March 2020
by Ashley Lodato Education Director, Methow Arts Alliance Third graders at Methow Valley Elementary School learned about the use of texture in art by creating engraved trees and soil. Scratch art is a type of direct engraving, which means cutting or incising an image into a surface. Scratchboards are a means of creating an… [Read More]
Summer 2020
Methow Arts has put together 10 fun, summer art activities that you can do with children ages 5-8 years. Each activity features a free downloadable PDF lesson to keep your child creative and outside during the summer months. Find more art activities from us at Methow Arts by CLICKING HERE. Summer Art Activity #1: Mud Paintings… [Read More]
Summer 2020
Methow Arts has put together 15 fun, summer art activities that you can do with children ages 5-8 years. Each activity features a free downloadable PDF lesson to keep your child creative and outside during the summer months. Click on the title to view or print off a PDF version of the lesson. Brought to you… [Read More]
Summer 2020
Methow Arts has put together 10 fun, summer art activities that you can do with children ages 5-8 years. Each activity features a free downloadable PDF lesson to keep your child creative and outside during the summer months. Click on the title to view or print off a PDF version of the lesson. Brought to you by Methow Arts Youth… [Read More]
Summer 2020
Methow Arts has put together 10 fun, summer art activities that you can do with children ages 5-8 years. Each activity features a free downloadable PDF lesson to keep your child creative and outside during the summer months. Click on the title to view or print off a PDF version of the lesson. Brought to you by Methow Arts Youth… [Read More]
February 2020
by Ashley Lodato, Education Director for Methow Arts What do you get when you mix a winter day, trailside art, a park that honors salmon and the Methow People, and an outdoor ice rink? You get 78 happy second graders, that’s what! A field trip to the Methow Valley for Okanogan School District second graders… [Read More]
February 2020
By Ashley Lodato, Arts Education Director – Methow Arts Alliance If you’ve ever read an essay inspired by a painting, or listened to a song prompted by a poem, or watched a dance influenced by a sculpture, then you’ve experienced ekphrasis. Ekphrasis is the practice of exploring a piece of art through the lens of a different medium, to… [Read More]
Spring 2020
by Ashley Lodato, Education Director for Methow Arts Although none of the members of the Liberty Bell Drama Company (LBDC) in the Methow Valley School District were alive during the heyday of the Swedish pop music supergroup ABBA, they’re as familiar with the band’s songs as any 1970s disco fan on the club circuit—and perhaps… [Read More]