Watercolor Painting for Tweens and Teens

with Kim Meyers Baas

Saturday, August 10, 2024, 10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.

Tuition: $75

This workshop includes lunch at 1 p.m.

This workshop offers students ages 8-16 the opportunity to explore views of the lagoon, meadow, and woods while painting en plein air with watercolor. Experiment with techniques such as washes, color mixing, mark making, and creating textures inspired by the natural environment. This is a drop-off workshop for youth ages 8-16 only! Parents are welcome to drop off their young artists or to stay on campus during the course of the workshop. Adults are encouraged to consider taking Landscape Painting by James Brandess, which runs concurrently.

Kim Meyers Baas is an arts educator who has worked in public and private settings in Michigan, Chicago, and on the Mexican/Texas border cultivating youth artists and community workers since 1992. Her teaching and art making practice focuses on exploring family identity, inequality, migration, cultural recognition, art + technology literacy, and media representation in marginalized communities. Kim has worked as an artist educator with Kentwood Public Schools, Ox-Bow Summer School of Art, Calvin University, Kendall College of Art & Design, Chicago Public Schools, Valley AIDS Council, and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Kim holds a BA from Loyola University Chicago & MAAE from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Images courtesy of the artist.