See the full gallery on Posterous Our Art Adventures students used diverse materials and found objects to build combines inspired by Robert Rauschenberg.  Rauschenberg used found objects (and sometimes taxidermied animals) in his combines which can be found at the Met and MoMA. What would you use to build your combine?

See the full gallery on Posterous An American Girl’s Animal Party in 5 easy steps! Step 1:  Bring your American Girl Step 2:  Design jewelry to match your Girl. Step 3:  Make a portrait of her to frame. Step 4:  Sculpt her a creative animal and it’s surrounding environment from lots of cool materials!! Step …

See the full gallery on Posterous Students used shading techniques to create 3D form on their own faces, in the reverse (using the paper as shaded negative space, instead of a source of light.) We had the opportunity to see Picasso’s work in Picasso Black & White at the Guggenheim, and this exhibit explores many concepts …

See the full gallery on Posterous We had our final Picasso tour before the exhibition closes on Jan 23rd!  Children thoroughly enjoyed our time together exploring Picasso’s unique signature profiles, values, drawing techniques and abstraction, as well as the always popular scratch art for “Head of a Horse” study.

See the full gallery on Posterous Inspired by Yayoi Kusama’s piece Fireflies on the Water, exhibited in her restrospecive at the Whitney Museum this past summer, students built their own infinity boxes exploring perspective and repetition.

See the full gallery on Posterous Students explored textures of everyday objects and overlapping to create prints inspired by Picasso’s guitars.

See the full gallery on Posterous Students expressed their creativity by using shapes and values to build organic animal forms just like Picasso’s drawings on view @ the Guggenheim exhibit (closes tomorrow).  

Children thorughoughly enjoyed our time together exploring picasso’s unique signature profiles, values, drawing techniques and abstraction… as well as the always popular scratch art for “Head of a Horse” study:)  Join us by visiting our website for a list of dates and times…  “The boys and I really enjoyed the tour with you. They really had …

See the full gallery on Posterous During our Art Adventures class tour at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, we focused on lines with David Smith’s “Becca” and Robert Rauschenberg’s “Winter Pool.”  We then looked at color with Ellsworth Kelly’s “Spectrum V.”  Before we finished, we stopped at Robert Ryman’s painting to look forward to an …

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