2025 Kiddo Classes

THE DREAM OF FREE ART...

Here at the Macoupin Art Collective, we believe that access to quality art instruction is crucial to every person's intellectual, emotional, and social development, regardless of financial situation or demographic.

And so, we offer free after-school activities to introduce kids to crafts and fine arts. Kids can come to The MAC to socialize with their peers and learn valuable skills that allow them to express their creativity.

Our free after-school art is all about exploration! Friends will be offered a few materials then kiddos are offered to explore! We will be there to help with questions and tips or tricks- but this is a self-directed class.

These classes are for kiddos who are school age!

Classes run on Tuesdays - 5pm to 6pm
Classes run Tuesday August 20, 2024 - May 6, 2025

There are NO classes:

Tuesday April 15
Tuesday May 6 is the last class for the school year

Kiddo summer classes start up in JUNE!!

Mr. Nick's Baby Music Classes will take your little ones (0-4 yrs) on a musical trip, igniting their curiosity while they learn cognitive skills in this 45 minute melodic adventure. Little musicians will build the soundtrack of their lives, sampling new sounds and feeling vibrations while traveling through decades of the best family jams (tolerable for adult ears, too)

Mr. Nick Davio is an accomplished and celebrated teaching artist and performer with a decade of experience in early childhood music. Listen to Mr. Nick Davio's full albums of original tunes, streaming on all platforms.

Note for parents:
We encourage parents to hang out in the studio to keep an eye on their kiddos and offer encouragement during classes, and we love to see you engaged in your kids' growth and development through art. However, we feel it necessary to share our educational philosophy to avoid stepping on any toes and hurting parents' feelings.

We believe that kids should be allowed to explore the materials and processes involved with making arts and crafts, and we want every project that our young friends take home to be uniquely theirs. To that end, we ask that parents try their best to refrain from doing any of the work for their kids.
If you want to be involved, you can remind them how to use the tools and materials properly, or help them remember the steps of a project, or encourage them to stay on track and pay attention to the instructor. But they should make all the decisions about where that paintbrush lands on the canvas, or where that sparkly bead should be glued on the sculpture, or what color glitter goes best with their collage. It's their art!
Don't be afraid to let them get messy and mess up. That is where some real learning takes place, in seeing what works and what doesn't.

Remember.. art is not always about taking home a perfect finished product. It's about playing with new tools and materials, and socializing with friends. It's about autonomy and free-thinking and making something of your very own. Let your kids make their own projects, and if you want to make something, you can take a class of your own!