FACT 2009 Summer Art Class Schedule
Week-long Workshops
The curriculum for each class is a general outline of the type of projects that each class will follow but may change at the instructors discretion.
Ages 5-7
M-F 8:30am-Noon
June 8-June 12
Mixed Media: Mattise inspired art, fabric animal portraits, accordian book block printing, circus wire sculpture, tin foil relief paintings
June 29-July 3
Puppetry: tin masks, assemblage, accordian story books, finger puppets
Field Trip: Folk Art Museum
July 20-July 24
Insects and Habitats as Works of Art: tin relief insects & spiders, Eric Carle inspired insect collages, paper mache creatures, butterflies in two mediums, plexiglass bug paintings, botanical motifs and book assembly, Monet inspired garden paintings
Field Trip: Audubon to attend a talk on Habitats
Ages 8-10
M-F 1:30-5pm
June 15-June 19
A Little Bit of Everything: water color & oil pastel mazes, collages, tin relief insects, expressionist self portraits, sculpted mobiles.
Fieldtrip: possibly Shidoni
July 6-July 10
Nature's Inspiration: paste resist patterns, personal shrines, tin animals, botanical sketching, mural installation at FACT
Field Trip: Audubon
July 27-July 31
Mixed Media: Mattise inspired mixed media collage, Tunnel book sculpture, optical illusions, circus wire sculpture, shadow puppets
Ages 11-14
M-F 1:30-5pm
July 13-July 17
Plein Air Explorations: on location art in Santa Fe. Students will take daily field trips to different locations
Aug 3-Aug 7
Tons of texture!: using art to describe a location or journey, collagraph printmaking, landscape collages, marisol wood sculptures, recycled art assemblage
All classes take place at Fine Arts for Children & Teens ARTbarn, 1516 Pacheco Street. Cost: Each week-long session for ages 5-14 costs $225.
Todas las clases ocurren el FACT ARTbarn, calle 1516 de Pacheco. Coste: Cada sesión semana-larga para las edades 5-14 costes $225 y las.
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Community Outreach Programs
Adelante
FACT will serve homeless youth in collaboration with the Santa Fe Public School's Adelante program for homeless families on Thursday evenings at Cesar Chavez Elementary School throughout the spring semester.
Youth Detention Center
FACT partners with local nonprofit Outside In (www.outsideinproductions.org) and their Youth with Promise Program to serve incarcerated young adults at the Santa Fe County Youth Development Program on Airport Road. FACT teaches students at the detention center twice a week throughout the year.
The ARC program
Also, in collaboration with Outside In and their Youth with Promise Program, FACT teaches young adults in the ARC program for youth recently released or at-risk of incarceration. This class meets on Saturday mornings at El Museo Cultural throughout the year.