(ages 8- 13)
(image: Emma Clark)
Calling All Kids!
This summer Resonator will open its doors to kids for a series of unique and fun classes!
Each of the seven sessions in this series will be project-oriented and yield some form of fantastic creation. Classes are taught by working artists and assisted by a group of parent volunteers and art educators. The projects are designed to be educational, fun, and to introduce kids to accessible ideas, materials, and processes that they can build upon in their own time.
Sign up for one, or all seven!
Inner Wild Child
Four sessions (1:30 to 4:30 on June 28, July 13, August 3, and August 10)
Led by artist Gentry Leach, these classes will teach the concepts of abstract painting using four of Norman’s fantastic public parks (Andrews, Griffin, Lions, and Reaves) as the backdrop and inspiration! For each session, participants will meet at the park and start by taking in everything, noting colors, objects, shapes, critters, plants, etc. They will then take these observations and use them as inspiration for their contributions to a large-scale (4 x 4 ft.) collaborative painting. The emphasis will be on creative freedom— there’s no “bad” or “wrong” mark making in abstraction, so the possibilities are endless!
After class, these paintings will be professionally stretched and serve as the centerpieces for a culminating group exhibition/event celebrating class participants and the work they have created.
Experimental Drawing
(1:30 to 4:30 on July 6)
Taught by artist Eunice Carter, this class will be a fun and free-form exploration of mark-making with a variety of materials. The emphasis will be on exploring ideas and using drawing as a fantastic entry point to the world of imagination.
Sticker Making
(1:30 to 4:30 on July 20)
Homemade stickers are a great way for kids to share their work with each other and decorate the objects in their lives with images that make them unique and personalized. In this class, artist Wesley Kramer will lead participants on a trip through the world of DIY sticker making and show them several fun ways to make and reproduce stickers.
T-Shirt Printing
(1:30 - 4:30 on July 27)
This class will be taught by Professor Curtis Jones from the OU School of Visual Arts. It will introduce students to the screen printing process by allowing them to create and print their own images right onto t-shirts, tote bags, pieces of paper, wood, and/or any other flat material we can find hanging around the studio.
Spacey Space Space!
(9:30 - 12:30 on August 3)
Lead by Resonator contributor, DEI consultant, and media designer Ashley Morrison, this class will explore the fascinating world of dioramas and teach kids how they can create a universe of their own right inside a shoebox! Participants will be utilizing upcycled materials and create future-inspired compositions that turn their everyday shoeboxes into out-of-this-world wonderlands. This will be a 3-hour morning session that will feature a background screening of a futuristic film, and conclude with a light lunch and and student presentations where participants can tell the group a little bit about themselves and what inspired their creativity for the shoebox diorama.
And… all dioramas made during the workshop will be exhibited in Resonator’s September Exhibition Diversity University !!
Create Your Realm
(9:30 - 12:30 on August 10)
Students explore the fantastical and imaginative in this class taught by artist and Creaturealm artist/co-founder Nick Lillard. Using recycled plastics, students will each build their own self-conceived mystical ‘creature’ to be arranged with those of their classmates into a collaborative composition within a life-sized diorama box. This multi-part process will fascinate and entertain participants as it teaches them fundamental principles of design, light construction, installation, lighting, and working collaboratively.
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