Inservice Day Program
Art Alliance Children’s Studio 824 Pike Street, Lemont, PA, United StatesJanuary 20 Inservice Day: Join Adam for a combination of creating stories, characters, drawings, and games.
January 20 Inservice Day: Join Adam for a combination of creating stories, characters, drawings, and games.
Online registration for our 2020 Summer Camps opens at 9am on Saturday, February 15th. We will be at the Youth Fair at Mount Nittany Middle School that day from 10am-2pm to hand out copies of our schedule and talk with families — come say hello! You can print your own copy of the schedule here: […]
March 2 Inservice Day: Join Adam for a combination of creating stories, characters, drawings, and games.
This event is going to be held at the Art Alliance Annex in downtown State College, 121 S. Fraser Street, State College, PA 16801, next to the Art Alliance Gallery Downtown. No previous printmaking experience is necessary with this fun, explorative, versatile and simple technique that doesn’t require a printing press – results are immediate […]
This event is going to be held at the Art Alliance Annex in downtown State College, 121 S. Fraser Street, State College, PA 16801, next to the Art Alliance Gallery Downtown. No previous printmaking experience is necessary with this fun, explorative, versatile and simple technique that doesn’t require a printing press – results are immediate […]
March 9 Inservice Day: Stories through Art: Create graphic novels, collaborative stories, and artwork based on your own and others stories. We will be imagining, drawing, painting, reading together, and doing a little writing.
March 10 Inservice Day: It’s Structural! We’ll play around with the dimensions, creating 2-D to 3-D and back again. A real multi-media day as we construct, make prints, paint with construction materials, combine basic art materials into unusual dimensional art and even create some illusions.
March 12 Inservice Day: Get Into Shapes: architectural sculptures, dimensional collages, painting designs with stencils you create yourself.
March 13 Inservice Day: Freaky Fibers Friday! Did you know that fibers are all around us? Yarn and string are fibers, cloth and weavings are made of fibers and human hair and muscles are fibers! Let’s use wire, string, rainbow colored yarn and our muscles to create projects that will help our environment and ourselves […]
May 2 from 10–11am with instructor Jenn Binus FREE! Click here to register online today! Learn some simple yoga moves, breathing techniques, how to make a doodle journal, and a how to zentangle! Required Supplies Materials: Comfy, loose, but not to loose pants, a comfy place to sit, paper, pencil, crayons, water, paintbrush, and markers. […]
Art Medley – 3-week in-person Saturday class for ages 5-10 Do you enjoy all types of art? Then this class is perfect for you! We’ll keep it interesting making everything from realistic drawings to cartoon sculptures, interactive artwork and more! Instructor Julia Nelson [email protected]
Architectural Drawing Your Way – Online via zoom Tuesdays, 6–9pm 9/15–10/6 with Julia Nelson Learn how to handle drawing buildings within larger scenes, how to depict buildings without including every detail, and how to make your depiction of a variety of buildings more effective in your artwork. Learn how to suggest detail without drawing all […]
Mapping & the Mind: Using Mindfulness Skills, Art & Geography to help young adults find their place in this unsettling time – online via Zoom 9/19–10/10, 10–11am, Saturdays with Bailey Kellerman In this online (Zoom) class, students will learn how to sketch a map of the continents of the world using easy-to-remember shapes and points. […]
Machines, Monsters & Monuments 4-week Zoom Saturday class for ages 5–10 10/17–11/7 with Julia Nelson Using our imagination and lots of found objects we will create a wild collection of 3D art and learn about the artists who use the same materials.
Kitchen Counter Art” with Julian Nelson February 6, 13, and 29 on Zoom 10–11am $30 for an individual or a whole family! Let’s cook up some art in the kitchen! Julia Nelson will introduce you to several DIY art projects you can do with a minimum amount of materials. You will learn Paper Casting, Marbelizing, […]
June 21-25 9-noon Ages 5-8 with Nicole Packard Do you enjoy all types of art? Then this class is perfect for you. We will be making everything from realistic drawings to sculptures to cartoons.
When the State College Area School District is closed for inservice days, we are open! In this day-long session your kiddo will create characters and bring them to life through drawing, storytelling, role-playing games, puppetry and more! Details: for Ages 6–10 $40 Instructor, Adam Swartz Register for this session.
When the State College Area School District is closed for inservice days, we are open! In this day-long session tweens and teens will learn how to decorate with pompoms, make important knots, and talk about color and texture while making a finished wall hanging. Details: for Ages 11 and up $40 Instructor, Ingrid Booz Morejohn […]
When the State College Area School District is closed for inservice days, we are open! In this session we will explore a little bit of the culture and art of some of the Indigenous people of North America. Spirit animals, weaving, sand painting, and pictogrphs are just a few things we will create. We will […]
Student will explore circle art by identifying circles and colors with activities that combines some of our favorite art tools—paints, colorful paper, color pencils, and more. Activities are geared to elementary school aged children. 9:00am–3:00pmArt Alliance Children’s Studio in LemontInstructor: Donna LawrenceFee: $40/student
Exploring New Art Techniques Put away the paint brushes and get ready to create art with wax paper, bottle lids, string and so much more. Kids will learn to explore their creativity with different media and techniques using items that can be found in the home.
Create characters and bring them to life through drawing, storytelling, role-playing games, puppetry, and more! Instructor: Adam Swartz For ages 6–10 $40
Send your kiddo to the islands for the March 11 State College Area School District Inservice Day. In this program, children will learn about traditional art and activities from island places and contemporary artists from island countries. Carrie Koch, Instructor Ages 6–10 $40
Create characters and bring them to life through drawing, storytelling, role-playing games, puppetry, and more! Instructor: Adam Swartz Ages 6–10 $40
Mommy (or Pop-Pop/Grammy/Auntie) and Me Ages 3–6 Instructor: Julia Nelson This art class is designed for our youngest artists and their caregivers. We will explore the media and art tools in our studio and learn how to extend the experience at home. We will cover tips for creating a maker space and understanding the development […]
Ages 5–8 Instructor: Donna Lawrence Create art using recycled items! From bottle caps to magazines kids will learn how to reuse or upcycle things they might normally dispose of to create art.
Ages 7–11 Instructor: Julia Nelson A short time ago …in an art studio nearby …there existed a group of space lovers and would-be astronauts who loved Space Fantasy. Let’s create fantastic sculptures of rockets and light sabers, design costumes and accessories for living in outer space. If you attended this camp last year we invite […]
Ages 5–8 Instructor: Nicole Packard Do you enjoy all types of art? Then this class is perfect for you. We will be making everything from realistic drawings to sculptures to cartoons.
Ages 7–11 Instructor: Liza Johnson Use all the best and most fun types of “messy” art materials to create one-of-a-kind masterpieces. Join us for a week of exploration and stretching your imagination while having lots of fun!
Ages 5–8 Instructor: Donna Lawrence Mosaics are beautiful pictures made from colorful tiles of different shapes and sizes. It’s a great way to explore colors and shapes and kids will learn to create geometric patterns or images with a variety of materials.
Ages 7–11 Instructor: Carrie Koch Stepping off from exhibits found at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, this camp will explore traditional art, contemporary native art, and games from a sampling of the tribes of the Americas.
Ages 5–8 Instructor: Austin Van Allen Campers will learn how to manipulate color, use color schemes, and how color can affect our moods. Campers will learn how to use a variety of materials, techniques, and genres including doodle art, collage, and color pencil and marker technique. Come join us for a color-FULL week of camp!
Ages 7–11 Insturctor: Lisa Turner Explore and make art using tessellations, number patterns like the golden rectangle and Fibonacci, fractals, tanagrams and MORE! Multi-media with drawing, collage and painting.
Ages 5–8 Instructor: Nicole Packard Join us for a week of creative art making centered around imaginative stories. Whether you pull ideas from your favorite book or develop your own, this is the class for you. From drawing to painting to graphic novels we will explore fantastical art in many different mediums.
Ages 7–11 Instructor: Liza Johnson Styrofoam prints, stamp making, gelli printing, collagraphs, and any other fun ways we can imagine and experiment with to create prints. Join us for a week of printmaking fun!
Ages 7–11 Instructor: Adam Swartz From your imagination to the page and beyond! Create your own realistic or make-believe characters and bring them to life this week. Set the scene and tell their story through sequential drawing, animation, puppetry and theatre games.