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. 

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. 

Big puppets, little puppets, paper puppets, hand puppets, shadow puppets. While making puppets from fabrics, plastic bottles, clay and so much more, we will explore basic narrative structures. Collectively and individually we will build theaters and create wonderful performances. 

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. 

We will be using a variety  mediums, sumi ink, pencil, watercolors, charcoal to focus on depth of field, perspective, composition, shadow and mark making. Most of the drawing will be from observation but we will also do some imaginative drawing as well. We will also do some printmaking. This is a wonderful class for those who want to learn some basic technique in drawing while also finding their own voice and confidence. 

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 color theory class for little ones. We will be mixing, mixing and matching colors together. This class will explore color in its many forms as well as texture and patterns.  Students will be painting, creating collages, creating hanging sculptures and doing some science experiments.

Through prinmaking, painting, collaging, building and making costumes kids will explore, stories with fairies, knights, castles, giants, and much more. This is a great way for them to explore many different kinds of materisl while furthering their articulation for pretend play.

Using Spring as an inspiration we will be using flowers and plants to create artwork.  We will mix colors and make paintings, dye our own fabrics, use clay to make sculptures, do some printmaking and so much more. 

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. This session we will be focusing on sculptural ceramics making animals and masks and self-portraits, working those hand skills. 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.

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.