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Watercolor
with Jerry Preator
Class for beginner and intermediate on how to handle the medium of water color. Learn to paint a painting in the first class period.
Instructor Bio
I am a graduate of the Kansas City Art Institute.
I have been Art Director for BETTER HOMES & GARDENS magazine in Des Moines, Iowa and Art director for LEE RIDER JEANS & WESTERN WEAR in Kanas City, MO.
I have been teaching water color painting for 60 years and have taught over 2,000 people to paint.
I have an Art Studio and a Gallery with over 800 paintings.
I love teaching art and watching people who thought they couldn’t paint, get excited as they grow with their new found knowledge.
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Rural EMS Education Session 8
with Doug Wintle
This is for ANY EMT that needs CEU's for their National Registry EMT or an individual interested in obtaining their Emergency Medical Responder (EMR).
These sessions will be offered in a similar pattern from 2023 - 2024 so if someone is not able to attend all of these sessions they could attend a session in that year.
By attending all 8, it will meet the NREMT and State of Arkansas requirements.
For the EMR they must attend all 8 concurrently, then we will assist the individual in obtaining their EMR through NREMT.
- February 1, 2025 Session 8
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ACT Prep
with Jennifer Veloria-Dunn
Enhancing your performance on the ACT is instrumental in determining your choice of college. This six-hour course will prepare you for specific types of questions in Reading, English, Writing, Math, and Science and give you pointers on time management, anxiety relief, scoring and general standardized test-taking strategies. Please be sure to bring an ACT approved calculator to the training.
Small breaks will be given. Students are encouraged to bring snacks and a light lunch.
About your instructor:
My name is Jennifer Veloria-Dunn. I have been in education for 14 years and I have been teaching ACT Prep since 2013. My goal is to ease test anxiety and to have students practice ACT specific testing strategies to effectively take the test. After taking this class, many students have reported increasing their composite score by up to 7 points!
The Language of the River in Dante, Twain, & Joyce
with Matt Powell
Rivers forge the language of a place and its people. In this comparative literature seminar, we will explore selected works of Dante, Mark Twain, and James Joyce; tracing their literary connection to rivers, and groundbreaking use of informal, regional dialects. Supplemented with Mary Ann Messick’s History of Baxter County.
*Class dates are as follows: February 4th,11th,18th,25th, March 4th & 18th
Instructor BIO:
Matt Powell is a writer and musician. His writing has been featured in Variety, No Depression, Angels Flight—literary west, Community Works Journal, The Happy Music Center, StyleBlueprint, Scanner Zine, Temporary Detective and Emmys.com. He served for five years as Contributing Music Editor for Humor in America, a blog affiliated with the Department of English at the University of Texas at Austin. He performs music regularly throughout the area, and you can often catch him at an open mic reading from a classic book. Matt was born and raised in Southern California, but his roots in Baxter County go back to the 1860s. He moved to Mountain Home in 2021 to be around family roots, nature, and good neighbors.
Introduction to Microsoft Excel
with Tamatha Dudley
Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet program that allows you to store, organize, and analyze information. Whether you're keeping a budget, organizing a training log, or creating an invoice, Excel makes it easy to work with different types of data.
This class will introduce basic concepts of the program and allow for self-practice. Students will take a look at the Excel interface, ribbon, workbook cell basics, modify rows, columns and cells. They will learn to format cells and work with multiple workbooks. Students will also get a glimpse of formulas, functions, charts and absolute cell references.
Watercolor
with Jerry Preator
Class for beginner and intermediate on how to handle the medium of water color. Learn to paint a painting in the first class period.
Instructor Bio
I am a graduate of the Kansas City Art Institute.
I have been Art Director for BETTER HOMES & GARDENS magazine in Des Moines, Iowa and Art director for LEE RIDER JEANS & WESTERN WEAR in Kanas City, MO.
I have been teaching water color painting for 60 years and have taught over 2,000 people to paint.
I have an Art Studio and a Gallery with over 800 paintings.
I love teaching art and watching people who thought they couldn’t paint, get excited as they grow with their new found knowledge.
Intro to Microsoft Word
with Tamatha Dudley
Microsoft Word is a word processing application that allows you to create and edit a variety of documents, including letters, resumes, and more. This class will introduce basic concepts of the program and allow for self-practice. Students will take a look at the Word interface, including the ribbon and quick access toolbar. Students will also learn how create, open, edit and save documents using text features and some object formatting.
Songwriting Workshop
with Matt Powell
In this immersive workshop we will deep-dive into the craft of songwriting. With lessons on song structure, music theory, lyric writing and more, I will provide tools to guide you in writing an original song, with the option to perform at our class concert. All skill levels and styles welcome.
*Class dates are as follows: March 5th, 12th, 19th, April 2nd, 9th, 16th.
(Due to Spring Break class will not be held on Wednesday March 26th).
Instructor BIO:
Matt Powell is a writer and musician. He earned a Bachelor of Music from Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he majored in songwriting, and studied guitar performance. His writing has been featured in several publications, including Variety, No Depression, and Emmys.com. He served for five years as Contributing Music Editor for Humor in America, a blog affiliated with the Department of English at the University of Texas at Austin. He performs music regularly throughout the area, and has released four EPs of original music with bands in Los Angeles, including a song placed in the CW show Supernatural. Matt was born and raised in Southern California, but his roots in Baxter County go back to the 1860s. He moved to Mountain Home in 2021 to be around family roots, nature, and good neighbors.