Bad Art Class at The Arts Center in Orange – Orange, VA

Just in time for the holidays, the Arts Center invites you to forget everything you know about good taste, artistic skill, tasteful color combinations, proper composition, and knowing when to stop.

In BAD ART, your mission is simple: make the worst holiday art you possibly can.

Think Ugly Christmas Sweater—but with paint, colored pencils, collage, glitter, sparkles, thread, mixed media, and whatever other terrible decisions we can put on a table.

Make an appallingly bad Christmas card. Create a tiny piece of holiday art absolutely nobody asked for. Produce the perfect stocking stuffer for someone you would like to confuse. Combine colors that should never meet. Add too much glitter. Then add more. Glue something where it clearly does not belong.

No artistic experience is necessary. In fact, artistic experience may be a disadvantage.

There are no mistakes in this class—only opportunities to make things worse.

Come ready to laugh, experiment, make a mess, and temporarily abandon your better judgment. At the end of the class, we’ll admire everyone’s regrettable achievements and celebrate the very worst of the BAD ART.

The holidays are stressful enough. Your art doesn’t have to be good.