Birch, Please Crafting Studio will be offering youth art classes at Downtown Art Place, in month of July: three classes for ages 7-12 (rising 2nd graders would be welcome) and three classes for ages 4-6.
Classes are grouped as a series and can be booked at the DAP website (choose series)
Mixed Media Summer Fun (drawing, painting, sculpting and collage)
Ages 7-12
Mondays: July 6th, 13th and 27th
10-11:30am
$45
Summer Fun Process Art
(Artists will use a variety of art supplies to create original projects)
Ages 4-6
Wednesdays: July 8th, 15th and 29th
10-11am
$30
Click HERE to register.
What is mixed media? A little bit of everything may be incorporated into our art: drawing, painting, sculpting, collage…a specific theme or topic will be chosen and we use multiple materials to create a final project(s). For example, if the theme is a scuba diver, students may choose to use any type of paint to color their picture, but one may use tissue paper to create seaweed, while their friend creates seaweed out of yarn…and their flippers are from scrapbook paper and then bubbles are created with acrylic paint markers. Basically, one size will not fit all artists:-)
What is process art? Just like it says – it is more about the child experiencing and exploring the theme as they see it, using a variety of art tools to bring their creation to life. For example, yesterday we created insects and one of the children chose to make Cookie Monster and Elmo bugs and used Kwik Stix, liquid glue, and googly eyes to bring them to life (it was pretty darn cute:-)
