Tag: Clay

Creating art brings peace and relaxation to the body and mind, when times are uncertain or when the mind is troubled by the worries of the world. Read how Rebecca Ackerman created tiny food clay art to cure her pandemic anxiety! PC: NY Times Create with us in the Fall! More about Claire’s Art Adventures: …

Chinese New Year: Year of the Pig… & Calligraphy Art for Art Adventures!

Let is Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow….in your Artwork!

We are quickly approaching our Spring Semester @ CCA! So for our last full week of January, we continue to let the Winter season inspire our Art Adventures- creating Snowscape Value paintings with our 5-7yo Art Adventures ..and Snow(wo)man Clay Sculptures with Found Objects for our Mini Art Adventures! Whether it’s the weather, nature, found …

Swedish Clay Cookie Stamps & Holiday Cardmaking!

Getting into the holiday spirit with cookies, we used this age-old Swedish tradition of making specialty designs in clay as an indicator of what store, (or in this case, what child) the cookies came from! We first created a sphere with air-dry clay (found at craft & art stores), flattened it and added a coil …

Holiday Clay Parent-Child Workshop Was A Hit!

Children and Adults learned to press textures from leaves and patterns to create bowls, trivets, plates and Holiday Ornaments!  Underglazing with colors, they will be fired in a Kiln!      See The Whole Process!