Posts tagged mixed media
Make Prints with Foam Plates
Make Prints with Foam Plates

As part of our work with schools, we often invite parents to enter more deeply into the learning environment through Family Engagement workshops. These weekend and evening events allow parents to explore art-making firsthand – to experience the curiosity, creativity, and even joy inherent in the process, and to witness it in their children. We can't send a CAW Teaching Artist to your home to lead a Family Engagement workshop, but we can do the next best thing. This week’s blog includes instructions for a simplified printmaking project that you can do at home with your kids. If you enjoy this project, please share your art with us!

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after-school, empowerment, integrated, middle school, Multimedia, OST, out-of-school time, ProgrammingGuest Usercreative art worksart education, active learning, Art, engagement, family, curriculum, Community, caw, caw4kids, DIY, empowerment, Family, printmaking, prints, mistakes, mixed media, n, art, nyc
Make Your Own Kinetic Sculpture Inspired by Alexander Calder
Make Your Own Kinetic Sculpture Inspired by Alexander Calder

Alexander Calder is probably best known as the inventor of the “mobile,” a type of kinetic sculpture carefully balanced so it can move freely. Calder’s sculptures can be seen all over the world, but the reason we chose him for inspiration for a stay-at-home project is because he often made art out of things he found around the house or on the street, such as wire, yarn, fabric, recycled cans, and scraps of metal or wood. He often worked with very simple tools or no tools at all. In fact, he made many sculptures out of nothing but some wire using just his hands.

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middle school, Out-of-school-time, ProgrammingGuest UserCreative Art Worksart education, Art, Calder, Mobile, kintetic, DIY, Family, mobile, middle school, integrated learning, kids, science, nyc, mixed media, energy, youth development
Self-Portrait Inspired by Frida Khalo
Self-Portrait Inspired by Frida Khalo

We believe that the life-affirming experience of making art is for everybody and that creating beauty has physical, emotional, and spiritual benefits. So, we are pleased to offer the first in a planned series of home-based art projects for families. This self-portrait project is among our most joyous. It can be adapted for any level, and you probably have most of the materials on hand!

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Art Around the World, in-school, integrated, literacy-based, Out-of-school-time, Programming, self-portraitGuest UserCreative Art Worksart education, Art, curriculum, drawing, West Harlem, Harlem, hamilton heights, education, family, galebrewer, Jacob Schiff School Campus, Karen Jolicoeur, Manhattan, mixed media, NYC, NYCDYCD, nycdca, PS 192, ps192, self-portrait, second-grade, in-school, early education
A Thread Connects Them
A Thread Connects Them

“Design is design, whether you are cutting and pasting with paper and scissors or 'cutting and pasting' on a computer. Kids who have a chance to do both make those connections.”

— CAW Teaching Artist Brandi Martin Yu on the common thread between CAW’s Book Arts and Digital Arts after-school programs at PSMS 278 in Manhattan.

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after-school, middle school, out-of-school time, mixed mediaGuest UserPSMS 278, The Paula Hedbavny Schoolmiddle school, books, digital, design, art, arts, artsed, arts education, active learning, Ydanis Rodriguez, CASA, doe, DOCA, NYC, NYC City Council, NYC Council, NYCDYCD, creativeartworks, creative youth development, creative art works, caw4kids, Inwood, psms 278, Manhattan, mixed media, photoshop, computer, school, Cultural After-School Adventures, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs
A Little Bit of Imagination and a Whole Lot of Teamwork
A Little Bit of Imagination and a Whole Lot of Teamwork

Stop-motion animation is a multidisciplinary art form that incorporates writing, sculpture, painting and digital video techniques. For this project, students wrote short scenes, built miniature sets, and designed characters using modeling clay. That part of the process is limited only by the imagination of the artist. Animating the characters, by contrast, requires patience, planning, and communication.

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MultimediaBrian RicklinA. Philip Randolph Campus High Schoolartsed, Artspace, empowerment, integrated learning, caw4kids, claymation, Manhattan, Harlem, APRCHS, mixed media, multimedia, animation
Telling Your Own Story, Making Your Own Meaning
Telling Your Own Story, Making Your Own Meaning

Any parent who has ever read a picture book to their child knows that some days the child will insist that it’s their turn to tell the story. As young children look at pictures, they naturally tell stories about what might be happening. They do this with their parents, their siblings, their classmates and their teachers. By constructing their own meanings about what they see, children become active creators of their own knowledge.

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Art Around the World, in-school, primary educationDaniel Bergman, Program DirectorCreative Art Worksart, drawing, education, primary, primary education, art education, Harlem, PS192, Family, girl power, kids, Mark Levine, youth development, art ed, story, active learning, Ezra Jack Keats, Peter's Chair, story-telling, mixed media, early education, Manhattan, NYC