Spring Egg Hunt & Family Art Workshops
The Sun Valley Youth Arts Center presents a free opportunity for families on March 23rd, 2024! Enjoy an Art Workshop from 10:00am to 11:30am followed by an Egg Hunt from 11:30am-12:00pm.
This event is FREE for the entire family, all materials included! The event is on a “first come, first serve” basis, while supplies last. Registration sign in is required. All participants must be present to be seated once space becomes available. For additional information, please call: (818) 252-4619.
Spring Session 2024
April 11 to May 11, registration day, Saturday, April 6 from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon. Ceramics, painting, graffiti art, comic design and more!
Past Events
FREE Winter Holiday Workshops
Saturday Art Workshop Schedule: December 9 and 16, 2023 • 10a.m. – 12p.m.
Santa will visit the Stone House: December 16, 2023 • 10a.m. – 12p.m.
Please bring your camera to capture that special moment with Santa!
This series of Saturday art workshops are FREE for the entire family, all materials included! All workshops will be held outdoors and are on a “first come, first serve” basis, while supplies last. Registration sign in required. All participants must be present to be seated once space becomes available. All students must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.
For additional information, please call: (818) 252-4619
17th Annual Día de los Muertos Celebration
Wednesday, November 1, 2023
Event: 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
The Sun Valley Youth Arts Center is pleased to present the 17th Annual Día de los Muertos Celebration. Join us for a fun-filled evening of Art Workshops, a Student Art Exhibition, Refreshments, and Entertainment, such as performances by Grammy Award winner Lorenzo Martinez y sus Gavilanes, and Grupo Bella and Vanessa, who are also recipients of a Grammy.
Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) is an indigenous ritual of México celebrating life and the afterlife through art, music, and family unity. The celebration will conclude with an amazing ritual dance by Danza Temachtia Quetzacoatl. The public is welcome to participate in the community altar by bringing a photocopy/image of a loved one who has passed to place on the altar.
This event is FREE! For additional information call: (818) 252-4619
Fall Session 2023
Saturday Classes:
September 16 – October 14, 2023 • 5 week session (Schedule subject to change)
Location:
8642 Sunland Blvd., Sun Valley, CA 91352
Classes (Ages 6 to 17):
S-1 The Art of Origami
In this class students will be introduced to the Japanese art of Origami. Students will learn how to create 3D models out of a single piece of paper. Basic folds and techniques will be taught, students will become more accustomed to the paper folding process. Students will have the opportunity to create paper models of animals and plants, as well as objects that have practical uses, such as boxes and toys.
Saturdays – Time: 10:00-11:30a.m. • Age: 9-17 • Limit: 7 • Cost: $22.50
Instructor: Graciela M. Arancibia • Location: Stone House Lawn
S-2 Little Art Studio
Students will create 2 and 3-dimensional art while studying the great masterpieces of master artists including the works of Kandinsky, Van Gogh, Lichtenstein and O’Keeffe. These artists will serve as inspiration for students to create paintings and sculptures. The process of printmaking and ceramics will also be explored.
Saturdays – Time: 10:00-11:30a.m. • Age: 6-12 • Limit: 8 • Cost: $22.50
Instructor: Allegra Ché • Location: Stone House
S-3 Game Design
Learn to design retro video games! Students will create their own retro video game, such as “Pong” and “Pacman” while utilizing the appication “Scratch”. Students will learn to code their games to enhance sound and graphics with templates. This class is for beginners.
Saturdays – Time: 10:00-11:30a.m. • Age: 9-17 • Limit: 7 • Cost: $22.50
Instructor: Giovanni Rubio • Location: Stone House Digital Lab
S-4 Piñata & Papier-Mâché
Students will create amazing piñata sculptures using the papier-mâché process! Sculpting techniques such as space, form, balance and texture will be implemented. Students will also study the great works of master papier mâché artist/sculptors such as the Linares Family to fuel their creativity!
Saturdays – Time: 10:00-11:30a.m. • Age: 6-17 • Limit: 12
Instructor: Shandu One • Location: Stone House Lawn
S-5 Interactive Art
In this series of classes, students will utilize digital applications such as “Scratch” and “Makey Makey”! These kits include wires with alligator clips
to connect objects. Large tactile arrows made out of tin foil, bananas, play dough and other assorted materials that can conduct energy to become a
substitute personalized touchpad for traditional switches used in mainstream games like “Mario” and piano/music games. Games that are
played using arrow keys, spacebars or microcontrollers can also be used with your personalized “Makey Makey” touchpads.
Saturdays – Time: 12:30-2:00p.m. • Age: 9-17 • Limit: 7 • Cost: $22.50
Instructor: Giovanni Rubio • Location: Stone House Digital Lab
S-6 Yarn Painting
Yarn Painting is a traditional Mexican form of art making by an indigenous group know as the Huichol people, located Northwest of México. These
yarn paintings are decorative, but serve as images for story telling and capturing historical events. Students will create yarn paintings, inspired by
examples created by the Huichol people to tell their own story of nature and landscapes.
Saturdays – Time: 12:30-2:00p.m. • Age: 6-17 • Limit: 7 • Cost: $22.50
Instructor: Jacquelyn Ibanez • Location: Stone House
S-7 Día de los Muertos Pueblito (Little Town)
Student will collectively construct a Día de los Muertos pueblito (little town) entirely out of cardboard! This amazing class will teach students the
fundamentals of model scaling, cardboard construction and working as a group to complete the pueblito (little town).
Saturdays – Time: 12:30-2:00p.m. • Age: 9-17 • Limit: 12 • Cost: $22.50
Instructor: Shandu One • Location: Stone House Lawn
S-8 Imagination Creations!
Students will explore the many regions of México focusing on the celebration of “El Día de los Muertos”. Students will create inspired works
of art reflecting Mexico’s colorful landscape while celebrating this ancient ritual, remembering the lives of our ancestors with music, art and culture.
Saturdays – Time: 12:30-2:00p.m. • Age: 6-9 • Limit: 8 • Cost: $22.50
Instructor: Adriana Franco • Location: Stone House Lawn
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About Sun Valley Youth Arts Center:
Opened in 2006, the Sun Valley Youth Arts Center mission is to provide quality visual and performing arts programming to the community of Sun Valley and schools in the greater Los Angeles area. The facility functions as a cultural Mecca, a utopian learning center for youth to indulge in a fine arts experience with a variety of workshops such as painting, drawing, digital imaging, graphic design, game design, photography, movie and video production, toy design, screen printing, street art, mix media, culinary arts and cake decorating, sculpture, ceramics, music, and theatre classes. The capacity of each discipline will entice students to learn the fundamentals of each medium and genre of the visual and performing arts.
The Center also celebrates Sun Valley’s multicultural communities with numerous cultural events throughout the year such as Día de los Muertos, Afro-Cuban Music and Arts Festival, and Asian and Chinese New Years celebrations.
In addition, the facility is utilized as a meeting place for artists and organizations to entertain. We hope to create a local artist market to help promote local and international artists to exhibit their work in the Sun Valley Youth Arts Center Gallery and enhance the art experience with the community.
The Sun Valley Youth Arts Center is a wonderful asset to the existing landscape of Sun Valley and will continue to build bridges with the surrounding communities and schools in the City of Los Angeles, Council District 6.
Since 1987, the Stone House is registered as one of Los Angeles historical landmarks and serves as administrative office space and a digital lab for the Sun Valley Youth Arts Center.
Sun Valley Youth Arts Center Past Events 2021
