ARTventure DC 2015: Art Around the World, Part 1!

ARTventure DC 2015 has BEGUN!  

Some of you may recall seeing posts last summer about the mini summer camp I run, called ARTventure DC. Well, we have changed the format a little bit this year, to less travel, more arts experiences, and session one was AMAZING!  Above, you can see the camp location is the beautiful basement of a Bancroft family's house, which is the perfect location for imagining, creating, and of course, making a mess! 

 Filled with campers the space looks great!  Camp runs from 8:00-12:00 Monday through Friday for three weeks throughout the summer and on Friday we travel to an art museum to see the work and artists we have learned about throughout the week. This week the theme was "Art Around the World".  We focused on a particular artist or style from countries like the U.S.A., Australia, Japan, Italy, India, Greece, and more!  

Here are our 2 of our projects!  Check back soon for more! 

Japanese Wood Block Prints

One day, we travelled to Japan to look at the way they created art through printmaking.  We talked about the various methods of printmaking and materials, and realized that woodblock carving was a very challenging process.  So instead, we used styrofoam plates and a dull pencil to create our own image.  While campers worked on carving their image, Ms. Monica and I made some prints with color of plain plates(seen above, middle photo).  Campers then used the brayers to ink and print their own images.  Check out our results! 

   Campers had a small 2inch by 2inch square to first practice their carving skills on, and we decided to print each others small squares to make a collaborative piece of art.  Check out one of our collaborative pieces below!(even Ms. Monica and Ms. Foy made squares to print!)

The next day at camp, we learned about various Abstract and Pop Artists from the United States!  We got alot of inspiration to create jumbled up works of art like Jasper Johns, and  shape focused art like WassilyKandinsky(okay okay, we know he wasn't born in the U.S.A., but we still loved his work!).  Just a few of our creations are below! 

 

 Another artist we learned about was Jackson Pollock, have you seen his work?  He used his the force of his whole body to paint flinging his paint across the canvas....well to get a little inspiration and an appreciation for his hard work we painted by flinging...... SPAGHETTI across our pages..... 

Check back later this week to see our SPAGHETTI ART!!!!