Young Makers

SUNDAYS  |  Oct. 20- Dec. 1, 2024  |  (No class Nov. 10)  |  10 am-12 pm  AGES 10-14  |  MAX 12 $150 for all 6 weeks  |  No hst  |  All materials provided Drawing Basics is designed for older kids 10 and up who love to draw and want to learn some new skills! Young artists will learn how to draw from observation and how to translate what we see into drawing. Led by artist Eileen MacArthur, Eileen will guide the class in learning about line, value, and balance in composition. Artists will be experimenting with various wet and dry drawing material including graphite, charcoal, ink and watercolour.

SOLD OUT AGES 5-12  |  MAX 36   $70  |  No hst   Excite your October senses with fluorescent bolds and bright colours! Phosphorescence, luminescence and day-glo will be the theme of the day as we explore how artists use solid, bright colours and shapes to create ART with intensity! Let's explore abstraction, pop art and synthetic colours as we embrace a hyper method making art!

AGES 6-12  |  MAX 12  $40  |  No hst  |  All materials provided Young makers! Join Guelph artist Ahmri Vandeborne and learn how to book bind! Make your very own notebooks, journals and books in this playful Saturday afternoon, perfect for kids who like to journal, draw, or keep track of their discoveries when they’re exploring outside. We'll bind and decorate together and then explore the Elora Centre for the Arts to document all our discoveries in these brand-new, hand-made pocket books. Artists will leave the class with the skills to keep making their own special books for all their favourite activities!

AGES 5-12  |  MAX 36    $70  |  No hst Let’s explore the wild and wonderful surreal world of Salvadore Dali through his mysterious Melting Clocks landscapes! Young artists will learn about weird world of Surrealism and how artists use dreams to create strange artworks with hidden meanings. We will also be looking at some of the methods artists use to express complex ideas, such as frottage and finding images in abstract marks. Get ready to dally with Dali!

AGES 6-12  |  MAX 12  $40  |  No hst  |  All materials provided Do you have a crafty kiddo looking for new ways of using all the bits & bobs in your craft drawer? Come be inspired in this mixed media class with Guelph artist Ahmri Vandeborne! Young makers will explore the exhibition "Clay & Cloth: Forest" at the Elora Centre for the Arts and collect inspiration in a fun scavenger hunt activity, then will take their new-found inspiration back to the crafting room to work with pencil crayons, pastels, markers, collage materials and more to create unique compositions of colour and shape on giftable cards, perfect for holiday giving!

AGES 8 + |  MAX 10 $65  |  No hst  |  All materials provided Junior artists! Join Eileen MacArthur to explore the methods and materials abstract artists use to make big, expressive paintings! We will be experimenting with using mixed media approaches and looking at the work of contemporary and historical artists for inspiration, learn about line, shape, colour, pattern and composition.

MIGHTY MATISSE! | January PA Day for Kids! Friday, January 24, 2025 |  9 am – 4 pm AGES 5-12  |  MAX 36  $70  |  No hst From bright solid shapes to colourful painted still life florals, we will ponder the beautiful and complicated inner world of French icon Henri MATISSE. Young makers will explore composition, pattern and colour, and learn about how artists tell stories with pictures! We will also examine how artists' work can change over time and how they find inspiration in new ways of using familiar materials.

AGES 8+  |   MAX 15   $120 for all 4 weeks  |  No HST  |  All materials provided

FEBRUARY 15, FEBRUARY 22, MARCH 1 & MARCH 8

Art-up your Saturdays in an immersive afternoon with Donna Hull and learn the 101’s of drawing from an art educator with more than 30 years of experience teaching in the classroom and beyond!  This 4-week series will focus on the wonders of nature, drawing natural, organic shapes for the first 1-3 weeks and finish with the student's choice of a naturalistic animal portrait. Owl or Horse!

AGES 5-12  |  MAX 36  $70  |  No hst I love Paris in the Springtime! CEZANNE, MATISSE, & CHAGALL will pay a visit to our studio classroom this PA Day, as we create our own art-salon, complete with Edith Piaf as our background crooner! Aspiring artists will learn about the great French Impressionists and consider how art movements develop, by many minds coming together to create a community! We will consider how Paris became a gathering place for artists and how to think about making a thriving art community of ideas and art-making!

AGES 5-12  |  MAX 36  $70  |  No hst Young makers! Take a stroll through the vibrant world of Vincent Van Gogh and explore his use of colour and line to create motion, emotion, and intensity! Let's explore the sunny side of painting and using LOTS of vibrant yellow, yellow, yellow and practice Impressionist methods of art-making, as we work together to recreate Van Gogh’s luminous sunflowers on canvas using mixed media and 3-D textures!