Elementary After School Classes
grades 1st - 5th

We support individual creativity while teaching structured lessons in skill and techniques.

How do we learn through and arts education?
At Mariah Art we explore different media, we learn the elements and principles of design, we learn skills and techniques, and are given experiences in global culture and art history. We plant the seeds of performing arts through music, theater and movement. and the experience acting in written play and creating our own plays and songs.

Media

DRAWING pencil, shading pencils, stumps, charcoal, contie, ink, oil pastels, chalk pastels
PAINTING WATERCOLOR PAINTING, ACRYLIC PAINTING
CERAMIC clay handbuilding & potter wheel, glazing techniques

Elements Of Art

LINE curvy, straight, corners, vertical, horizontal, diagonal radiating
SHAPE circles, spirals, squares, rectangles, triangles, and symbol
COLOR Primary & Secondary Colors, Tints. Shades, Limited Palette
TEXTURE Collage and Clay
VALUE Shading dark to light
FORM Sculpture & Relief Sculpture
MOVEMENT The illusion of movement

Art History And Global Cultures

September - December	U.S.A. Artists Past And Present	Pop, Realist, Landscape Hudson School, Cubism
January - March	Ancient and Indiginous Peoples	NW Native American, Anastazi, Egypt, China, Celtic, African
April - June	Renaissance	Impressionist, Abstract, Dada