Discipline: Arts Education
Free Online Paint Night
The Grand Theatre Center for the Arts presents a free Paint Night through Facebook live! Join the Arts Education Program featuring visual arts instructor Amanda Trask for a 1-hour painting you can do from the comfort of your own home! Participants can follow along in the video below to create their one-of-a-kind painting!
This Paint Night is family friendly and appropriate for school-age students as well as adults.
You will want the following supplies to complete this painting:
- canvas, canvas board, or canvas paper (we used a 14″ x 11″ canvas)
- one small paint brush
- one large paint brush
- one paper plate for mixing colors
- one plastic cup for water
- paper towels used to make the leaf texturing on the painting
- 6 colors of paint:
- White
- Black
- Yellow
- Red/Orange
- Dark Green
- Blue
Or you can opt to use any supplies you have available at home!
Please click on the video below to begin painting!
Free Online Art Classes
The Grand Theatre Center for the Arts, Arts Education Program presents free online art classes through Facebook Live! Join visual arts instructor and artist Amanda Trask for a virtual art class. Each week starting April 8th, Amanda taught a different topic centered-around drawing. Students at home can follow along using basic art supplies such as paper, pencil and colored pencil.
Check out the videos below to try one of these drawing classes!
Classes are family friendly and appropriate for school age students as well as adults.
The Arts Education Program is pleased to announce the addition of these Facebook Live art classes during this uncertain time. The Grand Theatre Center for the Arts is currently closed to the public until further notice in response to the current health concerns related to COVID-19.
April 8, 2020 Week 1: Fantasy Drawing: Unicorns & Dragons
April 15, 2020 Week 2: Anime/Manga Style Drawing
April 22, 2020 Week 3: Figure Drawing: Faces
April 29, 2020 Week 4: Figure Drawing: Hands & Feet
May 6, 2020 Week 5: Having Fun with Patterns!
May 13, 2020 Week 6: Cartoon Drawing: Animals
Thanks for drawing with us!
Young Rembrandts
Founded in 1988 by Bette Fetter, Young Rembrandts has become a recognized leader in art education. What began as one person, working with children in her home, has developed into an international franchise business with franchisees who teach drawing to thousands of students every week.
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Such A Voice
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Vince Walsh
Vince Walsh was born and raised in Oakland, California and resided in Tracy, California for over 30 years. Vince has been painting for over 35 years, mostly outdoors and in the studio. His style of painting is a blend of realism and impressionism with a preference to paint still life and landscapes in oil and acrylic. His goal is to express a realistic and painterly approach that allows the viewer to participate in the painting.
Vince was fortunate to have studied with Van Waldron, who encouraged him to develop his own style. He also studied with Delores DePharr and E John Robinson. Vince is a member of “The Valley Sun Catchers”, “Friday Painters” and “Da Group” a group of Plein Air Painters. He is also a member and past president of the Tracy art League. Vince has been offering introduction and intermediate painting classes with the Arts Education Program at the Grand since it opened in 2007.
Maria Valdovinos
Maria started dancing folklorico when she was 11 years old. At the age of 19 she decided it was time to start her own group. She started it with only 7 students and slowly it started growing. Currently she has over 50 students, and 3 student teachers with 6 different classes offered in Stockton and in Tracy. She is also a teacher for one of the largest Folklorico Dance Workshop known as Danzantes Unidos Festival that happens for one weekend, once a year; this year they had over 1500 students’ patriciate in the workshops. Aside from teaching Mexican Folklorico classes, she also works a full time job as the Registrar and soccer coach for a Charter School in Stockton CA. During her spare time she likes to spend time with her family, get involved with her church, play soccer, and travel.
For more information about Ballet Folklorico Raices Mexicanas de Maria Valdovinos, please visit www.bf-rm.org!
Amanda Trask
Amanda Trask is a local artist who has received her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree with a focus in Mixed Media and minor in Art History from California State University, Stanislaus. Amanda creates work using different media such as sculpture, painting, digital (computer), and film. Her work has been seen within various galleries in Stanislaus County and she is a published artist.
Amanda’s goal through her courses is to bring, not only the joy of creating art, but also the tools to allow individuals to learn about the medium, its uses, and how to create/expand on projects even after completing the course. Through her educational background and self-taught explorations with art, Amanda hopes that every person that comes through her class is able to gain a foundation for exploring the medium themselves and ways to bring out their creativity using various methods and techniques.
Amanda enjoys working with children and has taking several Child Development courses when she was pursuing her Associate Degree. She is also a mother to a teenage son who is on the autism spectrum and encourages anyone, regardless of their abilities, to take her courses! She would be more than happy to adapt the coursework towards the needs of any individual. The courses she will be instructing for children are designed to be fun, informative, and create a foundation to help students continue to discover art.
Amanda started teaching classes with the Arts Education Program at the Grand Theatre Center for the Arts in 2017. She has taught a variety of classes throughout the years including but not limited to ceramic, fused glass, drawing, painting, sensory art classes, and Paint Night events.
Valerie Pavlakis
Matt Farnsworth
Matt Farnsworth is a local Californian graphic artist whose style is strongly influenced by the great American comic book artists of old. In 2012 Matt’s first published work was released at the first Stockton Con. Matt did the pencils on the comic book “The Amazing Fist”.
Matt began teaching drawing and ceramic classes with the Arts Education Program in 2017. Matt can’t wait to teach you how to draw dynamic characters and the fundamentals of visual storytelling!
“For me, comics and art combined a love for the dramatic visuals and compelling stories. It’s really just modern mythology.” – Matt