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Art Colony Presents: Printmaking with Caroline McAculiffe

08.13.11

The Colony of Print-makers spent the week exploring various techniques and processes. Each printer made an edition of foam plate prints inspired by the current Featured Teaching Artist Exhibit, Little Nouns and the Drawings that Loved Them. After seeing the exhibition students created entitled entitled Things I love/dislike/think are lovely. The class worked on a large-scale collaborative rubber band collograph inspired by Tara Donovan’s rubber band print series. The plates and their print will be shown in Beyond the Refrigerator Door on September 10th. Students designed their own silkscreen images by drawing directly on the screens with water-soluble crayons to personalize their CMA shirts for Final Friday.

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Art Colony Presents: Set Building with Will Ellis

08.13.11

Oh, the places they built! 28 dexterous hands and 14 incredible minds teamed up last week to create four miniature locales of dizzying diversity! Let us take you on a trip… Where you’ll promenade down a jelly bean road, dive to the dreaded depths of an underwater city, catapult back to a medieval realm, and uncover the horror of that miasmal mausoleum buried beneath a… toxic waste factory?!?!? Happy travels.

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Art Colony Presents: Ceramics with Mandy Talbot

08.13.11

Students learned a wealth of information about the wonderful world of clay in this weeklong class. They dove head first into hand building techniques such as pinch, coil, and slab building. Their ever-growing enthusiasm for the medium culminated in a collaborative piece based upon the installation, “Folly”, by ceramicist Beth Kattleman seen on their Wednesday field trip to the Museum of Art and Design. Students were able to stretch their imaginations and test their 3-dimensional minds in this week’s exploration of clay. (And what a great job they did!)

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Art Colony Presents: He’s Not my Dragon, a Preview

08.09.11

The young artists of the Animated Film Art Colony on Governors Island have created a movie of mythic proportions! However this fantastic flick is still in post production. But fret not, CMA Film fans, for here be the super-exciting, mind bending, appetite-whetting trailer. Enjoy the heck out of it and please join us for the world premiere of He’s Not My Dragon at the opening of the Beyond the Refrigerator Door exhibition on Governors Island on September 10th.

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Art Colony Presents: Documentary Film with Laura Bellmont

08.09.11

Our documentary film class set out to uncover the history, future and secret wonder of one of the most beloved spaces at CMA…

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Art Colony Presents: Sculpture with Gretta Johnson

08.05.11

Gretta Johnson’s sculpture class focused on drawing and the concept of movement to create sculptures that felt alive! Using wire, clay and plenty of cardboard and tape the class created mobiles, figures and dioramas with motion in mind. Get Messy! was the motto of the week and our collection of daily large scale drawings drifted into the realm of Pollock and truly captured camper’s active spirits!

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Art Colony Presents: Cityscape with Jamie Kelty

08.05.11

The Cityscapes art colony started off with a visit to the studio of painter, Douglas Martin. The students were attentive with wonderful observations, questions, and sketches. We explored the city as our theme in oil paintings, 3-Dimensional city scenes in mixed media based on the work of Red Grooms, and paper cuts and prints inspired by Swoon. Our visit to the Whitney Museum of American Art was inspirational as well! The kids also enjoyed rounds of freeze tag, making friends with the museum’s new neighbors from Panino, and bubble blowing in our spare time.

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Art Colony Presents: Podcast with Ryan Naideau, Dan Reitz and Laura Bellmont

07.29.11

Introducing a new Art Colony experience - Radio & Podcast workshops! Over the week, we worked on recording voices, stories, songs, and News, to bring you the first in an upcoming series of groundbreaking CMA radio broadcasts! We also took an awesome field trip to WNYC, the NPR headquarters in NYC, to meet with the pros who give us [...]

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Art Colony Presents: Origami with Hiromi Niizeki

07.29.11

Origami= Paper Folding, Hand Made Paper Mache, Paper Building etc.

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