This is my favorite two hours of the week! Genie opens the session with a group warm-up that is both fun and instructional. Then, the participants can work on projects of their choice. If you're not sure what you want to do, or how to do it, Genie guides you. As you work, you feel supported and by your fellow artists. The sense of community is second only to the spirit of creativity at Social Studio.
Elated Adult Student
It’s so much more than an art class. She had them engaging with science, nature and geography. They were singing songs. My daughter was bubbling over with pride after class. When she draws with us she is easily discouraged that she can’t draw like an adult. With social studio the projects are age appropriate and she is able to engage with peers. As a fellow arts educator I’m super impressed.
Happy Parent
Love that it was interactive. I wasn't sure if my daughter would be allowed to talk during the class because of the size but, she was able to talk and show her art work. I was very impressed. The teacher is very enthusiastic and you can tell she genuinely loves her job.
Diana B.
Lila has absolutely loved this class! Being exposed to different types of media and techniques while getting to explore an inspiring artist has been a wonderful experience for her. Genie is awesome and — even at a (Social) distance — has built a relationship with all of the students and a sense of camaraderie. What a fabulous experience!
Happy Parent
Go to Social Studio Baltimore for all your kid and adult art making needs! R made this treehouse playground in a mere two hours this morning. Genie Arnot is such an amazing teacher and she has put together a beautiful studio that makes art accessible to everyone.
Happy Parent
Genie, congrats on accomplishing a such meaningful feat. With art, we can feel the ground move beneath our feet and the air more oxygenated. You’ve given the community a dedicated place to grow and daydream. You’re amazing!! Go on!
Social Studio Enthusiast
You taught me negative space, how to draw faces and many more really cool things! Most of all you showed me how to connect to other people and things and that is really powerful.
Art Student
Being a student in your class is a gift that we are so thankful for.
Grateful Parent
I could not let this year end without telling you how grateful I am that you were Avelynn's art teacher for four years. She sees herself as an artist and a problem solver because you expect them all to be.
Proud Parent
Thank you for being a wonderful art teacher! I loved art classes with you!
Happy Student
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Sumi ink was a great medium to use during PAINT & PLAY for an Art Opposite lesson about how things can look Near and Far! The young artists enjoyed creating a dyanmic landscape with flowing ink. We talked about how things that seem near will look darker and how things that are far away will look lighter. We looked at artwork by Gord McKenna for landscape examples that showed a range of value....
STUDIO SKETCH made collage sketches inspired by the paintings of Copper Thunderbird aka Norval Morrisseau this week. He was an indigenous Canadian artist from Ontario, Canada 1932-2007. 🐟 🐻 🐢...
All day 🆘 School’s Out Studio made fall forests with woven owl friends, magical mushrooms, and twisted trees. Such a delight spending the day making art and making friends!...
Since it's Inktober, artists created inky octopuses for HALF DAY CAMP. They practiced stippling, hatching, cross contours and doodle lines and then applied these different mark-making techniques to their octopus drawings to give them form and texture. After coloring their creatures with watercolor, they dropped some sumi ink onto their paper for a final touch!...
This fall Social Studio started a new afterschool art class for grades 3-5 called 3M - Mixed Media Modules. The fall modules “Fix Your Face” include a sequence of lessons that teach kids more about face proportion, portraits, and different materials. Here are some works from Module 2 where the kids drew with wire exploring the connections between the features of the face....
Mushrooms from SKETCH EXPRESS this week inspired by Yayoi Kusama - these artists (ages 9-81) spend an hour a week sketching in response to prompts using a variety of materials. This week they used Tombow markers, Sharpie markers, and Posca paint pens. 🍄...
Marian arranged another great month of LIVE MUSIC on Second Sundays! @raywinder duo played a set that swooned the listeners of all ages! Thank you Rachel & Charlie for being part of our program! 🎤...
PAINT & PLAY made gel prints today using Maple leaves and acrylic paint. The layered prints making “A Pile of Leaves” and silhouetted the leaf and loved the impressions they made....
WEEKEND WORKSHOP is a 2 hour immersion into the creative process! This month is all about “faces”. Today kids (ages 9-11) made “Garish Gouache Portraits”....
If this “Mask Mural” was a portal to your future self, what things from childhood would you want to make sure you carry with you? Kids’ answers included: play, imaginary friends, dance parties, passion for reading, play dates, toys, time on the couch, my family, unicorns, and rainbows....
LANGUAGE ARTS, a once a month writing workshop at Social Studio’s Art Bar, was hosted today by guest teacher Rachel Eisler. “Memento Memoir”. She will teach this workshop again Saturday, December 14th! 🖋️ Ruut DeMeo @museatthebarn is teaching the November workshop called “Taking Up Word Space”. Register: socialstudioart.com...