The Palmetto Art Center (PAC) would like to invite home school families into PAC's creative space
every other Thursday of each month from 11:00AM - 12:30AM beginning January 12th.
Feel free to bring a bag lunch and meet up with other families in Sutton Park after class.
All
PAC 's classes focus on art elements, principles and FUN! Line, color,
shape, form, texture, pattern, balance as well as art-history, creative
self-expression and cultural appreciation will be bundled into each art
lesson. Our goal is to learn and explore and have fun without getting
distracted by technicalities. Gretchen Leclezio, a certified teacher
(K- 12) specializing in teaching children with learning disabilities,
will guide you each week in a creative journey. PAC's home school
classes are designed to teach all grade levels in one class setting.
Modification and skills will be taught to the older students as needed.
Cost | $15 per participant per lesson.
Siblings $10 per class.
A $3 supply fee will be needed per participant for each lesson.
A minimum of 6 participants is needed to hold a class.
For more information or to RSVP, please contact: Gretchen (941) 518 -2109
January 12th: ART meets Science: Frog and Toad
What is the difference between a frog and a toad? What are the similarities and what are the differences?
Learn scientific characteristics and identify body parts. We will construct a habitat for our
We will continue learn to expand on hand building techniques and explore texture as
decoration. Clay will be completed and glazed in this lesson. Fired work will be ready for collection one week later.
January 26th: Plunge into Painting
With three colors we can make a rainbow. Learn about the color wheel. What is a hue and what is a tone?
We will be rather painterly as we mix colors to our hearts content and just explore color on a canvas.
February 9th: Heart Bowl on the Potter's Wheels
Learn the parts of the wheel and how to throw a bowl. Throw a bowl? Well, not really, but how to
use the wheel to aid us to make a bowl. We will alter our bowl into the shape of a heart, just in time for
Valentines Day! There will be two sessions on the wheel. Six pot throwers at a time. The first group will be from
11AM - 12:30PM and then the second group from 1 - 2:30PM. Clay bowls will be completed and glazed in this lesson.
Fired work will be ready for collection one week later.
February 23rd: Bird's Eye View: Out on a Limb
Have you ever wondered what birds or airplane
travelers see when they look down at the earth?
What would your room
look like if you were floating on the ceiling? First we will study what
real objects
and plants look like from above. Then we'll stretch our
imaginations by drawing garden-scapes or
room-scapes as if we were
looking down on them. A slide show including art and contemporary maps.
Wendy Marble will be back teaching us her tricks to the trade on how to see like a bird!
March 8th : Make it POP: Plaster casting
We will learn about POP artist George Segal through a slide show of his work and his technique which
made him famous, plaster casting. We will learn how to use plaster and cast our hands and paint them in a
POP art fashion!
March 22nd: Get Grooooovy with Tie Dye
We will learn the history of dying cloth and where dye comes from. We will learn how to twist and
fold our clothes into funky patterns and dye with bold colors on PAC's street side. Wear clothes that
can get wet and slip on shoes. Bring and article of clothing for dying, make sure it is 100% cotton for
a good soak.
April 5th: Print it! Silkscreen!
Learn from the POP master Andy Wharhol. We will make stencil prints with the most basic materials,
we'll learn
cutting shapes and layering colors using poster
paint, cardboard frames and squeegees. Printing on paper
&
canvas bags will be explored. Wendy Marble, with a degree in printmaking is back at PAC teaching us
age-old craft of printing with everyday objects.
April 19th: Larger than Life: sculptures from clay.
Learn about POP artist Claes Oldenburg through a slide show and see his sculptures, which are larger
than life in cities around the world. We will choose an everyday object from home and make
it larger than life by sculpting from clay! Clay will be completed and glazed in this lesson.
Fired work will be ready for collection one week later.
May 3rd: Fantasy still life
With crayons we will draw flowers and branches in a
vase, but only after we've practiced really seeing what
we're looking at
instead of drawing what we only THINK we see. Then we use our
imaginations to paint
over the drawing, using whatever colors and
patterns we like the best. Art History slide show including
Cezanne,
Picasso, and contemporary artists will be on show, the wilder the better!!
Classes will continue through May if families would like to keep playing!
