Welcome to a new year in the Creative Arts classroom

This semester, I am teaching Intro to Creative Arts and Grade 9 Creative Arts in term 2. Creative Arts classes focus on a variety of different activities with an emphasis on the elements of design and process based creation. We create in a variety of mediums including: watercolour and acrylic painting,stencil design and spray painting, printmaking, collage, paper mache, various clays including regular and polymer clay, and some multimedia work.

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