Lee Kranser artist study: I am SUCH A FAN of Lee Krasner. She was responsible for Jackson Pollock being recognized in the first place as well as his continued, (chaotic) success. It has taken the art world, in general, a long time to recognize Lee’s brilliance, acumen and work. This artist study is inspired by Krasner’s collages. In the midst of frustration, Krasner tore up her paintings, soonly recognizing something was very appealing about arranging these pieces in an alternative way.
Pacita Abad artist study: This artist continues to be a source of inspiration to teach after becoming fully absorbed with her, personally, over the summer of 2023, when she had a retrospective at the Walker. We referenced images of Pacita Abad's mask series or "everyone I meet on the train". We also studied her underwater works and created our own textile art referencing these works as our inspiration.
Wassily Kandinsky artist study: Kandinsky believed in evoking a feeling, telling a story or making an impression with shapes and colors in his work (rather than painting in a more literal fashion). We arranged + traced cardboard, organic shapes on our canvas, creating our own abstract composition while focusing on brush stroke and color while painting.
Jasper Johns artist study: During a significant era of Johns' work, the artist focussed on motifs such as numerals, targets or flags and used these as the catalyst for his abstract paintings.
Maira Kalman artist study: Maira Kalman has created and continues to create an incredible body of work. If you aren't aware of her, please use your search engine to take a peek NOW. She is such a breath of fresh air! I'll assist. Here's a link to get started.
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I am considering offering TWO Spring Break workshops: Thursday, April 3, 1-5pm (includes a museum visit) and Friday, April 4, 9am - 1, $75/ea or $125 for both If you might be interested, I would love to hear from you. View some photos from previous Spring Break camps and workshops HERE
If your child's spring break falls on another week and you have a hand full of kiddos that might be interested, email me with some potential dates and I can put something together for you.
I have THREE more seats available in summer ART camp!
View this link for more information or to register.
If you are new to The Create Everyday Classroom Summer ART Camps, WELCOME! Please scroll down to familiarize yourself by reading GENERAL CAMP INFORMATION at the bottom of this post.
"I'll go where the work takes me. I always tell people if it goes out the window, I'll follow it" - Stanley Whitney
From the quilters of Gee’s Bend to Piet Mondrian to Agnes Martin to Stanley Whitney. Establishing a structure within which to create can be community building, representational, meditative, bold and liberating.
mostly drawing and painting
“Art work is a representation of our devotion to life” - Agnes Martin
"Hope" is the thing with... : June 23-27
2 MORE SEATS AVAILABLE
"The dignity of the artist lies in (their) duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world." - Marc Chagall
Georges Braque, Marc Chagall, and Beauford Delaney artist studies (a lot of painting), museum scavenger hunt, primitive clay forms, poster design
"Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas." - Georges Braque
Art is for Everyone: August 11 - 15
REGISTRATION IS CLOSED for Art is for Everyone. Thank you.
"Nothing is an end because it can always be a basis for something new and different.." - Keith Haring
We designated one day during Rule Breakers Summer Camp last year
for a Keith Haring artist study:
This year, we're going to dedicate an entire camp to this artist and his work!
doodling, large scale drawing + painting, poster design, performance art + play
"Children know something that most people have forgotten...I am now 28 years old on the outside and nearly twelve years old on the inside. I always want to stay twelve years old on the inside." - Keith Haring
"Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems..." - Helen Frankenthaler
These Five Painters (Helen Frankenthaler, Grace Hartigan, Elaine de Kooning, Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell) were not only the catalysts for new approaches in painting, they were pioneers for women in art.
mostly abstract painting with a bit of collage and figure work
"Somehow, in painting I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos." - Grace Hartigan
GENERAL CAMP INFORMATION
The Create Everyday Classroom Summer ART Camps are Monday through Friday, 9am - 1pm Because of small class sizes, variations on lessons are easily provided when taking into consideration age, interest, and skill. Camp sizes are small (10 participants) with an age range in each of 4 to 12 years.
With TEN years of SUMMER CAMP at The Create Everyday Classroom, rituals have been created that returning students look forward to every year. In addition to visiting the museum (Mia on Thursdays), there is silly walk day, water balloon day, balloons in the museum courtyard and popsicle day.
Students come prepared with their own mid morning snack, water bottle and lunch. We have daily picnics on the MCAD campus or in the Mia courtyard (weather permitting).
Last year, during IN THE CITY Summer Camp we met up with Urban Sketchers. This was such an incredible experience for both parties, the facilitator and I are going to do our best to coordinate one event during EVERY CAMP week this year. Get a glimpse of what this might look like here:
Each camp is $295 per week. A non refundable $150 deposit secures your child's seat with a balance of $145 due the Monday of summer camp week. Seat reservations may be made
via venmo @Kari-Maxwell
citing your camp(s) of choice in the memo
You will receive confirmation of your seat(s) via a venmo return memo Once a camp’s seats have filled, “Registration is closed. Thank you!” will appear under the corresponding camp dates.
If this is your first time enrolling, in addition to your payment, please email createeverydayclassroom@gmail.com with the full name and age of your child(ren). More elaborate camp details and necessary paperwork is sent out via email in May.
And, to ALL families, past and present: Thank you for your referrals. For the ten years my program has been in place, word of mouth continues to be my only form of advertisement. With that being said, if this link has been shared with you by another, please let me know who referred you in your email.
Take a peek into previous years of The Create Everyday Summer ART Camps HERE and HERE
If you are new to The Create Everyday Classroom Summer ART Camps, WELCOME!
Please scroll down to familiarize yourself by reading
GENERAL CAMP INFORMATION at the bottom of this post.
In the City
REGISTRATION is CLOSED
for In the City
THANK YOU
July 15 - July 19
appropriate for ages 4 - 10+ years
A study of the city and the beauty that can be found in its midst. Did you know Ellsworth Kelly created an entire series of paintings from the sight of one trampled paper cup?
Urban sketching, the Minneapolis skyline (as seen and diagrammed at Mia) and many children's book illustrators who have a special eye for this subject
Primarily drawing, painting and simple printing methods
Yarn Camp Squared
REGISTRATION is CLOSED
for Yarn Camp Squared.
THANK YOU.
August 19 - August 23
appropriate for ages 4 - 10+ years
Back by popular demand, an evolved version of Yarn Camp from the Summer of 2019. We'll be sure to be steeped in yarn again We'll study textile artist Sheila Hicks and (phenomenal) local artist, Eric Rieger, known as HOTTEA. We'll be influenced by Frida Kahlo's distinct clothing style and study Pacita Abad's approach to giving new life to clothing (image below) with her painting designs.
We will be working primarily with felt, thread, paint and so much yarn. Make sure to hold on to some older clothing items your children can revitalize with fresh paint during this camp!
A special note to adults: You may notice that Pacita Abad will be taking on a bit of the curriculum in every camp I offer this summer. Pacita Abad is having her first retrospective. The first stop for this traveling exhibit was at the Walker in the Spring and Summer of 2023. I have immersed myself in Pacita Abad as a result and did visit the exhibit three different times over the course of its Minneapolis visit. If you are interested in learning more, I have found this particular piece the most informative. Currently, this retrospective can be viewed at SFMOMA in San Francisco.
GENERAL CAMP INFORMATION
The Create Everyday Classroom Summer ART Camps are Monday through Friday, 9am - 1pm Because of small class sizes, variations on lessons are easily provided when taking into consideration age, interest, and skill. Camp sizes are small (10 participants) with an age range in each of 4 to 10 years. Older students (older than ten years) are welcome and usually also enroll.
With nine years of SUMMER CAMP at The Create Everyday Classroom, rituals have been created that returning students look forward to every year. In addition to visiting the museum (Mia on Thursdays), there is silly walk day, water balloon day, balloons in the museum courtyard and popsicle day.
Students come prepared with their own mid morning snack, water bottle and lunch. We have daily picnics on the MCAD campus or in the Mia courtyard (weather permitting).
Each camp is $295 per week. A non refundable $150 deposit secures your child's seat with a balance of $145 due the Monday of summer camp week. Seat reservations may be made via venmo @Kari-Maxwell citing your camp(s) of choice in the memo
If this is your first time enrolling, in addition to your payment, please email createeverydayclassroom@gmail.com with the full name and age of your child(ren). More elaborate camp details and necessary paperwork is sent out via email in May.
Thursday is museum day. This involves a walking field trip to Mia with sketchbooks.
2024 Spring Break Camp $295
venmo @Kari-Maxwell
Students come prepared with their own mid morning snack, water bottle and lunch
If you are new to the classroom, please email your child's name and age
createeverydayclassroom@gmail.com
Students come prepared with their own mid morning snack, water bottle and lunch
If you are new to the classroom, please email your child's name and age
createeverydayclassroom@gmail.com
There is always a slight (very slight) chance the curriculum may change for a particular workshop. There are a multitude of reasons why this might happen.
I promise to provide an as engaging lesson as a substitute.
If you’d like to coordinate other workshop days (not recognized here) and you have a minimum of four students who can attend, please contact me with your date preferences. I would be happy to work with you.
If you are new to The Create Everyday Classroom Summer ART Camps, please scroll down to familiarize yourself by reading GENERAL CAMP INFORMATION at the bottom of this post.
JUNE 19 - 23 ::::::::::: Artists and Their Animal Companions
So many artists had animal companions they've written books on the subject. Study classics such as Paul Klee, Franz Marc, Henri Matisse, Andy Warhol and current artists, Miroco Machiko and Kara Kramer.
We will draw, paint, print, collage and use mixed media methods, creating our own interpretations of these artists' works in addition to developing favorite animal subjects of our own.
Corita Kent saw art everywhere and taught her students to look at their immediate surroundings as such. This camp will involve daily walks with view finders and sketchbooks where we will find art in every day experiences.
In the classroom, we will practice Corita Kent's approach to art making while practicing some of Kara Kramer's art making methods with painting, collage, hand lettering, mark making and simple animation.
* Corita Kent thought of play as work. She believed work should also involve play.
With eight years of SUMMER CAMP at The Create Everyday Classroom, rituals have been created that returning students look forward to every year. In addition to visiting the museum (on Thursdays), there is silly walk day (view videos here), water balloon day, balloons in the museum courtyard and popsicle day.
The Create Everyday Classroom Summer ART Camps are Monday through Friday, 9am - 1pm Because of small class sizes, variations on lessons are easily provided when taking into consideration age, interest, and skill. Camp sizes are small (10 participants) with an age range in each of 4 to 10 years.
Each camp is $295 per week. A non refundable $150 deposit secures your child's seat with a balance of $145 due the Monday of summer camp week.
Seat reservations may be made via venmo ( @Kari-Maxwell).
If this is your first time enrolling, in addition to your payment, please email
createeverydayclassroom@gmail.com with the full name and age of your child(ren).
Students come prepared with their own mid morning snack, water bottle and lunch. We have daily picnics on the MCAD campus or in the Mia courtyard (weather permitting).
You can take a peek into Summer ART Camps at The Create Everyday Classroom by visiting + viewing these slideshows.
When I am not painting in my studio, I am developing curriculum or teaching at my tiny little art school in the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis.
I get such a charge out of designing curriculum. Since I founded The Create Everyday Classroom in 2013, I am beginning to collect a wealth of rich lessons. I still prefer to create and teach new curriculum though. I love sitting down and figuring out how to puzzle piece together at least two of the following: artist studies, art making methods, children's books and museum visits. More often than not, I find a common thread between three or four.
My class sizes are small. I teach an average of ten students per session between the ages of 4 and 10 years. I have found this number of students allows for a more individual, open ended curriculum which is the most important quality for me. I want students to always feel the freedom to improvise, make adaptions and experiment while having the support they need to do this.
Having been a Montessori teacher for over fifteen years, I am a firm believer that there be a significant age range in each class. One element of my curriculum design involves creating variations within each lesson so that all students will feel challenged and engaged. Under this paradigm, students have the ability to absorb the layers and complexities involved in making art.
Kari Maxwell received her Bachelor of Arts in psychology with a minor in philosophy in 1992. She graduated from the masters program (MECR) at CU, Boulder in 1997 with a Montessori certificate in early childhood education. She has been a practicing educator ever since.
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