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 painting class taught by a professional artist helps students develop both technical skills and personal artistic style. Students create original paintings using still life, photography, and imagination as inspiration. Instruction covers color theory, brush techniques composition and an overview of historical painting styles as they relate to a modern world. 

*Must be 16 or older. 

*For paint and supplies, please bring $6 to instructor at the beginning of class. 

*If you have your own supplies that you would like to bring, please reach out to the instructor prior to class. dianenyc111@gmail.com

Instructor BIO:

Diane Hoppmann's larger scale impressionistic paintings are inspired by a heightened sensitivity to nature's changing light,color and atmospheric conditions in the Ozarks. She spends much of her time immersed in the landscape, observing flowing creeks and rivers, foliage reflections and shifting patterns of wind and water on the lake. Diane describes this experience as"Being Home."

Painting allows her to transfer the tranquil observations into the perfect balance of composition, shape, perspective and color while escaping into a peaceful and safe emotional space.

Diane Hoppmann was born in Madison, Wisconsin and currently lives in Mountain Home, Arkansas. She graduated from the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, D.C. earning a B.F.A. She also attended the Post Bachelorette program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and graduated from New York University in New York City with an M.A.

Diane Hoppmannthen continued to paint and show her work while starting her own successful decorative painting business in New York and Washington, D.C. for the next thirty years.

Her featured exhibitions and clients include East Hampton Center for Contemporary Arts, Adrian Arscht, Eileen Fisher, Ralph Lauren Home and Hertz Worldwide Corporate headquarters. Diane has also shown with local shows such as The Art Odyssey, Springfield Airport 'Sky Gallery" and ASUMH Art Gallery.

Students will learn basic quilt making skills by making 3 to 4 traditional blocks that they may use in their choice of the following:

• Use single blocks in their choice of small projects.
• Use all blocks in a table runner top.
• Make more than one of each block in a small quilt top. 

*Supplies students are to bring to class:

• Cotton fabric (you may bring your own fabric or if you would like fabric to be provided, please bring $25 to give to the instructor at the time of the first class).
• Thread
• Scissors
• Pins
• Must have sewing machine in good working order. (Blocks can be sewn by hand without a machine, but using this method will take more time.) *Contact instructor for information if you prefer this method. 

*Optional supplies to bring:

• Rotary cutter
• Cutting Mat
• Quilting Rulers

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!