A Hands-On Art-Making Program for Students
Program Dates:
August 2 – August 27, 2010
Monday – Friday, 10 am – 3 pm
Final Exhibition: A Canvas of Opportunities: Work By Participants in Smack Mellon's Summer Arts Intensive Program
August 28-29, 2010
Opening Reception: Friday, August 27, 2010, 6pm
The works in A Canvas of Opportunities reflect the young artists’ creative uses of, and responses to, the Smack Mellon space, as well as their reflections on their daily lives, personalities, and surroundings. In August 2010, guided by artists who are experts in their field, the students delved into a different medium each week. Video artists Michael Paul Britto and Jessica Ann Peavy taught photography and video in the first week as a means of exploring place and persona. The kids took photographs around DUMBO through a “scavenger hunt,” and designed costumes and struck poses for mixed media portrait photos and stop-motion animations. In the second week, installation artist Sonya Blesofsky began by teaching basic drawing techniques—using charcoal and pencils—and then moved on to still life and landscape paintings of the gallery and nearby park. The following week, the students used Smack Mellon as a backdrop for innovative, large-scale sculptures and installations made from stuffed cloth, cardboard, and found materials from nature. In the final week of the program, renowned artist David Ellis taught the students the process of creating a “motion painting,” painting onto a large sheet of linoleum on the gallery floor, while a camera above took photos every few seconds, ultimately producing a video.
Application Deadlines:
Admission is rolling and students are selected on a first come – first serve basis. Feel free to download our 2010 application to learn more about how you can apply next year.
Smack Mellon’s Summer Arts Intensive is an arts education program designed to give twelve to fifteen students hands-on experience working in a variety of visual arts fields. The students will benefit from active engagement in sculpture, installation, photography, video, drawing, painting and exhibition design. Each week the students will work with a different teaching artist or pair of artists who are experts in their field. They will learn the practical skills necessary to develop creative projects that go beyond the techniques traditionally taught in high school art classes. The intensive art classes will culminate in a student-curated exhibition of works created during the program. This exhibition will be free and open to the public during normal gallery hours for three days, and Smack Mellon will host a party for the students on the opening of the show.
Summer Arts Intensive will take place in Smack Mellon’s 6,000 square foot gallery space in Dumbo, Brooklyn.
Every Friday afternoon, the group will venture to a different museum, alternative art space, sculpture park or other arts-related location.
The regular cost of tuition is $1200. However, applications will be reviewed regardless of financial need, and full scholarships will be made available to all applicants whose household income is less than $80,000. All costs, including materials, lunch, snacks, admissions fees, and transportation will be covered.
The program is open to students aged 12 to 15, living in all areas of NYC. Participants must have an interest in the visual arts, but no prior experience is necessary. Participants must be able to commit for the entire duration of the program.
The application form can be downloaded here. Please complete the form and send, along with a copy of the first two pages of the parent or guardian’s most recent tax returns, via e-mail, fax (718-834-5233) or mail to: Summer Arts Intensive c/o Smack Mellon, 92 Plymouth Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11201.
Please contact Katherine Gressel, Programs Manager, at 718-834-8761 or kgressel@smackmellon.org.
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