Its welcome back week at CCA! During Spring break, Claire headed to Florida and met with Laser Peg’s inventor and lead designer, Jon, who is now working on many more inventions! Claire had the unique opportunity to also teach his twins color and pattern techniques with paint on wood. How differently they approached their pieces! While …
Turns out “Snow” globes make for a great project at parties no matter what the season! Just use any found objects to follow your particular theme, different color glitter, glycerin, & distilled water! With the weather quickly changing, Cherry Blossom trees with pink and white glitter can make for the perfect “Spring” globes to welcome …
June Summer Camp is for longer art-making, larger-scale projects and diverse classes each week …Culminating in a wrap-up Friday museum tour to see the artists discussed throughout the week, right here in the Big Apple. What don’t we use? Diverse materials are our forte! Clay, wood, metal, fabric, found objects, paint, video, stop film animation and more! Courtyards are …
If you could fly like a bird, where would you go? What would you see from this bird’s eye view? Just in time for Black History AND Women’s History Months, our Art Adventurers took inspiration from contemporary artist, Faith Ringgold’s Tar Beach Quilt Series and children’s books! They answered this question and created a “Story Quilt”. …
Last week at Art Adventures, our teacher Ms. Nikki introduced us to the work of contemporary artist, Cody Hooper. In a series of his works, Hooper combined old with the contemporary by incorporating aged music sheets with his abstract expressionist painting. We took inspiration from this series, and created our own version! Using different painting techniques …
In honor of this month, we commemorate Captain Patrice Clarke Washington– through value study! Born in the Bahamas in 1961, Captain Washington, is one of the nation’s, and possibly the world’s, first black female commercial airline captains! Taking a photo of her, we divided the image, and each Art Adventurer made it their own – following the “code” of …
Our Art Adventurers became fashion and scenic designers last week with our interactive dioramas. Using wooden doll pins, yarn, various craft & found nature objects, students wrapped, pinched, twisted, overlapped and arranged to create figurines and a fun winter skiing scene! But what made our dioramas interactive? Magnets of course! Thanks to the polarity of the magnets attached …
Mother nature has inspired us this winter! And we’re preparing for another snowy day with some fun interactive Art! Here’s a sneak peak! Stay tuned for our Art Adventurer’s versions!
Taking inspiration from the recent Museum of Modern Art exhibit, as well as well-known Picasso sculptures and busts, our Art Adventurers created their own! We used a very special “stone” clay and squeezed, pulled, rolled and pinched to create geometric and organic 3D forms! Once attached together, they look just like a Picasso’s! Can you spot the spheres, cones, and …
Our new teacher Miss Nikki shared with us these fun and artistic ways to eat healthy in the new year! Check out all of these easy snack and small meal ideas! Lets look and feel great for and with our kids in 2016! apples, peanut butter, bananas, macadamia nuts kiwi, pineapple, watermelon, skewers, cookie cutters …