ARTrageous Adventures

Address: 2121 W 21st St, Minneapolis, MN, 55405
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Website ARTrageous Adventures
Phone (612) 423-7554

ARTrageous Adventures is a full service art studio with programming for all ages. Amanda Vallone and her staff are available to facilitate your creativity. My favorite thing about this studio is the huge bins of recyclables organized for reuse in products. They had bins of fabric, paper and mixed recyclables that artists can freely use in their creations. The studio is perfectly organized for amazingly messy activities.

The studio is nestled in the heart of the Kenwood community (directly across the street from Kenwood Elementary) and is an easy drive from Uptown, Edina, Linden Hills, Lyn-Lake and Downtown. I found it worth the drive from Northeast Minneapolis, but it does help to know your way around that area of town.

Studio Saturdays

Studio Saturdays are times when families can come in and create whatever they want together. Pay one parent/child fee when booking your time slot and use the studios supplies to get creative — without making a mess at home. Registration for a specific time is required.

ARTrageous birthday parties

Amanda and her staff at ARTrageous Adventures will help you host a art-centered birthday party. Just give them a call for more information. Prefer to DIY at home? order an It’s My Birthday Box with supplies for party activities to pick up and use at home. Find details for this and other home birthday party ideas in our At-home birthday listings.

ARTrageous summer camps

The studio offers summer camps and other camps throughout the year. Find updated dates and prices in our annual summer camp guide.

Crafty Wednesday – With ARTrageous Adventures

The following article was original published by Joy Peters October 14, 2015.

This month, I really wanted to make sugar skull crafts for our monthly art project. As easy as this project is, I could not have pulled it off at home. First it would have required me to find a project online, print a list of supplies and navigate a craft store. I really hate craft stores – they are so overwhelming. Then I would have had to get all my kids around the dining table, cater to their various levels of ability and interest, and referee the inevitable fights. Then, if I survived that, I would have to decide whether I would be cleaning up the mess myself in time for dinner or if I would try to make the kids help.

Thank goodness, Amanda Vallone volunteered to help us out. We headed over to Kenwood neighborhood to do our project in the ARTrageous Adventures studio.

This was my first visit to ARTrageous Adventures; and I fell in love. There are bins full of paper scrap, fabric, and mixed media ready for kids to create. There are large pumps of paint. There is every kind of art supply a person could need. And best of all, there is an attitude of creativity. Wait, NO!, best of all – the mess gets left there!

Station One (our favorite station) was sculpting skulls out of air-dry clay. Amanda gave us each a chunk of air-dry clay and set out markers, beads, jewels and feathers. To start out, we just played with the clay a little. It felt good just to smash it around and feel it in our hands. After a bit, we started sculpting our skulls. I chose to do something more traditional, while my family each did their own thing. We ended up with an Alien Skull, a monster skull and a snake skull and little miss broke her clay in half so she could make two skulls – one for herself and one for her baby sister.

Decorating was fun and easy. We picked out our beads and jewels and feathers and pushed them into the clay.

Had we not been enjoying the process and the company, this project could have taken 10 minutes. I think we spent about half an hour on it. Then we moved onto making sugar skull masks out of paper plates. Amanda had some plates pre-cut in skull shapes (using the outer ridge for teeth at the bottom), but some of us chose to cut our own. Then we decorated these too. We cut out paper hearts for facial features, glued on flowers and other bits and colored with markers.

ARTrageous Adventures provided my family with this private craft night to enable me to write this article before the holiday. They will be offering several seasonal workshops and events to the public this month. Drop in studio hours are Monday through Saturday.

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