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Make Truck

Coming To A Neighborhood Near You!
The SAA Make Truck can be found at festivals, community events, block parties, and artist residencies at schools and local organizations.
This art truck transports the studio to you!
The Make Truck can add color to any event and we can tailor activities to your event's needs/ curriculum/ or educator's interest.

Make Truck For Your Event/ Festival

Activity Tent

The Make Truck gives a creative addition to your event! We can tailor the activity to your event. a take home project for all ages.

All Ages
Size: Minimum 100 participants
Time: 5 - 8 minute crafts, tailored to the theme of your event
Minimum duration: 2 hours; or until supplies run out
Price: $2 / project (i.e. $2 x 200 participants = $400)

Make Truck School Programs

Clay Project

Students will create individual hand built clay projects: coil building, clay sculpture figurine, or wearable Fimo pendant. All projects will be air dry or Sculpey/ Fimo materials for them to take home at the end of the workshop.
Use of clay techniques, textures, and tools are demonstrated by the artist.

Grade: Preschool and up
Class Size: up to 25 students per session
Time: 45 minutes per session
Minimum duration: 2 hours
Price: $500, $150 per extra hour

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Fresco Secco + Make Paint

Fresco Secco is a wall painting technique where you mix pigment onto dried plaster. You will receive your own plaster block approx. 5" x 7" to create your painting; image can be a cultural reference such as Egyptian murals or famous works of art such as The Last Supper. You will also create one tempera paint color by mixing pigment and raw egg for your fresco secco.

Grade: 3rd Grade and up
Class Size: up to 30 students per session
Time: 45 minutes activity session with 15 minute prep/ cleanup
Minimum reservation duration: 2 hours
Price: $500 for 2 hour session, $150 per extra hour

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Needle Felting Animal

Needle felting is a dry felting technique which uses barbed needles to entangle wool fibers to form a small soft sculpture. Students will create one small simple creature to create.

Grade: 3rd Grade and up
Class Size: up to 25 students per session
Time: 45 minutes per session with 15 minutes of prep/ cleanup
Minimum duration: 2 hours
Price: $500 for 2 hour session, $150 per extra hour

Book Arts

Students will create their own book for sketching, journal writing, or creative story. Depending on age, we have two types of book art options: accordion fold or pamphlet stitch. Critter accordion fold will allow for time to create your critter cover that can be pre-made to assemble for younger students or an elaborate critter designs for older students. If you decide to go with the pamphlet stitch, we will also show traditional marbling techniques for the cover.

Critter Accordion Book Grade: Kindergarten and up
Stitch Pamphlet Sketchbook + Marbling Grade: 3rd Grade and up
Class Size: up to 25 students per session
Time: 45 minutes per session with 15 minutes of prep/ cleanup
Minimum duration: 2 hours
Price: $500 for 2 hour session, $150 per extra hour

Printmaking

Students create individual prints: carved block print or Gelli plate printing.
Block, or relief, printing includes linocuts, lino prints, woodblock prints, rubber stamping - pretty much any method where you carve into a material (a block, plate, etc.) and print an impression of the carved surface with ink.
Gelli Plate Printing uses a gelatin plate to press to fabric or paper.  The process is easy as the paint is put on the gelli surface, spread out with a brayer then a variety of stencils and other texture objects are placed on the gelli plate, removed and placed on the print surface. 

Gelli Plate Printing Grade: Preschool and up
Block Printing Grade: 3rd Grade and up
Class Size: up to 25 students per session
Time: 45 minutes per session with 15 minutes of prep/ cleanup
Minimum duration: 2 hours
Price: $500 for 2 hour session, $150 per extra hour

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Encaustic Painting/ Printing

Encaustic is painting or printing with hot wax. Using crayons and hot plates we will paint with hot wax or draw an image on the hot plate and monoprint an encaustic image. We can make abstract images like Jasper John's artwork, images of wax flowers, and more.

Grade: 3rd Grade and up
Class Size: up to 25 students per session
Time: 45 minutes per session with 15 minutes of prep/ cleanup
Minimum duration: 2 hours
Price: $500 for 2 hour session, $150 per extra hour

Make Truck All-Assembly School Installations

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Mural Painting

The entire school will create a mural or series of micro murals (minimum
4 ft x 4ft) on a permanent wall or removal panel/canvas. The design is constructed between the artist and the school admins.

Grade: All Grades
Time: 45 minutes per session with 15 minutes of prep/ cleanup
Single-Day or Multiple-Day Sessions
Price: Depending on size; $1,000 - $2,000

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Sculpture Installation

The entire school will create a sculpture for interior or exterior display. Material and scope of the project will be designed by the artist and the school admins.

Grade: All Grades
Time: 45 minutes per session with 15 minutes of prep/ cleanup
Single-Day or Multiple-Day Sessions
Price: Depending on size; $1,000 - $2,000

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Mosaic Installation

The entire school will create a mosaic for interior or exterior display. The mosaic can be a sculpture or a mural format.  Material and scope of the project will be designed by the artist and the school admins.

Grade: All Grades
Time: 45 minutes per session with 15 minutes of prep/ cleanup
Single-Day or Multiple-Day Sessions
Price: Depending on size; $1,000 - $2,000

Bronwyn Eves Memorial Project

The Bronwyn Eves Memorial Project selects one school a year for an all-assembly art project.
This is completely free to the school and provided by the friends and family of Bronwyn Eves.
It includes workshops that will develop the final installation project chosen by school admins to best fit on their campus.
More about this program, how to sign your school up and to see past year school projects; information is provided here.

Make Truck Educator's Professional Development Program

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Educator Professional Development

Our artists can lead a professional development workshop at your school
or organization. Watercolor, collage, drawing, pastels, printmaking, or ceramic workshops are available.

Group Size: 20

Minimum Duration: 2 Hours
Price: $500

Reserve The Make Truck
Our Education Director, Erin Svendsen, will be your contact person for your reservation needs and questions. Please, fill out the form with your initial event request and she will get in touch.

We require:
- At least 2 weeks advance notice.
- Deposit of $50 to reserve the truck
- The Make Truck is active between May - November months for outdoor events


We will be coordinating the reservation request with our studio calendar and Birthday Coordinator schedule. It may take a couple days for a response/ confirmation of dates.

Do You Want The Make Truck For Your Own Arty Party?

To reserve the Make Truck for your birthday, retirement, private party, please check out our rental packages, here.

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Bronwyn Eves Memorial Fund
In loving memory of Bronwyn Eves, her family and friends have initiated a county-wide program to inspire and develop art education. SAA partners with local schools to offer hands-on workshops to their entire student body that culminates in the creation and installation of a public art project. The Eves family and friends sponsored the SAA Make Truck to more easily bring the studio to the surrounding communities. This outreach as well as the continual development of the virtual Art Outreach program has engaged nationwide participation in our programs.

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​ 700 North 4th Street
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Main Office, Studios,
M.G. Nelson Family
Gallery, and Edwards Place
​ 700 North 4th Street
​Springfield, IL 62702
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Saturday 10 AM - 3 PM
217-523-2631
office@springfieldart.org
  • About
    • Contact
    • Hiring
  • Education
    • Classes >
      • Book Arts
      • Ceramics
      • Digital Media
      • Drawing
      • Fiber Arts
      • Glass
      • Metals & Jewelry
      • Mixed Media
      • Painting
      • Pastels
      • Photography
      • Printmaking
      • Sculpture
      • Teen
      • Youth
    • One-Nighters
    • Open Studio
    • Summer Art Camp
    • Scholarships
    • Instructor Bios
  • Outreach
    • Art Outreach
    • Field Trips
    • Make Truck
    • Bronwyn Eves Memorial Project
    • Art As Therapy
  • Events
    • 6x6
    • Art Synergy
    • Film Series
    • Fine Art Fair
    • Paint the Street
    • Palette to Palate
    • Roasted
    • The Great SAA Pumpkin Patch
    • Yart Sale
  • Galleries
    • Collective >
      • For Juried Artists
    • M.G. Nelson Family Gallery
    • Call For Entries
    • Residency
    • Past Exhibitions
  • Edwards Place
  • Library
    • Library Events
  • Rentals
    • Arty Party
    • Field Trips
    • Adult Events
    • Team building
    • Rental Spaces
  • Join + Give
    • Membership
    • Donate
    • Sponsorship Opportunities
    • Volunteer
  • Shop
    • Art Supplies >
      • Clay
      • Clay Tools
    • Make Kits
    • Murder Mystery Game
    • CHECKOUT