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Cyanotypes: Create Photographic Art with Light (Ages 12-14)

January 23, 2024

Create photographic art with sunlight! Learn the simplistic process of making beautiful cyan-blue prints using the light of the sun. From coating paper or fabric to selecting your own personal objects such as leaves and flowers, we'll teach you the process of creating cyanotypes from start to finish.

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Woodburning (Ages 12-14)

January 23, 2024

Wood-burning, also known as pyrography, is a versatile medium that allows you to create stunning works of art on wood surfaces using heated tools. Students will learn the basics and how to safely create with a hot tool, and create a torched piece of art to bring home off of a wood slice.

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Expressive Soft Sculpture (Ages 12-14)

January 23, 2024

Students will learn to hand and machine sew, dye fibers with fiber-reactive dyestuffs, and embroider with floss and yarn to create soft sculptures. Students will explore the relationship between medium and concepts to create layered works that express their ideas.

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Art Explorers (Age 5)

January 23, 2024

Let's explore art-making! Create eclectic 2D and 3D art collections using clay, wire, fabric, paint or other materials. Our smallest artists can sign up for multiple weeks of classes and always have new projects to create!

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Frame Weaving (Ages 9-11)

January 23, 2024

Learn about the ancient tradition of weaving and look at contemporary artists using the process to make art. We'll experiment with different kinds of weaving and push the envelope to explore the medium.

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Art Explorers (Age 5)

January 23, 2024

Let's explore art-making! Create eclectic 2D and 3D art collections using clay, wire, fabric, paint or other materials. Our smallest artists can sign up for multiple weeks of classes and always have new projects to create!

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Soft Sculpture (Ages 9-11)

January 23, 2024

Learn to sew, crochet, and needle-felt your own soft sculptures! After learning the basics, we will design and fabricate your own creations.

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Installation Art: Clouds Everywhere all at Once (Ages 6-8)

January 23, 2024

Make mini installations of raining clouds complete with parting sun rays and rainbows all over Visarts! We will shape and mold clouds with a new material every day while reading fun fantastical tales about clouds and adventures! Learn new skills using a variety of materials and make themselves into cloud adventurers. Share your tale through […]

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Watercolor Portraits (Ages 12-14)

January 23, 2024

Learn to paint the human face! Beginner to advanced, all skill levels welcome. We will be practicing watercolor portraiture from an accessible approach focusing on the primary colors and basic techniques. 

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Wearable Art: Become a Bug (Ages 6-8)

January 23, 2024

Play with cardboard, paint and sewing textures while learning all about bugs! We'll create wereable art and costumes. Let's attach giant legs and move around the hallways eating aphids and visiting flowers. Each student will pick out their bug and collect all sorts of information about it. Does your bug have hair on its legs? […]

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Drawing 101 (Ages 6-8)

January 23, 2024

Want a giant pet or an impossibly huge shoe? Make one! Paste, newspaper, cardboard and wire—that’s just about all you need to explore the world of papier-mâché and make big sculptures. Work hard, have lots of fun, get really messy and end up with the most amazing sculpture you've ever made!

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Stained Glass (Ages 12-14)

January 23, 2024

Embrace your love of color by learning to make stained glass. You'll select and design stained glass patterns, then cut, grind, clean, foil and solder your creation using the copper foil technique and lead-free solder. Beginners will complete a simple suncatcher and more experienced students will explore more advanced designs. Students in the 9-11 age group […]

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Clay Creations (Ages 6-8)

January 23, 2024

In this class, it's okay to play with your food! Learn to handbuild with clay to make clay models of your favorite foods. Students will use air-dry clay and paint them so you can take your food home at the end of class on Friday!

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Customizing Action Figures (Ages 6-8)

January 23, 2024

Make action figures out of discarded toys and parts! We will be using parts of existing toys to alter, reassemble and make unique creations. We will be upcycling and sculpting additional parts out of clay and whatever else we can find! Bring your own toy parts or use ours!

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Big Paper, Tiny Details (Ages 9-11)

January 23, 2024

In this class we will work continuously to fill a big piece of paper with tiny details. We will practice drawing and painting techniques on paper with pencils, pens, ink, and watercolor. Each artist will choose a guiding theme to inspire their artmaking. We will exercise patience and persistence leading to the ultimate reward: how […]

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Create a Clay Zoo (Ages 6-8)

January 23, 2024

Create animals figurines and animal pots out of clay. Use pinching, slab construction and coil-building techniques to make the animal features and forms. Create vases shaped like fish, bird pitchers and more. Together, we’ll create a clay zoo!

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Art Explorers (Age 5)

January 23, 2024

Let's explore art-making! Create eclectic 2D and 3D art collections using clay, wire, fabric, paint or other materials. Our smallest artists can sign up for multiple weeks of classes and always have new projects to create!

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Digital Photography (Ages 12-14)

January 23, 2024

Learn how a digital camera works, how to import photos to computers and how to use Adobe Photoshop to edit. Go on field trips around the neighborhood to take photos, and enjoy demonstrations, hands-on practice and detailed overviews on composition and creative decision-making. Students must also have permission to go on walking field trips around […]

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Art Explorers (Age 5)

January 23, 2024

Let's explore art-making! Create eclectic 2D and 3D art collections using clay, wire, fabric, paint or other materials. Our smallest artists can sign up for multiple weeks of classes and always have new projects to create!

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Write On! (Ages 12-14)

January 23, 2024

This class is all about writing! Tap into the power of your imagination and memories to draw inspiration for creative writing. We'll transform an ordinary composition book into a writer's notebook and use it to write about personal experiences, interesting characters, memorable places, and more. Each class will include a combination of fun short activities […]

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Stained Glass (Ages 12-14)

January 23, 2024

Embrace your love of color by learning to make stained glass. You'll select and design stained glass patterns, then cut, grind, clean, foil and solder your creation using the copper foil technique and lead-free solder. Beginners will complete a simple suncatcher and more experienced students will explore more advanced designs. Students in the 9-11 age group […]

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Learn to Knit (Ages 9-11)

January 23, 2024

Who doesn't love the idea of knitting a horse, unicorn, or other four-legged friends? With plain or fancy stitches, they'll be as unique as you are. We'll provide the knitting needles and yarn for you!

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Look at Me! Self Portraits (Ages 6-8)

January 23, 2024

During this week-long class we will explore the ways in which we can express who we are through our art! We will do traditional self-portraits using drawing and painting techniques, but will also expand our idea of what this genre can be through mosaic and paper arts, clay and sculpture, paper mache, and even word […]

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