Silkscreening 12/4/15

Our past Arts Collective After School was a great celebration, we raised funds from a sale of the kids handmade objects to have Grow Your Own Media come onto the campus to run a silkscreen event. The event was so popular that there was a very long line of kids waiting to have their shirts printed.

There were four different options of shapes and colors that the kids could choose as the base for their shirts.

The children would cut out a shape from paper to act as a resist, thus - creating their own graphic for their shirt. This project was a great way to show positive and negative space and how it is used in silk-screening.

 

 The garbage was pretty gorgeous at the end of the day. 

Woodworking 11/13/15

Arts Collective After School on November 13th
had Philip Soderlind running a project on 
woodworking. There were three models of 
objects kids could make or they could choose
 to design their own form.

Regardless of weather the children choose 
their own design or followed a model, the 
first step was to draw the form and to figure 
out how many pieces and in what sizes they 
needed in order to construct the object.

This project was lots of fun and the kids had a
great time using the tools.
 
 

Papel Picado 9/18/15

Our first Arts Collective After School for the 2015/16 school year was Papel Picado with Maricella Sosa, the children made multiple sheets of colored cut tissue paper. Each child started with a template to cut and then when they got comfortable with the process they cut a pattern of their own creation.

They took home half of what they cut and then we used the other half to decorate our lunch pavilion for the pancake breakfast. It was a stunning transformation of the familiar space and the kids are all quite protective of it at the moment.

This was a wonderful project to use to decorate a large space because multiple sheets can be cut each time one cuts a pattern. It has been great fun for the kids to pick out their individual  contributions from the many. 

Scarves from our last event up at school!

We made a banner from a few extra scarves that the kids made and it is now hanging on the yard to celebrate spring.

Colorhue dyes & silk scaves 4/10/15

On our last Arts Collective After School, we had artist Connie Rohman showing the kids how to work with Colorhue dyes and silk, each child got a silk scarf to dye. The dye colors were so beautiful and set instantly with the fibers of the silk and then were neutralized. 

 We played with different techniques for applying the dye, it was a lot of fun opening up the scarf at the end and seeing what you had created.

 

We had scarves hanging to dry all over the campus and many of the kids who took part earlier in the event stayed to help teach the kids who came along afterwards. Thank you so much to The Arroyo Arts Collective and to The Mount Washington Neighborhood Association for their help with the cost of the materials for this project.

 

Bookmaking 3/6/2015

We did a workshop on Bookmaking with artist Linda Ravenswood that was a huge success, each child sewed a small folio (book) and then was able to turn it into whatever they wanted. There were joke books, journals, sticker books, cook books, books of mystical creatures and so many more.

The Exploratory, Circuit Blocks 2/6/15

   We were so excited to have The Exploratory (theexploratory.com) come and do a project with us on electricity. The kids worked with circuits blocks and alligator clips to work out the function of a circuit, teamed up in groups of two they added complexity to their circuits as they gained understanding. Working with supplied materials the design challenge was then to build something around their circuit that would make someone laugh.