MIDDLETOWN, Calif. – The Middletown Art Center’s Restore project provides Lake County residents with low-cost art classes and the opportunity to learn or refine skills in a variety of materials and techniques.

Classes take place most Saturdays through May 2019.

Classes include monthly writers workshop, alternating dry point etching, and block printing, and introductions to plaster, woodworking, felting, concrete, welding and more.

Late winter and spring classes will focus on a collaborative project for Phase I of a new Art Trail on Rabbit Hill, and on developing personal work for consideration for Restore exhibits around Lake County, at MAC, and at the EcoArts Sculpture Walk.

Restore classes will resume on Jan. 5 with printmaking, followed by writers workshop on Jan 12. The following weeks will be dedicated to mixed media and sculpture.

Preregister at www.middletownartcenter.org/restore.

Restore writing workshop participants will have the opportunity to contribute to MAC’s second chapbook of writings and images, and to participate in quarterly readings or exhibitions.

The first chapbook, “Resilience – a Community Reframes Disaster through Art,” is available for purchase at MAC or from the MAC Web site.

The Restore project was made possible with support from the California Arts Council, a state agency, with additional support from local organizations, businesses and individuals.

Visit www.ca.arts.gov to learn more about the California Arts Council’s important work in communities and schools throughout California.