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Experiment with the idea of abstract art through exploration of materials and concepts. Discover different ways to abstract through collage, painting, air-dry clay sculpture, and found object sculptures.
Learn several bookmaking styles and binding methods, and ways of filling the space between the front and back cover. Perfect for book lovers and artists who love to construct.
Calling all little garden gnomes! Let the natural wonders of nature garden journals, DIY brushes, nature stamps, and more. Enjoy outside time each day if the weather allows.
Explore the fun of taking simple art supplies and transforming them into beautiful 3-D paper creations! Learn how artists and designers make inspiring forms from beautiful paper. Build on your creative problem-solving skills, discover fun and unique art-making traditions. Get inspired to create beautiful paper flowers, animals, people and more.
See what effects different styles of paint on different surfaces looks like as you paint your way through the week. Learn about color and composition along the way, to make aesthetically interesting art!
Move over Warhol and Rembrandt! Here come the next generation of printmakers who will make art in multiples! The beauty of printmaking is repeating your design several times, in multiple colors, on different papers using the printing press. Explore how to create your own printing blocks and different types of printmaking – reliefs, mono prints, collagraphs and more! You will be astounded with how many prints you have created by the end of the week.
An introduction to wheel throwing and the principles of form, mass and texture. Learn through demonstrations and gentle guidance.
Spend each day learning about different species of animals and making art based on what you have learned, using a wild bunch of materials.
Create your own unique puppet toy artwork that comes to life before your eyes. Tinker, explore, play, and use creative problem-solving to develop your 3-D creation. Learn about puppets made around the world, and how artists generate ideas for creatures, athletes, and animals from their imaginations.
Delve into the art of optical illusions, which dates back to the 1960s with groovy artists like Bridget Riley and Victor Vasarely. Op Art creates abstract images that give the impression of movement and similar visual effects by skewing the line between foreground and background through pattern and shape. Get ready to make your eyes see double!
An introduction to wheel throwing and the principles of form, mass and texture. Learn through demonstrations and gentle guidance.
Create tiny worlds that exist in a futuristic setting or on another planet. Make miniature and minuscule designs using natural and unnatural materials to make the imaginary spaces. Cities, houses, people, animals, creatures, landscapes of all kinds will be scaled down into teeny, tiny forms. Honey, I did shrink the kids!
