Join Rachel in the studio for a fun afternoon of mixed media printmaking! Everyone will learn all about the art of cyanotypes ( sun prints) and make their very own t-shirt. Meeting 2-6.
Make a sun print t-shirt Friday July 5th 2-6!
Always expect the unexpected in the AWA studio!
This summer we have lots of fantastic Summer Fun planned!
Classes run 8:30- 2 and 2-6 daily. We start the week of June 24th and run right through until September 4th.
Sign on by the week. Daily sign ons available some weeks.
Reserve your space today!
Mixed media
Weaving on looms and fiber arts
Doll house week
Cities and Maps
Egyptian studies with a trip to the MFA
Slime Lab
Bookmaking
Printmaking
Sewing
Miniatures
Hands on art history
and lots more!
July 15th-19th AND August 12th-16th
Monday through Friday
9-2 Mihoko from Saori Worcester will be in the studio with looms and all sorts of fiber arts fun!
2-6 Greta Llanes will be in the studio teaching bookbinding techniques. Greta just graduated Bennet Street school and we're pretty excited to have her here!
Sign on for one or both.
Last summer our Slime Lab was super popular so we are back with more! Wednesday/Slime day! Here are our dates. All workshops run 2-6. Cost $80. Scenty slime, sparkly slime, colorful slime!
Wednesday June 26th, Wednesday July 3rd, Wednesday July 10th, Wednesday July 24th, Wednesday July 31st, Wednesday August 7th, Wednesday August 28th
I'd like to invite you to the opening of "Writing in the Margins" at the Chandler Gallery in Cambridge. The opening is this Thursday May 9th 6-8. Pieces from my series "Once There Was a Girl" are showing alongside beautiful work by Lola Baltzell, Carol Blackwell and Valerie Spain.
The exhibit will be up through May 17th
Gallery hours M-F 10-5:30
Chandler Gallery
20 Sacramento Street
Cambridge, MA
(617) 349-6287
We may have more April break options coming soon. Let me know if you'd to join the fun <3
Monday 9-2
A knitting day with learning to use knitting needles and working on a knitting machine
Taught by Talia
Cost: $90
2-3 Learn to make paper beads
Taught by Alex
Cost $35
Tuesday 9-2
Learn to needle felt and wet felting. Kids will be making these awesome felted bowls {pictured).
Cost $90
+++ Plans are in the works for a Monday night workshop to learn how to wet felt these bowls. Please do let us know if you are interested
Spring half day workshops!
Wednesday April 3rd make mixed media paintings
Thursday April 11th create plaster sculptures
Wednesday April 24th sew your own stuffed animal
Thursday May 2nd tie dye a t-shirt- summer is coming!
All workshops meet 12:40-2:30
Cost: $40 including PIZZA
Pick up available at Pierce
Summer is almost here!
This year studio classes begin at 8:30am and our afternoon session runs until 6. Swimming options will be available Tuesdays and Thursdays.
We have weaving weeks, Egyptian art explorations, painting, building, mixed media, a doll house week and lots more.
Summer is a special time at the studio. As always we have a full mix of ages with a limited number of students each week. When space allows we have drop ins available.
Hope you can join us!
Check out www.artwithamy.com for full schedule. Please feel free to email with any questions!
Cheers,
Amy
45 Harvard St
Brookline Village
www.artwithamy.com
"Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go." Natalie Goldberg author of Writing Down the Bones
If you missed our First Friday or you were there and would like another look please email artwithamystudio@gmail.
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Hey! First Friday is back!
March 1st 6-8
Hang out and enjoy an eclectic collection of paintings, drawings, photos by a variety of artists from near and far. Percentage of all sales going to Brookline Food Pantry.
Artists: Jenny Edwards, Maryjane O'Connell, Amy Solomon,
Steven Solomon, Rachel Bird, Emily Mogavero, Niizeki Hiromi, Martha Friedman, Valerie Spain, Talia Lefton, Ann Pfaff, David Reed, Lisa Link
Hope you can stop in!
Weeks of July 15th and August 12th!
Hi all,
February break is around the corner! Here's what we have planned:
All days are 9-2
Tuesday: Make a doll and a small house for your doll with furnishings, decorations and all
Wednesday: Art with Amy explorations! An open studio day including lots of painting, drawing and building
Thursday: Sculpey! Enjoy a full day of sculpture explorations
Friday: Build! All sorts of building
Parent/child art returns!: There's been a request for Tuesday mornings 9-10 to be added. Are you interested in joining this new group? Email us :)
Sunday morning: Learn bookmaking, embroidery and more. Details/times on our web site... www.artwithamy.com ...sign on by the workshop. We've also formed a very tiny group for quiet drawing on some Sunday mornings. This one is for 8-10 year olds and their parents. Limited to 4 students per group.
Summer! Full schedule is on the web site and includes Saori Worcester weeks of weaving, building, altered books, painting, sewing and lots more. See our web site for full list or email. We have early bird pricing until April.
First Fridays! We had our very first First Friday art event last weekend. Check out some of the work that was on display at www.artwithamy.com under the First Friday art for sale tab. AWA students and artists! Sales include a donation to Brookline Food Pantry this month.We have lots of cards including some beauties for Valentines day<3 If you'd like to see work in person please feel free to email. Hope to see you Friday March 1st 6-8 for more art fun!
Cheers,
Amy
Please join us for our 1st First Friday event! Friday, Feb 1st, 6-8 pm.
See Talia Lefton's hand knitted wall "The Meeting Point". That's a wall we can get behind! Pictured here during installation.
Pin your messages of connection to the wall. Families welcome!
Come see Prints by Martha Friedman, Emily Mogavero and Rachel Bird - Fiber works by
MaryJane O'connell - new text work by Steven Solomon - Encaustic pieces by
Lola Baltzell and Martha Chason-Sokol -Chewing-gum Heart cards by Hiromi Nizeki - Ink drawings by Amy Solomon (aka Art with Amy :) - new work by David Reed. Also on view some young Art with Amy students will be displaying and selling their work too.
All sales include a percentage to the Brookline Food Pantry.
Hope you'll join us for a fun gathering in Brookline Village!
Cheers,
Amy
45 Harvard Street
Brookline Village
artwithamystudio@gmail.com
www.artwithamy.com
Great Wednesday class! We made black and white paintings following up on the trip to the MFA to see Ansel Adams black and white photos. Also, had Rivers and Tides - the documentary about Andy Goldsworthy- playing throughout the class. A great comparison to Adams! Here’s a few of the studies.
We are happy to introduce
Sunday afternoon workshops!
Meeting 11-12:30
taught by Rachel Bird
$50 per student per class.
Sign on by the workshop.
Jan 27th Mixed media collage
Feb 10 Embroidery
March 10 Book binding
March 17 Monotype printmaking
March 24 Relief Printmaking and stamping
March 31 Painting
April 7 Drawing
April 14 Altered books and art journals
We are trying to figure out ages on this one and open to suggestion. We've gotten some emails for school age parent child studio time and some for teenager studio classes too. We are open to forming an interesting grouping that will be fun all.
Starting with ages 8-12. If you have another idea please do let us know.
Coming soon :
February break! We will be open during 9-2
Sign on by the day.
Email for our new extended Summer schedule 8:30-2 and 2-6 options.
Join us the evening of Feb 1st for our first first Friday! Check out some wonderful art including some AWA students, enjoy relaxed Brookline Village company. Art will be for sale with a portion going to the Brookline food pantry.
We have some spaces in Karly's Saturday morning art for ages 5-7.
After school art spaces open on both Tuesdays and Thursdays
Email to be on wait lists for other days
After school art! At the moment we have space in both Tuesday and Thursday classes. We are truly a child centered program which means we allow your child to lead their own art explorations. This may mean a focus on drawing from life, building with recyclables, sewing or abstract painting. We have projects and explorations. AWA is a real art studio for kids. Sketchbooks, field trips, art history and a ton of fun. Classes run directly after school lets out until 6. Pick up available at both Pierce and Lawrence schools.
Fiber Arts Mondays We have two spaces in our sewing, knitting, embroidery and all things fiber class meeting 3-6. Make stuffed animals, bags, bracelets and more.
February break classes! Sign on by the day Tuesday-Friday 9-2 Sewing, sculpting, painting, drawing and building!
Karly’s Saturday morning class for the younger set starts January 12 meeting 10-11:30.
Stay tuned for weekend workshops, Friday morning parent/child class returns soon and of course SUMMER! The Summer schedule is almost good to go. Classes will be held 8:30-2 and 2-6 daily with many exciting art options including dollhouse workshops, sewing, sculpting, building cities, jewelry design AND Saori Worcester returns with looms and two full fiber arts weeks! Feel free to email for info and to hold your space while we finish up details.
Also, mark your calendars! The evening of Friday February 1st we’ll be exhibiting an array of wonderful art. All for sale at affordable prices with a percent of the proceeds going to Brookline’s food pantry. Please join us for our very first First Fridays in Brookline Village!
If you'd like to create your own class for you and your friends please feel free to reach out.
After school classes, weekend workshops, February vacation classes and Summer!
Paint! Draw! Build!
