The Milton Art Center is a nonprofit community center that offers art education and events for all ages. With a mission to connect people through the power of the arts, their dedicated volunteers and teachers work together to provide free and low-cost programming to the community in a renovated space that showcases art and music.
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Milton Art Center @ 334 Edge Hill Rd, Milton, MA
Explore the wonderful world of Fairies and Gnomes! Artists will create a unique, magical landscape with a tiny house, garden, furniture, and friends. We will use paint, clay, wire, wood, silk flowers, objects found in nature, and more. This is a magical week! What To Bring Please put sunscreen on your child. We will be working under tents but they may be in the sun for short periods of time during break. A brimmed hat, if they wear, would...
Milton Art Center @ 334 Edge Hill Rd, Milton, MA
Create handmade creatures from around the world as we learn about different cultures through folktales and traditions. Through painting, sculpting, and fiber art we will create meaningful artifacts that students will be eager to share with friends and family. Learn about the Japanese Legend of the Amabile (a pandemic protector), make Guatemalan Trouble Dolls, create totems, amulets, and more. What To Bring Please put sunscreen on...
Milton Art Center @ 334 Edge Hill Rd, Milton, MA
Collagraph printmaking is the art of creating printing “plates” made from cardboard. Each artists creates an individual “plate” and can make multiple, unique prints in a variety of colors. Art supplies include everyday cardboard, paints, glue, scissors, and art paper. Students can then add creative touches with oil or chalk pastels. At the end of camp, students will be able to take their plates for further use. What To Bring ...
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Milton Art Center @ 334 Edge Hill Rd, Milton, MA
Creativity is blooming this summer at MAC! In this choice-based class, artists will create their own botanical and horticultural masterpieces while exploring drawing and painting, collage, sculpture, and fiber arts. We will study how art and nature can be done simply to display the beauty of the natural world around us, to make scientific observations in an environment, or to open our minds to ideas about our own connection to nature and...
Milton Art Center @ 334 Edge Hill Rd, Milton, MA
Creativity is blooming this summer at MAC! In this choice-based class, artists will create their own botanical and horticultural masterpieces while exploring drawing and painting, collage, sculpture, and fiber arts. We will study how art and nature can be done simply to display the beauty of the natural world around us, to make scientific observations in an environment, or to open our minds to ideas about our own connection to nature and beyond. ...
Milton Art Center @ 334 Edge Hill Rd, Milton, MA
Create a tiny world for fairies and friends! Design a fairy house with everything a fairy would need...tiny furniture, gardens, wishing wells, paper clothing, food, animal friends and more. Imagine and create your very own fairy dolls. We will even take part in fairy magic by making a fairy potion flower essence. Sure to be a fairytastic week! What To Bring Please put sunscreen on your child. We will be working under tents but they...
Milton Art Center @ 334 Edge Hill Rd, Milton, MA
Come explore the world of bugs, the tiny and marvelous creatures that are all around! We will create our own critters with collage, sculpture, paint and more!
Milton Art Center @ 334 Edge Hill Rd, Milton, MA
Each week, students and caregivers will engage in the artistic process to cultivate connection and creativity. Caregivers and students will learn about regulation, co-regulation, and art techniques to calm the body and mind. This class requires caregiver participation and is an opportunity to foster emotional connection and attunement. This course may offer therapeutic benefits, however, it is not therapy.
Milton Art Center @ 334 Edge Hill Rd, Milton, MA
Students will create a variety of fall and winter holiday themed projects out of clay. Projects will be glazed, fired and ready for pick up 2 weeks after last class. These masterpieces will make great gifts!
Children will explore different types of materials while creating animals, real and imagined. Projects include bobbleheads, wall tile, mini pet shop, and more. Basic clay hand-building techniques will be taught, including coiling, slab, and pinch-pot. Some sculptures will be glazed and fired, requiring pick up 2 weeks after camp. What To Bring Please put sunscreen on your child. We will be working under tents but they may...
Children will explore the wonderful properties of ceramic clay while developing skills to create three dimensionally. Basic clay hand-building techniques will be taught, including coiling, slab, and pinch-pot. Imagination is encouraged! Students will glaze their sculptures and functional pieces with food-safe glazes. Fired projects will be ready for pick up 2 weeks after last class.
Milton Art Center @ 334 Edge Hill Rd, Milton, MA
Embrace the essence of spring with Plant Posy Art Potions. Create pressed plant designs, fairy flower potions, and more in this enchanting nature-based art class. Let your creativity bloom as you craft unique pieces inspired by the magic of the season.
Milton Art Center @ 334 Edge Hill Rd, Milton, MA
Unlock the secrets of drawing in Alchemical Drawing. Ideal for young artists, this course blends technical skills with imaginative exploration, drawing inspiration from Medieval art and Hieronymus Bosch. Dive into a world of fantasy, mythical creatures, and artistic mastery.
Students will learn about printmaking artists such as Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse. Each day we will create prints using a new technique including monoprints, relief prints, and block printing inspired by these unique and creative artists. Materials explored will include; styrofoam, cardboard, tinfoil, and found objects. Artists will use their newly learned skills with these techniques to create mixed-media illustrations, collages, and more!...
Create handmade creatures from around the world as we "travel" from country to country experiencing the diversity of cultures. Through drawing, sculpting, weaving, we will create personal artifacts. Projects will be Guatemalan Trouble Dolls, amulet making, min animal totems & more. Art Classes held outdoors in the Milton Art Center back yard. Parents: sign up only if confident your child can observe social distancing guidelines...
Based on the book How The Crane Got Its Crown: A Ugandan Folk Tale by Olivia Nakiingi Infield. Olivia is from Uganda and wrote the book when she was twelve years old. In this class artists will explore fiber arts, 3D sculpture and mixed media, and art installations. Separate projects in AM and PM, you can sign up for one or both, designed to be sequential or stand alone. AM Schedule Monday AM session: The book reading and the artists brainstorming...
In this class, students will play, explore, and create with clay! We will look to nature for our inspiration. Young artists will explore how nature displays texture, line, pattern, color, and shape by examining leaves, flowers, trees, and the sky. Students will play with clay, multiple color glazes, permanent markers and experiment with different tools and techniques to create fun and amazing works of art! What To Bring Please put sunscreen...
Grab your sense of adventure because we’re off to the farm! Students will explore color, pattern, line and texture as they create art from unconventional materials inspired by cows, sheep, chickens, horses and other things found on farms!. Young artists will learn to draw, paint and make 3D animals in this farm friendly class!
Explore the bright colors, patterns, and textures of Pop Art as students use simple forms and everyday items to create fun and witty works of art. Students will learn how artists like Yayoi Kusama use color and repetition to create abstract and representational artwork in this colorful, fun class.
This class will focus on looking at found objects for inspiration. Students will look at artists who use uncommon materials to make art, and design their own creations. Everyday common items can become part of your Assemblage Art. Young artists can select from toys, puzzles, plastic forks and spoons, and many other materials to create their masterpieces! We will also use cardboard, paint and glue to create these 2D and 3D pieces of art. They will...
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