Emerging Artists Family Workshop:
Look a Book! A bookmaking workshop
with book artists Karen Skove Chu and Kim Richardson Lindley
and the help of Hiromi Paper International

Saturday, July 12
10 a.m.–noon
$15, $10 SMMoA members
Ages 6 and up

Learn how to make a one-of-a-kind books using clever folding and binding techniques, collage, and even a little puppetry.
www.zushibooks.com and www.hiromipaper.com

Click here to download the PDF Program Flier with enrollment form (95 KB)

Emerging Artists Family Workshop: Plastic Hunks and Chunks
with artist Alison Joy Goldberg

Saturday, August 9
10 a.m.–noon
$15, $10 SMMoA members
Ages 6 and up

Alison Joy Goldberg combines wit and melancholy in her paintings, drawings, and photographs about waste and the environment. Plastic is ubiquitous, colorful, practical, and way-too-disposable. In an act of creative consciousness, construct unique shapes and forms entirely out of recycled everyday plastic. www.alisonjoygoldberg.com

Click here to download the PDF Program Flier with enrollment form (95 KB)

OUTREACH PROGRAM FOR SCHOOLS
Wall Works: blik and me

Exhibition from March 12–July 25, 2008

For blik and me, Los Angeles-based wall graphics company blik (www.whatisblik.com) collaborated with 245 students, predominantly from the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District, to create a site-specific installation made with color vinyl adhesives. All adhesive images are made from drawings that answer the question: What would you be if you were not human? The young people created visual responses that are exuberant, whimsical, utopian, animated, and just plain fun!

About Wall Works
Wall Works includes an “art kit” designed by a celebrated local artist that is delivered to classrooms throughout the Los Angeles area. Students, grades K-12, produce original works that are then installed by SMMoA in a large-scale, collaborative public artwork exhibited at Bergamot Station Arts Complex. Space is limited. Participation is free for teachers and their students.

Upcoming Wall Works artist: Martin Kersels

For information about Wall Works, please contact Asuka Hisa, Director of Education, at 310-586-6488, ext. 118 or at asuka.hisa@smmoa.org.
Enrollment is on a first come, first served basis.

Park Studio: Shadows and Gags
Exhibition dates: May 24–August 9, 2008

Shadows and Gags

With the help of artists Paul Zaloom and Lynn Jeffries, over a period of 4 days, totaling 20 hours of work, 16 young persons–ages 14 to 19–wrote 3 modified fairy tales, designed the puppets to tell these stories, learned lines, rehearsed, and filmed 3 shadow puppet narratives based on Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk, and The Three Little Pigs.

Printmaking and Puppets

9 students worked at the La Mano Press studios in downtown Los Angeles with master printmaker Artemio Rodriguez to create linocut prints based on the theme of puppets. The prints were cut out and individually animated using a stop-motion photo-capture technique. Park Studio, a program of the Santa Monica Museum of Art, offers art education in the form of a free, two-week workshop for area students during the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District's spring break. Park Studio is a unique opportunity for young people to boost their creative impulses by working with artists and explore different facets of contemporary art.

Past Park Studio projects have incorporated graffiti, hip-hop, Shakespeare, music composition, murals, animation, website design, and printmaking. Teachers have included such luminaries as Tim Rollins, Solomón Huerta, Lezley Saar, Frank Romero, Gajin Fujita, Ruby Osorio, Gronk, and Richard S. Duardo. Park Studio is funded, in part, by the City of Santa Monica Latino Community Arts Grant Program, the Annenberg Foundation, and the Goodworks Foundation.

Past Park Studio projects have incorporated graffiti, hip-hop, Shakespeare, music composition, murals, animation, website design, and printmaking. Teachers have included such luminaries as Tim Rollins, Solomón Huerta, Lezley Saar, Frank Romero, Gajin Fujita, Ruby Osorio, Gronk, and Richard S. Duardo.

Park Studio is funded, in part, by the City of Santa Monica Latino Community Arts Grant Program, the Annenberg Foundation, and the Goodworks Foundation.

Participation in Park Studio
If you would like to participate in Park Studio, you must be a middle or high school student residing or attending a Santa Monica Malibu Unified School District school in the Pico/Cloverfield neighborhood of Santa Monica. Area schools for Park Studio: John Adams Middle School, Santa Monica High School.

Park Studio is FREE and takes place during the SMMUSD spring recess. Participants may select either week one or week two of the program. Commitment to the full schedule is essential.

For more information, please contact Asuka Hisa, Education Director, at 310-586-6488, ext. 32 or by email at asuka.hisa@smmoa.org.

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