Class #1759.   Age Level: 6-10.  Join some of Emerson Umbrella’s most talented and fun teachers for a week packed full of creative activities! Want to paint, draw, make something cool in wood or clay? There’s something for everybody in this exciting four-day program! For ages 6 through 10 — 9am to 3pm, Tuesday through Friday. Bring lunch from home; juice, snack and all-day fun will be provided! Tuition $250. Please register by January 26.

Class #1681.   Age Level: 8-12.  There is more to writing and illustrating a book than having a great idea—although that’s where we start. Join Sue and Ruth for a real authors’ and illustrators’ master workshop and complete a 15-page book with illustrations!

Class #1696.   Age Level: 8-12.  How frustrating to complete your best drawing and yet not be satisfied with the way your dragon turned out! In this class, we will work on drawing basics so that your cat, dog, elephant, airplane, skyscraper, army tank, etc., will look the way you want it to!

Class #1693.   Age Level: 8-12.  Create my very own comic book? We’ll explore “how-to,” starting with quick, basic drawing classes and the story you hope to illustrate. The evolution of your final book will involve lessons in figure drawing, color, composition and story lines.

Class #1699.   Age Level: 11-14.  From moss under a tree house to a three-sun sky, we will work to bring to life your own magical or sinister or whatever-kind-of-world you wish to create. We will work on basics such as composition, placement in foreground, middleground, or background, as well as creating illusions. The only requirements for this class: imagination and enthusiasm!

Class #1687.   Age Level: 8-10.  Learn the basics of line, form, color and composition. This class will focus on the appreciation of rich colors and textures from everyday life. Students learn to draw nature, human forms, objects, and perspective drawing. They will also focus on understanding of color in nature by capturing the richness through pencils, crayons and water colors.

Class #1684.   Age Level: 6-8.  Learn the basics of line, form, color and composition. This class will focus on the appreciation of rich colors and textures from everyday life. Students learn to draw nature, human forms, objects, and perspective drawing. They will also focus on understanding of color in nature by capturing the richness through pencils, crayons and water colors.

Class #1726.   Age Level: 5-7.  The introduction to clay: In this super-fun class, we’ll explore clay and make simple shapes using our imaginations, natural materials and wooden tools. Projects in small groups allow the children to work and create together, almost always producing incredible results.

Class #1723.   Age Level: 5-7.  The introduction to clay: In this super-fun class, we’ll explore clay and make simple shapes using our imaginations, natural materials and wooden tools. Projects in small groups allow the children to work and create together, almost always producing incredible results.

Class #1755.   Age Level: 6-9.  Introduce your child to a new experience with hands on activities combining art with science and invention! Innovative classes will combine found materials — wood, metal, and plastics — into child-designed gadgets and gizmos and thingamajigs.

Class #1750.   Age Level: 3-6.  Happily Ever Active is a literacy-based creative fitness program for young children. Children participate in a guided physical reenactment of a favorite storybook, followed by a variety of story-themed games. At the end of this class children respond to the story through their own illustrations and written dictation. Happily Ever Active is a joyful way for children to develop and exercise a love for literature, and promotes gross motor development, encourages cooperation, and introduces children to sports and the physical arts.

Class #1708.   Age Level: 7-10.  Sculpture is a way to take hold of the three-dimensional world. After exploring basic principles of sculpture—form, line, light and shadow, texture, contrast, gravity and balance—we will use a variety of natural and manufactured materials—wood, wire, paper, fabric, string, plastic—to make both representational and abstract art objects. No experience necessary.

Class #1705.   Age Level: 5-7.  “Look what we made!” — Discover the satisfaction of making sculpture together. We will explore the three-dimensional possibilities of natural and manufactured materials—wood, wire, paper, fabric, string, plastic. Basic principles of sculpture will be discovered through the creation of both representational and abstract sculptures that are beautiful and meaningful handmade art objects.

Class #1731.   Age Level: 8-10.  A small class where kids can learn to use the potters wheel. We will cover centering and basic throwing techniques as well as alternatives to traditional throwing methods. Parents are encouraged to register children for successive sessions to foster the development and practice of skills. Experienced beginners welcome. Class limited to 4 participants.

Class #1732.   Age Level: 8-10.  A small class where kids can learn to use the potters wheel. We will cover centering and basic throwing techniques as well as alternatives to traditional throwing methods. Parents are encouraged to register children for successive sessions to foster the development and practice of skills. Experienced beginners welcome. Class limited to 4 participants.

Class #1733.   Age Level: 8-10.  A small class where kids can learn to use the potters wheel. We will cover centering and basic throwing techniques as well as alternatives to traditional throwing methods. Parents are encouraged to register children for successive sessions to foster the development and practice of skills. Experienced beginners welcome. Class limited to 4 participants.

Class #1675.   Age Level: 5-7.  Come bring your imagination as we explore the world of mixed media art! We'll use a variety of materials such as clay, paper maché, paint, plaster, wire and drawing materials to make masks, puppets, picture books, mini-theaters and more.

Class #1678.   Age Level: 6-9.  Come bring your imagination as we explore the world of mixed media art! We'll use a variety of materials such as clay, paper maché, paint, plaster, wire and drawing materials to make masks, puppets, picture books, mini-theaters and more.

Class #1664.   Age Level: 20m-3yr.  Share with your child this wonderful experience of discovery as we explore drawing, painting, and collage. As you create together, our fun and stimulating art projects will foster your child’s creative spirit.

Class #1667.   Age Level: 20m-3yr.  Share with your child this wonderful experience of discovery as we explore drawing, painting, and collage. As you create together, our fun and stimulating art projects will foster your child’s creative spirit.

Class #1670.   Age Level: 20m-3yr.  Share with your child this wonderful experience of discovery as we explore drawing, painting, and collage. As you create together, our fun and stimulating art projects will foster your child’s creative spirit.

Class #1690.   Age Level: 8-12.  Whether you want to learn new drawing skills or refine the skills you have, this class is for you. We’ll explore shading, perspective, and positive/negative design, and you’ll learn how to draw a realistic still-life or self-portrait, or how to bring the world of your imagination to life.

Class #1673.   Age Level: 6-8.  Do you love to draw? Do you love to write? Join us on Early-Release Tuesdays to learn to do what you love even better under the guidance of professional artist-instructors who can show you how to make what you draw look exactly the way you want it to, and can help you tell your story exactly the way you want to — and to both write and illustrate your own stories if that’s what you want to do!

Class #1714.   Age Level: 6-9.  This extended class explores the depths and wonders of woodworking! Learn to use real tools like coping saws, cross-cutting saws, hammers, vices, etc. We’ll practice woodworking safety and proper tool handling at all times. Gaining confidence with hand tools, students will create fun sculptures and learn to plan and design functional objects (such as a hinged box, small shelf, tool box, bird house, etc.)

Class #1761.   Age Level: 6-10.  A stimulating series of explorations into the wide and wonderful world of arts from all over the world will help children develop creative/artistic abilities which will enhance adademic acheivement in all school subjects. We will emphasize the aesthetic appreciation of individual human uniqueness, cultural diversity other species, and the natural world.

Class #1760.   Age Level: 6-10.  Join some of Emerson Umbrella’s most talented and fun teachers for a week packed full of creative activities! Want to paint, draw, make something cool in wood or clay? There’s something for everybody in this exciting four-day program! For ages 6 through 10 — 9am to 3pm, Tuesday through Friday. Bring lunch from home; juice, snack and all-day fun will be provided! Tuition $250. Please register by March 23 for April session.

Class #1682.   Age Level: 8-12.  There is more to writing and illustrating a book than having a great idea—although that’s where we start. Join Sue and Ruth for a real authors’ and illustrators’ master workshop and complete a 15-page book with illustrations!

Class #1697.   Age Level: 8-12.  How frustrating to complete your best drawing and yet not be satisfied with the way your dragon turned out! In this class, we will work on drawing basics so that your cat, dog, elephant, airplane, skyscraper, army tank, etc., will look the way you want it to!

Class #1694.   Age Level: 8-12.  Create my very own comic book? We’ll explore “how-to,” starting with quick, basic drawing classes and the story you hope to illustrate. The evolution of your final book will involve lessons in figure drawing, color, composition and story lines.

Class #1766.   Age Level: 8-10.  A small class where kids can learn to use the potters wheel. We will cover centering and basic throwing techniques as well as alternatives to traditional throwing methods. Parents are encouraged to register children for successive sessions to foster the development and practice of skills. Experienced beginners welcome. Class limited to 4 participants.

Class #1700.   Age Level: 11-14.  From moss under a tree house to a three-sun sky, we will work to bring to life your own magical or sinister or whatever-kind-of-world you wish to create. We will work on basics such as composition, placement in foreground, middleground, or background, as well as creating illusions. The only requirements for this class: imagination and enthusiasm!

Class #1688.   Age Level: 8-10.  Learn the basics of line, form, color and composition. This class will focus on the appreciation of rich colors and textures from everyday life. Students learn to draw nature, human forms, objects, and perspective drawing. They will also focus on understanding of color in nature by capturing the richness through pencils, crayons and water colors.

Class #1685.   Age Level: 6-8.  Learn the basics of line, form, color and composition. This class will focus on the appreciation of rich colors and textures from everyday life. Students learn to draw nature, human forms, objects, and perspective drawing. They will also focus on understanding of color in nature by capturing the richness through pencils, crayons and water colors.

Class #1727.   Age Level: 5-7.  The introduction to clay: In this super-fun class, we’ll explore clay and make simple shapes using our imaginations, natural materials and wooden tools. Projects in small groups allow the children to work and create together, almost always producing incredible results.

Class #1730.   Age Level: 5-7.  The introduction to clay: In this super-fun class, we’ll explore clay and make simple shapes using our imaginations, natural materials and wooden tools. Projects in small groups allow the children to work and create together, almost always producing incredible results.

Class #1718.   Age Level: 6-9.  Introduce your child to a new experience with hands on activities combining art with science and invention! Innovative classes will combine found materials — wood, metal, and plastics — into child-designed gadgets and gizmos and thingamajigs.

Class #1751.   Age Level: 3-6.  Happily Ever Active is a literacy-based creative fitness program for young children. Children participate in a guided physical reenactment of a favorite storybook, followed by a variety of story-themed games. At the end of this class children respond to the story through their own illustrations and written dictation. Happily Ever Active is a joyful way for children to develop and exercise a love for literature, and promotes gross motor development, encourages cooperation, and introduces children to sports and the physical arts.

Class #1709.   Age Level: 7-10.  Sculpture is a way to take hold of the three-dimensional world. After exploring basic principles of sculpture—form, line, light and shadow, texture, contrast, gravity and balance—we will use a variety of natural and manufactured materials—wood, wire, paper, fabric, string, plastic—to make both representational and abstract art objects. No experience necessary.

Class #1706.   Age Level: 5-7.  “Look what we made!” — Discover the satisfaction of making sculpture together. We will explore the three-dimensional possibilities of natural and manufactured materials—wood, wire, paper, fabric, string, plastic. Basic principles of sculpture will be discovered through the creation of both representational and abstract sculptures that are beautiful and meaningful handmade art objects.

Class #1734.   Age Level: 8-10.  A small class where kids can learn to use the potters wheel. We will cover centering and basic throwing techniques as well as alternatives to traditional throwing methods. Parents are encouraged to register children for successive sessions to foster the development and practice of skills. Experienced beginners welcome. Class limited to 4 participants.

Class #1735.   Age Level: 8-10.  A small class where kids can learn to use the potters wheel. We will cover centering and basic throwing techniques as well as alternatives to traditional throwing methods. Parents are encouraged to register children for successive sessions to foster the development and practice of skills. Experienced beginners welcome. Class limited to 4 participants.

Class #1737.   Age Level: 8-10.  A small class where kids can learn to use the potters wheel. We will cover centering and basic throwing techniques as well as alternatives to traditional throwing methods. Parents are encouraged to register children for successive sessions to foster the development and practice of skills. Experienced beginners welcome. Class limited to 4 participants.

Class #1736.   Age Level: 8-10.  A small class where kids can learn to use the potters wheel. We will cover centering and basic throwing techniques as well as alternatives to traditional throwing methods. Parents are encouraged to register children for successive sessions to foster the development and practice of skills. Experienced beginners welcome. Class limited to 4 participants.

Class #1676.   Age Level: 5-7.  Come bring your imagination as we explore the world of mixed media art! We'll use a variety of materials such as clay, paper maché, paint, plaster, wire and drawing materials to make masks, puppets, picture books, mini-theaters and more.

Class #1679.   Age Level: 6-9.  Come bring your imagination as we explore the world of mixed media art! We'll use a variety of materials such as clay, paper maché, paint, plaster, wire and drawing materials to make masks, puppets, picture books, mini-theaters and more.

Class #1720.   Age Level: 2-5.  This class will give you and your child a space to explore working with clay with the help of fun activities designed to increase dexterity and creativity. You will work side-by-side with your child, so don't be afraid to get your hands dirty, too. We will focus on experimentation, but will fire pieces from each class. Worth it just for the delight in your child's face when she digs her hands into the clay! (*an adult must accompany a child to each class.)

Class #1665.   Age Level: 20m-3yr.  Share with your child this wonderful experience of discovery as we explore drawing, painting, and collage. As you create together, our fun and stimulating art projects will foster your child’s creative spirit.

Class #1671.   Age Level: 20m-3yr.  Share with your child this wonderful experience of discovery as we explore drawing, painting, and collage. As you create together, our fun and stimulating art projects will foster your child’s creative spirit.

Class #1691.   Age Level: 8-12.  Whether you want to learn new drawing skills or refine the skills you have, this class is for you. We’ll explore shading, perspective, and positive/negative design, and you’ll learn how to draw a realistic still-life or self-portrait, or how to bring the world of your imagination to life.

Class #1674.   Age Level: 6-8.  Do you love to draw? Do you love to write? Join us on Early-Release Tuesdays to learn to do what you love even better under the guidance of professional artist-instructors who can show you how to make what you draw look exactly the way you want it to, and can help you tell your story exactly the way you want to — and to both write and illustrate your own stories if that’s what you want to do!

Class #1715.   Age Level: 6-9.  This extended class explores the depths and wonders of woodworking! Learn to use real tools like coping saws, cross-cutting saws, hammers, vices, etc. We’ll practice woodworking safety and proper tool handling at all times. Gaining confidence with hand tools, students will create fun sculptures and learn to plan and design functional objects (such as a hinged box, small shelf, tool box, bird house, etc.)

Class #1764.   Age Level: 6-9.  This extended class explores the depths and wonders of woodworking! Learn to use real tools like coping saws, cross-cutting saws, hammers, vices, etc. We’ll practice woodworking safety and proper tool handling at all times. Gaining confidence with hand tools, students will create fun sculptures and learn to plan and design functional objects (such as a hinged box, small shelf, tool box, bird house, etc.)

Class #1683.   Age Level: 8-12.  There is more to writing and illustrating a book than having a great idea—although that’s where we start. Join Sue and Ruth for a real authors’ and illustrators’ master workshop and complete a 15-page book with illustrations!

Class #1698.   Age Level: 8-12.  How frustrating to complete your best drawing and yet not be satisfied with the way your dragon turned out! In this class, we will work on drawing basics so that your cat, dog, elephant, airplane, skyscraper, army tank, etc., will look the way you want it to!

Class #1695.   Age Level: 8-12.  Create my very own comic book? We’ll explore “how-to,” starting with quick, basic drawing classes and the story you hope to illustrate. The evolution of your final book will involve lessons in figure drawing, color, composition and story lines.

Class #1767.   Age Level: 8-10.  A small class where kids can learn to use the potters wheel. We will cover centering and basic throwing techniques as well as alternatives to traditional throwing methods. Parents are encouraged to register children for successive sessions to foster the development and practice of skills. Experienced beginners welcome. Class limited to 4 participants.

Class #1701.   Age Level: 11-14.  From moss under a tree house to a three-sun sky, we will work to bring to life your own magical or sinister or whatever-kind-of-world you wish to create. We will work on basics such as composition, placement in foreground, middleground, or background, as well as creating illusions. The only requirements for this class: imagination and enthusiasm!

Class #1689.   Age Level: 8-10.  Learn the basics of line, form, color and composition. This class will focus on the appreciation of rich colors and textures from everyday life. Students learn to draw nature, human forms, objects, and perspective drawing. They will also focus on understanding of color in nature by capturing the richness through pencils, crayons and water colors.

Class #1686.   Age Level: 6-8.  Learn the basics of line, form, color and composition. This class will focus on the appreciation of rich colors and textures from everyday life. Students learn to draw nature, human forms, objects, and perspective drawing. They will also focus on understanding of color in nature by capturing the richness through pencils, crayons and water colors.

Class #1728.   Age Level: 5-7.  The introduction to clay: In this super-fun class, we’ll explore clay and make simple shapes using our imaginations, natural materials and wooden tools. Projects in small groups allow the children to work and create together, almost always producing incredible results.

Class #1729.   Age Level: 5-7.  The introduction to clay: In this super-fun class, we’ll explore clay and make simple shapes using our imaginations, natural materials and wooden tools. Projects in small groups allow the children to work and create together, almost always producing incredible results.

Class #1725.   Age Level: 5-7.  The introduction to clay: In this super-fun class, we’ll explore clay and make simple shapes using our imaginations, natural materials and wooden tools. Projects in small groups allow the children to work and create together, almost always producing incredible results.

Class #1719.   Age Level: 6-9.  Introduce your child to a new experience with hands on activities combining art with science and invention! Innovative classes will combine found materials — wood, metal, and plastics — into child-designed gadgets and gizmos and thingamajigs.

Class #1752.   Age Level: 3-6.  Happily Ever Active is a literacy-based creative fitness program for young children. Children participate in a guided physical reenactment of a favorite storybook, followed by a variety of story-themed games. At the end of this class children respond to the story through their own illustrations and written dictation. Happily Ever Active is a joyful way for children to develop and exercise a love for literature, and promotes gross motor development, encourages cooperation, and introduces children to sports and the physical arts.