Social Media Art
with Social Studio
Let’s make art together … wherever you are.
Why? Because learning and growing is a social activity.
Artists of all backgrounds and skills deserve a community built on inspiration, support, feedback, and empathy.
Though Social Studio’s social-media-based art activities you’ll:
- Build confidence
- Find greater self-awareness
- Increase your range of ideas and possible outcomes
- Find that the creativity and perspective skills you develop in art can be used in all areas of life.
- See yourself and others through art and together discover how to be ourselves.
Get started by following us on social (Instagram, Facebook, YouTube) and join the daily fun!
Social-Media Activities
Sketch
Practice. Practice. Practice! Social Studio Sketch is a daily practice of responding to an open-ended prompt with a sketch challenge as a way to explore and express our perspectives. Sharing our work teaches us to see and respect the way others see too.
Sundays
An informal introduction of an art or craft to a virtual community on Instagram Live. Social Studio Sundays presents projects you can do together as a family, at home with easy to find materials.
Sessions
Just because we’re not together doesn’t mean we can’t make art together. These group classes are designed to develop art-making and creative thinking skills on various topics.
Stories
Let’s read and get inspired to make art. Social Studio Stories creates opportunities to read and relate to stories from the children’s book collection at Social Studio. The story is followed by related art activities.
Sketch
Find new perspectives and sharpen your skills through our daily sketch challenge. Share your creation and tag @socialstudiobaltimore with hashtag #socialstudiosketch
Day 7 of Social Studio’s “Inktober” Sketchbook Challenge: Fancy #inktober #inktober2020 #socialstudiosketch
Day 12 of Social Studio’s “Inktober” Sketchbook Challenge: Disgusting : Turkey Vulture. I love birds, but this guy...just...awful. #inktober #inktober2020 #socialstudiosketch
Day 12 of Social Studio’s “Inktober” Sketchbook Challenge: Slippery #inktober #inktober2020 #socialstudiosketch
Day 8 of Social Studio’s “Inktober” Sketchbook Challenge: Teeth #inktober #inktober2020 #socialstudiosketch
Day 9 of Social Studio’s “Inktober” Sketchbook Challenge: Throw #inktober #inktober2020 #socialstudiosketch
#inktober #inktober2020 #socialstudiosketch FISH
Day 10 of Social Studio’s “Inktober” Sketchbook Challenge: Hope #inktober #inktober2020 #socialstudiosketch
“Rodent” #socialstudiosketch #inktober #inktober2020
@carnotpolakoff is back to daily sketching! #inktober #intober2020 #socialstudiosketch
Teeth by a dedicated, brave artist. #inktober #inktober2020 #socialstudiosketch 🦷
“Rodent” #socialstudiosketch #inktober #inktober2020
Bulky @spencersondra #inktober #inktober2020 #socialstudiosketch
Sundays
Sundays are for making things together. Social Studio Sundays are art initiatives you can do together as a family, at home with easy to obtain materials. Join us on Instagram Live.
Shadow painting #socialstudiosundays socialstudiobaltimore
Get a kit and get ready for fireworks (the quiet kind)! This “softly social” kit includes a salad spinner, 4 colors of paint, & 8 cut paper circles. Reserve yours now online at socialstudioart.com by clicking “optional add-on” under Social Studio Sundays online. Join #socialstudiosundays Sunday @4:15pm for demonstration how-to or Check out video on Social Studio YouTube channel. 🎉 Pick up pack Thursday 1pm-7pm or Friday 9am-3pm this week!! (You can buy pack at the studio without reservation.) Great for ages 3 and up! Cost is $25. Proceeds go to Social Studio “Pay it Forward Fund” to support art excellence for all.🎨
This Sunday at 4:15pm learn how to make a Funny Faces Flip Book. Don’t want to prep materials yourself? Add “Softly Social craft pack” when you register and pick it up at the studio front door! #socialstudiosundays #freezoom #familyartactivities
#SocialStudioSundays is a family friendly art activity made with objects easy to find around your home. We also make “Softly Social” craft packs for $5 that match the week’s activity. This week is MONSTER TISSUE BOX. Sign up to pick up your packet under “online classes” at socialstudioart.com AND get another “softly social” craft pack for free. Many of the craft packs have how-to videos on the Social Studio YouTube channel. We do the activity together on Zoom @4:15pm on Sunday afternoons. Money for craft packs goes into the “Pay It Forward” Fund. More about this fund and how to give to or access it is on the website. Pick up for packs is outside the studio - 737 Deepdene Road, Baltimore.
Shadow painting #socialstudiosundays
#Socialstudiosundays is a free activity that’s fun for the whole family at 4:15pm on Sundays. Register online. This week intern Julia will teach you how to make dragonflies. Materials: pipe cleaners, beads, and mini google eyes. Packets available for pick-up if you add to order!
After 12pm tomorrow “Softly Social Craft Packs” will be available for those who requested one when you registered for #socialstudiosundays - see online classes. For more family fun craft activities check out Social Studio on YouTube.
#socialstudiosundays has moved to Zoom for an afternoon free family art activity. Sign-up under “online classes”. Gather the materials you have in the house, make creative substitutions when necessary! 💡
Not pictured is the 3 episodes of Tiger King. At least that’s over! Still #socialstudiosundays Stick Weaving
Join in the family fun of #socialstudiosundays and learn a perfect summer craft - Fortune Tellers! Invent your own answers, especially now when the future is so blurry!! Sunday afternoon 4:15-5:00pm/Zoom, FREE - taught be intern Liv Loeb🌟Register “online classes” - link in profile.
How awesome is this!!! @marymarymu turned today’s cyanotype print into a #socialstudiosundays banner! Thank you Mary for a great afternoon. Watch it on IGTV and make art in the ☀️with you family! #bitchinstitchin #cyanotypes #summerishere
Fun things to do in the ☀️- learn how to make sun prints with @marymarymu TOMORROW at 4pm on IG LIVE 🌿#socialstudiosundays #sunprints #cyanotypes #familyartactivities
Stories
Enjoy a story from Social Studio’s children’s book collection followed by art integration activities.
Give yourself an hour and give your kids a #socialstudiostories experience! Sign-up under “online” classes at socialstudioart.com Today we will take multiple adventures at once with the magical word “meanwhile”!
Today in POWER HOUR we will read “Knots in a Counting Rope” - a sensory story about a blind boy and the importance of storytelling! Sign up to join in from 4-5pm for reading, writing, drawing and sharing! #socialstudiostories #summerreading
At POWER HOUR the kids shared how they would help others when they thought they needed courage. Here are some of their answers: ELSIE - I will make sure that people who need courage will have an animal they really like near them to help them move through the dark mountains. OLIVIA - I will believe in whoever needs courage so that they can do it. They can always try again if they can’t do it. I will be so happy that I help a lot of people. LAURENCE - I will help them to get through the hard parts by giving them the tools they need to get through (like a boat and hiking sticks and masks). When you help others get through their fears you get more courage and friends. #socialstudiostories
We will read a story about wolf brothers today and learn why the moon is full each month! Join us! #socialstudiostories
Today during “Power Hour” (Tuesdays and Thursdays 4-5pm) we read “The Quiltmaker’s Gift” - a wonderful story about a gift exchange that also distinguishes between material gifts and essential or intangible gifts. The kids write, draw and share after the story. Here is Esme’s quilt drawing. #socialstudiostories #powerhour #socialstudiosummer #readaloud
Want to stop being the teacher, but have your kids still learning? Sign them up for POWER HOUR a fun hour of stories, ideas, and sharing at that time of day everyone needs a break from each other! Space is limited. #socialstudiostories
Power Hour: A small group of kids logged on from 4-5pm for a read aloud, writing prompt, drawing prompt, and share and it was interactive and inventive! Dr. Seuss did not always get it right. Many of his illustrations perpetuate stereotypes and present a biased world view. However he nailed it in this book: The Sneetches! #socialstudiostories #thesneetches #inclusive #exclusive #racism #equality NEXT POWER HOUR: Thursday 4pm, limited space!
Need a break while you transition to evening routines? Sign your kids up for #socialstudiostories ! I’ll read them a story and do art integration activities to follow! M & W 5:15-6pm #artintegration #onlineartclass #readaloud
Make your own melted crayon painting! More info on the IG LIVE recording in stories! #socialstudiostories
Looking for something engaging and creative for ages 5-12? Social Studio has made 5 prerecorded lessons including a read aloud and 3 art integration activities. Choose one to try FREE. Reply with theme and I’ll send you the link! #socialstudiostories
A mini-lesson in color mixing for tomorrow’s #socialstudiostories Read Aloud & Art Integration. The color wheel and neutrals. #colorwheel #colormixing #colortherapy
Another version of color and feelings made by #socialstudiostories student! She named all the colors she mixed after a feeling or and experience that matched the color. The story for this activity is “When Sophie Gets Angry-Really, Really Angry” by Molly Bang. 🎨
Sessions
Connect to art through a supportive community. These group classes develop art-making and thinking skills on various topics.
The first pic is an Elizabeth Murray painting. She pushed painting into sculptural shape constructions. The kids made their own playing with composition to make music for the eyes. #elizabethmurray #kidsart #shapeshifting #socialstudiosessions
The joy of creation and making something that works! You can blow bubbles from a wand OR design a bubble machine✨💥⭐️ #designprocess #artandengineering #artandscience #homeschool #socialstudiosessions
What can you do with an IKEA wooden doll? A million things! Today 5 year olds practiced their fine motor skills pushing different kids of clay onto the surface and pushing beads and buttons into the clay. Meet “Flicker” and “Linda”. At the Weekend Workshop: Black Lives Matter, 11 year olds made “sound suits” and learned about Nick Cave’s incredible wearable sculptures that get people to activate curiosity and imagination over bias and stereotypes. #socialstudiosessions #sculpture #weekendart
Adult Abstract Art class today was elemental, elemental, and engaging! #creativeprocess #socialstudiosessions
Monet at Preschool Paint & Play! Kids mixed yellow, blue and white for variations of green, cut out a “piece of pie” from circles to make lilypads and constructed anatomically correct flowers complete with stamens and ovaries resulting in pond paintings inspired by the Impressionist painter Claude Monet. You get a little bit of everything and lots of fun at Social Studio! #socialstudiosessions #artintegration #snalgrouplearning
Drawing hands ✋👌🤟🤚🖐🤝#socialstudiosessions
Preschool printing pink smiles. 45 minutes of Preschool Paint & Play Sunday afternoons and Tuesday mornings! Space for 4. Masks a must! #socialstudiosessions #printmakingforkids #preschoolart
Plants & Animals - Rainforests / this online class for ages 5-10 is a great way to learn about drawing as well as science and geography. Each class teaches a different relationship between plants and animals and we travel the world’s biomes! Taught by Genie Arnot with great warm-up, wriggle, and wrap-ups with Social a studio intern @cecelia.reichelt ! #socialstudiosessions #onlineartclasses #socialstudiosummer
The shoe drawings in the adult drawing class: VALUE - Black & White show use of value to show form and markmaking to show expression. We contemplated the question: How do artists use value (lights & darks) to show what they value (care about)? We looked at some shoe art by Van Gogh, @cj_hendry @sarahbeetson and Andy Warhol. #socialstudiosessions #onlineartclass
Some masking-up self-portraits and social distancing plein-air art! #socialstudiosessions #maskup #socialdistance #socialstudiosummer
We traveled somewhere new... landscape minis in chalk pastel. Next week adult in studio class is pen and ink on Stonehenge little papers. Sign-up for and afternoon of essential exploration! #creativeprocess #worksmall #adultartclasses #socialstudiosessions
See the big picture! Adult art class with “minis” #socialstudiosessions
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