Anime

Anime

Anime is coming to artmania! The first anime was a short, silent film made in Japan in 1917, but it wasn’t until 1956, and the founding of the Toei Animation Company that the anime style gained popularity. The word anime is the abbreviated pronunciation of...
Garlands Galore

Garlands Galore

Students in artmania’s mobile classes display their geometric garlands with pride. Students learned about shapes, their use in history and the relationship these shapes have with mathematics. While creating these colourful and complex pieces, many (the younger...
Katrina Stock

Katrina Stock

I’m always amazed at the art hanging on artmania’s walls; carefully curated, unique pieces from local artists. Recently, artmania’s walls were graced with Katrina Stock’s encaustics pieces. To be honest, I didn’t know what to think of her...
Domenica Mastromatteo

Domenica Mastromatteo

“Sweet love, renew thy force….do not kill the spirit of love with a perpetual dullness…” – William Shakespeare “My creativity is the sword against “perpetual dullness”. Parenting can bring on “perpetual dullness”, but I try to find ways to combine my art...