This summer, the Naples Art Association at The von Liebig Art Center hosted its 10th annual ARTScool program from June 2 to Aug. 1 for children ages 3 to 15. ARTScool offered more than 40 classes in painting, drawing, sculpture, clay modeling, photography and much more — all taught by professional artists and certified art instructors and all conducted in professional classroom settings.

Class descriptions:

-- All American Artists

Students study selected American art and artists, and create works of art based upon the style and subject matter of the selected artists.

Instructor: Krasowski

-- Animal Galleria

Art appreciation for the younger set! Students create works of art in a variety of 2D and 3D based upon styles of famous artists using animals as their models.

Instructor: Krasowski

-- Art about Bugs and Butterflies

Explore the world of insects by learning fun facts while drawing and painting the little critters living in your own back yard.

Instructor: Goetz

-- Art and Ornaments Around the World

Learn the art related history of various cultures and how those differences are expressed at holidays. Students create ornaments from around the world for their own Christmas tree or the Naples Art Association Christmas Tree.

Instructor: Rankin

-- Art of Costume: Experiments in Clothing

Explore the art of costume and wearable sculpture. Students integrate found objects, pattern, textures, fabrics, and materials to examine symbolism, form, and function in costume.

*Includes Materials fee, $10. Instructor: Coble

-- Art of the Holocaust and Mixed Media of the Holocaust

Learn about the Holocaust and its effects on the art movements of the mid 20th century through either a printmaking or a mixed media class. Create for an exhibition sponsored by the Holocaust Museum.

Art of the Holocaust (Printmaking), Instructor: Willis

Mixed Media and the Holocaust (Mixed Media), Instructor: Hollingsworth

-- Art Papers and Simple Books

In this class, students will create painted paper and then learn simple binding techniques using the art papers you created.

*Materials fee, $10. Instructor: Mjolsness

-- Care of Magical Creatures

Students will create magical/mythical creatures and settings found in the Harry Potter series in different media and examine how many of the creatures are from ancient and modern cultures.

Instructor: Krasowski

-- ClaysCOOL

Come learn the proper procedures in ceramic art building and glazing techniques. Make fun and exciting projects to take home including: plates, cups, and sculpture.

Instructor: Hammel

-- Comic Strips and Manga Characters

Learn to create your own comic strips and the art of Japanese anime characters using pen and ink, markers, and colored pencils.

Instructor: Casteel

-- Creating the Picture in My Mind

Students create beautiful works of art and learn how texture, line, color, shape and space are also the adjectives and adverbs that create and connect the visual images in our mind to what we read or when we think.

Instructor: Lee

-- Drawing

Students who love to draw will be shown how to use a variety of pencils and charcoal for rendering still life, landscape and portraits.

Instructor: Saladino

-- Drawing and Mixed Media

Students will work flat or in three dimensions with a single medium or in several. Ideal projects include collage and assemblage.

Instructor: Hollingsworth

-- Enviroart: Florida Fish, Birds, and Mammals

Discover your local Southwest Florida environment through art. Learn about the cool creatures and cultures that call Florida home. Students will work with clay, found objects and traditional materials.

Instructor: Davis

-- I’m a Basket Case… all tied up in knots!

This class will explore the wonderful world of basket weaving and macramé. We will weave reed baskets and create nautical knots wall hangings.

Instructor: Casteel

-- Illustration and Cartooning

Students use a variety of media to create an illustration as a class project, and learn how to draw characters for a storyboard comic book.

Instructor: Mjolsness

-- Jewelry Making

Explore many facets and materials to create beautiful wearable jewelry. Enameling, leather, rope, and beads are just some of the materials that will be explored.

*Materials fee, $10. Instructor: Casteel

-- Litterbugs

Use recycled materials and found objects to create various creatures and critters.

Instructor: Willis

-- Make Your Own Greeting Cards

Students create greeting cards with their own images. Learn to scan artwork and layout designs with PhotoShop, InDesign, and Quark. The class creates a set of cards to sell in our shop.

Instructor: Mjolsness

-- Mapping Your World

Students create a variety of two and three dimensional interior and exterior maps, scrolls, relief maps, and constructions.

Instructor: Ellis

-- Masquerade

Discover and create masks, puppets, and adornments from around the globe such as African masks, Mardi Gras masks, dragon puppets, Native American medicine bundles, and Egyptian collar necklaces.

Instructor: Krasowski

-- Mixed Media Collage

Rauschenburg, Rivers, Warhol, and Pop Art will be discussed before making projects combining 3D painting, collagraph, and printmaking.

Instructor: Saladino

-- Modern Maze Masters

Kids love mazes and through this session students build two and three dimensional mazes in the styles of modern masters.

Instructor: Ellis

-- Paper Mache: Paste, Paint, and Cloth

Create sculptural animals and food items out of paper mache, paint, and cloth.

Instructor: Moore

-- Print and Paint Your Heart Out

Students work with easy block cutting tools to create finished prints from their drawings and experiment with printing different materials.

Instructor: Goetz

-- Printmaking Basics

Learn the basic concepts of a printmaking studio. Create embossings, collagraph prints, monotype prints, and relief prints using non- toxic water-based ink and etching press.

*Materials fee, $10. Instructor: Willis

-- Shapes and Colors of Our World

Learn beginning design techniques through use of simplified shapes and color.

Instructor: Willis

-- Silk Screening Basics

Learn the basics of silk screening using various stenciling techniques. Create multiple designs on paper and print a t-shirt for the final project.

*Materials fee, $10. Instructor: Willis

-- Super Science and Amazing Art

Science, art, and physical activity! Create art and learn about our world with these classes: Rockets, Space, The Inventor’s Workshop and Robots, Super Science Specials,

Right Brain Drawing, Photography, Survivor, and Dinosaurs.

*Materials fee, $10. Instructor: Varied

-- Thump, Bump, Bang, Clang …Musical Art

Learn about a variety of cultures around the world to create original projects that make noise.

Instructor: Goetz

-- Time Warp

Go back in time! Students create works of art in 2D and 3D media based on pre-historic, ancient Egyptian, Grecian, Chinese, Mexican, and Native American cultures.

Instructor: Krasowski

-- Under the Sea

Learn about the wonders of aquatic life while creating clay fish and shell necklaces, tropical fish paintings, mermaids and underwater castles, penguin puppets, and more.

Instructor: Krasowski

-- Watercolor Painting

Explore the techniques of watercolor painting to include: alla prima, wet in wet, wet over dry, dry brush, variegated wash, spattering.

Instructor: Saladino