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Weekly Wrap-up: Lava Lamps, Sand Painting & More

What a fantastic week at CCA! With All Souls School off for Rosh Hashana, we held AM Camps for supplemental art education.  What happens when science meets art? We explored that question with Rainbow Lava Lamps! Students learned about color mixing as they used the three primary colors (red, yellow, blue) to mix secondary colors …

How do we combine Halloween and Art History?

Get ready for spook-tacular Art Adventures this Halloween! Create memories that will last a lifetime with our art-history inspired projects. Join us as we study Damien Hirst’s diamond skull, Giacometti’s eerie figures, Tim Burton’s skeletons and Yayoi Kusama’s playful pumpkins and infinity rooms to create hauntingly fun masterpieces! Scroll to hear about our final semester. …

CCA Monthly news & Upcoming events

October | 2024  WELCOME BACK! Settling into Fall? Have your kids already taken CCA classes? Every class is different! Every age is different… With 24 years of creating curriculum to developmental levels and to reflect the happenings in NYC & the world, there’s so much more to do! From metal emossing to plasterwrap to painting …

Summer CampS 2024! WE had a blast ⭐️

Our summer was full of artist-inspired projects! We made works by Joan Miro (paintings), Claes Oldenburg (hamburgers & food sculpture), Henry Moore (clay), Jackson Pollock (drip painting), Marc Chagall (pastels), Tim Burton (sculptures), Wayne Thiebaud (cakes), Archille Gorky (paintings), Robert Rauschenburg (Combines), Jim Dine (hammering), and more! CCA curriculum is always interdisciplinary; See students’ work …

Art Adventures 2021 Summer Camps-What Did We Do? Click to See!

CCA is LEADER OF THE PACK… and 1st of No Longer Empty’s educational tours!

Creating art brings peace and relaxation to the body and mind, when times are uncertain or when the mind is troubled by the worries of the world. Read how Rebecca Ackerman created tiny food clay art to cure her pandemic anxiety! PC: NY Times Create with us in the Fall! More about Claire’s Art Adventures: …

Summertime Blast: Build purposeful memories in this last month of Summer! Go to the ocean, take creative selfies, build sandcastles, and eat lots of ice cream!  To find the pearls in life’s ocean, you have to venture out far past the shore. -Author Unknown Since we live so close to the ocean, why not learn from …

We 💜 cats and  ❤️ ❤️ to paint! Watch one of our visiting artists from this Summer’s Drawing Camp, share her painting style See more HIGHLIGHTS from Drawing Camp 2020 HERE