Art Workshops
Custom workshops are available
Custom workshops are available
Story Quilts
Inspired by Faith Ringgold. Construct a quilt that tells a story! Draw an image of a favorite memory and surround that image with a beautiful border of quilted squares to complete your “story quilt”.
Inspired by Faith Ringgold. Construct a quilt that tells a story! Draw an image of a favorite memory and surround that image with a beautiful border of quilted squares to complete your “story quilt”.
Mexican Mirrors
In celebration of Hispanic American Heritage Month, we explore traditional folk art from Mexico. Artists have been making decorative mirrors for centuries using tin embossed with bright colors. Reminiscent of this traditional art, families can create their own colorful designs using paper mirrors, paper plates, and markers.
In celebration of Hispanic American Heritage Month, we explore traditional folk art from Mexico. Artists have been making decorative mirrors for centuries using tin embossed with bright colors. Reminiscent of this traditional art, families can create their own colorful designs using paper mirrors, paper plates, and markers.
Nature Art
Your whole family will enjoy working with visual artist Stacie Greene to create this art project inspired by the wonders of the natural world. Using torn cardboard, markers and collected items from nature, use your imagination to create a landscape or seascape.
Your whole family will enjoy working with visual artist Stacie Greene to create this art project inspired by the wonders of the natural world. Using torn cardboard, markers and collected items from nature, use your imagination to create a landscape or seascape.
Wonder Tree
Art is all around us! Visual artist Stacie Greene helps families use their imagination to transform an ordinary paper bag into a beautiful "Wonder Tree" sculpture. Learn about shape, form and depth by sculpting and adding leaves using colorful pieces of cut scrap paper and other materials to make your tree a wonder filled art piece.
Art is all around us! Visual artist Stacie Greene helps families use their imagination to transform an ordinary paper bag into a beautiful "Wonder Tree" sculpture. Learn about shape, form and depth by sculpting and adding leaves using colorful pieces of cut scrap paper and other materials to make your tree a wonder filled art piece.
INSPIRED ART
These are workshops that can be offered as stand-alone or combined with a performance.
All are inspired by well-known artists:
Calder Mobiles
Explore movement and balance and the work of American sculptor Alexander Calder. Discover the beauty of kinetic energy while cutting out shapes and attaching them to wire to create your own beautiful hanging sculpture.
Explore movement and balance and the work of American sculptor Alexander Calder. Discover the beauty of kinetic energy while cutting out shapes and attaching them to wire to create your own beautiful hanging sculpture.
Calder Stabiles
Use your imagination to build a sculpture using only construction paper! Cut out geometric and freeform shapes and connect them to make your own free standing abstract sculpture.
Use your imagination to build a sculpture using only construction paper! Cut out geometric and freeform shapes and connect them to make your own free standing abstract sculpture.
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Flowers a la O'Keefe
Ever look closely at a flower? This lesson will examine shape, shading and color while looking some of Georgia O’Keefe’s flower paintings. You’ll work with shape, shading and color and fill in the background blending colors. |
Matisse Paper Paintings
Create a collage using Matisse’s technique focusing on the elements of color and geometric and freeform shapes.
Create a collage using Matisse’s technique focusing on the elements of color and geometric and freeform shapes.
Klee Portraits
Draw a portrait inspired by Paul Klee's Head of Man. Breaking the portrait into asymmetrical features divided by shapes. Fill each area with blended colors.
Klee Portraits
Draw a portrait inspired by Paul Klee's Head of Man. Breaking the portrait into asymmetrical features divided by shapes. Fill each area with blended colors.
FAMILY ARTS NIGHTS
Family Arts Night: Ghana
Experience the rich culture of Ghana with master drummer and dance educator Akayaa Atule Her performance focuses on the significance of traditional drumming, dance and stories of the region. Following the performance, Stacie Greene presents a workshop on making a Kente cloth. Using construction paper, families learn the importance and the meaning of repeating color patterns that create a woven effect.
Family Arts Night: Jazz + Paper Paintings
The Rob Thorsen Jazz Quartet features some of San Diego’s best jazz musicians who educate families on the history of jazz, improvisation and its cultural contributions. After the performance and taking the lead from Henri Matisse’s book “Jazz”, explore the artwork of this famous artist containing prints of cut-paper collages. Using bright, bold colors, Stacie Greene shows families how to use Matisse’s technique of making bold and colorful paper cut-outs.
Family Arts Night: Mexico
Mariachi Rodriguez serves the San Diego community through performance teaching, and sharing the beautiful culture of mariachi music. After the performance, create beautiful replicas of Mexican folk art. Using an aluminum circle, a paper plate and markers, families create a colorful representation of this prevalent form of Mexican folk art making bold, bright radial designs from the center to the edge of the plate!
Family Arts Night: India
Divya Devaguptapu presents classical Indian dance that features hand gestures, intricate footwork, movement, mime and expression. Divya showcases one of six dance forms called Bharatanatyam from the South India region. Dressed in traditional Indian costume, this program helps families understand the history and tradition of Indian culture through dance and storytelling. The workshop that follows highlights the beautiful and colorful Indian art form of rangoli design using chalk pastels.