Saturday Art Workshop
Visionary Studio: Saturday Art Workshop is a 9-week program that combines the excitement
of creating art with issues in social justice. Saturday mornings, from
10am-12pm, teens research one of four significant social themes (such as imagining the human body, street art, power & the symbol of the fist, and the water crisis) and discover a rich array of innovative, multidisciplinary
approaches through which they can visually express their ideas. Together,
students and teachers consider ways in which artists can and do influence
society, and experiment with techniques that include drawing, painting,
printmaking, video, photography, 3-dimensional media, and installation. These
workshops challenge students to think outside of traditional artistic media
and explore how artistic boundaries and influence can be stretched to include
what has historically been excluded. As part of the program students participate in a final exhibition inviting a wide audience of parents, friends, teachers, and NYU faculty, to see their work. Detailed curriculum from Fall 2010.
High
School students do not need a portfolio to apply to the Saturday Art Workshop - classes are free-of-charge, and open to students with all levels of art experience!
Fall 2011 Visionary Studio: Saturday Art Workshop Curriculum
Water, Water Everywhere and not a
Drop to Drink (Mixed Media)
We all need water. It sustains human life. Water is deeply connected
to cultural traditions for all communities. Living in New York City we can buy a bottle of water on
almost every corner or drink water straight from the tap without thinking about
where it came from, how it got here and that it might be in short supply. Water
sources are drying up and being contaminated by industrial chemicals, nuclear
disasters, drilling for gas (hydo-fracking) and oil spills. With the loss of
water, we also lose communities along with their traditions and culture. In
this class we will explore water as a symbol of life and how the water crisis
(radioactive water, toxic water, polluted water) is impacting the lives of
millions of people. Students will create artworks that reflect their deeper
understanding of the water crisis in our communities and world.
Portrait of an Urban Landscape (Mixed
Media)
Today, a majority
of people in the world live in urban communities that are constantly in motion In
New York, we live and work in places where there are new structures being
built, older ones being re-built, renovated, and transformed. Our urban landscape
is a source of inspiration for artists, who observe the codes and icons in their
daily life on the streets and incorporate them into their artwork. Each day
there are new signs such as graffiti, advertisements, signage, empty spaces
that are transformed into gardens or parks or other kinds of recreational areas
that visually change the urban landscape. In this class students will look at various examples of how
artists have transformed our urban environments and how it connects to the
community or neighborhood. What responsibility does the artist have to the
community? How does the community become a part of the transformation? Who is
the work for? Students will create drawings or small scale models, and create
artworks that explore aspects of this landscape and/or create ways to transform
the urban landscape.
Raise that Fist (Mixed Media)
Depending on how we use it, power can be positive or negative.
We can be leaders or tyrants, and we can inspire through peace or violence. The
fist, which is used in personal fights between people has also become a symbol
of justice. Often called the revolutionary fist, it has been used by artists
and musicians to call attention to inequalities in labor (work) practices,
against racism and other oppressions. Artists through their work challenge
authority and injustices in our society. We all have experienced versions of
power in our lives that can make you feel bad and want to fight back through
brute force or one can fight back in a constructive manner to change unfair situations
by raising your fist. Have you felt inspired by someone that made you feel like
you can take on the world? Have you been defeated by someone who makes you feel
like you want to give up? Art is a powerful tool and you as an artist hold that
power. In this class, students will create artworks on how power affects us.
They will examine unfair situations they have experienced in their lives and
respond to changing it through art.
It’s About Time (Mixed Media)
Do you notice how no matter how much time passes and how
things change, there are some things that seem to always remain? Or, that some things are never the
same? Time is part of our lives. Artists explore time in multiple ways, looking
back or looking forward. How we experience time has changed with technology. Some
arts are time based such as performance art, video art and music and other arts
refer to time in terms of history. How do we experience time? How does the past
inform our present and the future? This class will discuss and create projects
relating to time & timelessness. Students will work with ideas such as
literal time, symbolic time, timelessness of nature, reflections or
frustrations with things that never change, ideas for the future, and perhaps
their visual interpretations of what they can change, or hope to change with
time. Can referring to our past, reflect our present or future? Or vice versa?
This class will explore this and more in time!
The Fall 2011 Saturday Art Workshop Schedule:
This program is a 9-Saturday commitment, offered October-December 2011 on the following dates:
10/15, 10/22, 10/29, 11/5, 11/12, 11/19, 12/3, 12/10, 12/17, 12/18 (Final Exhibition & Party)
Application procedure:
The application deadline is Monday, September 26, 2011.
Your application must be received by this date.
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You have two ways you can apply....
1. Apply Online!
If you use this online application, you do not need to send anything else.
- OR -
2. If it's not possible for you to Apply Online, you can Download, Print, and Complete the Application by hand.
The application can be downloaded here.
If you need a copy mailed to you, please request one by email.
If completing by hand, the application can be returned by Mail, Email, or Dropped-off in person to this address:
NYU Steinhardt Visionary Studio:Saturday Workshop
Attn: Sam Englander
NYUSteinhardt
Department of Art and Art Professions
34 Stuyvesant Street
New York, NY 10003-7599
sce233@nyu.edu
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You will be emailed with a confirmation of your acceptance and workshop choice, as well as directions and information about the first day.
For further information:
Sam Englander, Program Coordinator
sce233@nyu.edu