Anderson Ranch Arts Center Workshop Catalogs 2000-2009

children ages 6-8 THE CHILDREN’S program prepares children for the future by sparking their imaginations and enhancing their inherent creativity through the making of visual art. In each workshop, children explore meaningful ideas and processes that lead toward authentic work in a variety of media. Class size is limited, offering each child plenty of individual attention. The children’s classes are offered in the Evelyn and Martin Siegel Children’s Workshop Building, a 1,500-square-foot facility with a porch and courtyard area where students can work. CHILDREN’S PROGRAM SKILL LEVEL: Open to All – Subject to specific age requirements, students of any skill/knowledge level. June 8 - 11 Color My World Vicky Russell Ages 6-8 years old, Mon. - Thurs., 1:30 - 4:30 pm Tuition: $250 Code: K0202 Enrollment Limit 14 CONCEPT: Enter the wonderful world of watercolor and learn how to paint pictures of yourself, family, friends and nature. Students will explore a variety of watercolor techniques, learn color theory, and practice making textures and mixing pigments. By looking carefully at themselves and their surroundings, students will create beautiful paintings. At the end, the class will collaborate on a large group painting of the world. MEDIA & TECHNIQUES: Students will discuss color theory, watercolor painting methods such as wet into wet, and will experiment with textures using salt, plastic wrap and various resists. ACTIVITIES: Each day classes will begin with an introduction and discussions about ourselves, our families and where we come from. Students will create a set of paintings: a full selfportrait, a landscape, a family tree, a globe painting and a class mural of the world. FACULTY: Vicky Russell was the Colorado Elementary Art Teacher of the Year, the Regional Pacific Elementary Art Teacher of the Year, 2000, and a Watercolor Workshop Instructor in Tuscany, Italy, 2008. FAMILY DAY WORKSHOPS Do you want to get messy with your kids, use your imagination and learn about art? Anderson Ranch is pleased to offer a new workshop series called “Family Day.” Each workshop will investigate a different art project for children and adults to create together. Projects will include a variety of mixed media techniques, and themes will be appropriate for younger ages. Talented children’s art instructors will teach each unique project, but workshop content will not be known until the day of the session. Supplies are included and each child must be accompanied by an adult. June 8 - 11 Mad about Matisse Denise Magley Friday, June 12 Session 1 Ages 6-8 years old, Mon. - Thurs., 9:00 am - 12:00 pm Tuition: $250 Code: K0201 Enrollment Limit 14 CONCEPT: Hang on to your brayers as we begin a printmaking adventure modeled after the artist Matisse. Students will create various kinds of prints such as collographs, which are made from found textures, to foam plates. Matisse liked to create still lifes, and students will experiment with making their own as well. After a flurry of printing finishes, some of the designs will be turned into wearable art. The workshop will be filled with lots of fun and prints galore. MEDIA & TECHNIQUES: Students will use water-based printing inks, stamp pads, washable Crayola markers as well as a printing press for some of the printing. ACTIVITIES: The workshop will begin with introductions and activities based on the art of Matisse. We will explore still lifes, demonstrate how to use the printing press, create collographs, experience a variety of printing methods and wrap up the week with a final show of prints. FACULTY: Denise Magley taught art in the Loveland public schools for over 30 years and received the Colorado Elementary Art Educator of the Year Award. She is now retired from teaching full-time, but is working as a full-time artist in her home studio in Longmont, Colorado. Denise received her BFA from Colorado State University. Denise Magley & Vicky Russell Ages 4-6 years old, 9:00 am - 12:00 pm Tuition: $75 for one adult/one child, $100 for one adult/two children Code: Q0201 Enrollment Limit 7 adult/child pairs June 15 - 18 Friday, June 19 Nicole Nagel Gogolak Nicole Nagel Gogolak Naturally Fabulous Ages 6-8 years old, Mon. - Thurs., 9:00 am - 12:00 pm Tuition: $250 Code: K0303 Enrollment Limit 14 CONCEPT: Leave your paintbrushes and markers at home because this workshop is all about making art like Mother Nature. In this class, students will look at artworks by environmental artist Andy Goldsworthy and try their own installations made from leaves, sticks and rocks. Who needs paints, paintbrushes or drawing tools when we can make our own from natural materials? Why buy paper when making it by hand is so much fun? Every day will be filled with exploring

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