Green Project Art@ Blaine Elementary School

Educational Program:

Green Project Art@ Blaine Elementary School;

Tuesdays and Thursdays

3 – 4:30 p.m.

Students will make art projects by using materials we always see around house that are become useless. All core concept from fundamental art education and that will be applied to children’s program. Each project are easy for grade level. We are planning to invite two guest artist workshops in the semester who is specialized in the medium.

Studnets will learn the self expression in art form through this course. By using the recycling medium for art projects, they will learn the Art appreciation. Following is the core concept on College level of work behind the children’s projects such as collage and paper mache and sculptures. In this program most class projects will be based on most recent study from Art Institute of Chicago or Expo Chicago 2012 that Miyeon Kwon’s study and field trip from Prak Sis SOLO project and Expo Chicago.

10 Weeks	Curriculum	Note
Week 1 (Oct 2 & 4)	Sketch book and CollageCollects Magazine or newspaper and collage as a Visual Journal. Students will learn the concept of collage and the process of Visual Journal
Week 2 (Oct 9 & 11)	Continue on Visual Journal with composition studyStudents will learn principal of design part I:Positive and Negative space positive space appears to be occupied or filled, in contrast to negative space which appears to be empty or unoccupied. This can be looked at in terms of “figure” or positive space, and “ground” or negative space. Ways that this can be achieved are through subtractive or additive sculpture techniques. A “figure-ground reversal” is when there is balance between positive and negative space such that there is a flip between the figure and the ground. An example of this would be the Yin-Yang image.
Week 3 (Oct 16 & 18)	Form – (volume and mass)Guest artist: Arin Han          the overall organization of a work, sometimes called mass or volume, comprises all the visual elements of shape, color, texture, plane, and volume.
Week 4 (Oct 23 & 25)	Rhythm  a visual “beat” marking the movement of the viewer’s eye often established by a repetitionof varying or similar design elements.
Week 5 (Oct 30 & Nov 1)	Variety  variations on a theme or a strong contrast.
Week 6 (Nov 6 & Nov 8)	Unity  a sense of coherence or wholeness in a work.
Week 7(Nov 13 & Nov 15)	Proportionthe relationships of the various elements to the whole and to each other.
Week 8 (Nov 20 & Nov 29)	Line  a mark whose length is greater than its width.
Week 9 (Nov 27 & Dec 6 )	Color  how hue, intensity and value are observed inpigment and light
Week 10 (Dec 4 &  Dec 13)	Texture  surface features that can be interpreted with the hand or with the eye.

Prak Sis Fall 2012 Class Schedule

Prak Sis Fall 2012 Class Schedule

Saturday  10 a.m. - 12 p.m.

Ceramic Basic hand building and Wheel Thrawing  Oct 6 –Dec 22 $195, Age 5 & up 

CHILDREN’S MOVIE PRODUCTION Oct 6 – Dec 22 $195   (Sat) Age 6 & Up

Figure Drawing: Oct 6 – Dec 22 $195  (Sat) Age 5 & Up

Beginner Korean: Students whose home language is not Korean. All the instruction will be in both Korean and English. Age 6 & up to adult

Tue, Wed, Thu 

Advanced Drawing I  Oct 2 – Dec18 22 $280    7-9 p.m.

Instructor: Mi-yeon Kwon

Basic Figure Drawing I Oct 3 – Dec19 $280    7-9p.m.

TBA

Ceramic (Adult students): Oct 4 – Dec 20  $280    6:30 - 9p.m.

Miyeon Kwon, Nicole Seisler, Katie Short

All instructors hold master in Ceramic through School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

One day Workshop $45

Preregistration required email to Praksis.caa@gmail.com

Every Friday or Saturday will have an event so please check the calendar on Prak Sis Website. The class will start at 6p.m. until 8:30 p.m. The class is limit is 20. Drink and light dinner are included.

Sept 28: Arin Han’s fabric fun workshop for adult

Sept 29 & October 13: Mi-yeon Kwon Ceramic workshop for adult

Oct 5 &12:  Book making: Arin Han

Oct 13 & 26 & 27: Mi-yeon Kwon Ceramic workshop for adult

Nov 2 & 3: wood block printmaking: instructor Sujin Lee

 Nov 17^th and Date TBA during thanksgiving weekend Ginger Beer making workshop with Dao Nguyen

More dates will be updated later for the December event. Please contact praksis.caa@gmail.com for any private event.

 www.Prak-sis.org, info@prak-sis.org

Praksis.caa@gmail.com, 773-715-4171, 1917 W. Irving Park RD Chicago, IL 60613

Customized Class also available upon minimum of 4 students. Call Mi-yeon Kwon for the details.

  9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

1:30 - 4:30 p.m.

All day program and a half day program is available.

AGE 5-12

Summer Camp CLASS DESCRIPTIONS

 

Week 1. (June 18 - 22) TEA CEREMONY - Students will explore Zen philosophy and art.  Students will create their own “tea bowl” in ceramics and paint Japanese calligraphy to use in a tea ceremony the last day of class.

 

Week 2. (June 25 - 29) GREEN PROJECT – Students will learn how to keep our earth green and create art by using recycling materials.

 

Week 3. (July 9-13) TRADITIONAL WATER COLOUR PAINT – experimenting the traditional water color paint and study High Renaissance art and impressionism.

 

Week 4. (July 16 - 20) If we study SURREALISM…. -  Students will look at Surrealism and artists like Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte, and Joan Miro. We will then explore the genre through a variety of media—drawing, collage, ceramics, and painting.

 

Week 5. (July 23 - 27) I can do PORTRAITURE -  Students will learn tips and techniques for rendering people on paper and will create diverse art forms from their drawings.  The practice will be intensely focused on the study of portraiture.

 

Week 6. (July 30 - August 3) FOLK POTTERY -  Students will create their own functional pottery using hand building techniques.  We will make “face jugs”, cups, bowls, etc.  At the end of class party, we will use our creations to eat off of.

 

Week 7. (August 6 - 10) COMICS -  We will look at comic books and strips for inspiration, and then develop our own characters and stories.  We will also model a character in clay.

 

Week 8. (August 13 - 17) COLOUR STUDY – The class is designed for the fundamental understanding of colour in objects in our life and art forms in paint, print, digital images, and glazes.

 

Week 9. (August 20 - 24) BE A POP ARTIST – What is cool about pop art? We will learn the concept of pop art and the contemporary art influenced by Andy Warho l’s work and the design. Students will learn print making process.

 

Week 10. FUN WITH FABRIC (August 27 - 31) – Using recycling clothes to make fun art projects. Students will learn the basic sewing skills.

For more detail please call Mi-yeon at 773-715-4171.

Summer Camp 2012 with Prak Sis

Summer Camp 2012  with Prak Sis 

We are open for the summer camp registration. For the early registration by May 20th, you would get 5% discount. Please make sure to indicate that you are applying for Prak Sis Tuition wave assistant and also sibling discount. For more details, feel free to contact to us at praksis.caa@gmail.com or 773-715-4171. For sample workshop, you can visit Northcenter Art Festival coming up on April 14th(www.prak-sis.org) at 1917 W. Irving Park Chciago.

Make sure to stop by the Northcenter Art Festival April 13 - April 15! Visit us to see what exciting events are in store!

Join Young Artist Art exhibition

Prak Sis is pleased to announce the first Student Art Exhibition presenting students artwork created through Prak Sis Art Educational Program and invited art. Join us this Saturday.

Art opening reception: 3-7 p.m. Saturday March 24th
Movie screening 4p.m.

@Prak Sis Gallery

1917 W. Irving Park Rd

Chicago, IL 60613

Spring Session Schedule

PrakSis Contemporary Art Assocation 1917 W. Irving Park Chicago, IL 60613 Praksis.caa.education@gmail.com Praksis-education.blogspot.com 773.715.4171 Spring Session Educational Classes Monday, April 21ST and continue through Saturday, June 16th. This spring PrakSis is offering a Spring Session of exciting new classes by well-established Chicago based artists and educators. PrakSis was born to create a dynamic art experience, migrating to diverse locations across the cityscape by transforming building spaces rendered vacant due to the downturn in the real estate market into living art galleries. Since June 2011, PrakSis has opened its doors to young people interested in learning about different practices within the arts. This has been a very exciting endeavor for PrakSis the teachers and the students. Some classes being offered are: weaving, papermaking, green art, ceramics, video, bookmaking, painting and drawing. An expert in the field who has experience and enjoys working with young people will lead each class. The educators: Miyeon Kwon is Chicago based artist and graduate of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago who primarily works in ceramics and public art. Her work has been exhibited internationally and she has been teaching college and young people for the past two years. She is also the director of PrakSis gallery. Kristie Keenon is a painter and educator who is a graduate of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Columbia College. She has taught art in Chicago’s Charter School network as well as local City Colleges. She has shown her work nationally. Soo Shin is a Chicago based painter, printmaker and fiber artist who has shown her work internationally. She has also worked as an adjunct professor at The School of the Art Institute. Will Goss is a Chicago based photographer and educator. He graduated from The School of the Art Institute and has shown his work internationally. He is an adjunct professor at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Mike Gibbiser is a Chicago based filmmaker who graduated from The School of the Art Institute and University of Illinois Chicago. He is currently the Media Center Director at the University of Chicago. We look forward to seeing you this spring! Sincerely, Mi-yeon Kwon For more information on class times and offerings please visit: Praksis-education.blogspot.com Prak Sis Spring Session Schedule Saturday 4/21 – 6/16 Ceramic Basic hand building and wheel throwing: 10 – 12 p.m., $195 (Age 5 & up)             Instructor: TBA      Children’s Video Editing: 10 – 12 p.m., $195 (Age 5 & Up)             Instructor: TBA   Figure Drawing: 10 – 12 p.m., $195  (Age 5 & Up)             Instructor: Kristie Keenon Drum Circle: 1 – 3:30 p.m., $180 (Age 5 & Up)  Beginner Korean: Free! 2 - 4 p.m. Students whose home language is not Korean. All the instruction will be in both Korean and English (Age 5 & up)             Instructor: Miyeon Kwon Tue, Wed, Thu 4/24 – 6/14 Video Editing II for Adult Students, 11 – 1:30 p.m.,  $280             Instructor: TBA   Video Editing I for Adult Students: 7 – 9:30 p.m., $280             Instructor: TBA   Advanced Drawing I:  7 – 9 p.m., $280 (Age 10 & Up)             Instructor: Miyeon Kwon Basic Figure Drawing I: 7 – 9 p.m., $280 (Age 5 & Up)              Instructor: TBA     Ceramic for Adult Students: 7 – 9 p.m., $280              Instructor: TBA     Mon & Fri 4/23 – 6/15 Weaving: 3 – 5 p.m., $225 (Age 5 & Up)             Instructor: Soo Shin Mon & Wed 4/23 – 6/13 Papermaking/bookmaking: 3:30 – 5:30 p.m., $225 (Age 5 & Up)             Instructor: Kristie Keenon Mon 4/23 – 6/11 Beginner Korean: Free!  4 – 6 p.m. Students whose home language is not Korean. All the instruction will be in both Korean and English (Age 5 & Up)             Instructor: Miyeon Kwon www.Prak-sis.org•info@prak-sis.org•773-715-4171•1917 W. Irving Park RD Chicago, IL 60613 Customized Class also available upon minimum of 4 students. Call Mi-yeon Kwon for the details.

Instructors

Miyeon Kwon studied ceramics at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where is conceptual free, Mi-yeon Kwon developed a unique sense of art including clay drawing. Clay drawing is a technique where she makes a two-dimensional line drawing appear in three dimensions by using clay built up along the lines of a figure to give it depth. She also continues to paint as a way to inspire clay work and multi media, video, sound, and art and technology in collaboration. She was awarded CAAP 2011 and Anna Louise Raymond Fellowship at SAIC and Seventh Annual Leadership Award in 2001. Her teaching experience at college level is at art history, art appreciation, studio arts, and Asian art through out the Chicago area. She has shown her work in South Korea, Japan, and U.S.A. During her management, Prak-sis was awarded WPB: Grant by Wicker Park Bucktown Chamber of Commerce in 2009 and she was selected for KEPCO 2010 Art Show and her public sculpture commissioned by the city of Ulsan in Korea. She was also invited to Onggi Expo as a VIP artist after her management of four public sculptures. Her most recent project was Core-52-55 in Mexico City that involved 15 volunteers using plastic bottles to built a 9feet tall sculpture in Muse de San Carlos as part of Propuesta de Proyectio para Wasting Away, Latitud 19° Arte Contemporáneo.

Kristie Keenon studied fine arts with an emphasis in art history, theory and criticism at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and art education at Columbia College. Her paintings examine the power structure within pop culture while using bright colors influenced by the German expressionists. She incorporates social and digital media that have transient qualities and suspends them within the confines of traditional oil painting. She has shown her work throughout the United States from the West Coast to the East Coast. She has been awarded the 2007 CAAP award, was selected as a promising new artist by The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2005 and was awarded a Special Assistance Grant by the Illinois Arts Council in 2007. She currently is an adjunct professor of art appreciation and graphic design at ITT and spent a year teaching for Chicago International Charter Schools.

Will Goss is a Chicago based photographer who graduated from the School of the Art Institute in 2011 where he was the recipient the Enrichment Scholarship. He has worked as a teacher at The School of the Art Institute, video producer and a summer art school instructor. He is a master of Super 8mm and 16mm Cameras, Digital Video Cameras, Video Editing, DVD encoding, Set design, Green Screen, Acting, Scriptwriting, Audio recording and editing, Writing and editing, Final Cut Pro, Pro Tools, After Effects, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, DVD Studio Pro, Compressor, Microsoft Word.

                   


Mike Gibisser is a Teaching Assistant in the School of Art and Design, College of        Architecture and the Arts, received a grant from the Princess Grace Foundation USA for $25,000, presented to emerging talents in theater, dance, and film. Gibisser's thesis project, a film called "The Day of Two Noons," is a personal documentary on the cultural context of Alzheimer's, both historically and in contemporary society. He is also the technical coordinator at the University of Chicago. Mike received his M.A. in Visual Critical Studies from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and his M.F.A. in Moving Images from University of Illinois Chicago.

Soo Shin is a Chicago based artist who received her M.F.A. in Fiber and Material Studies from The School of the Art Institute in 2011. Her work has been exhibited internationally. She has received an Honorable Mention from the Chicago Union League Foundation, the World Less Traveled Grant form The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Clare Rosen and Samuel Edes Foundation prize for emerging artist.