Tag Archives: Art classes for kids
Kidz Central Station’s Lauren Pohl joins us for a Modern Museum Adventure!
Museum Adventures took Lauren Pohl, founder of Kidz Central Station, on a tour for 4-5’s to visit a list of artists tailored to young learners: Rosenquist, Yves Tinguely, Roy Lichtenstein and Ellsworth Kelly. In just one tour (at the Metropolitan Museum of Art), we learned about advertising, color and everyday objects (Rosenquist), discovered lines in everyday objects (Tinguely), made lines, dots and patterns (Lichtenstein) and made our very own color wheels and color-mixing window collages (Ellsworth Kelly)! There wasn’t much time to explore the stop-motion animation of William Kentridge’s installation, Refusal of Time, nor Al Held’s colored shapes… but then again, a good tour knows when to stop, leaving more for next time! Check it out:
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- Loving the lines we found in ordinary objects!
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- Making patterns a la Lichtenstein
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- Ellsworth Kelly- Spectrum Fav’s 1
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- Ellsworth Kelly- Spectrum Fav’s 2
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- Showing off our work.
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- Finished! with Al Held in the background
Chagall Teaches Fantasy & Color Mixing!
Cold dreary days looking out of my window inspired the use of vellum and a basic color-mixing lesson using copies of his animals to draw or trace, color and overlay with colorful blues, pinks and yellows to make the secondary colors…
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- Flying Goat
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- Flying Fish
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- Put together to make one Stained Glass like Chagall’s windows in Israel.
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- Rooster
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- Flying Horse
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- Goat
Hey color aficionados- Why is it you can still make a rainbow with pink?! (Ask Ellsworth Kelly.)
Learning through the 4 Tempraments
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- The 4 Tempraments
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- Gosha showing the shapes of the different faces (and different colors!)
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- Our “Melancholic” portraits
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- Gail prepping her base
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- Beatrice’s Phlegmatic (!) face
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- Soley, Oli and Abe prepping the Phlegmatics
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- Gosha’s watercolor classes rock!
Visiting artist Gosha (http://www.FineArtsandYoga.com) taught us so much about what it means to be Sanguin, Choleric, Melancholic and Phlegmatic- very new concepts to all of us! Each one is different, has a different color and how each difference relates to physical traits in the face. Our students were able to try the Blue and Green- which made some of them choleric not to finish them all!
A big THANK YOU to Gosha whose patience and energy are always welcome!
Please visit her website to learn more about art, yoga and the perfect combination of the 2.
Claes Oldenburg-Inspired Pillows!
While learning about color mixing, 3-8 year-olds have fun constructing colorful stuffed “Soft Sculptures.” See slideshow:
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- Sewing
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- Stuffing
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- Side 1
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- Side 2
Venetian Mask Making Parent-Child Workshop March 1
Create the perfect disguise for any party! Italian mask-making is a unique art, and carefully planned with lots of fun materials.
During this class, you will you will design, paint, and adorn your very own striking Venetian mask with fancy jewels & exotic feathers, right along with your child. Male masks will also be available.
Saturday, March 1st, 2014
Ages 5 and up.
4-5:30pm
$75 pp
@ All Souls Church
1157 Lexington @ 80th Street
Spaces limited. Register now
Snowfall reminiscent of Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Rooms
Waking up to the snowfall this morning reminded me of Yayoi’s Installation “Fireflies On The Water.” A new version of Deirdre’s child’s project in the works! Definitely mirror boards and poster board involved. Stay tuned….
Fireflies On The Water @ Whitney Museum
“I Who Have Arrived In Heaven” INFINITY-ROOM now on view @ David Zwirner Gallery in NYC through Dec. 21st.
Yves Klein’s lines for kids
Can’t wait to share this with our 3-5’s today! Basic lines may seem rather basic and unimportant to focus on, however, recognizing and purposefully implementing them into desired outcomes is really the key to any drawing.
Murikami Superflat Goes 3D for Kids
Takashi Murikami provided us with a multitude of learning opportunities!
Takashi Murikami is from Japan. He loves “Superflat,” a word he made up! It means colors and shapes look flat on a page, not round. In this piece of art, we made Superflat go 3D: With a sphere… but the only way you can tell from the front is to notice the light casting shadows and shapes having perspective.
Students learned about working larger to smaller, a technique used in painting, as well as contrast, form, perspective, pattern and optical illusion.
Tours and workshops your child will surely enjoy!
New York City is an amazing resource for modern and contemporary art! As a fine artist, as well as an art teacher of children for 15 years, I have found the question, “What is Art?” a never-ending one. Hence my goal- to demystify artists and their processes in language children can understand and adults can use. Art-making is full of choices, which builds a stronger child having made them. I founded Claire’s Creative Adventures over 12 years ago to explore the processes of artists which children may encounter in museums, galleries, or on a walk and to have the tools to decipher and imagine what the artists are thinking. Developing these critical thinking skills and imagination is paramount to a well-rounded child who may approach all of their endeavors with such joy and confidence as they do art!
Becoming a learner with your child can be a stimulating experience! In these workshops and tours, adults learn age-appropriate art language and directed questions as well as techniques artists use to create.
Upcoming Museum Adventures Tours:
December 6th, 2013 Impressionism for Kids and Families. (Register by Dec. 3rd. Limited spaces.) Ages 6-12 years.
1:30-2:45pm/ 3:45-5pm
January 10th, 2014 Line, Shape and Balance. Create a Calder and David Smith, exploring texture & line with metal & wire. (Register by Jan. 7th. Limited spaces.) Ages 3-12 years.
1:30-2:45pm/ 3:45-5pm
@ The Metropolitan Museum of Art (This is a private group.)
- 1.25 Hours of specialized museum time for children ages 3 -12 (3-9 kids at a time.)
- Unique take-home tour art projects with a wide variety of materials and a gift bag.
- Tour artist & leader for the adventure!
- Includes multiple projects with myriad materials and a tote bag.
2 Parent-Child Workshops:
Dec. 7th Parent-Child Venetian Mask-Making, create a disquise for NYE! (Register by Dec. 4th. Limited spaces.) Ages 5-12 years.
Create the perfect disguise for any party or just to decorate and hang! During this class, these striking Venetian masks will become colored, adorned with myriad feathers and jewels and able to wear! Both parent and child will make their own mask.
Jan. 11th Parent-Child DALI Clock-Making in Metal! (Register by Jan. 8th. Limited spaces.) Ages 6-12 years.
Join Artist Claire Munday to create your very own Dali-inspired functioning clock! Using embossing techniques on metal, clocks will be designed and constructed to reflect the “melting” of Dali’s works.
@ All Souls Church, 1157 Lexington, 10075