Canvas Building + Still Life Painting (Ages 12-14)
Learn how to build your own canvas, prime it, then paint a still life using acrylic paint.
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Paper-Mâché: Make Your Own Furry Friend (Ages 9-11)
Whether you want to monumentalize your beloved pet or perhaps you don't yet have your own, create a relatively life-sized pet using the sculptural process of paper-mâché.
read moreTiny Tales: Storytelling + Puppets (Ages 6-8)
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.
read moreFilmmaking (Ages 9-11)
Become part of a real film crew in this live-action, moviemaking class. From concept to shooting to performing, this class will teach you the fundamentals of the great collaborative process of filmmaking. Creativity, teamwork and visual art come together to create a movie that will enjoy its red carpet premiere on the final day of […]
read moreImprovisational Quilting (Ages 9-11)
Improv quilting is quilting with freedom in mind. Beginning with no real concept, quilters will spin the fabric into an ever-evolving fabric tapestry. We’ll dive into improv quilting blocks of our own while talking about the pioneers of this technique (Rosie Lee Tompkins, Quilters of Gee’s Bend, Etc.)
read moreMix It Up with Materials (Ages 6-8)
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!
read moreSmall Metal Sculpture (Ages 12-14)
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.
read morePaint + Draw Underwater Scenes (Ages 6-8)
Dive into a vibrant underwater world and learn to draw all that lies beneath the sea! You’ll explore the magic of oil pastels and watercolors. Unleash your creativity as you create stunning seascapes filled with colorful marine life, flowing waves, and enchanting coral reefs.
read moreStained Glass (Ages 12-14)
Embrace your love of color by learning to make stained glass. You'll select and design stained glass patterns, then cut, grind, clean, foil and solder your creation using the copper foil technique and lead-free solder. Beginners will complete a simple suncatcher and more experienced students will explore more advanced designs. We'll end class with our own […]
read moreMake Your Own Life-Sized Paper Doll (Ages 6-8)
Create your own life-sized paper doll and wardrobe using various types of paper and recycled materials. Students will make outfits, accessories, and a cardboard "closet" to display the wardrobe they create.
read moreDrawing Lab (Ages 6-8)
Let’s explore the fun parts of drawing: Surprises, creative flow and experimentation. In the process, we'll build our technical drawing skills. This class includes lots of drawing experiments. Like mad scientists in our lab, we'll see which new formulations and reactions we can create. It will get a little silly and a little spectacular!
read moreExploring Printmaking (Ages 9-11)
Explore creative aspects of printmaking! Students ages 9-14 will make hand-carved styrofoam plates, glue prints, safety cut prints and photo emulsion prints. Students ages 6-8 will do monoprinting, marker prints, collographs, tissue paper prints + more! We’ll also learn how to make multiples of our drawings to create editioned prints, just like professional printers. After […]
read moreBasket Weaving (Ages 9-11)
Make a basket of your very own! Learn to hand weave a container from vines, grasses, and hardwoods. Students will learn fun dyeing techniques with kool-aid or natural dyes like beets and turmeric to enhance their basket creations as well!
read moreBuild Your Own World With Clay (Ages 9-11)
Unleash your inner architect and artist as you craft fantastical landscapes, whimsical creatures, and imaginative settings—all from air-dry clay!
read moreCustomizing Action Figures (Ages 9-11)
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!
read moreCyanotypes: Photographic Art with Light (Ages 9-11)
Create one-of-a-kind photographs by hand using sunlight! In this class, students will learn about cyanotype printing—an alternative process that produces distinct blue images using sunlight and photosensitive chemistry—and will make photographic images on both paper and fabric.
read morePinch Pot Pokémon (Ages 6-8)
Pokémon and monsters and imaginary friends, oh my! This clay class will introduce hand-building techniques such as pinching and coiling. We'll discuss animal characteristics and learn to sculpt real and imaginary creatures in their natural habitats. Walk away with two or three sculpted creatures!
read morePolymer Clay: Tiny Food Sculptures (Ages 9-11)
Learn how to work with and mix colorful polymer clay to create delicious-looking miniature foods—from cupcakes and cookies to corn dogs and croissants! We will use sculpting tools, paints and pastels, and handmade molds to bring our creations to life.
read moreCreating With Fiber: Knitting, Weaving + More (Ages 12-14)
Explore how you can use a variety of yarns and threads to express yourself, by making colorful objects you can wear, use to decorate your room, or give to family and friends. In this class, we'll be weaving, knitting, and more. Come ready to have fun and try new things!
read moreMetal Creations Inspired by Nature (Ages 12-14)
Create beautiful metal forms inspired by nature with a technique called Fold Forming, developed in the early 1980s by Charles Lewton Brain. Fold forming allows us to use metal's unique characteristics by following what the metal naturally wants to do. We will cover at least three different folds and some of their possibilities. Experience a […]
read moreMake Your Own Felted Animal Masks (Ages 9-11)
Explore old needle felting techniques! Needle felting takes soft wool roving and uses a small needle in order to mat wool fibers together to make objects. In this class, students will utilize basic sewing and appliqué skills to transform themselves into furry tigers, sleek dragons, or any creature they dream up!
read moreWizards, Fairies + All Things Magical (Ages 6-8)
Art is magical! Together we will explore all the fantastical ways we can use our imagination to create art that is full of unicorns, wizards, fairies, leprechauns, and just about anything our young students can dream up.
read moreInstallation Art: Clouds Everywhere all at Once (Ages 6-8)
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 […]
read moreMetalworking (Ages 9-11)
Try working with metal and traditional metalworking tools. We’ll explore different ways to cut metal safely and bend it accurately, then we’ll try texturing, hammering and stamping. Students ages 9-11 will focus on cold connection (learning to drill, rivet, and friction fit), then they’ll create and fasten their own metal designs. Students ages 12-14 will […]
read moreScale It Up! Large Acrylic Painting (Ages 9-11)
Learn to create a large acrylic painting (18 x 24 in or bigger) of your chosen subjects. We will use grids, photo filters, and other cool tools to help us start these big works of art, and we will continue working on the painting over the week. This class will cover color mixing, brush types, […]
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