Spring/Summer 2025 Classes!
Art Garden Camp – July 7-11, 2025 ***** Analog Animation at VAF 2025
Art Garden Camp
July 7-11, 2025
9am-3pm daily
at Goldenrose Gardens in Hardwick, VT
Ages 7-12
$250 (sliding scale possible)
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Join us for a week of creativity and exploration in the garden.
With the herb garden and surrounding meadows as our art studio, each day will be structured around hands-on learning, experimenting and creating.
We will make our own art materials (ie., inks, charcoal) to create drawings and paintings, play collaborative nature and theater games, sing songs, learn about medicinal plants, make a first aid kit, and keep a creative journal.
This camp will be led by Leif Goldberg (artist/educator), Erin Rosenthal (artist/herbalist: www.goldenrosegardens.com) and assisted by Ursa Goldenrose (song and game leader extraordinaire)
Please contact us by clicking the register here link- we will get right back to you! A deposit of 50% will be required to secure your child’s spot.
Analog Animation at the Vermont Animation Festival
Saturday, March 29 3-5PM
VTSU-Lyndon
ALL AGES (Kids must attend with an adult)
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Participants will get to try out direct drawing and etching techniques on 16mm film for a tactile animation experience. There will be a concise introduction to the medium of 16mm film and mechanics of projection. Working frame by frame in a collaborative setting, we will create a short experimental film that considers the potentials of handmade film. Animators will explore the range of movement that is available in a small frame size, from the nearly impossible ‘hold’ to the much more natural ‘strobe’ and ‘morphing’ techniques. We’ll look at inspiring examples of direct-animated films to get us started. The film we create will be screened at the conclusion of the workshop.
Open to all ages and levels of experience; students 10 and under should be accompanied by a helpful adult.
Check Out Classes from the past Below
“Cameraless Animation Class for Youth”
Four Wednesdays, October 2, 9, 16 and 23
3 -5 PM After-school
Youth 8-12 (approx.)
at Goldenrose Gardens in Hardwick, VT
$100 (sliding scale is possible)- materials included!
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Come explore making animation without a camera. We will learn about how to make drawings move- using optical toys from before the days of cinema, creating flip books and drawing directly on 16mm movie film!
This course is offered for youth ages 8-12 and is limited to 8 participants. At Goldenrose Gardens in Hardwick.
Limited to 8 participants- first come, first served!
“Drawing Outside the Lines: Stretching Into Collaborative Drawings”
Saturday, September 7 1-3:30PM
Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI
Adults and Kids 8+
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Join this special one time workshop with visual artist Leif Goldberg for a session of playful collaborative drawing that will give you tools to expand your creativity – “Drawing Outside the Lines: Stretching Into Collaborative Drawings”!
We will begin with some loose and limbering exercises for the right and left brain. With simple prompts and a variety of 2-D materials, we will engage in reflection and observation, along with call and response to become reacquainted with the powers of our non-dominant hand.
Then the real fun begins as we slow down and share creative space by developing more elaborate drawing surprises together!
Art in the Garden at Goldenrose Gardens
Sundays July 7 and 14, 2024
Goldenrose Gardens, Hardwick, VT
ALL AGES (Kids must attend with an adult)
Suggested Donation $20/ person
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We invite you to Goldenrose Gardens to be amongst plants and make art. At 9am there will be a plant walk led by Erin Rosenthal, followed by an art session from 10am – noon. Come for one or both parts .
For the art part at 10am, Leif will lead drawing games for the first hour to warm up the hands and brain. The second hour is dedicated time to create your own sketch, drawing, or painting. Folding metal chairs and drawing boards will be provided, along with materials like drawing paper, oil pastels, colored pencils, watercolors and markers. You are also welcome to bring your own chair and supplies.
This is open to all ages (under 8 with a supervising adult please). We have limited space for 8 participants and there is a suggested donation of $10-20 per person.
Drawing, Color and Comics At Jaquith Library
Wednesdays March 27 – May 8
3:30-5:30PM
Ages 10-18
FREE- sign up at the Jaquith Library in Marshfield
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Join local artist Leif Goldberg for a weekly series of fun art workshops. We’ll keep a creative journal, explore drawing from life and color theory, play inventive drawing games, and create collaborative and independent sequential comics.
Fall 2023 Youth Art Class
Creative journaling, non-dominant hand exercises, drawing and painting from life, and collaborative drawing games comprise this 8-session course for youth ages 9-15.
Classes held at Goldenrose Gardens in Hardwick, VT.
“Drawing Outside The Lines”
Drop-in Drawing Workshop for Adults/Teens
Sunday, January 28 3pm-5pm
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A fun mid-winter drawing workshop with non-dominant hand exercises and collaborative drawing games to help shake out the mid-winter chills.
Make Your Own Mini-Comics!
JANUARY 22TH – FEBRUARY 19, 2024
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Kids developed a practice of self-reflection in their creative journals, participated in collaborative drawing games and created their own individual comics for a class comic book compendium!