Tag: Class Projects

Dali-inspired Melting Clocks!

Art Adventures Studio embossed and built their own Dali-inspired functioning clocks!  Clocks were designed and constructed to reflect the “melting” of Dali’s famous clocks. You and your child can make your own (a great Father’s Day gift) this Saturday, June 1st @4-5:30pm – contact us!

Alina Szapocznikow Body Sculptures

Using alginate and plaster to explore negative space, students learned how to mix skin color and painted their hands in their own unique ways. Check out the results of the second part of this project:

Nathalie Djurberg Animal Sculptures

Nathalie Djurberg animal sculpture required many steps!  Thinking about a skeleton inside of a sculpture to keep it strong, which shape to make it and which animal to build!  With the use of armature wire, aluminum foil, plaster wrap and paint, these are our amazing creatures that took 3 weeks! We also made Murakami inspired …

Color Theory at the Met with Museum Adventures!

This past Friday at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum Adventures explored Color Theory through the work of Robert Ryman, Rothko, and Josef Albers. Take a peek…

Alina Szapocznikow Body Sculptures

Using alginate and plaster to explore negative space, to see humor in art using body parts and learning an extreme amount of self control, students were challenged to create a hand gesture and hold it for up to 10 min. as the alginate mold was created. Check out the results of the first part of …

Join CCA This Summer!

Happy May Day! Summer will be here before you know it. Join CCA this year for June Art Adventures Summer Camp and experience contemporary art in a whole new way. Our camps engage and inspire through exciting hands-on creative activities and material exploration! With this longer time spent, there is ample time to dive into …

Pop Art Food Party at All Souls!

Create food art inspired by Wayne Thiebaud and Claes Oldenburg at your next birthday party!  Our recent birthday party at All Souls Church was so much fun, and the kids made fun and tasty-looking pop art food sculptures. To book your own party, e-mail us at claire@clairescreativeadventures.com.  

Sand painting with Art Adventures Studio

Inspired by the work of sand painter, Joe Mangrum and Navajo healing rituals, children designed their own sand paintings using concentric circles, organic and geometric forms. To see Joe’s work, visit his website www.joemangrum.com or find him daily in Union Square or Washington Square Park.

Sand painting with Art Adventures

Inspired by the work of sand painter, Joe Mangrum and Navajo healing rituals, children designed their own sand paintings using concentric circles, organic and geometric forms. To see Joe’s work, visit his website www.joemangrum.com or find him daily in Union Square or Washington Square Park.

Improv Wall Painting with Basquiat

Students were inspired by Basquiat’s loose, free- style improvisational paintings to paint with repetition of lines and shapes as well as using words and symbols.  A friend of Andy Warhol, Basquiat was different from graffiti artists because his words had a higher meaning than just a name on the side of a building.  He described his work, “I cross out words so …