(SPRING BREAK CAMP) - CREATIVE ART EXPLORATION WITH MISS JIUYU (Age 4-8)

TIME: April 1-4, 2024 (Monday - Thursday) - 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

VENUE: South Whidbey Community Center, Room 112

AGE: 4-8 years old 

DETAILS: 

In this creative exploration class, we will bring a variety of process-based art activities and a wide range of materials for your little artists who love to explore materials, collect nature objects, and express their ideas in many forms. Our class space focuses on flow and freedom of expression - your children will be provided guidance and creative freedom suitable for their individual needs, while being in a group environment gives them the opportunity to be inspired by each other and connect.

Curriculum Flow:

Day 1 - Texture collage, pattern making, color making, and freestyle painting

Day 2 - Yarn, sticks, roving, string art

Day 3 - Sculpture with nature objects, beads, aluminum, construction paper, clay

Day 4 - Self-directed creative project with all materials available

Sample Schedule:

Drop-off

Opening Warm-up Activity

Nature Walk

Return to Class Space

Material Introduction + Individual Project Exploration

About the instructor 

Jiuyu is an Integrated Creative Art Instructor with 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.