by Mary Hay | Nov 3, 2016 | News
The best gifts are made by your heart and hands! Artmania is offering timely holiday programs to their list of classes. Painting, fabric design, sculpture, drawing, holiday cards and ornaments just in time for your holiday decorating and gift giving. We have classes...
by Mary Hay | Oct 23, 2016 | News
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...
by Mary Hay | Oct 17, 2016 | News
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...
by Mary Hay | Oct 11, 2016 | News
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...
by Mary Hay | Oct 2, 2016 | News
“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...
by Mary Hay | Sep 26, 2016 | News
Most of artmania’s Fall mobile classes have begun. And geometry is the first theme of this fall session. Why? Because geometry, just like art, illustrates the shape, size, and relative position of figures in space. Math (geometry) is a field concerned with documenting...
