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, Tomoko Nakazato, Janny Pruden
SUMMER ART EXPERIENCE
Tuition: $600 (Member), $655 (Non-Member)
Level: K - 12
Enrollment: 19 seats remaining
The Summer Art Experience is an art intensive summer program for youth spanning an exciting five weeks at The Donkey Mill Art Center. Guest Artists include local artists and craftsman as well as Artist in Residence Yarrow Lutz from N.Y.C. who brings urban concepts to Hawaii's natural setting. No matter where we are in the world the sense of community will always remain the same and students will explore these dynamics along with global perspectives through an array of art and design traditions. This summer our art studies will also explore human culture vs. plant / animal culture through a diverse mix of mediums including drawing, painting, Hawaiian crafts, ceramics, performance, movement, gardening, installation, and mixed media projects. The summer concludes with a final exhibition and presentation where students share their accomplishments with families and friends.
Weekly sessions available for $140 per week, during weeks 1-4 only.
Weeks
1- Drawing/Painting
2- Ceramics
3- Printmaking
4- Mixed Media
5- Collaboration.
Mahalo nui loa to the Sate Foundation on Culture and the Arts who through the Hawaii State Legislature and National Endowment for the Arts, is providing partial funding for our children's programs. The Art Education for Children and Youth program is designed to help students use art as a tool for discovering one's self and finding meaning in life; understanding relationships with others and solving problems using critical thinking skills.
MARCH MADNESS: Around the World in Five Days
Tuition: $175 (Member), $230 (Non-Member)
Level: K - 12
Enrollment: 20 seats remaining
Travel around the world and learn about different world cultures and countries through their arts and crafts. Students will gain a deeper understanding of and appreciation for various cultures. In a global age, multiculturalism and diversity through the arts will enhance student awareness of their own place in society and sensitize them to issues about the environment, human relationships, and building a sense of local and global community. Get inspired as we explore the art of the world using simple materials and techniques. Destinations include Dream Time in Australia (Aboriginal Art), a Latin American Getaway (Day of the Dead), and an African Safari (Masks).
CREATIVE OUTLET
Tuition: $140 (Member), $190 (Non-Member)
Level: K - 12
Enrollment: 13 seats remaining
In every human there exists a potential creative faculty. This does not mean that each person is a painter or a sculptor, but that there is latent creativity in every domain of human effort. ~Joseph Beuys
Creative Outlet is a 15 week after-school program that prepares young students for the future by stimulating their imagination and creativity through the making of visual art. Children explore meaningful ideas and processes that lead toward authentic work in a variety of media such as clay, collage, papermaking, printmaking, painting and drawing. They will experience art making with guest artists such as Kazue Honma (Fiber Artist) and Tanja Softic (Print Maker). As the semester progresses, students work collaboratively, in turn practicing their communication skills by engaging in large scale collaborative projects. Class size is limited, offering each child plenty of individual attention.
In the past two years our instructors have created art curriculum through The Garden Project and will continue to do so with themes weaving concepts of recycling, cultural diversity, and endangered species of our world. This year we will expand our after-school program to include excursions developed in collaboration with the Kona Outdoor Circle (KOC). There will be a guided tour of the cold water gardens led by mentors at the West Hawaii Explorations Academy and a KOC guest instructor that will teach students about vermicomposting at the Mill.
Children involved in previous DMAC after-school programs will have an opportunity to continue a higher level of exploration in art making as instructors create specific projects that challenge and support your child's area of interest.
SOME ART PROJECTS AND ACTIVITIES
- Collaborating with Nature: As part of the Garden Project students will have the opportunity to plant flowers and vegetables in our community garden while learning about sustainability and creating artwork directly related to there experience.
- Endangered Species: Learning about endangered species through drawing, paper mache and clay.
- Papermaking: Students will learn how to prepare, make and print on 'wauke' paper.
- Children's Exhibition: "The Garden of Earthy Delights". Students will have the opportunity to share their experience in art making through a showcase curated by the DMAC's youth instructors with a potluck style opening reception that is free to the public, family and friends on April 23rd, 5:30 to 8pm, 2010.
FALL ART EXPERIENCE- "Exquisite Corpse"
Tuition: $140 (Member)
Level: K - 12
Enrollment: 15 seats remaining
Invented by the Surrealists, Exquisite Corpse is a method by which a collection of words or images is constructed to create a whole. Each collaborator adds to a composition in sequence by only seeing the end of what the previous person contributed. Influence by works of surrealists such as Andre Breton, Joan Miro, Max Ernst, author/illustrator Maurice Sendak, and mother nature will be used to inspire students to create their Exquisite Corpse flip book, collages, and poems.
If your Halloween experience usually begins with a trip to the store to by a pre-fabricated costume, let this experience help dress up your childs IMAGINATION!
Things to bring:
- Sketchbook with students name on it
- Lunch and snack (preferrably healthy)
- Apron or old t-shirt (to get messy)
CREATIVE OUTLET
Tuition: $140 (Member), $190 (Non-Member)
Level: K - 12
Enrollment: 3 seats remaining
Creative Outlet is a 14 week after-school program, which prepares young students for their future by stimulating their imaginations and creativity through visual art making. Children will explore meaningful ideas and processes to create authentic artwork in a variety of media such as clay, collage, printmaking, painting and drawing. Students will also engage in collaborative projects designed to benefit their communication skills. Class size is small, offering each child plenty of individual attention. Children involved in previous after-school or in-school programs will have an opportunity to continue a higher level of exploration in art making as instructors create specific projects that challenge and support your child's area of interest.
Projects & Activities:
Collaborating with Nature: As part of the Garden Project students will have the opportunity to plant flowers and vegetables in our community garden while learning about sustainability and creating artwork directly related to their outdoor experience.
Silk Screen: Students will design their own tee shirt through words and images that reflect 'self'.
Papermaking: Students will learn how to make paper using recycled materials and the local wauke plant.
Printmaking: Students will learn a simple and extremely versatile printing technique called monotype.