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Handcrafted right here in our studio!

Southampton Soap Company Handcrafted soap: It makes good scents.

Register now for our upcoming workshop! August 21, 22, 23 – Folk Art from Around the Globe

Artists will travel the globe learning about the artwork created by self taught local artists and tribes. Traditional Kuna molas, the shacks of Beverly Buchanan, leather tooled stories by Winfred Rembert, the quilts of Gee’s Bend and more. Students will reflect on art making and the importance of the creative process for everyone.

Summer Art Camp 2012: Three weeks only~! Summer Art Camps are back at L’Atelier 5! This summer we are doing 1- three day camp session per month, on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 2-5pm. This is the perfect time to steal away...

Summer 2012 Workshops, Classes & Camps

Artistic alterations of all sorts this week - the books were beautiful! If you missed it, be sure to join us in July for our recycled art workshop!

Modern day mosaics.

Byzantium and . . . Hip-Hop? Fourteen centuries after the works on display in our “Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition” exhibition were created, Byzantine art is flourishing where you might least expect it: the streets of New York. That's where artist Manny Vega displays his large-scale mosaics of saints, heroes, dancers, and conga-drumming angels, all made using true Byzantine techniques.

Learn more about Vega in our related-exhibition blog post, “Byzantium and . . . Hip-Hop?” http://met.org/KRpZSo See Vega’s work on his website here: http://met.org/LzHaZM

Manuel Vega | Un Sabado en la Ciento Diez (A Saturday on 110th Street) | 1996 | Photo by: Robbie Rosenfeld, 2005

Soap that masquerades as art! What a great gift for Father's Day!

Father's Day Soap Gift Set Especially for him, choose from five of our manly scents: Brown Winsor & Clay, Orions Blend, Farmhand Soap, Lavender Oatmeal and Sweet Orange &

Altered Book workshop June 26th through the 28th from 2-5pm. Let your young artist create a book that is a reflection of themselves at this point in time. We will look at Sabrina Ward Harrison's work and her book Spilling Open to inspire this autobiographical creative art piece. Ages 5 & up.

Sabrina Ward Harrison - 100 Bits of the World Sabrina Ward Harrison makes images that collaborate with this living world - working with it, seeing into it, being inspired by it and creating for it. The landscape of our living is what she presents –- a landscape that unfolds through color, culture, depth of field and slanted light.

Art. It's not just about pretty pictures over the sofa.

10 Lessons the Arts Teach • National Art Education Association

Completed rag dolls in our spring doll making class. Well done girls!

Munch is screaming about this from the grave.

‘The Scream’ Sells for Nearly $120 Million at Sotheby’s Auction One of the most recognizable images in art history, a pastel on board from 1895 of Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” easily surpassed recent records to become the most expensive artwork ever purchased at auction.