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Another Dimension: Drawing, Ceramics
July 25 - July 29, 2016 Monday - Friday 1:30 - 5:45 pm Drawing: Beyond 2D Challenge the line and explore ways that drawing can explode into space and challenge our standard notions of drawing. Draw on the opposite side of the paper. Cut the paper and construct your drawing in space. Use physical materials that are linear and progressive in nature to extend your drawings to explore both scale and temporal dimensions. Ceramics: Pots with a Purpose Experience the thrill of shaping and forming earth…
Find out more »Summer Creative Arts Workshops
Rising Grade 6 - 9 Monday - Friday 1:30 - 5:45 pm | Week 1 July 9 - 13th Explore, Create, and Challenge Yourself Six unique weeks of creative art workshops for youth entering grades 6 through 9. Programs begin the week of July 9th and run through the August 17th. Students will explore two subjects for two hours each day, ceramics and one of a variety of other subjects including painting, photography, illustration, screenprinting, sculpture, depending on the week.…
Find out more »Week 1: Paint with Fabric, Ceramics
Rising Grades 6 – 9 July 10 – 14, 2017 1:30 – 5:45 pm Paint with Fabric: Color, Form, Pattern Working with a collection of artist designed cloth and using glue as the primary means of assemblage, your pieces will take diverse forms such as a mandala wall cloth, wearable art, a large serving tray or a string of flags. We will incorporate acrylic paint and stitched elements layering color, pattern, and representational images if you choose, focusing on a…
Find out more »Week 2: Screenprinting, Ceramics
Rising Grades 6 - 9 July 17 – July 21, 2017 1:30 - 5:45 pm Screenprinting: Colorful Multiples Discover wild colors and combinations to create colorful prints on a variety of surfaces. Learn the art of screenprinting and more, everything from hand-cut stencils to painted, drawn, and photo images. One of the most colorful of processes can be applied in crazy layers on almost any surface. Ceramics Learn or progress the satisfying skill of throwing pots on a potter’s wheel while you…
Find out more »Week 3: Relief Printmaking, Ceramics
Rising Grades 6 – 9 July 24 – 28, 2017 1:30 – 5:45 pm Relief Printmaking: Illustrate, Carve, Collage Translate illustrations and drawings into prints through the process of relief printmaking. Explore how work is laid out on the block or place, carved, and printed on our printing press or by hand. Experience the beauty of turning initial drawings into multiple different prints and paper collages of work in both 2D works on paper and 3D forms. Ceramics Explore the…
Find out more »Week 4: Drawing, Painting, Ceramics
Rising Grades 6 – 9 July 31 - August 4, 2017 1:30 – 5:45 pm Drawing, Painting: Line, Shape, Composition Challenge your skills in drawing and painting through the powerful use of color, pattern, shapes and placements. Using paper and paint we will emulate some of Matisse’s vibrant cutout work and design our own worlds from the paper to the walls of the studio to then make collage murals and collaborative installations. Ceramics Explore the satisfying skill of throwing on a potter’s wheel…
Find out more »Ceramics Summer Series
Adult / Teen 6 Mondays, 6 - 8:30 pm July 31 - September 11, 2017 Excludes September 4, 2017 The summer is what you make it. Students can focus on throwing on the wheel as well as hand-building construction processes such as coils, slabs, and pinching. This class will offer participants personalized instruction to develop their skills creating artwork in clay. Artists will benefit from building and throwing demonstrations as well as instruction on decorative and finishing techniques using various glazing combinations.…
Find out more »Ceramics Summer Series
Adult / Teen 6 Wednesdays, 6 - 8:30 pm August 2 - September 6, 2017 The summer is what you make it. Students can focus on throwing on the wheel as well as hand-building construction processes such as coils, slabs, and pinching. This class will offer participants personalized instruction to develop their skills creating artwork in clay. Artists will benefit from building and throwing demonstrations as well as instruction on decorative and finishing techniques using various glazing combinations. We will provide inspiration, information,…
Find out more »Week 5: Book Arts, Ceramics
Rising Grades 6 – 9 August 7 - 11, 2017 1:30 – 5:45 pm Book Arts Expand your ideas about what a book can be. Create colorful, dynamic book forms that communicate your story in unique and engaging ways. Using non-traditional printmaking processes, origami type folds, unusual hinges, and altered book techniques, participants will build a stunning library of distinctive, creative expression. Ceramics Explore the satisfying skill of throwing on a potter’s wheel while you relax with your hands in clay. Move…
Find out more »Week 6: Soft Sculpture, Ceramics
Rising Grades 6 – 9 August 14 - 18, 2017 1:30 – 5:45 pm Soft Sculptures: Textured Objects Explore a wide variety of media and their many applications to sculpture. Use processes like handwork, embroidery, sewing, fabrics, paint, paper collage with found objects like marbles and buttons to feed the imagination and create morphic objects that walk the line of representational and abstract. Ceramics Explore the satisfying skill of throwing on a potter’s wheel while you relax with your hands in clay.…
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