Level: 7-10yrs
October 14 - December 9 (no class 11/11 or 11/24), 2026
Wednesdays
3:45-5pm
7 weeks
Instructor: Lisa Thoren and Suzy Aubrey
Instructor's website
Fee: $275 (includes all supplies)
Class Description:
This art class is filled with inspiration, skill building and creative freedom. Each session we’ll discover what inspires artists from around the world and different periods of history. For example students will try their hand at Thiebaud’s color palette and pastries, Georgia O’Keefe’s flowers, Picasso’s cubism, and Gustav Klimt’s patterns among others. Every class will be unique and fun — experimenting with Delft blue and white patterns or figuring out how Michelangelo painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Students will make creations using many mediums, including the art of collage, printmaking, drawing and painting.
Supply list:
All art supplies will be provided by RAC. Each student should bring a smock.
About the Instructor:
Lisa Thorén, a mixed media artist, has taught Hindley Elementary School’s after school programs and led plein air artists groups at the Mather Homestead. Currently her art can be seen in group shows at the Museum of Darien, The Carriage Barn in New Canaan and the Rowayton Arts Center.
Lisa is a Silvermine Guild member and was a past president of the Darien Arts Center. Her award winning art has been included in Art of the Northeast, Parsons Alumni shows, Stanford University in Palo Alto, the national Faber Birren shows, as well as locally at the Rowayton Arts Center, Darien Nature Center and the Museum of Darien.
Suzy Aubrey has been doodling and drawing since she was old enough to hold a pencil. She was the kid in class whose notebook margins were filled with caricatures of those around her and in her imagination. She claims that drawing while listening helped her to process the words being heard and continues with the practice to this day.
As a graduate of the University of Vermont, she was lucky enough to take a full slate of art classes along with her Business studies. After college she continued to draw, paint, knit, collage, etc as a way to feed her soul. She was one of the founders Columbus Magnet School’s “Adventures in Art” program and has sold her art work at RAC and the CCNS art shows. Today she’ll tell you she has her dream job as the Director of Education for the Rowayton Arts Center. “It’s the perfect mix of business and art and gives me the ability to share my love of art making with the local community.”