Intro to Mixed Media Art (Tuesdays 4-6pm)
WINTER SESSION: JANUARY 6 - FEBRUARY 23
Class Description:
The Intro to Mixed Media Art class with give students the opportunity to explore and create using different mediums. Each week students will be able to create projects that involve using the mediums of acrylic, fabric, and textile and more. Students will be able to make creative projects that they can use as decoration in their homes, wear with their next outfit, and/or gift to their loved ones. The theme for all art classes are centered around students exploring their identity and authenticity to blossom how they express themselves creatively.
Teacher Info:
Arshayla Robinson is a multi-gifted creative visionary, creative director, and educator from Miami, FL, based in Philadelphia, PA. She expresses art as a self-taught designer, textured artist, textile artist, LED artist, illustrator, muralist, and photographer. Arshayla’s creations are gorgeously and magically grounded into fusing her passions for music, art, dance, literature, fashion, African culture, the emergence of black culture and identity, and Afrofuturism. As she aims to become a beacon of light, love, and hope for the youth and her community, she is rooted in her belief that where there is darkness and pain embedded in our past and present, there is also light and love that is birthed and engraved to re-envision, realign, reinvigorate, and recreate our future. Arshayla revels in her purpose by sharing her light and love through creation in hopes that they will signal every beautiful soul who needs them most and desires to attract those who are overlooked, voiceless, and devalued to inspire them to identify, ignite, and nurture their own light by creating through their most authentic selves boldly, loudly, and relentlessly.
WINTER SESSION: JANUARY 6 - FEBRUARY 23
Class Description:
The Intro to Mixed Media Art class with give students the opportunity to explore and create using different mediums. Each week students will be able to create projects that involve using the mediums of acrylic, fabric, and textile and more. Students will be able to make creative projects that they can use as decoration in their homes, wear with their next outfit, and/or gift to their loved ones. The theme for all art classes are centered around students exploring their identity and authenticity to blossom how they express themselves creatively.
Teacher Info:
Arshayla Robinson is a multi-gifted creative visionary, creative director, and educator from Miami, FL, based in Philadelphia, PA. She expresses art as a self-taught designer, textured artist, textile artist, LED artist, illustrator, muralist, and photographer. Arshayla’s creations are gorgeously and magically grounded into fusing her passions for music, art, dance, literature, fashion, African culture, the emergence of black culture and identity, and Afrofuturism. As she aims to become a beacon of light, love, and hope for the youth and her community, she is rooted in her belief that where there is darkness and pain embedded in our past and present, there is also light and love that is birthed and engraved to re-envision, realign, reinvigorate, and recreate our future. Arshayla revels in her purpose by sharing her light and love through creation in hopes that they will signal every beautiful soul who needs them most and desires to attract those who are overlooked, voiceless, and devalued to inspire them to identify, ignite, and nurture their own light by creating through their most authentic selves boldly, loudly, and relentlessly.
WINTER SESSION: JANUARY 6 - FEBRUARY 23
Class Description:
The Intro to Mixed Media Art class with give students the opportunity to explore and create using different mediums. Each week students will be able to create projects that involve using the mediums of acrylic, fabric, and textile and more. Students will be able to make creative projects that they can use as decoration in their homes, wear with their next outfit, and/or gift to their loved ones. The theme for all art classes are centered around students exploring their identity and authenticity to blossom how they express themselves creatively.
Teacher Info:
Arshayla Robinson is a multi-gifted creative visionary, creative director, and educator from Miami, FL, based in Philadelphia, PA. She expresses art as a self-taught designer, textured artist, textile artist, LED artist, illustrator, muralist, and photographer. Arshayla’s creations are gorgeously and magically grounded into fusing her passions for music, art, dance, literature, fashion, African culture, the emergence of black culture and identity, and Afrofuturism. As she aims to become a beacon of light, love, and hope for the youth and her community, she is rooted in her belief that where there is darkness and pain embedded in our past and present, there is also light and love that is birthed and engraved to re-envision, realign, reinvigorate, and recreate our future. Arshayla revels in her purpose by sharing her light and love through creation in hopes that they will signal every beautiful soul who needs them most and desires to attract those who are overlooked, voiceless, and devalued to inspire them to identify, ignite, and nurture their own light by creating through their most authentic selves boldly, loudly, and relentlessly.