BROOKLYN FRIENDS SCHOOL
SUMMER ARTS 2013
JUNE 19 TO JUNE 28 JULY 1 TO JULY 12 JULY 15 TO JULY 26
Ages 8 to 14
THE PROGRAM SUMMER ARTS AT BROOKLYN FRIENDS SCHOOL offers a diverse and exciting art experience for children who will be entering grades 3 through 7 in September 2013. Taught by working and exhibiting New York City artists, instructors are selected for their artistic accomplishments, as well as their experience working with children. Under the care and guidance of our staff, children explore their creativity and artistic abilities through an enriched interdisciplinary program. In addition to participating in each of the classes described in this brochure, students go on field trips to the city’s world-class arts and cultural institutions. Field trips include outings to major museums, special exhibitions and to the art studios of professional artists.
Students enjoy recreational swimming two times a week, they play in two fully equipped gyms and on the rooftop playground at BFS, and have ample opportunities for free play and organized games.
FACILITIES CONVENIENTLY LOCATED IN DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN easily accessible by public transportation and within walking distance of Brownstone Brooklyn neighborhoods, Brooklyn Friends School has excellent facilities. These include two gymnasiums, a theater, a cafeteria, dance studios and music rooms, computer and science labs, a rooftop playground, four fully equipped art studios, and air-conditioned classrooms.
Summer Arts Session I June 19 - June 28 CLAY SCULPTURE Teacher: Vicki Behm Students will poke, push, pull, roll, carve, smooth and pinch to transform clay into a beautiful self-portrait. They will explore volume, weight, color, form, and texture while learning about the properties of clay and creating their pieces.
collaboratively to create their own stopaction animated short films. By creating scripts and storyboards, designing and building characters and sets, and experimenting with different stop-action techniques, they will make their stories come to life. Each student will receive a DVD of the completed project.
SONGWRITING
PRINTMAKING Teacher: Susan Greenstein Collagraphs, relief, monoprints, stamp making and transfer printmaking. These are the techniques and processes students will learn about while exploring the wonderful world of creating multiples from one image.
PENCILTOPIA: Animation Teacher: Ian Savage Students learn to tell a story visually through the exciting art of stop-motion animation. Students will work
Teacher: Tony Soll Lyrics, rhythm, story and melody – these are the elements that students explore when learning about the process and craft of songwriting. In a fun and lively group setting and through rhyming and singing together, students develop their own musical ideas and songs.
Summer Arts Session II July 1 - July 12
such as family tree, tree of knowledge, and tree of life. Students work with clay and wire to create trunks and branches as well as a variety of materials to create the hanging leaves to compliment their trees. The leaves will convey some of these conceptual associations.
PAINTING AND COLLAGE
WOODWORKING Teacher: Tim Waugh In the school’s fully equipped woodshop, students incorporate basic design, measuring, sawing, and 3D problem solving techniques to create their art. Supervised by BFS’s expert woodworking teacher, students learn about the tools that will help them realize their ideas in a safe and creative way.
SCULPTURE: Stabile Tree Project Teacher: Yuval Ortiz-Quiroga In this class students make stabiles exploring the varied associations with trees
Teacher: Cat Vaz Inspired by the work of Vik Muniz, students will be exposed to the multiple ways of constructing and assembling images to form a collage. Students will create representational collages comprised from non-representational paintings. They will explore various painting techniques then tear, rip and cut up their works into paint chips to ultimately use towards generating their self-portrait collage.
PENCILTOPIA: Animation Teacher: Ian Savage Students learn to tell a story visually through the exciting art of stopmotion animation. Students will work collaboratively to create their own stop-action animated short films. By creating scripts and storyboards, designing and building characters and sets, and experimenting with different stop-action techniques, they will make their stories come to life. Each student will receive a DVD of the completed project.
Summer Arts POLAROID PINHOLE PHOTOGRAPHY
Session III July 15 - July 26 WOODWORKING
Teacher: Lisa Elmaleh The pinhole camera has been a simple way to make analog photographs using a tiny hole instead of a camera lens. This class will add the fun and instantaneous element of peel-apart instant film, and adapted polaroid cameras from the 1960s and 1970s to make fun and unique photographs.
Teacher: Tim Waugh In the school’s fully equipped woodshop, students incorporate basic design, measuring, sawing, and 3-D problem solving techniques to create their work of art. Supervised by BFS’s expert woodworking teacher, students learn about the tools that will help them realize their ideas in a safe and creative way.
BODY MAPS
PENCILTOPIA: ANIMATION
Teacher: Yuval Ortiz-Quiroga In this class students explore the concept of mapping through largescale figure posters. Students will explore ideas behind signage, typography and visual communication as well as symbols that represent individual traits. Large-scale figures will become representations of different aspects of their lives such as friendship, neighborhood, family, hopes and dreams.
Teacher: Ian Savage Students learn to tell a story visually through the exciting art of stopmotion animation. Students will work collaboratively to create their own stop-action animated short films. By creating scripts and storyboards, designing and building characters and sets, and experimenting with different stop-action techniques, they will make their stories come to life. Each student will receive a DVD of the completed project.
For rising 8th and 9th graders
Summer Arts Junior Artist Program ’13
THE JUNIOR ARTIST PROGRAM is an exceptional opportunity for graduates of Summer Arts or anyone entering grades 8 and 9 in September 2013. The Junior Artist will participate in a two hour long “Master” art class every day, allowing time to fully explore and immerse themselves in a comprehensive creative process. The rest of their day will be dedicated to being “art assistants” in the Summer Arts Program. In addition to making their own art, Junior Artists will assist teachers in classes, play and interact with the younger Summer Arts students during free time and New Games, go swimming and participate in all field trips. Guided by Summer Arts Director Rachel Webber, Junior Artists will learn to take leadership responsibilities and be mentors and role models to the younger Summer Arts students.
Junior Artist Course Descriptions Session 1: June 19 - June 28
SCULPTURAL METALSMITHING Teacher: Sara Glaberson In this class, students will explore ways of using line, form, and stylized representation in small metal sculpture. Junior Artists will learn basic metalsmithing techniques, including sawing, forming, working with sheet metal, forging and wirework. Students will look at the work of historic and contemporary artists that use metal in sculptural or illustrative ways. Using these works as inspiration, and drawing on their new skills, each student will create several small sculptures that relate to each other, to explore a theme or tell a story.
Students may register for one, two, or all three sessions.
Junior artists learn leadership skills and become mentors and role models to the younger Summer Arts students.
Session 2: July 1 – July 12
BLACK AND WHITE 35MM PHOTOGRAPHY Teacher: Lisa Elmaleh Before digital photography, there was film. With film, the photographer had to do everything by hand. In this classic 35mm photography course, Junior Artists will learn how to load a camera with 35mm film, expose their images, process film, and print using a real wet darkroom and real photographic chemistry to create black and white photographs.
Session 3: July 15 – July 26
DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKING Teacher: Alexandra Kelly In this unique class, new filmmakers work as a team learning the basics of filmmaking and storytelling to create an original documentary film on the streets of Brooklyn. As producers, directors, cinematographers, narrators and editors of the story they choose to tell, students will get hands on experi-
ence in every aspect of documentary film production: preliminary research, location scouting, story development, scheduling and conducting interviews, camera operation and digital editing. Students will watch and discuss documentary films, including social issue docs made by other young people from around the world. The class will explore questions such as ethics in filmmaking, while developing critical media skills and having a blast! Upon completion of the project, everyone will receive a DVD of the movie they made together.
PROGRAM INSTRUCTORS VICKI BEHM Clay Sculpture- Session 1 Vicki is a painter and teaching artist. She has been teaching art to children through the Studio In a School Foundation and Brooklyn Friends Summer Arts for many years. She has led children’s art projects with the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum, Metropolitan Museum of New York, New York City Opera Company, the Brooklyn Museum of Art and Queens Museum of Art. She recently showcased two of her sketchbooks on a blog for Time, Inc. and continues to present sketchbook workshops at the Museum of Modern Art and at the Met. Vicki recently joined the artist corp at Park Avenue Armory where she works with artists to design and present workshops for students.
LISA ELMALEH 35mm Photography – Session 2, Junior Artist Program Polaroid Pinhole Photography – Session 3 Lisa is a Brooklyn based large format photographer whose current work is an exploration of the landscape of the Everglades. Using a portable darkroom in the trunk of her car, Lisa
photographs using the nineteenth century wet plate process. Lisa is a recipient of the Aaron Siskind Foundation IPF Grant (2011), The Everglades National Park Artist Residency (2010), the Goldwell Artist Residency (2010), the Camera Club of New York Darkroom Residency (2008), and the Tierney Fellowship (2007). Her work has been published in Harper’s Magazine, Dear Dave, Rattle Journal, and Visura Magazine and has been exhibited internationally. Lisa teaches at the School of Visual Arts and the Center for Alternative Photography.
SARA GLABERSON Sculptural Metalsmithing – Session 1, Junior Artist Program Sara received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and her MFA from the State University of New York at New Paltz. Interested in both drawing and metalwork, she often combines the two, making miniature drawings that are set into jewelry. Her work has been featured in the Jewelry Arts and Lapidary Journal, in the Lark publication “500 Plastic Jewelry Designs”, and in galleries and exhibitions throughout the
US and internationally. She has taught art to children and adults in a variety of settings including at Buck’s Rock Creative and Performing Arts Camp, at the 92nd Street Y, in a charter high school near Boston, and at the college level. She loves helping students discover new mediums and ways of working.
SUSAN GREENSTEIN Printmaking- Session 1 Susan is the lower school art teacher at Brooklyn Friends School. She is a prolific painter and children's book illustrator. She was a teaching artist for the Studio in a School Foundation for twelve years, a supervisor in Pratt's Saturday Art School Program, and she recently completed a project at the Brooklyn Museum, working with teachers to create large-scale prints of New York City.
ALEXANDRA KELLY Documentary Filmmaking – Session 3, Junior Artist Program Alex has been working on
youth media projects for over ten years. Her fascination with other peoples' stories, led her to study narrative psychology at Clark University. She went on to work as a Facilitator at StoryCorps, the nation's largest oral history project. Alex recently graduated from a master's program in Media Studies at The New School. She has coordinated several distinct youth media projects around the city, including The Video Lab program at The New School, a documentary filmmaking project at Brooklyn Children's Museum and an oral history project in Crown Heights. Alex also taught a course on documentary filmmaking in Hanoi, Vietnam where she worked with first-time filmmakers at Hanoi University to tell the stories of cyclo drivers.
YUVAL ORTIZQUIROGA Sculpture: StabileTree Project – Session 2 Body Maps – Session 3 Yuval currently teaches Upper School and Middle School Visual Arts at BFS as well as serving as Art Department Head. He received a BA in Studio Art from Dartmouth College and has been teaching since. Prior to BFS he taught at a small boarding school in the Hudson
Valley focused on the arts. He has taught both 2D and 3D media as well as AP and IB Art courses. In his own practice Yuval is most interested in space and installation work while also working on relief and sculpture. Yuval also does social justice and institutional equity work at BFS and elsewhere.
IAN SAVAGE Penciltopia: Animation – Session 1, Session 2, Session 3 Ian graduated from Paier College of Art in Hamden, CT with a degree in Fine Art Photography, and completed the film program at Vancouver Film School in British Columbia. Ian codeveloped the Media Lab Program at the Children’s Museum of the Arts in Soho, where he taught stop-motion animation and filmmaking for 4 years. His students’ films were screened at the Tribeca Film Festival and the NY International Children’s Film Festival. Ian teaches after school classes in stop-
action animation for Penciltopia, as well as private classes. In addition to his work as a teaching artist, Ian continues to work in the film and television industry as a director, producer, editor and shooter. Ian owns and operates Rolliboat Films, a small production company that has created content for clients such as AMC, IFC, AOL, Verizon, and Forbes Magazine.
TONY SOLL Songwriting – Session 1 Tony has been playing the guitar forever (since he was 15). He is an accomplished songwriter for both children and adults, and is currently playing bass and singing with Cool Hand Lou & the Downtown Daddy O's all over the NYC area. He has been both a BFS parent and teacher for more than 25 years and he currently teaches history and English in the Middle School.
CAT VAZ Collage – Session 2 Cat received her BA in Studio Art from Hunter College and is currently completing her Masters in Art Education at Brooklyn College. Born and raised in Greenwich Village, she uses architecture and the built environment as the source for much of her work in drawing. As a painter, she focuses on continued on next page
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SCHEDULE AND FEES SUMMER ARTS HOURS Monday – Friday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. • Early Bird drop off available at 8:15 am at no additional cost • After Camp hours: 3:00-6:00 Pre-registration: $10 per hour After June 1st: $14 per hour
breaking down figurative images and abstracting them through collage. This fall, Cat was a student teacher for the BFS Lower School Art Department and is excited to join the Summer Arts team!
TIM WAUGH Woodworking – Session 2, Session 3 A native New Yorker, Tim had his first woodworking experience at Bank Street School for Children. He later went on to study photography and literature at NYU, but it wasn't until he became an uncle that he realized that he wanted to be a teacher. For the past twenty years he has been teaching woodworking to lowerschool, middleschool and upperschool students at BFS.
RACHEL WEBBER Director of Summer Arts Rachel has been the director of Summer Arts for the past 13 years, focusing on bringing the most sophisticated and exciting art experience to children throughout the New York City area. Her vision of combining exceptional studio classes taught by New York City’s most talented teaching artists and exposure to the real art world with visits to museums, galleries and studio visits to world renowned artists has brought acclaim to the program. She also serves as the Executive Director of the Horizons Program at Brooklyn Friends School and head of Auxiliary Programs. Rachel’s pride and joy are her two beautiful and talented children, both BFS alums.
Session I
June 19 - June 28
PLEASE NOTE: This session starts mid-week on Wednesday, June 19th..
$760 $600
Summer Arts Jr. Artist Program
July 1 - July 12
Session II
PLEASE NOTE: Summer Arts will be closed on Thursday, JULY 4th.
Summer Arts Jr. Artist Program
$855 $675
July 15 - July 26 Session III $950 Summer Arts $750 Jr. Artist Program
• Program fee includes the cost of field trips, T-shirt, snacks, and materials for each class • Students bring their own lunch • A daily snack is provided • A 5% sibling discount is applicable for children enrolled in both Summer Arts and Summer Camp • Students may register for one, two, or all three sessions. • Partial sessions are not available.
Register by March 15th for a $50 tuition deduction.
Courses and instructors described throughout this brochure are subject to change.
SUMMER ARTS 2013 REGISTRATION REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS APRIL 30, 2013 Register early and save! Register by March 15, 2013 and take $50.00 off fee. • A non-refundable deposit of $300 is due with registration. • A 5% sibling discount is applicable for children enrolled in both Summer Arts and Summer Camp • Students are enrolled on a first-come, first-served basis. • The balance of tuition is due no later than June 1. • Only children for whom we have full payment and completed forms may attend Summer Arts.
For more information on Summer Arts at Brooklyn Friends School, please contact Rachel Webber, Director, at rwebber@brooklynfriends.org or 718-852-1029 ext. 248
TO REGISTER FOR SUMMER ARTS AND/OR JUNIOR ARTIST PROGRAM, GO TO:
www.brooklynfriends.org/summerarts
SUMMER ARTS 2013
– Written by a parent on a neighborhood blog reviewing summer programs
“The Summer Arts classes were very sophisticated, and the teachers were phenomenal. . . . The small class size was perfect for my child, and the care and attention of the director and teachers made all the difference. I highly recommend this program.”
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