Teaching kids to stop looking for perfection

Teaching kids to stop looking for perfection

This post was originally featured in our June 23rd newsletter. Subscribe to receive information, news, invitations to events, and more! Teaching kids to stop looking for perfection An interview with one of our instructors Receiving excessive observations from...

How is acting good for your child’s brain?

How is acting good for your child’s brain?

This post was originally featured in our April 14th newsletter. Subscribe to receive information, news, invitations to events, and more! How watching a theatre play is good for your child’s brain? Theatre it’s not only entertainment, from classical Greece to medieval...

Who wants to make a snowglobe over the holidays?

Who wants to make a snowglobe over the holidays?

So the kids are finally out of school. Now what to do to entertain them? With the Winter Wonderland we enjoyed last week, some steep slippery hills and early dismissals, some of our mobile school classes were canceled. In this last class, we were going to be making...

View to Autumn Classes at artmania

View to Autumn Classes at artmania

Is your child a biophiliac ? “Biophilia” is the term Pulitzer Prize-winning biologist Edward Wilson created to describe “the connection human beings subconsciously seek with the rest of life.” Humans all have a deep subconscious need to interact with nature. Nature...

Nature Explorers are On a Roll !

Nature Explorers are On a Roll !

Welcome back to the school routine after a beautiful and hopefully fun-filled summer! Did you know that just five minutes a day of "green exercise"* can improve mental and physical health? In efforts to quantify nature's benefits, an analysis from the University of...

Mobile Classes

Mobile Classes

Human Body and Proportion: Fabric Art and African Masks! Welcome back to artmania’s last after school class for the 2016/17 school year! Classes start this week and registration is still open. Your Children will enjoy specialized art education. 10 - 12 great classes,...

New Art Adventures this Spring

New Art Adventures this Spring

Our List of Spring Classes is in! Visit the studio or check out the Art Classes page. And choose your adventure!   Artmania offers classes for everyone; preschoolers, school-aged children, homeschoolers and adults. Learn about the world of art and study the...

New Territories

New Territories

Using the principles in mathematics of tiling and patterning, Tristesse Seeliger disassembles and then reassembles maps that focus on the shapes, textures and colour to recreate new territories. A Vancouver artist working in mixed media, Tristesse uses painting and...

March Break Art Camps

March Break Art Camps

It's Coming! It'll be here before you know it! March 13 - March 24 is Spring Break! What will your kids be doing? Artmania offer students a variety of projects and March Break is no exception. Register your children now for the opportunity to learn a variety of...

Klee Larsen

Klee Larsen

Artmania is currently presenting an incredible array of Canadian art. Blessed with many talented local artists and makers, the curator and owner, Mary Hay, is never at a lack for displaying beautiful and inspiring pieces on the walls of the Dundarave studio. Our...