Portland Adult Education
Portland, ME
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Personal Enrichment
at Portland Adult Education
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Lathe Turning Workshop: Spindle Turning
$400
with Annalise Rubida, Portland Adult Education
Learn how to turn between centers, focusing on turning spindles from rough stock, and turning coves and beads. These are the skills needed to make furniture parts for chairs, stools, and tables. The exercises will include activities to challenge your cutting touch, sharpen lathe edge tools, and start to explore bowls.
Intro to Laser Cutting
$100
with Tomas Amadeo, Portland Adult Education
Learn how a laser cutter works, what materials can be cut with it, and how it can expand your making skills and engrave your artwork.
Intro to Sewing
$110
with Katie Champlin, Dan Toomre, Stacy Owen, Portland Adult Education
Learn the basics of cutting fabric, using a sewing machine, and the stitches available on most machines.
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Intro to Woodshop
$150
with Eric Dunder or Chuck Devine, Portland Adult Education
Gain hands-on experience with woodshop machines, turning a rough-sawn piece of hardwood into a cutting board. Beginners welcome.
Hydroponic Gardening
$125
with Tomas Amadeo, Portland Adult Education
In this 2-hour workshop, you will learn the fundamentals of hydroponic growing and work hands-on to construct a deep-water culture hydroponic grower to take home with you. Hydroponics is a method for growing plants by immersing their roots in a nutrient rich oxygen/water solution. Hydroponic plants grow faster, yield more produce, and require fewer resources to grow compared to traditional soil grown plants. After you have constructed your system, we will guide you through the process of mixing and balancing a nutrient solution.
Clothes Mending Workshop
$100
with Dan Toomre, Portland Adult Education
With clothes designed to fall apart and be replaced, learning how to mend your favorite garments keeps them out of the landfills longer while saving you money. You’ll learn the basics of mending, both on woven and knit fabric, by hand stitching or by machine. Hand sewing experience is helpful, but not required. You are encouraged to bring your own item of clothing in need of repair, but fabric for mending samples is provided.
Portraiture for Beginners
$60
with Audrey Parker, Portland Adult Education
We will learn step by step how to draw proportional faces from front, profile and quarter view perspectives. We will discuss the foundations of the human face, explore how to render different emotions, and learn new observational skills that will help you in other avenues of drawing.
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Beginner Earring Making
$60
with Erin Page, Portland Adult Education
You’ll fashion two pairs of fabulous earrings, first choosing between silver or gold-toned findings, and then selecting a bead that suits your style from our collection. Next, you will be guided through the fundamental skills needed to make these earrings, including link creation, wire shaping, tool use and basic wire wrapping. All tools and supplies are provided. Each student will finish the class with two pairs of earrings that they crafted! Earring cards, gift boxes, jewelry care card, and cleaning cloths are also available for students to take home.