April 2012
12 posts
Art in the House Winter 2012: Week 10
Hello AITH friends,
This last Monday and Tuesday we celebrated the end of our AITH winter session with our amazing students artwork. You may have noticed—they were so proud of their work in the exhibition—we were too! The work they created was magnificent and we had tons of ye olde fun along the way, making art and making friends.
We will miss everyone over the long AITH break,...
March 2012
42 posts
Art in the House Fall 2011: Week 10!
Hi Everybody, I can hardly believe that 9 weeks have gone by, we’ve had a blast! Our final classes of this session—this Monday and Tuesday— will include an informal exhibit of the students’ artwork. So, if you can, plan to come at 5:00 to mingle and to see this wonderful body of work done by the students. We recommend that you bring a sturdy shopping bag or other bag to take home loads of...
Art in the House Fall 2011: Week 9
Hello Art In The House Friends,
You’d never know that the students had initial doubts about last week’s project—making miniature farmers market fruits and vegetables from sculpey clay—by looking at their finished product, amazingly detailed and wonderful work. Neil’s slide show of fresh produce inspired them to create and fill up their sculpey-made baskets with micro-sized,...
Art in the House Winter 2012: Week 7
Hello Art In The House Friends,
The students loved leafing through the art, history, and animal reference books and tearing out images to cut and paste their heads on to! They came up with so many different combinations, creating pieces that were humorous ( e.g. their heads on famous 18th century paintings of children, some even added speech balloons!) surreal, picturesque, and mystical. The...
Art in the House Winter 2012: Week 7
March 9, 2012
Hello Art In The House Friends,
The students were so into painting their “Piggy” Banks last week and each and every one looks original and awesome. There was a cat, a bunny, and a turtle, but mostly there were pigs—spotted and polka-dotted, striped (according to one student a small percentage of pigs are really striped!), floral, and many shades of blue, green,...
