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Explore the exciting world of anime and manga! Learn to draw anime-style characters while building strong art fundamentals in a supportive environment. Discover how to design expressive anime faces, eyes, hairstyles, and poses and create original characters with unique personalities and outfits.
Unleash your creativity in this two-part workshop that blends sculpture and painting ala carousel style! Learn to sculpt a typical animal form such as a horse, or a lion or giraffe, by creating a wire armature and using air dry sculpting materials. Paint your design with colors and patterns reminiscent of a beloved carousel animal.
Delve into color, shape, and composition through two engaging mediums: abstract mosaics and abstract painting. Experiment with arranging materials, layering textures, and using bold or subtle color palettes to create original, non-representational artwork. In the mosaic portion, design patterns and images, learning how placement, balance, and contrast can bring a composition to life. In the painting segment, paint freely and intuitively, focusing on movement, emotion, and experimentation rather than realism.
Art to wear meets a recycled moment! Explore the art of dressing and create wearable accessories that accent your personality – hats, jewelry, scarves, ties, bags - using an assortment of stuff from the recycle bin! Showing we can recycle and still look fabulous!
Paper, paper, and more paper. Create puppets, paper cutouts, collages, and more in this all about paper workshop. Add a creative twist using paper-adjacent materials—like band-aids, paper clips, paper punches, staples, and other everyday items—to enhance your designs and bring your ideas to life.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Calling all foodies! Create playful and realistic sushi using polymer clay, learning techniques for shaping, detailing, and assembling these miniature works.
