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Painting: Real and Imagined
Grade 6 - 8 8 Wednesday, 3:30 - 5:30 pm April 26 - June 14, 2017 Imagination and Observation! Expressive imagination and close observation come into play through exploring a wide variety of media in works on paper. Acrylic paints, oil pastels, watercolor, and charcoal are all possible materials. We will look at examples of artwork by famous artists and other cultures for inspiration, expanding ideas about art.
Find out more »Mixed Media: Screenprinting, Painting, Collage
8 Wednesdays, 6 - 8 pm April 26 – June 14, 2017 Explore your artistic process, develop your creative voice. Develop your ideas and images by exploring new techniques and combining them into mixed media pieces. Learn how to screen print and use this versatile printmaking process in combination with painting, collage and drawing. Try different surfaces like paper, cloth, wood panels along with acrylic paint, ink, oil sticks, watercolors and markers. This class will encourage exploration and focus on the…
Find out more »Centrifugal Force: Ceramics
Adult / Teen 8 Wednesdays, 6 - 8:30 pm April 26 – June 14, 2017 For intermediate to advanced students. Establish your voice and style. This class will offer participants personalized instruction to develop their skills creating artwork in clay. We will provide inspiration, information and encouragement for our artists to establish a voice and style for their ceramic work. Experienced students will benefit from advanced demonstrations.
Find out more »Ceramics By Hand
5 Thursdays, 10 am - 12 pm April 27 – May 25, 2017 Try your hand at functional and sculptural ceramics! Explore hand-building construction processes such as coils, slabs, pinching, and experiment with slump molds. A variety of glazing techniques with be shared in order to achieve desired decorative and finishing techniques using various glazes and resists. This class will cover a variety of basics, where you take it from there is up to your artistic vision. Studio Sampler Series offers five-week classes…
Find out more »Start with Art
Toddler & Preschool 8 Thursdays, 10:30 - 12:00 pm April 27 - June 15, 2017 Play, Discover, Create Each week children and their caregivers will find a variety of age appropriate materials and techniques to explore. Children can move at their own pace between stations. The focus will be on having fun while doing and experiencing a variety of gross and fine motor activities. Projects will include a mix of messy and/or large projects with those more easily repeated at home. Note: Registration…
Find out more »Make & Sew Hand-Printed Fabrics
Grade 3-5 8 Thursdays, 3:30 - 5:30 pm April 27 - June 15, 2017 Design patterns and projects of your own creation! Explore textile dyeing techniques from around the world such as resists, stamps and bound methods for creating forms and patterns on cloth and then use your own cloths, and incorporate fabrics made by other artisans if you choose, to hand sew a bag or a pillow or another project of your own design. Snack 'n Track is available for students who…
Find out more »Print, Paint, Shape, Create!
Grades 1 - 2 8 Thursdays, 3:30 - 5:30 pm April 27 – June 15, 2017 Your art in your own book! Create works of art on paper by drawing, painting, and printmaking, then bind art pieces into sculptural collages and imaginative “books” of all kinds. Snack 'n Track is available for students who are registering for this class.
Find out more »Working with Wood
Grade K 8 Thursdays, 3:30 - 5:30 pm April 27 - June 15, 2017 What can you make out of wood? Kindergartners will work with wood, hand tools and paint to create projects of their own design. While building three dimensional projects children will develop fine motor skills. Emphasis will be placed on creativity and feeling empowered by learning to use real tools safely. Snack 'n Track is available for students who are registering for this class.
Find out more »Wheelworks: Another Spin
Grades 6 - 8 8 Thursdays, 3:30 - 5:30 pm April 27 - June 15, 2017 Work on a potter's wheel. Learn to advance the skills of throwing pots on a potter’s wheel, from salt cellars to floor vases, and everything in between, from functional to sculptural. Hand-glaze your work and experience the surprises when the kiln is unloaded.
Find out more »Gallery Reception, Torn and Folded: Work by Bill Flynn
Thursday, April 27 6:00 - 8:00 pm Dates: April 24 - May 19, 2017 The Chandler Gallery 20 Sacramento St. Cambridge, MA Artist Bill Flynn has been collecting crushed gloves. He is fascinated by the way the random creases reshape each glove into a visually exciting flat piece. Flynn’s glove collection served as a major influence for his latest show at the Chandler Gallery: Each drawing borrows the techniques of folding and flattening to incorporate fortuitous rips and edges as…
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