Hand in Craft | Ages 7 – 13
Explore traditions of art using paper, textiles, clay, and mixed materials. Introduction to foundational techniques with focus on creativity and personal expression.
Explore traditions of art using paper, textiles, clay, and mixed materials. Introduction to foundational techniques with focus on creativity and personal expression.
An introduction to the basics of working with clay, from sculpting to molding. Through hands-on activities and simple techniques, explore texture, shape, and form. Make clay animal figures, fun shapes, and little sculptures while developing fine motor skills and using imagination. Clay pieces will not be food safe. They will be underglazed and fired, but not clear coated with a shiny glaze.
Ready, set, clay! Clay can be functional and sculptural – let’s explore both! Spend the day in the clay studio and make ceramic art using both hand building and potter’s wheel techniques.
Step into a magical world of faeries, wands, and tiny houses as you bring your imagination to life through creative art projects. Explore color, texture, and whimsy while crafting enchanted creations.
Calling all foodies! Create playful and realistic sushi using polymer clay, learning techniques for shaping, detailing, and assembling these miniature works.
Take a bite out of creativity! Join artist Eva Foster for a hands-on day of crafting colorful airdry clay creations that look good enough to eat—without the calories. Think about “food” as an art form as you experiment and learn how to make your fake food look real.
Art can be relaxing and a form of meditation. Spend part of the day in mindful drawing exercises, and learning ways to draw with reflection, repetition, and rhythm by practicing Zen Tangle, Zen Doodle, and Zen Scribble. Then turn your doodles and drawings into a mindful painting.
Let’s discover you through art! Using mixed medias, create self-portraits, a word collage or two and see how art can express the inner and outer you.
Learn to throw pots on the potter’s wheel. This class is great for beginners, and return students. Please bring a lunch and water bottle. Clay pieces will not be food safe. They will be underglazed and fired, but not clear coated with a shiny glaze.
What makes Wisconsin summers special? The lake, a summer sunset, the state animals, the state dessert (Racine’s very own Kringle!), the state fair. Have fun learning about some of the flora, fauna, flavors and fun of a Wisconsin summer. Represent it by creating a small watercolor painting and a larger acrylic painting on canvas.
Turn back time! Explore themes and concepts from the Handcrafted: RAM Community Exhibition in the galleries at Wustum, and make art inspired by craft – and the American craft traditions that have been cultivated for 250 years.
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