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ART FARM Kids’ Workshops
Kids explore the farm, meet animals and plants, make original art with professional artists, enjoy nature, play games. Weekly sessions from 9am to 2:30pm M-F. Ages 6-13 $325 per session, limited space.
SPROUTS!
Our ART FARM FOREST workshop will help participants reconnect with the natural world. Kids spend the entire day outside with plants & animals. Weekly sessions from 9am to 2:30pm M-F. Ages 4-8 $350 per session, very limited space.
~ADULT Workshops~
Come play and create at the farm with our guest Artists! These workshops are designed for grownups and teens who want to try their hand at creating art using different mediums and techniques. $125/person. Space is limited.
~WINTER & SPRING~ ~Workshops~
Cooking Classes, Learn how to start a Business, Drumming, and Plant, bird, and animal identification walks! These workshops are designed for community members who want to learn a new skill or spend time at the farm.
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Plants! Plants! Plants! Printmaking
Week 1 — June 30-July 4
with Artist Ondine Crispin
• Walk around the farm identifying plants and their uses
• Make drawings & prints of plants
• Create with plants
• Visit the farm animals
• Harvest veggies, fruits & herbs from the garden
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International Heraldry
Week 2 — July 7-11
With Artist Helen Quinn
• Learn about armor & symbols from around the world
• Draw your coat of arms
• Construct and paint a cardboard shield
• Embellish a Japanese samurai helmet
• Make a clay protective amulet to wear
• Silkscreen a farm crest on a T-shirt
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Sculpture Book Arts
Week 3 — July 14-18
With Artist Helen Quinn
• Sew a collage book with red thread
• Make an accordion sketchbook
• Fold the pages of an old book to make a sculpture
• Curl book pages to make a wig
• Make a stained glass window book
• Make a divided animal book
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Experimental Printmaking
Week 4 — July 21-25
with Artist Sara Walsh
• Use a pasta machine as you very own printing press
• Explore intaglio printmaking
• Draw upon personal stories
• Use found objects
• Meet the farm animals and plants
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Watercolor & Ink Personal Stories
Week 5 — July 28-Aug 1
with Artist Sara Walsh
• Explorations in Graphic Novel form
• Movement games
• Make a journal for daily painting
• Creation as relaxation
• Work with pens, brushes, and fingers
• Mix ink and watercolor on a page
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RHYTHM is Everywhere!
Week 6 — Aug 4-8
With Drummer Blake Fleming
• Learn the fundamentals of African drumming and improvisation
• Build your own percussion/rhythm instruments
• Explore deep listening - finding inspiration in the woods & around the farm
• Recreate some of these sounds and rhythms for a concert at the end of the week!
SPROUTS!
Our ART FARM FOREST workshop
To be held alongside each of the ART FARM workshops - This program serves as an aid for your child to reconnect to the natural and more-than-human world. The goal of this program is to decolonize our connection to nature and establish a more deeply rooted and personal relationship with the natural world. Great for kids ages 4-8 yrs!
We're thrilled to have the warm and wonderful Daria McKnight on our team to lead our small groups of explorers on a range of activities and adventures.
SPROUTS! Our ART FARM FOREST Workshop
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Week 1 -- June 30-July 4
Ages 4-8
w/ Outdoor Educator Daria McKnight
*Build fairy houses & lean-to shelters
*Candle making & fire building
*Learn apothecary & plant medicine
*Build unique & special relationships with Mother Earth and each other
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Week 2 -- July 7-11
Ages 4-8
w/ Outdoor Educator Daria McKnight
*Build fairy houses & lean-to shelters
*Candle making & fire building
*Learn apothecary & plant medicine
*Build unique & special relationships with Mother Earth and each other
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Week 3 -- July 14-18
Ages 4-8
w/ Outdoor Educator Daria McKnight
*Build fairy houses & lean-to shelters
*Candle making & fire building
*Learn apothecary & plant medicine
*Build unique & special relationships with Mother Earth and each other
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Week 4 -- July 21-25
Ages 4-8
w/ Outdoor Educator Daria McKnight
*Build fairy houses & lean-to shelters
*Candle making & fire building
*Learn apothecary & plant medicine
*Build unique & special relationships with Mother Earth and each other
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Week 5 -- July 28-August 1
Ages 4-8
w/ Outdoor Educator Daria McKnight
*Build fairy houses & lean-to shelters
*Candle making & fire building
*Learn apothecary & plant medicine
*Build unique & special relationships with Mother Earth and each other
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Week 6 -- August 4-8
Ages 4-8
w/ Outdoor Educator Daria McKnight
*Build fairy houses & lean-to shelters
*Candle making & fire building
*Learn apothecary & plant medicine
*Build unique & special relationships with Mother Earth and each other
ADULT WORKSHOPS!
Come play and create at the farm with our guest Artists!
These workshops are designed for grownups and teens who want to try their hand at creating art using different mediums and techniques. $125/person. Space is limited. Stay at the farm after the workshop for Pizza Night
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June 29 - Torch Fired Enameling
1pm - 5pm
w/ Local Artist Karin Bremer, Windfall
*Cut and form copper shapes
*Apply powdered glass
*Create colorful enamel surfaces with an acetylene torch
*Make earrings, pendants or simple small works of art
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July 6 - Printmaking
1pm - 5pm
w/ Queens Artist/Activist Ondine Crispin
*Learn the basics of relief printmaking
*Create a drawing
*Carve a block
*Create repeat pattern prints
*Print pattern prints with vegetables
*Go home with beautiful prints
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August 10 - Indigo Dyeing
1pm - 5pm
w/Queens Artist/Activist Helen Quinn
*Explore different resist dye techniques
*Learn about Indigo, the plant
*Dye a pillowcase & tote bag in gradations of blue
*Bring up to 2 items from home that could use a re-fresh like a light colored shirt or tea towel
*Wear old clothes that you can get dirty and rubber gloves if you have them
WINTER & SPRING workshops
Come learn and move at the farm with Kate and our guest Teachers!
These workshops are designed for community members who want to learn a new skill or brush up on an old one.
Come to the farm to connect and engage with others!
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Learn how to start a Small Business
3 hour class
Weekdays with Kate Marsiglio or Caroline Casey
Private classes: $200 for 3 hour class
Semi-Private/small group: $150 for 4 hour class (2-5 people)
Dream of starting a small business of your own? Together we will brainstorm your ideas, make a plan, discuss customer base, build a budget, and design marketing materials.
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Cooking Skills and Kitchen Basics
3 hour class
Weekdays with Kate Marsiglio or Caroline Casey
Private classes: $200 for 3 hour class
Semi-Private/small group: $150 for 4 hour class (2-5 people)
Come spend time learning to mix, measure, bake, chop, sauté, and much more! We work together in a small group atmosphere to prepare recipes - both classic and new. Each student will make something to bring home!
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Plants & Animals of the Catskills
2 hour class
Weekdays with Kate Marsiglio
Private classes: $125
Small group: $150 for 3 hour class (2-5 people)
Walk the foot trails around the farm and neighboring protected lands. Learn tracking, animal identification and behaviors, as well as plant and bird identification. We will start a journal and record our observations. We will spend lots of our time outdoors - dress for the weather!
