Love animals? Love making art? This class is all about spending a month drawing, printing, painting, and building animal-inspired artwork in fun, hands-on ways. Students will be drawing, carving and printing images, sculpt with papier-mache, and bringing animals to life with paint.

Explore clay through sculpture, hand building, and pottery on the throwing wheel. We will make clay heads, animal sculptures, functional hand-built pottery, Native American style pots, along with wheel thrown pots. Painting and Glazing the work you made.

We will explore color through different mediums in different ways. We will use colored pencil, watercolor, acrylic paint, and printmaking to create colorful works of art. We will be creating portraits, doing stain glass inspired designs, painting landscapes, creating Pop Art comic book characters, and learning how to paint on a canvas using formal painting techniques.

Interested in photography but want to experiment beyond just digital? We will be spending a month learning how to create bold, dynamic, and visually engaging works using the dark room, print pictures on fabric, and use the sun to create photographic prints.