Explorations in Art

Join us for a fun handbuilding ceramics class where we create jewelry organizers. We will use slab method. Skills & techniques will be taught. We will create these on Friday, July 3rd at 5:30pm-7:30ish. Cost includes clay, instruction, use of tools, & bisque firing. $36/student. Then on Friday, July 17th at 5:30pm we will glaze (paint) our jewelry organizers. If you need a different date for glazing, that is no problem. Glazing is an additional $36/student & covers the glaze firing also. You do not have to glaze your artwork if you choose not to but it will make it colorful, shiny, & more durable bc it goes up to full temperature in that firing. Please send a venmo for $36 to join the July 17th class with name & class to Explorations-in-art or PayPal to [email protected]. Located at 2163 Gause Blvd West in Slidell. We share space with Natural Healing Family Chiropractic. Our sign is on the window. Hope to see you there!

Pictures from our art reception at the end of our Summer Camp. Such a fun & productive 2026 Summer Camp 😊 🎨 🖌 ✏️ 💚 They did wonderfully on all their artworks!
We had other students drop-in throughout the camp but this was the main group from the whole camp. Such a wonderful group of tiny artists & my Art Family!!

Everything in the glaze firing came out great! If you see your artworks here & want to pick them up, I'll be at the studio today until 3pm, Thursday 3-4:30pm, & Saturday noon-2pm. Still have more wheel date artworks to fire if you don't see yours here. They will go in next. Thank you!

Last Friday we had a fun Mommy & Me class where we read "Night Night Dinosaur" by Roger Priddy & created dinosaur foot print fossil pendants for necklaces & little dinosaur sculptures out of clay. One will be kiln fired & they painted the other with acrylic paint & took it home. It was his first working with clay. They had fun creating & painting. Join us on Fridays from 9am-10am over the summer for this fun class.

Yesterday was our 7th day of Summer Camp. Today is the last day. We reviewed what we learned last week about Grecian story telling vessels from 900BC & then looked at the contemporary artist Cleon Peterson for inspiration for the exterior designs of these vessels. We got so busy that I forgot to take pics of the finished products. Then after lunch we created jello play dough from a recipe over a camp stove. The first batch we messed up but we learned from our mistake & the second 2 after thst worked great. They had a lot of fun creating these & measuring, mixing, & playing with them.