Saturday School at Irving Arts Center
Classes meet on six consecutive Saturdays from 2pm-4pm from October through May. Ages 6-10. Tuition is $95 per session including supplies. Tuition for each 6-week session is $95 (art supplies included). Art Connection members with a Smithsonian Affiliate/Family and above membership receive a 10% discount.
Session One: All About Painting
October 7-November 11, 2023 | 2pm-4pm | Ages 6-10
$95 for 6-week session (supplies included)
Instructor: Sheila Cunningham
Students will explore different painting techniques based on classic art styles, learning a variety of skills, tips and tricks to create a number of effects. Inspired by famous paintings, students will then create their very own masterpieces.
Session Two: Illustrated Story Quilts
January 6-February 10, 2024 | 2pm-4pm | Ages 6-10
$95 for 6-week session (supplies included)
Instructor: Linda Disoway
Quilts have often served as recorded histories of families, events, and cultures. In this Saturday School session students will view samples of quilts and storytelling in art, especially the well-known story quilts of celebrated African American artist, Faith Ringgold. Students will then select a story to illustrate–either from a book, family history, or an experience of their own and then create their selected scene on fabric using watercolor pencils and pastels. In this interdisciplinary class, students will start with the fundamentals and then progress to in-depth dives into the mediums of painting, drawing, storytelling, stitching, collaging and printmaking to create a truly unique and original work of art.
Session Three: Mixed Media Explorations
February 17-March 23, 2024 | 2pm-4pm | Ages 6-10
$95 for 6-week session (supplies included)
Instructor: Sheila Cunningham
Explore and combine different art materials, tools and processes! Techniques such as painting, collage, printmaking, stenciling and sculpture will be studied and incorporated to make new artworks. Through creative applications of layering and design using texture, color, shape and various materials, students will construct their own vibrant and inspired compositions.
Session Four: Knots & Weaves: Fun with Fiber Arts
April 6-May 11, 2024 | 2pm-4pm | Ages 6-10
$95 for 6-week session (supplies included)
Instructor: VET
Join us and have fun learning to work with fibers! Artist VET will demonstrate easy step-by-step techniques to weave, wrap, twist and braid an assortment of yearns and threads of various textures to create different designs and embellishments. Projects will include hand-building stuffed animals decorated with fringes, tassels, charms, beads and other items; weaving brightly colored wall hangings and creating fabric artist cards to share and trade.
ABOUT OUR INSTRUCTORS
Linda Disoway
Linda is a mixed media artist and educator who teaches and exhibits throughout Dallas, Fort Worth and the surrounding areas. She has taught classes for Irving Arts Center since 1995.
Sheila Cunningham
Sheila is a fine art photographer exploring the world through cell phone photography, digital collages, Polaroid transfers and artist books. She teaches workshops at universities and fine art centers throughout the country and exhibits her work in one-person and national juried shows.
VET
VET, a recipient of a National Endowment of the Arts award, is a native Texas artist who incorporates environmental recycling awareness through her artwork, commissions and various workshops.
