A Room for Art

A Room for Art is a place to paint, draw, build, print, bind, glue and sculpt. Classes for children and adults are held in a sunny home studio in Arlington, MA. More than a room, it is time and space to work with your hands, enjoy materials and make your ideas concrete.

Location

A Room for Art is located in Arlington Heights at 115 Robbins Road. The Studio is down the driveway on the right side of the house.
Questions? Call
Ann 781 366 5955
annalburywynne56@gmail.com

Offerings

Classes for Children
Workshops for Adults
Birthday Parties
Open Studios
Vacation and Summer Camps

Friday, December 7, 2018

Winter Art Classes 2019

painting foam core for a mobile, Fall 2018

Hi Everyone- Here’s to keeping sane, grateful, rested, happy, balanced, hopeful over the holiday season! 

I am offering 2 classes for elementary age children. I am doing the family grouping for a number of reasons. 1 logistics for families- your children do lots of things and it is hard to line up availability with a class 2 I like the inspiration different age children give each other- younger children tend to not judge themselves and older have experience to share 3 With versatile materials children can work at their own level and in their own direction.

Thanks for the Fall session and here is the Winter schedule:

Tuesday Mixed Ages (K-Gr 5) 1/8, 1/22, 2/5, 2/26, 3/12  3:30-5pm
Thursday Mixed Ages (K-Gr 5) 1/17, 1/31, 2/14, 2/28, 3/14  3:30-5pm

$100 for 5 classes, sibling 10% discount

Open Studios: 1/4, 2/1, 3/1 open to all! $5 drop in or $10 per family  3:30-5pm

To enroll send me an email. If you have not had class with me this academic year please bring contact info which I will send you.

Friday, August 31, 2018

Fall Art 2018




water paintings summer 2018
Happy September! These are the days that I am particularly grateful for swimming outside because I know they are ending soon! I hope you are having fun in the water too.

Here are the offerings for the Fall. As always the age ranges for classes are flexible. If siblings need to do the same class we will work it out! I am sending out an open invitation to all family members or friends to come to Open studios- an informal opportunity to play with whatever materials you want! (that I have!)
Classes start in October. To register send me an email with class preference, full name of child and date of birth. Bring fees and contact information first day of class. ( I will email the contact information forms to you)
If you have not taken class with me before please send contact information to me before October: Ann Wynne 115 Robbins Rd Arlington, Ma 02476

Fall 2018
Tuesday K-Gr2 3:30-5pm 10/2, 10/16, 10/30, 11/13, 11/27
Thursday Gr3-5 3:30-5pm 10/11, 10/25, 11/8, 11/15, 11/29
Fee $100 for 5 classes. 10% sibling discount

Open Studio All ages, friends and family welcome, drop in Friday 10/5, 11/2, 12/7 3:30-5pm
Fee $10 10% family member discount

Thanks, Ann

Wednesday, August 22, 2018

Summer Art Camp 2018

 Despite the daily forecast of rain, thunder and lightning art camp was blessed with dry mornings! We were able to spend most of our creating/playing time outside and I was once again reminded that my little Arlington backyard is a flourishing ecosystem. Fungus, beetles, millipedes, worms, centipede, pillbugs, flies of many sorts, rodents of many sorts and of course a friendly neighborhood cat! Due to my limited gardening skills there are also a good number of indigenous plants. It takes a group of children to open adult eyes to the possibilities inherent in a physical space.
As I debrief with myself about the summer two major themes come to mind. First, the pleasure of having more young, energetic assistants- Kendall, Evelyn, Norah, Elyse, Miriam, (and Tess who helped with pre-camp cleanup)Youth is a beautiful thing! These girls organized materials, moved furniture, helped younger children with obstacles to their art, played, swept, washed and ran in the park. They were flexible and willing! Thank you!
 The second theme is children's ability to create with very simple materials. What I would like to praise is a child's habit of creating props for their own imaginative play- the story they are presently spinning. They make things that they need! They use the aptitude for seeing potential use in physical objects, an aptitude that  adult artist's need for their invention. I like to do this too and during art camp I get to frame a project, make a set of constraints that children work within. For example, I give them contact paper on a mat board frame and colored acetate and they make beautiful collages. In this case I have decided what the process is and then they have room to make choices within those parameters. This is a useful exercise, I enjoy it and most of my students do too.
However teacher led art projects are not enough space for children's creativity. There is a different kind of making that happens when adults are less involved. It is more like making something from nothing because it comes from a child's own purpose rather than a teacher's. The products are often ragged or hard to recognize but the actual creative act that brought them to exist is bigger. With this making the child has set his own parameters, framed his own project and carried it out.
This summer week 2 campers made a 'kitty house' in honor of the visiting cat. The circle of trees near the compost bin were decorated in yarn, fabric and signage. There were a number of fishermen who made rods with the same yarn and found sticks. We had many entomologists over the weeks capturing and releasing critters, viewing them under a magiscope and looking closely at their structures. Of course we did our share of bubble making, trying to harness the magic soap films.
Of course there was lots of play that produced no permanent products- fairy houses from leaves and sticks, sand forms, block structures and shelters from saplings.
The conversation about children's creativity is huge! to be continued!

Playing in the Back Yard














Thanks to all who participated in art camp! I look forward to seeing you in the Fall. Classes soon to be posted.
Below is a synopsis/photos of each week's theme during camp

Week One
Theme: Children's Picture Books
Big Orange Splot by Daniel Pinkwater- dream house tempera paintings
Stuck by Oliver Jeffers- mixed media- paint, collage, pastel
What do You do With a Tail Like This? by Steven Jenkins- creature marker drawings, paintings and collage-accordion books for creature drawings, collage, watercolor
Swimmy by Leo Lionni-  tempera paint mono prints




















Week Two
Theme: Earth
-cross section under the earth drawings inspired by Sam and Dave Dig a Hole by
-papier mache rocks
-Nature journals
-Big Clay- storytelling with grey potter's clay
-watercolor/oil pastel resist insects
-sculpey clay salamanders with tempera painting background

















Week Three
Theme: Water
-water paintings inspired by David Hockney
-underwater collage mixed media on apple trays from Wilson Farms
-watercolor fish
-fish prints
-floating sculptures





















Week Four
Theme: Light
-translucent collage in mat frame
-shadow paintings
-wood scrap assemblage/shadow makers
-handmade slides 
-radial hot color tempera paintings
-shadow puppets