Your Favorite Book Characters 7/6-10 Week 3
Think of the books you love. Who are the best characters? You can make them out of clay. What do they like to do and where does all the action happen? You can paint a cardboard mural of where they live, and the places they go. What are the vehicles, buildings and machines of their magic worlds? We have all the materials for all the fun.
Afternoon Art Adventure: Session A 7/6-10 Week 3
Dive into colorful art play using fun mixed materials. Students experiment, explore, and build confidence as they craft bright, whimsical projects from their own imagination.
Afternoon Artists 6/29-7/2 Week 2
Experiment with paint, collage, drawing, and a mix of playful materials to create lively, textured art. A fun, welcoming class where young artists can explore, imagine, and make something all their own!
Fairies, Gnomes, and Elves: Session A 6/29-7/2 Week 2
Come spend afternoons with the wee-winged folk! We will venture outdoors to collect natural materials to add to magical fairy and gnome houses, troll bridges, enchanted potions, magic wands, illuminated lanterns, clay figurines and fairy treasure boxes. Draw, paint, collage, glue and assemble with many types of art mixed media from nature, the craft bins, as well as repurposed and found objects. Come explore the other realms of the magical worlds around us and let your imagination and creativity fly!
Big Cutouts and Collage 6/29-7/2 Week 2
This class is all about the joy of Color, Shapes and Composition. Use scissors to ‘draw’ our own stories and ideas to arrange and rearrange, and glue to hold it together. Just using printed and magazine papers, real and imaginary scenes will appear – the tropics, a shopping trip, a jungle, new clothes, your house, big faces, or our pets! Collage and cut papers develop skills in color and design creativity.
Mixed Media Morning Crafts: Session A 6/22-26 Week 1
Explore creativity by combining paint, collage, drawing, and fun materials to make unique, textured artworks. A playful class for young artists of all skill levels!
Art Station 6/29-7/2 Week 2
Draw, paint, and collage what you choose with the support of the teacher and classmates. Air dry clay and textile materials will also be available. Learn how to enjoy your process and grow as an artist. Develop your skills, and maybe make a friend along the way.
Little Artists Clay Workshop: Session A 6/29-7/2 Week 2
Come explore all the varieties of clay! Students will be guided by the teacher regarding techniques and proposed projects, but will also have a chance to draft and explore their own ideas. We will incorporate mixed media into our various clay works, use paint, glazing, etching, stamping, and pressing techniques. We will also explore using clay armatures. If you love all things clay, this class is for you!
Magical Creatures 6/22-26 Week 1
Explore different mixed media to create story scenes, masks, clay beings, puppets, and more. We will draw, glue, assemble, mix colors, cut out forms and try different types of paints like; watercolors, acrylic and gouache. We will also explore texture, print-making and sketching techniques with paint pens, markers, charcoal, crayons, and scratch tools for sgraffito. Children will have opportunities to look at and be inspired by books and images from artists that have created many awesome imaginary creatures and come up with their own unique ones.
With Hands and Heart
In a turbulent and changing world, we can sometimes feel powerless. This workshop celebrates the impact each of us makes through our daily actions. Our hands are our hearts in action. We begin by tracing our hands with awareness of the gifts we offer and receive. Paint, draw, collage and decorate your hand art. Join hands into a book where you can write a message. How do your hands tell your story?