Summer Camp
June 18th - August 31st
PrakSis is opening their doors this summer for an exciting camp that may be enjoyed by young people all summer, 1 or 2 days a week, for just one week or just a couple of days during the summer!
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.
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.
Class Descriptions
Week 1. 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. GREEN PROJECT – Students
will learn how to keep our earth green and create art by using recycling
materials.
Week 3. TRADITIONAL WATER COLOUR PAINT – experimenting the traditional water color paint and study High
Renaissance art and impressionism.
Week 4. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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 Warhol’s work and the design. Students will learn print
making process.
Week 10. FUN WITH FABRIC –
Using recycling clothes to make fun art projects. Students will learn the basic
sewing skills.
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