These classes are geared for small children to attend alongside their guardian. Each class will begin with a tour of Main Line Art Center's facilities, followed by a story that will relate to a craft. Media will vary weekly, ranging from painting, to mixed media, to printmaking. All projects are designed to appeal to a large age range and parents are encouraged to create alongside their children.

 

These classes are geared for small children to attend alongside their guardian. Each class will begin with a tour of Main Line Art Center's facilities, followed by a story that will relate to a craft. Media will vary weekly, ranging from painting, to mixed media, to printmaking. All projects are designed to appeal to a large age range and parents are encouraged to create alongside their children.

 

These classes are geared for small children to attend alongside their guardian. Each class will begin with a tour of Main Line Art Center's facilities, followed by a story that will relate to a craft. Media will vary weekly, ranging from painting, to mixed media, to printmaking. All projects are designed to appeal to a large age range and parents are encouraged to create alongside their children.

 

These classes are geared for small children to attend alongside their guardian. Each class will begin with a tour of Main Line Art Center's facilities, followed by a story that will relate to a craft. Media will vary weekly, ranging from painting, to mixed media, to printmaking. All projects are designed to appeal to a large age range and parents are encouraged to create alongside their children.

 

These classes are geared for small children to attend alongside their guardian. Each class will begin with a tour of Main Line Art Center's facilities, followed by a story that will relate to a craft. Media will vary weekly, ranging from painting, to mixed media, to printmaking. All projects are designed to appeal to a large age range and parents are encouraged to create alongside their children.

 

These classes are geared for small children to attend alongside their guardian. Each class will begin with a tour of Main Line Art Center's facilities, followed by a story that will relate to a craft. Media will vary weekly, ranging from painting, to mixed media, to printmaking. All projects are designed to appeal to a large age range and parents are encouraged to create alongside their children.

 

These classes are geared for small children to attend alongside their guardian. Each class will begin with a tour of Main Line Art Center's facilities, followed by a story that will relate to a craft. Media will vary weekly, ranging from painting, to mixed media, to printmaking. All projects are designed to appeal to a large age range and parents are encouraged to create alongside their children.

 

These classes are geared for small children to attend alongside their guardian. Each class will begin with a tour of Main Line Art Center's facilities, followed by a story that will relate to a craft. Media will vary weekly, ranging from painting, to mixed media, to printmaking. All projects are designed to appeal to a large age range and parents are encouraged to create alongside their children.

 

These classes are geared for small children to attend alongside their guardian. Each class will begin with a tour of Main Line Art Center's facilities, followed by a story that will relate to a craft. Media will vary weekly, ranging from painting, to mixed media, to printmaking. All projects are designed to appeal to a large age range and parents are encouraged to create alongside their children.

 

These classes are geared for small children to attend alongside their guardian. Each class will begin with a tour of Main Line Art Center's facilities, followed by a story that will relate to a craft. Media will vary weekly, ranging from painting, to mixed media, to printmaking. All projects are designed to appeal to a large age range and parents are encouraged to create alongside their children.

 

These classes are geared for small children to attend alongside their guardian. Each class will begin with a tour of Main Line Art Center's facilities, followed by a story that will relate to a craft. Media will vary weekly, ranging from painting, to mixed media, to printmaking. All projects are designed to appeal to a large age range and parents are encouraged to create alongside their children.

 

Come celebrate fall with some amazing clay creations. We will create memories making leaf print platters, coil vessels and more. Basic hand building techniques will be taught. No clay experience necessary.

 

If your young artist is ready to flex their creative muscles, the Young Classics are where it's at! Offered in the fall, winter, and spring, these 6-8 week classes include an introduction t...

Sunday Scribblers focuses on experimenting with various mediums, tools, and techniques, while challenging creativity and visual learning. Each week students will create compositions that focus on specific themes (for example, color, shape, and line). Projects and activities will be reinforced through tie-ins to related literature.    

 

Core Takeaways:   

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It's time to play! Come explore the world of clay. We will learn basic hand building techniques, such as pinch pots, slabs and coils to create fall themed projects. From leaf prints to coil pots, we will create together.

 

If your young artist is ready to flex their creative muscles, the Young Classics are where it's at! Offered in the fall, winter, and spring, these 6-8 week classes i...

Learn to turn drawings into movable puppets! In this three week class, we will explore four different paper doll-making styles: dress-up dolls with outfits, dolls with moving joints, and collage and mixed media variations. Each student will end with at least 3 finished paper dolls to keep. There will be step-by-step directions so students at any level can succeed.

 

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Discover, learn, explore in this ceramics class for young ones. Projects will be based on developing students' clay skills. We will have fun creating animals from pinch pots, vessels using slabs, and creations using coils. Student pieces will be painted and glazed to complete their vision.

 

If your young artist is ready to flex their creative muscles, the Young Classics are where it's...

This course will be a fun opportunity for kids to draw characters from superhero, fantasy, and science-fiction. Every week will have a new character to draw. Students will leave each class with a new, finished color drawing. The class will follow a step-by-step format, so students with little or no drawing experience can learn just as much as advanced students. Students will also learn about color theory and composition.

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In this class children will explore the endless possibilities working with clay! While creating idea projects based on mystical creatures, decorative functional forms and sculptural figures, children will learn the basics of hand building using coil, pinch and slab building techniques. 

        

Core Takeaways:

• Basic clay sculpture skills        &nbs...

This class provides the knowledge and skills that every young artist needs to build a strong foundation for the future, all cleverly wrapped up in fun and engaging projects! Develop skills by trying different approaches to looking and the processes of drawing and painting as you explore materials, realism, and your imagination. Projects change each session so that returning students can continue to build their skills.

 

Different people and cultures with various traditions and values contribute to the world today. Our differences are what make the world so unique. Art is one source of communication that is practiced by most people, in many ways, across the globe. This eight week course is designed to explore various countries and their contributions to art throughout time. Students will examine valuable artistic techniques, mixed media, art history, and geo...

In this class, we will explore clay through beginner-level handbuilding projects. We will develop skills through coil-building and slab-building. The students will come away with pots, sculptures, a broad foundation in handbuilding with clay, and an enthusiasm for making.

 

Varying from one day workshops to multi-week classes, these tasty treats are offered once or twice throughout the year ...

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Let's bring your drawings to life. If you have ever wondered how to turn that idea into a 3-dimensional sculpture, now is your chance. Sculpture and hand building techniques will be taught in a fun and social environment. From animal sculptures to coil creations... let's bring to life together.

 

If your young artist is ready to flex their creative muscles, the Young Classics are...

This is an introduction to cartooning and character studies, while learning the basic drawing skills of both cartooning and fantasy illustration.    

 

Core Takeaways:   

1) Introduction to basics of cartooning    

2) Character development    

3) Perspective    

4) Proportion of characters  &...

A class designed for the young student to become acquainted with the basics of sound drawing as applied to the art of cartooning.

 

If your young artist is ready to flex their creative muscles, the Young Classics are where it?s at! Offered in the fall, winter, and spring, these 6-8 week classes include an introduction to materials, artistic concepts, and techniques, and teach specific skill...

In Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels, I teach children and pre-teens how to come up with a story idea and put it down into comic book form. During the process, they will learn the different jobs in the comic industry, how to better draw people and places, how to better tell a comic story through the editing process and how to work with others in groups. We start off with warm up projects and discussions and then continue to work with o...

Test drive your talents at our first-ever Sneak Peek-A-Palooza! Join us for hands-on workshops in jewelry, pottery, handbuilding, drawing, painting and printmaking. Mix and match two, hour-and-a-half workshops to get a feel for the tools and techniques used in different mediums during teaching artist demos and hands-on practice. Kids can sample workshops in drawing & painting, handbuilding and more! Try your hand during Sneak Peek-A-Palo...

In this class, students are introduced to the history of the potter's wheel and focus on their wheel-throwing skills. Students learn the basic knowledge of clay, throwing methods, and techniques applied in basic forms for this session. Beginners or advanced students are welcome and instructions are individually tailored to each student. Students are encouraged to create their own artistic works with clay.

 

This class provides the knowledge and skills that every young artist needs to build a strong foundation for the future, all cleverly wrapped up in fun and engaging projects! Develop skills by trying different approaches to looking and the processes of drawing and painting as you explore materials, realism, and your imagination. Projects change each session so that returning students can continue to build their skills. 

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Work on the potters' wheel for the first time or strengthen your skills and ceramic knowledge. Learn centering and pulling to make simple forms such as cups, bowls, and vases. Finish your work by trimming feet, carving, attaching handles, and glazing. More advanced students will be encouraged to create their own projects and work independently under the close guidance of the instructor. Create work that is both beautiful and functional in th...

This class provides the knowledge and skills that every young artist needs to build a strong foundation for the future, all cleverly wrapped up in fun and engaging projects! Develop skills by trying different approaches to looking and the processes of drawing and painting as you explore materials, realism, and your imagination. Projects change each session so that returning students can continue to build their skills.

 

This class will focus on different comics, manga, or animation artists. We will look at each artist's work and analyze their techniques and style, learning different lessons each week. After a brief lesson on the artists, students will receive in-class assignments incorporating concepts covered, afterwards receiving feedback from other students and the instructor. Students will learn from contemporary artists, as well as historical cre...

This class is geared for children 13+ years of age with special needs. Art work will be made using a variety of mediums, including clay, printmaking, paint, and collage. Creativity is emphasized through open ended projects that are designed for a wide range of abilities. Basic and intermediate techniques will be introduced. Volunteers from the community help to give each student one on one attention in a caring nurturing environment.

Teens will explore the art of jewelry making with founds objects, beads, and fabric. I will introduce the flex shaft to teens while they explore design concepts: color, shape, and texture, within their found objects. Teens will be introduced to basic findings, such as; jump rings, chains, and clasps. This class is meant to be creative, fun, and exploratory. Your teens will go home with an assortment of jewelry.

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Join award-winning professors from Drexel's Westphal College of Media Arts & Design at the Main Line Art Center to learn how to create a stellar portfolio for admission into art and design schools.  A great portfolio requires careful editing and curation.  Professors from the Department of Design will walk you through the process of constructing and presenting a portfolio that shows your commitment and readiness to enter ...

This class explores the foundations more deeply with an emphasis on the elements of art: line, shape, form, value, color, space, texture. Develop skills with different drawing and painting techniques as you explore materials, realism, and your imagination. We'll cover topics from still life and figure-drawing to mixed media and abstract painting. Projects change each session so that returning students can continue to build their skills...

This class is for returning students wanting to advance their technical skills and gain mastery of the potter's wheel. Learn to center larger amounts of clay and throw in sections to create more complex forms such as bowls, teapots, and vases. Finish your work by trimming feet, carving, attaching handles, and glazing. More advanced students will be encouraged to create their own projects and work independently under the close guidance ...

This class provides knowledge and skills that every young artist needs to build a strong foundation for the future, all cleverly wrapped up in fun and engaging projects! Develop skills by trying different approaches to looking and the processes of drawing and painting as you explore materials, realism, and your imagination. Projects change each session so that returning students can continue to build their skills. Students will learn to draw...