Youth Art, Music and Dance Classes for Home Schoolers

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Youth Homeschool Visual Arts Classes:

Prehistoric Art: Cave Painting and Rock Carvings

Head back to prehistoric times to explore some of the oldest art to be discovered on earth! “Visit” the Lascaux caves of France, and then head over to Western Australia to see Aboriginal rock carvings. We’ll try our own hand at making primitive paints for faux cave paintings; as well as carve symbols into red sand boards to send messages to our future selves.
Skills: painting, drawing, printmaking, carving, analyzing/interpreting symbols in art.
Days and Times: Wednesdays from 9:30-11:00 am 
Dates: September 7 & 21, 2016
Venue: Art Studio
Fees: NAG member: $31.50; non-member: $35
Instructor: Kelly Lynn Stanton-Nutt

Primitive Cultures, Enduring Crafts: Loom and Basket Weaving

After years as nomads, the earliest settler civilizations had much to learn to survive in a single location: farming, shelter building, and animal husbandry. They also needed to store their food and to clothe themselves. We will explore hand weaving as we make a small board; and a hand-loom that can be used to make a woven bracelet or belt.
Skills: weaving, color theory, large/small motor skills.
Days and Times: Wednesdays from 9:30-11:00 am 
Dates: October 5 & 19, 2016
Venue: Art Studio
Fees: NAG member: $31.50; non-member: $35
Instructor: Kelly Lynn Stanton-Nutt

Clever Communication: Pictographs to Cuneiforms

Early settlements grew to become villages and even cities! Trading between towns required consistent communication – pictures and symbols representing common animals and figures helped to identify people, places and things. We will create personalized cylinder seals in the style Sumerian tradesmen, and practice transforming images into simplified cuneiforms to carve into clay plates.
Skills: clay molding, rolling and carving, simplifying images into symbols.
Days and Times: Wednesdays from 9:30-11:00 am 
Dates: November 2 & 16, 2016
Venue: Art Studio
Fees: NAG member: $31.50; non-member: $35
Instructor: Kelly Lynn Stanton-Nutt

Egyptians & Cretans: Celebrating Life

The art in this period in history celebrated the lifestyles of the gods and the reigning powers. It was recorded on the columns and walls of buildings, on the pots food and drink were stored in, and on papyrus scrolls. Using what we will learn, we’ll draw basic hieroglyphics onto real papyrus; and how to carve images illustrating an event onto the side of a small pot.
Skills: clay molding, rolling and carving, image observation and replication
Days and Times: Wednesdays from 9:30-11:00 am 
Dates: December 7 & 21, 2016
Venue: Art Studio
Fees: NAG member: $31.50; non-member: $35
Instructor: Kelly Lynn Stanton-Nutt

Visual Arts Instructor: Kelly Lynn Stanton-Nutt, is better known as “Ms. Kelly” by her students. She has been teaching Art at St. Dominic School for the past five years. A love of travel provides a world of creative inspiration in the art studio with her students. She was a graphic designer for several years before getting her MS in Art & Design Education from Pratt Institute.

Youth Homeschool Music and Dance Classes:

The Music and Dance classes are companion classes to the Youth Visual Arts classes and provide complementary content in the performing arts.