0%
Our small classes, taught by professional instructors, are designed to encourage making, appreciating and thinking about art.
Our programs foster imagination and encourage exploration of personal connections with materials and ideas.
We encourage you to register early to reserve a place for you or your young artist.
Ask about our multi-class discount when you take 3 or more classes.
Our art instructors give a great deal of thought to the themes, skills, and concepts that will be covered in classes. In our curriculum we recognize the varying abilities of students within a single class and our instructors plan to incorporate multiple ways to challenge all the students at the highest levels of their abilities. Our art class curricula meets State of Michigan Standards, Benchmarks, and Grade Level Content Expectations.
Classes begin the week of January 14.
Registration is ongoing unless classes are full.
Fees for art classes for ages 2-17 are based on our sliding fee scale with rates from $24 to $35 per month plus a one-time supply fee. (See our Affordability and Scholarships page) The supply fee and one month fee is due at registration.
Invite family and friends and join us for a celebration featuring all of our amazing art students! View the gallery of artwork, enjoy refreshments, and a family art project. All students will finish the term with an Art Exhibit on the last day of art class, during your scheduled class time. Please save all of your art for the exhibit. Your art instructor will ask you to bring all artwork back a few weeks before, to be hung for the show. Art can be taken home at the end of the show.
Monday 4:45-5:30
Come explore the wonders of the deep, together with other art lovers. Students will expand upon their knowledge of line, shape, color, texture, form, value, and space as they experiment with different techniques. Have fun with an under the sea adventure, as you create sea creatures, shipwrecks, shells and fabulous fish!
Art Supply Fee: $10
Instructor: Carey
Monday 5:45-6:45
Join us as we explore drawing in an under the sea adventure. You, the artist, will explore line, shape, and composition as you work to develop your original sketches into finished pieces. Learn how to bring your drawings to life through the use of details, color, shading, and texture. Work to build an exciting body of work while showcasing your creativity in this exploration of the deep blue sea.
Art Supply Fee: $10
Instructor: Carey
Saturday 12:00-1:30 PM
Art supply fee $4 per 4-week session – Includes a snack!
Instructor: Carey
Monday 7:00-8:30
Everyone is an artist. Indulge your love of art and grow at your own pace. This inspiring class is for students at any skill and experience level. Our amazing instructor will introduce you to contour, value and still-life drawing techniques. Learn the basics of paint application, color mixing, color theory, value and composition. In our final session, enjoy the process of painting, along with adding wonderful layers of beautiful paper, fabric and embellishments to create a finished mixed media painting on canvas. Meet with friends in a small group setting for individualized instruction, and hands-on demonstrations… find your inner-artist! Enjoy one four-week session, or take them all.
Session 1: Drawing and Painting – Acrylic I January 14-February 4
Session 2: Painting – Acrylic II February 11- March 11 (No class Feb 18)
Session 3: Painting – Watercolor March 18- April 22 (No class April 1 & 8)
Session 4: Painting – Mixed Media April 29- May 20
Instructor: Carey
Fees: $48 includes supplies and tuition. Register for all four sessions and pay $165, a savings of $27 (for this option, payment must be made in full at time of registration)
Ages 7-12 / Tuesday 5:00-6:00
Ages 10-14 / Tuesday 6:15-7:15
Let your imagination run wild! Join us as we make up our own original characters, monsters, animals, and even whole planets. Combine your limitless imagination with artistic mediums such as paint, chalk pastel, and found object collage with different art techniques to bring your creations to life.
Art Supply Fee: $5
Instructor: Shannon
Ages 5-8 / Wednesday 4:30-5:30
Ages 9-13 / Wednesday 5:45-6:45
Love to paint? Join us to explore a pallet of brilliant colors as we put brush to canvas, creating works of art that will impress. Learn the basic of color-mixing, brush technique, light and shading, as you create stunning finished paintings on canvas.
Art Supply Fee: $10
Instructor: Penny
Thursday 9:45-10:30
Friday 9:45-10:30
Friday 11:00-11:45
Requires Parent or Caregiver Present
Beautiful messy fun will happen when you join your child for their very first art class. The colors of the seasons will inspire us as we work on projects together discovering paint, creating with clay, cutting, tearing, drippy watercolors, glitter, glue, and so much more. Wear your paint shirt, and get ready for some colorful creative fun!
Art Supply Fee: $10
Instructor: Jode
Thursday 11:00-11:45
Requires Parent or Caregiver Present
Art is fun and messy. We will explore many materials in the art room from finger paint, to water colors, gloppy glue, and glitter galore! Drive cars through paint, stomp dinosaur footprints, and create colorful abstract works of art. We will find inspiration in the changing of the seasons, and enjoy the process of creating beautiful children’s art.
Art Supply Fee: $10
Instructor: Jode
Sundays, February 10th at 1:00-2:30 PM
Canvas Mixed Media Painting
Enjoy a Sunday afternoon of creativity. Join us in the art room to create a beautiful painting on canvas, and enjoy the company of other inspiring artists. Our amazing instructor will give you the tools, instruction and materials to bring out the artist in you!Art Supply Fee: $20 Includes all supplies
Instructor: Penny
Sundays, May 5th at 1:00-2:30 PM
Painting on Canvas
Enjoy a Sunday afternoon of creativity. Join us in the art room to create a beautiful painting on canvas, and enjoy the company of other inspiring artists. Our amazing instructor will give you the tools, instruction and materials to bring out the artist in you!Art Supply Fee: $20 Includes all supplies
Instructor: Penny
Using techniques such as rolling, pinching, and forming, this class is for developing hand-building techniques. We will work with many types of clay, including raw clay, air-dry clay, oven bake clay, plaster, and modeling clay. This class focuses on practicing craftsmanship, technique, and tool usage.
Ages 4-13 Monthly fee based on fee scale
Art Supply Fee: $15
Instructor: Jessicah
Thursdays, 7:15-8:45 PM
Four Week Workshop: February 21 – March 14
$48 Includes supplies and tuition
Project: Pottery with Resin – Catch-All Dish (See Sample Image)
Create a beautiful, one of a kind dish, for your keys or jewelry. Using raw clay, you will learn the hand-building techniques to form a dainty dish. A glazing application and firing will add to the beauty of the piece. You will learn how to work with oven-bake clay to create a stunning focal point, which will rest in a pool of resin water. You are the artist…so use your creativity and build this piece to match your own personal style by customizing your focal point…a starfish, a leaf, a flower or frog. The possibilities are endless!
Instructor: Jessicah
Bring an 8×10 black and white photo copy of your favorite pet. We will show you how to transform it into a fun pop art pet portrait that will make you smile! Instructor: Carey
Finished pieces will be displayed at the ART DOG Event on March 10th!
Saturday, March 2nd from 1:30-3:30 for Ages 5-13
Saturday, March 9th from 1:30-3:30 for Ages 14 – Adult
$25 Includes all supplies and light refreshments
