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Family Studio: ¡Celebramos Frida! Self Portraits + Dreams

July 09, 2024

Make art side-by-side as a family. Explore a new medium each week and create a beautiful project together. Frida Kahlo was inspired by all the good stuff in life: dreams, animals, nature, etc. Together the class will draw similar inspiration from our own lives to create one-of-a-kind self-portraits. Spanish speaking is encouraged!

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Family Studio: Watercolor Postcards + Greeting Cards

July 09, 2024

Make art side-by-side as a family, explore a new medium each week and create a beautiful project together. Art is most awesome when it is shared! Come join us for a morning designing and painting greeting cards and postcards. We'll have all supplies so you just need to stop by a mailbox on your way […]

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Family Studio: Shrinky-Dink Charms + Pendants

July 09, 2024

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 your own "Shrinky Dinks" to wear or share! From jewelry, to keychains, tiny ornaments, or pocket treasures- there are countless ways to have fun with shrink-art plastic and bring your drawings to […]

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Family Studio: Clay Animals: Lions + Tigers + Bears, oh my!

July 09, 2024

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: Air-Dry Clay Magnets for Your Fridge Art

July 09, 2024

Make art side-by-side as a family. Families will explore a new medium each week and create a beautiful project together. Clear the fridge and get the art out! Come to the clay studio and make and decorate tiles of clay shaped like animals, galaxies and other fun shapes. Decorate them and glue a magnet on […]

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Family Studio: Family Photographic Portraits

July 09, 2024

Make art side-by-side as a family, explore a new medium each week and create a beautiful project together. 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 create lasting […]

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Family Studio: Storytime + Printmaking

July 09, 2024

Make art side-by-side as a family, explore a new medium each week and create a beautiful project together. Get some wiggles out as we sing, dance, 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, students will […]

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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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Family Studio: Free InLight Workshop: Make a Lantern

July 09, 2024

Come and make art side by side as a family. Families will explore a new medium each week and create a beautiful project together. 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 free class you will be […]

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ONSITE: Family Studio: Sensory Art

April 02, 2024

Come and make art side by side as a family to explore a new medium each week and create a beautiful project together. We will make several touchable objects that will activate your senses as well as your creativity. Join us for a morning that is part science lab and part art studio as we […]

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ONSITE: Family Studio: Hand Weaving

April 02, 2024

Come and make art side by side as a family. Families will explore a new medium each week and create a beautiful project together. We will make colorful yarn decorations using just a handful of materials kids can easily repeat at home with the whole family. Come join in the fun!

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ONSITE: Family Studio: Creative Costumes: Crowns + Shields

April 02, 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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ONSITE: Family Studio: Mindful Mandala Making

April 01, 2024

Make art side by side as a family. exploring a new medium each week and creating a beautiful project together. Enjoy a mindful Saturday morning with simple breathing exercises, a brief movement practice and a creative mixed media Mandala-making workshop!

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ONSITE: Family Studio: Clay Animals: Lions + Tigers + Bears, oh my!

April 01, 2024

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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ONSITE: Family Studio: Creating with Clay: Airdry Trinket Bowls

April 01, 2024

Come and make art side by side as a family. Families will explore a new medium each week and create a beautiful project together. Get your hands in some mud by using air dry clay to make small bowls and plates. These pieces of art can hold all your little trinkets! You can take these […]

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ONSITE: Family Studio: Experimental Painting: Cosmic Skies

February 13, 2024

Come and make art side by side as a family. Families will explore a new medium each week and create a beautiful project together. 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 […]

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ONSITE: Family Studio: Making Beautiful Blue Cyanotypes Using Nature + Sunshine

February 13, 2024

Come and make art side by side as a family. Families will explore a new medium each week and create a beautiful project together. Cyanotypes are a simple but fun photographic process involving light-sensitive paper, natural objects, and the Sun! We will walk around the neighborhood to gather objects, then come back to VisArts to […]

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ONSITE: Family Studio: Create a Pillow Doll

February 13, 2024

Come and make art side by side as a family. Families will explore a new medium each week and 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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ONSITE: Family Studio: Clay Pinch Pots + Nature

February 13, 2024

Come and make art side by side as a family. Each week, families will explore a new medium and create a beautiful project together. Texture is found all around nature. We'll explore it in leaves, rocks, seashells, and sticks as we make pinch pots with air-dry clay.

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