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Schedule
of classes
Call
(417) 358-4404 for more information.
Monday
July 28th
Randy Wright
“Clay
Day- Animals & Creatures!”
Make an elephant jar for your animal crackers,
or a school of fish for a mobile! Maybe
puppies or kittens are your thing, or dragons.
Your bring your ideas, and I will help you
create them!
Tuesday
July 29th
Martha Goldman
“Creature Creations-
Sewing”
Come learn how to create soft sewn sculpture
using simple sewing and decorative techniques
such as making a pattern, using buttons
and embroidery, and create your own stuffed
animal or monster friend! Class size limited
to 8
Cheryl
Church
“Pottery Jugs/
Clay Slab Jars”
Learn slab pottery techniques in the Pottery
House
making your jar with lid using decorative
textures to decorate the jug and an ugly
face too
Wednesday
July 30th
Megan Hudson
“Shape- Art
Now!”
Explore contemporary art with artist Elizabeth
Murray and her famously colorful “Shape
Paintings.” Get into groups and make
your very own giant and bright puzzle-pieces
to create Shape paintings!!
Anne-Marie Gailey
“Project Insect”
Discover amazing, strange, beautiful and
unique dragonflies, butterflies, beetles,
wasps, praying mantis, wasps, spiders too!!
Drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking,
and insect vessels. Explore exciting artworks
from ancient cultures, from da Vinci to
the famous French sculptor Louise Bourgeois.
Art/science centers: actual robotic insects,
large 3-D insect puzzles!!
Thursday
July 31st
Anne- Marie Gailey
“Project Insect”
continues with additional activities
Randy Wright
“Batik T-shirts”
Design your own shirt, using a batik process.
Students will paint the lines of their designs
on a 100% cotton shirt with a resist, then
using dye, fill in the colored areas and
create their own wearable artwork. (Shirt
size to be submitted with
reservation for this class—no cancellations,
please.) Class size limited to 8.
Friday
August 1st
Martha Goldman
“Memory Boxes”
Learn about shadow box artist Joseph Cornell,
and then make your own memory box! We will
use paint, decoupage paper clippings, and
drawings, to create a memory box. Bring
small trinkets from home that you would
like to add to your work of art!
Anne-Marie Gailey
“Young Illustrator’s
Studio”
Design and create a large theater poster
of James and the Giant Peach, Thunder Dragon,
Jumanji, Lon Po Po, Beasts of India, or
your own favorite story! Create sculptures
of your favorite characters! Explore unique
books and learn about the artists/authors.
Great for Young Authors preparation!
Saturday
August 2nd
Cheryl Church
“Pottery 101”
Basics in pottery, to instruct basic wheel
throwing techniques and skills. Class to
be offered as a day class twice today, once
at 10:00- 12:00 and again, 1:00- 3:00. Small
classes.
Megan Hudson
“SPLAT, DRIP,
DABBLE!!”
Come ready to explore famous Abstract Expressionist
and paint “splatterer” Jackson
Pollock, his work, and technique, getting
familiar with that art period of the 40’s
and 50’s, and slinging paint around!
Get ready for your “close up”
in an art/film documentary while having
fun with paint! Class to be offered as a
day class twice today, once at 10:00- 12:00
and again, 1:00- 3:00.
Randy Wright
“Action Figures
in Motion!”
Running, dancing, singing--- look how a
figure moves and create the pose you want!
Students will make a small wire armature
for their action figures, building up the
designs with plaster gauze, to create tiny
sculptures!
This is a full day class.
Monday
August 4th
Sean Fitzgibbon
“Surrealism
and Perspective”
Create your own surrealistic landscape after
studying the works of Salvidor Dali, Max
Ernst, Giorgio do Chirico, and Rene’
Magritte. Perspective fundamentals will
be taught.
Andrea Land
“Calder and
the Sensational Circus!”
Learn about the great artist Alexander Calder,
and his many sculptures and mobiles! Create
fantastical circus or zoo animals using
cardboard, poster board, paint, wallpaper,
colored pencils, string, yarn, and wire.
Imaging a purple spotted leopard, a turquoise
hippo or a tiny tight-rope walker! Students
will learn about Calder’s New York
circus illustrations and explore his Whitney
Museum circus exhibit, and then form sketches
of their very own circus or zoo, creating
an entire miniature circus in operation!
Tuesday
August 5th
Sean Fitzgibbon
“Comics and
Graphic Novels”
Explore this world viewing and discussing
various artists in this field, and creating
your own short comic story utilizing basic
drawing techniques.
Andrea Land
“Magical Magritte”
View exciting surreal paintings and photographs
created by Belgian artist Rene’ Magritte.
Envision tiny people with umbrellas or fruit
floating in the air. Working within the
mediums of sculpture, drawing, and painting,
each student will design a magical paper
birdcage and a surreal paper mask. The possibilities
are endless!
Wednesday
August 6th
Randy Wright
“Tropical Rain
Forest Mobiles”
Using “Model Magic”, students
will create their own fish, birds and butterflies
to make their mobile!
Sean Fitzgibbon
“Cartoon Character
Design”
Students will learn the fundamentals of
drawing the figure and the art of facial
expression to create, from their imaginations,
their own cartoon and comic figure drawings!
Cheryl Church
“Painting Ukranian
Eggs”
Students will create their own designs after
studying other patterns and eggs done by
expert egg painters of this old art, and
then paint their own ceramic egg using the
design they choose!
Thursday
August 7th
Sean Fitzgibbon
“Manga Day!
Japanese Comics”
Explore the history of Manga, Japanese Comics,
and learn the techniques to create this
popular art form. Then create your own comic!
Martha Goldman
“Manga Mania!”
Comic books often inspire artists, and students
will learn about Roy Lichtenstein and Takashi
Murakami, artists from the past and present
that use very different comic-book styles
in their art. Students will paint their
own Japanese comic book style paintings,
their manga masterpieces!
Megan Hudson
“Oriental Lanterns
and Origami”
Come and travel to the orient, learning
about the ancient styles of Chinese Lantern
Making and Japanese Origami, the art of
paper folding. Learn about the artists of
Asia who practiced these crafts by making
your own lantern and folding crane, and
then enjoy mango ice cream and fortune cookies!
Friday
August 8th
Cheryl Church
“MY FACE! Clay
Masks”
Make your own mask of clay, learning about
the dividing of the face into halves and
various expressions of faces, after a demonstration
is given of sculptural methods and techniques.
Add a hair-do or a hat to finish!
Sean Fitzgibbon
“Collage Book”
Learn to blend your own text and collage
to create your own striking and colorful
collage/journal. Students will learn about
layering and working with various media,
using type as a graphic element. Bring your
ideas for this class!!
Saturday
August 9th
Randy Wright
“Colorful
Mosaics!”
Students will learn the history, from
ancient Roman times to the present, how
people have used stone and tile mosaic
for communication and decoration. Each
will design, glue, position, and grout
their own tile mosaic, using their own
broken ceramic pieces brought if desired
to incorporate into their art piece.
Martha Goldman
“Wearable
Warhol!”
Students will learn about the artist Andy
Warhol, who took everyday items, like
the Campbell’s soup can, and made
them extraordinary! Students should bring
an UN-opened package of their favorite
candy to inspire them to create a pop-art
T-shirt design of their own, and then
they will make their own wearable piece
of pop-art! (Shirt size to be submitted
with reservation for this class; no cancellations,
please.) Class size limited to 8. |
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