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Fuzzy Art: Working with Wool (Ages 12-14)

January 21, 2025

Create your own soft little friends and sculptures! Learn how to transform natural wool fibers into soft sculptures and hand-made fabric with basic needle-felting and wet-felting techniques.

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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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Darkroom Photography (Ages 9-11)

January 21, 2025

Learn the fundamentals of black and white photography. We'll take photo field trips and use the darkroom to print our photographs. Ages 9 – 11 will use pinhole cameras and learn to create photograms. For ages 12 – 14, lessons include camera operation, composition, lighting, subject matter, and other principles. Ages 12 – 14 may bring their own […]

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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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Art Explorers (Age 5)

January 21, 2025

Let's explore art-making! Create eclectic 2D and 3D art collections using clay, wire, fabric, paint or other materials. Our smallest artists can sign up for multiple weeks of classes and always have new projects to create!

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Collage, Draw + Screenprint (Ages 9-11)

January 21, 2025

Explore the screenprinting process combined with collage and drawing in this unique mixed-media class. In this weekend workshop, we will begin by cutting and pasting magazine images into a collage. We will then hand trace the collage onto a transparent paper with an opaque paint pen. This transparent drawing will be used to expose the […]

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Art Explorers (Age 5)

January 21, 2025

Let's explore art-making! Create eclectic 2D and 3D art collections using clay, wire, fabric, paint or other materials. Our smallest artists can sign up for multiple weeks of classes and always have new projects to create!

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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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Dungeons, Dragons + Drawing (Ages 12-14)

January 21, 2025

Learn the art of character design and worldbuilding in this Dungeons + Dragons-focused class! We will operate as an adventuring party and take on fun drawing challenges framed as in-game encounters. Students will learn about collaborative storytelling and worldbuilding, D+D character creation, how to GM a tabletop RPG, how to bring their characters and worlds […]

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Digital GIF Animation (Ages 9-11)

January 21, 2025

Explore the basics of GIF animation! Students will start by creating a simple bouncing ball animation on a sticky note pad to learn the basics of motion. Next, students will move to iPads and use Procreate’s Animation Assist tool, where they’ll learn about onion skinning, frames per second, and how GIF animations work. We’ll complete […]

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Mixed-Media Drawing (Ages 12-14)

January 21, 2025

"Mixed-media" refers to any art making process that involves more than one art supply. In this fun and experimental drawing class, you will make creative drawings of a variety of subjects using traditional media like pencils, crayons, and markers, but also using unconventional tools like sticks, leaves, string, and more! During each class session we […]

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Mixed-Media Mania! (Ages 6-8)

January 21, 2025

Get creative and try your hand at a whole bunch of art styles! Try making a “painting” with pieces of cut paper, making little animals with felt, and build amazing sculptures with air-dry clay.

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Animating on iPads (Ages 9-11)

January 21, 2025

Learn how to animate on an iPad! You will develop strong foundations in 2D, digital animation by exploring digital software such as Procreate or the FlipaClip app. We'll complete exercises like synching animation to sound, walk cycles and storyboarding. The goal of this course is to give you the tools and knowledge to continue digital […]

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Art Explorers (Age 5)

January 21, 2025

Let's explore art-making! Create eclectic 2D and 3D art collections using clay, wire, fabric, paint or other materials. Our smallest artists can sign up for multiple weeks of classes and always have new projects to create!

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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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The Art of Digital Photography (Ages 12-14)

January 21, 2025

Students will learn the basics of digital photography, looking at light, composition, color, contrast, exposure, camera settings, and basic editing in Lightroom—everything they need to know to make better pictures. We’ll look at student work together in class and learn to talk about photos as well as make them.

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Pen + Ink Drawing (Ages 9-11)

January 21, 2025

Explore the world of pen and ink drawing. This class covers everything from basic line work to more advanced techniques like cross-hatching and stippling, helping you create bold, detailed artwork with ink.

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Darkroom Photography (Ages 12-14)

January 21, 2025

Learn the fundamentals of black and white photography. We'll take photo field trips and use the darkroom to print our photographs. Ages 9 – 11 will use pinhole cameras and learn to create photograms. For ages 12 – 14, lessons include camera operation, composition, lighting, subject matter, and other principles. Ages 12 – 14 may bring their own […]

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Art Explorers (Age 5)

January 21, 2025

Let's explore art-making! Create eclectic 2D and 3D art collections using clay, wire, fabric, paint or other materials. Our smallest artists can sign up for multiple weeks of classes and always have new projects to create!

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2D Animation (Ages 12-14)

January 21, 2025

Learn character design, world building, and the principles of animation in this interactive digital course. You will create and direct your own short 2D animation.

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Anime Art (Ages 12-14)

January 21, 2025

Draw in the art style of your favorite anime! Learn how to design your own anime-influenced original characters in this anime- and manga-focused class. We will be using iPad Procreate and traditional art to study the stylistic features that define Japanese art and animation. Topics will include the history of anime, how to draw simplified/stylized […]

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