Open Studio Clay

Kentuck's Kids Studio: Ages 5-8

Each Saturday is a different activity, so there’s always something new for your child to learn. Each class is one hour on Saturdays from 9:30am to 10:30am.  For more information and to register please visit ......More

Each Saturday is a different activity, so there’s always something new for your child to learn. Each class is one hour on Saturdays from 9:30am to 10:30am.  For more information and to register please visit https://www.kentuck.org/kids-studio.

Stains of Midsommar with Loretta Lynn

Join Loretta Lynn around the summer solstice as we honor our connection with the natural world through plant magic, flower pounding, and simple stitching. Explore, nurture, experiment, and play as you set positive intentions for yourself on fabric for this season of the......More

Join Loretta Lynn around the summer solstice as we honor our connection with the natural world through plant magic, flower pounding, and simple stitching. Explore, nurture, experiment, and play as you set positive intentions for yourself on fabric for this season of the sun. Almost all supplies for this class are included, but each participant will need to bring their own hammer. If you are so inclined, feel free to bring some of your flowers, charms, or fiber scraps to incorporate!  This class is limited to ages 18+. The minimum for this course is 4, and the maximum is 10. If the class does not meet the minimum, participants will be refunded. Tickets are non-refundable once the registration deadline ends.Please email Molly Nelko, Program Manager, at [email protected] with any questions.About Loretta Lynn: Loretta Lynn is a self taught fiber artist creating non-traditional embroideries and wearable art. Her unique visual language often integrates her Catholic upbringing with her current practices of paganism using imagery from nature and the divine. Born in New York, Loretta performed as a dancer, performance artist, and garage-punk guitarist throughout the 1980’s and 1990’s. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the State University of New York at New Paltz with a double major in Dance and Psychology and a minor in Philosophy. She received her Master’s Degree in Dance Movement Therapy from Pratt Institute. She currently works as a Dance Therapist in Special Education. During a challenging time, Loretta learned how to knit from a four year old at a karate dojo, which she found kept her present & focused. She expanded her fiber practice to include drawing with embroidery floss and incorporating eco-dyed fabrics, created with encouragement from her friend and mentor, Aaron Sanders Head. Loretta has shown work at the Tuscaloosa Art Center’s annual 8x8 shows, group shows at Kentuck Art Center, Aaron Sanders Head Studio, the Jessie Lavon and Friends Folk Art Gatherings, Magnolia Grove, and at the Pratt Manhattan Gallery in the Puck Building (NYC). She co-curated the April 2023 Wellness Walls for Art show at University Medical Center. This is her first solo show. Loretta lives in Tuscaloosa with her husband, Christopher, a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Alabama, is the mother of triplet sons Jagger, Bailey, and Lux, and has 4 dogs. Made possible in part by the Alabama State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

alacARTe: all ages

This is a chance to indulge your curiosities or to delve deeper into your favorite art media! Like ordering from an a la carte menu, participants will have the opportunity to choose from 4 options:   Acrylic Painting Monotypes Collage Drawing ​ We will supply a......More

This is a chance to indulge your curiosities or to delve deeper into your favorite art media! Like ordering from an a la carte menu, participants will have the opportunity to choose from 4 options:   Acrylic Painting Monotypes Collage Drawing ​ We will supply all the necessary materials, and we'll clean up the mess when you're done. It's the perfect place to create with friends or explore on your own. Find out more at: https://www.kentuck.org/a-la-carte. 

Aspiring Artists Summer Camp: 8-12

Imagination in Motion

"Imagination in Motion" is Kentuck's brand new early education initiative for children aged 6 months to 5 years. Combining visual art, storytelling, music, and movement, this program will immerse children and their parents in several different art forms in one class, al......More

"Imagination in Motion" is Kentuck's brand new early education initiative for children aged 6 months to 5 years. Combining visual art, storytelling, music, and movement, this program will immerse children and their parents in several different art forms in one class, allowing for creative exploration while developing language, reading, motor, and spatial reasoning skills. Aprons will be provided for adult participants, but children should dress for mess!  This class meets weekly on Wednesday mornings from 10:30am-11:15am at Kentuck at Queen City, 1901 Jack Warner Parkway, Tuscaloosa. There is a maximum of 10 child participants per session. Registration includes both the child and their parent or caregiver. Each parent or caregiver must attend and participate with their child for the full session.This class is intended for children aged from 6 months to 5 years. Children ages 5 and up can participate in Kentuck's Kids Studios on Saturdays and in After School Art on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons.  About the instructor: Samantha Wolf is an Australian-born, US-based composer, sound designer, and arts educator. Her music has been performed and broadcast around the world, including by the Melbourne and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras, Bang on a Can, Elision, Rubiks, Ensemble Offspring, the Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music, Elm Shakespeare Company, the Australian National Academy of Music, the Sydney Opera House, and the South Bend Museum of Art, among many others. Samantha holds undergraduate degrees in Music Composition from the Queensland and Melbourne Conservatoriums, and two Masters degrees from the Yale School of Music, where she was a President's Public Service Fellow and the recipient of the prestigious Ezra Ladermann Prize. In addition to teaching at Kentuck, she is Co-Artistic Director of the University of Alabama Contemporary Ensemble, and faculty at The Walden School in Dublin, New Hampshire.  This workshop is sponsored in part by the Alabama State Council on the Arts.

Aspiring Artists Summer Camp: 12-16

Try It Wheel Throwing

Try It Wheel Throwing

Try It Wheel Throwing

Wheel Throwing 101

Kentuck's Kids Studio: Ages 5-8

Each Saturday is a different activity, so there’s always something new for your child to learn. Each class is one hour on Saturdays from 9:30am to 10:30am.  For more information and to register please visit ......More

Each Saturday is a different activity, so there’s always something new for your child to learn. Each class is one hour on Saturdays from 9:30am to 10:30am.  For more information and to register please visit https://www.kentuck.org/kids-studio.

Open Studio Clay

alacARTe: all ages

This is a chance to indulge your curiosities or to delve deeper into your favorite art media! Like ordering from an a la carte menu, participants will have the opportunity to choose from 4 options:   Acrylic Painting Monotypes Collage Drawing ​ We will supply a......More

This is a chance to indulge your curiosities or to delve deeper into your favorite art media! Like ordering from an a la carte menu, participants will have the opportunity to choose from 4 options:   Acrylic Painting Monotypes Collage Drawing ​ We will supply all the necessary materials, and we'll clean up the mess when you're done. It's the perfect place to create with friends or explore on your own. Find out more at: https://www.kentuck.org/a-la-carte. 

Characters in Clay