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ONSITE: Family Studio: Mindful Mandala Making

February 13, 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: Celebrate Spring with Tissue Paper Stained Glass

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. Use tissue paper and markers to create 'stained glass' decorations to welcome Spring and longer daylight hours. We will look at some natural seasonal inspiration and use simple materials to create […]

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ONSITE: Family Studio: Ink Painting Installation

November 06, 2023

Come and make art side by side as a family. Families will explore a new medium each week and create a beautiful project together. Young artists will discover the appeal of inkblots. Like snowflakes, there are no two alike. By making random marks like drips, drops, splats with ink and folding it all together. This […]

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ONSITE: Family Studio: Marbled Paper + Bubble Prints

November 06, 2023

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 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 […]

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ONSITE: Family Studio: Inkblots: Drip, Splat, Fold + Squish!

November 06, 2023

Come and make art side by side as a family. Families will explore a new medium each week and create a beautiful project together. Young artists will discover the appeal of inkblots. Like snowflakes, there are no two alike. By making random marks like drips, drops, splats with ink and folding it all together. This […]

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ONSITE: Family Studio: Clay Animals: Lions + tigers + bears, oh my!

November 06, 2023

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: Heart Art: Experimental Painting

November 06, 2023

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 hearts) watercolor techniques (dry brush, splatter, wet on wet, etc) to make painted hearts of all sorts. Use contact […]

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

November 06, 2023

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: Playing with Paper

November 06, 2023

Make art side-by-side as a family, to create a beautiful project together. Young artists will explore working with rice paper, creating organic shapes with construction paper, and experimenting with tissue paper.

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ONSITE: Family Studio: The Art of Nature

July 11, 2023

Come and make art side by side as a family. Families will explore a new medium each week and create a beautiful project together. Nature and art go together. Artists past and present have used nature as an inspiration in their artwork, and all the colors they used can be found in nature. We’ll explore […]

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ONSITE: Family Studio: The Art of Nature

July 11, 2023

Come and make art side by side as a family. Families will explore a new medium and create a beautiful project together. Let’s explore and experiment with various art mediums. Each family member will have the opportunity to work with unconventional and open-ended materials to create a unique abstract masterpiece.

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ONSITE: Family Studio: Cut Paper Paintings

July 11, 2023

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 nature-inspired artwork with collage and other cut paper techniques, to create a picture that pops off the page!

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

July 11, 2023

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: Free InLight Workshop: Make a Lantern

July 11, 2023

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: Life-Sized Family Portraits

July 11, 2023

Come and make art side by side as a family. Families will explore a new medium each week and create a beautiful project together. Make creative, large-scale portraits of your family that show what you love about each other!

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ONSITE: Family Studio: Shrinky Dink Jewelry Charms

July 11, 2023

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 unique pieces of jewelry or keychains by making your own plastic charms. Shrinky dinks are a fun materials where artists can create drawings on plastic, then shrink them in the […]

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ONSITE: Family Studio: Messy Fun: Large Collaborative Painting

July 11, 2023

Come and make art side by side as a family. Families will explore a new medium each week and create a beautiful project together. Don an apron and get ready to make big messy art! Families will make collaborative large paintings and drawings. While kids get to pick the subject matter, adults will help them […]

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ONSITE: Family Studio: Experimental Painting: Cosmic Skies

April 18, 2023

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: Polka Dot Flowers Inspired by Yayoi Kusama

April 18, 2023

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 make art inspired by flowers and the incredible artist Yayoi Kusama! We will make drawings of flowers from observation, look at Yayoi Kusama's dot and flower paintings, and then make […]

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ONSITE: Family Studio: Making Paint Pigments from Food

April 18, 2023

Come and make art side by side as a family. Families will explore a new medium each week and create a beautiful project together. Did you know there are lots of colorful paints right at home in your kitchen? Join us as we work with vegetables, fruits, pantry staples, and spices to create paints!

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ONSITE: Family Studio: Fabric Collages Inspired By Faith Ringgold

April 18, 2023

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 learn about the incredible artist and children's book author Faith Ringgold! We will look at her beautiful story quilts for inspiration and then make our own story quilts using paper, […]

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ONSITE: Family Studio: Ink Painting Installation

April 18, 2023

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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ONSITE: Family Studio: Making Beautiful Blue Cyanotypes Using Nature + the Sun

April 18, 2023

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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