The annual Panorama trivia challenge was fun and a true learning adventure!

  Wow, there’s just too much to know about this city!  I’d better sharpen up the facts, before I get my NYC tour guide licence this spring to hone in on what’s to know about people, art and architecture-providing ADULT tours with flair!  Ps- this was made of wood!

Looking forward to Tomorrow’s Lynda Benglis project. + not too many hairdryers at once!

Ellsworth Kelly shares with kids color mixing techniques- without one primary color. How? Join a Museum Adventures tour and find out!

Kidz Central Station’s Lauren Pohl joins us for a Modern Museum Adventure!

Met Modern Tour with Museum Adventures!

Children of various ages enjoyed making works from Chamberlain’s crushed car sculptures, Oldenburg’s “Soft Sculptures” and Ellsworth Kelly’s color fields!  A walk through William Kentridge’s “Refusal of Time” ended our tour teaching us about stop-motion animation.  (A great app to download to your Iphone or Ipad, to make your own stop-motion animations is called Vine.)

Grey Days + Mondrian = Many Lessons.

Mondrian’s Grey Tree has inspired our line development in our early learners: Straight, Curved and Angled.  2 Versions: Color mixing with B/W, then with all primaries, white and NO Black! As grey can be mixed both ways…  Great book to go with this lesson:  The Wizard Grey!

Professional ACTING CLASSES for Teens, Preteens & Little Ones!

“Delightful, interesting, thought provoking…moving” -What they’ll say about your child’s performance!   The Young Actors PlayShop:  Ages 6 – 12 Saturdays  10-11:30 am   On-Camera Commercial Audition Technique:  Ages 7 – 16 Saturdays  1-2:30 pm   For Course Descriptions, click here. Register by end of March!  Classes begin April 5th. @ All Souls Church 1157 …

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… Hey color aficionados- Why is it you can still make a rainbow with pink?! …

Learning through the 4 Tempraments

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- …

Claes Oldenburg-Inspired Pillows!

While learning about color mixing, 3-8 year-olds have fun constructing colorful stuffed “Soft Sculptures.”  See slideshow: