Kids Art Classes

This class is about exploring clay both for its maleable properties so kids can use hammers and rollingpins and water to see the possibilities in building and we will make projects to be fired and glazed. We wiil make some collaborative projects that will be cleaned up and stay in the studio and individual pieces that will be taken home.

Students will further and practice basic drawing techniques while doing character design, creating narratives and making pop up books. They will create characters, learn about comic book structure and explore different kinds of drawing materials. Lots of story telling happens in this class while drawing. 

This is a process oriented class focused on furthering your child's creative confidence. While exploring all kinds materials, clay, glue, wood, recycled materials, beads, buttons and fabric students will learn to problem solve, verbalize their ideas and further creative thinking. They will participate in the joyful learning through exploring sensory based materials while learning age appropriate skills. 

This is a great class for those who enjoy what nature has to offer . Students will explore dying fabrics using natural plant materials, like beets and Marigolds  Students will also make their own paints from spices and seaweed powders like mixing ones own potions. Make ink form walnuts We will paint, dye fabrics and do some printmaking. 

Taking influence from shelters around the world, huts and stilt houses and clay houses, opera houses and more. Students will design and build, build, build all kinds of dwellings using clay, string, fabric, twigs, recycled materials, paper oh and more clay. This is a great class for those who like to build and sculpt. 

Big puppets, little puppets, paper puppets, hand puppets, shadow puppets. We will me making puppets and theaters to go along with them. theaters from boxes and ones from fabric and ones from cups. This is a great class for those kids who enjoy pretend play and making creatures and sculptures.

This class is inpired by delisious treats, we will do use papermache hamburgers ( could be veggie burgers)  and icecream floats and ceramic fortune cookies.  This is a great class for those who like to work in many different mediums, from ceramics to printmaking. Lots of sculpture in this class.. 

This is a process oriented class focused on furthering your child's creative confidence. While exploring all kinds materials, clay, glue, wood, recycled materials, beads, buttons and fabric students will learn to problem solve, verbalize their ideas and further creative thinking. They will participate in the joyful learning through exploring sensory based materials while learning age appropriate skills. 

This is a process oriented class, designed for a parent/caregiver and child interactive, learning experience. While introducing your child to all kinds of materials, clay, glue, beads, buttons fabric. We'll explore printing, painting, sculpting, cutting and gluing. Some of the projects will be collaborative between adult and child but most will be watching what your child can do. Adult must be present to interact with child. The class is seasonally themed for fall, winter and spring.

Lions and tigers and bears along with giraffes, tapirs and sea animals, this class is inspired by these amazing animals and where they live.  We’ll create masks, make paintings, build sculptures, make collages and even construct homes for some of the animals. 

In this class students will explore the hand building process to create bowls and birdhouses and many things in between. They will learn many building technique like coiling, pinching, rolling.  We will start with some basic but beuatiful projects and then come up with ideas together of what to build and glaze. We use two kinds of low fire clays, terrecotta and a white and we use a variety of both underglazes and over glazes, learning glazing techniques. 

Printmaking is such unique artform that lends itself to making multiples. But here students will explore both monoprinting and multuple printing from aa variety of techniques. They will make stamps and carvings and print from what we can find in the studio. 

Drawing is an incredible way for kids to express themselves and all you need is a pencil and paper. We will also be using charcoal, watercolor, chalk pastels all the while furthering techniques in drawing from perspective, proportion and shadow. We will draw from life and draw from our imagination. 

This is a process oriented class, designed for a parent/caregiver and child interactive, learning experience. While introducing your child to all kinds of materials, clay, glue, beads, buttons fabric. We'll explore printing, painting, sculpting, cutting and gluing. Some of the projects will be collaborative between adult and child but most will be watching what your child can do. 

This is a process oriented class focused on furthering your child's creative confidence. While exploring all kinds materials, clay, glue, wood, recycled materials, beads, buttons and fabric students will learn to problem solve, verbalize their ideas and further creative thinking.   They will participate in the joyful learning through exploring sensory based materials while learning age appropriate skills.