Ai Studios, PO Box 33, Towaco, NJ 07082
973-257-1500
Web: www.aistudios.net
Email: aistudios@optimum.net

Ai Studios After School & Summer Fun Class Descriptions

The following table show our Summer Fun programs and class descriptions for eachgrade level.

Ai Studios Class Descriptions
Class Name
Class Descriptions
Example
 
Art and Imagination Program

Doodle and Draw

This is the perfect class for the young artist who wants to have fun creating artwork to express their individualism or for something to show to their friends and family!  Learn all kinds of drawing techniques using different mediums, including crayons and colored pencils. The class is taught by an experienced artist.

 
Creative Drawing
This class is for students who love to pencil sketch and want to improve their drawing skills and attention to detail. These skills will help students draw realistically. Students will appreciate the opportunities to draw with others and hone these skills together. This class is taught by an experienced artist.
 
Realistic Drawing
Grades 3-5. For kids that love to draw and want to learn more! Builds up from the foundations of fine arts drawing. If you are ready for more than the basics, this is a great class for you. We will work with real artist's tools like conte chalk, charcoal and graphite. You will learn about line, composition, structure, proportion, shading, cross-hatching, light and shadow, and more. Students will draw still life as well as from images. This class is taught by an experienced artist.
 
Cartooning
Do you like to make people laugh? This class is for students who love to have fun drawing funny cartoons. You'll learn how to draw cartoony people, places, animals, and things. Work with pencils, colored pencils, inks, and paints. This class is taught by a professional artist.
 
Pokemon Anime /
Manga Art
Learn how to draw Pokemon cartoon art in the Japanese Anime / Manga style, developing your own creatures and characters. Manga drawings are bold and dynamic, with lots of movement and expression. Learn about Manga faces - eyes, noses and mouths and explore styles of hair. Create different action poses, and start to put your characters into an environment. This class is taught by an experienced artist.
 
Painting
This class is for students who love to paint, using both watercolors and acrylic paints. Children are taught how to draw in proportion, shade and blend, hold a paint brush correctly, how to use the brush strokes to paint smoothly, while also learning how to blend colors. This class is taught by an experienced artist.
 
Fun with Clay
Imagine creating life like cupcakes…or food you like to eat such as a bowl of spaghetti and meatballs… an ice cream sundae or pepperoni pizza.  Creating meaningful art from clay brings happiness to young artists. This class focuses on basic clay hand- building skills. Students will learn to translate shape and form into works of art.  Students will also paint some of their creations to create one of a kind masterpieces!  This class will be taught by an experienced artist.
 
Sewing
Knowing how to sew opens up a whole new world of creativity! Kids learn to sew by hand and machine while developing their creativity. Each week students create different fun sewing projects. This class is taught by a professional.

 

 
Fashion A-Z
Get a jumpstart on your fashion career and learn how to use your imagination to create own clothing line, and your own lip glosses and nail polish. Learn the ins and outs of creating your own style and becoming a stylist. Also, learn the exciting techniques of modeling. Learn how to do the model walk, how to pose, how to gesture with your hands, how to move naturally with attitude, and more. Great way to overcome shyness and have fun.
 
Perler Beads
Have fun creating your own designs by placing beads one by one on a Perler Pegboard! Follow our patterns or be creative and make your own. This class is taught by an experienced artist.
 
Jewelry Making
Make your own jewelry line! Learn how to make your own bracelets and necklaces, using stringing methods and choosing your own kind of beads and crystals. This class is taught by an experienced craftsman.
 
Lego World
Great fun making your own Lego creations! Make individual or group projects. Ideas for projects will be instructed. (Legos projects do not go home). This class is taught by an experienced artist.
 
Wild Science
Learn cool and crazy stuff about science! Have great fun doing all kinds of amazing science experiments. Each class is themed around a particular area of science, including chemistry and nature studies. Children engage in exciting hands-on activities, watch spectacular demonstrations, participate in inquiry-based discussions and take home things that they have made themselves, like model volcanos, lava lamps, hurricanes in a bottle, and more. Also, learn fun, weird, and crazy facts about wild animals and the amazing things they do in nature.
 
Ever wonder how buildings and roads are made? If your child is happiest when he or she is building stuff, they can learn about the ever changing world of Technology, Engineering, Robotics, and the Arts, while developing creative problem-solving, critical thinking, teamwork and time management skills in a fun, creative and hands-on environment.
 
Rockets and Planes -
Aerospace
Learn about what makes rockets work and how ships can fly in the air and in space. Use the Engineering Design Process to design, create, test, and refine a variety of flying machines to create and test their own air-powered rockets, and assemble a parachute that actually takes flight!
 
Chess Club

Learn how to play beginner's Chess! Learn what each Chess piece is allowed to do, how to understand strategy, how to conceptualize, and think ahead. Includes: Rules of the game. Taking Initiative. Various types of Chess Endings. Strategy and Ideas behind chess openings. Strategic ideas.

Playing chess has proven to help students enhance their creativity, improve their power of concentration, develop and expand critical thinking skills, boost memory and retention, and achieve superior academic performance.

Additionally, chess has been shown to augment problem-solving capabilities, provide cultural enrichment, advance intellectual maturity, and enhance self-esteem.

 
Strategy Games 4 Kids

While playing various games, children will learn how to think constructively and more efficiently and effectively, which will enable students to solve problems in a logical way, helping them in their math, science, and other classes. Games include Checkers, Chess, Battleship, Stratego, Risk, and others.

 
Homework Club
Children are aided in developing their homework skills and getting all their school work assignments completed efficiently and effectively. This class can also help children put together their science, history, and other school projects as well.  
Performance Arts Program
Theater 4 Kids
Lights! Camera! Action! Have great fun being part of a theater production team. Roles will be assigned for actors, scenery painters, play writes, and production members. Taught by a professional instructor.
 
Karaoke 4 Kids

Grades K-5. Have a great time singing along to your favorite songs. Practice vocal skills, performing in public / in front of an audience. Helps kids get over inhibitions.

Taught by a professional instructor.

 
       
Wellness Arts Program
Yoga 4 Kids
Let's relax! Let's clear our minds so we can focus better using traditional beginner Yoga poses. Gentle movements to increase flexibility, strength, and well-being. Students are led through stretches, yoga postures, and breathing practices. Taught by a professional instructor. Please have your child bring a Yoga Mat.
 
Dance-Arobics
Have fun and get fit too! Get active and move around while dancing to cool music and get a great workout at the same time. Taught by a professional instructor.
 
Fitness 4 Kids
Have fun while being active stretching and strengthening the body! Get more fit, build stamina, get looser and stronger, and learn balance for better coordination. Taughtby a professional instructor.
 

 

Ai Studios Class Descriptions
Class Name
Class Descriptions
Example
 
Art and Imagination Program
Illustration
Learn the art of illustration. How to graphically explain an idea to illustrate a story or scene, whether realistically or stylistically rendered. Learn many different pencil drawing, inking, and painting techniques to prepare for a commercial art career.
 
Creative / Realistic Painting

This class is for students who love to paint and want to learn more! Builds up from the foundations of fine arts painting. If you are ready for more than the basics, this is a great class for you. We will work with watercolors and acrylic paints. You will learn about color theory, composition, structure, proportion, light and shadow, and more. express mood through painting, while also learning how to blend colors, the use of different brush strokes for effect, and learn different styles of painting. Students will paint from still life as well as from images. This class is taught by an experienced artist.

 
Sculpting
Make your own figurines and statuettes in detail with Sculpty Clay and sculpting tools. Learn how to make more advanced three dimensional sculptures. Learn how to use wiring to make the basic form, apply Sculpty, then use hand tools to develop textures, and then paint your sculpture to finish the final product. This class is taught by a professional artist.
 
Fashion Design
Create your own clothing line! Learn how to illustrate your fashions and accessories. Get a jumpstart on your fashion career and learn how to draw the 9-headed figure used in the fashion industry. Class is taught by a professional artist.
 
Jewelry Design
Have fun designing and making your own jewelry style, learn new techniques and methods for making jewelry that is beautiful and one of a kind. This class is taught by a experienced craftsman.
 
Interior Design
Learn how to re-design your room in a better way, like a Professional Interior Designer! Combine art and engineering skils to understand how to design rooms to be more useful and better looking. Make your bedroom over with its own theme, design the layout, and how everything should look.
 
Architecture
Learn how architects design buildings. Use your imagination to design and draw floor plans, trace furniture onto the plans, and build a detailed 3-D model of a house or buidling.
 
Cartoon Novels
Want to write and draw your own funny story? For readers of Dairy of a Wimpy Kid and the Dork Dairies. Learn how to write and illustrate your own interesting and creative story. How to layout a story page, tell a story in sequence, design funny characters, and more.
 
Art Journaling
Enjoy creating an art journal! An art journal is a journal in which you combine art and words to express yourself. Many great writing projects that combine illustrative art (doodling, drawing, inking, collage, and more) with expressive writing about your thoughts, feelings, poems, words of inspiration, and more.
 
Weird Chemistry
Action packed science class with classic experiments and crazy concoctions. Have great fun doing all kinds of amazing chemistry experiments. Children engage in exciting hands-on activities, watch spectacular demonstrations, participate in inquiry-based discussions.
 
Engineering
Learn how science, technology, engineering, and math can come together in a fun and challenging way. Understand how machines are constructed and designed using a variety of hands-on projects.
 
Digital Photography I

Learn the fundamentals of photography, including digital editing procedures, basic composition and exposure, and the use of cameras. Understand the importance of the visual images in communicating ideas and information. Using your cell phone or iPad camera, learn the best way to take cool digital photos that will impress your friends and family. Find the balance between light, composition, and exposure to create stunning digital images. This class is taught by an experienced artist.

NOTE: Student must bring own Smart phone or iPad that has camera and video abilities. 

 

 

Ai Studios Grades 8-12 Class Descriptions
Class Name
Class Descriptions
Example
 
Art and Imagination Program
Drawing I
Learn all kinds of pencil drawing techniques using different mediums, including charcoals and colored pencils. Understand about line, shape, form, composition, proportion, perspective, and other concepts through the use of pencil and pen and ink. The class is taught by an experienced artist.
 

Drawing II

Learn advanced pencil drawing techniques that enhance your skills and abilities to creatively design and illustrate an image, using different mediums, including charcoals and colored pencils. Learn about anatomy, structures, and textures that give your drawings a real sense of life. The class is taught by an experienced artist.
 
Color Theory
Understand the effect that colors have in artwork and beyond. Learn the different aspects of colour and light perception such as hue, lightness and chroma, brightness and saturation, visual perception of colour, mixing paints, and additive and subtractive colour mixing. Helps you become a better painter and artist.
 
Painting I
Learn how to paint using acrylic type of paint. Learn color management, composition, perspective, brush techniques, and more. Create landscapes, portrait, still lifes, and realistic scenes. Have fun while you develop your own style of painting. This class is taught by a professional artist.
 
Sculpting
Creating sculptures in detail with Sculpty Clay and sculpting tools. Learn how to make more advanced three dimensional sculptures. Learn how to use wiring to make the basic form, apply Sculpty, and then use hand tools to develop textures and finish the final product. This class is taught by a professional artist.
 
Sewing
Knowing how to sew opens up a whole new world of creativity! Learn to sew by hand and machine while developing your creativity. Each week students create different fun sewing projects. This class is taught by a professional.
 
Fashion Design
Get a jumpstart on your fashion career and learn how to draw the 9-headed figure used in the fashion industry. Learn how to illustrate your fashions and accessories. Create your own clothing line! This class is taught by a professional artist.
 
Recycle Clothing
Remake, remodel! Weave, snip, stitch, and paint your old clothes into something unique and original. The favorite shirt you wore so much it now has holes can be recycled into something new. In this class we will go over stitches, measuring, creating a basic pattern, and experiment with different materials for transforming an object.
 
Interior Design
Learn how to re-design rooms in a better way, like a Professional Interior Designer! Combine art and engineering skils to understand how to design rooms to be more useful and better looking. Make rooms over with their own theme, design the layout, and how everything should look and why.
 
Feng Shui
Learn the ancient Chinese art of Feng Shui and how designers have been using it for thousands of years. Learn how to apply these ancient principles to help design spaces that are more harmonious, less cluttered, and reinforce positive energy. Understand how to use Feng Shui remedies to achieve personal and design goals.
 
Wellness Arts Program
Yoga
Relax and get into shape at the same time! Yoga makes the body strong and flexible. Gentle movements to increase flexibility, strength, and well-being. Students are led through stretches, yoga postures, and breathing practices, then guided into deep relaxation using visual imagery. Learn yoga poses to tone the whole body, strengthen muscles, improve posture, and increase your energy. Please bring your own Yoga Mat. Taught by a professional instructor.
 
Guided Meditation
Meditation is a highly effective de-stress practice, since it gives relaxation. Once the body is calm, then the end result is the mind is calmer, more focus, more energized, and more able to function. Learn how deep breathing can help you deal with stress. Guided imagery is used to develop your imagination and ultimately feel better. Taught by a professional instructor.