Children and Teen Classes

REGISTRATION FOR THIS CLASS IS CURRENTLY FILLED. If you would like to be added to a waiting list for the class, please email Amanda Monroe at amonroe@woodmereartmuseum.org ASAP.

Since 2006, children ranging in age from 8-17 years old come from various communities in Philadelphia participate in a unique art making experience.  Working alongside professional artists, students collaboratively design and construct an outdoor art installation that is incorporated into Woodmere’s Children’s Butterfly Garden.

The theme for this year’s Community Art Project is Imaginary Garden. Through the use of recycled materials and mixed media, students will explore the natural world around them to create a fantastical environment of plants, insects, and wildlife.

Woodmere is grateful to the generous supporters who have helped underwrite expenses for this program.

Students discover fun and interesting ways to paint and draw, and explore both representational and abstract art.  Explore  the possibilities working with acrylics, watercolors, pen and ink, oil pastels, charcoal, colored pencils. Collage with a variety of textures, fabrics, and materials. Lots of individual attention will help each budding artist develop their own personal expression and explore their imaginations.

There is nothing like paint and water for having fun in the summer! Students will learn all kinds of ways to paint with watercolor, dyes, oil pastel resist, ink and suminigashi or "floating ink", the Japanese process of marbling paper. Discover the fun and variety of effects possible with mixing watercolor paints with watercolor pencils, graphite, and ink for creating mixed media works of art.