The Spring 2018 semester of City Art Lab is up and running! This year’s teams are working with the themes of Place/Space and Free To Be Me. These two teams of CCNY Art Ed Graduate Teaching Artists will lead the teens in critical art looking and making projects over the course of the semester. In […]
CCNY’s Art Education Program presents City Art Lab, a FREE arts program for teens. The opportunity to participate in this community-based arts project, provides both CCNY Art Education graduate students and neighborhood youth with multiple possibilities for learning and growth. To read everything about the previous Spring 2017 City Art Lab session, click here To apply […]
What Now, Teen Artists continued to explore the technique of watercolor and oil pastel resist paintings and continuing the discussion about the future of the educational system. How might students’ personal experiences and school communities be impacted? Teen artists displayed their artwork together in class to think about an issue or idea that is may […]
During the final session of Rotation 1, What Now? Discussed message making through the use of memes and slogans. Reminding students to think about incorporating into their artwork words of action and empowerment, communicating between self and others, and community building. Students continued to create their stop motion animation videos. Students were asked to reflect […]
The first session of rotation 2, What Now? students discussed Betsy DeVos and her new role as the Secretary of Education. Teaching artists facilitated a slow read on an article about Betsy DeVos and youth artists brainstormed ways to respond to forthcoming changes to the education system and began sketching out their ideas. The Culture […]
This last Wednesday, City Art Lab youth artists from What Now began creating artwork based on their sketches from the previous session’s discussion on the Secretary of Education and forthcoming change in the educational system. Based on these prompts: What programs or activities might be taken from your school district? What possible changes might be […]
In What Now students will be exploring, learning, and creating: 3D Scanning and Printing, Animation, Video Remixing, and Stop Motion. Students will expand their visual and societal digital landscape and learn about other methods of Digital Art. The first week of Rotation 1, the What Now group discussed what students have experienced in the Digital […]
City Art Lab is has begun! Our first session, February 22nd, we welcomed our returning and new teen artists to City Art Lab. This semester we begin with two themes of: Culture and What Now. Our new group of graduate students/teaching artists at City College introduced their group’s themes to the teen artists, created collaborative […]
We had an fantastic evening this last Friday, December 16th! The gallery was packed with family, friends, and happy students: the energy was amazing.
