Integrated Studio Projects
Fall 2011-Spring 2012
Saturdays, 1 – 4 pm
October 15, 2011 to June 9, 2012
This course is offered for youth ages 13-18. The course is comprised of three modules.
Module One: October 15, 2011 to December 17, 2011
Module Two: January 7 to March 10, 2012
Module Three: March 24 to June 9, 2012
* Students may enter in the first or second modules only.
Fees: Members $630/ General Public $760
$50 material fee
Students beginning the course January 7, 2012
Fees: Members $410/ General Public $510
$50 material fee
The AGO is able to offer a limited subsidy for a number of students in need. Please inquire about financial assistance and our easy payment plan.
For almost 50 years, this class has offered youth with a passionate interest in art and art making the opportunity to explore individual artistic pursuits and ideas while developing technical skills.
Add to this the richness of the AGO collection and changing exhibitions at your fingertips!
INTEGRATED STUDIO PROJECTS offers you:
- Intensive 30 week program (but you can sign up for 10 week periods at a time if you wish)
- Explore creativity and skills development
- Contemporary art making focus
- Portfolio Prep with one on one consultation
- Work with highly qualified instructors who are contemporary ARTISTS
- Fun, collaborative team setting while working on individual projects
- Experiment with a huge variety of materials and techniques
- Create and mount an exhibition
- Make friends with others who love art!
- Our students successfully apply to visual art, design, and architecture programs in colleges and universities
This intensive, 30-week studio course for youth aged 13 to 18 focuses on individual and group exploration of the creative process, skill building and portfolio development. The course is designed for young artists with a passion to create and/or a desire to pursue further studies in the visual arts. Students work with a team of artist-educators in a dynamic open-studio format, experimenting with a range of materials, contemporary processes and ideas.
The focus of the course is on the creative process, where students learn basic skills in a wide variety of materials and processes including painting, drawing, printmaking, mixed and new media, installation and 3-D construction/sculpture and apply those to contemporary projects. All students work on in-depth individual and collaborative projects designed to challenge and highlight foundational skills and experiences. A playful, creative process of exploration in the studio is established through a series of artistic challenges, allowing students to see how they might make but more importantly find meaning in their world.
The course is organized into three 10-week modules, culminating in a student-mounted exhibition. Past themes have included: Constructed Spaces, The Artists’ Joke: Humour in art, Cinema Animation, Multiplying Self-Portraits, and Art: The Topography of Positive and Negative. This year’s session modules will be inspired by the AGO’s collections and exhibitions, exploring the work of artists such as General Idea and Iain Baxter. Courses focus on contemporary art-making processes with opportunity for both individual attention and interpretation of projects.
This course is an ideal opportunity for middle school students who wish to explore art more seriously as they move into senior school, and for senior school students wishing to pursue art studies in college or university. It will also benefit students wishing to develop compelling portfolios needed for further art studies.