Jun 2019

This week students will add their own creations to The Art Garage! In this class we will work collaboratively to create installation art specifically to fit the space of The Art Garage. Students will able to walk through the outdoor space while experiencing and viewing their art. Their specially designed shade sails that will hang up outside, providing shade and comfort for others all summer long! We will also work together to make stained glass like drawings that will be permanently displayed in the garage door windows.

Design and create interactive art at The Art Garage. Make a permanent and unique hopscotch, tic-tac-toe and other games in our outside space! Artists will be able to create art that will survive the test of time by painting directly onto the concrete outside! We will also work large scale on a class mural by painting onto panels that will be prominently displayed at The Art Garage.

This week is all about creating art for the public to see and it will also be displayed at The Art Garage. Learn about the Yarn Bombing movement and practice your yarn bombing skills! Create a hanging piece of art with recycled plastic caps while learning how to be resourceful as an artist and help the environment at the same time. As a class, students will bring nature into their art as they design, plan and work together build a colorful tipi with large branches and yarn for all young artists to use! Artists will make their permanent signatures at The Art Garage as they choose a color of the rainbow and paint their own parking block that will be admired by all! Students will learn designing and planning large scale work, skills to work collaboratively, painting techniques, finger knitting, and the power of displaying their art publicly.

Let’s be friends and make art together! What can we learn from some of the world’s most famous friends? We’ll look to the Minions, Dora & Boots, Spongebob & Patrick, Nemo & Dory, Shrek & Donkey, Anna & Elsa, and the Harry Potter crew for inspiration as we examine what makes a good friend. This class will explore the depths of friendship and acceptance through partner and group work, and find inspiration from literature with themes about friendship. Students will create beautiful monoprints to use in a collaborative mural, as well as individual artwork about what makes them special! Students will complete printmaking, collage, and other mixed media projects… all while helping develop their social and emotional development!

Join us at The Art Garage and get your twirl and curl on with paper quilling! Quilling is named for the feather like shapes and curls created in this structured paper technique. Through step by step instruction students will learn to fold, roll, crimp, curl and shape paper to create a three dimensional design through the art of quilling. Students will work on color, line and composition through drafting, planning and building with paper. We can make our fancy creations into a shadow box, put them on a wall, and surely admire the complexity of layers we’ve designed this week!

Alter scale and dimension, proportion and perspective, to create larger-than-life images! Students will stretch their imaginations and be encouraged to use an open mind as they develop critical thinking skills, acquire self confidence, and improve collaborative abilities in this fun class full of lofty creations. Students will use squeegees to push, pull, and scrape paint like Gerhard Richter, and create large scale Heather Galler inspired dogs using brilliant oil pastels!

In this five day class, students will take a crash course in art history. A multitude of different movements and artists will be covered, with each day focusing on a specific period of art. By creating Artist Playing Cards your child will learn about the great masters, such as Da Vinci and Picasso, as well as a few lesser known names that may even be new to parents! The week will conclude with one large work of art made in the style of your child’s favorite artist.

Who doesn’t adore that little humanoid creature with the red pointed hat and bushy beard? Let’s take a journey to the underground world of the mysterious, earth-dwelling elemental spirit - the gnome! We’ll be using clay (our own earthen art materials!) to create gnome dwellings, garden gnomes, toadstools, and more to place in our garden or home! We’ll read gnome books and learn about gnome mythology to serve as inspiration for our gnome creations.

This week we’ll take a vacation from reality and dream big as we learn about the Surrealist movement and the artists that defined it, including Dali, Magritte, and Miro! Students will experiment with Surrealist concepts such as spontaneity, the subconscious, and dreams. We’ll engage in experiential art methods to enhance creativity and imagination, including collaborative drawing games and free association. We’ll use our wildest dreams to inspire our bizarre creations! A range of art materials will be used to create strange juxtapositions that defy reality.

Using exciting gelli plates, students will create one-of-a-kind colorful and expressive prints. Textures, composition and color will be used to create abstract art masterpieces and landscape paintings. It is quite easy to print... and then print again, so your practice prints can be recycled to make your very own art journals! Monoprint techniques will include overlay, textured mark making, and resist. Equal time will be given for guided lessons and experimenting. You are sure to have fun with these silly, sticky, gloppy printmaking Gellis!

Follow the animal tracks to The Art Garage and learn about the protected camels, porcupines, lions, tigers, ostriches, bears, and wolves of the Wild Animal Sanctuary in Keensburg, CO! Students will spend the week learning facts about the animals who call The Wild Animal Sanctuary home, as well as the importance of kindness towards our fur and feathered friends. Each day students will bring home a new animal masterpiece created with acrylic, watercolor, pastels and stencils.

In this class, artists will become sophisticated scientists and innovative inventors! They will stretch their imaginations and test their problem solving skills as they combine junk art and other exploratory art processes. Artists will make their very own junk art robots, conduct wild art-science experiments, and more!

Step right up boys and girls…The circus is in town! This class will be inspired by the things that make a circus great: Games, clowns and cotton candy. This class will emphasize creating patterns and combining them with bold colors and pop-up elements to create stunning completed works. What happens when you mix polka dots, stripes, and stars? Let’s find out what happens when you let your imagination take a ride on the flying trapeze!

Artists will learn about the life and art of Jean-Michel Basquiat, and use his methods of merging image and text with painting and drawing to create visually stunning artworks. Working on wood panels, artists will use collographs, a collage printmaking technique, and combine them with words, letters, numerals, pictograms and logos. Acrylics, oil pastels and gestural drawing will be used to create meaningful, personalized, process-based artworks.

This week, artists will choose their favorite spotted, striped, scaled and speckled animal as inspiration for the creative process. Students will use a variety of materials, and play with patterns and silhouettes to create visually interesting, modern compositions. Students will learn an advanced drawing skill called a grid technique. After learning this grid method, artists can enlarge any image by themselves and draw on a larger scale!