility and give participants a sneak peek of new Jeup Furniture designs. A box lunch will be provided for guests.

Jeup Furniture is known as an industry leader in the design and manufacturing of high-end residential and commercial furniture. Their distinguished residential furnishings are represented to the trade at showrooms across the globe and can be found in hotels, businesses and homes throughout the world. Joseph Jeup has been formally trained in the fields of woodworking, architecture and furniture design. He majored in architecture at Lawrence Technological University in Southfield, MI while apprenticing under master-craftsman in the metro Detroit area. Transferring to Kendall College of Art and Design, Jeup completed his education by earning a BFA with honors in Furniture Design.

Ken Carls is recently retired from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as Associate Director of the School of Art + Design, and having formerly served as Interim Director of the School of Art + Design and Professor of Graphic Design. His “design prints” are on numerous projects in Southwest Michigan including award-winning publications from the Saugatuck-Douglas Historical Society and print and web projects for the Saugatuck Center for the Arts.

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Food, Inc.

Thursday, October 1
7:00pm

Goodwill donation

Panel discussion following the film

Sponsored by the Saugatuck Greenmarket and the Summertime Market

The hot documentary, Food, Inc., comes to the SCA for a special screening! A panel of area farmers will share their experiences, talk about why “field to table” eating is so important, and answer questions following the film. See why the New York Times says of Food, Inc., “You’ll shudder, shake, and just possibly lose your genetically modified lunch.”

In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government's regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Kenner contends that America's food supply is controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment.

Featuring interviews with such experts as Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), Michael Pollan (The Omnivore's Dilemma, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto) along with forward thinking social entrepreneurs like Stonyfield's Gary Hirshberg and Polyface Farms' Joel Salatin, Food, Inc. reveals surprising—and often shocking truths—about what we eat, how it's produced, who we have become as a nation and where we are going from here.

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“Following Your Heart, Finding Your Dream” Writing Seminar

Monday, October 12 and Wednesday, October 14
6:00 pm - 9:00pm

Tuition: $150.00

Instructor: Wade Rouse

Join critically acclaimed author Wade Rouse for a 3-day writing seminar designed to help you take your writing to the next level of success. Rouse guides you in “finding your voice, finding your way, and finding your agent!” Whether you are writing your first novel (or want to begin one) or have found your voice but need to find your way to the end of the book, Rouse offers tested suggestions for moving forward. Have a manuscript without a home? Rouse shares insights into finding the right agent for your writing and product, and tips for building long-tern relationships that lead to success. This seminar is open to writers of all levels.

Wade Rouse is the author of the critically acclaimed memoirs, America’s Boy and Confessions of A Prep School Mommy Handler. His most recent memoir, which hit bookstores this summer, is At Least in the City Someone Would Hear Me Scream: Misadventures in Search of the Simple Life, about his quest to trade in cable and consumerism for a modern-day Walden existence in Saugatuck.

Rouse’s work has been reviewed (and named to multiple “Best of the Year” lists) in publications including USA Today, The Washington Post, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Detroit Free-Press, Out, Genre, and Entertainment Weekly, as well as Border’s, and the nation’s independent booksellers. www.waderouse.com

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