Year-Round Visual Arts and Restoration Clubs: For ages 4 - 12.
Workshops available on Saturdays.
In these programs we consider an appropriate practice the use of uncertainty as contributors to discovery and learning. A major teaching strategy used by these programs is to purposely allow mistakes to happen in order to provoke and encourage innovation and creativity. Our programs post a daily schedule that is flexible, enabling children and youth to transition smoothly from one activity (homework) to another (plastic art).
Visual Arts & Performing Arts Workshops:
Drawing, painting, sculpting, ceramics. *Please, call for schedules.
Etiquette & Modeling Workshops: Poise, Posture and Image. Self-Confidence and Life Skills. Skin, nail and Hair Care. Fashion Photography. Voice Projection and Diction. Wardrobe Planning and Accessorizing. Professional Runway Techniques. Nutrition and Fitness. Social and Table Etiquette ( Good Manners & Good Dressing). Assisting a Fashion Show Coordinator, Party Coordinator Assistant. Acting for TV, plays and commercials. Casting preparation.
Special Workshops: Mosaic making, Furniture Restoration & Art Soul Food.
Mosaic Projects: Mosaic making is not restricted by the utilization of any specific art medium. These projects will give students hours of incredible creative pleasure. Moreover mosaic artworks have their own beauty, usefulness and durability.
For our purposes, students enrolled in these workshops of making mosaic at our atelier will be learning the fundamentals of this artwork. Children will be involved in the design and traditional gluing of small glass, stone, ceramic stones or tiles onto firm surfaces or objects to create a mosaic work of lasting value. Artists and students will use the fundamental techniques for making mosaics that may be applied in the creation of a wide variety of mosaic projects, using different mosaic materials, adhesives and forms of artistic expression.
Art Soul Food: Small group of five students that operates on the notion that the act of creating artwork is spiritually therapeutic itself.
Children enrolled in this class are encouraged to experiment with a variety of art materials and the focus is on the art making process, not in the end product. Basic relaxation techniques and music are also incorporated into some groups.
*Visitors and family are reminded not to judge the quality or art level, but to enjoy the results by understanding the process.
Clubs' objectives:
At the Restoration Club kids learn how to use methods and materials that were used at the time the furniture or object was built, like fish glue, basic tools and plane hands. Students in this Club learn that Restoration should be understood as different from Art Conservation that intends to preserve the history of cultural property.
This beautiful outdoor learning program embraces the principle of combining arts with our natural world, demonstrating a special relationship to each other. It brings together art, science, and the environmental movement, interconnecting them all with kids and adults who are concerned with preserving the past, conserving the present, and creating with us a better future.
Together, artists and participants will share their own culture and also their perspectives, which will be captured and recorded by powerful mediums like video and photography.
The Green Kids Project's objective is to promote communal environmental awareness through the creation of a small herb garden and a vegetable garden in ceramic pots painted by children. By combining art and nature we will gradually introduce some necessary changes at community level within a concept of sustainable development.
Children participating in this program will visit and collaborate with local nurseries and other agricultural projects. All the participants will take part in our monthly Organic Nutrition Club which addresses the important issue of providing children and families with the proper knowledge and skills necessary to reach a healthy, environmentally and economically sound nutritional conduct.
The Green Kids Project will have a special guest in the month of love: February of 
2010: Carolyne Coppolo!
Carolyne is the Manager of Redland Organic Herb and Vegetable Farm, who will gladly conduct a Square Foot Gardening Class.
This project is Funtastic, Funrrific and truly environmental!
All individuals who have the will and the strength to do something about the environment can join us as active Green members!
It is our responsibility to preserve Mother Nature!