### **Please welcome our new Program Manager, Elyse Lani!** Elyse has been with The Art Garage for 5 years as a studio assistant and art instructor, but is now joining our full time team! Elyse has a BFA in painting and drawing and is a talented collage artist and ceramicist. She is passionate about the environment, cats, and TV. **Thank you so much, Elyse!** **We look forward to working with you this year!** ### **Catch Joy Giles on Colorado & Company** **Channel 9, January 31st, 10:00am** Catch our resident super star on the TV show, Colorado & Company, next week! Joy will be sharing a Valentine's Day activity you can do at home and presenting The Art Garage to the greater Denver area! Tune in to support Joy! ### **Featured Upcoming Classes** #### **After School Art Clubs** ###### **Ceramics** **Ages 9-12** **Feb 6 - Feb 27** **Tuesdays, 4:30-6:30pm** Students of all skill levels will develop their ceramic techniques in this 4-week class! Each month will bring new projects and challenges as our skilled instructor leads young artists through the creation of fun and unique clay projects. ###### **Fiber Arts** **Ages 9-12** **Feb 7 - Feb 28** **Wednesdays, 4:30-6:30pm** Each month will bring new and exciting techniques and materials as students experiment with making dyes, dyeing fabric, weaving, painting and printing on fabric, and so much more! ###### **Zine Making** **Ages 11-15** **Feb 6 - Feb 27** **Tuesdays, 4:30-6:30pm** Explore simple bookmaking, character design, storytelling, and a wide variety of multimedia techniques in this 4-week class! Students will work on new projects each month as they develop their drawing skills, try new artistic media, and bring their ideas to life with the help of our skilled instructor. #### **Adult Ceramics Class** **Sundays 4:00-7:00pm** **Feb 18th -Mar 24, 2024** This 6-week session is perfect for any skill level and will be structured to ensure you learn the essential aspects of hand building, wheel throwing, and glazing. Students will develop and grow their ceramic skills through techniques and projects led by our skilled instructor. #### **Daytime/Homeschool Classes** **Tuesdays and Wednesdays Feb/March, April/May** Our Tuesday "Young Artists' Club" and Wednesday "Homeschool Art Club" are perfect for kids of all skill levels looking to supplement their art education with hands-on learning and exciting projects! Join us to learn about historical and modern artists, try a variety of art styles, and experiment with new art materials! #### **Teen Classes** ###### **Teen Studio** **Feb 18 - Mar 24** **Sundays, 1:00-3:00pm** Oil pastels, acrylics, watercolor, printmaking, and so much more! In this 6-week open-studio-style class, you can bring your own projects to work on, come with ideas of a dream project and let our skilled instructor help you make them a reality, or explore a wide variety of artistic media and techniques through provided projects and prompts. ###### **Teen Ceramics** **Feb 18 - Mar 24** **Sundays, 1:00-3:00pm** This 6-week session is perfect for any skill level and will be structured to ensure you learn the essential aspects of hand building, wheel throwing, and glazing. Students will develop and grow their ceramic skills through techniques and projects led by our skilled instructor like bubble glazing, underglazing, and making planters for Spring! ### **Friday Workshops** **Every Friday, September-May** **9:00-12:00pm and 1:00-4:00pm** **Ages 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12** Have a Friday off? Or a half day? No problem! We've got you covered! Join us for a Friday Workshop where we'll explore artistic styles, mediums, and history and will be structured around our instructor's own lesson plan to bring students new and fun projects each week! **There's so much more to explore at The Art Garage!** See all of our upcoming classes for toddlers, kids, teens, and adults [**HERE**](https://artgaragedenver.com/courses)! ### **What's happening around Denver?** ###### **SCFD Day at the Capitol** **February 21, 10:00–11:30am** In 2024, art, culture, and science will fill the halls of the Colorado State Capitol to engage legislators in the wonder of cultural offerings in the Denver metro area. Join for interactive exhibits from a selection of SCFD funded partners on the Capitol’s first floor at 10:00! Pastries and beverages will be provided. ###### **Artist Talk at the Center for Visual Arts** **February 21, 5:30-6:30pm** Join CVA for an Artist Talk with John Hitchcock, Karen Kunc, and Raymundo Muñoz. The work of these artists examines social issues through a variety of complex printmaking techniques and is on view at CVA in the Pressing for Change exhibition that runs January 5 – March 23, 2024. This event is free, but registration is required. ###### **Hearts for Art at** **the Denver Art Museum** **February 10-14th** Join the Denver Art Museum in spreading the love with their annual tradition, Hearts for Art! From February 10-14, celebrate your love of art by placing a heart-shaped Valentine in front of your favorite artworks in the galleries. ###### **Poetry Open Mic** **with Community Literature Initiative and Marissa Forbes** **Monday, February 19th** **6:00-8:00pm (sign up at 5:30)** Marissa Forbes, one of our instructors here at AG, welcomes you to share your poetry or be a part of the audience at Hooked on Colfax (3212 E. Colfax Ave.) ### **Kid Quotes of the Month** Student to an instructor: "You cut really fast for an old woman" -5 year old "I really want to wrap him in newspaper" -4 year old ### **Community Corner** This month, we would like to highlight Colorado Freedom Fund for the amazing work they are doing in our community. Colorado Freedom Fund (CFF) pays cash bail for our neighbors trapped in Colorado cages. They help facilitate pretrial liberty for people who cannot afford the cost of money bond and help them return to court to resolve their criminal legal cases.**Poverty is not a crime.** ###### **Scholarships!** Partial and full scholarships are awarded to students of all ages for The Art Garage classes, camps, and workshops! Scholarships are based on financial need and demonstrated motivation. Applicants are expected to have transportation to and from class, to attend class regularly, and to fully participate in all class activities. Students' participation and attendance will be recorded and will be considered by The Art Garage administration in awarding future scholarships. Please fill out the scholarship application and find additional information [**HERE!**](https://artgaragedenver.com/articles/87) ###### **Tasty Food: Free Meals for Denver Youth** Denver invites youth, ages 5-18, to enjoy breakfast, lunch, supper and/or a nutritious snack. Tasty Food meals include up to five food groups that are low in fat and prepared fresh. No ID or registration required - just show up and eat up, and YES ... you can bring a friend, or two, or three, or more! **SCFD is the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District, a tax collected and distributed to nearly 300 cultural organizations in our seven-county Denver metro region.** Culture creates vibrancy for us individually and collectively. It gives our kids a unique perspective and understanding of the world. It inspires all of us to get off the couch, discover the radical and the beautiful, and stretches our capacity to be transformed. Through our diverse, local culture, we come together, we come to new ideas, we come to our senses. Beginning with taxpayers and with the expert shepherding of the SCFD, our collective mission is simple: We fund culture. The Art Garage is sponsored by SCFD. Did you know that SCFD can offer this funding because YOU voted for it? To keep the arts and culture alive and healthy in Denver, SCFD uses just one penny of every $10 sales tax dollars in the district to give back to the organizations like The Art Garage. Thank **YOU** for voting for arts science and culture!