Thursday, March 31, 2011

The Mural "Take Away Project" is %6 Funded!!!!


WOW!!! In just two weeks our project has backed by 12 people
and we are up to $670 but we only have 81 days to go
and we need your help to reach our goal!!
Click here to be a part of the Mural


help support Arts in Philadelphia and
the Portside Arts Center!

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Lets Make Noise!!

Lets Make Noise had their third class this week and they did a wonderful job turning noise into music!! This class has the children experiment with different instruments to see which ones they loved the best.


Painting & Drawing at the Portside!


This week the children made cityscapes and city sky lines out of old wall paper and different colored paper. They did a wonderful job with this project!!



Music Classes With Chris Johnson!!

People of all ages take our music classes so if you ever had a nack for music and wanted to explore it just give us a call!!


Thursday, March 24, 2011

Oh My Look At Our Students Paintings!






Make A Flying Machine At The Portside


Ornithopter
Coming in April
Create small flying machines!
This class is great for teens and adults who have been
looking to start a interesting hobby. During this course
students will actually design and construct small flying
contraptions that will fly powered by a tiny engine.
Instructed by local craftsman Buster Dimalanta

Advanced registration required
Call us for more info!! 251-427-1514

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Help Fund Our "Take Away" Project on Kickstarter.com


We have launched our "Take Away" project on Kickstarters.com a project funding website and we need your help in funding the project. We want to make educational fish playing cards in honor of our full building educational fish mural that will be completed this spring/summer. If we reach our goal of $10,000 by June 20th 2011 our project will be funded, which will help sustain the Portside Art Center and our scholarship fund! This is also the first time the community will be seeing what the mural will look like once it is complete. So check out our project on WWW.KICKSTARTER.COM and search for the Portside Arts Center's "Take Away" Project or click here

SPREAD THE WORD!!!!




Thank you for your support!!!




Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Drawing and Painting Class at the Portside!!


Drawing and Painting class learns to paint like a pro!!

Stained Glass Class at the Portside!!

The Stained Glass Class creating beautiful artwork!!

Mosaic Class at the Portside!!

Mosaic Class at the Portside working hard on their beautiful pieces.

Friday, March 4, 2011

Portside Arts Center Featured Artist of the Month!


Stephen Haigh

Stephen Haigh is a local Visual Artist and owner of the Philadelphia Fight Factory Mixed Martial Arts Studio in Fishtown. Stephen will be instructing two great new classes at the Portside in March.

Super Hero Creation starts March 17th from 4:30-6:00pm, children will focus on character building and illustration. Creative Lettering starts March 17th from 6:00-7:30pm teens will design there own letter fonts and learn the difference between vandalism and mural arts.

Stephen Haigh Visual Artist and Martial Arts Studio

www.stephenhaigh.net

www.philafightfactory.com