Category: Art Adventure

Tis the Season for Ghosts, Pumpkin Patches and Haunted Houses…

BOO! Halloween is fast approaching and we’re SO EXCITED for what we have hiding in our art closets! Our Art Adventurers will sculpt, paint, “shop” and assemble to create a unique spooky Halloween scene. Day 1 is all about our pumpkin patches- sculpting and painting using drop dye. Day 2 we will choose different Halloween fun materials, arrange our choices, …

It’s a Frigate! Don’t Forget It!

In celebration of Columbus Day, our Art Adventurers used a myriad of materials from fabrics and ropes to stars and anchors to create a mixed media collage of a frigate. What is a frigate? It is a ship with many sails built for speed and maneuverability. We learned the  technique of collaging while also gaining …

Fall and the Importance of Art

Happy Fall! We are SO EXCITED for the start of our new 2016 semester of Art Adventures! As we await the foliage and next week’s classes, we’ve been catching up on some great Art Education reads! Check out what we’re reading HERE! And see you on Monday!  

Stop Motion Animation at Art Adventures

As we look forward to our upcoming Fall Art Adventures, we look back on our Summer Camp Art Adventurers who were inspired by the work of William Kentridge and created our version of a Stop Motion Animation! Check out our short animation video HERE!

Flying Our Tiffany Stained Glass-Inspired Kites @ Central Park!

Story Time through Art!

If you could fly like a bird, where would you go? What would you see from this bird’s eye view? Just in time for Black History AND Women’s History Months, our Art Adventurers took inspiration from contemporary artist, Faith Ringgold’s Tar Beach Quilt Series and children’s books! They answered this question and created a “Story Quilt”. …

Winter Skiing Magnetic Fun!

Our Art Adventurers became fashion and scenic designers last week with our interactive dioramas. Using wooden doll pins, yarn, various craft & found nature objects, students wrapped, pinched, twisted, overlapped and arranged to create figurines and a fun winter skiing scene! But what made our dioramas interactive? Magnets of course! Thanks to the polarity of the magnets attached …

Winter Fun AND Art!

Mother nature has inspired us this winter! And we’re preparing for another snowy day with some fun interactive Art! Here’s a sneak peak! Stay tuned for our Art Adventurer’s versions!

Swedish Clay Cookie Stamps & Holiday Cardmaking!

Getting into the holiday spirit with cookies, we used this age-old Swedish tradition of making specialty designs in clay as an indicator of what store, (or in this case, what child) the cookies came from! We first created a sphere with air-dry clay (found at craft & art stores), flattened it and added a coil …

Faces, Faces Everywhere!

We have taken much inspiration from artists of both past and present recently!  Using multiple paper materials, model magic and even recycled products, our adventurers created face sculptures as inspired by french contemporary artist, Junior Fritz Jacquet (check out his work HERE) and silly “Pop Art” masks as inspired by Roy Lichtenstein!