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
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.)
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
In our Venice Mini-Set Building Parent-Child Workshop Saturday, students learned exactly that. Artist Cliff Gokenbach showed us how…
Check out the slideshow below, to see how it was done. Some students are already working on their next city dioramas at home!
(We love it when parents become learners with their children:) Way to go Mariella!
And a great big THANK YOU to Cliff!
Don’t wait! This Saturday, 4pm @ All Souls Church features movie mini-set building with Cliff Gokenbach, scenic painter extraordinaire who is great with kids! We’ll make a mini- set each to take home as well as learn about this industry’s art-making opportunities. Great for ages 6 and up. Register on our site.
Saturday, DECEMBER 7th: VENETIAN MASKS! 4-5:30pm
Get ready for New Year’s Eve Adults! You too can come create a gorgeous disguise (or scary!) with your child. Register early, limited spaces.
Register now: Art Adventures Parent-Child class Sat. Nov. 2nd from 4-5:30 pm. ClairesCreativeAdventures.com
We are so excited to have professional scenic artist Cliff Gokenbach teach us the secrets of how artists create for the movies. He can’t tell us about the new Spiderman he’s working on, but he can help us make any imaginary set we can dream of! Here, he’s gone to Venice…
Post Halloween blues? This Friday from 3:45-5pm, kids can create Monet’s mood through color, Van Gogh’s swirling lines in metal and hide Rousseau’s animals in the jungle… In our Friday Met Children’s Tour, ages 6 and up. Artists of all ages will love the projects and come home with a goodie bag…. full of art! Not candy! (Adults welcome to participate.)
Visit www.ClairesCreativeAdventures.com/register
Soft plush stuffed animals in an installation? Perfect for kids. Want an outdoor activity as well? Head to Socrates Sculpture Park to get the wiggles out after seeing all of the colors and “found objects” Mike Kelley has “strung” together! 
http://momaps1.org/exhibitions/view/374 Who wants to go on a tour together?! PS1 is only one stop from Manhattan…and plenty of Queens parents should certainly take advantage. I’m working on the hands-on projects!
At our Venetian Mask Party (great for all ages,) we adorned our own Venetian Masks with jewels, feathers, and so much more.
Take a peek at how we dazzle in our disguises!
In our quest to discover “What is Art?”, CCA visited some wonderful kid-friendly galleries you should know about. These galleries are in such close proximity and offer a wealth of exposure to a wide range of modern and contemporary artists. Along the way, our kids learned to direct their questions to the gallery owners, chose their favorite pieces, made sketches as well as articulate their “likes” and “dislikes” using the 7 elements of art to justify their choices.
First stop was Isabel Bacher Gallery on 78th @ Madison, were we met our most enthusiastic and gracious gallery owner, Audrey. I would highly recommend a visit here to see a wide range of prints and printing processes of the masters like Toulouse Lautrec, Miro, Chagall, Matisse, Picasso, Dubuffet and Warhol. They are simple enough to sketch and bring colored pencils for Miro!
Just next door are the gorgeous Lady M Cakes. What a great introduction to food painters and builders such as Claes Oldenburg and Wayne Thiebaud!
1018 Madison Avenue galleries are great because you can hit a few all in one building… and see gorgeous desserts at the front door! Our kids were able to discover that they liked works from Jean Arp, Gorky, Chamberlain (they were able to relate it to the piece we have seen at the Met!) as well as a new artist to us: Jeane Plensa who uses words & symbols as art in a marvelous 3D form. Mark Swanson’s bejeweled antlers were hard not to touch… but our 3 feet rule helps when reaching outJ
Saving the best for last was the Michelle Rosenfeld Gallery on 79th street. Cecelia greeted us at the door and showed us works by Kwang Young Chun (a fave for the kids), Murakami, Calder and even a surprising Yayoi Kusama. They were extremely inviting and wonderful with the kids.
All in all, it was an eye-opening first day of the semester, lending an opportunity for me as a teacher to know where to drive our curriculum down the road, to revisit and demystify these artist’s works & processes, while promoting further understanding of the art world around us. As always, check first to make sure the works are child-appropriate, as they consistently change.
Join us on our tours, and discover for yourself how rewarding it is to see and make art from the contemporary greats!
This Saturday, October 5th:
Create your own Venetian Mask!
4-5:30pm
1st Saturdays Parent-Child Workshop
Are you ready for Halloween?
Come create a Venetian mask that you can wear with style while trick-or-treating! Ages 5 and up should carve out time for this easy way to make an authentic-style disguise.
