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Kids
No matter what the course title,
the lessons are different each semester.
The children who attend these classes and their parents, too, look forward to each challenge with great anticipation. These are among the finest children's classes you'll find anywhere... a real collaboration between student and teacher. Classes are ten weeks and start the week of April 5.
kidstART
Ages 5-6
Thursday, 3:45 - 4:45pm... Starts April 8.
What a wonderful way to start! This
always new general art course goes beyond
what kids normally get elsewhere. We'll be
doing three or four different projects that incorporate
materials - some familiar to youngsters, some not -
in new ways.
Our goal is to
stimulate the imagination and
increase a child's emerging visual
vocabulary by developing SEEING and
coordination skills.
Starting slowly as we get accustomed to our new surroundings, we gradually pick up the pace with projects the children may not be getting in school, both two- and three-dimensional. Such lessons as measured drawing instruction, clay, paper maché, printing, pottery, painting and more, increase a young child's focus and build logical thinking. A few long-term projects will develop planning skills and make their creativity something they will really take pride in and wonder what's next.
Instructor: Don Simon
10 weeks.
Tuition: $135., plus $19. materials. Total: $154.
Fantastic One-Ring Circus
Ages 6-7
Wednesday, 3:45 - 4:45pm... Starts April 7.
Kids delight in the circus... All of the activity, the animals, the trapeze, the excitement of the crowd. Here's an opportunity to make their own!
We'll start with a simple wooden box with a pole in the middle. That's the basis for the "tent" and everything beneath it, including a painted plaster floor, clay lions, tigers, elephants clowns, and other performers, wire for the trapeze, wood for the ladders.
Photos of actual circuses will get us started, but the real inspiration will come from their imagination.
Instructor: Don Simon 10 weeks.
Tuition: $135., plus $19. materials. Total: $154.
Exploring Media
Ages 7-10
Monday, 3:45 - 4:45pm
Each semester is always new with an exciting and very full hour of three or four two- and three-dimensional projects using a variety of media. The emphasis is on careful SEEING and then drawing, painting and/or sculpting some pretty remarkable work.
Past projects have been colorful African masks, fanciful paper maché birds, pottery, three-dimensional patterns, landscape and still life paintings, drawn from the figure, printed cards and more. Couple this with measured-drawing instruction, and you have a time for real fun and creative growth.
Instructor: Don Simon
10 weeks.
Tuition: $135., plus $21. materials. Total: $156.
THE PROJECT CLASSES:
These are "signature" classes that enable the "young artist/designer" to thoroughly explore, tackle and understand one major project, developing analytical and planning skills. Because of the nature of these classes, attendance is very important as the kids develop commitment to task, focus and pride in their considerable achievement.
PROJECT ONE: "Self Portrait Marionette"
Ages 8-10
Tuesday, 3:45 - 5:15pm... Starts April 6.
A real multi-media favorite. This semester the kids will develop a two-foot tall, strung marionette, complete with costume.
We'll begin with an illustrated history of puppetry, featuring slides of various examples from around the world. Then comes life-sized self portrait drawings of the child's face and hands.
Construction will be in wood, wire, clay, paper and tissue maché, cloth and string as we assemble the marionette.
This project is another way we learn about balance, proportion and the way the body bends and moves. When we're done, we'll have a miniature expression of what a child thinks he or she looks like at this stage of life, a movable sculpture they'll be able to share with their own children in the years to come. (There may be occasional homework in this class.)
Instructor: Don Simon
10 weeks (15 hours)
Tuition: $150., plus $23. materials. Total: $173.
Drawing & Painting for Kids
"The Providence Athenaeum"
Ages 10-15
Friday, 3:45 - 5:15pm... Starts April 9
OK... The school week is over... This class is a blast and THE class for kids this age, many of whom return time-after-time.
This semester we'll be going on-site to one of our architectural gems: The Providence Athenaeum. From our vantage point across Benefit Stret on the steps of the Supreme Court building, we will render one of America's oldest libraries' Classical architecture, with all of its details, landscaping - even its Victorian fountain. One of our drawings will become a watercolor.
Other in-studio projects will be in media such as pen-and-ink, charcoal, pastel and acrylic.
Learning the basics of good drawing and the exploration of painting is something we take very seriously... That's where the fun starts.
Instructor: Don Simon
10 weeks (15 hours)
Tuition: $150., plus $21. materials. Total: $171.
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