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 13 of Social Studio’s “Inktober” Sketchbook Challenge: Dune. #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
Esme mixed the colors of skin with the colors of the rainbow! 👏👏🏾👏🏽👏🏿👏🏻👏🏼🌈 #socialstudiosketch #skincolor #arttounderstandtheworld
Still-life #socialstudiosketch by @rheaarnot and @carnotpolakoff in the style of Charles Ethan Porter. Carter is in the running for $100 credit for classes at Social Studio and some swag. She has submitted 3 of the last 10 sketches. Only 7 to go. And tomorrow is a a peaceful one! ❤️
Value Zentangle by Scott #socialstudiosketch 🖤
Me and my friend Lisa by @carnotpolakoff #socialstudiosketch 91/100 ❤️
Favorite dog by @carnotpolakoff #socialstudiosketch 84/100
Esme’s “personal action poster” - I WILL FOLLOW PEACE - #socialstudiosketch 96/100 ☮️
Radio @spencersondra #inktober #inktober2020 #socialstudiosketch keep going!!
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
Fun things to do in the ☀️- learn how to make sun prints with @marymarymu TOMORROW at 4pm on IG LIVE 🌿#socialstudiosundays #sunprints #cyanotypes #familyartactivities
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
HAPPY MOTHER’s Day 💕 join Social Studio on IGLive at 4pm for #socialstudiosundays and we will make paper flower bouquets. Great to do together (my son will be joining me! ) or for someone who loves you like a mother. Craft idea borrowed from @gettymuseum and brought to my attention by awesome art teacher @marymarymu 💐
#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! 💡
#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!
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.
#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.
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.
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.🎨
Join mother and son special for #socialstudiosundays at 4pm where we make a paper flower bouquet. See stories for suggested materials! 💐(idea and images borrowed from @gettymuseum)
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
Stories
Enjoy a story from Social Studio’s children’s book collection followed by art integration activities.
Check out our story to see this hydraulic lift truss bridge in action ! 🌉 #socialstudiostories #socialstudiosummer #steam #stemactivitiesforkids #steminventions @lance_makes
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
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
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
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!
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
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”!
Make your own melted crayon painting! More info on the IG LIVE recording in stories! #socialstudiostories
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
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
Sessions
Connect to art through a supportive community. These group classes develop art-making and thinking skills on various topics.
Got to love the holidays!
Rabbit paintings from ADVANCED ART AFTERSCHOOL. Kids ages 9-12 painted rabbits on canvas paper showcasing their color mixing skills with a range of neutrals, their layering techniques using different size brushstrokes, and their personal style (blended, open, textured, smooth). #afterschoolart #kidart #paintingwithkids #localartstudio #socialstudiosessions
Eric Carle elephants! 🐘 PAINT & PLAY PLUS made painted papers using a variety of paintbrushes. Then, they covered cardboard to make these endearing elephants that stand on there own when pieced together. #socialstudiosessions #preschoolart #handsonart #handsoncurriculum
Artists at SKETCHBOOK EXPRESS warmed up by sketching a history of popular hair styles worn by black women over the last century. We referenced the blog entry: Hair Evolution: 100 Years of Black Women and Hair @privatelabel and considered how hair styles reflect social and political history through the decades. Many women started wearing their hair naturally usually combing the hair into an afro if it didn't naturally sit that way. “Afros were important because the afros of activist groups such as the black panthers became an inspiring symbol of rebellion. The afro wasn't just a hairstyle, but it represented an entire movement.” #socialstudiosessions #hairstyles #blackhistorymonth #sketchbook #drawinghair
This week in STUDIO STORY we are reading “Robinson” by Peter Sís and making islands! Kids babe the islands, some draw maps. The connection questions are 1. What type of adventures interest you? 2. Have you ever dressed up in a costume and felt transformed into that character? #socialstudiosessions #childrensliterature #artandbooks #artintegration
The smile of printmaking satisfaction!!! #artclassesforadults #communitycteays #artstudio #openstudio #socialstudiosessions
Art camp “past & future” day. #socialstudiosessions #socialstudio
Kids love the water pen on top of marker for a wash look on their blue glaze ceramic motifs. #socialstudiosessions
Paper engineers needed to pass the “test” (make everything on the chart) before creating their original 3D paper designs. #artcamp #socialstudiosessions #creativeprocess
ADULT OPEN STUDIO = Artists working with and through their own ideas! #printmaking #watercolor #acrylicpainting #artclassesforadults #socialstudiosessions
Fancy fraction flowers are fun! 🌺🌼🌸Kindergartners, first graders and second graders figured out halves, quarters, fifths, sixths eighths and twelfths today making this layered 3D paper plate flower. Two basic fraction concepts: parts of the whole are equal and the more parts, the smaller the piece. Kids need lots of preliminary practice dividing shapes into equal(ish) parts - fifths and thirds are the hardest! Flowers offer ample opportunities to see these fractions in nature. #mayflowers #mathandart #artintegration #socialstudiosessions
Plants at POP-UP class today. A mixed media immersion: crayon, watercolor, oil pastel, and acrylic. You know you’re in the creative process when problem solving is fun! #plantpainting #creativeprocess #artclassesforkids #socialstudiosessions
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