Spring 2024 Dow Arts Programs

April Vacation Workshop: Super Sculptors

Date: Tuesday April 16, 2024

Time: 9:30am-12pm

Ages: 6-10

Cost: $25.00

Instructor: Erin Rice

 Description: In this workshop we’ll study the monumental sculptures of art giants like Alexander Calder and Louise Bourgeois. We’ll then set about turning ordinary objects like flat pieces of paper into extraordinary form as standing and hanging sculptures.

April Vacation Workshop: Pour, Drip, Splatter / Paint like an Abstract Expressionist

Date: Wednesday April 17, 2024

Time: 9:30am-12:00pm

Ages: 6-10

Cost: $25.00

Instructor: Erin Rice

 

Description: This will be a messy one! We’ll begin by studying the works of famous American Abstract Expressionist painters like Helen Frankenthaler, Lee Krasner, Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline. We’ll discuss their revolutionary ways of applying paint to canvas, then we’ll make our own expressionist style paintings by dripping, drizzling, pouring, splattering, and scraping paint onto our surfaces. Instead of paintbrushes we’ll uses squeegees, pipettes and straws to manipulate pigment. It is sure to be a fun and messy experiment.

April Vacation Workshop: Out of the Blue

Date: April 18, 2024

Time: 9:30am – 12pm

Ages: 6-10

Cost: $25.00 per child

Instructor: Erin Rice

Description: In this workshop we’ll explore the exciting medium of Cyanotype- a photographic printing formulation sensitive to UVA rays that produces stunning images in deep blue hues, also known as a Sun Print! We’ll produce a series of photogram images using pre-treated paper and found objects in nature. Best of all, students enrolled in this workshop will have the opportunity to showcase their work in a community exhibition hosted by the Ipswich Art Association in conjunction with the Ipswich Museum called “Out of the Blue” on the weekend of May 4 and 5 at Ebsco. Don’t miss this one!