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ONSITE: Family Studio: Nature’s Feathered Friends: Creating Art About Birds

February 07, 2023

Come and make art side by side as a family. Families will explore a new medium each week and create a beautiful project together. We’ll learn about birds through artmaking, storytime, and taking a short community walk to observe birds. We’ll end our class with a feather painting activity. Please note that part of this […]

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ONSITE: Family Studio: Pinch Pot Fairy Houses

November 07, 2022

Come and make art side by side as a family. Families will explore a new medium each week and create a beautiful project together. We will learn how to form with clay to create our very own tiny fairy houses. We will form in class and you can paint your creations at home!

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ONSITE: Family Studio: Cyanotypes: Making Prints with Sunlight

November 07, 2022

Come and make art side by side as a family. Families will explore a new medium each week and create a beautiful project together. In this class we will make prints using the sun and natural / founds objects. You can bring objects that have meaning to you with distinctive shapes for a more personal […]

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ONSITE: Family Studio: Create a Pillow Doll

November 07, 2022

Come and make art side by side as a family. Families will explore a new medium each week and create a beautiful project together. In this class you will be working together to create a stuffed pillow doll. Use fabric markers, fabric, stuffing, and your imagination to create a doll!

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ONSITE: Family Studio: Silly Self Portraits

November 07, 2022

Come and make art side by side as a family. Families will explore a new medium each week and create a beautiful project together. We'll spend our afternoon using different media to draw portraits of ourselves and family.

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ONSITE: Family Studio: Marbled Paper + Bubble Prints

November 07, 2022

Come and make art side by side as a family. Families will explore a new medium each week and create a beautiful project together. In this class we'll learn unique ways to make beautiful paper that can become prints, cards, envelopes and more! We'll use shaving cream and liquid watercolors to create marbled paper prints […]

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ONSITE: Family Studio: Abstract Paintings Inspired by Alma Thomas

November 07, 2022

Come and make art side by side as a family. Families will explore a new medium each week and create a beautiful project together. learn about this incredible abstract painter and create a work of art in a similar style to take home. We will be using construction paper, glue and paint to create a […]

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ONSITE: Family Studio: Heart Art: Experimental Painting

November 07, 2022

Come and make art side by side as a family. Families will explore a new medium each week and create a beautiful project together. Experiment with process art painting (i.e. use a salad spinner for spin-art hearts) watercolor techniques (dry brush, splatter, wet on wet, etc) to make painted hearts of all sorts. Use contact […]

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ONSITE: Family Studio: Make a Snow Globe

November 07, 2022

Come and make art side by side as a family. Families will explore a new medium each week and create a beautiful project together. In this class you'll create your own world in a snow globe out of recycled & found items!

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ONSITE: Family Studio: Create a Puppet Show

November 07, 2022

Come and make art side by side as a family. Families will explore a new medium each week and create a beautiful project together. In this class, kids and their grownups will work together to build a simple puppet show. We will come up with a story, build the puppet characters in the form of […]

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ONSITE: Family Studio: Create a Pillow Doll

July 12, 2022

Come and make art side by side as a family. Families will explore a new medium each week and create a beautiful project together. In this class you will be working together to sew a stuffed pillow doll. Use fabric markers, fabric, stuffing, and your imagination to create a doll!

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ONSITE: Family Studio: Clay Ornaments

July 12, 2022

Come and make art side by side as a family. Families will explore a new medium each week and create a beautiful project together. In this class you will make beautiful ornaments to hang on your tree, or anywhere really! Roll out slabs, cut out shapes, use a variety of materials to make impressions and […]

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ONSITE: Family Studio: Free inLight Lantern Making Workshop!

July 12, 2022

Come and make art side by side as a family. Families will explore a new medium each week and create a beautiful project together. In this free class you will be making lanterns for 1708 Gallery's inLight, an amazing display of light-centric art. Make a beautiful paper lantern in this class using paper folding and […]

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ONSITE: Family Studio: Mystery Monster Machine Game!

July 12, 2022

Come and make art side by side as a family. Families will explore a new medium each week and create a beautiful project together. Join your family in this spooky art class, and play the mystery monster machine game! Pick 3 cards and draw a monster based on the description!!

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ONSITE: Family Studio: Paper Quilts Inspired by Faith Ringgold

July 12, 2022

Come and make art side by side as a family. Families will explore a new medium each week and create a beautiful project together. Create paper quilts inspired by the quilting artist Faith Ringgold. Faith creates story quilts which combine both storytelling and quilting in the same artwork!

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ONSITE: Family Studio: Autumn Watercolor + Collage

July 12, 2022

Come and make art side by side as a family. Families will explore a new medium each week and create a beautiful project together. In this class you will explore the vibrant colors of the season with liquid watercolors and various natural materials.

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ONSITE: Family Studio: Printed Family Flags

July 12, 2022

Come and make art side by side as a family. Families will explore a new medium each week and create a beautiful project together. Work with your family to create a family flag using printmaking techniques!

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ONSITE: Family Studio: Make a Clay Mug

April 15, 2022

Come and make art side by side as a family. Each week, families will explore a new medium and create a beautiful project together. Create a functional, ceramic mug to be enjoyed for years to come! Each family member can make their own or you can work together to design and hand-build a clay mug […]

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ONSITE: Family Studio: Exploring Printmaking

April 15, 2022

Come and make art side by side as a family. Each week, families will explore a new medium and create a beautiful project together. Printmaking is great for all ages! In this workshop-style class, we will practice using various materials to make monoprints: Foam sticker “mandala” prints on paper, fruit and vegetable prints, junk-drawer prints […]

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ONSITE: Family Studio: Clay Coil Pots for the Garden or Home

April 15, 2022

Come and make art side by side as a family. Each week, families will explore a new medium and create a beautiful project together. In this one day workshop, create curvy, colorful coil pots that can be used in your home or garden. Make your own pot or work together to hand-build one as a […]

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ONSITE: Family Studio: Clay Pinch Pot Trinket Dishes

April 15, 2022

Come and make art side by side as a family. Each week, families will explore a new medium and create a beautiful project together. Let’s play with clay and make something fun and functional! In this no-experience-necessary workshop, we will practice basic hand-building techniques such as forming, rolling, coiling and smoothing. Embellishments, like beads, can […]

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ONSITE: Family Studio: Splash, Spill, and Splatter with Paint!

April 15, 2022

Come and make art side by side as a family. Families will explore a new medium each week and create a beautiful project together. In this class you will be introduced to Jackson Pollock an abstract expressionism artist who is known for his action painting which is energetic, messy, and fun.

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ONSITE: Family Studio: Dabbing & Daubing with Watercolor!

April 15, 2022

Come and make art side by side as a family. Each week, families will explore a new medium and create a beautiful project together. Experimenting with watercolors by dabbing and daubing on damp paper is an easy and fun way to play with watercolors. Each family member will leave with beautiful watercolor masterpiece.

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ONSITE: Family Studio: Colors of the Wheel

February 06, 2022

Come and make art side by side as a family. Families will explore a new medium each week and create a beautiful project together. Let's explore the color wheel to show the relationships between colors and how we see color. We will discover how Vincent Van Gogh experimented with complementary colors on the color wheel. […]

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