Wild Things!

A day at the Lincoln Park Zoo with Sarah Kaiser and Angela Kovacs drawing Wild Things.

Digital + Handmade

Check out some of the amazing work created by students during the first two weeks of the Digital + Handmade camp. Another session has been added for the first week in August!

Students learned how to use various tools in Photoshop.

Students created 3D compositions then scanned them and altered them using Photoshop.



Students learned to use a digital camera and learned about color channels.



After creating a 2D work of art, students scanned them and added to their compositions using Photoshop.



A good time was had by all.

Student projects - metals camp.

Violet's beautifully detailed necklace complete with handmade chain.

Quick peek from the second week of summer camp.

Work from Clay & Multimedia camp ages 5 - 12.

Wheel throwing camp ages 9 - 12.

Metals camp ages 10 - 16.

Functional sculpture for your garden ages 10 - 14.

SUPERHERO!

Is your kid consumed by visual story telling? Have they memorized all the characters in the Marvel Universe? If so, we have the perfect outlet for their love of mutant powers and supernatural abilities. Gary John Reynolds will be teaching Superhero summer camp August 1 - 5.When he’s not teaching 8-12 year olds about proportion, perspective, and foreshortening, this mild mannered artist teaches drawing and relief printmaking at Salem State University in Salem, MA. Gary is currently showing linoleum block prints in an exhibit titled “Lost & Found” in Marblehead, MA.

Summer camp is here!

It’s an exciting week here at Lillstreet Art Center because summer camps have started. When you teach kids, be prepared to be amazed and surprised by their enthusiasm, creativity, and the thoughtfulness of the things they make. We’ll be posting such moments from summer camp on our blog so you can be amazed with us.

We also wanted to share information about an upcoming show for one of our teachers, Sarah Kaiser. Sarah will be teaching CLAY & MULTIMEDIA, TEEN DRAWING & PAINTING, and WHEEL THROWING camps at Lill Street this summer.

I’m incredibly excited to be a part of the Lillstreet community as the Resident Artist in the Kidstreet program. While studying art education at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago I focused on how “making” (creating with physical and digital materials) presents opportunities for children to become producers rather than consumers. This research made me eager to participate in a community, like Lill Street, that values “making” as an important developmental pursuit. Through “making,” children elevate their ability to act as stewards of a sustainable world.

As Melanie mentioned in her last post, my daughter Cora has been testing projects as I develop them for classes here at Lill Street. One of her favorites so far was made by drizzling chocolate syrup on a piece of plexiglass. She scanned it, altered it in Photoshop, and then used that image to create several different variations.



Simple materials and time to play...