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 #socialstudiosketch was very relaxing! I grateful to be able to make some art at home even when socialstudiobaltimore is closed.
Looking for a “cool” drawing challenge - Sketchbook ice drawings by Briar, Becca, and Carter. #socialstudiosketch
“Rodent” #socialstudiosketch #inktober #inktober2020
Armor #inktober #inktober2020 #socialstudiosketch by Carter
“Bulky” by Esme #socialstudiosketch #inktober #inktober2020
“Rodent” by @carnotpolakoff #socialstudiosketch #inktober #inktober2020
Yesterday’s #socialstudiosketch challenge was design a transformation machine. This is Scott’s oceanic hydroelectric energy station. 🌊
Specialty drinks drawn and designed by Stella and Becca #socialstudiosketch 89/100 🍹🥤🧃
Radio @spencersondra #inktober #inktober2020 #socialstudiosketch keep going!!
Trap, Storm and Armor by @jacobsyoga #inktober2020 #inktober #socialstudiosketch
Bulky @spencersondra #inktober #inktober2020 #socialstudiosketch
Neutrals by Scott #socialstudiosketch 97/100
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
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.
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
Shadow painting #socialstudiosundays socialstudiobaltimore
#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! 💡
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 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!
#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.
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.🎨
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.
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.
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
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”!
The first #socialstudiostories Read Aloud & Art Integration goes out to enrolled participants TOMORROW! Sign up: www.socialstudioart.com It’s a great way to engage your students at home with children’s literature and thoughtful art activities. Designed for ages 3-10. Younger students will need a facilitator! #onlineart #artsintegration #readalouds #artideas #learningathome #homeschool #socialstudio
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
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.
Wind or rush these kites caught a lift! 🪁#socialstudiosessions
Today”s plane improvement was launchers!!! Watch it soar! #socialstudiosessions
Great day for a shady woods walk! Campers crossed streams, braved a dark tunnel, and collected sycamore bark for their masks. #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
POP-UP artists painted lily pads on canvas today. Swipe to see process! #creativeprocess #socialstudiosessions
First weaving for this 3 year old! Using cardboard, rubber bands and yarn. First he drew horizontal and vertical with paint sticks on the cardboard loom to introduce directions: horizontal and vertical. Next, he stretched the rubber bands himself (learning they might snap!). Then he started the pattern: over, under, over under and by the third row he was doing it on his own!! Repeated sequences are key for this age group and build motor memory, fine motor skills, and give kids a great sense of accomplishment!! #weavingwithkids #preschoolart #practice #socialstudiosessions
Making faces! #afterschoolart #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
Kids decided on “power pose” and we took a pic. The interns cut out the pictures and each kid traced each kid on paper in the pose silhouette. They glued their photos on last to “be the main character of their own story”. #socialstudiosessions
Art camp “past & future” day. #socialstudiosessions #socialstudio
The ADVANCED ART SERIES AFTERSCHOOL class adapted this “make & copy” exercise from @louisephillips108 - it is a great warm-up activity for collage! They worked in partners. Each kid made a mini abstract collage using 3-5 papers torn or cut. Then, they switched with their partners to copy the collage with colored pencils and markers. We will use it again with paint and mixing colors! #socialstudiosessions #artexercises #collageart #afterschoolart #artclassesforkids
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
