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Summer Painting Camp
Painting Camp with Samantha Wiley Students will experience all different kinds of painting, from watercolor to acrylic and mixed media, from representational to abstract and decorative, painting on traditional and unconventional surfaces with a variety of tools, designing both from imagination and observation. Advanced students will learn to refine their planning and conceptual skills and develop new techniques with water-based oils, watercolor pencils, and more. This is a 5-day camp. A minimum number of students must pre-register for the full camp before…
Find out more »Life Drawing Studio
Monday night Life Drawing is back by popular demand! Sign up for a 6-week block of sessions, or choose individual dates. https://www.galvestonartscenter.org/about/life_drawing/
Find out more »Kids’ Class: Found Object Sculpture
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Find out more »Summer Felting Camp
For ages 8-14 Make soft, colorful sculptures out of hand-dyed raw wool with GISD certified art teacher teacher Brook Olm. Needle felting (sometimes called dry felting) is nothing like the machine-made sheets of felt you can buy at the craft store; it is a true handmade fiber art. Students will mold real raw wool to create sweet, whimsical, fuzzy sculptures. Starting with a basic model to learn the technique, they will go on to draw and plan their own designs.…
Find out more »Summer Ceramics Camp
For ages 8-14 Explore with award-winning figurative ceramicist Pat Johnson a variety of hand-building techniques including coil and slab-construction, using low-fire stoneware and professional glazes. Learn in the context of both historical and contemporary ceramics to see how clay can be used to create both useful and expressive objects of art. Tuition: $150
Find out more »POLYMER CLAY WORKSHOP
Making Imitation Stone Beads Saturday, July 21, 2018 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM (bring a bag lunch!) Did you know that you can use polymer clay to reproduce common jewelry stones like lazuli, turquoise and even coral? At this all-day workshop, award-winning jewelry designer Paula Kennedy will show you how to create amazing trompe l'oei effects. Beginners welcome. All materials provided. Bring your pasta machine, work surface and blade if you have them. If not, we will provide these tools for you…
Find out more »The Art of Caregiving: Student Project Presentations and Reception
In a special summer course at UTMB, second-year Physical Therapy students reflect on the meaning of caregiving by creating an original work of art—visual, written, performance or other, based on their one-on-one interview with a full-time caregiver from the community. Come enjoy snacks and beverages as the PT students present their art pieces. Presented in Partnership with UTMB Department of Physical Therapy and hosted by faculty Laurie Farroni and Steve Fisher.
Find out more »Summer Art for Ages 5-8
https://www.galvestonartscenter.org/about/summer_art/ This week's class: Cardboard Sculpture
Find out more »Visual Pathology Conversation
Join us as artists and pathologists discuss the Visual Pathology project and their work in conjunction with the exhibition on view in the 1878 & Brown Foundation Galleries.
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