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.

Make a Statement with Screen Printing

with Yeji Kim

Saturday, July 27, 2024, 10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.

Tuition: $125 per family

This workshop includes lunch at 1:00 p.m.

Collaborate on your own screen printed family T-shirt design! For decades, graphic T-shirts have been used to convey a wide array of statements, spanning from comical and heartfelt to political and satirical. We will explore how T-shirts have served as a medium for diverse commentaries, and then each family will formulate their own statement and design accompanying graphics. Every participant will then print their family’s design on their own shirt. White T-shirts of various sizes will be provided; bring your own other printable cloth or paper if you so desire.

Yeji Kim is a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist and graphic designer who collects negative spaces between narratives, lived experiences, texts, and images, and materializes them as paintings, books, sounds, animations, sculptures, and prose. She holds a BFA from The Cooper Union and has been recognized with various awards, including the Sarah Cooper Hewitt Fund Prize for Excellence in Art, The Center for Book Arts Scholarship, and the Leroy Neiman Fellowship at Ox-Bow School of Art. Her works have been exhibited in diverse spaces across NYC and beyond, such as Socrates Sculpture Park, Entrance NYC, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, and The Juilliard School. In her design practice, she has collaborated with a range of arts, advocacy, cultural, and educational institutions, including the National Audubon Society, Nonhuman Teachers, Museum Hue, Food Education Fund, and Pratt Institute. During her free time, Yeji co-organizes the East Village Zine Fair, volunteers as a designer and art director at 8-Ball Community, co-runs Misplaced Press, a small independent publisher, and enjoys baking killer sourdough.

Watercolor Painting for Families

with Kim Meyers Baas

Saturday, June 29, 2024, 10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.

Tuition: $125 per family

This workshop includes lunch at 1:00 p.m.

Ox-Bow’s campus provides hundreds of beautiful views for painting the landscape. Families will 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.

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.

Seek: Ox-Bow Treasure Hunt

with Kim Meyers Baas

Saturday, June 22, 2024, 10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.

Tuition: $125 per family

This workshop includes lunch at 1:00 p.m.

Prepare for an active day exploring Ox-Bow’s campus. This interactive hunt will have families collecting artifacts and documenting treasures while visiting the art studios and unique locations of Ox-Bow. Develop map-reading skills, use compasses, and discover how artists develop a deeper connection to the natural world around them.

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.

Papermaking Play

with Rowan Leek

Saturday, June 15, 2024, 10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.

Tuition: $125 per family

This workshop includes lunch at 1:00 p.m.

Join us for papermaking fun for the whole family. Learn to make your very own gorgeous paper, using different types of fiber, and leave with multiple sheets that can be air dried at home. We will explore various materials for papermaking including recycled paper, cotton, rag, and natural fibers. Family members will also paint together with brightly colored pulps to collaboratively form expressive and lively sheets of paper. After your paper is dry you can use it to craft, draw on it, or simply admire it as an artwork in its own right.

Rowan Leek is a multimedia artist who works in textiles and papermaking. He grew up in Memphis, TN and graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 2020 with a BFA in Sculpture + Expanded Media. His work has been exhibited at the Artists Archive of CWRU, Bostwick Design Art initiative, Zygote, Women's Studio Workshop, and The Future.

Process Art Painting

with Jamisen Paustian

Saturday, June 8, 2024, 10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.

Tuition: $125 per family

This workshop includes lunch at 1:00 p.m.

Experiment with mixed media as a fam! Work together to create a collaborative process-art painting on canvas. In process art, the finished product is evidence of the actions taken to make the artwork. Each family will start with a base layer of paint, and then use various idiosyncratic tools and materials like toy cars, fly swatters, stamps, and rolling pins to embellish their canvas. Each layer added will incorporate directions for a different art activity that parents and children can explore again in the future at home. Come dressed for mess.

Jamisen Paustian completed her Master's in Art Therapy and Counseling at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and works as a therapist in school settings. Born and raised in Madison, Wisconsin, she grew up playing outside, swimming in lakes, making snow forts, and creating lots and lots of art. Jamie has over fifteen years of experience working with younger people and has taught multidisciplinary art, music, and yoga classes for students of all ages. She is also a RYT-200 certified yoga instructor, and her preferred mediums are acrylic painting, watercolor, and collage.