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Kids Art Enrichment Camp • Spring 2025 Creative Play Through Art, Theater & Movement April 14-18 2025 Five fun-filled days of creative play through art making and theater activities, and creative movement.  Young artists will be introduced to a wide range of unique and engaging art activities such as mask making, musical instrument making, and much more.  Participants will explore the joy of creative expression through character development and creative movement. Art Camp hosted by Sierra Arts • $100 camp…

Arts Engagement Program in partnership with Carson City Arts & Culture Family Art Saturdays • April 26th (10:00am-12:00pm) Art Activity Topic:  Post Impressionism & Rodin Post Impressionism was a predominantly French art movement that developed roughly between 1886 and 1905, from the last Impressionist exhibition to the birth of Fauvism. Post-Impressionism emerged as a reaction against Impressionists' concern for the naturalistic depiction of light and colour. Auguste Rodin was a French sculptor generally considered the founder of modern sculpture. He…

Arts Engagement Program in partnership with Carson City Arts & Culture Family Art Saturdays • May 10th (10:00am-12:00pm) Art Activity Topic:  Impressionism & Monet Impressionism was developed in France in the nineteenth century and is based on the practice of painting out of doors and spontaneously 'on the spot' rather than in a studio from sketches. Main impressionist subjects were landscapes and scenes of everyday life. Claude Monet was a French painter and a leader of the Impressionist movement, which…

Arts Engagement Program in partnership with Carson City Arts & Culture Family Art Saturdays • May 24th (10:00am-12:00pm) Art Activity Topic:  Impressionism & Cassatt Impressionism was developed in France in the nineteenth century and is based on the practice of painting out of doors and spontaneously 'on the spot' rather than in a studio from sketches. Main impressionist subjects were landscapes and scenes of everyday life.  Mary Cassatt was an American Impressionist painter and printmaker who focused on the intimate lives…

Arts Engagement Program in partnership with Carson City Arts & Culture Family Art Saturdays • June 14th (10:00am-12:00pm) Art Activity Topic:  Realism & O'Keeffe Realism in the arts is generally the attempt to represent subject matter truthfully, without artificiality and avoiding speculative and supernatural elements. The term is often used interchangeably with naturalism, although these terms are not synonymous. Georgia O'Keeffe was an American modernist painter and draftswoman whose career spanned seven decades and whose work remained largely independent of major…