Roxie Remley Center for Fine Arts

03/17/2023

Happy Saint Patrick's day from Art Adventures!🍀☘️💚

03/14/2023

Known for her painted portraits of subjects with big eyes, Margaret Keane leaves behind a legacy. Born in 1927 in Nashville, Tennessee, the artist practiced her craft throughout her life until her death in 2022. Throughout her career, Keane’s so-called “big eyed waifs” garnered attention of many, including Andy Warhol and Tim Burton. Today Art Adventures artists did an amazing job creating their very own self portrait in her style with "big eyes".
Art Adventures Rocks!

03/10/2023

We had a very special guest in Art Adventures today! Kenneth Hoopaugh ( a.k.a. Kenny) a wonderful artist and true survivalist, Kenny came in to show us his gear and talk about his experiences hiking the Appalachian trail. The kids absolutely loved his stories about running into a cub & mama bear once on his hikes, how he eats, sleeps, and other things in the forest. It was truly a delight having him visit us. Thank you Kenny! Art Adventures Rocks!!!

03/09/2023

Art in the Park! First we did hammered nature prints for background color. Then block printing inked leaves for a finishing touche! Art Adventures Rocks!

03/06/2023

Genius of the High Renaissance and probably the first celebrity of art history, Michelangelo has fascinated people for centuries. Today he would have been 539 years old! We celebrated his legacy by drawing our own "Creation" from the Sistine chapel. We had so much fun drawing on our backs!! Art Adventures Rocks!

02/23/2023

Today we had so much fun creating environments with dog and cat pictures! The class was definitely split on who is a dog person verses a cat person!! 😹🐶 Art Adventures Rocks!

02/22/2023

Today we took our art to the park! We are appreciating this wonderful weather! We made clay wildflower seed bombs, while enjoying the nice breeze and sunshine! Art Adventures Rocks!

02/16/2023

02/10/2023

😂 Fun times in Art Adventures today! Have a safe and great winter break!

02/08/2023

🤫 It's a surprise! Art Adventures artists personalized chocolate heart boxes for our moms for Valentine's day! We had such a funtastic time bedazzling these. Art Adventures Rocks!

02/01/2023

Art Adventure artists had a wonderful time painting a tree of Life of their own using gold and silver paint! The Tree of Life, is a painting by the Austrian symbolist painter Gustav Klimt. It was completed in 1909 and is based on the Art Nouveau style in a symbolic painting genre. The dimensions of the painting are 195 by 102 centimetres, and it is housed at the Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria.
Art Adventures Rocks!🎨

01/29/2023

We had such a great time with visiting artist Maddie. We made paper beads out of origami paper. 🥰

01/20/2023

Today we learned new techniques in watercolor painting! We made a multimedia Geode painting with oil pastel, pencil, sharpie, watercolor, and salt!! This was such a fun project and the kids thoroughly enjoyed it!
Art Adventures Rocks!

01/14/2023

ALTERED BOOK/ART JOURNALING WORKSHOP Join me Saturday morning January 21 10:00-12:00 and/or Monday evening January 23rd 6:00-8:00 to give an old book a new life. Cut paste, glue, draw, color, paint, and stitch on the pages of your visual journal. Enjoy the fun of creating colorful images and prose in a bound notebook, or sketchbook. Bring an old, discarded book with images and/or a sketchbook for art journaling. Bring your choice of materials such as crayons, colored pencils, paint, markers, hobby knives, scissors, glue sticks, colored papers, magazines, photographs, yarn, etc. Also, bring favorite prose, poems and quotes that you may wish to include.
This is a learn as you go workshop for anyone who is interested in creating something new from something old. We will use the featured book along with other resources for reference.
No artistic experience is necessary. Register by calling the

01/10/2023

Today in Art Adventure we had a special guest artist, Ms. Madeline Shelor. We split the group and today she is working with our older Art Adventure kids making macrame bracelets. It was a fun challenge for us and we loved it! Art Adventure Rocks!

12/15/2022

Today Art Adventures had a wonderful time decorating wood Christmas trees donated by Borowood in the park. Thank you so much!!!🎄 https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRV9bP9Q/

12/14/2022

Christmas pajama party in Art Adventure! We made hot cocoa, gingerbread houses and had popcorn & a movie! Art Adventure Rocks! Have a safe and funtastic holiday break!🎄

11/17/2022

Today we continued our lesson about Georgia O'Keefe. We explored her skull paintings, while drawing a still life of real cow & deer skulls with vine charcoal. Art Adventures Rocks!!🎨

11/16/2022

Today was day 1 of our two day lesson on Georgia O'Keeffe! She was an American modernist artist. She was known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes. O'Keeffe has been called the "Mother of American modernism". Today we challenged our Art Adventure artists to create their own flower using tissue paper and modge podge to create valleys and textures to make a three-dimensional painting! Art Adventures Rocks!!🎨🌺🌸💮

11/15/2022

Today we explored René Magritte. He was a Belgian surrealist artist, who became well known for creating a number of witty and thought-provoking images. Often depicting ordinary objects in an unusual context, his work is known for challenging observers' preconditioned perceptions of reality. We challenged Art Adventures artists to come up with their own imagine in place of Magritte's green apple 🍏. Art Adventures Rocks!🎨

11/14/2022

Today we celebrate Claude Monet birthday!! He was a French painter and founder of impressionist painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it. Most well-known today for his series of serene water lilies paintings, 19th-century Impressionist Claude Monet was a groundbreaking tour de force in the development of expressive art. Throughout his long life, which spanned the years between 1840 and 1926. Art Adventures Rocks!!!🎨

11/11/2022

Fun Friday: Culinary Arts Day! Making delicious frosted Teepees! Art Adventures Rocks!

11/10/2022

Georgia O'Keeffe inspired poppies, Happy Veterans Day cards that we made to send to our veterans at the Dexter Allen American Legion tomorrow.. ❤️🏵️

11/08/2022

Beautiful fall day to have Art in the Park! What day is it? Taco Tuesday!! 🌮 So we made clay tacos, played soccer ⚽ and played in the leaves🍂🍁 Art Adventures Rocks! 🎨

10/26/2022

Today we had a spooky fun time making reverse tie dye! Art Adventures Rocks!

10/24/2022

It's almost that time of year! Our All-Fired up winter exhibition and art sale is coming soon! Applications for artists to participate are up on our website, or you can reach out to our wonderful instructors at the Roxie Remley Center for Fine Arts for more information.❄️🛍

10/24/2022

It's almost that time of year! Our All-Fired up winter exhibition and art sale is coming soon! Applications for artists to participate are up on our website, or you can reach out to our wonderful instructors at the Roxie Remley Center for Fine Arts for more information.❄️🛍

10/13/2022

WHAT IS THE DAY OF THE DEAD…
The Day of the Dead is a Mexican holiday celebrated over the course a of a few days in late October through early November. Although Dia de los Mu***os and Halloween take place at the same time they are very different holidays with different origins and intentions.

The Day of the Dead is a time to celebrate loved ones who have passed by creating ofrendas, or altars, to commemorate those loved ones. It is a time of celebration and family. We painted asymmetrical sugar skulls and decorated them using oil pastels. Art Adventures Rocks!

10/12/2022

Today we explored Yayoi Kusama!! She is a Japanese contemporary artist who works primarily in sculpture and installation, but is also active in painting, performance, video art, fashion, poetry, fiction, and other arts. Famous for her Dots, we learned about her childhood and her fascination for them. She is also famous for her pumpkin paintings and sculptures. Art Adventure's Rocks!

09/26/2022

Today in Art Adventures we made soft sculpture donuts!! Our kids had an awesome, fabulous, crazy time creating a realistic paper mache donut of different sizes in the style of Nelson De La Nuez! Nelson De La Nuez is one of the most sought-after contemporary Pop artists practicing today!! Art Adventures Rocks!🍩

09/23/2022

What does Art Adventures do when Mr. Tony donates us a big box of apples?? Well we have Fun Friday!! Culinary Arts and we make candy/ Carmel apples!!!! Art Adventures Rocks!🍎

09/16/2022

Today for Fun Friday we had Culinary Arts! We made yummy ice cream sandwiches! These kiddos really enjoyed themselves. Art Adventures Rocks!

09/13/2022

Today we had an amazing time learning the technique of pour painting, using fall colors!!!
Art Adventures Rocks!!

09/12/2022

New pieces in progress... We're falling in love with these seasonal selections from the Roxie Remley Center for Fine Arts . So, sneak a peek at them before they're glazed and gone! Art work curtesy of the talented artists in our many ceramic classes and studio artists.

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09/07/2022

Born on this day September 7, 1917. Today we learned about Jacob Armstead Lawrence, he was an American painter known for his portrayal of African-American historical subjects and contemporary life. Lawrence referred to his style as "dynamic cubism", although by his own account the primary influence was not so much French art as the shapes and colors of Harlem.
Art Adventures Rocks!🎨

09/01/2022

Axolotls were named after Xolotl, the Aztec god of fire and lightning, who could take on the form of a salamander. Xolotl was also associated with dogs, and “atl” is the ancient Aztec word for “water”—so “axolotl” is sometimes translated as “water dog.”
The axolotl, Ambystoma mexicanum, is a paedomorphic salamander closely related to the tiger salamander. Axolotls are unusual among amphibians in that they reach adulthood without undergoing metamorphosis. Instead of taking to the land, adults remain aquatic and gilled.

08/31/2022

Today was so much fun! It was end of the month we had our art buck store. If the kids are well behaved and on task they get opportunities to earn art bucks throughout the month, at the end of the month I set up a store for them. Not only were they able to spend their art cash, they were also visited by Bowie & Iggy! My little shih Tzu and Yorkshire terrier and had a Love fest! Art Adventures Rocks!

08/24/2022

One of the million reasons why I love working with kids! Through out the afternoon today they secretly made me this card and had everyone sign it without me noticing. Art Adventures Kids rock!!!🥰

08/23/2022

Monday was glaze day and we love how Ressie Fuller joined in and helped her beautiful granddaughter glaze her piece. 🥰 Art Adventures Rocks! 🎨

08/23/2022

Today Art Adventures artists started on a collaborative mural art project. Thank you Shari Barr for donating these large canvas panels to Art Adventures!! Art Adventures Rocks!🎨