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  • 8 Week spring Session Begins March 30th

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  • Graphic Design: Creating Images That Communicate Ideas

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    This winter, Bass Arts students will be learning how to create striking eye-catching visuals that communicate an idea. I am sure the next four years will present plenty of issues that will necessitate the creation of…

  • Bass Arts Students Create Giant Heads!

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    This summer, Bass Arts Students channeled The Bread and Puppet Theatre as they built their own giant heads! The students began with choosing a pop culture figure like Harry Potter,…

  • The Class of 2020: Bass Arts Students Head To Art School

    Julia O’Donnell, FIT, Class of 2020 Julia began taking classes at Bass Arts Studio in the spring of 2009 and spent several summers at Bass Arts Studio’s Portfolio Intensive, where she focused on…

  • Kai Rubin-Wish, a longtime Bass Arts Student is Accepted Into School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University

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          Kai Rubin-Wish, a sophomore at Montclair High, started attending Bass Arts Studio when he was 8 years old and continued taking classes and attending camp for 5 years. This…

  • Student Spotlight: Kai Rubin-Wish

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    Kai Rubin-Wish, age 10, has been a student at Bass Art’s Studio for the past 4 years. He has not missed one session during the year and has returned to the art camp…

  • Two Handed Drawing

    “Merely to see, therefore, is not enough. It is necessary to have a fresh, vivid, physical contact with the object you draw through as many of the senses as possible—and especially through the sense of touch.” — Kimon Nicolaides,

  • Teen Portfolio Project: Self Portraits

    When Art school admissions officers are going through the hundreds of portfolios submitted each year, they are on the look out for standout pieces that show evidence of original thinking.

  • DIY Dress Forms

    Who needs to buy a dress form when you can make your own? In this fashion class, Fabiola Arias taught the girls how to make a custom dress form, tailored to each individual students’…

  • Hannah’s Birthday Suit (Don’t Get Nervous, It’s A Costume)

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    Hannah, an 8 year old student in my Sculpt It class, poses in her “birthday suit”. The materials she used to create this costume were Rigid Wrap (plaster impregnated gauze cloth available at most art supply stores), and my favorite, paper mache.

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