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Family Studio: Abracadabra! Make Magical Wands

November 03, 2024

Make art side-by-side as a family. Explore a new medium each week and create a beautiful project together. We'll craft our own wands to take home, but the magic doesn't stop there. Come and join to find out what other crafts are in store!

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Drawing + Mixed Media (Ages 9 – 11)

November 03, 2024

Students will learn drawing techniques and skills using various media: pencil, color pencil and blenders, ink, chalk pastel, oil pastel, watercolor pencils, scratchboard, and gelli plates.

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Mixed Media Ceramics: Clay + Beading

November 03, 2024

In this course, you will discover the process of planning and creating mixed media artworks incorporating ceramics and beading. Over the course of eight weeks, we will start by brainstorming project concepts, followed by crafting the ceramic components in the first four weeks. Subsequently, over the next four weeks, we will delve into various beading […]

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Family Studio: Creative Costumes: Crowns + Shields

November 03, 2024

Come make art side-by-side as a family, exploring a new medium each week to create a beautiful project together. We will activate our imaginations to create our own crowns and shields, every piece unique and drawing inspiration from upcycled materials we have available. Post-workshop play is highly encouraged!

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Mixed-Media Art Exploration (Ages 6-8)

July 09, 2024

In this workshop we will explore materials and media as we create drawings, paintings, small sculptures, books, prints and more. With the lens of creativity and experimentation we will gain skills in a variety of media and try out new techniques.

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Short Story Writing with Mixed Media Collage (Ages 9-11)

July 09, 2024

This short story writing + collage workshop will pair writing exercises and mixed media collage projects that deepen our understanding of the subject matter and highlight the ways in which storytelling is both a written and visual endeavor. Each student completes the class with new ideas, a completed short story and a work of art […]

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Photo Transfer Collage (this class is only offered once a year)

July 09, 2024

We'll use a simple photo transfer technique to create the groundwork for a beautiful mixed media piece. Just come with a few photos you'd like to work with and all other materials will be provided. By the end of this session you'll feel comfortable recreating this technique at home.

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Family Studio: Spooky Silhouettes

July 09, 2024

Make art side-by-side as a family, explore a new medium each week and create a beautiful project together. Learn to paint dramatic sunset backgrounds using liquid watercolor paints and incorporate silhouettes of your favorite autumn/Halloween items (such as creaky trees, haunted houses, bats, owls, ghosts, and goblins). Silhouettes will be made using a variety of […]

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Rainbows, Rainbows Everywhere! (Ages 6-8)

January 23, 2024

Calling all rainbow lovers! During this week-long class, we will make rainbows out of anything and everything, from string art to print-making, mosaics to sculpture, we will celebrate the many arts and crafts techniques we can use to celebrate the joy that rainbows bring!

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Let’s Tell a Tale: Creative Storytelling (Ages 6-8)

January 23, 2024

Creative storytelling is at the heart of this class. We will work together as a class to build a story ready for performance. We'll brainstorm ideas, create characters, and build the storyline with dialogue. The second part of the class incorporates theater games and movement activities to develop storytelling skills. Emphasis will be on stage […]

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Superhero Adventure Studio (Ages 6-8)

January 23, 2024

We will make our own superhero adventures by making and using action figures, costumes, masks, storybooks, and more! Plan, create, investigate and refine your art-making processes. We'll start with tinkering and exloring ideas and materials and encourage experimentation.

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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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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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Wearable Art (Ages 6-8)

January 23, 2024

Discover various ways to create your own wearable aesthetic. We'll make wearable art such as masks, headpieces, adornment and costumes. You'll learn about individuality and self-representation through a variety of projects that focus on defining your own personality, style or interests.

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Create Your Own Board Game (Ages 12-14)

January 23, 2024

Create your very own board game to play with friends and family! We'll share ideas about our favorite games, play some games together, and design our own game boards and pieces. You'll leave this class with your own one-of-a-kind board game, as well as ideas for several different games you can play with it.

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Collaborative Collage Murals (Ages 9-11)

January 23, 2024

Let’s explore working big! Learn about designing a large scale composition and layering mixed media with your friends. Campers will work together in small groups to design and assemble a mural that can be taken apart so each artist can take a piece home at the end of the week.

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Superhero Adventure Studio (Ages 6-8)

January 23, 2024

We will make our own superhero adventures by making and using action figures, costumes, masks, storybooks, and more! Plan, create, investigate and refine your art-making processes. We'll start with tinkering and exloring ideas and materials and encourage experimentation.

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Thrift Store Puppets (Ages 9-11)

January 23, 2024

This class is a great way for kids to learn how to work within a budget to create a completely unique puppet from objects and fabric found at the thrift store on Visarts’ same block! This class helps give kids agency in making their own choices for their sculpture while making things silly and fun.

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Yoga + Mixed Media Color Exploration (Ages 6-8)

January 23, 2024

Explore the joys of colors and yoga! Students will learn the basics of yoga, explore the color wheel, and how certain colors correlate to emotions and sensations in the body. We will practice yoga in the garden, color, draw, paint and tie-dye to explore the full spectrum of the rainbow and the range of emotions […]

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Installation Art: Life in the Pond (Ages 6-8)

January 23, 2024

Work together to create an interactive pond outdoors, complete with artistic fish, water, and origami lotuses. Let your imagination run wild to create your own beautiful watery world out of paper and other simple art materials!

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Gnome Homes + Fairy Gardens (Ages 6-8)

January 23, 2024

Make whimsical small worlds with a variety of materials like clay, collage, paint, natural materials, even shrinky dinks. Keep your creation indoors or bring components of it outdoors to your own garden. We'll also make some fun garden art to help lure gnomes and fairies into your garden.

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Dinosaur Art (Ages 6-8)

January 23, 2024

Journey millions of years into the past as we make dinosaurs utilizing various artistic media. Students will draw, paint, collage and sculpt to create their prehistoric creatures.

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