Sculptural Ceramics Mash-Up! | Ages 8–16
Use both the potters wheel and handbuilding designs to create sculptural forms—a mash-up of techniques!
Use both the potters wheel and handbuilding designs to create sculptural forms—a mash-up of techniques!
Learn basic hammering, forming, and soldering skills while creating your own textured sterling silver band ring. Excellent as a refresher course or for learning beginner techniques.
Create a variety of functional and non-functional ceramic pieces using the potter’s wheel and handbuilding techniques.
Use all kinds of materials to explore creatures of all shapes and sizes throughout a week of animal art adventures.
Reuse, reclaim, and recycle materials into artsy Rube Goldberg inventions for future civilizations! Garbage grabbing and dumpster diving with the intent to make it into usable and interesting art will be the fun focus. Enjoy the challenge of using recycled materials to create a contraption that does something, and make art that helps save the planet—one plastic bottle at a time.
Do you like to create stories? See how artists who make illustrated stories and graphic novels develop ideas and envision worlds. Have fun creating story-boards, and choose your own adventure for characters you invent. Learn how events and action can create unique and memorable worlds on the illustrated page.
Create 3-D silhouette artwork using beautiful fabrics, beads, or old accessories. Janela will be here to guide you into your final design and make it fabulous!
How sweet indeed! Craft a sweet pea branch from colorful paper.
Flying to the moon, living on Mars, a garden on Venus, undersea communities, cars that fly, people that fly, robots that cook your meals or do your homework—these futuristic ideas have been imagined countless times! Let’s set our imagination to the future and reimagine what the world looks like in an artistic way—looking at the past, the events of today, and the possibilities of tomorrow. Create art that envisions the future using both traditional and some very non-traditional art-making supplies. What is your idea of future life?
Personalize a ceramic vase of your own design! Learn clay handbuilding techniques and ways to incorporate texture and design. Return to glaze your vase after it has been fired. This is a fun way to make a decorative and functional art form for your home!
Discover the process of printing large-scale relief cuts using a steamroller as a massive makeshift printing press! Full Steam Ahead is free to attend at RAM’s Wustum Museum, 2519 Northwestern Avenue, on Saturday, August 12, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm.
Cut out a simple shape from metal, punch a hole, then stamp patterns, words, and designs into the piece. Finish with patina and polishing, and hang it on a cord with beads!

