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Homeschool Studio

​​Homeschool Studio is a quarterly, humanities-based art curriculum for upper elementary through high school students.

 

Each 6-week quarter pairs hands-on studio projects with art history, giving students a real look at how artistic movements shaped (and were shaped by) the world around them. Students complete each quarter with a Certificate of Completion and assessment.

This Year's Curriculum:

Industrial Revolution and the Origins of Modern Art

  • Quarter 1: c. 1850-1890

  • Quarter 2: c. 1880-1914

Dates and Time:​​

Thursdays, 1–2:30pm | Upper Elementary–High School

Quarter One:

  • Sept 10 — Romanticism: William Turner, The Fighting Temeraire and landscape's rise

  • Sept 17 — Realism: William Michael Harnett, The Old Violin and trompe l'oeil

  • Sept 24 — Impressionism: Berthe Morisot, On the Terrace, artists pastels en plein air

  • Oct 1 — Post-Impressionism: Vincent Van Gogh, Green Wheat Fields, Auvers, oil pastels

  • Oct 15 — Pointillism: Paul Signac, La Corne d'or Matin 1907, color theory and watercolor

  • Oct 22 — Art Nouveau: Louis Comfort Tiffany, stained glass, Trinity Church

Quarter Two:

  • Nov 5 — Fauvism: Andre Derain, Bateaux dans le Port de Collioure, gouache and watercolor

  • Nov 12 — Expressionism: Edvard Munch- The Scream

  • Nov 19 — Cubism: Georges Braque, The Round Table, mixed media collage

  • Dec 3 — Abstraction: Wassily Kandinsky, Intersecting Lines, colored pencil drawing

  • Dec 10 — Orphism: Robert and Sonia Delaunay

  • Dec 17 — DeStijl: Piet Mondrian

 

Pricing

  • $120 per quarter (six 1.5-hour classes, includes Certificate of Completion and assessment)

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The Staunton Augusta Art Center is supported in part by the Virginia Commission for the Arts, which receives support from the Virginia General Assembly. We are also supported by the City of Staunton, Virginia and the Community Foundation of the Central Blue Ridge.

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