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Recommended ages 5-12
When: Saturdays, 10-11:30 AM. Fee per class $15
Tuesdays, 1-2:30 PM. Monthly fee $50
Location:
Rozanoff Art,
355 29th Street (between Church & Sanchez),
San Francisco, CA 94131
917.251.3179
Classes are project based with the use of different media and introduction of art history with emphasis on creativity and exploration. Kids will learn drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, collage, mosaic, etc. Each lesson has three parts. First is based on references to artists' work or/and introduction to different art styles and movements. Second part is learning different techniques using variety of media. Third is exploring imagination. The class ends with critique where children learn to look at and talk about art.
Space is limited to 5-6 students.
To register please call 917.251.3179,
Description of classes:
Art theory -- Explore artworks of Kandinsky and Miro, create a drawing.
Technique -- Learn about printmaking techniques and create prints using clay
Imagination -- Theme: Colors, Explore color combinations
Art theory -- Kinetic art (Calder, Gabo). Create moving sculpture using mixed media.
Technique -- Learn how to use volume and shadows.
Imagination -- Theme: Illustration to favorite book.
Art theory -- Explore African art and create a color drawing.
Technique -- Wet in wet - working with watercolors.
Imagination -- Theme: Exlporing textures through printing
Art theory -- Impressionism (Monet, Cassatt, Renoir)
Technique -- Learn about sculpting methods- carving away.
Imagination -- Theme: drawing using geometric shapes.
Art theory -- Explore cubism (Picasso, Braque, Gris) and create cubistic collage.
Technique -- Realism. Learn to draw realistic face.
Imagination -- Theme:Future
What art gives to children:
The arts teach children to make good judgments about qualitative relationships. Unlike much of the curriculum in which correct answers and rules prevail, in the arts, it is judgment rather than rules that prevail.
The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution and that questions can have more than one answer.
The arts celebrate multiple perspectives. One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.
The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem solving purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity. Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds.
The arts make vivid the fact that neither words in their literal form nor number exhaust what we can know. The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.
The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects. The arts traffic in subtleties.
The arts teach students to think through and within a material. All art forms employ some means through which images become real.
The arts help children learn to say what cannot be said. When children are invited to disclose what a work of art helps them feel, they must reach into their poetic capacities to find the words that will do the job.
The arts enable us to have experience we can have from no other source and through such experience to discover the range and variety of what we are capable of feeling.
SOURCE: Eisner, E. (2002). The Arts and the Creation of Mind, In Chapter 4, What the Arts Teach and How It Shows. (pp. 70-92). Yale University Press. Available from NAEA Publications.
