ISD 279 - Osseo Area Schools Community Education

This is an online class held via Zoom. Please make sure you have a current email on file so we can send you the link and PDF handouts prior to class. You don’t need a journalism degree or previously published articles to write for anyone’s online blog, magazine or website. Some opportunities offer exposure while many pay well -- $1 a word and more. In this fast paced session you will learn how to: find ideas, sources, and more than 1,000 opportunities that pay, conduct interviews and create interesting content, protect your copyright, write query letters and then use this credibility to sell other articles or even your self published novel. Informative handouts for future use are included in class fee. The instructor LeeAnne Krusemark is a former journalist, current author and editor, and a nationwide Professor of Publishing at higher learning institutions, including Harvard Adult Education.

Join Julie, a Certified Bob Ross Instructor, as she guides you step-by-step through the process of creating this fall mountain painting with birch trees. She will explain how to prep your canvas, load your brushes, and the brush stokes needed to complete each step, then you will have time to work on your painting as she comes around to help and answer any questions you may have. This is a wet-on-wet oil painting technique that anyone, 12 years or up, can do if you are willing to step out of your comfort zone and just give it a try. No experience necessary. Yes, you can paint like Bob Ross!

Join Julie, a Certified Bob Ross Instructor, as she guides you step-by-step through the process of creating this beautiful mountain scene by using only two colors of paint. She will explain how to prep your canvas, load your brushes, and the brush stokes needed to complete each step, then you will have time to work on your painting as she comes around to help and answer any questions you may have. This is a wet-on-wet oil painting technique that anyone, 12 years or up, can do if you are willing to step out of your comfort zone and just give it a try. No experience necessary. Yes, you can paint like Bob Ross!

Come paint a portrait of your furry loved one! After you enroll, please email a high-quality jpeg photo of your pet to merrytimearts@comcast.net with the subject line Pet Portraits at Osseo. (One pet per person per canvas please). Photos must be received at least one week prior to the class date. Your pet will be hand drawn onto a 16 x 20 canvas for you to paint in class with the help of a professional artist. All supplies are provided. Pet portraits make amazing gifts!

While art may be a necessity in our lives, we hardly seem to have time for it in our packed schedules. While this course will cover some poetry basics, it is designed for writers at any experience level. The point of this course is to create time, space, and resources to extract our experiences, memories, and inner life and transform those things into poetry. The way that you learn how to do this is by reading writers who can show you different methods and techniques to do this, and from playing in the sandbox of writing ourselves. Come write with us!