Still looking for something your child or teen can do this summer? Check out our new Summer Arts for Kids and Teens program, right here in central Petaluma. Our light-filled, air conditioned art studio is the perfect place to spend a summer morning or afternoon making artful creations. Classes begin June 21 and continue through July 30. Our new schedule of summer art classes are designed for kids ages 7 – 11, and teens ages 12 – 16. Sessions include fresh and updated versions of our popular “Make Art Like a Famous Artist” class, along with ceramics, mosaics, printmaking and more. Register now to guarantee a place, as these classes fill up. Click below to view the new Kids and Teens schedules:
Docent Tours and Training at the Arts Center
The Petaluma Arts Council is offering free docent-guided tours of current Arts Center exhibitions for third and fourth-grade classes. Tours are 1 to 1.5 hours long, and include art games and a take-home art project. Click on the following PDF document for more details: DocentTours_0210.
If you are interested in being a children’s art docent for our tours, we offer one to two-hour docent training. It’s easy, fun and you get to introduce the arts to local school children. For more information, call 707-762-5600 (press option 7), and leave a message for Sue Borsian, our terrific Docent Coordinator.
Paint or Draw From a clothed model
We’re pleased to bring back this popular class, now located at the Petaluma Arts Center. Featuring a live clothed model, this drop-in class will meet the first Monday of each month, from 6:30 – 9:00pm. Fee is $15 per class; non-instructed with all levels of experience invited. Bring your easel and medium of your choice. Oil painters: Only Gamsol allowed in the studio (no turpentines or other alternative turpentines). For further information, please email Jewell Scanlon at jewellscanlon108@yahoo.com, or call 526-9110.