Tuesdays After-School Art Class is a new class at Bare Knuckle Arts for children 9-14 years old.
Tuesday Sept. 18 Drawing techniques and drawing volumes
Tuesday Sept.25 Drawing techniques and Scratchboard Art
Tuesday Oct 2nd Painting techniques and Painting on a Canvas
Paint a barn quilt is a one day workshop where we will paint a geometric barn quilt. If you don't have a barn that's okay. You can put it on your screen porch, garage or even right beside your front door.
What's a Barn Quilt? A larger piece of wood painted to look like a quilt block. Typically they are very large and usually are placed on the exterior of a barn, house, garage or shed. Barn Quilts began in the early 2000's in Ohio and now many states have Barn Quilt Trails you can follow, including Shawano County in Wisconsin. Our barn quilts will be the size of 20 inch by 20 inch. Most barn quilts are painted with simple geometric shapes, like squares, rectangles and triangles. They usually are painted in solid colors. The simplicity in shape and the vibrancy of solid colors make these blocks easily seen from afar AND it makes they easy to create, Painter's Tape Baby!! No Experience is necessary for this workshop. All materials provided-you just need to get it home in your car. Saturday Sept. 29th 9am-2pm Bring or get some lunch. $65 per person
Summer camps are off to a great start at Bare Knuckle Arts. This week is the next generation of stellar painters. Check out some of their work here. From mastering watercolor techniques, to trying out acrylics on canvas, they have impressive with wonderful color palettes to boot. Next week is Art/Science Camp and building, building, building.
We had the opportunity to upcycle colorful medical vial caps from the UW Hospital Anesthesiology Department into a new mural at Bayview Community Center. The design was created by a middle school student and many teens at Bayview helped in the process. It adds a bold splash of color to a much used stairway at the center.
Ah Yes, here it is. Summer in Wisconsin it maybe has snuck up on you. If you are still looking for a great opportunity for your child or children, Bare Knuckle Arts still has openings in the following week long classes. Art/Science camp June 25-29th, Drawing & Painting for the Young July 9-13th, Family Fun Week-Building an Automaton(2 people for the price of 1) July 23-26, and Imaginarium Week for the truly imaginative child July 30-August 3rd.
Lapham Citizen Scientists are hard at work this week. Learning about artists that study nature through observation and then creating what they see. Looking at shells, feathers, turtle shells as well as heading into the garden as the weather allows. Lapham Citizen Scientists is an on going project at Lapham Elementary that began Jan. 2018 with students in all grades. Students learned about the schools name sake Increase A. Lapham. They learned about how instrumental he was in mapping Wisconsin, identifying weather patterns, observing, writing, and drawing all the native flora, fauna, and wildlife of Wisconsin. Then based on Lapham's own journals and sketchbooks each student created their own paste paper book.
Our friend Sudha brought back these lovely hand carved stamps from India. India is a beautiful country that not many of us get to experience. It is brimming full of culture, many groups of people with many different beliefs. Come experience only one small part of India and explore the tradition of Henna on hands at Bare Knuckle Arts.
Join us for Spring Gallery night sponsored by MMoCA. Bare Knuckle Arts is pleased to show the exquisitely crafted letterpress broadsides of Kerri Cushman. Spring it is and the weather should be perfect. Tonight's exhibit is all about type.
Refreshments served. 5-9pm Friday May 4th Kids welcome with an activity to make your own type broadside.
Send the kids to STEAM/Art camp and learn how to make magnetic slime in our studio-not your kitchen.
STEAM Art/Science Camp is Monday June 25th -Friday June 29th 1-3pm everyday. Science, technology, engineering, art, math all rolled into one. Using straws, duct tape, glue, pipe cleaners, sticks, dowels, duct tape and more we will create a variety of things. Catapults, rubber band powered mini-boats, compasses for drawing large circles, and much more. Ages 7-11
$125 per participant
Perhaps it is partly a reaction to our ever evolving digital world but a few years back one might say that Letterpress printing was a dying craft. It has had a revival and validation in the art world. There is something so beautiful about taking old wood or metal type, methodically setting it, inking it, and printing it on a machine that was made before your Grandma was born.
Join us, Bare Knuckle Arts on May 4th MMoCA Spring Gallery night to celebrate the handmade paper and letterpress prints created by Professor Kerri Cushman. Cushman is an artist and educator at Longwood University in Virginia, who specializes in handmade paper, artist books, and printmaking.
Come check out the type hype with refreshments and an art activity for the kids from 5-9pm at Bare Knuckle Arts, 1949 Winnebago St. Madison WI
Robotics for kids, Bare Knuckle Arts is very excited to offer this summer coding and robotic opportunity for children this summer. Ozobot Summer Club---Ozobots are pocket sized robots. In this summer camp children will learn what an Ozobot is, they will learn how to code an Ozobot, they will learn about lines, create codes, mazes, costumes, and collaborate with others as they program their Ozobots. Big benefit---every student will at the end of camp get to take home their very own Ozobot. Ages 6-12 $165 per participant but Ozobot and charger included
August 6-10th 1-3pm every day
Create a Peace Pole for your garden or home. A Peace Pole is a monument that displays the words, May Peace Prevail on Earth written in many different languages on each side of the pole. Join us as we paint our own creative peace pole on Earth Day Saturday April 21st 1-4pm We will use acrylic paint and paint markers. Easily installed in your garden.
$75 per project Ages 8-Adult
Family groups can work on one project together.
Bare Knuckle Arts is pleased to show the exquisitely crafted letterpress broadsides of Kerri Cushman from Performing Goat Press. You will want one of these for your collection.
Refreshments served. 5-9pm Friday May 4th in conjunction with MMoCA Spring Gallery Night.
This is Jessica Becker and we are so excited to have her teaching a Solstice Saturday Family Yoga/Art Workshop. June 23rd, please join us at Bare Knuckle Arts and here is a bit more about our friend.
Jessica’s mother introduced her to yoga with a video over twenty years ago. She didn’t think too much about it, but knew it felt good, and found herself practicing every day. Now a mother of two young children, she still practices daily. Yoga has served her through the changes and challenges of life, helping her heal from a spinal injury and evolve into her role as a mother. She has learned from many great teachers, including Sri K. Pattabhi Jois (Guruji), and received 200-hour Alignment Yoga Teacher Certification with Scott Anderson in 2003. Her studies in the past two years have been with Amie Heeter in the Para Yoga tradition. She is grounded, patient, and genuinely committed to the inherent wisdom and brilliance of the practice. Her classes include laughter and exploration within a dependable framework that encourages students to release anxieties and competitiveness. Jessica teaches Mother/ Daughter Yoga Course classes regularly at Main Street Yoga.
Adams Elementary in Janesville, WI hosted Bare Knuckle Arts in a 2 week artist residency this March 2018. Students created a collaborative art project with STEAM emphasis. Each student worked to develop their skills as they were using new tools. The residency began by introducing the artists Dr. Evermore, El Anatsui, and Shinque Smith. Artists from around the world that use upcycled materials to create art. Students were very engaged in arts exploration as they thought deeply about what happens to the plastic we produce, the metal we use or can re-use and the best way to re-create with unusual materials. Led by Amy Mietzel and Adams Art Educator Mandy Zdrale they did some creative thinking and problem solving as well as learning how to use tools. It was a super positive experience for all involved. Click here for more great photos of their work.
