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Kids Creativity Sesh Summer Round Up 2015

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Alrightee then … we finally have our entire summer schedule for the Kids’ Creativity Classes at 1+1=1 Gallery and Brown Bird Studio (the very back, very cool, bright studio space behind the gallery.)

Classes are always on a Tuesday morning, 9:00 to noon. Tuition is $24/class and includes all materials and a nutritious snack. 

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Click on “Classes, Workshops” in the Gallery Shop. $24 per child per class. Includes all materials and snacks.

So here goes …

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Kids Creativity: Make Brushes & Mark-Making Tools

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It’s great fun to use different sticks and things for brush “handles”

Our first Kids Creativity Class of the summer is June 16th

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I’m pretty excited to venture into doing my own classes for kids. I’m starting this year with once a week classes for 9 to 13 year olds. Next year, I will probably branch out to younger and older kids, especially if we have a gallery manager who can take over some of the work. [grin]

Energy movement, expression of form, creation of meaningful, new forms. Invented tools. Unique paint brushes. Drawing with found objects and natural materials. Creative. Expressive. Fun. Outside-the-box!

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Kids: Paint How You Feel

June 23rd Kids Creativity Sesh!

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Our second Kids Creativity sesh for 9 to 13 year old kids, is all about abstract painting and mark-making. It’s about breaking out of the urge to paint like a photograph, or realistically. It’s about expressing the feelings we have, or the feeling of a thing. It’s one way to get away from, “I-can’t-draw-horses-that-look-like-horses-so-I’m-giving-up,” to “Oh! I love riding horses (riding my skateboard/climbing trees/swimming …) and I know how that feels! I can paint the way it feels!”

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Kids: Float Your Boat

July 7th Kids Creativity Sesh!

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Make boats of paper, cardboard, cloth and other cool stuff.

Then learn about making an art installation in a shop window!

Boys and girls alike, will get into this boat-sculpture-making class. When we’re done with our boats, we’ll have a free, follow up morning when the students will learn about making an installation-art project in the front window of the gallery!

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Kids: Create Driftwood Critters & Stuff

June 30 Kids Creativity Sesh!

Sculpture: Driftwood Critters
“Elephant Bird”: Driftwood Fantasy Critter

Remember watching clouds and figuring out what shapes you could see with your imaginations? Or making ink blobs and turning them into something “recognizable?” That was always fun, right? We stretch our creative minds outside the box by letting natural or found objects suggest to us what they want to become … fantastical creatures, weird monsters, make-believe machines, whatever our imaginations see when we really LOOK at the found objects.

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Celebrate Flowers at 1+1=1 next First Friday

color tiles35May 1st is Downtown Helena’s First Friday — it’s also May Day — a day to celebrate gardens, flowers, plants, trees and friendship. We invite you to come to our historic downtown that Friday evening to enjoy what we hope is lovely spring weather and all the local businesses that stay open late that evening.

1+1=1 Gallery will be open that night and celebrating May Day with a fun free hands-on art activity for all ages. Come on down and play with us — take home a colorful, flowerful piece of art to remind you of the amazingness of Nature and Springtime!

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