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Topics > Arts, Crafts & Music
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Advanced Stand-Up Comedy Workshop
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$72.00 (1 section available)
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So, you made it through the intro class and want to continue your comedy journey? The advanced stand-up comedy workshop is for anyone who has performed stand-up comedy before and is looking for a place to work out new material or polish up what you already have. This class will continue where the CCAC introductory stand-up comedy class left off. This course will offer feedback from professional comedians who share their expertise in a workshop-style format. Learn more about the craft as we dig deeper into developing your comedic style.
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Art for Emotional Learning/Expression
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$72.00 (1 section available)
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Art for Emotional Learning and Expression is a class designed to help students explore and understand their feelings through creative art activities. Participants engage in drawing, painting, and mixed media projects that encourage self-reflection and emotional growth. By fostering a supportive environment, the class empowers students to express themselves authentically and build emotional resilience. The projects for this class can be adapted to accommodate a wide range of materials, so students will be able to use whatever they have access to including: pencils, pens, colored pencils, pastels, colored paper, scissors, glue sticks or glue guns, acrylic paint, watercolor, watercolor pencils, oil paint, craft supplies, old magazines, image editing programs or apps, modeling clay or Model Magic, etc.
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Color Theory Advanced
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$51.00 (2 sections available)
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This advanced color theory course is designed as a lecture/workshop series intended to go well beyond the basics of color mixing. We will learn how to apply the principles of intensity, value, shading, tinting, and temperature to achieve proper keying, lighting, depth, and mood. We will learn how to apply these principles to a limited palette and different types of media. Color Theory is required as a prerequisite.
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Cricut Part 1- Foundations
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$51.00 (1 section available)
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Jump-start your creativity with this hands-on introduction to Cricut. We'll cover everything from setting up your machine and navigating Design Space to choosing materials, adjusting cut settings, and completing your first custom project. By the end of the evening, you'll have the confidence-and the skills-to start crafting on your own.
**Please bring your own Cricut machine and heat vinyl tubes. Thank you and we hope that you will join us!
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Knitting 2 - Advanced Beginner - Lace And Charts
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$61.00 (2 sections available)
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Go beyond the basics of knitting and continue to build confidence and add to your knitting knowledge! Students will learn how to read patterns, read charts, knit a variety of stitches such as increases, decreases, and lace patterns. Learn to fix mistakes and learn lots of tips and tricks. You will learn to build your skills to learn how to confidently knit many intermediate-level patterns. Class projects may include examples of intermediate dishcloths, scarves, wrist warmers, mittens, and hats. Projects will be using intermediate stitches and repetitive stitch patterns. Bring size US 8/5.0 mm knitting needles and worsted weight cotton yarn. Students are encouraged to take Knitting 1.
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Knitting 3 - Advanced Beginner - Circular Knitting and Cables
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$61.00 (2 sections available)
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Students will learn to knit in the round and include cables. Also referred to as knitting in the round, circular knitting creates a seamless tube. Circular knitting requires the use of circular needles or double-pointed needles (DPN). Learn to knit with circular needles, double pointed needles, and two circular needles at a time. Projects may include techniques for hats, cowls, fingerless gloves. Students are encouraged to take Knitting 1 and Knitting 2.
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Making Holiday Bows
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$41.00 (1 section available)
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Learn how to make bows for any occasion by learning tips and techniques used by gift industry professionals. Please bring two rolls of wire edge ribbon, wire spool or Chanielle stems to tie the bows together and a sharp pair of scissors to class.
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Open Sew
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$92.00 (1 section available)
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Come learn a specific skill or make anything you'd like with help from a skilled seamstress. Beginners to intermediate sewers welcome!
CCAC does not have sewing machines on site and students will be required to bring their sewing machine and supplies for their desired sewing project to this course.
Please note that the Fall 2026 start/end date for this class has changed since our catalog was published. The new dates are Tuesdays 11/10 - 12/8 (the course will start one week later than the original 11/3 date). Please contact us at 412-788-7507 if we can be of any assistance. We hope that you will join us!
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Painting in Oil & Acrylics
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$123.00 (1 section available)
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This class is for the student who wants flexibility in individual projects ranging from oil painting to watercolors.The instructor works with each student based on the medium chosen.
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Painting: Watercolor 2
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$123.00 (1 section available)
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For those ready to improve and enhance their basic watercolor skills, the study of color, form, and perspective. Bring your watercolor supplies to the first class. Call 412-788-7507 if you do not receive your supply list prior to the start of class.
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Photography: Picture Pittsburgh
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$82.00 (1 section available)
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In this class, you will photograph Pittsburgh from well-known and not-so-well-known locations. Technical and aesthetic advice will be suggested by the instructor. Transportation to the sites is the responsibility of the student. Students should have knowledge of photography fundamentals and skill with their own camera. Please call 412-788-7507 for the location of the first class (our team will reach out a week before the class starts with this information).
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Responsive Drawing/Creative Journaling Journaling
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$82.00 (1 section available)
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This class will emphasize the process of seeing and drawing as a means for increasing our sensitivity to the world, along with creative journaling for expanding our self-awareness. Students will practice drawing and developing our observation and perception skills. Through various projects. Explore various techniques for recording and journaling thoughts, feelings, and observations about ourselves and the environments where we find ourselves. It's less about the finished product and much more about the process of seeing, feeling, and recording, using creative means to be fully present. A supply list will be provided upon registration. Provide a valid email address.
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Seasonal Wreath Making
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$49.00 (2 sections available)
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Learn basic wreath making methods for beautiful seasonal wreaths to decorate your home. Explore core concepts and ideas in texture, color, scent and shape of materials as you design your wreath. Materials extra. A supply list will be sent to students prior to class. If you do not receive your material list call 412-788-7507.
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Sewing Curtains/Drapes for Your Home
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$51.00 (1 section available)
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Learn how to make custom draperies/curtains for your home. In this class you will learn the basics of making drapery just like professionals. Learn the correct fabric to use and to calculate how much you need. You will also learn the correct way to assemble drapery and explore different types of drapery headers and review what hardware to use. Students must know how to sew on a sewing machine and must bring their own machines.
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Techniques in Collage
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$72.00 (1 section available)
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Class discussion about materials and the many ways artists can express themselves through collage using ephemera from magazines and our daily lives. Each technique will build towards creating a surreal or fantasy landscape at the end of the course.
Supply lists will be sent to the email on file (please call 412-788-7507 if you would like to phone in ahead to receive this). Thank you and we hope that you will join us!
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Watercolor Painting W/Pen & Ink
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$72.00 (1 section available)
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Create some beautiful art by mixing watercolor painting with pen & ink from Micron pens. You will need: hot pressed/smooth watercolor paper, micron pens of various sizes/thicknesses (only a few different sizes are needed. You can also, in a pinch, use a ultra fine tip sharpie, but there are not a variety of sizes of these). You'll need drawing pencils, white eraser, ruler, foam or plastic plate/palette, watercolor paints a variety of paint brushes, small to large, flat and round, cup for water, paper towels, newspaper to cover your surface, smock/shirt.
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