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Artists Association of Nantucket
ART CLASSES EVENTS

Course Description

Celebrate the winter season with creativity, imagination, and hands-on art making! Join us for a series of fun, one-day workshops where young artists will explore different materials, experiment with new techniques, and create festive projects to take home.

Choose one workshop or join us for all four!

Collage Gingerbread “House” November 30
Get creative with a variety of materials as we design and assemble our own whimsical Gingerbread House collages!

Crazy Reindeer! December 7
Join us to create crazy reindeer faces using cardboard, paint, collage, and an assortment of fun doodads and whimsical details!

Craft a Mini Christmas Tree December 14
Use a variety of materials and embellishments to create and decorate a one-of-a-kind mini tree to brighten your home this season!

Solstice Beeswax Candle Dipping December 21
Welcome the Winter Solstice by hand-dipping your own beeswax taper candles and crafting simple, creative candle holders to go along with them.

Students are welcome to register for one workshop or all four. Advance registration is required.

These workshops are generously funded through the Nantucket Golf Club Fund, helping make creative opportunities accessible to young artists in our community.

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 ONE DAY Holiday Crafting Workshop Series: Ages 6–9

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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