Seasonal Offerings!
You can enjoy painting, drawing with pastels, printmaking on the printing press, and pottery each on a seperate day. Costs include all art materials, transportation from studio to on-site locations, and snacks. Scholarship funds are available for qualifying individuals.
Check back frequently for updates to program dates and activities during Spring Break, Summer Break, and other holidays.
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Updated January 16, 2012
Join us for our annual out of school “Presidents' Day People and Pastry Studies.”
Students ages six and up partake in a field trip from the studio to a local coffee house, sketch on location amidst the camouflage of hot chocolate and pastries, then return to the studio to develop their sketches into significant pieces of artwork. Our Popular “The Art, The Master” focus will include Andy Warhol's multiple color scheme approaches and Wayne Thiebaud's arrangements of cake and pastries
Cost is $50 per day from 9am to 3pm on Presidents Day, Monday, February 20th.
Click here to register online!
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Afterschool Individualized Art Lessons
Afterschool art programs are offered every Monday, Tuesday, and/or Wednesday of the school year between Labor Day and Memorial Day from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. in the studio for children and youth ages 6 and up. Activities include drawing, painting, printmaking, pottery, sculpture, batik, etc. Art materials include pencil, charcoal, oil and chalk pastel, marker, paint pen, watercolor, acrylic, oil, inks, spray paint, papers for collage, wax and fabric dye, mixed media, etc. We have a printmaking press, two potter's wheels, and a kiln.
Instruction, advice, and encouragement on technique, approach, subject matter, and levels of development add to the overall studio atmosphere of accomplishment, along with the wit and delight of doing artwork. Students of all levels and ages participate. For example, on Wednesday afternoons we have eight first through 10th graders all working on a variety of activities of their choice.
Cost is $75 for four lessons with a $5 materials fee. We ask that participants commit to four lessons at a time. If you miss a date due to illness or such we move it on to the next week. We have students who have done art with us for years! Join us!
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The ArtSplot's involvement and experience in the schools is not only limited Bozeman schools, or even just Gallatin Valley. Chelsea Smith and the ArtSplot have taken part in numerous artist-in-residency programs all over the state of Montana, sharing her expertise and helping both students and teachers expand their artistic horizons.
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Donuts and Lollipops:
Food AND Subject Matter!
This winter, the ArtSplot is in the following schools: Whittier, Irving, Anderson, Longfellow, Hawthorne, Malmborg, Morning Star, and Cottonwood.
A Montana State University Art Education major is joining Chelsea for six weeks March and April; this is her ninth student teacher.
The lollipops and donuts are in response to artwork done by famous 20th century artist Wayne Thiebaud (tee bo) as part of The ArtSplot's ongoing “The Art, The Master” focus. Other recent master artists have been Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and contemporary artist David Hockney. “The Art, The Master” subject matter areas of focus have recently been Asian branches and bonsai trees.
The ArtSplot printmaking press is used for multitude of processes, methods, and mixed media techniques. The photo here shows a monoprint of the Hawaii state fis, the humuhumunukunukuapua'a fish, by an eighth grader during one of our summer teen programs. Other printmaking methods incorporated into the ArtSplot programs include collographs, drypoint, relief, and embossment in conjunction with mixed media enhancement.
The ArtSplot along with Whittier School has been awarded a Bozeman Schools Foundation Sparks Grant to be implemented this winter and spring. With the instruction of Chelsea Smith, all Whittier students in grades first through fifth will create their own collograph plates in the classroom, followed by field trips to the ArtSplot studio for the plates to be run through the press and hand pulled before their own eyes. Students will choose a selection of plates to be printed more than once and then contributed to a permanent collection to be displayed in the school.
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