Open Studio Painting at Bare Knuckle Arts offers the opportunity to learn about acrylics or watercolors and various techniques. Paint what you are most interested in. You will have hands-on studio time as well as short lectures to help you develop your hidden talents. Student grade acrylics or watercolors and canvas provided but you can bring your own paints or we can offer recommendations. 6:30-8:30pm Thursday's $20 per session or $120 for full 6 weeks. Sept. 20, 27th, Oct. 4th, No Class Oct. 11th, Oct. 18th, Oct, 25th
Three Great Classes for Kids this Fall-it's Time to Hustle that Art Muscle!
After-School Art Mondays for Elementary Children After-School Art meets on the following Mondays from 2:15pm-3:30pm. An excellent hands on class for your elementary aged child from 6- 11 years old. This session begins Sept. 17th Birds
Sewing Club for Kids Mondays 4-5:30pm Sewing Club is a hands-on club where students learn how to hand sew as well as sew simple things on a sewing machine. This is a continuing class for students who have learned the machine basics. We will sew a draw-string bag as well as a simple small quilt. Beginning experience on a machine is suggested. This is not a drop in class, you must pre-register or let us know you are attending by email. Begins Monday Sept. 17th
Tuesdays After-School Art Class is a new class at Bare Knuckle Arts for children 9-14 years old. Every session offers a different project ranging from drawing, painting to sculpture. This class is for the child that has a genuine love of making. The projects are a bit more advanced. It meets every Tuesday from 4-5:15pm
Tuesday Sept. 18
You Ask for It Often-Here is Your Chance. Silk Scarf Marbling Sunday Oct 21st
Silk Scarf Marbling-Saturday Sunday Oct. 21st 1-4pm
Luxurious fabric, silky smooth to the touch, marvelous ripples of color, join us and learn to marble paper and then create 3 silk scarves for yourself or gifts for someone you love. No experience necessary just a willingness to experiment.
Ages 8-Adult Welcome $65 per participant
After-School Art Begins September 17th with Birds Birds!!!
After-School Art meets on the following Mondays from 2:15pm-3:30pm. An excellent hands on class for your elementary aged child from 6- 11 years old.
Sept. 17th Birds
Sept.24th Ice cream Sundae drawings with pastels
Oct. 1st Ships in Bottles
Oct. 8th Picasso Faces
Oct. 15th Felted Soap and Felted Geodes
Oct. 22nd Hand Sewing Monsters
Oct. 29th Day of the Dead project
Nov. 5th Night and Day Painting
This is a very popular class, you can purchase the whole session or you can purchase a punch card to use on the classes you can attend. Always best to send an email to bareknucklearts@gmail.com to let us know if attending.
Wander the Back Roads of Wisconsin and You'll Start to Notice
What's a Barn Quilt? A larger piece of wood painted to look like a quilt block. Typically they are very large and usually are placed on the exterior of a barn, house, garage or shed. They were originally created to honor mothers, quilters, and the tradition of quilting in different heritages.
Painted on a smooth board-the barn quilt usually only highlights one quilt block. Wander the back roads of Wisconsin, take that country winding road and you will see one, two, and notice the amazing barn quilts thru the state.
A New Class on Tuesdays this September for the 9-14 Year Old in Your Home!
Tuesdays After-School Art Class is a new class at Bare Knuckle Arts for children 9-14 years old.
Tuesday Sept. 18 Drawing techniques and drawing volumes
Tuesday Sept.25 Drawing techniques and Scratchboard Art
Tuesday Oct 2nd Painting techniques and Painting on a Canvas
Last full week of summer classes and there are 2 spots left in Imaginarium Week!
Imaginarium Week for the Imaginative! Need a few more Creative Spirits to add to our Fun!
Paint a Barn Quilt, Don't have a barn...that's okay.
Paint a barn quilt is a one day workshop where we will paint a geometric barn quilt. If you don't have a barn that's okay. You can put it on your screen porch, garage or even right beside your front door.
What's a Barn Quilt? A larger piece of wood painted to look like a quilt block. Typically they are very large and usually are placed on the exterior of a barn, house, garage or shed. Barn Quilts began in the early 2000's in Ohio and now many states have Barn Quilt Trails you can follow, including Shawano County in Wisconsin. Our barn quilts will be the size of 20 inch by 20 inch. Most barn quilts are painted with simple geometric shapes, like squares, rectangles and triangles. They usually are painted in solid colors. The simplicity in shape and the vibrancy of solid colors make these blocks easily seen from afar AND it makes they easy to create, Painter's Tape Baby!! No Experience is necessary for this workshop. All materials provided-you just need to get it home in your car. Saturday Sept. 29th 9am-2pm Bring or get some lunch. $65 per person
Do You Know Rube? I Wish I Knew Rube. Is Your Child a Rube? Come be a Rube Saturday July 14th, 1-4pm
Rube Goldberg, was an American cartoonist, sculptor, author, engineer but best of an inventor.
Saturday July 14th we are inventing Rube Goldberg machines. A simple machine designed to perform an easy task usually made in an over complicated way.
Rube Goldberg Inspired Inventing Family Weekend Workshop Sat. July 14th
$40.00
Calling All 5 to 7 Year Olds that Love to Paint and Draw!!!
Next Generation of Painters!
Summer camps are off to a great start at Bare Knuckle Arts. This week is the next generation of stellar painters. Check out some of their work here. From mastering watercolor techniques, to trying out acrylics on canvas, they have impressive with wonderful color palettes to boot. Next week is Art/Science Camp and building, building, building.
This Was Fun! Upcycling Medical Vial Caps into a Colorful Piece of Art at Bayview!
We had the opportunity to upcycle colorful medical vial caps from the UW Hospital Anesthesiology Department into a new mural at Bayview Community Center. The design was created by a middle school student and many teens at Bayview helped in the process. It adds a bold splash of color to a much used stairway at the center.
Summer Hummer
Ah Yes, here it is. Summer in Wisconsin it maybe has snuck up on you. If you are still looking for a great opportunity for your child or children, Bare Knuckle Arts still has openings in the following week long classes. Art/Science camp June 25-29th, Drawing & Painting for the Young July 9-13th, Family Fun Week-Building an Automaton(2 people for the price of 1) July 23-26, and Imaginarium Week for the truly imaginative child July 30-August 3rd.
Lapham Citizen Scientists
Lapham Citizen Scientists are hard at work this week. Learning about artists that study nature through observation and then creating what they see. Looking at shells, feathers, turtle shells as well as heading into the garden as the weather allows. Lapham Citizen Scientists is an on going project at Lapham Elementary that began Jan. 2018 with students in all grades. Students learned about the schools name sake Increase A. Lapham. They learned about how instrumental he was in mapping Wisconsin, identifying weather patterns, observing, writing, and drawing all the native flora, fauna, and wildlife of Wisconsin. Then based on Lapham's own journals and sketchbooks each student created their own paste paper book.
Summer is Almost Here-Check out some of the Classes At Bare Knuckle Arts.
STEAM Art/Science Camp is Monday June 25th -Friday June 29th 1-3pm everyday. Science, technology, engineering, art, math all rolled into one. Using straws, duct tape, glue, pipe cleaners, sticks, dowels, duct tape and more we will create a variety of things. Catapults, rubber band powered mini-boats, compasses for drawing large circles, and much more. Ages 7-11 $125 per participant
Drawing and Painting for the Young Artist A week long of just that: drawing and painting. We will draw with pencil, oil pastels, pen, and ink. Painting with tempera, watercolor, acrylic. All done on paper, canvas, canvas board. Great imaginations need apply!!! Ages 5-7 please come draw and paint with us. July 9th-13th Monday to Friday 1-3pm $125 per participant
Family Fun Week Making Automata July 23rd-26th
Family Fun Week is an opportunity for family members or friends to create side by side in the studio. It is two for the price of one which is an amazing deal. Summer 2018 we are offering Make your own Automaton Class. We will learn about gears and mechanisms. We will work with cranks, shafts, cams in wood and cardboard to create our own simple machine. 1-3pm daily from July 23rd-26th $150 for two people Ages 7-Adult Note: this is a 4 day class only
Imaginarium Week-Blibbering Humdingers Welcome
Imaginarium Week is designed for the very imaginative child. We will create our own made up board game with game pieces, cards, and directions. Unicorns, Mermaids, Panadroo, Blibbering Humdinger's all welcome this week as we make them into puppets. Moon Frog's and Phoenix's will be collaged into Salvador Dali type landscapes. Sure to be an energetic fun thinking adventure. Monday July 30th-Friday August 3rd 1-3pm every day Ages 6-10 years old $125 per participant
Ozobot Summer Camp
Ozobots are pocket sized robots. In this summer camp children will learn what an Ozobot is, they will learn how to code an Ozobot, they will learn about lines, create codes, mazes, costumes, and collaborate with others as they program their Ozobots. Every student will at the end of camp get to take home their very own Ozobot. Ages 6-12 $165 per participant but Ozobot and charger included August 6-10th 1-3pm every day
Carved Stamps and Exploring Henna
Our friend Sudha brought back these lovely hand carved stamps from India. India is a beautiful country that not many of us get to experience. It is brimming full of culture, many groups of people with many different beliefs. Come experience only one small part of India and explore the tradition of Henna on hands at Bare Knuckle Arts.
Exploring Henna Sunday June 24th 1-3pm Learn about the 5,000-year-old cultural practice of Henna tattooing! The art of applying henna to the hands and feet is known as Mehndi, and is traditionally used for celebrations and rites of passage. We will practice on paper, come up with a design and apply it with a Henna cone to our hands and arms. The design can last up to 6 weeks but will eventually disappear.
$25 per particpant 10 years to Adult Welcome
Reminder it's Spring Gallery night this Friday from 5-9pm!
Join us for Spring Gallery night sponsored by MMoCA. Bare Knuckle Arts is pleased to show the exquisitely crafted letterpress broadsides of Kerri Cushman. Spring it is and the weather should be perfect. Tonight's exhibit is all about type.
Refreshments served. 5-9pm Friday May 4th Kids welcome with an activity to make your own type broadside.
Have You Reached the End of the Slime Trend Yet?
Send the kids to STEAM/Art camp and learn how to make magnetic slime in our studio-not your kitchen.
STEAM Art/Science Camp is Monday June 25th -Friday June 29th 1-3pm everyday. Science, technology, engineering, art, math all rolled into one. Using straws, duct tape, glue, pipe cleaners, sticks, dowels, duct tape and more we will create a variety of things. Catapults, rubber band powered mini-boats, compasses for drawing large circles, and much more. Ages 7-11
$125 per participant
Type Hype and Why Letterpress Matters-Gallery Night May 4th 5-9pm
Perhaps it is partly a reaction to our ever evolving digital world but a few years back one might say that Letterpress printing was a dying craft. It has had a revival and validation in the art world. There is something so beautiful about taking old wood or metal type, methodically setting it, inking it, and printing it on a machine that was made before your Grandma was born.
Join us, Bare Knuckle Arts on May 4th MMoCA Spring Gallery night to celebrate the handmade paper and letterpress prints created by Professor Kerri Cushman. Cushman is an artist and educator at Longwood University in Virginia, who specializes in handmade paper, artist books, and printmaking.
Come check out the type hype with refreshments and an art activity for the kids from 5-9pm at Bare Knuckle Arts, 1949 Winnebago St. Madison WI