Make For Joy

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EMPOWERING CREATIVITY, PROVIDING ART EDUCATION Make For Joy Art Studio • www.makeforjoyart.com Stay in touch!

We provide enriching, meaningful creative experiences for children and teens through art education, incorporating a variety of professional art materials in each lesson, teaching relevant history and culture applicable to the art projects, and inspiring personal, unique art-making in a safe and welcoming environment. Watch for upcoming Make For Joy programs and events by following our social media accounts, Facebook and Instagram (), and by subscribing to the Make For Joy emailed newsletter through www.makeforjoyart.com/newsletter. Our website will be updated regularly with current and upcoming Make For Joy Art Classes & Camps. We look forward to seeing you in a future Art Class!

-Allison Palmer, Owner & Art Instructor

10/09/2026

We had a busy Thursday!!! 🎃 No Walla Walla public school for teacher conferences = a big morning Art Camp at the Studio for ages 7-12! “Pumpkins & Dots” featured TWO pumpkin projects: Learning about Georges Seurat (France, 1859-1891, just age 31), and Pointillism to create a realistic pumpkin painting using Q-tip dots only. And also making fun soft air-dry clay sculptures inspired by the eccentric queen of pumpkins AND dots, the late Yayoi Kusama (March 1929-August 2026, age 97). Students used a foil armature for their sculpture and enjoyed staining their clay with markers to result in their own unique color hues; then they decorated them with dot designs.

Afternoon Art Club was still MORE creativity: felting a bunch of acorns and optionally stringing them into a festive fall banner!

Fall registration is OPEN this week only, if you’re thinking of sign up, now’s the time! We’re starting our next after-school projects soon! Link in Bio! Art Clubs are always open. ☺️🍁

09/24/2026

We made Graffiti Names in ART CLUB today! 🌟 Join a Thursday Art Club, drop-ins (single day registrations) are welcome!! Fun and creative projects every week, in just an hour and ready to take home. 🎨 Link in Bio!

09/23/2026

Register Now to join Studio Art Drawing class, for ages 10-14! Link in Bio. Students are working on their Fragmented Animal Portraits using mixed 2D media: a different art material in each section or “fragment”! So far, there is pen hatching, graphite shading, Pointillism, chalk & oil pastels realism, colored pencil blending, illustration marker coloring, collage shapes, word art, and MORE!!! Truly a fantastic dive into drawing materials 101! • Tuesdays, 4:30-5:30pm, Ages 10-14 (10 weeks prorated) 🎨

09/22/2026

Dutch “Delftware” and Fall Still Life watercolor paintings are in progress in “Exploring Art” after-school classes! This first project of the session is teaching students about the intricate painting style on porcelain pottery and vessels of varying shape and size, all painted in BLUE, inspired by Chinese Ming vases: beautiful blues on white porcelain. Students are creating blue values with liquid watercolor in palettes to paint the details of their own designed Delftware vase/vessel. Next, they are working on drawing and watercoloring ‘still life’ fruits, gourds, and leaves to fill them with. 🍎🍁🍐 Stay tuned for the finished collages results! Swipe to view classic Caravaggio still life paintings from the 1600s (!), and a couple other inspirational paintings featuring blue-painted Delftware.

JOIN our art classes! Fall registration stays open for four more weeks, prorated! We’d love to have you join us, learning about history and so many art styles, and materials… fun creativity every week in every class. Ages 6-14. LINK IN BIO!

09/05/2026

Register Now for After School weekly Art Classes! “Studio Art Painting” class for ages 10-14 begins Sept. 21 on Mondays, 4:30-5:30 (12 weeks). Link in Bio! ✨🎨

07/15/2026

“Everybody wants to be a cat…” 🎵🐈‍⬛🎶 Squeegee cats from Friday Summer Art Camp, “Cats + Art” for campers ages 7-12! What fun we had, and what personality-filled felines!

07/10/2026

Italy’s BEST pizza!!!🍕 Needle Felted pizzas in “Passport to Italy” Art Camp this week! Campers used specialized needles to poke and tangle fibers of colored wool together, creating a layered pizza with all the best toppings. 🇮🇹 Then they cut out and designed a handmade pizza box! Buon Appetito!

06/23/2026

SUMMER ART CAMPS! ☀️ Register Now!

06/18/2026

PACIFIC NORTHWEST Art Camp! 🌲🏔️🌊 JOIN NEXT WEEK!!! June 22-25, 9:00am-12:00pm • Ages 7-12 • Explore & celebrate our beautiful corner of the world by making art projects inspired by scenic places from sea to summit, as well as native art, and some of the most influential artists who hail from the PNW, like current Oregon-based artist Erik Abel and BC-native painter Emily Carr (1871-1945).🌲 Register Now at the LINK IN BIO!

06/07/2026

Pete Cromer birds in paper art! 😎 , you’re our favorite!!!! Always a hit, so inspiring and such a FUN and visually stunning style you’ve created!! Our Art Club kids got really into it, and we love the resulting flock. 🦜🐦✂️

Still just thrilled that Pete Cromer merch can ship to the USA now!! 🤩

Address

129 E Alder Street, Suite 101
Walla Walla, WA
99362

Website

https://www.makeforjoyart.com/

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