Preschool / Pre-K Classes
Ages 3 through 5

We will be unfolding age appropriate levels of fine art concepts, and skills at every lesson in a fun and exciting way! Lines, Shapes, Colors & MORE!

Arts in Action VAP is excited to re-introduce our sequential art curriculum for ages 3 to 5, Introduction to Fun Fine Art Making. Each 60-minute process-oriented art class will introduce your little artist to Fine Art making skills through a variety of art materials in a light-hearted FUN way all while developing their fine motor acuity which fosters better art making abilities, and an understanding of Fine Art concepts.

Here's one example of the many lessons we will explore this semester.

Our wonderful BFA, and MFA degreed artist/ teaching staff, trained by AIAVAP's founder/director Angela Tripi-Weiss, will introduce art-making skills and concepts such as line and line quality, to shape and form by playing a drawing game called The Traveling Dot. We will ask students to draw their interpretation of lines such as happy hopping, sassy squiggling, and slow sliding lines. When done drawing a variety of wonderful wacky lines, students will be asked to have their line meet itself where it began to create shapes out of the lines. There's much more fun and learning that will take place while students process through this series of lessons that develops fine motor acuity in an engaging way AND connects them to the understanding of lines, shape, form, AND how artists draw to express their feelings.

We will encourage them to use their imaginations to tell their own visual story. Future lessons spiral off of prior lessons, and address fundamental art-making skills and concepts in order to develop, and empower, students' ability to tell their own VISUAL STORY with more accuracy. We will explore color theory with dry and wet media. All students must mix secondary, tertiary, and neutral colors using only the three primary colors. We will expose little artists to the works of master artists from past to present such as Juan Miro, Kieth Haring, Wassily Kandinsky, Dorothy Dehner, Buffie Johnson, Joan Oppenheimer and more.