ANNE STORRS

The Art Garage is a creative place. During the school year classes are held in the garage and in the summer things move outside. Surrounded by large trees, gardens, topiary and with a shady grape arbor as an outdoor classroom, it’s a lively place with room to run and places to explore. The Art Garage is located in the South Tabor neighborhood. 

September through June, Anne offers after school classes with themes such as: What’s Up With Clay?, Connected to Trees, Spring Into Drawing. Classes are 2 hours long with a big art opening at the end of the term. Classes generally serve students in 1^st through 5^th grades, but Anne also works other ages.

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In the summer, Anne is joined by her sister Julia (or other artists or educators). Together they run week long camps which focus on selected themes. In last summers COLORWORKS camp, students  created cave paintings, mixed and invented color names, studied the Ndbele painters from South Africa, learned about a new blue discovered at OSU, studied the colorful artist Yayoi Kusama and made a color wheel from plants found in the garden. It all culminated in a art presentation at camps end attended by parents and friends.

Anne was involved in the building of Atkinson Elementary Learning Gardens and created the website ayearintheschoolgarden.org. She taught art through Artist in the Schools, Saturday Academy, Young Audiences and has run classes and camps for the last five years at The Art Garage.

Since moving back to Portland, Julia Storrs has taught after school art classes with Metropolitan Learning Center and The Art Garage. Currently, she is working on a new body of artwork and volunteering at SOS-Safety Off the Streets- a 75 bed shelter for women, of the Transitions Project.

Details from the COLORWORKS Art Opening: Ruby in the Yayoi Kusama booth!

 COLORWORKS celebration!

 Colorwheel created with plants from The Art Garage garden for the COLORWORKS 2018 summer camp.

 COLORWORKS mixing red and blue.

 Ndebele house from COLORWORKS Camp summer 2018

 Ndebele house from COLORWORKS Camp summer 2018