Location: St. Paul's. Grades 3-5. Do you love to draw and wish to learn how to draw what you see more realistically? This course is an exciting balance of learning how to see and how to capture contours, apply tones, and develop shading to make objects 'pop' off the page. With the basic understanding that in order to draw well, one must first learn how to see, students are engaged in fun looking exercises that challenge them to use their eyes and minds to collect information about the objects, people, and places around them. They will discover how to see the world in a fresh, new way! Different approaches, tools, materials and techniques are presented and explored using a diverse range of media, from pen and pencil to color explorations in pastel and paint.

Location: St. Paul's School. Grade 9-12: This course is designed to introduce students to the ideas, principals and methods used when designing a space. Students in this course will explore architectural concepts of space form and structure and learn the basics of 3D modeling.

Location: St. Paul's School. Grades 6-8. Designed for students who want to improve drawing skills and work towards more realistic drawings, this course focuses on drawing from observation. Students are guided through a carefully sequenced, step-by-step process designed to develop the student's perception and thinking skills. Based upon exercises in Betty Edwards' Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, this approach has been successful in improving students' ability to draw realistically, even for those who think they cannot draw. As such, it provides the young artist with an excellent bridge between drawing symbolically and working more realistically.

Location: St. Paul's. Grades 3-5. Grades 3-5: Puppetry and expressive masks have served as a traditional intersection between the visual arts and theater. Puppets are powerful symbols that bring characters to life, tell stories, transmit cultural traditions or provide comic pleasure. Similarly, masks have long been used by different people from around the world as a means of expressing and celebrating ideas and events important to their culture. In this course, students select from a variety of media to construct puppets and masks to tell personal stories. Half art-making and half collaboration and performance, this course provides students with a unique venue for expressing both visually and through dramatic performance.

Location: St. Paul's School. Grades 6-8: In this course, students step into Leonardo Da Vinci's creative mind and try to see the world as he did. In doing so, they will "draw like Da Vinci" and explore the lines of the varied ways can be used to experience and understand the world visually. Leonardo da Vinci's keen eye and innovative mind led him to generate countless sketches of his observations, ideas, and inventions. In careful detail, he visualized ideas and explored the unique qualities of animals, machines, plants, bones, and other man-made and natural forms through observational drawing. Students will use a variety of art materials in this course.

SCHEDULE INCLUDES -- Before Care 8:00 - 9:30 am; Morning Class-time 9:30 am - 12 noon; Supervised Mid-day activities 12 noon - 1:00 pm; Afternoon Class-time 1:00 - 3:30 pm; After Care 3:30 - 6:00 pm.
Art Inspired by Nature
Grades K-2: In this course, students look at the natural world around them as inspiration for creating their art. This course spans a wide range of art processes, media, and dimensions (2D and 3D) such as drawing from observing nature, sculpting nature-inspired forms, using natural materials for mixed media collage, recording changes in nature, and much more. Through looking at the work of artists including Georgia O'Keeffe, Frank Lloyd Wright, Sumi brush painters, and Native American artists, students determine the influences of nature on the art of various times and places. Students can directly study different natural forms for use in creating their compositions based on what is in the world around them.

SCHEDULE INCLUDES - Morning Class-time 9:30 am - 12 noon; Supervised Mid-day activities 12 noon - 1:00 pm; Morning Class-time 1:00 - 3:30 pm
Sculptural Forms in Nature
Grades 3-5: Artists have always been awed and inspired by the variety and beauty in nature. In this class, students have the opportunity to take a closer look at the world out of doors to develop ideas for three-dimensional artworks. Students examine the bounty of flora and fauna by exploring the grounds of the St Pauls campus .They create fantastic flowers, invented insects, and amazing animals inspired by Mother Nature. A variety of materials are explored and students keep a sketchbook/journal for their notes and observations and to develop ideas from their sculptural forms.

SCHEDULE INCLUDES -- Before Care 8:00 - 9:30 am; Morning Class-time: 9:30 am - 12 noon; Mid Day Activities: 12 noon - 1:00 pm; Afternoon Class-time: 1:00 - 3:30 pm; After Care 3:30 - 6:00 pm.

Acrylic Painting
Grades 6-8: In this course students will use acrylic paint to explore expressive use of color, color mixing, and color theory. Using a variety of painting surfaces—assorted papers, board, canvas board, objects—students learn the unique qualities of acrylic paint. This water-based, fast-drying paint medium has unlimited possibilities. Students have an opportunity to try a variety of acrylic mediums (modeling paste, gloss/matte polymers, gel medium) to experiment with textures, washes, and varied opacities.

Location: St. Paul's School. Grade 3-5: This course offers students the opportunity to be both creator and performer! Students will explore a variety of 2-D and 3-D processes as they create books, objects, puppets and masks that can be incorporated into an original narrative. In addition to generating ideas and creating characters, students learn how images and props can be used to tell a story. Emphasis is on creating a unique and expressive language of object, gesture, and story, with equal attention given to the artistic/visual qualities of the art objects themselves and the purposeful use of these objects in student-designed performances.

(Grades K-2) For the young artist who loves to draw and wishes to dive into a world of color, this course journeys from mark-making with dry media into the world of paint and other wet media. From looking and sketching exercises to experimentation with color, students will explore how color can be used for expressive purposes. Paint media such as watercolor and tempera paint will be used to explore how colors interact to create various effects, mixed colors, and textures. Emphasis will be on noticing details about the surrounding world and finding ways to communicate experiences with brush-strokes, lines, and splashes of color.

Location: St. Paul School. Grades 9-12: In this course students will use acrylic paint to explore expressive use of color, color mixing, and color theory. Using a variety of painting surfaces—assorted papers, board, canvas board, objects—students learn the unique qualities of acrylic paint. This water-based, fast-drying paint medium has unlimited possibilities. Students have an opportunity to try a variety of acrylic mediums (modeling paste, gloss/matte polymers, gel medium) to experiment with textures, washes, and varied opacities.

Location: St. Paul's Schools. Grades 6-8.This course provides young artists with an innovative and hands-on way to gain a more complex understanding of dimension (2D and 3D). Students explore realistic and abstract drawing skills through the development and construction of conceptual sculpture. With the premise that students understand dimension more fully if they create 3D objects, then draw them in 2D, students first become familiar with actual space within three-dimensions by building individual and collaborative 3D forms as installation works. Once built, students draw the sculptural forms using a variety of media.

SCHEDULE INCLUDES - Morning Class-time: 9:30 am - 12 noon; Mid Day Activities: 12 noon - 1:00 pm; Afternoon Class-time: 1:00 - 3:30 pm
Drawing Workshop for Middle School
Grades 6-8: Fast-paced drawing course engages students in a variety of short and sustained studies intended to develop drawing skills and abilities. Different approaches, tools, materials, and techniques are presented and explored using a diverse range of drawing media, from pen and pencil to color explorations in pastel and paint. Students create drawings from observation, imagination, and in response to the art of master artists and their peers. Written reflection, self-assessment, and ability to participate in group critiques are key components of this course.

SCHEDULE INCLUDES -- Before Care 8:00 - 9:30 am; Morning Class-time: 9:30 am - 12 noon; Mid Day Activities: 12 noon - 1:00 pm; Afternoon Class-time: 1:00 - 3:30 pm; After Care 3:30 - 6:00 pm.

Making Art with Dinosaurs
Grades K-2: Come with us on an imaginary journey through the Jurassic period. Encounter ancient reptiles, prehistoric plants, and uncover fascinating fossils! Using ideas and experiences from our archeological journeys, students create drawings, paintings, and sculptural forms to create personal visual responses to what they have discovered.

SCHEDULE INCLUDES - Morning Class-time: 9:30 am - 12 noon; Mid Day Activities: 12 noon - 1:00 pm; Afternoon Class-time: 1:00 - 3:30 pm
Portfolio Building
Grades 9-12: This intense studio workshop begins with a review of students’ current art portfolios, with discussion about what a well-rounded high school portfolio might look like. Students keep a reflective journal and sketchbook as they identify areas to strengthen in their artwork. Working independently with the instructor, students then develop a plan for tailored art prompts intended to highlight skills and round out their portfolios for presentation. This course is especially designed for students who need a portfolio for entrance into college but is also open to those who wish to employ a more independent course of study. Note: Due to the independent nature of this course, class size is capped at 10 students.

This course focuses on ways that artists generate ideas and approach art making. Artists explore three approaches to drawing: from memory, imagination, and observation in order to express personally generated concepts. Inspiration is pulled from a variety of leading exercises and brainstorming sessions that foster student choice all while students learn technical skills in a variety of media.

Location: St. Paul's. Grades K-2. Art-making is one delightful way to experience scientific, engineering, and mathematical concepts first-hand. As artists, we'll experiment with tools, materials, and techniques to make discoveries. Using artistic disciplines, like painting, printmaking, and sculpture, we'll engage in purposeful play to see what happens when we create with concepts such as viscosity, friction, and balance. We'll work in an open-ended way, focusing on processes instead of specific subjects. Connecting disciplines while creating beauty, we'll explore the way our world works.

Grades 9-12: What makes your work, yours? Artists bring in their current body of work to identify their strengths and learn how to appeal to them by working with a teaching artist and group critique modes. For those still developing their style, have no fear! While working in series, this class creates a thematic body of work unique to the individual that will truly hone in on personal aesthetic as it relates to planning, mark making, color choice, composition, and beyond to elevate their personal body of work. No class July 4th.

Location: St. Paul's School. Grades 9-12: Illustration is everywhere! Come learn the fundamentals of illustrating with wet and dry media, and how to take your hand drawn images through a digital process for print purposes. Young artists begin by responding to single image prompts related to newly acquired media techniques with emphasis on composition of content, then finish with designing their own narrative to illustrate!

Grades 3-5: A single pixel, a tiny mosaic square, a leaf or a petal, a cut piece of paper, a grain of sand, a stitch. It is abstract and singular. But when multiplied and manipulated, a transformation occurs, a new and amazing whole! Join us for a new and exciting course that is grounded in play, composition, detailing, repetition, and design.

Location: St. Paul's. Grades 6-8: In this course, students hone perceptual and observational drawing skills using a variety of 2-D media and specific subject matter such as still-life setups, objects, natural forms, and the surrounding landscape. Students learn skills and techniques for realistic rendering by focusing on and capturing what they see using value, shading and contrast to create a sense of form, Composition is emphasized as students make purposeful decisions about how to organize space within a picture plane.

Grades 6-8: This course is especially designed for young artists who are interested in developing their skills in basic hand-building techniques to create both functional and decorative forms in clay. Using the clay work of different cultures and that of specific artists as inspiration, students create unique forms, patterns, and textures as they explore the possibilities and qualities of this very special medium. Once pieces have been fired, students will also have opportunity to explore the color and surface design possibilities of a variety of glazes.