"May your hands be an extension of your heart and may you do the work of love with them."

-Claude Monet

SUMMER

Immerse your child in an open-air art and nature experience! Open-Air explores art history, nature, experimentation, process and visual communication.

ART: Students will work with different mediums and forms of art making, including clay, painting, watercolor and mixed media techniques. Learn about art history and look at nature for inspiration and their personal surroundings. They will look to create a stronger bond between art and our natural world.

Art Education

Philosophy and goals: It is as important to recognize the valuable emotional and developmental growth that is fostered by creating visual art, as it is to appreciate the aesthetic qualities of art. Each student is encouraged, through their art making process, to feel personal success, independence, and joy while learning about and making works of art.

Each step in the process of creating a final piece of artwork, offers the students opportunities to learn new materials, techniques and art history, while at the same time encourage them to think critically, develop their own unique solutions, and work expressively.

I aim to expose the students to a wide range of art materials, methods, and artistic styles in hopes that each student will connect with his or her personal talents and master visual skills in a variety of ways.

Most importantly, I work to lay a positive foundation in the visual arts that instills the value of artistic expression and to inspire future creative interests.

Inspiring Works of Art

Columbus, Ohio-based typographer Danielle Evans uses her studio as a garden and lab. Previously she has planted hundreds of shrubs and succulents to spell messages of kindness, and grown text-shaped crystals as an ode to poet Nayyirah Waheed’s book of poems titled Salt.

Color Coded Sequences by Adam Hillman. https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/06/adam-hillman-food-arrangement/