Provider Details
Provider: Art. Play. Learn.
Contact Details
Address
9811 Mallard Drive, Suite 208
Laurel, MD 20708
Laurel, MD 20708
Cultural Organization
Art Play Learn provides top of the line educational, creation and entertainment experiences to all ages, and all levels. Our programs include Homeschool Tutorials, After-school Programs, Small-group and Individual Tutoring, Arts Showcases, programs for adults and families, and more. We specialize in integrations of all kinds and deliver programs both in-person at our Learning Center and online via Zoom. Our innovative MakerSpace program and Teaching Artist support programs will be launched in Fall 2023. We are always looking for enterprising Teaching Artists to partner with us in pursuit of creating innovative programs.
Events and Programs Offered
Recycled Art: Paper Animals Elementary
Students use developmentally appropriate strategies for studying animal features. Younger Elementary students focus on differences between, fur and feathers, beaks and noses, legs and fins, etc. Upper Elementary focuses on more specific traits and start to delve into the Biology Classification System. Younger students read…
Program/Event Format:
In School Workshop, After School/Weekend
Art Forms:
Visual Art and Design
We Made a Play!
Students use improvisation and story-building techniques to create an original script and then produce a play. Depending on how the much school-based support is available, we may be able to not just design but create sets, costumes, lighting and sound effects. Lots of opportunities for…
Program/Event Format:
In School Residency, After School/Weekend
Art Forms:
Visual Art and Design, Theater, Storytelling, Puppetry, Music, Dance and Movement, Creative Writing
Recycled Art: Paper Animals Middle School
Students use developmentally appropriate strategies for studying animal features with a focus on inherited traits. All students create an animal paper sculpture using a combination of media, including paint, and recycled paper/cardboard.
Program/Event Format:
In School Workshop, After School/Weekend
Art Forms:
Visual Art and Design
Physics of Light & Color (High School)
This 1-2 day residency/workshop or field trip immerses students in activities that give them a visceral understanding of light waves. Students will answer the questions: What is light? What are the different kinds of light? What is color? What is the difference between color and…
Program/Event Format:
In School Residency, In School Workshop, After School/Weekend
Art Forms:
Visual Art and Design
Physics & Chemistry of Light and Color (Elementary & Middle)
This 4-5 day residency immerses the students in activities that give them a visceral understanding of light waves, and electrons. Students will answer the questions: What is light? What are the different kinds of light? What is color? What is the difference between color and…
Program/Event Format:
In School Residency, In School Workshop, After School/Weekend
Art Forms:
Visual Art and Design
Mitigating vicarious trauma using Contemplative Art and Self-Care
This workshop assists educators in understanding the meaning and impacts of vicarious trauma. It will also assist participants in gaining resources to improve their mental and physical health. Each unit is devoted to developing mindfulness and self-awareness, to de-stress before or after teaching. Contemplative art…
Program/Event Format:
Professional Development
Art Forms:
Visual Art and Design
Physics of Light & Color (Elementary & Middle)
This 1-2 day residency/workshop or field trip immerses students in activities that give them a visceral understanding of light waves. Students will answer the questions: What is light?; What are the different kinds of light?; and What is color? At least one spectrum based art…
Program/Event Format:
In School Residency, In School Workshop, After School/Weekend
Art Forms:
Visual Art and Design
Physics & Chemistry of Light and Color (High School)
This 4-5 day residency immerses the students in activities that give them a visceral understanding of light waves, and electrons. Students will answer the questions: What is light?; What are the different kinds of light?; and What is color? They will learn about what electrons…
Program/Event Format:
In School Residency, In School Workshop, After School/Weekend
Art Forms:
Visual Art and Design
Meditation and Empathy
This workshop assists instructors in how to utilize meditation, mindfulness, and presence techniques in the classroom. The strategies offered may be used in a variety of ways, including guiding students towards the natural transitions in the classroom, tools for self-soothing/de-stressing, and deepening empathy towards self…
Program/Event Format:
Professional Development
Art Forms:
Visual Art and Design, Theater, Storytelling, Puppetry, Music, Dance and Movement, Digital Arts/Media, Creative Writing
Making Movies
Students use storybuilding techniques to create an original script and then produce a movie. Lots of opportunities for students with every strength and competency, including performing, writing, scribing, directing, focusing lights, running cameras, holding microphones, graphic design, editing, writing music and more. ELA (writing), Science…
Program/Event Format:
In School Residency, After School/Weekend
Art Forms:
Visual Art and Design, Theater, Storytelling, Puppetry, Music, Dance and Movement, Digital Arts/Media, Creative Writing
Friction & Tension with Fabric Arts (High School)
This 2-day residency or all day field trip immerses students in activities that give them a visceral understanding of friction and tension. High School Science standard HS-PS2-6 is addressed. Students will first engineer a way to adjust tension on a rudimentary loom and then create…
Program/Event Format:
In School Residency, In School Workshop, After School/Weekend
Art Forms:
Visual Art and Design
Friction & Tension with Fabric Arts (Elementary & Middle)
This 2-day residency or all day field trip immerses students in activities that give them a visceral understanding of friction and tension. They will create a remnant on a rudimentary loom to make the connection between the science and fabric arts.
Program/Event Format:
In School Residency, In School Workshop, After School/Weekend
Art Forms:
Visual Art and Design
Establishing Respectful Boundaries
Establishing Respectful Boundaries is an important part of our teaching, and indeed, life experience. However, it may be challenging to address both internally and externally within the classroom and beyond. In this workshop, participants will practice delving deeper into speaking authentically in a compassionate yet…
Program/Event Format:
In School Workshop, After School/Weekend, Professional Development
Art Forms:
Visual Art and Design
Emotional Learning Visual Arts: Tree of Hope
Feeling hopeful can be difficult, especially this time of year. We tend to be hard on ourselves, and our thoughts can be frenetic, making it difficult to be peaceful and calm. This course focuses on those obstacles that get in the way of us feeling…
Program/Event Format:
In School Workshop, After School/Weekend, Professional Development
Art Forms:
Visual Art and Design
Emotional Learning Visual Arts: Identifying Feelings
“This Zoom-delivered workshop helps students identify their feelings and express them through placing watercolors intuitively on a paper body, allowing them to better manage feelings of stress and PTSD. Students are guided in clearing the mind with breath work, then given a “body outline” template…
Program/Event Format:
In School Workshop, After School/Weekend, Professional Development
Art Forms:
Visual Art and Design
Emotional Learning Visual Arts: Healing Postcards
Participants are guided in a simple yet effective exercise involving journal writing, and contemplative painting with watercolors. Students will learn the therapeutic value of self-expression while gaining a new perspective on a stressful event or person in their lives. This is an excellent exercise to…
Program/Event Format:
In School Workshop, After School/Weekend, Professional Development
Art Forms:
Visual Art and Design
Developing Emotional Capacity
Understanding about what we feel, developing greater comfort with the full range of our emotions, and learning healthy emotional boundaries helps to reduce the experience of overwhelm or stress. In this workshop, we will explore how to expand our emotional range and understand more fully…
Program/Event Format:
Professional Development
Art Forms:
Visual Art and Design, Theater, Storytelling, Puppetry, Music, Dance and Movement, Digital Arts/Media, Creative Writing
Chemistry of Light & Color (High School)
This 2-3 day residency/ workshop or all day field trip immerses students in activities that give them a visceral understanding of electrons and how they affect magnetism and which pigments absorb which light waves. High School Science standards HS-PS1-1, HS-PS4-1, HS-PS4-4 are addressed. Art activities…
Program/Event Format:
In School Residency, In School Workshop, After School/Weekend
Art Forms:
Visual Art and Design
Chemistry of Light & Color (Elementary & Middle)
This 2-3 day residency/ workshop or all day field trip immerses students in activities that give them a visceral understanding of electrons and how they affect magnetism and which pigments absorb which light waves. Art activities will give students the opportunity to connect the chemistry…
Program/Event Format:
In School Residency, In School Workshop, After School/Weekend
Art Forms:
Visual Art and Design
Biology of Sight/Optical Illusions and Why they Work
This hands-on workshop explains why optical illusions work. Elementary School students focus on perspective and how our brain interprets the data our eye takes in. They will recieve instruction on how to draw a simple (and potentially more complex, depending on ability) optical illusion. Middle…
Program/Event Format:
In School Residency, In School Workshop, After School/Weekend
Art Forms:
Visual Art and Design