Studio Art Classes
Studio Art Offerings
Creativity abounds and age knows no limits. I offer After School Sessions, Adult Classes, Saturday Workshops and Summer Sessions.
Each class is a new opportunity to use an unknown medium, try a new style or create your own. If I can use it, so can you, I will show you. My mission is to show you how it all works, yours is to be as creative as possible. Whether through guided lessons, I like to play Simon Says with the littles, or as a project completely designed by you and I just drop little bits of knowledge to guide you along, we work together to achieve a quality piece of art to be proud of.
Current Studio Schedule
AFTER SCHOOL ART CLASSES-
All classes are 90 minutes
Rolling Sessions are 6 weeks $175
All supplies are included and missed classes can be made up
Session 2 has started! Classes will end for holiday break and restart after the new year
MON - 4th - 6th grade 3-4:30
TUES - 1st - 3rd grade 4:30-6
WEDS - 6th - 8th grade 4:30-6
THURS - currently open to suggestions!
MORE weekly class times being added
SATURDAY - Kids and Adults
MINDFUL ART WORKSHOPS
Kids Workshops 10a-Noon 2 hours of creative fun to encourage the imagination
Adult Workshops 1-3p Multi Hour guided projects. Specializing in a new technique or medium
I am looking to incorporate a parent child workshop also! Suggestions are welcome
Autumn & Winter Happenings
10/31 Collinsville Halloween Parade
11/7 Mini Watercolors Autumn Landscapes
11/14 Acrylic on Canvas Autumn Landscapes
11/21 Art 101 Learning the Basics
11/28 Winter is coming! Come learn to Paper Quill Snowflakes
12/4 & 5 Christmas in Collinsville, Charity Craft Fair & Champagne Walk. I WILL BE BACK selling my Hand Painted Mini Canvas Ornaments as well as other art at the fair for the first time in over 5 years! Please come by and say hello!
No Experience Necessary
Just a love of creativity is all you need.
I am here to...
Encourage the imagination
Encourage critical thinking
Encourage taking a chance
Encourage the what if's
Encourage the challenge of trying something new
More from River City Art
ADULT ART
Are you feeling a creative pull? An urge to embroider but don't know where to start? Want to paint, but have never even tried? You just want to color. Maybe learn to draw your own.
I invite you to try River City Art
ADULT ART Classes and Workshops!
Were you artsy in school, but now you're an adult with a job or family life and "no time"? Well versed with a brush or a pen but just don't have the set up or space at home, but given a studio full of possibilities, you are in your element? Or are you a complete novice but you have this desire to learn and try? Whether it's a coloring page from a book or you create your own, or you want to paint but it makes you nervous to start? We can design and draw your own or there is always a paint by number if you need it. Creativity doesn't care how you get there.
WELCOME to RIVER CITY!
ALL supplies included
Saturday Kid Workshops
Kids have busier schedules than most adults I know... sometimes a little creative meditation is just what they need to reset after a busy week.
Saturday Workshops are a theme based art experience, where I have a subject all planned out but we still get to use our own imaginations and play with ideas.
Commissioned Art
What's on your walls?
Looking for a new view? A new year is always the best time for new art. Well, any time is always the best time for new art... Visit my commission gallery in the portfolio section to see my past works and let me know if I can help create something for your walls, or barn if that's your thing. New business? I can help create a one of a kind logo. Whatever your creative needs are, I can help with that.
Workshops
Welcome to River City Art's Mindful Art Workshops and Art 101 Series,
designed to encourage you to put your screen down and give yourself a little creative time
Offering a new project Saturdays with workshops for Kids and Adults
Helping you create an original, one of a kind, piece of art and acquire a new skill to last a lifetime
To register, just text Kate at 860-284-8664 as space is limited
STUDIO WORKSHOPS
Check out the Autumn and Winter Happenings to see if there's a fun art opportunity for you!
KIDS WORKSHOPS
Saturday workshops are available every weekend! I am also looking to start some Parent Child Workshops. What projects are you looking for? What would be fun for you and yours to make together?
Kate
This is where you want to learn about me, so here it goes..
I am an artist, teaching artist, gardener, retired local chef, community music and art festival organizer with a love for flowers, trees and old things that have a story.
A creative for as long as I can remember. I have a desire to continuously learn new things, testing the waters of curiosity. I have never had a singular focus to my work. I like the process of discovery and the challenge it brings in uncovering new ways to bring a vision to life. I have an extensive portfolio of paintings in acrylics, oils and watercolors, pen drawings, wood carving and more. Realism that fills a wall to abstract the size of a stamp. I create through curiosity, finding being creative is so very important to daily life. Critical thinking, problem solving, decision making. Trying something new. It’s so very important to fail and try again, practice to learn. There is always a problem to solve. Life = Artistic process.
There are collectors, a commercial client list, a Silver Award and an Excellence Award from the Ct Art Directors Club, a Collinsville Community that I appreciate and adore having been a part of for 26 years, and a bunch of kids that I have had the honor to teach since 2008. I am here for the art. The process, trials, problems and solutions. I “influence” by teaching, not making ridiculous content. I have taught 100’s of kids over the past 16+ years to be their best artistic selves. Exploring their imaginations, learning the mindful process of creativity while finding an outlet or a little zen time.
My Studio, River City Art is a fine art studio that encourages you to play. Learn your mediums and how they work, don’t work, work with others and so on. Encouraged to find your very own imagination and style by exploring how others worked, what you like and what you might accidentally discover! Kids as young as 5 to adults as old as they’ll admit to have all got a stool at the table. Sharing the process.
How It Works
Register
Classes are small, no more than 6. I ask that you contact me either by text or email so we can get you in the right group. I am also adding new times if needed and working on the NEW SATURDAY offerings for kids and Adults!!
Attend
Classes are held in a vibrant, creative space where even our dog friends like to come for a visit
Create
Watch as your child transforms blank canvases, lumps of clay, or strips of paper into amazing works of art.
Student Gallery
Contact Me
Feel free to reach out for any inquiries or class registration.
I like to keep it personal, it's just me and a post it note