Summer Open Studio

Prerequisite:

Open to students entering grade(s): 2 - 3

Course Description:

The Studio is OPEN! 

If you want to spend more time creating your own art, learning new skills, or exploring different media, then this Summer, we are opening the Studio for you!

The Summer Open Studio art program continues the choice-based art education approach to creating art that focuses on the students, their interests, and their ideas.  The Summer Open Studio program will expose students to a variety of NEW tools, media, and techniques...and through the art-making process, students continue to develop artistic behaviors, skills, and the knowledge of how to use different materials to express their thoughts, feelings, and ideas through creativity.

Learner Outcomes:

Allowing choice for our youngest students has many benefits. It fosters independence, capability, creativity, and self-worth.

Students will:

• Create art using various materials and tools to explore personal interests, questions, and curiosity 
• Build new skills by learning to use new tools, media, and techniques
• Self-reflect on artwork and share their art-making with peers and others
• Develop life-long traits such as creativity, perseverance, flexibility, and self-expression

Methodology:

Summer Open Studio follows the TAB approach to art education where the children come in with an idea, select the materials they will need, set up their studio workspace, and create their artwork. 

In this Summer Open Studio program, students can spend time developing new creative skills while working on collaborative and individual projects in an Open Studio environment. New Skill Builders will include clay, weaving, shibori, printing, stop-motion animation, and paper-making. Our young artists will work towards a final gallery to showcase and celebrate their work among their peers