Girdwood Art Institute offers Fine Arts Camps

By Tommy O’Malley

TNews Contributor

Through careful financial management and with support from the Girdwood community, the Girdwood Fine Arts Camp has been able to offer Art Technique Classes through the fall and winter for school children through adults.

Arts Camp has been offering these art classes tuition free.

Ice Carving for Adults class participants with their artwork. (Courtesy photos)

The classes have included portrait drawing and painting; Finger painting for adults, Stained glass; and PLAYDOH, (not Plato) for adults; making ROBOTS using Artistic Intelligence; PLAYDOH and Hey Clay for children; and Ice sculpture for children and adults.

All together there have been nine classes offered with 148 students participating.

Coming up are Printmaking and Collage for school children and teens, Batik style Silk scarf making, Wire Jewelry, Encaustic landscape painting, Tye Dye and Watercolor painting with more to come.

Ice Carving for Teens class participants with their artwork.

The Arts Camp would like to thank our sponsors for making the Fall/Winter/Spring Series possible. They are the Girdwood Forest Fairies, Atwood Foundation and Alaska State Council on the Arts.

We also want to thank our community partners who graciously host our classes and workshops: Alpenglow, the Girdwood Brewery (no glitter!) and Raw Market.

Registration for the classes is through 4 Valleys Community Schools.

Students display their art from the PLAYDOH (not Plato) class.

PLAYDOH for Children class art.

A.I. ROBOTS (Artistic Intelligence) artwork.

PLAYDOH for Children class art.