Dripped watercolor paint creating pools of color
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Making Art Together

The Art Studio facilitates creative projects for all ages. Join us as we share materials, ideas, and reflections.

A young guest explores glue and its sticky qualities.
A group of HCC students and educators holding a 50th birthday cake and caterpillar head both made from cardboard and paper.
Painting Printmaking

Very Hungry Caterpillar Day Collaboration

Read about our collaboration with Holyoke Community College on VHC Day.
Drawings on black table covers including a queasy truck, tepid tree, elegant museum, and regal bug.
Bookmaking Drawing

Words and Images in the Art Studio

Read our reflections on past projects that played with words and images.
A white paper with blue and green bubble prints.
Painting Printmaking

Paper Marbling with Adults

Explore three different marbling techniques using materials found around the home.
Two tunnels books, one with a hungry caterpillar and the other with a newscaster announcing that the caterpillar is full.
Bookmaking Collage Drawing Sculpture

Special Sunday: Tunnel Books

Create your own 3-D books with paper, drawing tools, scissors, and boxes.
The paintings with a horse running across a field.
Drawing Painting

Susie's Special Sunday Project

Explore storyboarding with stencils, paint, and drawing tools.
A young child drawing a house and landscape on an angled table.
Drawing

Collaborative Drawing in the Galleries

Explore the collaborative drawing area inspired by Leo and Diane Dillon’s work.
Two young children printmaking with blue paint.
Collage Painting Printmaking

Collagraph Prints

Explore an artmaking technique that combines collage and printmaking.
A young child playing within a pile of colorful papers on the ground.
Collage Infants and Toddlers Theory and Resources

Exploring Project Cycles through Materials Play

Read about how we involve our guests in the creation, and deconstruction, of displays.
A clothesline with handmade paper clipped to each clothespin.
Nature Theory and Resources

Experiments in Papermaking

Read about our adult workshop where we made paper using a variety of techniques!
A colorful collage bordered by a black frame with colorful papers glued to it.
Collage Theory and Resources

Collage Collaborations

Read about the collage project we designed inspired by the Dillon’s artmaking collaborations.
Baskets of colorful papers with picture books behind them.
Sculpture

Ariana's Open Book Open Play: Constructing with Color

Explore light and color in this sculpture project.
Layered drawings in crayon and oil pastel, scratches reveal a colorful surprise!
Drawing

Oil Pastel Scratch Pads

Create your own color-revealing scratch pads using oil pastels and paper!