The Spirit of Huntington Art Center is a not-for-profit group of artists coming together in an intimate environment to build a community that supports children with special needs and veterans through creative expression of art.
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Veterans and Kid’s Art Show Sunday, February 26 – 1pm to 4pm
February 25, 2012 by newmedia
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Holiday Happiness with the Veterans
January 11, 2012 by newmedia
The Spirit of Huntington celebrated the holidays in a special way this year by sharing our Trim the Tree Party with our friends at the Northport VA Hospital. We created custom ornaments by hand painting glass balls in our favorite artists’ styles, while white lights and a bright star finished our decoration of the special tree. But the real treat was sharing our hot chocolate and yummy treats with our honorable veterans. Judy Ingrassia, Head of Nursing and Shirley Pancir, Nurse Educator brought the Veterans to our center via shuttle bus. A good time was had by all as the children greeted our guests with handmade cards and cupcakes, as well as desserts donated by local restaurants, Bin 56, Red and Porto Vivo. The kids from the center were able to share all their newly acquired art knowledge and highlight their favorite artists as they presented the special projects that we worked on recently. It was heartwarming to see our children so respectfully interacting with our veterans as they shared stories of their service, their families and their lives with the kids. The children were so excited to learn so much from these gentlemen. The excitement really kicked up another notch when we got a special visit from none other than Kris Kringle himself! Santa made sure to hand out candy canes and lots of love as we all got great pictures and warm memories from our party. The veterans were happy to see all the great art and are excited to start their own classes at the center. It must be the ghost of George Washington still calling our veterans to serve our community! Most importantly, our special kids and honorable vets both seem to get ‘special love’ from each other during the holiday season, which is all about love and supporting each other!
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The Spirit Wall
October 16, 2011 by newmedia
October 16, 2011
Hi everybody!
We’re proud to announce that the Spirit of Huntington will be starting a new project next week. Our young artists and staff will be working on a new mural on the back of the art center, which we call “The Spirit Wall”. This week, all the kids at the center came up with drawings about how the wall should look. This mural will incorporate all of our passions, interests, and most importantly, our art. The money that we raised for the center in the past month will go to the materials needed for the mural. We look forward to starting it!
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Artists Come Alive!
August 30, 2011 by newmedia
Hello fellow artists!
As you may already know, we started a new class a few weeks ago at the Art Center. It’s called “Artists Come Alive!” So far we had two classes, and they were both very succ
essful as well as a lot of fun. The staff at the Spirit of Huntington decided to add this new class to give our students a better understanding about famous artists.If you want to know more about this class, go to our “Classes” page. Basically, every week we will cover a new famous artist. We learn about the artist as well as creating artwork by using the artist’s techniques. During our first class we learned about Jackson Pollock. He was a famous artist who focused on splatter painting. All of the kids enjoyed learning about him as well as doing splatter paint. You can check out the gallery to see pictures of us splatter painting!
The next week we focused on Andy Warhol, a famous pop-artist from the 1960′s. We also did a project based on his soup-can artwork. The kids had a lot of fun at this class as well, and the class turned out to be a success. If you want to come to our next class, it’s on Friday from 6:00 to 8:00pm. Visit our “Classes” page to find out more.
Hope to see you there!
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L.T. Cherokee’s Sculpture Class
August 24, 2011 by newmedia
L.T. Cherokee is a talented and successful sculptor, who has been teaching the art sculpture to students at the Spirit of Huntington Art Center. We are happy to announce that his sculpture class has become a
success. L.T. has taught his students great things during his time at the art center, and his students have become great sculptors.When L.T. started teaching at the center, many of his students were first timers. Cherokee began teaching them about the basics of sculpture, and a few weeks later they started their first project. After nearly 10 weeks, all of the students finished their projects.
With all the great things that L.T. taught them, all of their sculptures turned out great. To the right is the sculpture that his student Marina made. We hope you join us for our next session at the art center!
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“Mural” and “Artists Come Alive”
August 17, 2011 by newmedia
August 17, 2011
Hello Fellow Artists!
We have some pretty big news. First of all, we finished the outdoor mural project we’ve been working on this summer. All we need left is for everybody to put their handprints and signatures on the mural.
Anyway, we put up new p
ictures of the mural that you can check out in the gallery.Second of all, we added a news class on Friday. It’s called “Artists Come Alive!” Each week, we will feature a new famous artist such as Pablo Picasso, Vincent Van Gogh, etc. We will learn about them and create artwork using their styles and techniques. This will be a new kids class for kids ages 8 to 16. We started our first class last week and it was a lot of fun. You could check those pictures out in the gallery. If you want to learn more about our new class, go to our “Classes” page.
Hope you can come visit us!
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Summer Classes
July 10, 2011 by newmedia
July 10, 2011
Below is a list of the new art classes this summer:
Make sure you check out our new portraiture class and veteran class. Also, we added a new kids class on Monday including a pizza break. Hope to see you this summer!Category Painting | Tags: | No Comments
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The Art Show
July 3, 2011 by newmedia
July 3, 2011
Hi everyone!
Yesterday was a really big day for the art center. We finally had our opening art show. The show featured all the kids and their artwork was hung up for people to see. Everyone had a really fun time and we even got visitors to see us. Also, the photos are now up in the gallery so check it out!Happy Fourth of July!
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New Classes
June 22, 2011 by newmedia
During the summer, the Spirit of Huntington Art Center will be starting new classes. Here is a look at some of the things we will be starting:
Portraiture Class with Jeff Webb
Veteran Art Therapy with Erich Preis
“Kids Create” Class – we will be painting an outdoor mural for the summerVisit our “Classes” page for more details.
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Kid’s Art Show Coming
by newmedia
On July 2nd, join us at the Art Center for a special event. We will celebrate our opening art show as the “Kids Create” class hang up their own creations. Also, join us for refreshments during the show inside the Art Center.
Directly after the art show, we will post up new pictures in the gallery. We might also put up a new video of the show if we get a chance.
See ya there!
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