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Martin Luther King Jr Day 2023

This 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 readJan 27, 2023

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Martin Luther King Jr Day 2023

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Prehistoric Art

Long 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 readJan 20, 2022

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Prehistoric Art

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Neighborhood Art Center

Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2022

We 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 readJan 14, 2022

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Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2022

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Art History for Kids: An Intro

Art 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 readJan 6, 2022

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Art History for Kids: An Intro

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Food Art: Lazy Mom, Vik Muniz, & Lucy Sparrow

Welcome 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 readMay 21, 2021

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Food Art: Lazy Mom, Vik Muniz, & Lucy Sparrow

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Representational Art: Rachel Ruysch, Claude Heath & Still Here Still Life’s

This 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 readMay 20, 2021

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Representational Art: Rachel Ruysch, Claude Heath & Still Here Still Life’s

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Installation Art: Kara Walker & Anne Hamilton

For 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 readMay 8, 2021

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Installation Art: Kara Walker & Anne Hamilton

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Illustration: Mary Blair, Christian Robinson, & Shel Silverstein

For 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 readApr 28, 2021

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Illustration: Mary Blair, Christian Robinson, & Shel Silverstein

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Color: Mark Rothko, Yves Klein, & Ellsworth Kelly

This 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 readApr 23, 2021

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Color: Mark Rothko, Yves Klein, & Ellsworth Kelly

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Sculpture: Ruth Asawa, Wendy Walgate, & Alexander Calder

We 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 readApr 17, 2021

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Sculpture: Ruth Asawa, Wendy Walgate, & Alexander Calder

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Neighborhood Art Center

Neighborhood Art Center

We are a 501c3 non-profit in Provo, Utah. Our goal is to make art accessible and inspire a lifelong love of art and creativity for children in our community.

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