Bicentennial Art Center is happy to announce our new All Levels Handbuilding class taught by Kat Bertram. Find your inner creativity through clay using handbuilding techniques: pinch, coil, slab, soft additive & subtractive construction. All levels of experience welcome. 



Class times and dates.

July 22 - August 26 9:00am - Noon

July 22 - August 26 1:00pm - 4:00pm

September 09 - October 18 9:00am - Noon

September 09 - October 18 1:00pm - 4:00pm

October 14 - November 18 9:00am - Noon 

October 14 - November 18 1:00pm - 4:00pm

Kat's academic background includes a master's degree in Japanese art history, which informs her ceramics practice and deepens her understanding of Japanese and Asian ceramics across various periods. Specializing in hand-built sculptural pieces, Kat loves working with porcelain and other plastic clays. Her creations often feature intricate flowers, dragons, and Japanese-themed motifs.

Tuesday, September 10, 6:30 p.m. – 8 p.m.

A guitar, harmonica blues duo playing the timeless music of Howling Wolf, Junior Wells, Sonny Boy Williamson, John Mayall and so much more, including tasty original music.

Mission Viejo Library

Thursday, October 24, 6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m.

Join us for a reenactment of the historic, somewhat infamous original October 1938 broadcast adapted from H.G. Wells’s novel. So realistic to the listening audience, the broadcast created a panic. Join us if you dare.

Mission Viejo Library

“In an extremely chaotic age, creating music silences the external noise and allows the self to communicate to others what is hidden within. The world needs more musicians.”

Aaron Clementi is a native of Colorado and has been playing and teaching guitar in the local area for almost 25 years. Aaron developed a heavily diverse background and deep theoretical base while acting as a guitar player for the United States Air Force Band during the ’90s. Since then, he has continued playing with local groups and began teaching students on an individual basis.

“Music is an incredibly personal thing, and being able to pass that knowledge on to future generations and watch them create something new out of it is the definition of creativity.”

Aaron teaches many different styles, including blues, country, jazz, rock, classical, bluegrass, and genres from the ’50s through the 2000s. Musicians such as Stevie Ray Vaughan, Eric Clapton, Eddie Van Halen, Vince Gill, Wes Montgomery, Eric Johnson, and Nile Rodgers are major influences that have shaped both his playing and teaching styles.