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
(this is my #socIalstudiosketch assignment from socialstudiobaltimore)
A fun little #socialstudiosketch assignment from socialstudiobaltimore
Playing catch up with #socialstudiosketch assignments from socialstudiobaltimore. This assignment was to take a doughnut shape and draw it aa anything except a doughnut
If it was not EXTINCT, it is now! Day 24 #inktober2021, #inktober, #socialstudiosketch
Need some stress relief? I just had the best time making this — part 1 of my #socialstudiosketch assignment for the day from socialstudiobaltimore. Soda cartons. Scissors. Glue. I had a plan but went in an entirely different direction. I just played without worrying about the final product — and I am in love with it.
I OPENed a jar and a butterfly flew out! Day 22 - Open! #inktober2021, #inktober, #socialstudiosketch
Leak for Day 23 #inktober2021. #inktober #socialstudiosketch
(Today’s #socialstudiosketch assignment from socialstudiobaltimore was to make and illustrate a piece of blackout poetry. I used two pages from Grace: A Memoir, by Grace Coddington, creative director of Vogue)
This #socialstudiosketch was very relaxing! I grateful to be able to make some art at home even when socialstudiobaltimore is closed.
My Radio.
Suit is Day 2 #inktober2021 prompt. Next year, I’ll draw the pants. #socialstudiosketch, #inktober
Today’s prompt is storm. I have an umbrella. #inktober #inktober2020 #socialstudiosketch
Day 39/47
if there was a tug of war
between night and day
night has won
lasting 16 hours or so of the 24
for company In the endless wee hours
i depend heavily on Bette and Barbara and Joan
in their shirtwaist dresses, fur stoles, and tidy gloves
every hair in place as they architect their way through tough situations
as all women must do
here’s hoping lessons learned from their nighttime exploits
fortify me for the days ahead
Day 26/44
tarot cards predicting death
someone is leaving
my key in the door
a suitcase by his side
It wasn’t so sudden after all
obviously not the best of circumstances
a gray seascape of cliffs linger shyly
bordering my winding journey
a mad scramble
#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.
What I made today! A block weaving as instructed by socialstudiobaltimore. It was so easy to make, and I have a basement full of yarn and a few more of these chunky burlap-covered square canvases.
Shadow painting #socialstudiosundays socialstudiobaltimore
Not pictured is the 3 episodes of Tiger King. At least that’s over! Still #socialstudiosundays Stick Weaving
#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.
#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!
Shadow painting is a fun activity for the whole family! Find a light source (sun, phone, light). Put some in front of it (toys, plants, kitchen utensils, sticks) and trace the outline of the shadow in (pencil, marker, watercolor, colored pencil, oil pastel). Overlap, change shapes and directions, use various drawing tools). Work together taking turns drawing shadows, coloring in, making patterns, and more). Here Luca and I spent a few minutes working on together this afternoon. #socialstudiosundays #shadowpainting #artcollaboration #familyfun #stayhome
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 💐
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.
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.
Fun things to do in the ☀️- learn how to make sun prints with @marymarymu TOMORROW at 4pm on IG LIVE 🌿#socialstudiosundays #sunprints #cyanotypes #familyartactivities
#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
Stories
Enjoy a story from Social Studio’s children’s book collection followed by art integration activities.
Make your own melted crayon painting! More info on the IG LIVE recording in stories! #socialstudiostories
Check out our story to see this hydraulic lift truss bridge in action ! 🌉 #socialstudiostories #socialstudiosummer #steam #stemactivitiesforkids #steminventions @lance_makes
A mini-lesson in color mixing for tomorrow’s #socialstudiostories Read Aloud & Art Integration. The color wheel and neutrals. #colorwheel #colormixing #colortherapy
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
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
We will read a story about wolf brothers today and learn why the moon is full each month! Join us! #socialstudiostories
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
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”!
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!
A mini-lesson in color mixing for tomorrow’s #socialstudiostories Read Aloud & Art Integration. The color wheel and neutrals. #colorwheel #colormixing #colortherapy
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
Sessions
Connect to art through a supportive community. These group classes develop art-making and thinking skills on various topics.
Abstract painting in POP-UP! #socialstudiosessions
Our Social Studio sessions are on Tuesdays. Message us to join.
Today’s prompt is hide. Can you find them? #inktober #inktober2020 #socialstudiosessions
Today’s prompt is dig. Hope he finds it! #inktober #inktober2020 #socialstudiosessions
Today’s prompt is music. Old school music! #inktober #inktober2020 #socialstudiosessions
Last prompt for #inktober is crawl. Thanks to everyone for their encouragement and kind comments! Stay tuned! I have more sketchbooks to fill. #inktober #inktober2020 #socialstudiosessions
Today’s prompt is buddy. I drew my buddy’s favorite Buddy! #inktober #inktober2020 #socialstudiosessions
Painting on a paper bag offers some play between 2D and 3D. Next week we will paint realistic portraits on the other side of their cubist abstract portraits. #socialstudiosessions
Ominous! I’m not venturing in there! #inktober #inktober2020 #socialstudiosessions
Today’s prompt is float. I cannot explain why a rubber duck floating in a tub came to my mind. #inktober #inktober2020 #socialstudiosessions
Kids made wolves in STORIES & STATUES camp after reading a Northwest First Nations story about how two wolf brothers separated after childhood - one went to be a leader in the forest and one went into the be a leader in the sea (as a killer whale). They reconnect once a month and howl to call up the full moon. They used egg cartons, to tubes and small containers with plaster gauze, acrylic paint, roving, buttons and bottle cap. #socialstudiosessions #socialstudiosummer
Today’s prompt is RIP. Tombstone and ripped jeans. Think that covers it for me.
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