Firehouse Art Center

Firehouse Art Center
Children’s Summer Art Program 2013
ABOUT THE SUMMER PROGRAM
The Children’s Summer Art Program is funded in part by the Oklahoma Arts Council. A
special thanks to the Harris Foundation for its support.
Children attend daily for 2 weeks (except for the one-week Session III); enrollment includes two paired classes,
Monday-Friday, with a 15 minute supervised recess in the park between classes. The cost includes all materials.
During the last half hour of the final class in each session, parents are invited to view a mini exhibit of work
produced during the program. One item from each student will be selected to be exhibited in the FAC Gallery from
August 9th - 31st, with an opening reception to be held on August 9th, from 6 - 9 PM. Minimum enrollment: 9
FIREHOUSE ART CENTER COMMUNITY ART EDUCATION
The Children’s Summer Art Program is designed to educate and inspire children to be expressive while providing
an environment where creativity is fostered and embraced. Our classes help children build both basic and
advanced thinking skills and promote diverse modes of thinking and learning. Our “Creating with the Masters”
strategy of instruction introduces children to the works of master and modern artists and teaches them about the
history of art, museums, and art techniques while utilizing the Oklahoma Priority Academic Student Skills (PASS)
objectives.
This summer we will have two great community events especially for children in Lions Park. “Luncheon on the
Grass,” June 2nd presented by the Firehouse Art Center, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, Jacobson House, Norman
Arts Council and the Performing Arts Studio will have free art educational activities like the Children’s Art Wall.
The 37th Annual Midsummer Nights’ Fair, hosted by the FAC, will take place on August 23-24, where we will have
multiple opportunities for self-expression on the Art Wall, Creative Cubes and our Foil Sculpting for the entire family.
CHILDREN’S SUMMER ART PROGRAM CLASSES BEGIN MAY 28TH
CHILDREN’S SUMMER ART SHOW RECEPTION, AUGUST 9TH, 6 - 9 PM
LUNCHEON ON THE GRASS, JUNE 2nd, 4 - 6:30 PM
MIDSUMMER NIGHTS’ FAIR, AUGUST 23rd & 24th, 6 - 11 PM
C R E AT E | I N N O VAT E | P L AY
SESSION I
May 28th - June 7th
Ages 5 - 13 Non Member: $140
Member Tuition: $129.75
AGES 5 - 6
1:00 - 3:15 PM
-David Leach, Lucie Rie, Shoji Hamada
BRING CLAY INTO PLAY
Handbuilding techniques will bring clay into play for these young artists. Students will use slabs
and coils to create tiles and bowls with unique surface designs; basic glazing techniques will also
be introduced to develop dynamic clay creations.
Instructor: Annie Hatchett
-Friedrich Hundertwasser, Paul Klee, Piet Mondrian
INTO THE WOODS
Students will walk into the world of well-known fairy tales and recreate images from stories using
basic lines and shapes. Students will learn to both show and tell stories through basic design
principles, learning to construct narratives through their art. They will also build their own miniature
“stage” on which to tell their stories, as well as have their art bound in their very own storybook to
showcase what they’ve learned.
Instructor: Jenny Johnson
AGES 7 - 9
9:30 - 11:45 AM
-Salvador Dali
PHANTASMAGORIA
Suspend reality and enter the world of the surrealists with dreamlike images. Students will paint
an imaginary, implausible landscape, create a paper mache helmet with unique forms, and use an
assortment of rubbings to create drawings of improbable animals.
Instructor: Adrienne Day
-Romare Bearden
I LIKE TO MOVE IT, MOVE IT
Loving to dance isn’t needed to make art that moves. Students will explore musical inspiration and
utilize a variety of design elements, including repetition and line, to create art that seems to dance.
These emerging artists will be ready to see their work jump off the page!
Instructor: Julie Eberle
AGES 8 - 13
1:00 - 3:15 PM
-Vincent van Gogh
BARKING UP THE RIGHT TREE
From mighty oaks to thorny saguaro cactus, trees have always been a source of beauty, wonder,
and inspiration to artists. Students in this class will explore the varied aspects of texture, color, and
shapes in trees through the creation of drawings, paintings, relief clay tiles and prints.
Instructor: Adrienne Day
-Richard Long
STICKS & STONES
Sticks and stones will inspire young artists’ bones in a course that celebrates the natural world.
Students will go outdoors for inspiration as they experiment with texture and scale while using a
variety of organic materials to create sculptures.
Instructor: Julie Eberle
SESSION II
Ages 5 - 13 Non Member: $140
AGES 5 - 6
June 10th - June 21st
Member Tuition: $129.75
1:00 - 3:15 PM
-Faith Ringgold
STORY SCULPTURE
Tales become tangible when artists create their own books. Using the accordion-style
bookmaking process, students will write and illustrate a story using various techniques of
drawing, painting, and collage.
Instructor: Annie Hatchett
-M.C. Escher
TOPSY TURVY
Nothing is as it seems in this class! Students will explore the crazy world of optical illusion art,
learning how color, positive and negative space, shape, and line can trick us into seeing things a
bit differently. Students will construct their own illusions both in 2D and 3D, including their very own
thaumatrope and zoetropes.
Instructor: Jenny Johnson
AGES 7 - 9
9:30 - 11:45 AM
-David Smith
BALANCING ACT
This course will test students’ art making equilibrium! Students will learn about balance and
proportion to create sculptures constructed from various objects, such as poster board shapes, to
develop a unified piece.
Instructor: Annie Hatchett
-Giuseppe Arcimboldo
FANTASTIC FACES
Come face to face with the methods for creating the image of a face. Students will explore both
classical and experimental approaches, creating both paper mache masks and drawn faces with
accurate proportions. A face will also be fashioned from assorted drawn and painted objects in an
examination of the expressive colors and forms of an abstracted face.
Instructor: Adrienne Day
AGES 8 - 13
1:00 - 3:15 PM
-Wang Hsueh-t’ao
CHINESE BRUSHWORK PAINTING: BUGS, BLOSSOMS, & BIRDS
Explore one of the oldest continuous artistic traditions in the world. Students will study Chinese
Brushwork methods of painting insects, flowers and birds using ink and watercolor on rice paper.
Instructor: Beverly Herndon
-Edgar Degas
MAVERICK PRINTMAKING
Rebel against traditional art making processes in this printmaking course. Students will create
relief, collograph (collage), and multiple-color monotype prints. Students will also learn to apply
their 2-dimensional artwork to 3-dimensional art through the construction of a fantastic, fanciful
paper mache mask overlaid with their prints.
Instructor: Adrienne Day
SESSION III (1 WEEK ONLY)
Ages 5 - 13 Non Member: $70
June 24th - June 28th
Member Tuition: $64.88
-Wayne Thiebaud
MAD HATTERS TEA PARTY
This course is a wonderland of adventurous art. Master artists Durer, Gainsborough and Thiebaud
will inspire students in projects such as depicting their own tea party, utilizing tea bags to create
abstract art, and creating their own special Mad Hatter hat.
Instructor: Jane Lawson
-Mesopotamian Art
ANIMALS THROUGH THE AGES
Explore one of the art world’s favorite subjects since the cave paintings at Lascaux, France:
Animals. In this course, students will use ancient examples of animal art from Egyptian,
Mesopotamian, and Greco Roman civilizations as inspiration. This class will include such projects
as paper reliefs and paper mosaics.
Instructor: Lacy Jo Burgess
-Paul Klee
A LEOPARD CAN CHANGE ITS SPOTS
Through art, even a leopard can change its spots! In this course that is wild about animals,
students can give a leopard stripes or paint a horse blue. Students will also complete a paper
mache animal sculpture and explore color and composition to create a mixed media painting using
beastly inspiration.
Instructor: Julie Eberle
-Albrecht Durer
THE HARE & THE TORTOISE
Persistence pays off for young artists in this class. With inspiration from master artists such
as Durer, Balla, and Timothy Chapman, students will learn the elements of art – color, shape,
form, and texture – to create artwork including exciting shell patterns for tortoises and
“running” hare paintings.
Instructor: Jane Lawson
-Lane Smith
SKETCHBOOKING: BUILDING YOUR STORY
Students will address the elements of art while working through a variety of methods in their own
books. They will experiment with diverse drawing styles to capture and refine their images. They
will also practice enhancing the images with additional media, labeling, and titles.
Instructor: Adam Stewart
-Charles Demuth
SAY WHAT?!
Students will consider the power of words in this course. Exploring the use of text throughout art
history, students will complete 2D and 3D work using text, numbers and other symbols to create
art that speaks volumes.
Instructor: Julie Eberle
SESSION IV
July 8th - July 19th
Ages 5- 13
Non Member: $140
Member Tuition: $129.75
AGES 5 - 6
1:00 - 3:15 PM
-Pablo Picasso
RED FROG SINGS THE BLUES
Young artists will explore a range of colorful emotions. Students will learn about the various
aspects of color, form and texture to create art that expresses how they feel, culminating in the
creation of a painterly diorama of frogs and leafy landscapes.
Instructor: Jane Lawson
-Salvador Dali
THE EYES HAVE IT
Ever wonder what things might look like through the eyes of someone else? Students will discover
how both different animals and famous artists “see” things differently as they learn about color,
contrast, and movement through the eyes of someone – or something – else!
Instructor: Jenny Johnson
AGES 7 - 9
9:30 - 11:45 AM
-Dale Chihuly
CHILL WITH CHIHULY
Discover Dale Chihuly’s inspiration. Students will examine Chihuly’s inspirational sources by exploring
color, form and texture in nature, as well as Calder’s mobiles and Matisse’s collages. Students will
draw, paint and make their own Chihuly-inspired sculpture that has the look of molten glass.
Instructor: Jane Lawson
-Egyptian Art
THE ART OF ANCIENT EGYPT
From the Sphinx to the riches of the pharaoh’s tombs, the ancient Egyptians created artwork
that is easily recognizable and magnificent. Students will create a drawing of an ornate painted
sarcophagus, a clay sculpture of an ancient Egyptian figurine, and a drawing in the unique style of
Egyptian tomb paintings.
Instructor: Adrienne Day
AGES 8 - 13
1:00 - 3:15 PM
-Pat Steir
REPTILES - QUARTERED VISION
Reptilian resources provide inspiration for all manner of art. Students will discover four techniques
used by master artists to give life to their work. The understanding of these techniques combined
with art principles of value, color, form, and space come together to creat a completed work.
Students will apply what they’ve learned through the use of clay, oil pastels, pen and ink, paint,
and markers to make reptilian works of art.
Instructor: Adrienne Day
-DaVinci, Ryan woodward
SKETCHBOOK BOOT CAMP
Drop and give me 50 - sketches that is! Students will learn how to push themselves outside of
their limits and discover that every place has an opportunity to sketch and find out more about the
world. Whether inside or outside, students will learn drawing techniques and explore form, texture,
and more through paint, pencil, and ink as they fill in a sketchbook to prove they’ve got what it
takes to be an artist.
Instructor: Jenny Johnson
SESSION V
Ages 5 - 13 Non Member: $140
AGES 5 - 6
July 22nd - August 2nd
Member Tuition: $129.75
1:00 - 3:15 PM
-Andre Masson
DON’T BUG ME
Bitten by the art bug, students will look to the insect world for inspiration – from Egyptian scarabs
to Fernand Legers’ “Still Life with Butterflies.” Students will be introduced to color principles and
sculpting techniques in order to create dynamic visions of insects and butterflies, sculpted mutant
beetles, and an exhibit-worthy “Battle of the Insects” mobile.
Instructor: Jane Lawson
-L..S. Lowry
OUR TOWN
Young artists create art that will be the talk of the town. Learning linear perspective, drawing, and
color skills, students will create images of their neighborhoods or towns that show depth and
distance on a 2D surface.
Instructor: Annie Hatchett
AGES 7 - 9
9:30 - 11:45 AM
-Dr. Seuss
THE BLUE-GREEN, PINK-TUFTED BEAST HUNT
Go on a magical animal hunt through the art works of Dr. Seuss. Students will discover principles
of texture in art, apply color theory to beautiful painted landscapes, and return home with a wallmounted “animal” paper mache trophy.
Instructor: Jane Lawson
-Sandy Skoglund
FISH FANATIC
From clown fish to sharks, all types of aquatic creatures have captured human imagination
throughout history. Students will develop unique works of art featuring fish and the environment in
which they can be found. Students will create projects such as drawings, paintings, prints, clay, and
cardboard relief sculptures while cultivating their knowledge of shape, form, value, line, and color.
Instructor: Adrienne Day
AGES 8 - 13
1:00 - 3:15 PM
-Chou Ch’en
CHINESE BRUSHWORK PAINTING: BAMBOO, ETC.
Explore one of the oldest continuous artistic traditions in the world. Using ink and watercolor on
rice paper, students will learn the history and symbolism involved in this exciting art form to paint a
variety of subjects – bamboo, pandas, trees and mountains, people, boats and buildings.
Instructor: Beverly Herndon
-John James Audubon
BIRDLAND
Take flight with an exploration of birds in art. Students will explore the fabulous world of these
feathered friends while learning about the varied approaches of master artists in order to draw and
paint the basic elements of a bird. Students will also make a fanciful paper mache bird mask and a
collage with patterned papers, fashioned into a bird.
Instructor: Adrienne Day