Teen Art Program Summer 2008
Instructor: Kim Garrison

Boundaries

Group: 12 local High School Students

Program Goals:
Create a learning experience for teens that provides:
Experience with professional art techniques and concepts.
Experience in setting up a professional art exhibit.
An opportunity to exhibit work in a commercial art gallery.
An opportunity for personal reflection and growth through art.
Increased self-awareness and self-confidence through problem solving and teamwork.
A group bonding experience through working with a common theme.

Dates: Classes July 7-30, Exhibition Opening, Saturday August 23
Times: Tues, Thurs 1-4pm (8 sessions)

Project Theme: Boundaries. Students will produce a series of artwork based on their own interpretations of this working theme. Boundaries was chosen as a theme because it can have many interpretations that relate to the issues of youth, including: personal identity, personal space, territorial boundaries, physical limitations, social/economic barriers, etc…, as well as relating to the edges of an artist’s composition.

Class Content: Symmetry, Universal and Personal Symbolism, Composition, Color Theory, Collage, Clip-Art, Painting and Drawing Techniques, Text in Art, Templates, Textures, Transfers, Masks. Final project includes painting on skate board.

Class Projects:
Personal Mandala using masks and templates on paper.
Group Mandala floor piece using 2 and 3D elements.
Text Art with bleach and pastel on black paper.
Themed Painting in acrylic and spray paint with collage and masking.

Materials and Supplies: acrylic paints, gesso, gel medium, spray paint in assorted colors, foam and bristle brushes, canvases, black Canson paper, masking tape, cardboard, vellum, clip-art books, pencils, rubber erasers, tracing paper, newsprint pad, Arches print paper, watercolors, colored art papers, bleach, pastels, scissors, exacto knives, 2 large rulers, paper to protect tables.

About the Instructor: Kim Garrison is a conceptual artist and arts educator. She received a BA at California State University Long Beach and an MFA in sculpture and new genres at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Her artwork, a collaboration with artist Steve Radosevich, is shown throughout the American Southwest. She has been an educator in the arts for thirteen years, teaching both children and adults, and is currently an art instructor at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa.