The schedule for the Winter/early Spring 2012 session of AAS at CPP is set! *See updates! I'm looking forward to trying some totally new classes alongside some previously-tested classes that have been adapted a little to fit the program at Comet:
*The schedule of this session has been adjusted to account for DCPS holidays, resulting in an 8-class session, rather than the originally planned 10. Please email ArtAfterSchoolDC@gmail.com for info and to find out about the new rate!
MONSTER VALENTINES / MONSTERS IN LOVE. Monday, February 13; 4 – 6pm
Viewing Valentine’s Day through the eyes of imaginary monsters and considering how these creatures’ ideas of beauty may differ from our own, youth will create valentines either for monsters, by monsters, or both.
-- NO CLASS Monday, February 20; 4 – 6pm --
AQUARIACOSMS. Monday, February 27; 4 – 6pm
Using clear glass jars, wire, laminated drawings, food coloring, and other materials, youth will each create their own mini, underwater microcosms.
IMAGIN-ATLAS. Monday, Monday, March 5; 4 – 6pm
Youth will be asked to invent their own country or land, cutting out its shape, and filling it with drawings of the landscape, wildlife, people and resources it holds. They will also write some accompanying information describing these features, and will work together to create a collaborative map of their lands.
SHADOW MACHINES. Monday, March 12; 4 – 6pm
Youth will create small cut-paper arrangements that, when illuminated with a light source, will create compositions of shadows on the wall of a darkened space. The shadows will be the final product of their work, prompting the students to think about incorporating light into their art, and visual mediums beyond drawing and painting.
ART-IFACTS. Monday, March 19; 4 – 6pm
Youth will engrave designs and embed small objects into shaped pieces of self-hardening clay to create their own collection of fossils and artifact remnants – perhaps fossils that represent a personal history, or from an imaginary world or society. Images of real-life fossils, other artifacts, and archeological dig sites will be shared for inspiration, and youth will be asked to consider how to represent an object that has been weathered by time.
KALEIDOSCOPE SHAKERS / MOVING COLLAGES. Monday, March 26; 4 – 6pm
Filling clear, plastic boxes with cut pieces of paper, drawn and painted patterns and textures and other objects, youth will make interactive, “collaged” works of art that shift and change appearance each time they are moved or shaken.
THOUGHT-O-MOBILES. Monday, April 2; 4 – 6pm
Cut paper, cardboard, string and other materials will be used to create colorful, suspended mobile works of art.
TROPHIES AND MONUMENTS. Monday, April 9; 4 – 6pm
A monument to a beloved hamster, a trophy for a bowl of Lucky Charms, a medal for a good buddy…This class, we’ll discuss ideas about honoring and commemorating. Using various existing and fabricated objects, youth will create trophies and/or small monuments celebrating normally unacknowledged people, places, and things they appreciate.
Anyone who is interested can email ArtAfterSchoolDC@gmail.com for more info and to sign up. Still working on posting the rest of the Fall 2011 pictures from AAS at Comet and also from ART BRAINS...more soon!
