Tag: kids art programs

How do we combine Halloween and Art History?

Get ready for spook-tacular Art Adventures this Halloween! Create memories that will last a lifetime with our art-history inspired projects. Join us as we study Damien Hirst’s diamond skull, Giacometti’s eerie figures, Tim Burton’s skeletons and Yayoi Kusama’s playful pumpkins and infinity rooms to create hauntingly fun masterpieces! Scroll to hear about our final semester. …

Summer CampS 2024! WE had a blast ⭐️

Our summer was full of artist-inspired projects! We made works by Joan Miro (paintings), Claes Oldenburg (hamburgers & food sculpture), Henry Moore (clay), Jackson Pollock (drip painting), Marc Chagall (pastels), Tim Burton (sculptures), Wayne Thiebaud (cakes), Archille Gorky (paintings), Robert Rauschenburg (Combines), Jim Dine (hammering), and more! CCA curriculum is always interdisciplinary; See students’ work …

This summer has been a whirlwind of creativity! Check out some of our favorite projects from Summer Art Camp! Sea Globes: Combine art and science to give snow globes a summery twist! Glitter, oil and water suspend these beautiful underwater creations in an air-tight globe: a memory to last forever, or a gift for someone …

Art Adventures 2021 Summer Camps-What Did We Do? Click to See!

Welcome Back Afterschool Art Week

Claire’s Creative Adventures is officially starting our after school arts enrichment classes this week! Week 1 we’re diving right into Memories, Art AND Science! Haven’t Heard about Art Adventures? Our programs have nurtured and challenged thousands of children on the UES over the past 20+ years. We know there are a lot of activities for …

What To Do With ALL Of That Candy? Candy Mosaic Collages!

  Holiday Pumpkins provide a unique opportunity for our introduction to the art of Mosaics… as well as the idea of recycling candy! Students this week will follow Contour Lines to create shapes, explore line families and “See-Through” or Negative Shapes. They also practiced Unity and Variety,  the cornerstone to making elevated art, as well as practice …

Cartooning Class with Mackenzie Younger

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.     

3D Halloween Scene Building…Great for all ages!

Lots of fun materials + Lots of choice-making!  Scultped pumpkins were drop-dyed then added to the spooky pumpkin patch!  Scratch art provided opportunities for learning what is negative space, which glows in the dark…  Happy Halloween!  

As inspired by the works of Pop Artist Roy Lichtenstein and Comic book artists from around the world, check out our original comic strips!

Thank you again to our visiting artist, Jaye Collins for showing our Art Adventures Studio all about this style and drawing techniques!    

Parent-Child Workshop: Clay Animal Sculptures

Wish you could sculpt your favorite animal?  Does your child love playing with clay? Learn easy techniques to take what’s in your imagination and make it 3D! Children and adults will leave with their own sculptures and fun memories of making art together!  Register by Friday, April 18th. Ages 6 and up.  $75pp.  Limited to …