Sewing Classes for Kids,Teens, and Adults!

We had a great time yesterday printing and dyeing our fabric for the Home Decor Camp that is now in session. Students are working hard stamping, tie- dyeing, and sewing their very own bed set which includes, throw pillows, bed sheets, and an awesome ombre dyed duvet cover.

 If you are a crafty cat wanting to improve your sewing skills check out our schedule of fall weekly sewing classes kids, adults, and teens. In these classes students will get to know their very own sewing machine or can rent one for only $5 a class. Participants will learn how to make an array of home decorative items such as pillows, curtains, basic upholstery, clothing/accessories, and holiday projects. Our weekly sewing classes start on Tuesday, September 3 and are now on sale!

Fall Ages 8-12 Weekly Sewing Class

Instructor: Jesse Bartlett

Cost: SALE  $375

Tuesdays, 4-5:30pm

Classes run from Sept 3 - May 22

*No classes held on Thanksgiving, Dec 26, and Jan 2

Fall Teen Weekly Sewing Class
Instructor: Jesse Bartlett
Cost: SALE  $375
Tuesdays, 5:30-7pm
Classes run from Sept 3 - May 22
*No classes held on Thanksgiving, Dec 26, and Jan 2

Fall Adult Weekly Sewing Class

Instructor Jesse Bartlett

Cost: SALE $450

Tuesdays, 7-9pm

Classes run from Sept 3 - May 22

*No classes held on Thanksgiving, Dec 26, Jan 2 

Spring Break Camp : Cascarones!

Oil and Cotton spent Spring Break making beautiful natural dyed eggs with Natural Dye expert Sarah Westrup. Students learned about the Mexican American tradition of confetti filled cascarones. Empty egg shells were dipped in plant based dye solutions made from hibiscus flower, red cabbage, and red onion skins.

Students learned about value and color mixing with natural dyes in order to achieve our favorite colors. We then filled the eggs with confetti and draped them with tissue paper before the eggs were smashed in celebration for Easter. Visit our website to learn more about our upcoming Summer Art and Music Camps. We would love to share a day of fun, learning, and creativity with you!

Super Spring Break Camps!

Monday was our first day of this year's awesome line up of Spring Break Art Camps. We all had a great time learning how to make abstract color wheels and draw oil pastel cheetahs with instructors Miss Emily and Miss Jessica.  Students learned how to break down animal forms into simple shapes, color blending,  colors theory, and the power of imagination!

Miles made a printing plate with a scrap of corrugated cardboard from a discarded box and plants handpicked from our garden. Miss Emily taught the children about the many intricacies and variations of printmaking. Above we interpreted the chine colle process.

Luca created his very own ORB and painted a watercolor still life of stacked tree slices colored with a rainbow of chalk pastel. Our week long Operation Rainbow Brains summer camp will focus on COMMUNITY ART. 

Check out our listings of our upcoming Summer Art and Music Camps. We would love to share a day of fun, learning and creativity with you!

Zine Camp: Matthew Cusick, Brandi Strickland, Mylan Nguyen, and Jessica Trevizo

This summer we were lucky to work with many special people during our ZINE CAMP collaboration with The Writer's Garret. Bringing our students together with working artists is important to our mission as a community art exchange. Making these interactions possible leads to long lasting connections and art making experiences that might not happen otherwise. And most importantly our kids LOVE working directly with artists, and that feeling is equally reciprocated by our artists!

Artist and Oil and Cotton family member, Matthew Cusick joined the camp to discuss his DEFACEMENT work, a series pages from old schoolbooks that are altered by sanding and scraping away everything except the page number, an illustration, and a few chosen words. Our zine makers used what they learned from Matt to create "erasure" poems with found text. Below is an example of Elijah's poem in his COLOR zine. A rainbow of colored tapes were used to create his "erasure" poem inspired by his love of art and John Lennon.

Collage artist and all around super lady Brandi Strickland sent a special delivery to Oil and Cotton from her home in Virginia. Zine campers opened a brown paper wrapped box to discover colorful pages from magazines, old book pages, exotic packaging labels, vintage stamps and more gleaned from Brandi's personal cache of collage papers. See Brandi's response to our thank you package here! Below are examples of collage made with Brandi's paper collection. Notice the difference between the original collage and the black and white photocopied zines.

Mylan Nguyen and Jessica Trevizo set up a silk screen studio in Oil and Cotton and taught students about the printmaking process. Students printed their book covers with original artwork created especially for the zine camp by Myaln and Jessica.

Thank you to the artists, students, and teachers that helped to make this the best summer camp ever!

Look for new zine camps this spring! Dates will be announced in November.

Electronic Fashion Camp at Oil and Cotton

Etiquette Creative and the Design Your World team are hosting our very first Electronic Fashion Camp! In this three day, hands-on camp, girls will learn about fashion, electronics and coding using the LilyPad Arduino. Girls will discover how microcontrollers work then create their own electronic fashion project using the LilyPad Arduino, a sewable microcontroller that bridges the traditional technology and arts divide.

The camp will be held August 1-3, 2012 at Oil & Cotton. We're looking for smart and courageous young girls, ages 12-14, to come experiment with female engineers, technologists, media experts and fashionistas to create one-of-a-kind LilyPad Arduino projects. Breakfast and lunch will be provided.

Registration is $95 per girl for the entire three day camp plus materials, payable online or by check. Any parent volunteers/chaperones that would like to stick around and help out may do so for $35 to cover the cost of food.

Register here.

Jewelry Camp for Kids :: NEXT WEEK ::

Jewelry Camp
5-Day Art Camp for ages 7-13
July 9-13, 1-4pm
Instructor(s): Shannon Driscoll, Shoshannah Frank, Lyndsey Rieple, and Ariel Saldivar

In this special camp students will learn how to design and make jewelry in a variety of media, including clay, leather, paper, wood, stone and metal. We will look to NATURE for our inspiration and learn from expert local jewelery designers. The Monday camp will start with a discussion about what it means to design a "line" of jewelry with guest teachers Shoshannah Frank and Casey Melton of F is for Frank. F. is for Frank will teach students how to make a small sculptural pendant that will be used to make a mold for a pewter charm. Lyndsey Rieple of LyndseyLoo will join us on Tuesday. Lindsey will explore the wonders of using objects found in nature like leather, shells, wood, bone and more. Clay will be used on Wednesday to make studies of leaf impressions and other objects from nature. The clay studies will be used to create beautiful amulets. On Thursday, Ariel Saldivar of Olivia k Jewelry will bring her collection of rare minerals and stones and teach a bit of geology with a discussion about DIAMONDS. Students will paint a water color study of sliced a sliced geode and then use crystals to create a magical necklace. Students will make a "look book", packaging, tags and showcase their work on Friday. Don't miss this opportunity to learn from these talented, kind and creative women. We only have a few seats left, register today!

Summer Camp of the Week

 

Myaln's Installation Camp
5-Day Art Camp for ages 4-8
Mon-Fri, July 23-27, 1-4pm, $150 (on sale for $135)
Installation Opening Reception, Friday 6-8pm

Camp on sale for $135 this week!
Enter discount code INSTALL10 at checkout. Discount extended until April 25.

Instructors: Mylan Nguyen & Emily Riggert
Recently our family had the pleasure of experiencing one of Mylan's installations, a show at CentralTrak called Already Gone. Katy Rose, age 4, got caught up in the whimsy of the world Mylan had created. Mylan, who regularly teaches adult screenprinting at Oil and Cotton, is really excited about working with young artists, who have a natural inclination to create space - forts, tents, imaginary worlds. She will guide students to work in drawing, painting, printing and sculpture mediums to create an installation of 835 W 7th. This camp is not to be missed if you are age 4-8, and the opening of the installation on Friday night if you are all other ages!

Mylan Nguyen at the Public Trust Gallery

If you missed the opening reception this weekend, be sure to visit the Public Trust Gallery to see Mylan Nguyen’s first solo show. Mylan is a talented young artist that teaches our popular DIY Silk Screen Printing and will be teaching our Installation Art Camp and Manga Art Camps this summer.

Les Grandes Personnes Ne Comprennent (The Big People Do Not Understand) invites visitors to revisit childhood forts and secret hideaways. The center of Mylan's site specific installation is a dreamy "playhouse" full of her sweet drawings that are sometimes tinged with a subtle dark humor. In addition to her drawings, she has included sculptures, ephemera and found objects such as an old record player and an early video game system. The exhibition pays homage to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s, Le Petit Prince and whimsically explores the themes of love, loneliness, friendship, and death.

Songwriting and Music Summer Camp at Oil and Cotton

Back by popular demand, SONGWRITING AND MUSIC CAMP! We will write lyrics, form bands, then write, rehearse, record & perform a single. Bands will develop a visual identity as well, through merchandise - band t-shirt, CD cover & band photo. This camp is a unique opportunity to get a crash course in pop song writing - working with a country & western singer (Floramay), an indy rocker (David) and our in-house classical composition and piano teacher (Kayli). Registration for summer camps has started and folks are signing up. Visit our website to register today.

4-Day Music Camp for ages 7-teens
Instructors: Floramay Holliday, David Karsten Daniels & Kayli Cusick
Mon-Thurs, June 4-7, 9am-12pm
Price: $150
Musical experience (lessons or similar) recommended.
Passion and commitment to hard work, necessary.

Oil and Cotton Spring Break

Oil and Cotton spent Spring Break making beautiful artwork with our awesome students and generous teacher volunteers. Here is a bit of what we created in our Spring Break Art Camps. We are looking forward to our SUPER SUMMER CAMPS!

We painted a blue bonnet field, mixed paint to create color wheels, hand crafted leather bags and more. We are closed for the weekend, but look forward to seeing you in our weekly classes. Have a wonderful St. Patrick's Day and Spring Break!

Spring Break Camps at Oil and Cotton

Sign up now for our SPECTACULAR SPRING BREAK CAMPS! Camps are the week of March 12th through March 16th!!!

Oil and Cotton Summer Camps

For descriptions of camps and weekly classes, a calender and to register visit  

www.oilandcotton.com

Register Now for Spring 2012 Weekly Art Classes for Kids

Register Now for Spring 2012 Weekly Classes

13-week session runs February 19-May 25, with no classes held March 12-16.* 

*Enrolled weekly art students may take Spring Break Art Camps that week at 25% off

Art Classes are on sale for 25% off only until Sunday, Feb. 12:

New! Weekly Art Class for Ages 2-3

Get into the art studio through songs, stories, and handwork. Parents stay and participate as kids learn how to handle materials, take care of art tools, create original works and get messy in our studio! Monday 10:30 or Friday 10:30

Weekly Art Class for Ages 4-6
Explore a variety of art-making materials and concepts, while learning about artists from history. This spring we will wrap up our study of process in modern art as we learn about VALUE and draw with "Action" Jackson Pollock, paint with Joan Mitchell, and create combines with Texan Robert Rauschenberg. Then we will Get Real!, learning about LINE with John Singer Sargent and SHAPE with Paul Cezanne.

Tuesday 3:30, 4:30, Wednesday 4:30, Thursday 10:30, 3:30, 4:30, or 5:30

Weekly Art Class for Ages 7-15

While developing their technical skills, students experience working in the styles of artists and art movements from ancient history to present day and keep a sketchbook for original ideas and observational drawings. This spring, we will begin with a review of the art elements as we paint original seascapes inspired by Courbet. We will get to know British artist David Hockney and how he uses the principles of design as we draw, paint, sculpt and collage. Then students will create a series of original sculptures to focus on balance. Monday 4:30, Tuesday 4:30 (age 7-9), 5:30, Wednesday 3:30, 4:30, 5:30 (age 10-15), Thursday 4:30, 5:30 (age 10-15) 

Weekly Art Class for High School Teens
High school students learn drawing skills, work on portfolios, and develop a personal series of artworks in different media. Volunteer exchange available. Wed 6:30-8pm

Summer Camps 2012 will be outstandingly unique. In addition to our Around the World with Art Camps for ages 4+, we are collaborating with area non-profits and neighborhood creatives to bring you camps for kids and teens in music, yoga, theater, installation art, fibers, and more!
 

Summer Camp 2012 registration opens February 13.

 Register for classes online at 
www.oilandcotton.com 

Summer Camps Continue at Oil and Cotton

This week our campers have traveled way out west! Above are longhorn sculptures in progress. Visit our website to register for up coming camps! Read a lovely commentary on our camps in FrontRow.

Dawing Art Camp at Oil and Cotton

We had a great group of students join us for our drawing camp this week. Students learned two different approaches, working from life and from a photograph. Focus was placed on seeing value and volume.

Watercolor Camp at Oil and Cotton

This week was full of amazing one day art camps for kids. Wednesday was dedicated to the the art of WATERCOLOR. Students learned techniques such as applying a flat wash of color, a graded wash, wet on wet, charging colors into other colors, and more.

Summer Camps are Here!

• Short & Sweet One-Day Art Camps for ages 3-5, 4-6, 7-12 & Teens    
• Studio Fun Five-Day Art Camps for ages 4-6, 7-12 & Teens  
• Specialty Camps for ages 6 & up in Songwriting, Yoga & more!   

Camps available morning &/or afternoon all summer long. Full-Day (9-4) campers can lunch with us. Supplies included.  

Siblings receive 10% discount (use code SIBLING when checking out online). 

Click Here for Summer Camp Schedule and Registration!!!

Spring Break Camp - Painting a Clover Field and Rainbow Dioramas

Our Spring Break Camp week was full of wonderful students, leaning and sharing. Look for our summer camps to be posted soon. Visit our website for updated information about workshops and classes.

Kayli taught students how to paint a landscape of clover fields. Students experimented with different types of brushes, brush strokes, blending, modeling and color mixing. Class ended with a group critique.

Our younger students made an Emerald City Diorama. The children used a variety of recycled materials like corks, yarns, and papers to construct and imaginary land of rainbows and glitter.

Dream Catchers and Quilt Blocks

Hula hoops were transformed into dream catchers. Students wrapped hoops with various papers and yarns. Knots were tied and webs were woven. After our afternoon break, we painted pine cones collected by friends and family. Feathers were attached to allow the good dreams to climb into our sleepy heads.

Kids enacting bad dreams warded off by their dream catchers...

Good dreams...

Students explored the tradition of quilt blocks and color value. Tumbling block and star collages were constructed with fabrics.

Charcoal rubbings were transferred to textured paper from their quilt block collages.

Spring Break Camp - Rainbows, Balloons, and Books

Today was day one of our spring break camps. Students painted, made hot air balloon sculptures and flag books. Here are just a few photographs from our color filled class.

Drawing the hot air balloons made earlier in class...

Flag books were made with wood boards donated by a local architect. The boards were decorated with Japanese paper tapes.

Hot air balloon sculptures made with paper and recycled cereal boxes.