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Course Description

Family Art is back!
Art making provides a joyful way to learn through exploring sensory-based materials while learning age appropriate skills. In this free one-hour workshop, children work to build creative skill and confidence in the company of their trusted adults. We use story as a springboard to play with all kinds of materials, including clay, glue, wood, recycled materials, beads, buttons and fabric. Students practice creative problem solving, verbalizing ideas and building motor skills. We will be drawing, printing, painting, sculpting, cutting and gluing and we focus on process vs. product. Some projects may be collaborative between adult and child but most will be designed for children to experiment with what they can do.

First come, first served as space is limited to 10 students plus their parents/caregivers in order to promote safe and healthy environment.

This program is funded through The Nantucket Golf Club Foundation and The Nantucket Fund at the Community Foundation for Nantucket.

Cancellation Policy

AAN depends upon student tuition to continue to offer classes and workshops. Due to our commitment to small class sizes and the hands-on nature of art education, we are greatly impacted by cancellations. Nevertheless, we do understand that plans change. If you need to cancel your reservation for a class or workshop, please note our cancellation/refund policy here and let us know as soon as possible.

Materials

All materials are provided.

FREE Family Art Drop-in, Ages 2-5

Lizbet Carroll Fuller

Color is inspiring. Whether it is a landscape, a flower, or a still life, I seek to explore and play with the relationships and combinations of color within the blueprint of the form. I gather imagery from places I love, whether Nantucket, Maine or Ireland, and seek to express a real sense of being in that space and the feeling it engenders within through the medium of paint, and usually oils. A particular flower or an object might serve as another exercise in playing with color and form. I prefer working on a smooth surface and find that wood or board gives a painting a body of its own. While I majored in Studio Art and English at Wesleyan, I had worked primarily in drawing and printmaking. The making of art and things has always been central for me, in my work as a teacher, and in the island school I co-founded, Nantucket Lighthouse School. Working with one's hands, figuring it out as you go and, like Rumpelstiltskin, making something from 'nothing' seem to be both a fundamental human task and a meaningful exercise for all. I find the process of focused seeing to be a meditative one at its best and a worthy challenge always.
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