Price: $109 for all 4 weeks. Sorry, no drop-ins as there are materials costs

Ages 8+

Ages 9+

Mary Blair was a illustrator, animator, and designer for Walt Disney in the 1940's and 50's, working on many films inckuding Cinderella, and Alice and Wonderland. She designed the art for It's a small world at Disney and she illustrated children's books as well as many other art projects during that era. She worked with a fresh modern abstract style that was full of color and movement. We will learn to use color, movement , shapes and patterns to create our own Blair inspired pieces.

Skills practiced

• Art History

• Personal expression through color and shape

• Geometry

• Storytelling

Each week our meditation will be based on colors and our yoga will be from a Mary Blair illustration movie I am going to ask them to watch during the week.

Class 1 Introduction to May Blair. We will talk about her story and career. We will look at book with her art work and discuss some if her films. we will also discuss the modernism and abstract movement of that era and look at other artists with similar styles. We will begin to make our own mark making tools to use in our work.

Class 2 We will continue with our mark making tools and start painting papers and cutting shapes to use in our work. we will discuss the Mary Blair movie watched during the week while looking at still of the film. we will learn to look at the way shapes and patterns are used for effect .

Class 3 We will do some monoprinting on our painted and collected papers and start to build our pieces while discussing composition and talking about the art work in the previous weeks movie.

Class 4 We will bring it all together to complete our pieces and share the story emerging from them. We will discuss the effects and inspiration of Mary Blairs work in today's world.