• Individual work stations (over 6 feet apart) for each student

• Enhanced and more frequent cleaning – Sanitizing of all furniture, high touch surfaces, and materials between each class

• All staff and students required to have their temperature taken on arrival at the studio

• Each pod day families are required to fill out a release form to ensure that everyone in their home is healthy

Pod Details

• Pods will contain a maximum of 14 students to ensure social distancing in the studio.

• All workstations in excess of 6 feet apart

• All students and instructors to wear masks

• Enrollment will be in 4-week blocks

• Class length of 2 hours

• Location: 1547 4th Street, San Rafael

GOALS to achieve during classes:

•Recognize and describe simple patterns found in the environment and works of art, emphasizing line, color, shape/form, and texture

•Creative Expression, Use of texture and color in original works of art.

•Describe how and why they made a selected work of art, focusing on the media and technique.

•Demonstrate beginning skill in the use of basic tools

•Understanding and applying media, techniques, and processes

•Students intentionally take advantage of the qualities and characteristics of art media, techniques, and processes to enhance communication of their experiences and ideas

•Making decisions in situations where there are no standard answers

•Openness, respect for work, and contemplation when participating in the arts as an observer or audience members are personal attitudes that enhance enjoyment

•Because the arts offer the continuing challenge of situations in which there is no standard or approved answer, those who study the arts become acquainted with many perspectives on the meaning of “value”

Indicators of Achievement

•Student understands the basic principles of art

•Student understands there are various purposes for creating works of art

•Understands materials

•Correct use of art vocabulary

•Understanding of mixed media

Terminology used:

• sketch

• composition

• Training their “artist eyes”, investigating what we see, subject matter

• focal point

• shade/value

• contrast

• primary colors

• color mixing

• secondary colors

• contrasting color

• contour shape

• layering

• shadow

• highlight

• wet into wet

• printmaking

• relief printing

• brayer

• ceramics

• clay

• pinch pot

• slab

• coil

• texture (hairy, furry, smooth, scales, bumpy)

• shape: circle, oval, triangles, rectangles

• portrait

• scene

• environment

• template

• form

• slumping/draping

• negative/positive

• hollow form

• glaze/underglaze

• palette

• 3D

• sculpture

• realism

• abstract

• brush stroke

• kiln

• firing