JUNIOR ARTS CENTER
Youth Classes
The Junior Arts Center (JAC) offers activity-based classes designed to tap into a child’s exploratory nature. Young artists have the opportunity to explore their creativity through a series of inspiring and fun projects.
Please note: As we wait for the City to determine when Barnsdall Park and its facilities can open again safely to the public, we appreciate your continued patience. The Barnsdall Arts Center and studios clean up and preparation for reopening is a huge and complex process. We are eagerly looking forward to being back on the hill in the near future, and will inform you of any updates as soon as possible.
Previous Classes
Spring 2021
Inspired by symbols and signs from various cultures, kids will create their own cool symbols using watercolors! Teaching Artist Rolandas Dabrukas will show students how to make fun effects using salt, rubbing alcohol, masking tape in watercolor painting to add awesomeness to their symbols.
Teaching Artist Vera Lugo will introduce students to a healthy vocal production technique with fun, well-loved folk songs about SPRING. No music reading necessary! Class time includes stretching and warm-up activities, singing and movement play, and general group instruction on basic vocal technique and anatomy. The last class day includes a live virtual recital!
Award winning Teaching Artist and commercial photographer Michael Going will lead students to discover the context, history, techniques, and lighting used for a set of selected famous photographs. In response to the lesson, students will get to take photographs and share their interpretation of the class discussion through their photographs. Prior photography experience is highly recommended.
Join Teaching Artist Helen March in learning how to expand your imagination using mixed media. Students will learn how to use different art materials and explore new processes based on contemporary artists who are using mixed media in really cool ways. Learn how to make art like the pros!
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Learn to express yourself confidently by exploring active theater exercises in this fun small-group drama class. Students will play with original spoken-word performance throughout the session and will perform a short live virtual play at the conclusion of the class. No acting experience necessary!
Capture the beauty and essence of nature through this landscape art class. Using black paper and white/colorful charcoal and pencils, you will learn various drawing techniques like perspective, blending, and shading. Teaching Artist Rolandas Dabrukas will help you move to a new level of expression in your drawing.
An interactive drama class where kids will play and laugh hard while learning the technical skills of theater acting through physical warm-ups, tongue twisters, improv games, and group storytelling. This small group class will be personal, engaging, fast-moving, and most of all, FUN!
Explore expression and emotion in portraiture while learning fundamental drawing techniques like toning, composition, color, and working from different angles. This class helps students to learn how to create expressive portraiture that evokes story and emotion.
Ready to dive deep into the world of colorful art? Teaching Artist Siri France will guide students through an exploration of personal expression while learning the fundamentals of color theory, space and composition. A variety of artists will be referenced including Paul Klee, Helen Frankethaler and more.
Join Teaching Artist Donna Letterese in a fun beginning level cartooning class. During the six week program, students will create illustrated characters and put them into original stories they write. Mediums used can include paper, pencil, marker, crayon, color pencil, or anything you have on hand at home!
Are you ready to kick your comic book drawing skills up a notch? Teaching Artist Donna Letterese will show students how to create and develop stories starring their own original characters. At the end of the session, students will have their own set of comics.
