Our Kites soared on our final day at Art Adventures! Inspired by Tiffany Stained Glass, our Adventurers designed stained glass styled kites with fabric markers and textile fabric colors in class. And this past week we shared our kites with NYC and flew them in Central Park! Check out what fun we had in our …
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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”. …
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!
Visiting artist Mackenzie Younger demonstrates the basic elements of cartooning with Art Adventures Studio students! After learning silhouettes, characters, friends and foes, backgrounds and thought bubbles, students tried their hand at their own cartoons… “Mr. Mack” has published his own children’s book as well as shows his work in NYC.
We have taken much inspiration from artists of both past and present recently! Using multiple paper materials, model magic and even recycled products, our adventurers created face sculptures as inspired by french contemporary artist, Junior Fritz Jacquet (check out his work HERE) and silly “Pop Art” masks as inspired by Roy Lichtenstein!
Art Adventures combines Halloween with Soap Making! Spooky Halloween Soaps are easy to do… Glycerin + color + spooky plastic items + molds!
We have been busy bees in this new fall season of Art Adventures! We already explored the NYC Art scene through bookbinding with Basquiat’s Notebooks, traveled down Summer memory lane with Assemblage Art Box building, and this week will be traveling down the rabbit hole in our 3D paper art! Here is a glimpse of …
As we quickly approach the end of these summer days and the start of the Fall Art season, we’re so excited to see an artist that inspired some of our projects here at Art Adventures! Rachel Whiteread, a British sculptor known for her negative plaster casts of everything from the interior of buildings to boxes, …