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ARTivities • Program

Channel your inner Michelangelo.

Explore fine arts, crafts and innovative activities.

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.

May ARTivities

  • Paint a Symphony collaborative mural while listening to different genres throughout the month.
  • Sol Collage: create your own version of the sun using paper, glue and tons of imagination
  • We’re using metallic watercolor to make Mother’s Day cards in celebration of moms
  • Fridays at 4pm: Art Lab story time: Joan Mitchell Paints a Symphony by Lisa Rogers
  • Meet the Artist Series featuring Morgan Yen Pattison
    • Inspired to be an artist when she was in kindergarten, Morgan introduces you to etchings using familiar shapes.

June ARTivities

  • Fields of Flowers: Collaborative Mural Sessions encourage children to create wild articulations of flora in a musical chairs type game. Sessions are at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. daily.
  • Dada for Dad: Create a portrait of your dad using descriptive words in time for Father’s Day. June 1 – June 15.
  • Surrealism: We’re taking regular objects and rearranging them to state the unexpected as we study surrealism masters. June 17 – June 29.
  • Swing into Summer: Using mixed media, we’re sculpting summertime fun using varied objects.
  • Community Wing Collaboration: For those artists who participated in the wing art project, come back to take your picture in front of your beautiful feather which has been incorporated into one large set of wings. On display June 17.
  • Meet the Artist Series featuring Morgan Yen Pattison
    • Inspired to be an artist when she was in kindergarten, Morgan introduces you to etchings using familiar shapes to create textures to use in your unique collage.

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