Design your own mini city and country landscapes using cardboard and other recycled materials. Boxes become buildings of all sizes and houses of different shapes. Collage or paint windows and roads, use homemade salt dough (in addition to found objects) to create indoor details like furniture and people. Imagine libraries, art museums, your bedroom, and more! What will you include in your city or country town?

Materials

• Cardboard

• Cardboard boxes (several needed, different sizes, but all shoe box sized or smaller)

• Scissors

• Glue (tacky glue or white glue)

• Tape (masking or duct)

• Paint (acrylic or tempera)

• Salt dough (you will be provided with recipe upon registration)

• Recycled objects (rolls, lids, corks, etc)

• Paper

• Drawing materials (markers, crayons)

• Optional: Lo temp hot glue gun

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Online Classes at IS183

Register for a class (or series) on our website, and we will email you a Zoom meeting link along with instructions. Simply use the link to join the online class at the designated time! Download the Zoom app on your smartphone or tablet, or use your laptop/desktop web browser. The web browser client will download automatically when you join your first Zoom meeting. (Have a look at this Zoom overview.)

You will join a live, interactive lesson presented in real-time by an IS183 Faculty Artist. Small class sizes will allow you to engage personally with the instructor and other students, just like in the studio! Faculty lessons will primarily be demonstration-based, but may have segments in which students are challenged to work on independent assignments. Each class and faculty approach will be unique! 

Thank you for continuing to make art and support IS183 Art School! We look forward to seeing you in the (virtual) studios! 

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