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.
Suit is Day 2 #inktober2021 prompt. Next year, I’ll draw the pants. #socialstudiosketch, #inktober
Surprise! Pick one! Day 10-Pick. #inktober2021, #inktober, #socialstudiosketch
Crystal snowflake for day one of Inktober2021. #inktober2021, #socialstudiosketch
Baltimore lemon stick - sweet and SOUR for day 11. #inktober2021, #inktober, #socialstudiosketch
Today’s prompt is tick. During open studio socialstudiobaltimore, we discussed today’s prompt. Thanks for the metronome idea. #inktober2021, #inktober, #socialstudiosketch.
If it was not EXTINCT, it is now! Day 24 #inktober2021, #inktober, #socialstudiosketch
As I was looking for ideas for today’s prompt, I came across fingerprint loops. This one resembles my left baby finger print! #inktober2021, #inktober, #socialstudiosketch
Day 6 - Spirit! Scary!!! And I don’t like scary things! Thanks #plazaart_towson for the new pens! #inktober2021, #inktober, #socialstudiosketch
Looks RISKy to me! Last Day!!! Thanks to everyone for your support and encouragement! See you next Inktober! #inktober, #inktober2021, #socialstudiosketch
For me, the pressure of Day 9 was figuring out what to draw! #inktober2021, #inktober, #socialstudiosketch
My mother’s fan pin for Day 7-Fan! #inktober, #inktober2021, #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
Not pictured is the 3 episodes of Tiger King. At least that’s over! Still #socialstudiosundays Stick Weaving
#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.
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
#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 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
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.
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 💐
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.
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
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!
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
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.
I snuck a picture in here from August 2019 - two years ago (pre-covid) setting up Social Studio! Since then socialstudiobaltimore has become a community creative space for all ages and adults too! It’s been a team effort of many talented and supportive people. 🙏🎨🌈✏️Follow along if you don’t already to see what we create in year 3!!!#socialstudiosessions #communityartspace #localartstudio #communitycreates #artconnects #artclassesforkids #creativeprocess
Got to love the holidays!
Our Social Studio sessions are on Tuesdays. Message us to join.
STUDIO CRAFT - brown paper bags! #socialstudiosessions
Getting into summer mode... lots of online art opportunities for ages 5-10, 8-15, 12-16 and adults! #socialstudiosessions
Kids sewed buttons and stitched stems for a little flower garden. We read Waiting For Wings by Lois Ehlert to celebrate the end of summer and start of fall. #paintandplay #socialstudiosessions #kidart #preschool #homeschool
Pop-up haunted houses inspired by @viridianartstudios - kids were so motivated to keep adding details to their work! #socialstudiosessions
Weaving with a new selection of yarns from an awesome donation! #socialstudiosessions
Today’s prompt is RIP. Tombstone and ripped jeans. Think that covers it for me.
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
Abstract painting in POP-UP! #socialstudiosessions
Today’s prompt is hide. Can you find them? #inktober #inktober2020 #socialstudiosessions
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