Classes with KACC
Upcoming KACC Classes
Our classes blend the best of many kinds of media, traditions, perspectives, and practice. From 5-years-old to 95-years-young, learning and expanding appreciation of the arts is our core - and we love putting together classes that drive community engagement in art.
Applications for Classes
Beginner Watercolor Class with Kandi Stimson
Mar 1st - Mar 29th, 2025 | Kerr Arts & Cultural CenterInstructor: Kandi Stimson
4-week session Saturdays: March 1, 8, 22 & 29
(No class on the 15th)
10:30 a.m. until 1:00 p.m.
$150
Topics covered:
Use of supplies; discover what the various brushes can do; mixing paints with water; types of washes, glazes and layers; basic color theory through creating a color wheel; value; edges; creating textures; and composition. Students will be able to complete several paintings while practicing these skills and techniques.
Supply list link will be emailed after registration
Art Journaling: Explore Creativity & Self-Expression
Mar 8th - Mar 8th, 2025 | Kerr Arts & Cultural CenterInstructor: Debralee Sesma
March 8, 12-4 pm
$80 includes kit
Unleash your creativity in this hands-on art journaling class! This workshop is perfect for beginners and seasoned artists alike, and combines mixed-media techniques like painting, collage, and writing to help you create a unique visual diary. Explore new ways to express your thoughts, emotions, and ideas through color, texture, and words. Whether you’re seeking a new artistic outlet or a mindful way to relax, this class will inspire you to connect with your inner artist. Join us and transform your blank pages into a masterpiece of self-expression!
Kit contains: Composition book or golden book for art journaling, selection of papers (painted, printed, text and tissue), assorted postcards/greeting card scraps and assorted stickers. Several found object painting tools, a sharpie, white gel pen and a disposable palette.
Supply list:
3-8 tubes/bottles of acrylic paint (can be craft or artist grade, any color scheme of your choice)
Set of 12-24 acrylic paint markers (can be any brand, sharpie creative markers, posca pens or any alternative that you can find on Amazon)
a brushable adhesive for collaging papers, i.e Mod Podge, Liquitex matte medium
A set of paint brushes of your choice, at least one flat brush for collaging
A pair of paper scissors
Optional: any of your favorite art supplies to play around with
Watercolor Batik
Apr 12th - Apr 26th, 2025 | Kerr Arts & Cultural CenterInstructor: Kandi Stimson
2 Saturdays: April 12 & 26
10:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
$100
Students should have some experience with watercolor.
Watercolor batik is the use of alternating layers of watercolor and hot wax on special Japanese rice paper. The final step is ironing off the wax to reveal the finished painting.
Supply list link will be emailed after registration.
Write Your Best Story!
Aug 22nd - Aug 23rd, 2025 | Kerr Arts & Cultural CenterInstructor: Johnnie Bernhard
August 22 & 23
10:30am - 3 pm
$180
Learn the essential skills to writing and publishing in a series of interactive craft classes designed for fiction writers. Each class will feature a fun assignment to jump start your creativity, while honing your writing skills.
The workshop is led by former teacher and journalist, Johnnie Bernhard, who is passionate about reading and writing. Her work(s) have appeared in Houston Style Magazine, The Mississippi Press, the international Word Among Us, The Texas Review, and the Cowbird-NPR production on small town America. She is the author of four books: A Good Girl (2017), How We Came to Be (2018), Sisters of the Undertow (2020), and Hannah and Ariela (2022). Each novel has won both state-wide and national honors.
Johnnie was chosen as a selected speaker in the 2020 TEDx Fearless Women Series. She also supports young writers through the Letters About Literature program with the Texas Center for the Book and the Write for Mississippi program. In 2021, she was named a teaching artist with Gemini Ink Writing Arts Center of San Antonio and the national TAP Summer Institute 2021. Johnnie enjoys teaching workshops for writing communities across the country.
For more information about Johnnie, visit her website at:
The Write Your Best Story workshop will be broken up into four sessions - a morning and afternoon session each day, with an hour break for lunch. The sessions are as follows:
Publish Your Story: learn the differences between traditional, self, and hybrid publishing. Vet a literary agent and a publishing company. Write a query letter and synopsis based on industry standards.
The Writing Process: Prewriting, Writing, and Revision. Learn how to jump start your creativity through the writing process. Writers will focus on prewriting activities using a graphic organizer, structuring a plot, and finalizing word count in the revision process.
Fiction and the Editing Process: learn the differences between developmental editing and copy editing. Writers will focus on eliminating unnecessary words and tightening the narrative pace of their writing.
Creating Fictional Characters Who Come Alive: the protagonist and antagonist who make readers turn the pages. Writers will focus on “fleshing out” characters in this step-by-step approach to character development.
Johnnie will have her books available for sale and signing after the workshop.