Neighborhood Art CenterMartin Luther King Jr Day 2023This year we were so happy to welcome everyone back into our Center for Martin Luther King Jr Day! Over the past 5 years (you can view our…3 min read·Jan 27, 2023----
Neighborhood Art CenterPrehistoric ArtLong long long looooooooong ago before we even had written language prehistoric people were making art! Art is at the core of what it means…5 min read·Jan 20, 2022----
Neighborhood Art CenterMartin Luther King Jr. Day 2022We cannot believe that it has been a full year since our last MLK day post! This is always our favorite celebration of the year and we are…4 min read·Jan 14, 2022----
Neighborhood Art CenterArt History for Kids: An IntroArt history is often considered a topic for “cultured adults,” but there’s no reason why kids can’t learn about the rich history of art…3 min read·Jan 6, 2022----
Neighborhood Art CenterFood Art: Lazy Mom, Vik Muniz, & Lucy SparrowWelcome to the last class in this series! Our students have learned so much and about so many different artists over the past few months…11 min read·May 21, 2021----
Neighborhood Art CenterRepresentational Art: Rachel Ruysch, Claude Heath & Still Here Still Life’sThis week we focused on art that directly represents something in real life. We don’t often talk about art like this in our classes because…9 min read·May 20, 2021----
Neighborhood Art CenterInstallation Art: Kara Walker & Anne HamiltonFor this art class, similar to the Performance Art class we diverged from out standard three artist/three project structure. So many of the…8 min read·May 8, 2021----
Neighborhood Art CenterIllustration: Mary Blair, Christian Robinson, & Shel SilversteinFor this class we focused on all sorts of illustrators for children’s media. There are so many great children’s illustrators, it was hard…9 min read·Apr 28, 2021----
Neighborhood Art CenterColor: Mark Rothko, Yves Klein, & Ellsworth KellyThis class came to be when over the course of the other classes we were teaching we found that the students had never really been taught…9 min read·Apr 23, 2021--1--1
Neighborhood Art CenterSculpture: Ruth Asawa, Wendy Walgate, & Alexander CalderWe start a lot of classes by asking the students if they have ever heard of the type of art we are talking about that day, and sometimes…8 min read·Apr 17, 2021----