The Artist Box 407 Commercial Street, Atchison, KS 66002
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Journey Workshops: 5 flowers, 4 stories, 3 Cheers for Animals Journey Workshops: Between Earth and Sky Welcome to the Flower Garden
This unique program provides troops with three different art options to select from: create a clay animal sculpture, build a birdhouse, or create an animal canvas painting. Regardless of the option you select, Girls are guaranteed to have fun, while letting their creativity soar. In this workshop, Girls will learn about different colors and explore how those colors affect mood, then they’ll have a chance to express their own mood by creating either an origami animal or making a flower from colored paper. Explore gardening techniques and your creativity. In this workshop Girls will learn the basics to gardening, while creating a unique piece of garden art - painted flowerpot or clay plant maker. Discover how art influences our lives. Girls will explore different cultures around the world and the art of those cultures. They’ll then complete an art project from one of the cultures they learned about – from painting henna patterns to batik fabric dying. Explore your own heritage and create a family tree! Using mixed media techniques, Girls will combine paint and photos to create their family tree. Prior to this workshop, Girls will want to research their family story and compile family articles and photos that they can use in their family tree collage. Just keep swimming! Learn about fish – from what they need to survive to ways to prevent pollution. Girls will have a chance to select from a variety of fish-related activities including turning a pinch pot fish into a vase or plant, sculpting a fish out of clay, or creating a fish out of a plastic bottle.
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A place where the artistically creative can explore new arts and those that want to be can learn to be artistic. The Artist Box is a great opportunity for Girls to explore their creativity in a group setting, accommodating up to 30 girls in the studio at one time. For more information visit www.theartistboxllc.com . To register your troops activity, call 913-367-1037 or email ronda@theartistboxllc.com .
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Come play in the clay! This two-part adventure to explores the art of pottery -- from hand building their own work of art or throwing pottery on the pottery wheel. In the first session, Girls will craft their masterpiece. In the second session, Girls will glaze their art and have their pieces refired. A pottery piece isn’t completed until it’s decorated. Explore the different techniques of ceramic painting and glazing. Girls will select from a variety of different ceramic pieces, including Girl Scout- themed pieces, and then put the techniques they learned into action. Looking for a more challenging art project? Glass fusing is a unique way for girls to express their creativity. Girls will learn how to cut-glass shapes and attach them to create their very own necklace pendants, ornament, or something completely unique to them. Design and create your own jewelry! Girls will learn the art of enameling and how to work with powered glass and high heat to create a necklace pendant or pair of earrings that is as unique as them.
A World of Girls
Pottery
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Paint or Glaze Ceramics
Brownie Quest
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WOW! Wonders of Water
Glass Fusing
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Copper Enameling
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