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Piñata Party (Ages 6-8)

January 21, 2025

Create a paper-mâché piñata of your own! A piñata is an object made of paper that is decorated, filled with treats, and then broken open as a celebration. Mexican culture often use piñatas to celebrate a happy occasion. After you create your art, on the last day of class we will celebrate by smashing a […]

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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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Unicorns + Rainbows (Ages 6-8)

January 21, 2025

Unicorns and rainbows are perfect inspirations for fun, colorful, and magical art! We will draw adorable unicorns, paint rainbows of all kinds, and make whimsical creations like wands, crowns,  and dream catchers.

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Food Art Fun (Ages 6-8)

January 21, 2025

Explore different materials and processes in this class, while also making art about your favorite food. It's okay to play with your food in this class!

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3D Printing Miniature Worlds (Ages 12-14)

January 21, 2025

Blend technology, architecture, and creativity to bring to life a small-scale sculptural scene. Based in reality, culled from imagination, or a blend of both, students will sketch and design their own physical scene and use 3D printers to build their own reality piece by piece.

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

January 21, 2025

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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Out of This World: Science + Space Art (Ages 6-8)

January 21, 2025

This class will be packed with all the best parts of art camp plus some science lab added in to encourage curiosity and exploration. Weird and wonderful space facts will form the basis of learning. Projects will include watercolor galaxy painting, mixed-media rocket ships, and what space week would be complete without extra terrestrial 3D […]

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Piñata Party (Ages 6-8)

January 21, 2025

Create a paper-mâché piñata of your own! A piñata is an object made of paper that is decorated, filled with treats, and then broken open as a celebration. Mexican culture often use piñatas to celebrate a happy occasion. After you create your art, on the last day of class we will celebrate by smashing a […]

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Paper-Mâché: Make Your Own Hats + Helmets (Ages 9-11)

January 21, 2025

Get hat and helmet inspiration from your favorite shows, stories, or movies, or come up with your own designs. We'll draw, construct, paint, and finally wear our beautiful, monstrous, or fierce headwear together. Your creativity is the limit!

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

January 21, 2025

In this performing arts camp, everyone will work together to create a story and then perform it! First, students will brainstorm ideas, create their own characters, and build the group narrative. Next, students will develop their storytelling skills through theater games and movement activities. The emphasis will be on stage presence, confidence, facial expression, and […]

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3D Printing Miniature Worlds (Ages 9-11)

January 21, 2025

Blend technology, architecture, and creativity to bring to life a small-scale sculptural scene. Based in reality, culled from imagination, or a blend of both, students will sketch and design their own physical scene and use 3D printers to build their own reality piece by piece.

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

January 21, 2025

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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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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Sewn Sculpture (Ages 9-11)

January 21, 2025

Experiment with fabric and other fibers to create sculptural forms and transform clothing. Mark making will be explored through hand stitching and painting. Basic stitching and weaving will be covered. Students are welcome to incorporate other media and pieces of clothing for decoration and reconstruction.

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

January 21, 2025

In this performing arts camp, everyone will work together to create a story and then perform it! First, students will brainstorm ideas, create their own characters, and build the group narrative. Next, students will develop their storytelling skills through theater games and movement activities. The emphasis will be on stage presence, confidence, facial expression, and […]

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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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Tiny Tales: Storytelling + Puppets (Ages 6-8)

January 21, 2025

Discover puppets and toys from around the world as you create your own. Experiment with sculpture techniques and explore an exciting variety of art mediums. You'll collaborate on puppet shows and use your creativity to design playful, innovative creations.

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Mix It Up with Materials (Ages 6-8)

January 21, 2025

Explore a variety of art materials and techniques. Students will create unique compositions through drawing, collage, textiles, painting and sculpture. Walk away with a wide variety of art-making experiences!

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Small Metal Sculpture (Ages 12-14)

January 21, 2025

Create new works of art using found objects and wire! We'll use our hands and tools to bend, shape, and attach. As you create your sculpture, you'll choose from lots of discarded items like old jewelry, electronics, metals, plastics, stones, beads, cloth, wood and more.

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Customizing Action Figures (Ages 9-11)

January 21, 2025

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

January 21, 2025

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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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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3D Cardboard Maker Studio (Ages 6-8)

January 21, 2025

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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