Meet The Artist Class - Peter Max

YAI students in our "Meet the Artist" class enjoyed exploring the artwork of Peter Max. Seen below are their versions of "The Yellow Submarine." Enjoy!

YAI Students Receive Handmade Hats!

We are so thankful to Carol Fine for hand-knitting so many beautiful hats for the children of Youth Arts Institute! Carol, as in previous years as well, has kindly knitted one hundred hats that were given to the many children in our Youth Arts program, as well as their family members.

Below are photos of some of our Youth Arts kids smiling big and displaying their special hats!

The Science of Art!

The Science of Art is an exciting Youth Arts Institute class that merges science with art in unique ways. In many ways, science and art go hand-in-hand, and this class explores this very idea!

Below are photos of the young artists displaying work that they have created in this class, including fall leaf wax collages and shape sculptures!

Pre-K & Kindergarten Art Discovery!

Each week, children age 4-5 years old enjoy Art Discovery, a class that bridges art, literacy and imaginative play. In recent weeks, the children in this class explored the following books:

Eric Carle's Draw Me a Star, Crockett Johnson's Harold and the Purple Crayon, Dr. Seuss' My Many Colored Days, Eric Carle's The Tiny Seed, and Leo Lionni's A Color of His Own. During each class, students listen to a story, view artwork linked to the book and create artwork themselves.

Recently, the young artists have been exploring primary and secondary colors as well as lines.

Here are photos of our students in action...enjoy!

Yoga!

Students age 4-8 have been enjoying yoga each week. They have tried a variety of challenging poses, including Mountain pose, Rock pose, Tree pose, Swan pose and more! They have also enjoyed trying different animal poses!

Through the use of these yoga poses plus breathing and cooperative games, children learn skills that help manage anxiety and stress, identify positive coping strategies, and become more aware of their own bodies' reactions to stress and emotion.

Lutz Children's Museum: What Will it Become?

Thanks to Lutz Children's Museum, our Nature, Art and the Greenhouse class had a blast learning about different seeds, plants, nuts as well as frogs, bugs, butterflies, eggs and other things that "become" something else!

Rachel from Lutz brought many REAL life samples, taught us many fun facts and even brought a rooster for us to see and pet! Thank you to Lutz for such a great experience!!

http://www.lutzmuseum.org

Sept. 22, 5:00pm • Sukkah Decorating Party & Community Dinner • FREE!

Come, decorate our sukkah, the booth built to celebrate the Jewish fall harvest of Sukkot. Help us create our most beautiful sukkah yet! We will take this opportunity to rejoice in the fruits of our labors, the abundance of the beautiful organic garden we created this summer. Dinner (made with vegetables from our garden), including pizza & salad, will be served. Free.
For more information, please call (860) 249.1207