Surrealism: Ages 11-16

Discover surrealism and try your hand at creating your own surrealist art!

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1 Choose My Schedule

2 Is This Activity For Me?

Tablet posing and thinking
Stick figures of varying sizes waving

My age is between 11 - 16

Yellow and blue gear

All experience levels are welcome.

Child and mother stick figure standing

I can do this independently.

An open book

All reading levels are welcome.

3 More About my Activity

Have fun exploring Surrealism through playing games and making art. You might even discover something about your dreams or subconscious thoughts along the way! Artists will learn about art techniques such as automatic drawing, exquisite corpse, and frottage.

4 What Materials Do I Need?

Basic drawing supplies (including pencil crayons or crayons) and paper, scissors and glue, magazines or newspapers that can be cut out of.

5 I learn useful skills too?

  • Communicating
  • Collaborating
  • Creative thinking

6 My Guide!

Amber Santos

I’m of German Canadian, Anishanaabe and Metis descent. I’m a practicing artist with over 20 years of exhibiting and selling paintings and drawings, painting murals and teaching art!

I’m a beginner surfer—I’m not very good at it, but every wave I drop is worth the hundreds of wipe outs.

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