Important Dates:

Spring Classes: April 15 – June 7

Summer Camps: Registration OPEN

Welcome to Bass Arts Studio!

Montclair’s premier art studio. Come to tap into your creativity! At Bass Arts Studio, each student is given the support they need to develop their own personal style and the skills they need to grow as artists.

Students are encouraged to playfully explore and experiment with a variety of media, engage in creative problem solving, develop critical thinking skills and have a great time!

Bass Arts Studio offers classes throughout the year. There are 3 semesters, Fall, Winter and Spring, in addition to a Summer Art Camp for children ages 7-12. For teens, we offer a Summer Teen Art Studio Intensive as well as Fashion Camp.

Bass Arts Fashion Students Learn About Branding

img_5078Last 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 a personal stylist at the Short Hills store, acted as our personal liaison. It started with the class meeting Jennifer at the Montclair store to receive a lesson on how the clothes and the award-winning design of the store reflect the ideas behind the brand.

Laura Compto, style editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, describes Anthropologie’s aesthetic as “French flea market-inspired” and goes on to say that the brand “embodies a lifestyle — a very particular free-spirited, bohemian existence in which coffee served in vibrant latte bowls and sumptuously embroidered bed linens figure prominently. This is surely where the French film heroine Amelie would have shopped — and definitely the place to hear the soundtrack”.

The girls began with a series of sketches of designs inspired by what they saw at the store and online research, and each student came up with her own take on the Anthropologie aesthetic.

They had 12 weeks to create their patterns and sew their garments embellished by trimmings generously provided by Jennifer from Anthropologie’s sewing studios. The session culminated in a fashion show at the beautifully designed Short Hills store.

The girls did a great job creating garments that reflect Anthropologie’s free-spirited, bohemian aesthetic of romance, foreign travel and femininity. They learned alot and they had a fabulous time!

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