Summer Classes June 4 -June 8

There is still time to register your students for the following classes!

Kinder Artists (ages 3-5)  will be painting dandelions. What a great way to start off the summer. There is still room in all sessions of this class which meets:

Ages 3-4

 Monday June 4th  9:30 AM 

OR

Tuesday June 5th  9:30AM

Ages 4-5

Monday June 4th  10:30AM

OR

Tuesday June 5th 10:30 AM
FEE: $7

There is still room in ALL of these classes for your creative child!

Passport to Art (Grades 3-4) Get your passports ready and travel the world through art. Each week we will visit a different country and learn about the culture through arts and crafts. Each student will receive a complimentary passport at the end of class stamped with each country visited.   First stop- CHINA! and there is still room to travel with us.

Mondays 12:30PM – 1:30PM

June 4^th – June 25^th 

FEE: $54

Angry Birds ROCK! (Grades 3-4)
Everyone needs an angry bird to call their own. We will painting a feilf rock to look like your favorite angry bird.

Monday June 4th 1:30-3:00

FEE: $22

Ultimate Tree House (Architecture) Have you ever thought about the tree house you would build if you could dream big? In this class you can build your ultimate tree house on a small scale. Think in terms of dollhouse sized staircases and rope swings fit for a fairy. These are the requirements: your house has at least three different levels and each level needs to be accessible – no magically jumping from level to level. One level needs a roof and three sides. Furniture and accessories that you build your self are optional and encouraged.

Grades 5-8 Tuesdays June 5– 26 1:00 PM – 3:00PM

FEE: $85

Mosaic Art Mosaic art goes as far back as 400 B.C. to ancient Greece where geometric patterns and scenes of people and animals were depicted by placing small pieces of different colour materials to create a picture. . You will learn how to create a 12” x 12” wall mosaic using Italian glass tiles and fine grout.

Session1: Grades 5-8 Wednesdays June 6-20 1:00 PM – 3:00PM

FEE: $75

Rocket Ships You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to create this fantastic rocket ship but you do have to be creative with paper tubes, tape, paint and glue.

Grades 4-6 Thursday June 7 2:00-3:30PM

FEE: $22

There is still room in ALL of these classes for your creative child!

Flower Wreath This wreath is made entirely out of egg cartons- you’d never know unless I told you. It’s beautiful!
June 8

Session 1: Grades 3-4 1:00-2:30PM

Session2: grades 5-6 3:00-4:30PM

FEE: $22

Judgement call?

Recently I received a phone call from a young woman who has just moved here from another location. She was very friendly on the phone. She has a degree in art education and had been talking and asking about art opportunities here. My name came up quite often as THE person to talk to about art in Carroll. Anyway she said she had been all over my website and noticed that I do "crafty things" with kids and was wondering if I would be interested in her coming in and team teaching with me but on an art level.

 Am I being too sensitive?  Because I was kind of offended.

All she had to go by was my summer classes which I will admit are more crafts based because parents don't want to commit to 6 or more weeks of classes in the summer. Plus I really enjoy the relaxed atmosphere of summer craft classes as do the kids.

During the school year it's all art. Every lesson reviews the basics- line, shape, form, color- we discuss horizon lines , foreground, middle ground and background- we make sure to draw what we see. We use watercolors, pastels, ink, acrylic paint, pencils and charcoal. We discuss famous artists and what it was like to produce work in their day and what their style of art is called and then try to imitate it.

Please don't label me as craftsy.

Or artsy-fartsy.

Or arsty-craftsy.

I paint. I draw. I create.
I am a creative person and I like to share my creativity with kids.