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Family Studio: Self-Portraits: Signs + Symbols of Basquiat – New!

October 30, 2025

Make art side-by-side as a family! Together you will explore a new medium each week and create a beautiful project. Young artist will learn about graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. We will discover and explore symbolism in Basquiat’s work. This class will be filled with creativity through self-expression inspired by Basquiat. We will create fun self-portraits, […]

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Family Studio: Life-Sized Family Portraits – New!

October 30, 2025

Make art side-by-side as a family! Together you will explore a new medium each week and create a beautiful project. Trace each family member's body and fill in their figure with the things you love most about them. Give each other a cool hairstyle and fun accessories. Fill each others' bellies up with pictures of […]

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Family Studio: Valentine’s Day Collage Cards – New!

October 30, 2025

Make art side-by-side as a family! Together you will explore a new medium each week and create a beautiful project. Tell all your loved ones how much you care for them with a fun collage exploration that you can gift to them. Cut papers into many different shapes and play with different art concepts like […]

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Family Studio: Family Photographic Portraits

October 30, 2025

Make art side-by-side as a family! Together you will explore a new medium each week and create a beautiful project. Join us for a heartwarming workshop experience where you and your child will take turns being photographer and model! Tailored for both kids and parents, this interactive workshop will guide you and your child to […]

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Family Studio: Experimental Painting: Cosmic Skies

October 30, 2025

Make art side-by-side as a family! Together you will explore a new medium each week and create a beautiful project. Experiment with process art painting (i.e. use a salad spinner for spin-art) and watercolor techniques (dry brush, splatter, wet on wet, etc) to make cosmic painted skies. Use contact paper and collage materials to create […]

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Family Studio: Marbled Paper + Bubble Prints

October 30, 2025

Make art side-by-side as a family! Together you will explore a new medium each week and create a beautiful project. In this class we'll learn unique ways to make beautiful paper that can become prints, cards, envelopes and more! We'll use shaving cream and liquid watercolors to create marbled paper prints and use a straw […]

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Family Studio: Using Familiar + Unfamiliar Tools to Make Art – New!

October 30, 2025

Make art side-by-side as a family! Together you will explore a new medium each week and create a beautiful project. Your young artist will paint, play, and explore with unique materials to create an abstract masterpiece. We will be painting with no brushes. This class is filled with adventure, exploration, and creativity, and there will […]

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Family Studio: FREE! InLight Lantern Making Workshop with 1708 Gallery!

September 10, 2025

Come make a lantern with 1708 Gallery at The Visual Arts Center of Richmond on October 5 from 1 to 3 pm for George Ferrandi's Super! Giant! Jump! Star! 1708 Gallery’s InLight happening on October 17 +18 at Abner Clay Park. This public exhibition of contemporary art designed to be experienced at night will feature […]

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Family Studio: Clay Animals: Lions + Tigers + Bears, Oh My!

July 06, 2025

Make art side by side as a family. exploring a new medium each week and create a beautiful project together. Get messy with us and spend your morning creating little critters out of air dry clay. Form a mound of clay to look like a real life animal or a creature born of your imagination! […]

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Family Studio: Ink Painting Installation

July 06, 2025

Come and make art side by side as a family. Families will explore a new medium each week and create a beautiful project together. Create goofy ink creatures with extreme emotions and have a little photoshoot around town with your artwork! Families that enjoy being interactive and silly together will love this class.

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Family Studio: Shrinky Dink Party!

July 06, 2025

Make art side-by-side as a family! Each week, you will explore a new medium to create a beautiful project together. Have fun with the whole family by making cool sculptures, keychains, and magnets with Shrinky Drinks. Use colored pencils and a special type of plastic paper to make personalized drawings, then cook them in the […]

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Family Studio: Mixed Media Puppets

July 06, 2025

Make art side-by-side as a family exploring a new medium each week to create a beautiful project together. Mixed media puppets: Make a family of puppets and work together to write a plot for a play you could perform!

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Family Studio: Create a Pillow Doll

July 06, 2025

Make art side-by-side as a family! Each week, you will explore a new medium to create a beautiful project together. Work together to create a stuffed pillow doll. Use fabric markers, fabric, stuffing, and your imagination to create a doll!

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Family Studio: Spooky Silhouettes

July 06, 2025

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

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Family Studio: World of Shapes

July 06, 2025

Make art side-by-side as a family! Each week, you will explore a new medium to create a beautiful project together. Shapes are found everywhere, and artists have always used shapes to express movement, feelings, people, and places. We will observe artist's work by Piet Mondrian, Henri Matisse, Alma Thomas, and others who were inspired by […]

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Family Studio: Build a Clay World

July 06, 2025

Make art side-by-side as a family! Each week, you will explore a new medium to create a beautiful project together. Build a world of your own out of clay and add in other fun mixed media elements like beads, feathers, glitter glue, and more! Make these worlds special by exploring a theme like banana world, […]

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Family Studio: Scratch It Out!

July 06, 2025

Make art side-by-side as a family! Each week, you will explore a new medium to create a beautiful project together. Families will make their own scratch art while learning about Charles Henry Alston. He’s known for creating bold colors in his artwork by scraping the surfaces of the paint with a variety of tools. We'll […]

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Family Studio: Storytime + Printmaking

April 02, 2025

Make art side-by-side as a family exploring a new medium each week to create a beautiful project together. Get some wiggles out as we sing, dance, and listen to a story and create art prints. Experience the joy of creating multiple pieces of art from one image. Using craft foam as a printing block, you'll […]

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Family Studio: Magical Mark Making

April 02, 2025

Make art side-by-side as a family exploring a new medium each week to create a beautiful project together. Explore various materials to create a magical mark making canvas. This will be a hands-on experimentation with different colors, textures, shapes, and form with a mixed-media approach. Be warned: This will be a messy class.

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Family Studio: Textures, Patterns + Nature Art

April 02, 2025

Make art side-by-side as a family exploring a new medium each week to create a beautiful project together. Texture and patterns can be found in nature, and we will have fun on our urban nature walk looking for them. In the studio we will use some of the natural treasures found on our walk and […]

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Family Studio: Home A Gnome in Clay

April 02, 2025

Make art side-by-side as a family exploring a new medium each week to create a beautiful project together. These magical little creatures make the best addition to summer gardens! We will use air dry clay, upcycled materials, and our imaginations to create charming garden statues that the plants and bees with love.

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Family Studio: Drumroll Please…DIY Musical Instruments

April 02, 2025

Make art side-by-side as a family exploring a new medium each week to create a beautiful project together. Our young creatives will make sweet music with DIY instruments we make in the art studio. We will have fun making and decorating a variety of shakers and drums that can be taken home at the end […]

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Family Studio: Alebrijes: Mexican Folk Art of Magical Creatures

April 02, 2025

Make art side-by-side as a family exploring a new medium each week to create a beautiful project together. Let's create Alebrijes together! Alebrijes are beautifully crafted creatures traditionally made by skilled artisans in Mexico. They can be colorful and fantastical beings or made in the image of a real life special pet that is close […]

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Family Studio: CATurday Art

April 02, 2025

Make art side-by-side as a family exploring a new medium each week to create a beautiful project together. Join catlady, Stephanie Morse An for a morning full of puuurrrrfectly fun art projects inspired by our furry little companions. These crafts will include mixed media work and wearable art.

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Family Studio: Playing With Paper

April 02, 2025

Make art side-by-side as a family exploring a new medium each week to create a beautiful project together. Paper is the ultimate open-ended art medium. You can glue it, cut it, paint it, draw on it, and there’s so many types of paper. Artists like Henri Matisse, Romare Bearden, and Alma Thomas created magnificent masterpieces […]

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