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Art Explorium provides a community art studio to nurture the creative potential in children. - Art Explorium provides a fun, safe place where children of all ages have the opportunity and the permission to create freely.

Upcoming Community Events/News

Will You Support Keiki Art Programs?

Did you know that Art Explorium is a non-profit organization, and that we rely on individuals like you to maintain our affordable art programs? And Foodland's Give Aloha Program is a wonderful way to support our efforts. From September 1-30, donations to Art Explorium will be accepted at all Foodland, Sack N Save, and Foodland Farms stores statewide. The best part is that a portion of your donation will be matched! You can use your Maika`i card to make a donation up to $249. Our organization number is 78706 (but you don't need to memorize that).

Kaimuki Third Friday in October

Art Explorium is partnering with some other awesome businesses in our Kaimuki neighborhood to plan a fun and extra SPOOK-Tacular Kaimuki Third Friday on October 16! All throughout Kaimuki you will find food specials, shopping, yoga, jewelry-making, anti-bullying activities for kids, a pop-up book/media sale, and more! At Art Explorium we will doing Halloween-themed art activities, including making animal masks with our amazing friends from ME+U! Art Explorium is the perfect place to make your own Halloween decorations and costumes. So stop by Kaimuki on Friday, October 16 in the evening, and keep an eye on our Spooktacular Event Page (link above) so you can see which businesses are participating.

Featured Workshops

We have some really unique workshops in October, so if you are looking for art enrichment opportunities for your child, please take a look:

After School Art: On Thursdays from 4:00 - 5:30 pm we offer After School Art Classes in our upstairs studio. Each week in October we will Discover the Impressionist Painters, including Monet, Cezanne, Renoir, and Gaugain. Classes are $15 each but you get a $10 discount if you sign up for the whole month. Ages 7 & up.
Foam Sculpture Dioramas: Kids LOVE sculpting with Model Magic, and they LOVE making dioramas! This is a great introductory class that gives children creative range to use their imaginations and explore their passions through sculpture. Sunday, October 4, 2:30 - 4:00 pm, $15, ages 5 & up.
Ceramic Animal Wall Hangings: *This workshop was added for Fall Break* Join us for a delightful morning class where students get to sculpt and color an animal of their choice out of clay! Wednesday, October 7, 9:30 - 11:00 am, $25, ages 5 & up.
Hanging Orchids: *This workshop just added today!* Learn the beautiful art of mounting live orchids onto driftwood or fallen tree branches. Sunday, October 11, 2:30 - 4:00 pm, $25, ages 5 & up.
Printmaking: This is a great introductory class for students to learn the basics of the amazing art of printmaking. Sunday, October 18, 2:30 - 4:00 pm, $15, ages 5 & up.

If you have younger children you might also want to check out our Little Artists Workshops for keiki ages 2-5. They are taught by the amazing Ms. Harmony every Tuesday morning from 9:30 - 10:30 am. $15, pre-registration required.

so register online via our web site.

October Sewing Scoops

Art Explorium is so fortunate to have ME+U here on Wednesdays and Fridays teaching sewing in our upstairs studio. Here is the latest info on our sewing program:

For the Older Teens, Parents, Aunties & Uncles!

Have you been hoping to learn how to sew too? ME+U Sewing at Art Explorium is for the whole family! On October 2nd + 9th, we're offering a 2-part beginner series for older teens and adults that covers all the basics of how to use a simple, computerized sewing machine. We'll learn how to use a rotary cutter + ironing tools as well, while we create 3-4 fantastic projects over these 2 classes. Once you have our foundation of skills under your belt, you'll be confident and ready to tackle more. Please join us for this quarterly class while there are spaces left!

And Kids, we still have sewing classes open in October, including an extra series just for Fall Break. We also have an awesome lineup of October Lessons for our Kids DIY Series Part 2 graduates. These projects include adorable Reusable Lunch Bags, comfy Log Pillows, Ice Cream Plushies, Shark Bags & Dino Tails (see the calendar at the link below). You won't wanna miss this Fall fun!

We're always adding more classes to our registration page, so keep an eye out for them by going to this link and clicking on REGISTER NOW. Happy sewing!

Advertising Art Explorium events

Foam Sculpture Dioramas

Sunday, October 4th. 2:30pm-4pm

$15 per child (Ages 5 and up)

At the Art Explorium 1142 Koko Head Ave.

Join us as we create sculptures of our choice from foamy clay! This is a great introductory class that will give students creative range to explore their passions through sculpture. Once we make our sculptures we will be creating dioramas for them to live in from reused materials.

Ceramic Animal Wall Hangings

Wednesday, October 7th. 9:30am-11am (during fall break)

$25 per child (Ages 5 and up)

At the Art Explorium 1142 Koko Head Ave.

In this workshop students will learn the fundamentals of ceramic sculpture. Each student will learn how to create and color a ceramic creature or animal of their choosing using the slab technique finished with underglazes.

Still Life Painting

Thursday, October 8th. 4pm-5:30pm

$15 per child (Ages 7 and up)

At the Art Explorium 1142 Koko Head Ave.

We will explore the compositions of Paul Cezanne's still lives and experiment with bold colors and shapes to create a painting inspired by his style.

Hanging Orchids

Sunday, October 11th. 2:30pm-4:30pm

$25 per child (Ages 5 and up)

At the Art Explorium 1142 Koko Head Ave.

In this workshop your child will learn the art of mounting live orchids onto driftwood or fallen tree branches. Using sphagnum moss, and wire or twine each student will learn how to assess the ideal point on which to place an orchid of their choice. Upon completion a small metal hook will be added allowing the piece to hang delicately in the air.

Kaimuki Third Friday in October at the Art Explorium

Friday, October 16th: 5pm-8pm

1142 Koko Head Ave

$5 per person

We will be offering Open Studio hours as part of Kaimuki Third Friday, a quarterly celebration of our neighborhood and community. We will be sewing paper masks and making Halloween decorations. No registration is necessary.

Painting Portraits

Thursday, October 15th. 4pm-5:30pm

$15 per child (Ages 7 and up)

At the Art Explorium 1142 Koko Head Ave.

We will look at the pastel colored portraits of famous painter Auguste Renoir, learn about proportions and color mixing to create our own portrait.

Printmaking

Sunday, October 18th. 2:30pm-4pm

$15 per child (Ages 5 and up)

At the Art Explorium 1142 Koko Head Ave.

Learn how to make multicolor prints for any occasion. By using foam as a stamp, students can cut out shapes or images they drew in foam and arrange them on paper to print their own cards, gift tags or, decorative prints to hang on the wall & give to friends.

Painting with Light and Landscapes

Thursday, October 22nd. 4pm-5:30pm

$15 per child (Ages 7 and up)

At the Art Explorium 1142 Koko Head Ave.

Impressionists and the theory of light. Why did the artists Seurat and Signac work with dots? How the Pointillism got started? We will create a painting just from dots and points!

Sewing Fairy Hats

Sunday, October 25th. 2:30pm-4pm

$15 per child (Ages 5 and up. Ages 5-7 must be accompanied by a participating parent)

At the Art Explorium 1142 Koko Head Ave.

Learn to sew on a sewing machine! Beginners are welcome as the ladies from ME+U Hawaii teach you the basics of measuring, cutting, and sewing. Young artists can create doll or keiki sized tulip hats from a multitude of colorful fabrics.

Painting Tropical Landscapes

Thursday, October 29th. 4pm-5:30pm

$15 per child (Ages 7 and up)

At the Art Explorium 1142 Koko Head Ave.

Paul Gauguin and his South Sea landscapes. Learn about the famous painter and his bold colored, simplified and almost abstract tropical landscapes and paint your own.

Open Studio Hours

Drop by our studio for casual art fun! We set up the art stations and you & your kids can dabble in them. We change our stations weekly, putting out 2 new art activities each Wednesday

Mon, Tues AND Thurs, 9 am - 12 pm

Mon thru Fri, 2 pm - 5 pm

Sat, 1 pm - 4 pm

Sunday Open Studio hours from 10am-1pm

$5 for each person participating. Drop-in, no pre-registration required.

About Art Explorium

Art Explorium provides a community art studio to nurture the creative potential in children.

Art Explorium is a non-profit organization in Kaimuki that provides art opportunities for youth. Stop by and try out our art stations (request a $5 per person coupon>>>).

Open Studio Hours
Monday and Thursday from 9-12 am
Monday through Friday from 2-5 pm
Saturday from 1-4 pm

Description
Nurturing tomorrow's creative thinkers

Art Explorium provides a fun, safe place where children of all ages have the opportunity and the permission to create freely. We firmly believe that art experiences are an important part of every person's growth and development. So... WE provide the space and materials, YOU provide the ideas and make them happen!

Art Explorium strives to be an eco-friendly organization. Many of the art materials in our studio are items that would normally be thrown in the landfill (old pieces of fabric, used bottle caps, small boxes, magazines, ribbon, etc.). We collect these used materials from our friends and local businesses, and Art Explorium visitors give these items a new life as art.

We offer art classes, birthday parties, and field trips to our studio. We also offer Open Studio time - come on in with your family and dabble in one or all of our art stations which offer activities like painting, sculpting, drawing, making mosaics and more. See you there!

General Information
Come on by! During Open Studio time you are free to drop in, use our space and materials and explore the process of creating.

We also offer art classes, birthday parties and field trips to our studio!

Notes
Hours and price subject to change without notice.
Ample metered parking is available on the street or in the lot behind our building.

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