Art Room Astoria

This week kicked off our second unit focused around painting and printmaking this week!

We enjoyed playing with Gecko pencils and tempera paint cakes on wood. Gecko pencils are versatile and layer so nicely on top of each other.

Reminder that this unit is full. Spaces tend to fill up quickly but don’t fret, units only last 2 months so if your child didn’t make it in this time around please email us to get on our waitlist for next unit that will begin in February.

Thanks for your continued support!

Clatsop County Student Art Show is opening this weekend at !

It’s the 11th Annual but will be the first year that Art Room students get to have some art in the show too. They have been hard at work with their mixed media pieces and are excited to share them with everyone.

Visit from 12-8 on Saturday 5/10 for the opening reception and support our budding local artists! See you there!

Art Room students were stoked to have organic apples donated by Astoria co-op this week. Thanks co-op, we love you!

Hi All! We still have a little room left in Art Room After School, Unit 4 - Fiber Arts for students in grades 5th - 8th. Projects will include puppetry, mobiles, embroidery on photo transfers, and paper-mâché masks. Students will develop new skills, experiment with creative expression, and meet peers with like interests. Students also have the option of displaying their artwork at the AVA Gallery in May during the 11th annual Student Art Show. Limited to 25 students. Register at astoriavisualarts.org. Spanish forms are available on AVA's website.

Some still shots from our last class. We’re so proud of these kids and their hard work! We love how each project turns out differently even if we use the same materials.

Reminder that there is no art room this week, enjoy your Spring Break! Class will resume on April 1st. Tuesday’s class is full, but we still have space in the Thursday class for 5th-8th graders.
For this upcoming unit, we will be working with fiber and paper mache. Some of the projects include puppets, sculptures, mobiles and more.
Let us know if you have any questions!

** Registration is open for Unit 4 - Playing in 3D: Fiber Arts! ** The next session runs April - May.

Students will explore the multifaceted world of textile media, discovering unique ways to bring their imaginations to life. Projects include puppetry, mobiles, embroidery on photo transfers, paper-mâché masks and others. Students will develop new skills, experiment with creative expression, and meet peers with like interests. Students also have the option of displaying their artwork at the AVA Gallery in May during the 11th annual Student Art Show. Limited to 25 students. Register in bio on IG or at astoriavisualarts.org. Spanish forms are available on AVA's website.

Collage and gel printing are a perfect match!
Today, our 1st-4th kids carefully chose a layout with magazine cut outs and other scrap papers and then printed over top with acrylics on gel plates. Layering colors and using q-tips to create designs within the paint on the gel plate was a lot of fun.

On Thursday we will follow the same steps with our 5th-8th kids, we can’t wait to see what they create!