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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.
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.
Please contact us with any questions or click here to register. Fees are based on our sliding fee income scale from $24-$35 per month + supply fee. The winter/spring art term starts the week of January 15, 2018 and run for 16 weeks.
All students will finish the term with an Art Exhibit on the last day of your art class. The Exhibit will be during your scheduled class time. Please SAVE all art for the exhibit. Your instructor will ask you to bring it back a few weeks before, to be hung for the show. Invite family and friends for this amazing display of student artwork! We will tour the gallery of student art, create a family art project, and enjoy some refreshments. All art can be taken home at the end of the show.
Perfect for young artists who love all kinds of wild animals! In this multi-media art adventure you will experience drawing lessons that focus on color, composition, and basic drawing. Learn how to make your animals FURRY with texture and add your own style to make it a masterpiece! Your little artist will grow in this class, so full of self-expression!
Instructor: Alyssa/Carey
Instructor: Alyssa/Carey
Join us in, From Ordinary to Extraordinary, as we explore popular drawing themes. You, the artists, 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 theory, and texture. Work to build an exciting body of work while showcasing your creativity in this multi-media adventure!
Instructor: Alyssa/Carey
Instructor: Alyssa/Carey
Learn the basics of paint application, color mixing, color theory, value, and composition. Meet with some friends and your art instructor for individualized instruction in a small group setting. Learn new weekly techniques with hands-on demonstrations and gain confidence in your own skills as a painter. Explore the medium in depth in one of our four week sessions, or try out each and every one!
Instructor: Alyssa/Carey
What do you get when you cross a mermaid with a unicorn? Or a dog with a dragon? What do you think would happen if a fairy and a monster became best friends? Find out in Cartooning and Illustration: Critters and Creatures! In this class, we will learn how to draw various animals and mythical creatures, combine and create creatures of our own, and design exciting environments for them. Learn how to draw different textures, add a pop of color with various media, and tell a story using your own unique characters. With a little creativity and imagination, Creatures and Critters will be a mythical adventure!
Instructor: Shannon
Instructor: Shannon
Learn about the artistic power of light and shadows! Students will dive into engaging lesson plans that explore the new and unique medium of light. Students will learn how to “paint” with light, mix colors using light, and they will learn to manipulate shadows to express stories. Not only will students be exploring this new medium, but they will also have the opportunity to get their hands on other traditional mediums as well. Join us on this fun and artistic ad-venture! Capture your images with the camera. We will learn some photography skills and tricks as well.
Instructor: Alyssa
Let’s explore the world of 3-dimensional design. Choose from many materials in the art room, found objects, styrofoam, cardboard, recyclables, buttons, beads and more to create fabulous sculptural artwork. Learn the art of designing relief paintings on canvas. The possibilities are endless as we put the pieces together to make anything from rocket ships, to figures and animals, to abstract sculptural masterpieces!
Instructor: Jode
Toddlers with markers, scissors and paint…oh my! Beautiful messy fun will happen when you join your child in their very first art class. Watch the excitement begin as they explore art materials for the first time ever. Work together on projects discovering paint, creating with clay, glue galore, cutting paper, drippy watercolors, and much, much more. Wear your paint shirt and get ready for some hands-on colorful fun.
Instructor: Jode
Instructor: Jode
Instructor: Jode
This “Mommy and Me” style clay class, explores the process of making modeling dough and getting our hands into messy fun with polymer clays. Accompanying adult students will model artist behavior for the students, while working on their own separate projects. Little and big hands will poke, pinch and roll to create unique sculptures.
Instructor: Kate
*Note: 4 week class from May 3 – May 24
This course will take our students through an exploration of working with clay, from pinch pots, coils, and slabs to basic surface finishing techniques, to create both functional pottery as well as sculpture. This is intended to be for students of beginner experience. We will proceed through a series of projects that will build the students’ proficiency with under-standing the basic foundations of clay manipulation and glaze application.
Instructor: Kate
Instructor: Kate
Your child will have creative fun enjoying the process of making art. We will find inspiration in the seasons and the world around us. We’ll explore many materials in the art room from finger paint, and watercolors to cutting paper, gloppy glue, and glitter galore! Run cars through paint, stamp with Legos, and create colorful sculptures. We will follow the seasons and enjoy the process of creating beautiful children’s art.
Instructor: Jode
Please contact us with any questions or click here to register.
$25 includes all supplies and light refreshments. Your finished piece will be a framed 8×10 Watercolor Silhouette! For a customized portrait, please bring a 8×10 black & white photo copy of your pet. Otherwise you will choose from a selection of various dog breed options provided by the instructor.
Instructor: Carey
Instructor: Carey
Using techniques such as rolling and pinching, this class is for the beginner hand-building ceramics student. We will be using a glaze application for final decoration of our sculptural vase and hanging wall art.
Instructor: Kate
Thursdays: June 14, 21 & 28
Ages: 5-9 from 6:00 – 7:00 PM
Ages: 10 & up from 7:15 – 8:15 PM
$35 all supplies included
All slime, all the time. If you love mixing up gooey, mushy, magnificent concoctions…then this is for you. Learn the recipes to make and color your own slime. Throw in some glitter, and enjoy a slimy good time.
Instructors: Mia Fracker & Lilah Piotrowski with Amy Fracker
Tuesdays: July 17, 24 & 31
Ages: 4-7 from 3:00 – 4:00 PM
Ages: 8-12 from 4:30 – 5:30 PM
$27 includes all supplies
Beakers, Bubbles, & colorful explosions…. Mix up some bubbly creations, make messy experiments, and watch them overflow with brilliant colors of fun. Mix, bubble and brew up some beautiful science art. Safety goggles for everyone!
Instructor: Alyssa
Wednesdays: July 18, 25, & August 1
Ages: 4-7 from 5:00 – 6:00 PM
Ages: 8-12 from 6:30 – 7:30 PM
$27 includes all supplies
Imagine all things summer. Be inspired by sunny days filled with a rainbow of colors. Mix up a mud pie, and have some buggy fun. Create some blooming art to decorate your yard and garden.
Instructor: Alyssa
Thursdays: July 19, 26, & August 2
Ages: 4-7 from 3:00 – 4:00 PM
$27 includes all supplies
Let’s throw some paint! We will enjoy an interstellar adventure as we create a galaxy far, far away. Add some planets, stars, and maybe even a rocket ship. Sprinkle on some glitter and glitz to create a stunning mixed-media painting on canvas that will definitely be… out of this world!
Instructor: Alyssa
Thursdays: July 19, 26, & August 2
Ages: 4-7 from 4:30 – 5:30 PM
Ages: 8-10 from 6:00 – 7:00 PM
$27 includes all supplies
Create colorful artwork inspired by summer fun. Sail away as you drip, splash and sparkle your way to beautiful masterpieces. Dive into paint, glue, glitter and more!
Instructor: Jode
Fridays: July 20, 27, & August 3
Ages: 2 ½-4 with a parent/caregiver
10:00 AM- 10:45 AM
11:15 AM – 12:00 PM
$27 includes all supplies
Paint a canvas with beautiful summer inspired art, chat with friends, and enjoy some snacks and a cool summer drink.
Instructor: Jode
“Sparkle Works!” on June 20th
“Deep Blue Sea” on July 18th
Ages: 4-10 from 10:00 – 11:30 AM
$20 All snacks and supplies included
Ladies and gentlemen…Welcome to the greatest show on Earth! Join us under the big top to create circus art, games, food and fun. Unleash your creativity as we learn circus acts, create colorful costumes and props, and of course, paint your own silly clown face! Invite your family and friends for an amazing grand performance under the big top!
Instructors: Jode & Jen
Ages: 4-10
June 25 – 28 from 9:30 – 11:30 AM
$68 includes all supplies and a daily snack
Once upon a time… there was the best princess camp ever! Your dreams come true as you create beautiful artwork and dance to all of your favorite princess music. Princess Belle, Cinderella, Ariel and Elsa will inspire our royal fun. Invite your families the last day for a charming performance. Don’t forget, wear your royal attire!
Instructors: Jode & Jen
Ages: 4-10
July 23 – 26 from 9:30 – 11:30 AM
$68 includes all supplies and a daily snack
