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Puppets and Performance

July 20, 2018

We’ve been creating puppets, puppet theaters, scenery, props, scripts and…

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Space Explorers

July 13, 2018

We got to explore space in Summer Camp! We made…

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Super Science!

July 6, 2018

Imagination and science came together at camp, as we made…

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Art Around the World

June 20, 2018

In camp this week, the kids made art in styles…

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Appetizers, Desserts and Drawing

June 15, 2018

We cooked up a storm making appetizers and desserts at…

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Harry Potter is Back!

June 8, 2018

We solemnly swore that we were up to no good…

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School is out!

June 1, 2018

School’s done! And we’ve made so much art this year!

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Master Artist Mushrooms

May 18, 2018

Magical Minds receives many donated materials with which the kids…

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Textile Art

May 11, 2018

Working with textiles, it turns out you can make almost…

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Representation and Abstraction

May 4, 2018

How often to you look at objects you see every…

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Video Art

April 27, 2018

In the After School Workshop we made short videos, and…

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Showtime!

April 20, 2018

Our After School Workshop students have been working on art…

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Crafts

April 13, 2018

After school we’ve been working on crafts, including a little…

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Expression Through Movement

April 6, 2018

Music and dance drove this week’s art in our After…

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Art Nouveau

March 23, 2018

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries the Art…

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Architecture

March 16, 2018

The theme of the week was architecture, so the kids…

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Joan Miro

March 9, 2018

Joan Miro was the artist inspiring this week’s works. He…

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A Spring In Our Step

March 2, 2018

We had a new big word this week- Iconography. Our…

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The Party Game

February 23, 2018

This week we’ve been honing our performance skills, and what…

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Valentines Art

February 14, 2018

What do we love? Pizza, pine cones and plate-making!

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Jim Dine and Hearts

February 9, 2018

Jim Dine is a representational maker, working in drawing and…

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Writing

February 2, 2018

We use words every day, whether speaking, reading or writing….

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Installation

January 19, 2018

Making art is a process, and displaying the art is…

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Functional Art

January 12, 2018

When art is something you can use at home or…

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Minimalism and Winter Break

December 22, 2017

Building off of what we learned about abstraction last week,…

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Abstract Art

December 15, 2017

When my sister and I were kids, she told me…

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Paper Crafts

December 8, 2017

We asked the students this week, what can we make…

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Dadaism Revisited

December 1, 2017

We’ve been revisiting one of our favorite art movements from…

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Storytelling

November 17, 2017

We started with the skeleton or the bread, added a…

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Surrealism

November 10, 2017

We’ve been mixing and matching and not matching and throwing…

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