Fall into Art Adventures!

See the full gallery on Posterous Art Adventures is back for fall with an exciting new curriculum!  We will be exploring artists currently on view at the Whitney, Guggenheim, New Museum, and MoMA including Alina Szapocznikow, Alighiero Boetti, Gabriel Orozco, Yayoi Kusama, Natalie Djurberg, and Picasso.  We will also be exploring the MoMA exhibition Century …

Free Art Adventures Class for New Students!

We are offering 2 complimentary introductory classes to new students to Art Adventures on September 13th or 14th (this Thursday or Friday) @4pm. As a thank you to current parents, we would love for your child to join as well, by inviting a friend and enjoying the 1 hour class, for free. Date/Time 1: Thursday, …

Have you met Wendy?

Meet Wendy at MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, Queens!  Winner of the 2012 Young Architect’s Program, Wendy was designed by HWKN (Matthias Hollwich and Marc Kushner.)  Wendy is constructed from nylon fabric treated with titania nanoparticle spray, and during this summer, she will have produced the clean air equivalent of taking 260 cars off …

Name the lines, shapes, and dots!

Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE See the full gallery on Posterous At Claire’s Creative Adventures, we love exploring the basics of drawing and painting: lines and shapes.  Breaking the 3-D things that we see every day into simple 2-D lines and shapes is both educational and fun (+ often surprisingly difficult.)  That’s …

Bruce Nauman “One Hundred Fish Fountain” at Gagosian Gallery

Trevor Paglen: Does anyone think we should have voted on these lasting images? Tell us your thoughts on this artist’s work being sent into orbit…

http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=56442#.UBlgPWGe4lR This fall, Creative Time will launch The Last Pictures, an archival disc created by artist Trevor Paglen, into outer space, where it will orbit the earth for billions of years affixed to the exterior of the communications satellite EchoStar XVI.

What an honor to have our dear friend, artist and visiting artist to CCA- Joe Mangrum, listed among names like these @ Flag Art Foundation

http://www.flagartfoundation.org/exhibition/95/description Grimanesa Amoros Wolfgang Laib Polly Apfelbaum Richard Long Lynda Benglis Joe Mangrum Patricia Cronin Michael Phelan Tara Donovan Richard Serra Tom Friedman Kiki Smith Felix Gonzalez-Torres Julianne Swartz Mona Hatoum Matthew Stone Steven & William Ladd Venske & Spänle Corban Walker  

Parents and children alike…Check out Yayoi’s use of pattern on a STROLLER TOUR of the Whitney!

http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/YayoiKusama/  Friday August 10th 12-1pm. This show lasts through Sept. 30th.  

Josef Albers at The Morgan Library & Museum

In Art Adventures, we spend a lot of time playing the line and shape game to learn about the fundamentals of art.  We also look at artists who focused heavily on lines and shapes in their art.  One of our favorite of these artists is Josef Albers, best know for his series Homage to the …

2012 June Art Adventures Summer Camp ~ Take a Peek!

  See the full gallery on Posterous Our 2012 June Art Adventures Summer Camp was a huge success! For all of our pictures, check out our Flickr Page under “Summer 2012”: http://www.flickr.com/photos/clairescreativeadventures/sets/ Here’s a look at what we did:  Week 1: 3D Organic Art and the Imagination   We began our week of imagination by creating Mandelas – …