bassarts news

November 2, 2016

Bass Arts Students Create Giant Heads!

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,…
September 14, 2016

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…
September 12, 2016

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

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…
January 6, 2015

Student Spotlight: Kai Rubin-Wish

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…
December 31, 2014

Bass Arts Fashion Students Learn About Branding

Last spring, Bass Arts Fashion students had a rare opportunity to learn about branding by studying one of style conscious America’s most beloved brands, Anthropologie. Jennifer Burnley, a Montclair resident and…
September 5, 2014

Locally Grown, A Show Of The Work Of Fern Bass And Her Students Opens September 21

For the autumn season, the Upstairs Gallery at Temple Shomrei Emunah will be showing the work of Fern Bass along with her students in a show called Locally Grown.
January 22, 2014

Lucia Giron Wins 2014 Scholastic Gold Key Award

Lucia Giron, a junior at Montclair High School won a Scholastic Gold Key Award for this linoleum cut she created at Bass Arts Studio.
May 28, 2013

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,
September 17, 2012

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

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.
March 6, 2012

Walker Walls Tarver Wins a Scholastic Gold Key Award

Walker Walls Tarver, a junior at Montclair High School and student of Bass Arts Studio for the past 5 years won a Scholastic Gold Key Award for this pen, ink…