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July 13-17
July 13-17
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Dance | Movement | Human Arts | Youth Program | Visual Arts
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Dance | Movement | Human Arts | Youth Program | Visual Arts
Ceramics: Your Story Platter
Explore creating a slab built plate or platter and using sculptural techniques to narrate their own stories they want to portray. This course will include a collection of video demonstrations to allow students to explore the techniques or slab building and sculpture. Worksheets to help plan out our story as well as a list of artists who also use sculptural functional forms as a vehicle of self-narration. This class will include daily in-person zoom meetings to allow students to chat with the instructor to learn further information, ask any questions, as well as getting to know one another and chatting. We will be exploring how to create the functional form of a plate or platter, that allows artistic expression and a chance to share a story in a new way. This course will focus on making and using tools that students might already have at home to create a remote, mess free, home studio to hand build with ceramics. Students should bring: a great attitude, clay, some plastic bags to keep clay wet, a spray bottle, a rolling pin, and perhaps some thin flexible wire, or fishing line. Period 5 ~ Tanya Hamm
Explore creating a slab built plate or platter and using sculptural techniques to narrate their own stories they want to portray. This course will include a collection of video demonstrations to allow students to explore the techniques or slab building and sculpture. Worksheets to help plan out our story as well as a list of artists who also use sculptural functional forms as a vehicle of self-narration. This class will include daily in-person zoom meetings to allow students to chat with the instructor to learn further information, ask any questions, as well as getting to know one another and chatting. We will be exploring how to create the functional form of a plate or platter, that allows artistic expression and a chance to share a story in a new way. This course will focus on making and using tools that students might already have at home to create a remote, mess free, home studio to hand build with ceramics. Students should bring: a great attitude, clay, some plastic bags to keep clay wet, a spray bottle, a rolling pin, and perhaps some thin flexible wire, or fishing line. Period 5 ~ Tanya Hamm
Sculpture from Found Objects
Take a journey through the art of assemblage and build-up as sculptural processes. Re-purpose objects for their inherent unique content, their visual form or both. Learn the many ways of joining including use of different glues, riveting, bolting, welding, brazing, sewing, etc. Discover methods of pulling disparate forms together into a unified sculptural object. Making sculpture from found objects can be a great way to achieve beautiful or significant art forms with a minimum of costs. It is particularly good for a school or camp program operating with a low budget. The goal will be to create one finished work “in the round” and another “in relief.” Students should have an assortment of found objects. Limit 8 students, ages 16 and up. jpaulsen@towson.edu Periods 3 & 4 ~ Jim Paulsen
Take a journey through the art of assemblage and build-up as sculptural processes. Re-purpose objects for their inherent unique content, their visual form or both. Learn the many ways of joining including use of different glues, riveting, bolting, welding, brazing, sewing, etc. Discover methods of pulling disparate forms together into a unified sculptural object. Making sculpture from found objects can be a great way to achieve beautiful or significant art forms with a minimum of costs. It is particularly good for a school or camp program operating with a low budget. The goal will be to create one finished work “in the round” and another “in relief.” Students should have an assortment of found objects. Limit 8 students, ages 16 and up. jpaulsen@towson.edu Periods 3 & 4 ~ Jim Paulsen
Seat Weaving with Shaker Tape
Learn the basics of seat weaving by creating a foot stool seat. Experiment with patterns both in color and in weave. Students are encouraged to bring in a follow-up project of their choice (additional cost for foam and shaker tape). Materials fee: $65. Students should bring scissors, two 1- or 2-inch spring clamps, flat head screwdriver, tape measure, and small hammer. Limit 12 students, ages 16 and up. NOTE: Students should contact the instructor upon completing registration. kctaylo@hotmail.com Periods 1 & 2 ~ Keith Taylor
Learn the basics of seat weaving by creating a foot stool seat. Experiment with patterns both in color and in weave. Students are encouraged to bring in a follow-up project of their choice (additional cost for foam and shaker tape). Materials fee: $65. Students should bring scissors, two 1- or 2-inch spring clamps, flat head screwdriver, tape measure, and small hammer. Limit 12 students, ages 16 and up. NOTE: Students should contact the instructor upon completing registration. kctaylo@hotmail.com Periods 1 & 2 ~ Keith Taylor