Summer Teen Classes
Registration opens: February 1
Regular registration deadline: May 1
Some spots are still available! Please go ahead with registration or call Community Education at 277-7456 if you are interested in applying after May 1.
The scholarship deadline has passed.
Teen Workshops
Teen workshops invite high school students to engage in a specific media or project for an intensive 1- or 2-day experience. Dress for mess and bring a bag lunch. All art supplies are included.
Dates: throughout June, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Ages: 14+
Tuition:
1-day workshop: $100
Early bird rate (register by March 4): $90
2-day workshop: $150
Early bird rate (register by March 4): $140
GUERILLA ART
Monday, June 3 (one-day workshop)
Teaching artist: Allison Jarrett
Guerilla artists create anonymous interventions in public spaces as a way of beautifying environments, questioning the status quo, and interacting with people and places. Take your artwork out of the studio and into the world as you create your own boundary-breaking artwork using printmaking, stenciling, and more.
PHOTOGRAMS
Friday, June 7 (one-day workshop)
Teaching artist: Heather Hilley
Experiment with this alternative process that allows you create photographic images without a camera using found objects placed directly on light-sensitive papers. Participants will learn how to compose their own photograms and develop them using traditional darkroom processes.
SILKSCREEN PRINTING
Tuesday, June 11 and Wednesday, June 12 (two-day workshop)
Teaching artist: Allison Jarrett
From rock posters to t-shirts to stationery, silkscreen printing is everywhere. Come learn the basics of this exciting and versatile technique! Participants will leave with hand-printed posters, t-shirts and more featuring their very own designs.
DIY SKETCHBOOK
Wednesday, June 19 and Thursday, June 20 (two-day workshop)
Teaching artist: Katie Gonzalez
The sketchbook is an important part of the creative process for an artist. Work with a professional bookbinder to create your own and learn ways to put it to use in everyday life with drawings, text, photographs, collages, and more. You’ll leave with a durable, functional, portable sketchbook and inspiration for ways to fill it.
MIXED MEDIA PAINTING
Tuesday, June 25 (one-day workshop)
Teaching artist: Richard Heinsohn
Express, experiment, and enjoy the creative options that mixed media painting offers! Participants will work in acrylics, exploring a variety of painting techniques plus methods for enhancing and layering using found objects, textures, transfers, and text.
SELF-PUBLISHING: ZINES
Wednesday, June 26 (one-day workshop)
Teaching artist: Amelia Garretson-Persans
From zany photo collages to poetic rants to comic illustrations, anything goes in these do-it-yourself mini-magazines. Come learn the ins and outs of developing the content, layout, printing, and distribution of your very own zine.