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Classes listed below are not always available every term. Please check the class schedule for current offerings. Contact us if you have a suggestion for a specific class. We are adding new classes frequently to our schedule.

 

Class descriptions:

Mini Masters
Creative Arts
Art Works
Meet the Masters
Drawing for Beginners

 

 

Mini Masters   Ages 3½-Kindergarten
Let the little ones explore paint, paper, drawing, and other art adventures, and we clean up the mess. Exposure to art media is an essential part of being a kid that also encourages motor and spatial development. Parent helpers can assist the children in this special time together. Dress for mess.
See Summer Schedule

Creative Art   Ages 3½-Kindergarten & School Grades 1-6
Hands-on art projects that children can really get into--glue, glitter, paint and color.  Kids have fun with art and we do the clean up. Dress for mess.

See Summer Schedule

Artworks    School Grades 1-6
Become a real artist. A variety of fun art projects using paint, sculpture, collage, and drawing that will challenge and delight young artists. Elements of line, form, shape, and design will be covered.
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Meet the Masters    School Grades 1-6
Find out who the Masters are and why they developed their distinctive styles of visual art.  Experiment with their techniques, materials, and concepts.
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Drawing for Beginners    Middle School-Adult
Have you always wanted to learn how to make your drawings look realistic? Frustrated because you can only draw funny looking people or stick figures? Learn to draw what you see realisitically, with the use of shading and different art media as well as the language of visual arts. Students will work with pencil, pen and ink, charcoal, and conte.

 

 

"Where there is no heart there is no art."
- Anna Pavlova
 
"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures." 
- Henry Ward
 
"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes.  Art is knowing which ones to keep."
- Scott Adams
 
"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary."
- Pablo Picasso
 
"Art is the only way to run away without leaving home."
- Twyla Tharp
 
"Painting is silent poetry."
- Plutarch
 
"An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one."
- Charles Horton Cooley
 
"The artist's world is limitless.  It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away.  It is always on his doorstep."
- Paul Strand
 
"All art requires courage."
- Anne Tucker
 
"Every child is an artist.  The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up."
- Pablo Picasso
 
"Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do."
- Edgar Degas
 
"It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job.  It releases tension needed for his work."
- Henry Moore
 
"Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better."
- André Gide
 
"Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art."
- Wynetka Ann Reynolds
 
"What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit."
- John Updike

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