Summer
2008 Schedule
Week 7: August 11- August 15
The cost
of each class is $85. Cost for members is $76, unless otherwise noted.
Materials are included. Tuition assistance is available.
Registration
Information
For more information or to receive a Studio brochure with a complete list
of current classes call the Armory at 626.792.5101 x 121. Or download
the current schedule of classes
(PDF).
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8:30 – 10
a.m.
Su8.119 Puppets
Students will learn about the world of puppets using various materials.
Creations include sock, finger and paper bag puppets. Students will
tell puppet stories and learn puppet history.
Ages 3-4 / Kat Ross
FULL
Su8.120 Bring Stories to Life!
Students will read short stories and bring them to life by playing characters,
using music, movement and their voices to act them out.
Ages 5-6 / Grace Lacques
Su8.121 Eco-Art
Go green! Students will learn about sustainability by making art that
reduces their carbon footprint. They’ll use natural materials
and recycled paper to create artworks about alternative energy and
the impact of individual carbon footprints on the world's natural ecosystems.
Natural dyes, inks, charcoal and other recycled materials will be used.
Ages 6-8 / Melissa Manfull
Su8.122
Drawing & Painting
Students will learn the basics of drawing and painting. While experimenting
with color theory and mixing paint, they’ll use various materials
to paint with and paint on.
Ages 7-9 / Matt MacFarland
FULL
Su8.123 Photo: Exposure-iffic
Student will be introduced to the basic concepts of photography from
sunprints and photograms to building their own pinhole cameras. They’ll
learn how the photographic process and the reproduction of visual pictures
have developed and changed through time.
Ages 9-11 / Janice Gomez
10:30
a.m. – noon
Su8.124 Imaginary Lands
Students will read about fantastic fairylands with imaginary people,
places and creatures. They’ll use their imaginations and lots
of magical materials to make fairies, creatures and the places they
live.
Ages 3-4 / Melissa Manfull
FULL
Su8.125 Space Travelers
Students will use 2-D and 3-D artworks to create galaxies with extraterrestrial
inhabitants, along with the spacecrafts to go there.
Ages 5-6 / Matt MacFarland
FULL
Su8.126 Paint It Larger!
Students will make paintings and murals about themselves and the world.
They’ll narrate a story through paintings and create self-portraits
while learning about shape, color, composition and scale.
Ages 6-8 / Asad Faulwell
FULL
Su8.127 Monster Pet Project
Students will create a large sculpture of an animal that they admire.
They’ll explore scale and materials while building, painting
and decorating a very big creature that will follow them home.
Ages 7-9 / Kat Ross
FULL
Su8.128 POW! Pictures of Words
Students will look at magazines, newspapers and contemporary art for
examples of images combined with text. Students will create book pages,
sculpt using letters and create a design for a magazine ad and make
a pop-up book.
Ages 9-11 / Jesse Benson
12:30 – 2
p.m.
Su8.129
Up, Up & Away
Students will use many materials to make art
about the world above us, like clouds, planes, balloons, butterflies
and birds. Keep your eyes on the skies!
Ages 3-4 / Patricia Liverman
FULL
Su8.130 Painting Stories
Through pictures art can tell us many things. Students will read stories
and create their own as they make paintings and sculptures using different
materials.
Ages 5-6 / Chelsea Dean
Su8.131 Find the Animals in Art
Students will look at different ways artists draw, paint and sculpt animals
in art. They’ll read and create stories about their favorite
animals and memorialize them in art.
Ages 5-7 / Naomi Buckley
Su8.132 Fossil Hunters
Combining the spirit and adventure of paleontology with the fun of art
making, students will piece together some of the world’s greatest
mysteries. They’ll study dinosaur bones and other fossils, make
dinosaur footprints and giant jaws filled with prehistoric-sized teeth.
Ages 6-8 / Jesse Benson
FULL
Su8.133 Ceramics
Students will learn hand-building techniques and incorporate various
materials to create sculptures, making functional and decorative art.
Each class session offers new experiences and projects so students
are invited to take this class more than once.
Ages 7-9 / Sara Bayles
FULL
Su8.134
Art for Rappers & Rock
Stars
Students will write, record and remix their own music using GarageBand,
plus design their own band visual identity including band posters,
CD covers and invent their own venues.
Ages 9-11 / Michael Markowsky
2:30 – 4
p.m.
Su8.135 Deep, Deep Oceans
Students will explore the ocean world. They’ll make watery plants
and sea creatures from paint, paper, pastels, beads, sequins and more.
Ages 3-4 / Nicola Vruwink
FULL
Su8.136 Puppet Theatre
Students will make puppets of people and animals. Then they’ll
create a stage to put on a puppet performance.
Ages 5-6 / Patricia Liverman
FULL
Su8.137 Animal Totem Poles
Students will look at the art of making totem poles, the cultures that
use them, and what they represent. They’ll sketch their own totem
and then construct it.
Ages 6-8 / Sandra Gallegos
Su8.138 Make Monsters Move
Students will build monsters out of trash and recycled materials and
then animate them using stop motion animation.
Ages 7-9 / Michael Markowsky
FULL
Su8.139 Masquerade
Students will explore the cultural history of masks and make a different
mask each day. They’ll construct multi-material masks while learning
the basics of art such as design, color, shape and symbolism.
Ages 9-11 / Hataya Tubtim
Registration
Information
For more information or to receive a Studio brochure with a complete
list of current classes call the Armory at 626.792.5101 x 121.
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PDF Forms
• Summer
2008 Schedule of Classes
• Registration Form
