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PUBLISHER: Quarry Books
FORMAT: Paperback
ISBN: 9781631595660
RRP: £8.99
PAGES: 80
PUBLICATION DATE:
August 29, 2018
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Little Learning Labs: Art for Kids, abridged paperback edition: 26 Adventures in Drawing, Painting, Mixed Media and More; Activities for STEAM Learners
Susan Schwake
The 26 projects in Little Learning Labs: Art for Kids will get children excited about creating fine art and help them discover their personal voice and style.Art for Kids is a well of inspiration for young artists interested in making their own fine art. This abridged, paperback edition features 26 fine art projects, which are broken into lessons. Kids will start with drawing, move on to painting and printmaking, and tie it all together with paper collage and mixed media. Each lesson includes an example from contemporary artists like Lisa Congdon, Megan Bogonovich, and Amy Rice, making it easy for kids to see different styles of art as they develop their own style and voice.Each lab can be completed as a single project or-for ambitious artists looking to start a portfolio-be taken in a sequence. The lessons in Little Learning Labs: Art for Kids are open-ended and designed to be explored over and over with different mediums, attitudes, and points of view. Colorful photos throughout illustrate different artists’ takes on the same lesson, exemplifying the way the lesson brings out each artist’s personal style.Little Learning Labs: Art for Kids is the perfect book for creative families, friends, and community groups, and works as a lesson plan for both experienced and new art teachers.
Susan Schwake
Susan Schwake is an artist, art educator, author, and curator. Her passion for teaching art for more than 20 years has found her working in many diverse settings, as well as her own art school, which operates inconjunction with their gallery and design firm in New Hampshire, called artstream.Susan exhibits her own artwork in galleries in the United States and Europe. To date, she has curated over 100 compelling contemporary exhibitions in her own gallery with hundreds of national and international artists’ work. Susan has worked with many corporations installing original artwork from the gallery’s stable of artists.In keeping with her passion for art and teaching, Susan has offered, and continues to offer, workshops and programs to parents, teachers at universities, art studios, community organization, public and private schools, and most recently online with e-courses in teacher training, painting, printmaking and mixed media.