Autumn Air Dry Clay: Animals & More
Come join the tactile fun of creating 3-dimensional clay animal sculptures, vessels, luminaries, boxes, castles, toad houses, 3-dimensional trees, and wind chimes. Children will explore methods to create fall animals such as birds, bats, owls, bugs, woodland animals, as well as mythical creatures! Students can explore their own ideas in clay and create all sorts of awesome beings and forms from the imagination. Young artists will learn how to work with high quality air-dry clay, by learning the techniques of slab, rolling, pinching, coiling, stamping. imprinting, joining, and carving patterns with special tools. We will finish our pieces with clay glaze paint and can embellish with a variety of mixed media such as beads, stones and shells.
Discover Silver Metal Clay Workshop
Silver Metal Clay looks and feels like clay, but is actually pure silver in an organic binder. Students will learn all the basic information and techniques for forming, surface texturing, firing, and finishing silver metal clay. Flush setting of lab grown gemstones will also be covered, and (optional) inexpensive stones can be purchased in class.
Great for beginners, jewelry students, clay artists, bead makers, and others! No previous jewelry making experience is required.
You will have the opportunity to finish and take home your unique pieces of fine silver jewelry. Come and discover the many design possibilities of this exciting material! Materials fee of $105.00 is payable to instructor at class and includes metal clay, use of tools, supplies and handouts.
Materials fee of $105.00 is payable to instructor at class and includes metal clay, use of tools, supplies and handouts.
Comics & Graphic Novelas for Teens
Interested in making comics or illustrated stories? Or maybe you've started a project but need dedicated time, motivation, and a creative community to help you complete it? This class will offer prompts and exercises for story writing, character design, and setting building, as well as flexible class time where you can choose what you work on. We'll get inspiration from a wide range of illustrators and graphic novelists, and we'll frequently share and discuss our projects with one another, collaborating to find playful solutions throughout our endeavors. Please note no class 9/29
Monster Party 8/11-15 Week 8
Make monster costumes (masks and hand coverings) using fibers and mixed
media. This will include learning how to make wire armatures and do wool felting techniques.
Students will also be able to watch (and try) how to process raw fleece (washing, carding,
dying). Finally, we will work on incorporating found objects into our sculptural costumes. In
between art-making sessions there will be lots of time to play and practice our monster dance
moves, growls, and roars!
Mini Masterpieces: An Artist a Day 7/21-25 Week 5
Students will discover a new master artist each day and explore their unique style through hands-on mixed media projects. From painting to collage, students will experiment with different techniques while learning art history!
Down on the Farm: Mixed Media 7/28-8/1 Week 6
Students will embark on a barnyard adventure using painting, collage, and other mixed media techniques to create adorable farm animals, rolling fields, and rustic landscapes.
Handbuilding with Clay: Ceramic Animal Art 8/4-8 Week 7
This class is about making art for humans and animals to enjoy! Participants will learn basic clay skills (hand building, using slump molds, glazing) and paper-making techniques to create 3 unique projects for pets and wild animals to play on, live in, and/or eat. In creating our sculptures students will learn a bit about animal habitat use and conservation in our local environment.
All About Kites 7/21-25 Week 5
We will use repurposed/recycled materials and our imaginations to build functional kites. Participants will learn how to make simple paper kites and some sewing and more advanced kite-building skills to build, paint, and decorate beautiful flying sculptures from recycled fabric, bamboo and bicycle spokes. We’ll also learn about kite-building traditions and celebrations from different cultures, and have some fun hand-building with air-dry clay to make and decorate some very fancy kite-string winders.
Art Of Africa Week Art Of Africa 7/21-25 Week 5
Students will learn about different artistic and cultural traditions throughout the continent of Africa and make a Wodaabe mirror pouch from Niger, paper beads from Egypt, A Kua-ba dolls from Ghana and much more.
Summer Botanicals: Mixed Media Collage
Students will use summer botanicals to create a variety of mixed media artworks. Students can work on paper and /or on 3 dimensional surfaces such as wood , glass, ceramic ,cardboard , recycled tin cans and other found objects. A variety of materials to explore will be provided such as; inks, acrylics, various glues, flowers ,leaves,grasses and different kinds of papers. Students may bring in ideas, materials ,images, and objects that interest them. If you like to experiment , recycle and summer botanicals , this class is for you! (Teens are welcome!)
I typically provide materials and ideas and examples. I foster students with encouragement and guidance and allow them to explore their own styles and inner intuitive artistic methods.
