Art Explorations
For: Caregivers with children 0-3 years
Timing: Tuesdays from 9:30am-10:30 am
Dates: 1/24, 1/31, 2/7, 2/14, 2/28, 3/7, 3/14, 3/21 (no class 2/21)
Cost: $150 (financial assistance available)
Description: Working side by side, both children and adults will be invited to explore two and three dimensional mediums such as drawing, painting, clay sculpture and collage. Using our imagination and our senses we will play with and explore the possibilities and limitations of each material. Additionally, we will take the time to look closely at the artwork we create and reflect on the process of making.
Instructor: Kimberly Carmody (she/her/hers)
A visual artist and art educator, Kimberly Carmody has been making art and teaching for over thirty years. She grew up in Brattleboro, Vermont and painted starting at age seven at The River Gallery School with artist Ric Campman. She studied ceramics and painting at The Evergreen State College in Washington State and in 1994 Kimberly moved to New York City to attend The New York Studio School, where she studied drawing, painting and sculpture for four years. She then earned a Masters in Art Education from Teachers College at Columbia University. In New York City Kimberly taught visual art to students of all ages and abilities in both public and independent schools, hospitals and homeless shelters. Moved by the inaccessibility of art in underserved areas, in 2009 Kimberly founded Urban River Arts, a community based non-profit, in her neighborhood of Crown Heights Brooklyn. She also taught middle school art for a decade at the Berkeley Carroll School in Brooklyn before moving to Kerhonkson full time and joining the faculty at High Meadow in 2019.
Dance and Movement
For: Caregivers with children 0-3 years
Timing: Wednesdays from 9:30am-10:30am
Dates: 1/25, 2/1, 2/8, 2/15, 3/1, 3/8, 3/15, 3/22 (no class 2/22)
Cost: $150 (financial assistance available)
Description: Using our imagination and sense of play, little ones and adults, side by side, will be invited to explore movement with gentle warm ups and improvisations. We will use various images, stories, props and music of different cultures as inspiration to try out a variety of movement qualities and explore the possibilities of our bodies. This is a chance for children to get curious and find joy in dancing, observe or participate according to their comfort level, and connect with their adults and one another.
Instructor: Ann Sullivan (she/her/hers)
Ann has taught dance and movement at the Bay View Music Conservatory and Charlevoix School of Gymnastics in northern Michigan, the Lyceum Kenndy and 92nd St Y in Manhattan, Packer Collegiate and St. Ann’s School in Brooklyn Heights, and High Meadow School in Stone Ridge. She went to high school at the Interlochen Arts Academy and then got her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College (taking Dance, Greek and Pre-med courses) and her M.F.A. in Dance from New York University. She has also worked as a community organizer in low-income neighborhoods in New York City, Long Island and the Hudson Valley.
For more information, including options for reduced fees, please reach out to Althea Brown, HMCC Coordinator at althea.brown@highmeadowschool.org.