Half–Pints Club: Art Class at Whole Foods, Rockville
Mondays, 4:00-5:00pm
June 16, June 30, August 11, August 25

Free, no registration required
We are proud to partner with Whole Foods Market, Rockville, to provide free art classes for children in the Whole Foods Market café. Drop by with your child to enjoy making a creative and original art project sure to liven up any refrigerator. Each child will leave with a completed art project.

This event is sponsored by:

1649 Rockville Pike
Rockville, MD 20852

ArtStop
VisArts is offering programming for a variety of local organizations and schools, focusing on special needs and at-risk youth, teens and adults. One of our current programs is our “VisArts Access Art Stop”, which educates and exposes children, teens and adults to the wonders of critiquing and producing art. ArtStop includes a personal gallery tour and discussion, a demonstration by a professional artist and a creative art project that is taken home. All of these components are tied together by theme. This program is based on increasing creative thinking, stimulating critical conversation, and promoting artistic self-expression.

Our current and future partners include: Ivymount School, RICA, Our House, Children’s Inn at NIH, Potomac Ridge, and the Jewish Foundation for Group Homes. We are very interested in expanding our ArtStop and other outreach programs and rely on private and corporate donations to keep these programs alive. If you are interested in making a donation or you are interested in having your group participate in these programs in the future, please call: 301-315-8200 and ask for Outreach Director, Rachel Minkoff.

A downloadable flyer with ArtStop details is now available online.

Our View Through the Lens
VisArts has just begun a yearlong project teaching at risk teenagers traditional photography. In partnership with the Greater Washington Youth Philanthropy Initiative, VisArts will be utilizing photography as a means for students to express themselves. This project enriches the students’ lives as they learn to utilize black and white photography as a powerful medium of expression. Through a student produced photography exhibition and student organized community talks, they will utilize their work to promote a dialogue between community members about issues that are important to them. This project enables the young people to promote positive, powerful social change to their communities using photography as part of their voice.