Thursdays, October 2-23, 2025

6:30-8:30pm

Catamount Arts Center 

Instructor: Cornelia Hasenfuss 

Have you ever wondered what all those buttons on your camera are? Do you want to learn about the camera functions on your cell phone? Get to know your camera better in this 4 week course. You might be making images on a traditional film camera, a digital camera, or your iPhone; with whatever you decide to bring to class, this course will help you get to know your camera’s tools and creative controls. Through guided weekly assignments we will review the basics of camera construction and proper exposure for your pictures.  Our final class will focus on editing and creating a mini-portfolio for you to better remember techniques and tools covered in the class.

Class fee: $90 (10% off for Catamount Arts members)

Registration deadline: October 1, 2025

Cornelia Hasenfuss has been making images and teaching photography for over 35 years. Trained at the Museum School in Boston and the Maine Photographic Workshops (now the Maine Media Workshops and College), she has worked as a photojournalist, wedding photographer, and collage artist. She helped develop and eventually ran the AP Photo program at the Waterford School in Sandy, Utah. She currently teaches skiing at Burke Mountain and photography through Catamount Arts. She lives in Peacham and is raising two teenagers with her husband and menagerie of animals. 

Thursdays, October 2-23, 2025

6:30-8:30pm

Catamount Arts Center

Instructor: Cornelia Hasenfuss

Have you ever wondered what all those buttons on your camera are? Do you want to learn about the camera functions on your cell phone? Get to know your camera better in this 4 week course. You might be making images on a traditional film camera, a digital camera, or your iPhone; with whatever you decide to bring to class, this course will help you get to know your camera’s tools and creative controls. Through guided weekly assignments we will review the basics of camera construction and proper exposure for your pictures.  Our final class will focus on editing and creating a mini-portfolio for you to better remember techniques and tools covered in the class.

Class fee: $100 (10% off for Catamount Arts members and high school students)

Registration deadline: October 1, 2025

Cornelia Hasenfuss has been making images and teaching photography for over 35 years. Trained at the Museum School in Boston and the Maine Photographic Workshops (now the Maine Media Workshops and College), she has worked as a photojournalist, wedding photographer, and collage artist. She helped develop and eventually ran the AP Photo program at the Waterford School in Sandy, Utah. She currently teaches skiing at Burke Mountain and photography through Catamount Arts. She lives in Peacham and is raising two teenagers with her husband and menagerie of animals. 

Sunday, October 12, 2025 (*raindate 10/13*)

1-4pm 

Instructor: Margaret Wiseheart (wiseheartist.com)

 Combine your love of nature and creativity through the practice of open air painting at Dog Mountain in St Johnsbury. Featuring meadows, distant vistas, a variety of trees and grasses, wooded areas, and buildings with autumnal backdrops, this scenic location is the perfect, peaceful place to learn the essentials of landscape painting.  

Plein air artist Margaret Wiseheart will guide both newbie and seasoned artists through both the practical matters of open air painting. Topics include the basics of working outdoors as well as the how-to’s of color mixing, hints for sound drawing, and helpful painting practices. 

Instruction is geared toward oil/acrylic painting, but artists may bring their medium of choice. A suggested supply list will be provided.  Easels may be reserved at registration. 

Restrooms and parking available. Note:  Students are responsible for their own transportation to location. 

Class fee: $60 (10% discount for Catamount Arts members). Space is limited to 8 students. Registration deadline: October 10.

Primarily a self-taught artist, Margaret Wiseheart has developed skills as a landscape oil painter by painting from life and direct observation. Originally from Bucks County PA, Margaret’s journey into oil painting began in 2013. Once bitten by the bug, Margaret began to immerse herself into the daily practice of oil painting, both indoors and out. Her painting style was quickly influenced, and continues to be, by the Pennsylvania Impressionists and the Hudson River Valley School of painters.

With a degree in fashion design and background as a dancer, Margaret has spent the most of her professional career in the dance apparel industry, and designing costumes for regional professional theatre and ballet companies.

Margaret is excited to shape the next phase of her life as an artist and teacher and happy to be associated with Catamount Arts, teaching summer and fall workshops. She currently is spending time in Philadelphia and taking continued ed classes in figurative and portraiture at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

Tuesdays, October 14 - November 18, 2025

6:30-8:30pm

Catamount Arts Center, 115 Eastern Avenue, St. Johnsbury

Instructor: William York Hyde

Would you like to have the poise and confidence that professional performers do?  By utilizing fun improv games, gentle acting exercises and a cross-over model of character development, this 6-week course will help participants to develop new life skills, gain more confidence and reveal, or improve, their latent acting abilities. The final class (hooray!) is an actual Vaudevillian stage revue of short plays and fun skits.  Several former students of this class are now active members of the St. J Players and the comedy troupe "You've Got To Be Kidding." If you’re a local performer or someone who just wants to gain a bit more confidence in public speaking, please come play with us.

Class fee: $150 (10% discount from Catamount Arts members and high school students). Catamount Arts is committed to offering quality arts experiences for all students, regardless of ability to pay; please call Anne at 802-748-2600 ext. 109 for information about scholarship funds.

William York Hyde, SAG-AFTRA member, has performed in movies, TV shows, radio broadcasts, commercials, voice-overs, and more than 130 stage productions.  Since settling in St. Johnsbury, William has taught acting classes for Catamount Arts, coached local high school actors, and founded a Vaudevillian comedy troupe, which performed at St. J Sparkles and First Night North, and is now booking future shows.  From coast to coast, from the Avant-garde to Shakespeare, from Renaissance Fairs to Broadway, William is keen to share his experiences and insights with curious, creative, and adventurous New Englanders.

Tuesdays, October 14 - November 18, 2025

6:30-8:30pm

Catamount Arts Center, 115 Eastern Avenue, St. Johnsbury

Instructor: William York Hyde

Would you like to have the poise and confidence that professional performers do?  By utilizing fun improv games, gentle acting exercises and a cross-over model of character development, this 6-week course will help participants to develop new life skills, gain more confidence and reveal, or improve, their latent acting abilities. The final class (hooray!) is an actual Vaudevillian stage revue of short plays and fun skits.  Several former students of this class are now active members of the St. J Players and the comedy troupe "You've Got To Be Kidding." If you’re a local performer or someone who just wants to gain a bit more confidence in public speaking, please come play with us.

Class fee: $135 (10% discount from Catamount Arts members and high school students). Catamount Arts is committed to offering quality arts experiences for all students, regardless of ability to pay; please call Anne at 802-748-2600 ext. 109 for information about scholarship funds.

William York Hyde, SAG-AFTRA member, has performed in movies, TV shows, radio broadcasts, commercials, voice-overs, and more than 130 stage productions.  Since settling in St. Johnsbury, William has taught acting classes for Catamount Arts, coached local high school actors, and founded a Vaudevillian comedy troupe, which performed at St. J Sparkles and First Night North, and is now booking future shows.  From coast to coast, from the Avant-garde to Shakespeare, from Renaissance Fairs to Broadway, William is keen to share his experiences and insights with curious, creative, and adventurous New Englanders.