5-day Art Creations with Clay

TIME:

• 5-day: August 5th-9th 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• 4-day: August 5th-8th 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM (CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP)

VENUE: South Whidbey Community Center, Room 112

AGE: 7-11

SCHOLARSHIPS: Please pick a scholarship option for what you can afford from the tickets section. If you need to apply for 50-100%  scholarships, please refer to our scholarship page for more info .

In this clay-focused class, we will explore endless possibilities of working with clay. In an experiential setting, your children will have the opportunity to explore hand-building, incorporating different textures (beads, mosaic tiles, stones, nature objects, buttons etc.) into a clay painting, and get a taste of working with a child-size pottery wheel.

This class is for your children who enjoy getting a little messy during the experimental process, and love to work with their hands!

Sample Schedule:

1. Drop-off
2. Opening Warm-up Activity
3. Nature Walk
4. Return to Class Space
5. Material Introduction + Individual Project Exploration

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR

Jiuyu is an Integrated Creative Art Instructor with a background in various media. Her art follows an integrated approach combining Body-based Arts, Buddhism, Taoism, Yoga, and Waldorf Education. A Chinese native born to a Buddhist family, Jiuyu spent her childhood and teenage years traveling and living around the globe, where she found her passion for nature and community building. In teaching art, Jiuyu uses elements of movement, storytelling, meditation, art-making, and weaves together multiple aspects of the creative being.

Jiuyu graduated from the School of the Arts Institute of Chicago. She has experience in teaching both young children and adults.  She believes that for young children especially, art is one of their primary languages of communicating with the outside world. Through art, children can process emotions and soften their approach to the world.  They build the capacity for reverence and learn to express love in a non-linear way.

Jiuyu is an art instructor for the WILASC afterschool program at the Whidbey Island Waldorf School campus.