The Marion Art Center is now accepting registrations for its winter/spring 2015 classes. The Marion Art Center is located at 80 Pleasant St. For more information, call 508-748-1266 or visit www.marionartcenter.org. Registration and payment for all classes except piano can be made online at www.marionartcenter.org.

Advanced watercolor painting
Taught by Fairhaven painter and Museum of Fine Arts Boston Gallery Instructor Jay Ryan, this course is a “next step” for those who would like to explore watercolor painting beyond a basic understanding of color and brush strokes. Using the nature of light and dark, the class will “push” the medium, adding other water media, brushes, and paper surfaces, and experiment with palette color mixing.

Each class will start a new painting using landscape, still life, the figure, abstract or imaginative thought, or narrative ideas as subjects. Each class will also provide a brief and supportive group critique. Students will leave with expanded knowledge of technique and traditional and contemporary use of watercolor.

The class runs Fridays, Jan. 23 to March 13, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. The cost is $175 for members and $190 for non-members. Materials are not included. The class must have five students to run.

Children’s Classes

Dance academy
The Marion Art Center is now accepting registrations for its winter/spring dance academy, lead by Paige Hiller for children three to six. Classes are held on Mondays and run for ten weeks. The spring session begins on Feb. 23 and focuses on choreography and recital performance. Students will be measured for recital costumes the first week. Costumes will run approximately $45 each.

To register and pay online, go to www.marionartcenter.org and click on “Register.”

Preschool (ages 3-4): The 30-minute class begins at 3 p.m. and involves ballet warm-up, jazz stretches, basic mat tumbling and basic tap steps. The fee is $145 for members and $160 for non-members. Children must be 3 years of age at the start of the session.

Beginner (ages 4-5): This 45-minute class involves ballet warm-up and barre, jazz stretches, beginner mat tumbling. The fee is $155 for members, $170 for non-members.

Intermediate (ages 5-6): Class is 45 minutes and involves advanced ballet warm-up, barre and adagio, tumbling, jazz stretches and combinations and tap combinations. The fee for the 10-week Session is $155 for Marion Art Center members and $170 for non-members.

Little People's Theatre (ages 6-9)
Each week Kim Teves will teach children basic theater craft through drama games, readers' theater and experience the fun of the stage while rehearsing for a small production to be performed the last week of each session. The fee for each six-week session is $80 for members and $95 non-members. The classes are Tuesday from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Each six-week session is $80 for members and $95 for non-members. The sessions are winter session 1 (Jan. 6 to Feb. 10,) winter session 2 (Feb. 24 to March 31) and spring session (April 30 to June 2.)

The deadline for winter session 1 Jan. 6.

Young People's Theatre (ages 10-14)
Kim Teves will lead the Young People’s Theatre on Thursdays from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Classes are for kids in grades four to eight. The 10-week winter/spring session program starts Jan. 8 and runs through March 19. The performance will be on Thursday, March 19.

Students will learn basic theater craft through improvisation exercises, theater games and the process of putting on a production through selection, rehearsal and production of a small show presented at the end of the session.

The winter session is Thursdays from Jan. 8 to March 19. The spring half session is April 30 to May 28.

Tuition is $170 for members and $185 for non-members. The deadline for registration is Jan. 8.

Preschool Piano (age 3-5)
On Friday mornings, Little Mozart’s Preschool Piano will hold 25-minute private lessons for ages 3 to 5. Lessons are designed to introduce children to the piano and to teach basic foundation skills to inspire an early appreciation for music.

Individual lessons place an emphasis on rhythm, finger position, music vocabulary, music notation, note reading and encourage overall fine motor development.

It is offered three times per year at the Marion Art Center for 10-week sessions during the fall (September to December,) winter/spring (January to April,) and summer (July to August.)

The cost is $20 per lesson and includes the music, materials and the recital.

Each session concludes with a short recital. Children may repeat sessions through age 5.

To reserve a lesson time contact Jamie Wiksten: jwiksten@verizon.net or 508-295-0379.

Preschool Piano (age 3-5)
On Friday mornings, Little Mozart’s Preschool Piano will hold 25-minute private lessons for ages 3 to 5. Lessons are designed to introduce children to the piano and to teach basic foundation skills to inspire an early appreciation for music.

Individual lessons place an emphasis on rhythm, finger position, music vocabulary, music notation, note reading and encourage overall fine motor development.

It is offered three times per year at the Marion Art Center for 10-week sessions during the fall (September to December,) winter/spring (January to April,) and summer (July to August.)

The cost is $20 per lesson and includes the music, materials and the recital.

Each session concludes with a short recital. Children may repeat sessions through age 5.

To reserve a lesson time contact Jamie Wiksten: jwiksten@verizon.net or 508-295-0379.

Saturday morning piano lessons
Piano lessons for beginners and intermediates are offered on Saturday mornings, by appointment only, with instructor Donald Richard. Richard has been teaching piano and trumpet since 1980.

The winter session begins Jan. 10 and runs until the end of the school year. To reserve a lesson time, call Donald Richard at 781-582-6273 or email him at don@javajiveband.com.