2010 Youth Art Program

The arts are fundamental resources through which the world is viewed, meaning is created, and the mind developed. – Elliot W Eisner, Professor of Education and Art, Stanford University

Children need a place where creativity is encouraged and facilitated, where ideas are fostered and a multitude of media can be experienced. Our low-cost, high-quality youth art classes provide the right environment. This year, parents have many choices:

Weekly Youth Classes

Three year-round options for area youth. Spring Session, Eight Weeks: April 13–June 5. Fall Session, Eight Weeks: September 7–October 30.

• Tuesdays, After School Classes After school art for elementary-age students, kindergarten through sixth grade, 3:15–4:30 pm. $40 for 8-Week Session

• Wednesdays, Preschool Creativity Classes for Parent and Child (Ages 2 ½–5) From 11–11:45 am, the very young, joined by a parent, will enjoy art activities designed to develop creativity. Basic skill lessons will include scribbling, cutting, joining, modeling, sculpturing and painting. Parent participation required. $40 for 8-Week Session

• Saturday Art School Send your child to art school for the morning. Kindergartners through eighth graders are welcome from 10 am to noon for fun, hands-on, age-appropriate art classes. $64 for 8-Week Session

Youth Summer Art

Mondays, June 21–August 2
• Ages 5–9: 10 am–noon
• Ages 10–15: 1–3 pm
Bring your child for a fun day of multi-media art experiences, including crafts, clay, painting and more. Sign up for one class or the whole session! Pre-registration required due to space limitations. $12/class or $60 for six-week session

Intergenerational Art Days

More than 20 classes for all ages – grandparent, parent, aunt or uncle with child – to have a meaningful day creating together. Click here to see offerings.

Art from Nature: Sculpture Workshop for Ages 8 through Teens

Judy Richardson (Artist-in-Residence)
June 22–26
10 am–4 pm
Cost: $375 Bascom members/ $400 non-members (includes all materials)
www.judy-richardson.com
Youth will spend a week creating art inspired by and interactive with the environment. Learn from the sculptor who built the peaches in the movie “James and the Giant Peach” and have an action-packed week of creating structures, environments, and animal habitats by drawing, painting, nailing, wrapping, sewing, binding, gathering and constructing! While internationally acclaimed Patrick Dougherty creates a site-specific sculpture from gathered saplings on The Bascom campus, workshop students will have the opportunity to create their own environmental sculptures.

2010 Exhibitions in the Children’s Gallery

May 15–30, Regional High School Showcase
June 4–July 18, Youth Art from Outer Space
July 24–October 3, Pass It On: Youth Art and Work by Intergenerational Instructors
October 9–December 18, Youth Art, New Creations

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