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Create Your Own Board Game (Ages 9-11)

January 24, 2023

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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Art Explorers (Age 5)

January 24, 2023

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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Superhero Adventure Studio (Ages 6-8)

January 24, 2023

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 exploring ideas and materials and encourage experimentation.

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Nature Inspired Art (Ages 6-8)

January 24, 2023

Gather flowers, leaves, rocks, sticks, and more to create art inspired by the great outdoors! Each day we'll go on an adventure to find materials for a project. From luminaries to dying fabric, we will explore conservation, the beauty of nature and the different ways we can interact with it.

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Artist-a-Day (Ages 6-8)

January 24, 2023

Each day, we'll learn about a new artist and the medium in which they work. We will think about why artists make art and what makes you an artist! Which causes are important to you? What inspires you? Have fun and explore art-making processes and concepts with inspiration from those who came before us.

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Robot Art (Ages 6-8)

January 24, 2023

In this class, we will be drawing and making robots: robot drawings, paintings, cardboard robots, puppets, comics, pom pom and pipe cleaner robots! Giant ones, tiny ones, silly ones—robots with mustaches. Collage robots? Robots made out of sticks? Yes and yes. Robot Art Class will emphasize letting loose our imaginations and having fun with a […]

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Gnome Homes + Fairy Gardens (Ages 6-8)

January 24, 2023

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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Create Your Own Board Game (Ages 12-14)

January 24, 2023

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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Art Explorers (Age 5)

January 24, 2023

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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Customizing Action Figures (Ages 6-8)

January 24, 2023

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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Cat + Dog Creations (Ages 6-8)

January 24, 2023

There are a million ways to get your ideas from your brain and onto paper but how about from brain to screen? Procreate is an easy-to-use digital illustration program that gives you the freedom to dream up and create exactly what you want with no bounds! In this course, we’ll learn the different aspects of […]

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ONSITE: Arctic Animals (Ages 6-8)

November 07, 2022

Let’s travel to the frigid arctic from the comfort of our heated classroom to learn all about the animals and ecosystem! We’ll be exploring various mediums including painting, drawing, sculpture, and collage to create our icy animals.

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ONSITE: Family Studio: Make a Snow Globe

November 07, 2022

Come and make art side by side as a family. Families will explore a new medium each week and create a beautiful project together. In this class you'll create your own world in a snow globe out of recycled & found items!

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ONSITE: Mixed-Media Art Exploration (Ages 6-8)

November 07, 2022

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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ONLINE: Continuing Journaling for Artists, Writers + Photographers

April 15, 2022

This course is designed for anyone interested in the techniques and development of visual journaling. We'll review the contributions of visual diarists such as Dan Eldon and Frida Kahlo. Each session will begin with a short presentation on a visual diarist, technique or significant artist with follow up time for guidance, feedback and group discussion.

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ONSITE: Self-Publish Your Ideas: Zines, Comics, Books + More! (Ages 15–18)

April 15, 2022

What do you want to share with the world? Whether you write, draw, collage, or something else entirely, you can learn to self-publish your 2D talents. Together we will learn the basics of self-publishing, bookmaking and reproducing work. Individual projects will be tailored to each students' interests. We will work together to develop your unique […]

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ONSITE: Mixed-Media Mold Casting

April 14, 2022

Learn how to make and cast clay molds in plaster, use plaster sculpting tools, create alginate molds, and incorporate mixed media into the mold casting process. Plan to create a wall hanging or freestanding plaster sculpture, and leave with the skills to pursue your own at-home casting projects.

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ONSITE: Ceramic + Fiber Dolls

April 13, 2022

Learn how to make your own unique porcelain doll with a fiber body. We will start with a discussion about the history of dolls and dollmaking to help you start working on your own designs. We'll cover figure modeling on a small-scale using porcelain. Then we'll learn learn simple, soft, doll-part fabrication using fabric pattern […]

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ONSITE: 3-D Cardboard Maker Studio (Ages 6-8)

April 08, 2022

In this studio class, we will focus on the experience of building with cardboard. We'll imagine, design, and create a variety of things like buildings, vehicles, and more. We will also work together to build one incredible collaborative structure as we expand our skills and explore many creative uses for cardboard.

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ONSITE: Superhero Adventure Studio (Ages 6-8)

April 08, 2022

Superhero adventure studio is where participants get to plan, create, investigate and refine their art making processes. Tinkering is the starting point of invention so in this studio art experience we will make our own superhero adventures by making and using action figures, costumes, masks, storybooks, and more!

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ONSITE: Family Studio: Colors of the Wheel

February 06, 2022

Come and make art side by side as a family. Families will explore a new medium each week and create a beautiful project together. Let's explore the color wheel to show the relationships between colors and how we see color. We will discover how Vincent Van Gogh experimented with complementary colors on the color wheel. […]

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ONSITE: Family Studio: When Art Moves

February 06, 2022

Come and make art side by side as a family. Each week, families will explore a new medium and create a beautiful project together. Meet Alexander Calder the man who made art move with his playful mobiles. We will explore how he created the balancing acts of his creative mobiles that usually have one or […]

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ONSITE: Family Studio: Bees, Birds + Butterflies, Oh My!

February 06, 2022

Come and make art side by side as a family. Each week, families will explore a new medium and create a beautiful project together. This is the perfect time of the year to learn about pollinators. We will discover the importance of pollinators through hands-on activities, story time, and a walk through the community to […]

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