#### **Welcome to The Art Garage!** ###### Ever wondered, what exactly IS The Art Garage? [Check out our new video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0r4jc4vzLY&t=17s) featuring one of our Lead Artists, Joy Giles! #### **Welcome New Staff Members** ###### Join us in congratulating Sierra Littau, Adriea Gibson, Amaya Durand, and Sheryl Garcia, The Art Garage's newest program assistants! While they are all new hires, they are not new to our community. Sierra was previously a volunteer, Adriea and Amaya were both Launch interns with us last summer, and Sheryl is the parent of an Art Garage student! We are so excited and grateful to continue working with them in this new capacity! #### **Announcing our Sticker Contest Winner!** ###### Congratulations to Eleanor for winning the Art Garage Denver sticker contest! We had an incredible time looking through the work our talented students had to offer. Thank you again to every young artist that participated. Stay tuned for when these stickers have been printed and are available to the public by donation to The Art Garage. #### **Featured Upcoming Classes:** ##### [School Day Out Classes](https://artgaragedenver.com/courses?categories=45), June 3rd - June 7th ###### Check out these fun, one-day classes during the last week of school with DPS! Supervised lunch is available in between classes at no additional charge to students who sign up for 9am-12pm _and_ 1pm-4pm classes. ##### [Afternoon Art Hour: Ceramics](https://artgaragedenver.com/courses/5412) Mondays, June 10th - July 1st, 4:30pm - 5:30pm ###### Get your hands dirty and your creative wheels turning in this 4-week after school clay club! Each week will bring new projects and challenges as our skilled instructor leads young artists through the creation of fun and unique sculpture projects. ##### [Afternoon Art Club: Watercolor](https://artgaragedenver.com/courses/5422) Wednesday, June 12th, 4:30pm - 6:30pm ###### In this one day art club students will experiment with all types of water color and different ways to manipulate it to create unique works. Inspiration will come from many places and students will have tons of fun making skill set appropriate watercolor wonders. ##### [Afternoon Art Club: 3D Food](https://artgaragedenver.com/courses/5418) Wednesday, June 12th, June 19th ##### and/or June 26th, 4:30pm - 6:30pm ###### Join us for one class or for the whole series! Let your appetite inspire you as you make a new 3D food sculpture each week. We'll use a variety of media, like clay or recycled materials to create our favorite foods, from burgers to cake! This art will look good enough to eat. ##### [Creation Station](https://artgaragedenver.com/courses/5314) Friday, June 14th, 4:30pm - 6:30pm ###### Young artists will call all the shots in this station-based, open-studio-style art class! The second Friday of every month, students can join us to choose from a variety of art activity stations and enjoy the freedom to follow their imaginations and creativity wherever it takes them. ##### [Afternoon Art Club: Puppets](https://artgaragedenver.com/courses?categories=18) Wednesday, June 19th, 4:30pm - 6:30pm ###### In this one day after school class we'll bring your imaginary friends to life! Students will design and create their own unique puppets using a variety of media including paper bags, socks, and other found materials. ##### [Afternoon Art Club: Dr. Seuss Dioramas](https://artgaragedenver.com/courses/5423) Wednesday, June 26th, 4:30pm - 6:30pm ###### In this one day workshop we'll explore the magical world of Dr. Suess though 3D dioramas! Students will create a land of their own taking inspiration from one of the most beloved children's book authors. Oh the places you'll create! ##### [Pinch Pot Pets](https://artgaragedenver.com/courses/5313) Friday, June 7th, 4:30pm - 6:30pm ###### Our pets and favorite animals will inspire our art in this one-day ceramics workshop! Students will learn the fundamentals of hand building with clay as they create functional pinch-pots that look like their favorite furry, scaly, or feathered friend! ##### [Adult and Me Art Class: Faith Ringgold](https://artgaragedenver.com/courses/5315) Friday, June 21st, 4:30pm - 6:30pm ###### Young artists and a loved adult will create side by side in this exciting and messy class on the first Friday of every month! This month, we're going to look at the story quilts of Faith Ringgold and create some personal paper quilt squares of our own! ##### [Adult Open Studio](https://artgaragedenver.com/courses/5316) Friday, June 28th, 5:30pm - 8:30pm ###### Need space to work on your art? Join our monthly open studio available at a pay-what-you-can donation to The Art Garage! This is a chance to bring your own work and materials, engage in a focused environment surrounded by other local artists, work at your own pace, and give and get creative feedback from peers. #### 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)! #### **Upcoming Events:** ##### [CommUNITY](https://40westarts.org/events#!event/2024/6/7/community-opening-reception) 40 West Arts, June 7th - 30th ##### Opening reception: June 7, 6-9pm ###### Pride month is a time of celebration, commemoration, and acknowledgement that the fight for social justice and equality for the LBGTQ+ community is ongoing. CommUNITY is a mini-exhibition in celebration of Pride Month open to artists identifying as LBGTQ+ and allies to display their artwork and will feature one of our instructors, [Alex Bugg](https://www.instagram.com/alexbugg/)! ##### [Inspired By](https://40westarts.org/events#!event/2024/6/7/inspired-by-opening-reception) 40 West Arts, June 7th - 30th ##### Opening reception: June 7, 6-9pm ###### Inspiration is all around and within us- it could be the sound of rain, the grandeur of a cityscape, a vivid dream that wakes you in the night. What inspires you, what speaks to you? Featuring two Art Garage all-stars, [**Joy Giles**](https://canvasrebel.com/meet-joy-giles/) and [**Marissa Forbes**](https://www.marissaforbes.com/) as well as art from artists of all levels of experience and all mediums that showcases the inspiration behind the art. ##### Find us at this year's **[**PrideFest**](https://denverpride.org/fest/)**! Civic Center Park, Saturday, June 22, 11:00am-7:00pm & Sunday, June 23, 10:00am-6:00pm ###### Join us during the iconic two-day Denver PrideFest event at Civic Center Park along with 250+ exhibitors, 30 food vendors, and captivating live performances. We will have crafts and A LOT of biodegradable glitter so don't miss out! ##### Fourth of July Fun! Thursday, July 4th, 12:00pm-4:00pm ###### The Art Garage will be participating again this year in the [**Park Hill Parade**!](https://parkhillparade.com/) The parade will go from about 1:30pm-2:30pm and back at The Art Garage we will have tie-dying, free art stations like community weaving, plexi easels, and button making! The theme of our float is Under the Sea, so look out for pirates! #### **Kid Quotes of the Month** ###### Instructor: "Wow, you are so strong!" ###### 3 year old: "Yeah, I eat food." #### **Community Corner** ###### **Happy Pride Month from The Art Garage!** ###### The Art Garage is celebrating Pride this month and every month. We do so by fostering a space that inspires, empowers and promotes creative self-expression and continuous learning about ourselves and others. With a commitment to equity and diversity, we strive to ensure accessibility to the arts and to amplify voices that have been systematically excluded. We work to enrich our community through the process of providing a space for individuals to be their full creative selves. ##### Art Garage Book Club ###### One of our staff members, Maru, would like to share a book with all of you! He recommends Blood at the Root by LaDarrion Williams. It’s a teen/young adult fantasy book which highlights the black community with a magical twist! If you are interested in supporting BIPOC authors, find more info [**here.**](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/738959/blood-at-the-root-by-ladarrion-williams/) ##### Thank you to our sponsors! ###### We are excited to introduce [Little Spoon](https://www.littlespoon.com/) as a snack sponsor and offer a special discount! Free samples of Little Spoon organic snacks will be available at check-in for Summer Camps and for a limited time, you can **get 50% off you first order when you use the code DENVER at checkout**! ###### [Sticker Giant](https://stickergiant.com/) very generously sponsored our recent student sticker design contest. They are a local Colorado business and were so friendly and helpful. **You can get 20% off your next order with the coupon code ARTGARAGE at checkout!** ##### **Scholarships!** ###### Partial and full scholarships are awarded to students of all ages for The Art Garage classes, camps, workshops, and parties! ###### 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!