It’s Sakura Matsuri this weekend at the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens! In celebration of this Spring time festival, our Art Adventurers made Cherry Blossom tree sculptures! Using real branches, tissue paper for blossoms and paper mache, we attached, shaped, folded and crimpled to build our blooming cherry blossom trees! Check out more of our beautiful …
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In the spirit of Passover and the Seder meal, and recognizing the power of storytelling in art– Children designed their own versions of either a Seder plate/ Tile, or Elijah’s/ Miriam’s Cup. During the Seder, Elijah’s Cup is the 5th untouched cup of wine, Miriam’s Cup is for water from each guest’s cup to celebrate the crossing …
We loved the Holiday Clay Impressions so much we had to have a part deux with an All Soul’s Parent-Child workshop and Art Adventures class! Our Workshop and Art Adventurers learned to texturize using various tools and texture patterns on clay slabs to then create bowls, plates and special vases! We then glazed our creations with different color …
Exciting News! Claire’s Creative Adventures has been selected for the 2016 New York Award in the Education Services category, the 2015 Best in Manhattan Tours AND inducted into the New York Award Program Hall of Fame for winning the “Best In Education Services” category for 4 consecutive years! Without YOU and your INCREDIBLE CHILDREN who …
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 …
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 …