Fall Art and Performance Workshops for Teens at Cloud Place

All Workshops are offered free of charge to Boston-Area Public High School Students, and are led by local, professional artists.

To Apply: Download an application form, fill it out and email it to or fax it to 617.262.2848

Performance Art
Wednesdays 3:30 – 6:00 | October 1 – December 17, 2008
Don't confuse performance art with theater! Performance artists create live actions using the body to promote (or provoke) a response from their audience. This workshop will look at different ways to approach an audience, and will explore creating work for different types of audiences: public, private, solo, and digital. The workshop will look at a range of fine art practices to consider how an artist can use the body to express his or her ideas. Students will learn how to give voice to ideas that interest them, and will work with different approaches and materials to create a final performance at the end of the workshop. The class will witness the work of local performance artists, and will explore their own relationships to places, materials, rituals, and people. Download an application form.

Contemporary Dance
Tuesdays & Thursdays 3:30 – 6:00 | September 30 – December 18, 2008
This semester-long class will focus on dance and movement as a means of self-expression. Each class will include a lesson in technique from various disciplines including ballet, jazz, hip-hop, and modern dance with emphasis on understanding basic movement vocabulary. The second half of each class will focus on composition and choreography. Through improvisation, group work, and partner exercises students will learn how to generate their own original movements and make personal choreographic choices. Students will then work collaboratively to create a final piece for performance at Cloud Place at the end of the semester. No previous dance training is required, just a willingness to keep an open mind and discover the artist within. This workshop includes dance-related field trips and visiting guest dancers and choreographers. Download an application form.

Art As Process
Saturdays 10:30 – 3:30 | October 4 – December 13, 2008
A transformative visual art workshop for young people who want the challenge of investigating new and unique ways of making art and expressing their own ideas visually. Art as Process focuses on developing the creative process, fostering experimental, inventive thinking in the studio. The workshop explores painting, drawing, sculpture, and other media with an eye toward combining materials in unusual ways. Abstraction, realism, autobiography and other approaches will be discussed and explored through mixed-media projects guided by faculty members from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Open to beginners and experienced teen artists, Art as Process guides students in exploring and developing their own creative abilities, assembling a portfolio, and exploring the idea of a professional art career. Download an application form.

Digital Animation
Saturdays 10:30 – 2:00 | October 18 – December 13, 2008
This 8-week workshop introduces teens to the principles of digital animation from flipbooks, to pixilation, to stop-motion, to claymation and puppetry. Participants learn to use a variety of animation software platforms to create their own short animated films in the Cloud Place media lab, experimenting with the combination of digital and hand-made graphics to tell original stories. Working individually and in pairs, students are encouraged to push the boundaries of the medium to create finished work that is ready for screening at Cloud Place and beyond. Students work with a professional animator and web designer, and have the chance to experience samples of animation by artists from around the world. Download an application form.

 

The Cloud's art and performance workshops for teens are supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. The Cloud's art and performance workshops for teens are supported in part by an award from an Anonymous Foundation.