ARTFUL MORNINGS | Summer Art Program 2023

Over a hundred years ago, sending postcards became a popular way of communicating with friends and family across the country and world. Join us for a week of exploring this art form as we craft letters designed to look hundreds of years old, build envelopes out of specialty paper, and create collage postcards representing real and imagined places!

Wave hello to the world of watercolors! This week we will explore the different applications of watercolor painting, while looking closely at the works of Hudson River School artists, Julie Hart-Beers and William Hart. Like the Hart siblings, we will use watercolors to paint the natural world we can see, but we also will get imaginative with abstract and creative prompts throughout the week!

Join us for a week of creating three-dimensional structures! From model magic to popsicle sticks, foil, and other recycled materials, we will use a wide variety of materials to create our own sculptures modeled after those on view in the museum.

Get ready to strike a pose! This week will focus on the current fashion exhibition, “It’s A Wrap: Two Hundred Years of Outerwear” and give young artists the chance to create while thinking about the stories historic clothing can tell us. We will play with punchy patterns and designs, craft mini mannequins from model magic, and create capes to be worn either as superheroes or fashionistas!

Using historic scrapbooks and contemporary collage as our guide, we will embark on a week of using paper to create both two- and three-dimensional art works! From constructing dioramas and collages to binding a book to take home, young artists will have the chance to experience some of the many unique ways paper can be used to create.

This week we will focus on where the arts and nature intersect, using the Hudson River School exhibition and the outdoors as our inspiration! Students will experiment with a variety of mediums including printmaking, sculpting, and painting to create artworks themed around outside world.

Make your mark as you try out drawing mediums like chalk pastels, oil pastels, drawing pencils, conté crayon, and charcoal. We’ll discover new techniques and explore texture and value scale in our artwork, while using the museum galleries as inspiration!

Discover the beauty of ancient Egyptian art and culture! This class will tour our ancient Egypt galleries and have a blast in the studio creating art inspired by what we’ve learned. We’ll discover exciting myths and reimagine traditional art forms that would have been created thousands of years ago, making our own pottery vessels and papyrus.