Intro to Fine Arts, Fall Afterschool Class

01.02.12

The inaugural Intro to Fine Arts afterschool class at our new CMA location was a prolific and creative exploration. 17 students from ages 5-7 met each Wednesday to learn about an artist and explore different art techniques related to that artist. The students explored carving, printmaking, drawing, painting, and wire sculpture. The kids were so happy, imaginative, and artistically adventurous. These photos are from our final exhibit and celebration.


Art Colony Presents: Origami with Hiromi Niizeki

07.29.11

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


The World Is Flat

08.12.10

Tada!…it’s 2D animation and it’s flat out awesome. The Media Lab Art Colonists of Governors Island have created a magnificent medley of short films that represent a stop-motion tour through many 2D mediums. 2Dediums, if you will. And you should. Press play and witness these wondrous animations made with paper, pencils, paint, chalk, and beyond.


2D, Not 3D

06.28.10

During this week’s 2D animation art colony, artists learned the depths of the 2nd Dimension. Using paper puppets, mural painting, rotoscoping, drawing, chalk and whiteboard, these young artists made many things come alive.


Build A City

01.29.10

Animators at CMA built this city from scratch with their bare hands, construction paper, and scissors. It started as a desolate landscape, evolved into a bustling metropolis and experienced and unexpected demise, as many great civilizations do.


Stamp Animation

07.14.09

Young animators used geometric rubber stamps and craypas crayons to create growing and moving patterns, drawings, and cityscapes… take a look at the amazing displays.