Channel your inner Michelangelo.

ARTivities

Our Art and Innovation Lab is stocked with everything from clay to paints to pastels to help your child explore the world of art. When children delve into art, they are not just painting a picture or creating a sculpture; they are developing skills that will help them in other areas of their lives, including spatial reasoning, perspective and dimension.

July ARTivities

• Art Traffic Jam: Collaborative Mural Sessions guides children in creative fun with others and transports us all into a bustling array of color looping and intertwining with other young artists. Sessions are at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. daily.
• Cubist Construct: Looking back on the work of Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso, children will blend and glue geometrical figures, painting their pieces to arrange a multiple perspective piece called a cubist sculpture.
• Stars and Say What? Celebrate Independence Day with the invention of your own unique American flag on a canvas board. July 1 – August 3.
•  Meet the Artist Series featuring Shira Grant through September 15.
  • Make art from upcycled materials and contribute to the community flower garden

August ARTivities

• Fruit Face Collaborative: From a cornucopia of faux fruit and veggies, manipulate temporary facial portraits into the style that Giuseppe Arcimboldo used to paint during the Renaissance.
• Using plants, fruit, vegetables, animals and objects like books to embellish facial die cuts with fruit stickers or draw a facial portrait using the whimsical, yet symbolic painting style of Giuseppe Arcimboldo.
•  Meet the Artist Series featuring Shira Grant through September 15.
  • Make art from upcycled materials and contribute to the community flower garden
• Abstract ABC Art Sculpture: Pezzettino is his name, self acceptance became his game. This lovely story by Leo Lionni presents us with a chance to sculpt an abstract piece of fine art much like the book’s title character who learns to appreciate all the stuff he is made of.
• Ants and Watermelons: Refurbish upcycled materials to create a 3D summer picnic vignette of ants and/or watermelon.