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Season'07, SFAI SUMMER ARTS JUST FOR KIDS!! IDEAS IN ACTION: exploring social, cultural, and environmental activism in art.

Expressionist Self Portraits
Taught by Geraldine Fiskus
6/4–8, 2007, 9am–12pm (6-8 year olds)
6/11–15, 2007, 1-5pm (9-12 year olds)

A self portraiture class, students will gain an understanding of acrylic and water color painting techniques, as well as a deeper understanding of self and image. This workshop will encourage students to seek the specific, imperfect forms of their faces, instead of looking at themselves critically if their facial features fall short of the cultural ideal. Students will learn to use color to express emotion and ideas.

Quest: finding our power in a complex world
Taught by Harper Stone
June 4–8, 1-5pm (9-12 year olds)
June 11–15, 9am–12pm (6-8year olds)

A role playing/ theatrical workshop exploring decision-making and honor in a complicated world. Students will participate in a weeklong theatrical journey, as they place themselves in an imaginative land facing trials and adventures that are relevant to our contemporary society. Some examples of these issues are large-scale agriculture vs. small sustainable farming, individual greed vs. community, and personal identity and multiculturalism vs. homogeneity.

Art As Social Commentary
Taught by J. Barry Zeiger
6/18-22, 2007
9am–12pm (6–8 year olds), 1–5pm (9-12 year olds)

Using recycled materials to create sculpture, students will find their voice by relating consciously to life issues in a new way. Present day concerns, personal points of view; experiences and memories are all universal issues that affect everyone, every community and our world. And recycled materials are more than appropriate as a medium for social comment since saving our environment is an issue on the forefront, and many of our other old habits and attitudes need to be recycled and reinvented as well.

In Shadow: exploring home through shadow puppetry
Taught by Sasha Baskine
6/25-29, 2007, 9am–12pm (6-8 year olds)
7/30–8/3, 2007, 1-5pm (9-12 year olds)

In this shadow puppetry workshop, students will create puppets from simple materials, as well as use their bodies and found objects to tell stories about their comfort zones. Students will explore ideas of house and home; what makes their homes home? Is it the people? The landscape? The objects? This workshop will give students a new mode of creative communication that is fun and simple, but profound in its beauty and power to convey story.

Paint Your World
Taught by Amaryllis deJesus Moleski
July 9 – 13, 2007
9am–12pm (6-8 year olds), 1-5pm (9-12 year olds)

In this workshop, students will create a multi-paneled mural exploring what they see in their communities. Throughout history, murals have been a vital part of community building, bringing color and joy into the streets and reminding people everyday of what is important. Using acrylic paint on masonite panels, (the older students will also create stencils) students will begin to develop the artistic skills to positively effect change in their own communities, and therefore, the world.

Turning it Around: beyond trash and treasure
Taught by Sally Balkemoore
July 16 – 20, 2007, 9am–12pm (6-8 year olds)
July 23 – 27, 2007, 1-5pm (9-12 year olds)

Take a minute a look at that “garbage” again. Turn it around, and engage your imagination. This workshop will encourage students to start thinking differently about the objects they perceive as trash. American consumerism is a huge issue, and our natural resources grow slimmer as our landfills grow larger. Where do these materials come from? Where do they go? Learn to ask questions about the origins of things, engage your imagination, and you will never again be bored.

Creative Infusion: breaking the monotony of industrialization
Taught by Lia Woertendyke
6/2 29, 2007, 1-5pm (9-12 year olds)
7/23-27, 2007, 9am–12pm (6-8 year olds)

In this workshop, students will explore their individuality through writing, theatre, and visual art. Students will learn to incorporate their personal experiences, beliefs, and personality traits consciously into their everyday actions. In a world where objects (as well as personal identities) are mass-produced, the importance of diversity cannot be over emphasized. Using their discoveries of personal identity, students will practice doing every day tasks with ownership and enthusiasm. As a final project, each student will create an individualized project representing his or her identity.

Respond! tackling global issues through abstract painting
Taught by Johanna Kohout
7/16-20, 2007, 1-5pm (9-12 year olds)
7/30-August 3, 2007, 9am–12pm (6-8 year olds)

Through this workshop students will learn how to visually express their emotional responses to local and global issues through abstract painting. Students will learn about line, shape, color, pattern, and how to use these elements to express themselves in large-scale acrylic paintings.