The Holualoa Foundation for Arts and Culture is pleased to offer Art Education for Children and Youth.
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Instructors: Gerald Lucena, Miho Kanani Morinoue, Mike Sato, Ryan Lauden, Andrea Lindborg, Mana Hasegawa, Yarrow Lutz, Shez Arvedon, Lindsay Lander
Family Pottery Workshop
Tuition: $40
Level: Adult and Child Partner Workshop
Enrollment: 0 seats remaining
Join Erik Omundson for this fun clay day learning pinch, slab, and coil methods!
Saturday June 8 Time: 10am-2pm
Tuition: $40 for 1 adult and child, $20 per additional person
Bring a lunch and spend a day playing in clay with your child! This one day class is an opportunity for parents and children to get a taste of ceramics together, with guidance from an experienced ceramicist. This is a hand building class, without use of the wheel. Recommended ages are 5 and up.
In this one-day class, enjoy a day in clay with Erik and find your own voice with this medium using slab, coil, and pinch methods. Learn how the clay directs you while making things from your imagination. Erik will demonstrate various techniques, and participants will have a chance to make a small piece which will be a permanent memory of this day together .
Family Pottery Class with Rena Ekmanis
Tuition: $40
Level: Open to All Levels
Enrollment: 0 seats remaining
Clay Ocarina (Whistle) Making Workshop
Sunday, May 5. Time: 10am-2pm
Tuition: $40 for 1 adult and child, or $20pp
Come and spend the day making a simple clay ocarina or whistle in the shape of a bird, whale or other animal with your child. We will learn how to make a hollow shape, the windway and holes to make beautiful sounds when played. This activity requires attention to detail and precise following directions to make the holes produce sound.
If there is time we can carefully add details to make your ocarina into a simple animal shape. Maybe your child can make a baby and the parent can make a mom or dad animal of your choice.
Rena Ekmanis is an artist and illustrator and has been making clay flutes and sculpture for more than 20 years. To see more of her artwork visit: www.renaekmanis.com
MARCH MADNESS 2013
Tuition: $275
Level: K - 12
Enrollment: 0 seats remaining
SPRING BREAK!
MARCH MADNESS 2013: THE ENCHANTED FOREST - The Tale of Ohi'a and Lehua
With Gerald Lucena and Andrea Lindborg
MOnday - Friday, March 18 - 22, 2013 (Mon. - Fri.)
Time: 9am - 3pm
Using the relationship between Hawaiian storytelling and the blues as a focal point, visual artist Gerald Lucena and musician Andrea Lindborg will co-teach this spring program and focus on the interconnectedness of visual arts and music. Local myths will be examined through the study of different cultures living here and their art and music.
Students will explore the myth of Ohia and Lehua and begin to investigate themes of love, jealousy, separation, and togetherness to create imagery/music that the tale inspires. Visual artist Gerald Lucena will work with students on creating a visual narrative through drawings and storyboards that weaves the magical into the reality facing Hawaii's native forest. Students will be made aware of the destructive forces behind our threatened native species. As a final work, students will collaborate on a mural that embodies the interconnectedness we share with our natural surroundings and the importance of malama (to take care, to preserve). Musician Andrea Lindborg will take students on another journey of self expression through the elements of music, the blues and storytelling. With Andrea's help students will explore songwriting, ukulele playing and basic rhythms incorporating the emotive characteristics of the myth into a final piece that can be shared on the final day of the workshop. To bring our week long adventure to an end, we will be planting an ohia tree somewhere on Donkey Mill property to symbolize togetherness and community.
*Parents please provide a sketchbook, a healthy lunch and snack, and a towel or yoga mat for your child.
About the Teaching Artists:
Gerald Lucena studied art at the University of Hawaii at Manoa (BFA),the State University of New York at Stony Brook, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, and at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Colorado. Lucena currently lives in Captain Cook and teaches for the Holualoa Foundation for Arts and Culture. In his role as art instructor/mentor, Lucena has dedicated the past ten years developing and maintaining programs for children, teens, and adults at the Donkey Mill Art Center. "Teaching allows me to be connected to the art community...in a sense, teaching art has helped me redefine myself as an artist simply through the dynamics of the student/teacher relationship and the reversal of roles that often takes place where I am the one that has learned from the experience."
Andrea Lindborg, a musician and teacher from the Marshall Islands. Andrea graduated with a BA in jazz performance from Oberlin Conservatory. She moved to Hawaii in August of 2010 and is currently working a recording entitled "Pele's Passions," a blend of Afro-Cuban, Brazilian, jazz and R&B music. She enjoys teaching, performing and recording, and is looking forward to teaching "From Jazz to Hip-Hop" at the Donkey Mill Art Center.
Family Pottery Workshop
Tuition: $40
Level: Beginners
Enrollment: 0 seats remaining
Sunday
with Toni Maury
Time: 10am-2pm
Tuition: $40 for 1 adult and child, or $20pp
Bring a lunch and spend a day playing in clay with your child! This one day class is an opportunity for parents and children to get a taste of ceramics together, with guidance from an experienced ceramicist. This is a hand building class, without use of the wheel. Bring a lunch and spend a day playing in clay with your child! Come prepared to get dirty and have some fun trying something new with your child.
Please call to register: 322-3362
EARTH - After School with Teens
Tuition: $175
Level: Ages: 13 - 18
Enrollment: 12 seats remaining
EARTH
Friday's, March 1 - May 17 (No classes 3/22 & 3/29)
During the 10 week session, students will be introduced to the elements and principles of art through a guided practice that focus on the environment as a source of inspiration. An exploration of basic design elements, traditional materials combined with natural and found objects will be used to make handmade sketch books, portraits and masks.
As we practice much of the art of up-cycling, we encourage students to begin collecting a verity of used/recycled materials that can be incorporated into their work. Collecting items such as: broken glass/ceramic dishware, small objects or trinkets, old electronics, buttons, beads, shells, nuts, wire, scraps of wood, bottle caps, soda pop tabs, old photographs, etc. Participating students must bring a snack, good attitude and a creative mind.
Donkey Mill Art Center's after school program is dedicated to helping children use their art as a tool for self-discovery, finding meaning in life, understanding relationships with others, and solving problems using critical thinking skills. We believe through the experience in art making we can support, ready, and empower any child to develop and form an original identity, which will prepare him/her to function as a global citizen of this planet through arts, culture, and socializing. Our instructors believe that art should not only be pleasant/precious/expressive objects that enrich our daily life and culture, but also be a way of life and an experience. We hope that by offering programs in which the idea of green way is combined by fun creative activities, students will discover the power of imagination and creativity, and take initiative in making our living environment sustainable and peaceful for the future generations.
Family Pottery Class with Toni Maury
Tuition: $40
Level: Open to All Levels
Enrollment: 0 seats remaining
Sunday, March 3 Time: 10am-2pm
Tuition: $40 for 1 adult and child, or $20pp
Bring a lunch and spend a day playing in clay with your child! This one day class is an opportunity for parents and children to get a taste of ceramics together, with guidance from an experienced ceramicist. This is a hand building class, without use of the wheel. Recommended for ages 8 and up.
Family Pottery Workshop
Tuition: $40
Level: Beginners
Enrollment: 2 seats remaining
Bring a lunch and spend a day playing in clay with your child! This one day class will be guided by Claire Seastone and is an opportunity for parents and children to get a taste of pottery making, beginning with pinching and coiling techniques and with the opportunity to try the potter's wheel. Come prepared to get dirty and have some fun trying something new with your child.
Tuition covers the cost of one adult and one child, age 8 and older.
Creative Outlet with Miho Morinoue
Tuition: $175
Level: K - 12
Enrollment: 0 seats remaining
Thursday Afternoons
Donkey Mill Art Center's Youth Program enriches a child's knowledge in art while exploring a wide variety of materials. Our ambition is to develop children's creativity and to have them think of themselves as young artists. Children are given the freedom to explore, to trust their impulses and admire the beauty of their expression. Children are encouraged to learn how their feelings and thoughts can be brought to life in their artwork. In this way, their artwork becomes the story of their emerging self and development, a document of that particular moment, and a treasured keepsake.
Our programs are a hands-on art experience where children work with art educators who are also professional artists. Our philosophy behind our projects encourage our students to think about self in relationship to their family, community, health, culture and environmental sustainability. Students explore a broad range of art making activities to build their creative repertoire.
This year our focus will be to integrate more Hawaiian Culture into our curriculum while exploring concepts behind contemporary art and sustainability.
Class will begin promptly at 3pm, if students need to be dropped off earlier, there will be a 30 min. quite time to read or do homework. Please provide a healthy snack and sketchbook for your child.
Fall Art Experience
Tuition: $215
Level: K - 12
Enrollment: 20 seats remaining
Ages 5-12
Students will explore an ancient tale, "How the Rabbit Got to the Moon" by creating a toy theater complete with miniature stage, backdrops, and paper puppets. Students throughout the five days will discuss major themes, will be asked what character they most relate to, and create voice-overs for each character. Toy theater or paper theater is a form of miniature theater dating back to the early 19th century in Europe. Toy theaters were assembled at home and performed for family members and guests, sometimes with live musical accompaniment. For our project, a simple cardboard box will serve as the basic theater structure. Paper puppets will be cut out of cardstock and attached to narrow strips of cardboard. On the last day, we will have our own Donkey Mill Toy Theater Festival during which time students will have an opportunity to perform their rendition of The Rabbit in the Moon.
*Materials: 1 cardboard box at least 18 inches long, at least 18 inches high, and at least 12 inches deep. (parents please bring to first class)
*Please bring a sketch book, healthy snack and lunch.
NEW: EARTH - After School with Teens
Tuition: $175
Level: Ages: 13 - 18
Enrollment: 6 seats remaining
Fridays: Sept 14 - Dec 14, 2012 from 4 - 6:00pm
This Fall, Donkey Mill Art Center is excited to introduce a new after school program for TEENS guided by Lindsay Lander. During this 12 week session students will be introduced to the elements and principles of art through variety of projects focusing on the environment as a source of inspiration and creativity. They will learn
how choices of lines, shapes, and colors can influence their thoughts and expression. An exploration of traditional materials combined with recycled materials and natural found objects will be used to create art. Projects will include 3-d mixed media found object sculpture, t-shirt screen printing, newspaper/magazine collage portraits, clothing and jewelry creations from recycled materials, and sculpting with clay.
Students are encouraged to begin collecting a variety of used/recycled materials that can be reused and incorporated into their work. Items might include: broken glass/ceramic dishware, small broken objects and trinkets, old electronics (small items), buttons, beads, shells, nuts, wire, scraps of wood, old photos, bottle caps, soda pop tabs, etc. Participating students must bring a snack, sketchbook and a creative mind. (No Classes: Oct. 5 & Nov. 23)