Art Classes for Children and Teens

For more information or to register call (908) 753-0190, or e-mail us. You may also download a registration form, to fill in and mail with your check.

Painting

Instructor: Monica Schraiber Otero

Winter Session: Wednesdays, 4:30 – 6 p.m.,
January 16 – March 19

Spring Session: Thursdays, 4:30 – 6 p.m.,
March 27 – June 5 (no class April 23)

Ages 6 – 12

Each session: $140 (WAC members $135) plus $15 for supplies

Students learn the fundamentals of painting using non-toxic acrylics on canvas boards. Create realistic and impressive still lives, landscapes or paint from your imagination.

Drawing

Instructor: Monica Schraiber Otero

Winter Session: Thursdays, 4:30 – 6 p.m.,
January 17 – March 20

Spring Session: Wednesdays, 4:30 – 6 p.m.,
March 26 – June 4 (no class April 24)

Ages 6 – 10

Each session: $140 (WAC members $135) plus $15 for supplies

Learn how to work with charcoal, watercolors, pastels and India ink. Explore basic techniques in drawing such as perspective, outlining, shading and color properties and have fun doing it! Draw portraits, favorite places, interesting arrangements as well as optical illusions and abstractions.

Drawing & Painting

Instructor: Monica Schraiber Otero

Tuesdays, 4:30 – 6 p.m., January 15 – March 18
and March 25 – June 3 (no class April 22)

Ages 11 – 15

Each session: $140 (WAC members $135) plus $15 for supplies

Continue exploring new techniques as you develop or improve your skills in sketching, shading, blind contour, perspective and the human figure. Use dry and wet media including pencil charcoal and pastels as well as acrylic on canvas.

Originally from Buenos Aires, Monica Schraiber Otero has a BA in Art from Rutgers University with a concentration in oil painting. She enjoys being able to communicate fluently in Spanish and English, and converses in French and Italian as well. She has taught Art in elementary and high schools for the last 15 years and is currently a tenured faculty member at Mother Seton Regional High School in Clark. Monica runs the Summer Art Camp at the Watchung Arts Center as part of the center’s art program. She is a member of Art Educators of NJ.

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Performing Arts Day Camp

“ACT” — the very descriptive acronym for All Children’s Theatre — will return to the WAC for its 13th Anniversary in August! The well-known and highly acclaimed Performing Arts Day Camps for boys and girls ages 6 to 17 “playingly” lives its motto “Where Every Child Is A Star.”

The camps give children an opportunity to put together theatrical productions from rehearsal and make-up to modest scenery painting and performing. The enthusiastic kids are given various facets of the theatrical experience. They learn about singing on stage, along with acting and dancing using music from a variety of Broadway musicals from the Rogers and Hammerstein classics to more contemporary shows such as “Grease” and others.

The program begins with Creative Dramatics Camp, August 4 – 15, followed by Broadway Kids Camp, August 18 – 29. Each session concludes with a performance in front of a live audience in the Upper Gallery.

For program details, reservations or to download a day camp registration form go to www.allchildrenstheatre.org, or call their office at (973) 335-5328.

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