bfs summer arts 2013 informational brochure

JUNE 19 TO JUNE 28

JULY 1 TO JULY 12

JULY 15 TO JULY 26

Ages8 to 14

BROOKLYN FRIENDS SCHOOLSUMMER ARTS 2013

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THE PROGRAMSUMMER ARTS AT BROOKLYNFRIENDS SCHOOL offers adiverse and exciting art experience forchildren who will be entering grades 3through 7 in September 2013. Taughtby working and exhibiting New YorkCity artists, instructors are selected fortheir artistic accomplishments, as wellas their experience working withchildren. Under the care andguidance of our staff, chil-dren explore their creativi-ty and artistic abilitiesthrough an enrichedinterdisciplinary program.

In addition to participating ineach of the classes described inthis brochure, students go on fieldtrips to the city’s world-class arts andcultural institutions. Field tripsinclude outings to major museums,special exhibitions and to the artstudios of professional artists.

Students enjoy recreational swimmingtwo times a week, they play in two fullyequipped gyms and on the rooftop play-ground at BFS, and have ample opportu-nities for free play and organized games.

FACILITIESCONVENIENTLY LOCATED IN DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN

easily accessible by public trans-portation and within walking

distance of BrownstoneBrooklyn neighborhoods,Brooklyn Friends Schoolhas 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, andair- conditioned classrooms.


CLAY SCULPTURETeacher: Vicki BehmStudents will poke, push, pull, roll,carve, smooth and pinch to transformclay into a beautiful self-portrait. Theywill explore volume, weight, color,form, and texture while learning aboutthe properties of clay and creatingtheir pieces.

PRINTMAKINGTeacher: Susan GreensteinCollagraphs, relief, monoprints, stampmaking and transfer printmaking.These are the techniques and pro -cesses students will learn about whileexploring the wonderful world of creating multiples from one image.

PENCILTOPIA: AnimationTeacher: Ian SavageStudents learn to tell a story visuallythrough the exciting art of stop-motionanimation. Students will work

collaboratively to create their own stop-action animated short films. By creatingscripts and storyboards, designing andbuilding characters and sets, andexperimenting with different stop-actiontechniques, they will make their storiescome to life. Each student will receive aDVD of the completed project.

SONGWRITINGTeacher: Tony SollLyrics, rhythm, story and melody –these are the elements that studentsexplore when learning about theprocess and craft of songwriting. In a fun and lively group settingand through rhyming and singingtogether, students develop their ownmusical ideas and songs.

Summer ArtsSession I June19 - June 28


WOODWORKINGTeacher: Tim Waugh In the school’s fully equipped wood-shop, students incorporate basicdesign, measuring, sawing, and 3Dproblem solving techniques to createtheir art. Supervised by BFS’s expertwoodworking teacher, students learnabout the tools that will help themrealize their ideas in a safe and creative way.

SCULPTURE:Stabile Tree ProjectTeacher: Yuval Ortiz-QuirogaIn this classstudents makestabilesexploring thevariedassociationswith trees

such as family tree, tree of knowledge,and tree of life. Students work withclay and wire to create trunks andbranches as well as a variety ofmaterials to create the hanging leavesto compliment their trees. The leaveswill convey some of these conceptualassociations.

PAINTING AND COLLAGETeacher: Cat VazInspired by the work of Vik Muniz,students will be exposed to the multi-ple ways of constructing and assem-bling images to form a collage.Students will create representationalcollages comprised from non-represen-tational paintings. They will explorevarious painting techniques then tear,rip and cut up their works into paintchips to ultimately use towards gener-ating their self-portrait collage.

PENCILTOPIA: AnimationTeacher: Ian SavageStudents learn to tell a story visuallythrough the exciting art of stop-motion animation. Students will workcollaboratively to create their ownstop-action animated short films. Bycreating scripts and storyboards,designing and building characters andsets, and experimenting with differentstop-action techniques, they will maketheir stories come to life. Each stu-dent will receive a DVD of the com-pleted project.

Summer ArtsSession II July 1 - July 12


POLAROID PINHOLEPHOTOGRAPHYTeacher: Lisa ElmalehThe pinhole camera has been a simpleway to make analog photographsusing a tiny hole instead of a cameralens. This class will add the fun andinstantaneous element of peel-apartinstant film, and adapted polaroidcameras from the 1960s and 1970s tomake fun and unique photographs.

BODY MAPSTeacher: Yuval Ortiz-QuirogaIn this class students explore theconcept of mapping through large-scale figure posters. Students willexplore ideas behind signage,typography and visual communicationas well as symbols that representindividual traits. Large-scale figureswill become representations ofdifferent aspects of their lives such asfriendship, neighborhood, family,hopes and dreams.

WOODWORKINGTeacher: Tim WaughIn the school’s fully equipped wood-shop, students incorporate basicdesign, measuring, sawing, and 3-Dproblem solving techniques to createtheir work of art. Supervised by BFS’sexpert woodworking teacher, studentslearn about the tools that will helpthem realize their ideas in a safe andcreative way.

PENCILTOPIA: ANIMATIONTeacher: Ian SavageStudents learn to tell a story visuallythrough the exciting art of stop-motion animation. Students will workcollaboratively to create their ownstop-action animated short films. Bycreating scripts and storyboards,designing and building characters andsets, and experimenting with differentstop-action techniques, they will maketheir stories come to life. Eachstudent will receive a DVD of thecompleted project.

Summer Arts Session III July 15 - July 26


THE JUNIOR ARTIST PROGRAM is an exceptional opportunity for graduates of SummerArts or anyone entering grades 8 and9 in September 2013.

The Junior Artist will participate ina two hour long “Master” art classevery day, allowing time to fullyexplore and immerse themselves in acomprehensive creative process.

The rest of their day will be dedicatedto being “art assistants” in theSummer Arts Program. In additionto making their own art, Junior Artistswill assist teachers in classes, play andinteract with the younger SummerArts students during free time andNew Games, go swimming andparticipate in all field trips. Guided bySummer Arts Director Rachel Webber,Junior Artists will learn to takeleadership responsibilities and bementors and role models to theyounger Summer Arts students.

Junior Artist Course Descriptions

Session 1: June 19 - June 28

SCULPTURALMETALSMITHINGTeacher: Sara GlabersonIn this class, students will explore waysof using line, form, and stylizedrepresentation in small metalsculpture. Junior Artists will learnbasic metalsmithing techniques,including sawing, forming, workingwith sheet metal, forging andwirework. Students will look at thework of historic and contemporaryartists that use metal in sculptural orillustrative ways. Using these works asinspiration, and drawing on their newskills, each student will create severalsmall sculptures that relate to eachother, to explore a theme or tell a story.

Students may register for one, two, or all three sessions.

Summer ArtsJunior Artist Program ’13

For rising8th and 9th

graders


Session 2: July 1 – July 12

BLACK AND WHITE 35MM PHOTOGRAPHYTeacher: Lisa ElmalehBefore digital photography, there wasfilm. With film, the photographer hadto do everything by hand. In thisclassic 35mm photography course,Junior Artists will learn how to load acamera with 35mm film, expose theirimages, process film, and print using areal wet darkroom and real photographic chemistry to create black and whitephotographs.

Session 3: July 15 – July 26

DOCUMENTARYFILMMAKINGTeacher: Alexandra KellyIn this unique class, new filmmakerswork as a team learning the basics offilmmaking and storytelling to createan original documentary film on thestreets of Brooklyn. As producers,directors, cinematographers, narratorsand editors of the story they choose totell, students will get hands on experi-

ence in every aspect of documentaryfilm production: preliminary research,location scouting, story development,scheduling and conducting interviews,camera operation and digital editing.Students will watch and discuss docu-mentary films, including social issuedocs made by other young people fromaround the world. The class willexplore questions such as ethics infilmmaking, while developing criticalmedia skills and having a blast! Uponcompletion of the project, everyonewill receive a DVD of the movie theymade together.

Junior artists learn leadership skills

and become mentors and role models

to the younger Summer Arts students.


PROGRAM INSTRUCTORSVICKI BEHM Clay Sculpture- Session 1

Vicki is a painter andteaching artist. She hasbeen teaching art tochildren through theStudio In a SchoolFoundation and BrooklynFriends Summer Arts formany years. She has ledchildren’s art projects withthe Museum of ModernArt, the GuggenheimMuseum, MetropolitanMuseum of New York, NewYork City Opera Company,the Brooklyn Museum ofArt and Queens Museumof Art. She recentlyshowcased two of hersketchbooks on a blog forTime, Inc. and continues topresent sketchbookworkshops at the Museumof Modern Art and at theMet. Vicki recently joinedthe artist corp at ParkAvenue Armory where sheworks with artists to designand present workshops forstudents.

LISA ELMALEH35mm Photography –Session 2, Junior ArtistProgramPolaroid PinholePhotography – Session 3

Lisa is a Brooklyn basedlarge format photographerwhose current work is anexploration of thelandscape of theEverglades. Using aportable darkroom in thetrunk of her car, Lisa

photographs using thenineteenth century wetplate process. Lisa is arecipient of the AaronSiskind Foundation IPFGrant (2011), TheEverglades National ParkArtist Residency (2010), theGoldwell Artist Residency(2010), the Camera Club ofNew York DarkroomResidency (2008), and theTierney Fellowship (2007).Her work has beenpublished in Harper’sMagazine, Dear Dave,Rattle Journal, and VisuraMagazine and has beenexhibited internationally.Lisa teaches at the Schoolof Visual Arts and theCenter for AlternativePhotography.

SARA GLABERSONSculptural Metalsmithing –Session 1, Junior ArtistProgram

Sara received her BFAfrom the Rhode IslandSchool of Design, and herMFA from the StateUniversity of New York atNew Paltz. Interested inboth drawing andmetalwork, she oftencombines the two, makingminiature drawings thatare set into jewelry. Herwork has been featured inthe Jewelry Arts andLapidary Journal, in theLark publication “500Plastic Jewelry Designs”,and in galleries andexhibitions throughout the

US and internationally. Shehas taught art to childrenand adults in a variety ofsettings including at Buck’sRock Creative andPerforming Arts Camp, atthe 92nd Street Y, in acharter high school nearBoston, and at the collegelevel. She loves helpingstudents discover newmediums and ways ofworking.

SUSAN GREENSTEIN Printmaking- Session 1

Susan is the lower schoolart teacher at BrooklynFriends School. She is aprolific painter andchildren's book illustrator.She was a teaching artistfor the Studio in a SchoolFoundation for twelveyears, a supervisor inPratt's Saturday Art SchoolProgram, and she recentlycompleted a project at theBrooklyn Museum,working with teachers tocreate large-scale prints ofNew York City.

ALEXANDRA KELLYDocumentaryFilmmaking – Session 3,Junior Artist Program

Alex has been working on


youth media projects forover ten years. Herfascination with otherpeoples' stories, led her tostudy narrative psychologyat Clark University. Shewent on to work as aFacilitator at StoryCorps,the nation's largest oralhistory project. Alexrecently graduated from amaster's program in MediaStudies at The New School.She has coordinated severaldistinct youth mediaprojects around the city,including The Video Labprogram at The NewSchool, a documentaryfilmmaking project atBrooklyn Children'sMuseum and an oralhistory project in CrownHeights. Alex also taught acourse on documentaryfilmmaking in Hanoi,Vietnam where she workedwith first-time filmmakersat Hanoi University to tellthe stories of cyclo drivers.

YUVAL ORTIZ-QUIROGASculpture: StabileTreeProject – Session 2Body Maps – Session 3

Yuval currently teachesUpper School and MiddleSchool Visual Arts at BFSas well as serving as ArtDepartment Head. Hereceived a BA in Studio Artfrom Dartmouth Collegeand has been teachingsince. Prior to BFS hetaught at a small boardingschool in the Hudson

Valley focused on the arts.He has taught both 2D and3D media as well as AP andIB Art courses. In his ownpractice Yuval is mostinterested in space andinstallation work while alsoworking on relief andsculpture. Yuval also doessocial justice andinstitutional equity work atBFS and elsewhere.

IAN SAVAGEPenciltopia: Animation –Session 1, Session 2,Session 3

Ian graduated from PaierCollege of Art in Hamden,CT with a degree in FineArt Photography, andcompleted the filmprogram at Vancouver FilmSchool in BritishColumbia. Ian co-developed the Media LabProgram at the Children’sMuseum of the Arts inSoho, where he taughtstop-motion animation andfilmmaking for 4 years. Hisstudents’ films werescreened at the TribecaFilm Festival and the NYInternational Children’sFilm Festival. Ian teachesafter school classes in stop-

action animation forPenciltopia, as well asprivate classes. In additionto his work as a teachingartist, Ian continues towork in the film andtelevision industry as adirector, producer, editorand shooter. Ian owns andoperates Rolliboat Films, asmall production companythat has created content forclients such as AMC, IFC,AOL, Verizon, and ForbesMagazine.

TONY SOLLSongwriting – Session 1

Tony has been playing theguitar forever (since he was15). He is an accomplishedsongwriter for bothchildren and adults, and iscurrently playing bass andsinging with Cool HandLou & the DowntownDaddy O's all over the NYCarea. He has been both aBFS parent and teacher formore than 25 years and hecurrently teaches historyand English in the MiddleSchool.

CAT VAZCollage – Session 2

Cat received her BA inStudio Art from HunterCollege and is currentlycompleting her Masters inArt Education at BrooklynCollege. Born and raised inGreenwich Village, sheuses architecture and thebuilt environment as thesource for much of herwork in drawing. As apainter, she focuses on

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breaking down figurative images andabstracting them through collage. This fall,Cat was a student teacher for the BFSLower School Art Department and isexcited to join the Summer Arts team!

TIM WAUGHWoodworking – Session 2, Session 3

A native New Yorker, Tim had his firstwoodworking experience at Bank StreetSchool for Children. He later went on tostudy photography and literature at NYU,but it wasn't until he became an uncle thathe realized that he wanted to be a teacher.For the past twenty years he has beenteaching woodworking to lowerschool,middleschool and upperschool students atBFS.

RACHEL WEBBERDirector of Summer Arts

Rachel has been the director of SummerArts for the past 13 years, focusing onbringing the most sophisticated andexciting art experience to childrenthroughout the New York City area. Hervision of combining exceptional studioclasses taught by New York City’s mosttalented teaching artists and exposure tothe real art world with visits to museums,galleries and studio visits to worldrenowned artists has brought acclaim tothe program. She also serves as theExecutive Director of the HorizonsProgram at Brooklyn Friends School andhead of Auxiliary Programs. Rachel’s prideand joy are her two beautiful and talentedchildren, both BFS alums.

Courses and instructors describedthroughout this brochure are

subject to change.

SCHEDULE AND FEESSUMMER ARTS HOURS

Monday – Friday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

• Early Bird drop off available at8:15 am at no additional cost

• After Camp hours: 3:00-6:00 Pre-registration: $10 per hourAfter June 1st: $14 per hour

Session I June 19 - June 28 PLEASE NOTE: This session starts mid-weekon Wednesday, June 19th..

Summer Arts $760 Jr. Artist Program $600

Session II July 1 - July 12PLEASE NOTE: Summer Arts will be closedon Thursday, JULY 4th.

Summer Arts $855Jr. Artist Program $675

Session III July 15 - July 26Summer Arts $950Jr. Artist Program $750

• Program fee includes the costof field trips, T-shirt, snacks,and materials for each class

• Students bring their own lunch

• A daily snack is provided

• A 5% sibling discount isapplicable for children enrolledin both Summer Arts andSummer Camp

• Students may register for one,two, or all three sessions.

• Partial sessions are notavailable.

Registerby March 15th

for a $50tuition

deduction.

PROGRAM INSTRUCTORS continued


SUMMER ARTS 2013 REGISTRATION

TO REGISTER FOR SUMMER ARTS

AND/OR JUNIOR ARTIST PROGRAM,

GO TO:www.brooklynfriends.org/summerarts

REGISTRATION DEADLINE ISAPRIL 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 [email protected]

or 718-852-1029 ext. 248


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