Purple Twig

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 isn't your ordinary collage class. Collages can be beautiful made from colorful vibrant papers and they can be funny made from animal images.  Students will learn elements of design and composition. Kids will create still-lifes and self-portraits and many more. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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.

This class is inpired by delisious treats, we will do collaboration of ice cream cones prints, cake floats and ceramic fortune cookies.  This is a great class for those who like to work in many different mediums, from ceramics to printmaking to collages. 

Houses that float, houses tht fly, houses that are built from clay and ones from wood. This class uses many kinds of sculptural materials to create structures and talk about places that people live in the world and even some animals homes too. 

In this class students will explore the hand building process. They will learn many building technique like coiling, pinching, rolling in order to make pots and bowls and much more. After working on pinching we will move on to slab building which is the foundation to many hand-building ceramics techniques. While making animals, lanterns, houses and masks, students will learn a variety of surface treatments and techniques, including textures and glazing. We use two kinds of low fire clays, terrecotta and a white and we use a variety of both underglazes and over glazes. 

This class will focus mainly on drawing but will also explore some other mediums like collage and watercolor and printmaking. Students will refine their own drawing skills and style by practicing shading, composition, line weight. We will working to build out their portfolios to apply to the local art highschools. 

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.