Artists must rely on a keen visual aesthetic to accurately render the curve of a smile or the beveled edges of a Lego space station. Invoke inner artistry with today's Groupon for classes at Oak Park Art League. Choose between the following options:
- For $39, you get one glass-fusing class, which takes place on Sundays from 2 p.m. to 4p.m. (an $80 value).
- For $55, you get a two-session mosaic class, which takes place on Sundays from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. (a $120 value).
Nearly a century old history, Oak Park Art League has colored the community by cultivating and sharing the work of local artists through instruction and exhibitions. During a glass-fusing class, students acquaint themselves with the included materials with deep, ritualistic curtsies before instructors launch into a technical demonstration. Students choose from projects including an ornament, sun catcher, or free-form picture frame, and proud craft parents are free to tote their polished progeny home upon completion.
Mosaic-making classes require a slightly more intricate approach, necessitating instruction that stretches across a pair of two-hour sessions. Instead of haphazardly shattering glass with a well-flung snow boot, students learn to carefully break panes into a palette of reusable shards. Fragments are then reassembled in creative shapes on either an 8"x10" picture frame or as a wall mosaic.
Groupon Says
The Groupon Guide to: Mind vs. Body
Dualists such as René Descartes know that the mind and the body are separate entities. Here's a guide to determining which of these feuding halves you should turn to in a crisis:
The Situation: You need to cram all night for an important endocrinology exam.
Use Your Mind or Your Body? Your body. Spend the night tattooing the endocrine system's relevant diseases and secretions onto your upper torso, but leave enough room to tattoo the Constitution in case you decide to become a Supreme Court justice instead.
The Situation: One of Robert Frost's notebooks is trapped under a burning Chrysler LeBaron.
Use Your Mind or Your Body? Your mind. Refusing to lift the car off the notebook yourself will show the impotence of poetry.
The Situation: A bully kicks sand in your face.
Use Your Mind or Your Body? Neither. Instead of using your body to fight back or your mind to conjure up a clever retort, harness your sense of shame to detach your body's molecules from each other and dissipate into the ether.
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