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Featured Artist of the Month: Donna Chung

07.29.09

I am a teaching artist at CMA and I am so excited to be “artist of the month” at the museum. I created a small installation that reflects my interest in simple materiality, color and forms, and, of course, cardboard objects of mimicry! It’s quite nice to be able to do something at CMA because I am always inspired by the creativity of our visitors AND our staff of artists. Click on this post to see more of my work.

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Clay After Clay

07.29.09

Lonely bunnies, baby penguins, and little cubes of clay populate this film from last week’s Claymation Art Colony. Sit back and enjoy the show.

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CMA Free Art Island Outpost

07.29.09

Meet Ollie the Sea Creature, our new Island Outpost mascot! Everyone who visited our Outpost during the weekend of July 17-19th helped to create Ollie! Come visit him and the Outpost staff on Governors Island-Friday, Saturday, and Sunday from 11-3pm.

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Art of Tribal Cultures

07.23.09

Art of Tribal Cultures art colony explored Aboriginal paintings, African art sculpture, Oceanic masks, and the Surma and Mursi tribes of Africa’s East Africa’s Omo valley. The young artists in this class interpreted each study with an art project of their own. Enjoy our whimsical paintings, intriguing clay sculptures, fantastical papier mache masks, and unique costumes.

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The Castle

07.19.09

Parents and children worked with Teaching Artist Mandy Talbot to create this castle out of cardboard and paper. Afterwards, characters came to life out of clay and moved in.

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Origami

07.18.09

The Origami Arts Class

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Dr. Todd and the Pizza God (a work in progress)

07.16.09

At this very moment on Governors Island a group of 11 young animators are knee-deep in clay, cotton clouds, tempera paint, and ambition. Half way through the second week of this two-week Art Colony the Media Lab Chapel is chockablock with invention. Three-dimensional sets include Mt. Vesuvius, Pompeii, an evil scientist’s laboratory, the United Nations building, and an underground lair where The Resistance plans to foment a revolution. I’ve probably already said too much.

Check out these behind the scenes photos to see animators at work, as well as CMA’s Resident Composer Harlan Muir working with the team to create a musical score.

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Rainforest/Jungle

07.16.09

We built our own rain forest and populated it with clay creatures both real and imaginary. Watch for jungle savagery AND friendship, swimming snakes, giant worm-eating spiders, and more.

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Lights Camera Animation

07.16.09

CMA Summer Art Colony in SoHo kicked off with this fine film. Students in the Intro to Animation class experimented with paper cut-outs, clay, found objects, glitter, dry-erase markers, and themselves.

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