Name: In the Making: Application Deadline, Spring 2018
Start: 2018-01-22T23:59
Location: Education Center

For teens

Mon, Jan 22, 2018, 11:59 p.m.

Education Center

The Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Education and Research Building

Free hands-on art courses for NYC high school students. MoMA provides all materials, food, studio space, and more. Each course meets once a week, on Tuesdays or Thursdays.

Applications are due January 22, 2018. Please note: these courses are available to New York City residents only. No experience necessary!

E-mail [email protected] for more information or call 212-333-1252.

Applications and information >>

This Is NOT a Drawing Class
Experiments in Alternative Mark-Making
TUESDAYS, FEB 6–APR 17, 4:00–6:30PM
This is not your traditional draw-a-bowl-of-fruit type of art course. This is not a calm studio space to hide behind an easel or a sketchbook. You won’t learn “proper” shading techniques or that thing that artists do where they put their thumb out in front of their face and squint. Taught by artist Leah Wolff, this course is all about finding strange and experimental ways of creating marks, lines, shapes, figures, and images—using unusual, three dimensional, messy materials to push the limits of our bodies, and the boundaries of what we think of as a drawing, in the process.

Wormhole Weirdoes Social Club
Making a Space for Video, Comedy, and Oddball Performance Art
TUESDAYS, FEB 6–APR 17, 4:00–6:30PM
NYC is famous for its long history of underground clubs, secret collectives, alternative comedy scenes, and outrageous public access shows. In 2017, how can we as young artists use things like video, set building and costume-design to inject ourselves into that history? Collaborate with artist and comedian Sean J Patrick Carney as we form our own experimental society, build a “club,” and learn to create performances, comedy, and video pieces that we’ll broadcast across the world. This course is designed for anybody who has ever been told that they have a “weird” sense of humor; in fact, this class is about weird senses of humor. This is our club, and we play by our own rules.

There’s Levels To This
Creating Layered Imagery using Text, Printmaking, and Collage
THURSDAYS, FEB 8–APR 19, 4:00–6:30PM
Great artists build upon the artwork that came before them—smashing old techniques, scraping away at other artists’ ideas, and reinventing outdated ways of thinking. Like layers of advertisements and graffiti coexisting in a subway station, time leads to constant change. Work alongside printmaker Yashua Klos as this hands-on studio course takes the idea of layering as a starting point and uses a wide array of art processes like woodblock printing, collage, and text to make a series of large-scale creations. Mashing up styles and inspirations with stenciling and printmaking, we’ll explore what it means to cover-up and add onto what came before us… creating something that’s ALL our own.

Hot Pixels
Processing Identity Through Digital Art
THURSDAYS, FEB 8–APR 19, 4:00–6:30PM
We live in a digital world. In many cases, it’s where we build our identities. And our art today reflects it. In this screen-based studio course led by artists Pastiche Lumumba and Jesse Chun, we utilize technology to make exciting new styles of art that explore themes of cultural and subcultural identity—looking into the ways our personal experiences and private lives converge in this messy, complicated, not-quite-real-world space. How can we use art to construct identities that represent our wonderful complexities? Our multimedia experiments will explore all of these ideas and more, utilizing a range of materials and techniques that include photography, video, gifs, memes, and performance. The possibilities are literally infinite!

In the Making provides free hands-on studio art courses for NYC high school students every summer. No previous art-making or arts experience is necessary to take part. MoMA provides all materials, food, Metrocards, and other costs. In the Making courses meet three times a week for six weeks, culminating in a Teen Art Show featuring participating teens’ artworks. More information on each of the courses can be found below. Please note: In the Making classes take place at MoMA PS1, located at 22-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City, NY 11101. Summer 2020 courses run from July 7 through August 13, and applications are due June 1.

Summer 2020 programs have been postponed indefinitely. Please contact [email protected] for more information.

For inquiries about ItM, contact [email protected] or call (212) 333-1252.

This event is part of In the Making.

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