Armory Center for the Arts

Week 2 of Summer Studio for Kids kicks off July 13! 🎨☀️

Young artists can spend their mornings drawing, painting, sculpting, weaving, and exploring creativity through:
⏺ Art for Two: Amazing Animal Art: Drawing, Painting and Sculpting 🦁
⏺ Painting & Collage: Caribbean Colors 🌴
⏺ Still Life Workshop: Draw, Paint & Sculpt 🍎
⏺ Sculptural Weaving 🧶

Afternoons are packed with imaginative adventures and skill-building:
⏺ Magical Worlds: Draw, Paint & Sculpt ✨
⏺ Creature Drawing & Painting Lab 🐉
⏺ Drawing Optical Illusions 👁️

Plus a supervised lunch break to recharge between mornign and afternoon classes! Whether your child loves creating, experimenting, or learning, there's something for every young artist this summer. 😎

Spaces are limited! Sign up through the link in our bio or visit armoryarts.org/studio now.

Join us this June for two special adult workshops! ☀️✨ Spend your Mondays getting creative with our new Miscreen Print Lab workshop and Inlay Ceramics: Platter Making. Whether you’re trying something new or building on your studio practice, these hands-on workshops are a great way to explore printmaking and ceramics in a welcoming environment.

🗓 Monday, June 1 & June 8
🎨 Miscreen Print Lab: 10 AM – 12:30 PM
🏺 Inlay Ceramics: Platter Making: 1 PM – 3:30 PM

Learn more and register through the links in our bio! 🖍️🔗

Celebrating our Exploring the Arts interns, Berlin Koenig and Sofia Scullin! ✨ Thank you for bringing your creativity, energy, and thoughtful presence to our community. We’re so grateful to have shared this experience with such wonderful young individuals, and we’re excited to see all that’s ahead for you. 💫

📸 Pictured with Karen (VP of Programs), Cristal (Programs Associate), and Austyn (Education Coordinator/Teaching Artist) ❈♥

to last month when our friends from LAMusArt came to visit the Armory! 🎨✨

Following our visit to LAMusArt a few weeks prior, we welcomed their team for a tour of our facility, including our galleries and studio spaces. before heading into the main studio for a cyanotype workshop led by Armory Teaching Artist, Austyn. Together, we experimented with sun printing and collaborative artmaking! After the workshop, we broke into departmental groups to exchange ideas, systems, and knowledge as two art organizations committed to supporting our communities through creativity and access.

We're so grateful to LAMusArt! It was such a meaningful day of connection, learning, and collaboration, and we’re excited to continue this exchange as an annual tradition. 💙
LAMusArt

Tour our exhibition, 'Material Prophecies: Craft as Divination' with an Armory Teaching Artist 🖼️✨ 👀 Join us next weekend on Saturday, June 6, for our First Saturdays tour! 🗓️
Take a closer look at the artworks on display through group discussions, reflecting on the space, and sharing interpretations together.

Walkthroughs are free. RSVPs are required → armoryarts.org/materialprophecies or link in bio to register now!

What futures can we imagine beyond wildfire? 🤔💭
Join us at the Armory on June 20, from 1 – 4 PM, with the Altadena Library District for Youth Prophecy: Futures Beyond Wildfire, a teen workshop inspired by our current exhibition, 'Material Prophecies: Craft as Divination.' 🌀🔮

Participants ages 13–18 are invited to explore memory, resilience, and collective imagination through creative making and reflection, envisioning new possibilities for Altadena’s future in the wake of wildfire.

Free for teens ages 13–18. Registration is available via our link in bio or at armoryarts.org/youth-prophecy. ✨

Week one of Summer Studio for Kids begins July 6 ☀️🐚😎
Young artists will spend the week creating, imagining, and exploring through hands-on artmaking all day long.

🌎 Morning classes:
• Art from Around the World
• Drawing & Painting

📚 Afternoon classes:
• Story Art Time
• Artsy Comics, Anime & Characters
• Clay Sculptures

Plus a supervised lunch break to recharge before an afternoon of even more creativity!
Spots are filling quickly! Join us for a summer of making, storytelling, and artistic discovery at the Armory ✨
Sign up now → armoryarts.org/summer-2026 or visit our link in bio ☀️🌊🧴

New adult workshops are here this June! 🐚☀️
Join us on Monday, June 1 + Monday, June 8 for two new ways to make at the Armory:
🖨️ Miscreen Print Lab Workshop
10 AM – 12:30 PM

🏺 Inlay Ceramics Workshop: Platter Making
1 – 3:30 PM

Whether you’re interested in exploring screenprinting techniques or creating surface design through clay, these hands-on workshops offer space to experiment and make something uniquely your own.

Registration is now open! Sign up through our link in bio or visit armoryarts.org/spring-studio-2026. 🔗

Thank you to everyone who joined us for Calethia DeConto’s cyanotype workshop, a special afternoon of collective making, reflection, and connection. ☀️💙
Together, participants explored memory, ancestry, and material transformation through sunprinting on repurposed fabrics. Space was created for creativity, healing, and shared reflection in the wake of the Eaton Fire.

We’re grateful to Calethia and to our Armory team for making this meaningful experience possible, and to all who showed up to create with us. ✨🌆