Purple Twig

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 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 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. 

This is a process oriented class focused on creative thinking and strengthening imagination. While exploring all kinds materials, clay, glue, wood, recycled materials, beads, buttons and fabric we will be printing, painting, sculpting, cutting and gluing. This class is a wonderful way to build fine motor skills and further your child's creative confidence.

In this class we will be taking advantage of some of our fantastic, beautiful green public spaces. We will meet each week at a different garden, one week at Norton Simon and another at Arlington Gardens and then we will draw, draw, draw. Sometimes we will focus on details and sometimes an environment, furthering skills of drawing perspective, scale and patterns.  We will use many different drawing materials, from charcoal, pencil, watercolor and colored pencil. This is a class that will focus on strengthening and furthering drawing skills and exploring other drawing materials. 

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. 

Make your own comic book from beginning to end. Students will learn to develop narrative and character through drawings and writing stories,  creating your own heroes and villains.  Students will also learn basic drawing techniques. This class will focus on character development, creating buttons and posters and pop up books for this character before moving into creating a narrative comic book.