In-Person Youth Arts Class with Julie Karlonas
August 31 - October 5th
Thursdays, 1:00-4:00 PM
Structure of Class: (6) 1-hour in-person sessions
Please email Julie or call 530.908.1524 to register.
A parental consent form will be emailed to you prior to the start of class.
This Fall we will introduce our new Home School Program in addition to our After school and Toddler Programs. For more information, or if you would like to sponsor a child, please contact Julie Karlonas.
Each week we will focus on a different art material, and how people have used these materials to meet their Fundamental Human Needs (one of which is to create art). The children will then have the opportunity to use some of the very same materials that prehistoric and ancient people have used to create art.
Session I will include working with: Stone, Wood, Plants, Fiber, Clay and Metal.
ABOUT JULIE
Born and raised in San Francisco, JULIE KARLONAS currently lives in Fort Bragg. Julie has two great passions in her life: art and education. She has been an artist for as long as she can remember, and has been sharing art with children and adults for over thirty years. She holds an MA in Montessori Education and Elementary Teaching credentials from Saint Mary’s College in Moraga, and a BFA in Print Making from Sonoma State University.
Julie has taught art in private and public schools throughout Northern California. She is also a Montessori Teacher trainer who has trained teachers to teach art to children throughout the United States. She is the founder of Art Work, a company committed to developing art curriculum for children. She has written four books and accompanying materials on sharing art with children. Her books and materials are used internationally.
Julie is a multi-faceted artist who works in printmaking, painting, pastel and three-dimensional media. Her early work focused on the figure and later on the dynamic turbulence of the sky relative to a still landscape. Her work has always been emotionally charged, driven with an urgency and subtle whisper of melancholy. Her current body of work is in clay and the ancient art of wood-fire.
To her the work is still figurative. Each figure begins as a symmetrical hand-built vessel. Textures are added, and each nuance is considered to eventually form the weathered beauty of imperfection. Once completed the piece is ready to undergo its final stages of construction: vitrification by fire. It is this final process that produces a unique juxtaposition of construction and destruction, and an ultimate beauty that can be achieved in no other way.