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Mural Painting (Ages 9-11)

January 21, 2025

Enjoy painting and want to paint big? Join us for a collaborative painting experience. We'll get inspired with a mural walk through the Fan neighborhood, then work both individually and together to create a large-scale painting that will be displayed at VisArts.

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Cat + Dog Creations (Ages 6-8)

January 21, 2025

Want to celebrate our furry friends? Our class for cat and dog creations is just the thing! Make a pet-inspired trinket dish with air-dry clay, or paint your own work of art inspired by works from famous artists who use animals as inspiration.

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From Dreams to Reality: Surreal Acrylic Paintings (Ages 9-11)

January 21, 2025

Explore surrealism through painting! Surrealist artwork is based on reality, but has been altered to be unreal. In this class, you'll learn how to take photographs, turn them into collages, and make acrylic paintings based on them, creating your own fantastical surrealist artwork.

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Dive into Watercolors (Ages 6-8)

January 21, 2025

Let's make colorful, wonderful, water-full paintings! Explore a unique watercolor technique that uses multiple applications of salt at different stages to produce beautiful rarely seen textures. Students can do amazing things with salt, paint, and water! This class is perfect for intuitive kids who like to get a little messy and play with materials to […]

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Get Bored + See What Happens (Ages 6-8)

January 21, 2025

If you just want to make your own stuff and be equipped with a bunch of supplies to do just that—this is the class for you! If you don’t even know what you want to make, that’s fine, too. The teacher will be there to help get you started with whatever you might be interested […]

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Watercolor Portraits (Ages 12-14)

January 21, 2025

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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Watercolor Wizardry: Painting Fantasy (Ages 6-8)

January 21, 2025

Bring mythical creatures and characters to life! Starting with historical figures and or characters from your favorite fantasy books and shows. You'll put your imagination to the test while learning the magical ways watercolor can contribute to developing these beautiful characters.

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Robot Art (Ages 6-8)

January 21, 2025

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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Mural Painting (Ages 12-14)

January 21, 2025

Enjoy painting and want to paint big? Join us for a collaborative painting experience. We'll get inspired with a mural walk through the Fan neighborhood, then work both individually and together to create a large-scale painting that will be displayed at VisArts.

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Gnome Homes + Fairy Gardens (Ages 6-8)

January 21, 2025

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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Giant Painting (Ages 6-8)

January 21, 2025

Paint in a really big way! Create life-sized self-portraits and work together to produce collaborative paintings. Leave with a giant treasure.

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Paint + Draw Underwater Scenes (Ages 6-8)

January 21, 2025

Dive into a vibrant underwater world and learn to draw all that lies beneath the sea! You’ll explore the magic of oil pastels and watercolors. Unleash your creativity as you create stunning seascapes filled with colorful marine life, flowing waves, and enchanting coral reefs.

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Scale It Up! Large Acrylic Painting (Ages 9-11)

January 21, 2025

Learn to create a large acrylic painting (18 x 24 in or bigger) of your chosen subjects. We will use grids, photo filters, and other cool tools to help us start these big works of art, and we will continue working on the painting over the week. This class will cover color mixing, brush types, […]

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Robot Art (Ages 6-8)

January 21, 2025

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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Dinosaur Art (Ages 6-8)

January 21, 2025

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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Watercolor Wizardry: Painting Fantasy (Ages 9-11)

January 21, 2025

Bring mythical creatures and characters to life! Starting with historical figures and or characters from your favorite fantasy books and shows. You'll put your imagination to the test while learning the magical ways watercolor can contribute to developing these beautiful characters.

read more

Gnome Homes + Fairy Gardens (Ages 6-8)

January 21, 2025

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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Experimental Watercolor (Ages 12-14)

January 21, 2025

This hands-on class is perfect for anyone who wants to explore the possibilities for self-expression in watercolor. In this class, we will play around with drip, wash, tilt, splatter, and splash techniques, and we'll discover how other materials can interact with the paint. We'll also talk about color theory, and students will learn about combining […]

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Paint + Sew: Make Your Own Leather Tote (Ages 12-14)

January 21, 2025

We will paint flower motifs on white vegan leather, precut in a tote bag shape. On the flat surface, we'll begin by sketching the flowers with pencil, and then we'll start painting using acrylic paints. We’ll apply several layers of paint until it's finished. While the paint dries, we’ll cut out the straps, inside lining, […]

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Paint + Sew: Make Your Own Leather Tote (Ages 9-11)

January 21, 2025

We will paint flower motifs on white vegan leather, precut in a tote bag shape. On the flat surface, we'll begin by sketching the flowers with pencil, and then we'll start painting using acrylic paints. We’ll apply several layers of paint until it's finished. While the paint dries, we’ll cut out the straps, inside lining, […]

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Artist-a-Day (Ages 6-8)

January 21, 2025

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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