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

Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Summer Art Camp 2025

Art Camp 2025 

The great art of bubble catching Art Camp 2024

Week 1 July 16
Week 2 July 23
Week 3 August 18
Week 4 August 25

5-11 year olds.

Monday to Friday 9am to 12 noon
115 Robbins Rd
Arlington

This summer I am offering 4 weeks of camp. We work and play in my studio, backyard, new driveway! and Robbins Farm Park. Each week will have a theme that helps us exploit materials and play with the elements- sun, water, sand and art materials- paint, clay, paper, wire, cardboard, recycled packaging.

I don’t advertise the weeks with themes like ACA or ACE. Sorry! (First of all it’s still winter when ice and snow is the inspiration!) Also, I don’t think an adult’s theme does much to predict what happens in the interaction between a child and a material, the experience with the stuff. Children come with their own themes and ways of working. I have used themes to organize the gathering of materials- like Water, Light and Dark, Things that Fly, Storytelling, Earth.  I do offer a starting point and time to experiment over the course of the morning.

Art Camp 2025

What:
Summer Art Camp is a morning program for 5-11yr olds. Art projects are linked to games, stories, playful physical challenges and experimentation with elements like water, sand, clay, bubbles, earth and air. We do individual and collaborative work with a variety of 2D and 3D materials. The work is inspired by nature, fine artists, the materials themselves, and each other. It’s summer and the aim is to get wet, dirty and immersed in the elements!

When: 9am -12noon

Week 1  July 14-18
Week 2  July 21-25
Week 3 August  18-22
Week 4 August  25-29

Where:

115 Robbins Rd, Arlington

Camp will be held at the studio down the driveway to the right of the house. Door is on the left. The front door of the house does not have a bell!

We will work and play in the studio, backyard and at Robbins Farm Park

Approximate Schedule:

9:00 Gathering activity outside

9:15 Meeting and Art Project, free play

10:30 Bathroom and snack

11:00  Walk to the Park, Games (this timing is subject to weather, how much everybody needs an open space to run and the whim of all the artists involved)

OR

Free play at studio

12:00 Pickup at 115 Robbins Rd

Early Pickup: Let me know if you need to pick up your child early. You can come to the park the days we are there.

How to contact us during camp:
Ann’s cell: 781 366 5955

Drop off and Pick up: 115 Robbins Rd
 
Bring:
-water bottle
- if raining, a rain coat
-simple snack (no nuts)

Wear:
- hat
-shoes to run in(no flip flops please)
-clothes that can get dirt, paint, glue and more on them(I have smocks)
-sunscreen (please apply at home)

It is also helpful if you eat breakfast and do a bathroom visit before you come to camp! (full stomach, empty bladder)

Assistants:
I will have an assistant with me from 9-12:30 each day. They will help
me with materials, bathroom runs, cleanup and the couple of trips to the park.

The Art
Visit my blog for pictures of past projects and summer camp archives. It will give you an idea of the materials I use regularly and the kinds of activities we do at camp. During Summer Camp we will do more with the outdoors and nature for inspiration. Each week will have a loose theme to tie the activities together. Some of the projects will produce products that we can play with outside. Some projects will be collaborative and others will simply be art to look at. There will be free time to experiment with materials.

The media will be a mixture of 2D and 3D.

I’ll let you know the themes later! (Not only do I need time to get it altogether, I also think that a theme does not tell a child what camp’s going to be like) 

From a past water theme week:
fish w/c and pastel resist

 mixing a family of blues with tempera paint

pastel, spray bottles with food color



Registration! Please Read-
I am not going to take information by email rather by mail (paper). Please send me an email for a registration package that you can drop off or mail. When I receive a complete package your child will be registered.

(This way I won’t chase anyone for contact information or $ and I can think about ART!)

Fees:
$225 per week per child
$50 due at time of registration, balance due on or before 1st day of class

Sibling discount: 10% off total

The Registration Package
-contact information form
-release papers- photo and walk
-$50 deposit per child per week
-cheques payable to Ann Wynne
-I can take Venmo but there are a lot of Ann Wynnes so those of you more tech savvy can let me know how to do it efficiently.

-mailing address: 115 Robbins Rd Arlington, Ma 02476 
email: annalburywynne56@gmail.com




Spring Art Classes 2025


Hello Everyone-

I hope you are enjoying the school break! The cold and ice has been challenging but I hope you have found ways to enjoy the blue sky and brilliant winter sun. March is coming and the maple sap is already running.

oil pastel/watercolor resist
Spring Art 2025
Mondays 3:30-5pm 4/7, 4/14, 4/28, 5/5, 5/12, 5/19, 6/2, 6/9 (no class 4/21and 5/26)
Tuesdays 3:30-5pm 4/8, 4/15, 4/29, 5/6, 5/13, 5/20, 5/27, 6/3 (no class 4/22)

In Spring we Paint! Weather permitting we will use the outdoor space to spread out and play with color and paint in all its forms!

Fees: $200 for 8 classes, sibling discount 10% off total

To Register: Send me an email with class preference, your child’s full name and age. Bring fees the first day.
If you have not been attending class here this school year please let me know and I will send you paperwork to fill out. It’s fine to bring it the first day with fees but please let me know before that if your child has any allergy/medical/ behavioral challenges that I don’t know about.


Tuesday, December 3, 2024

Winter Art 2025

Fall 2024 Printing




















Happy Post Thanksgiving! I hope you had a wonderful time with your family and friends.

Children’s Classes: 
Classes for ages 5-11 We’ll spend our time with short exercises, a project and time to choose from a variety of materials.
Looking for classes for older children? Let me know. 

Theme this winter for children’s classes is Invention with Paper and Invention with Fabric and Fibers. Structures that hang, stand or fold. We’ll sew paper and glue fabric, weave both materials, build in 2D and 3D. 

Mondays
1/6, 1/13, 1/20, 1/27 (no class 2/3) 2/10, (February Break no class), 2/24, 3/3, 3/10
3:30 -5pm
Fee: $200 for 8 classes

Tuesdays
1/7, 1/14/ 1/21, 1/28 (no class 2/4) 2/11, (February Break no class), 2/25, 3/4, 3/11
3:30-5pm
Fee: $200 for 8 classes

Open Studios on Thursdays
Just to mix it up for the winter, open Studios will be the first Thursday of the month (except Jan which is 1/9). As always it's a time for families and friends to come and play together with materials available. Children older than 5 can be dropped off (emergency # needed) otherwise caregivers are invited to stay.
1/9, 2/6, 3/6
3:30-5pm
Fee $5, family max $15


Adult Workshops






















Adults need to play too! Fall Printing 2024. We are still printing for the next 2 weeks!

New Offering! 
Peter Lehman (husband to Ann, designer and musician). Peter wants to take a break from the back log of home improvement projects in our crunchy Cape (just kidding) and workshop the curriculum he loves from art school and decades of design practice! I’ll be helping with materials and maybe playing along with the group.

Find your Inner Designer or
Searching for Albers

In this workshop we delve deeply into the foundations of design through practice based, hands-on exercises. Design, in the broadest sense, informs all the arts – and sharpening your skills through these design problems will help you see, to think visually. It’s a method to build confidence and to continue the lifelong pursue of art in any form. 

Josef Alberts was the catalyst behind the Foundations program at the Bauhaus. Many of our exercises draw from his exceptional pedagogy. It was intended for all students – painters, designers, printmakers, but also architects, fabric artists, craftspeople, set designers… This emphasis on foundational methods is our inspiration. 

The workshop, taught in the Room for Art studio spans six sessions with a potential drawing trip to local spots (e.g., the green house at LexFarm or Walter Gropius house in Concord). 

Wednesdays
1/8, 1/15, 1/22, (no class 1/29 and 2/5), 2/12, (February Break no class), 2/26, 3/5
7-9pm
Fee $120 for 6 classes
Materials included

Collage 
Back by popular demand!
Come continue exploring the many directions possible with paper and glue or come start the journey! We will do short exercises and then have time each class to play.

Thursdays
1/16, 1/23, (no class 1/30), 2/6, 2/13
7-9pm
$100 for 4 classes
Materials included

To Register: Send me an email specifying the class(es) you are interested in. I will send you the contact information paperwork for children's classes only. No deposit necessary but please let me know if your plans change after signing up.

For children’s classes please fill out contact information UNLESS you participated in the Fall session

Thanks,
Ann

Thursday, October 31, 2024

Fall 2023

Happy Hallowe'en!


We are half way through the fall session. Here's what is happening at the studio. I have 2 small classes on Monday and Tuesday for school age children. There is space in both for the second half of the session.

Fall Offerings:
Art Classes Mondays and Tuesdays October- December 3:30-5pm
Classes are designed as opportunities for children to work with the experience and interest they have. Each class includes a project and free time to explore materials. 5-11 yrs

Fee: $200 for 8 classes

Mondays
10/7, 10/14, 10/21, 10/28, 11/4, 11/11, 11/18, 11/25, 12/2 ( class on 10/14 Indigenous Peoples Day)
I will have class on Veterans/Remembrance Day 11/11

Tuesdays
10/8, 10/22, 10/29, 11/5, 11/12, 11/19, 11/26, 12/3 (no class 10/15 I work at Lex Farm)

Theme for the Fall is Printing. We will take time to practice known printing techniques and try new ones. We’ll experiment with printing and multi media. Some or all of: stenciling, monoprints, collographs and styroprints.

To Register: Send me an email with class preference and  I will send you an contact information form (please do this even if you have been with me before. I will only ask once a school year!)

Open Studios First Wednesday of the month October to December 3:30-5pm
Wednesday 10/9, 11/6, 12/4 Let me know before the week of the Open Studio if you are coming

Fee: $5 per open studio

A time to play for families with available materials. Everyone welcome. Children under 5 are welcome with a caregiver. Drop off is optional for children over 5 if I know the child well! Otherwise caregivers stay and make own art with us!

Adult Printing Workshop 4 Thursdays at 7-9pm  Full
I can run this workshop with a minimum of 4 participants. We will make plates (anything that you print from) with different materials then use the prints for chosen projects- cards, collage or mixed media. Depending upon the interests of the class we could do some of the following: geli printing, leaf prints, monoprints, speedy cut blocks (like an easy to carve linocut) or styrofoam prints. All materials included.

Thursday evenings 11/14, 11/21, 12/5, 12/12
Fee: $100

Stay tuned for more adult workshops this winter!

Thanks!
Ann


Thursday, August 22, 2024

Fall Art 2024

Hello Art Families! 
 I hope the summer has been inspirational and restful and you are still enjoying the precious last weeks of August. I have been lucky to visit new babies in my Canadian family, spend time with my sisters and their grown up children, see old friends and swim on the beaches of Cape Cod, the North Shore and Maine. I even saw one son (soon to see the other in September!)

Little Cranberry Isle, Maine




















Fall Offerings: Art Classes Mondays and Tuesdays October- December 3:30-5pm 
Classes are designed as opportunities for children to work with the experience and interest they have. Each class includes a project and free time to explore materials. 5-11 yrs 

 Fee: $200 for 8 classes 

 Mondays 10//7, 10/21, 10/28, 11/4, 11/11, 11/18, 11/25, 12/2 (no class 10/14 Indigenous Peoples Day) I will have class on Veterans/Remembrance Day 11/11 

 Tuesdays 10/8, 10/22, 10/29, 11/5, 11/12, 11/19, 11/26, 12/3 (no class 10/15 I work at Lex Farm) 

 Theme for the Fall is Printing. We will take time to practice known printing techniques and try new ones. We’ll experiment with printing and multi media. Some or all of: stenciling, monoprints, collographs and styroprints. 

To Register: Send me an email with class preference and contact information (please do this even if you have been with me before. I will only ask once a school year!) 

 Open Studios First Wednesday of the month October to December 3:30-5pm 

 Wednesday 10/9, 11/6, 12/4 
 To Register: Let me know before the week of the Open Studio if you are coming 

 Fee: $5 per open studio 

 A time to play for families with available materials. Everyone welcome. Children under 5 are welcome with a caregiver. Drop off is optional for children over 5 if I know the child well! Otherwise caregivers stay and make own art with us! 

Adult Printing Workshop 4 Thursdays at 7-9pm 
I can run this workshop with a minimum of 4 participants. We will make plates (anything that you print from) with different materials then use the prints for chosen projects- cards, collage or mixed media. Depending upon the interests of the class we could do some of the following: geli printing, leaf prints, monoprints, speedy cut blocks (like an easy to carve linocut) or styrofoam prints. All materials included. 

Thursday evenings 11/14, 11/21, 12/5, 12/12
To register send me an email

Fee: $100 

Thanks! 
Ann 
aroomforart.blogspot.com 

 Found object printing Art Camp 2024 






Tuesday, April 30, 2024

May 2024 Painting!

 Our landscaping is almost done! Now my work begins in setting up a mud kitchen and plantings for summer camp. But I will be able to offer some Spring painting! We’ll do our traditional spring messy painting and give this new asphalt some color! 

It will be a brief session, only Wednesdays in May. If you are interested let me know.


Painting in May
Wednesdays 3:30-5pm 5/8, 5/15, 5/22, 5/29
Fees: $100

Open House in June! Stay tuned

Art Camp 2024
Week 1 July 15, Week 2 July 22, Week 3 July 29
mornings 9-12
Still enrolling- Lots of space in the first week July 15-19, others are filling up

We have had an exciting construction site here at 115 Robbins Rd since March 18. For those of you who know my driveway and yard you will see the miracle! It’s almost done. Thank you for your patience this spring and your adaptability over the years as you navigated the uneven terrain!

I highly recommend JG Hardscapes as a group of patient, hardworking artisans. It was a great lesson in working slowly and carefully, then stone by stone a large project happens! They built the wall and stonework in the backyard (the paver was Jose Vilchez who was great too).

Saturday, March 2, 2024

Summer Camp still enrolling!

Come draw, paint, print, run, play and build with us this July!

charcoal self portrait


shadow painting/drawing with watercolor and oil pastel

bog paper, long brushes and tempera paint

Printing with cardstock stencils and tempera paint

potion making with food color, soap and water

making color fly- games at Robbins Farm Park