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Spring 2023 @ Marwen
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Spring Term will run February 22 - May 6, 2023. DOWNLOAD SPRING FLYER

 

Online registration is open January 18 - February 5, 2023. LEARN MORE

 

Spring Break Workshops will run April 3-7, 2023. (Sign up announced in March.)

 

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    Learn to work with mixed media materials such as painting, drawing, collaging and more to create visual and tangible works of art. Strengthen your individual art practice and build a portfolio for yourself, art schools, and/or scholarship applications.
    MIXED MEDIA PORTFOLIO CLASS (IN PERSON)
    Alexandria Valentine
    Grade: 9, 10, 11, 12
    Wed
    5 PM - 7:30 PM
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    Learn techniques to develop your figure drawings skills and practice creating realistic images. Explore perspective, value, observational, and grid drawing.
    GET IN LINE: INTRO TO DRAWING (IN-PERSON)
    Liz Brent
    Grade: 6, 7, 8
    Sat
    10 AM - 12:30 PM
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    Create jewelry using shrinky dinks and polymer clay that can turn your handmade designs into earrings, necklaces, keychains, pinbacks and more. Learn basic jewelry making skills to create your own jewelry collection.
    SHRINKY DINKS: DIY JEWELRY COLLECTION (IN-PERSON)
    Nina Wilson
    Grade: 6, 7, 8
    Thu
    5 PM - 7:30 PM
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    Practice fundamental photography skills and be inspired by Black and POC portraiture photographers. Learn the basics of lighting, composition, and darkroom photography processes and develop your unique eye through portraiture.
    BIPOC LENSES: DARKROOM PHOTOGRAPHY (IN-PERSON)
    Grace Tenneh Kromah
    Grade: 6, 7, 8
    Sat
    1:30 PM - 4 PM
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    Ever thought about selling your artwork or starting your own business? Pick up some tips and tricks about how to become a working artist. Learn how to price and sell your artwork, market your skills to an audience, and turn your creativity into cash.
    Dream it, make it, sell it! Turn Your Art into a Business Workshop
    Grade: 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6
    Tue03/14/2023
    5 PM - 6:30 PM
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    Dream, design and create your own imagined city. Explore architecture and urban planning while using Tinkercad, a 3D modeling program to create a miniature city and all it entails.
    3D PRINTED CITIES (IN-PERSON)
    Nathaniel B Knize
    Grade: 6, 7, 8
    Wed
    5 PM - 7:30 PM
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    Design to Print is an opportunity for young people (ages 16-18) to be hired as commissioned artists to design one-of-a-kind artwork for Marwen’s greeting card line. Intermediate graphic design skills are preferred.This is application-based only.
    DESIGN TO PRINT (APPLICATION BASED PROGRAM)
    Aileen N Castro
    Grade: 10, 11, 12
    Thu
    5 PM - 7:30 PM
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    In the course, create imaginative videos using collage. Start by collecting, cutting, and gluing images to make two-dimensional mixed-media artworks. Explore your identity through collage and talking about your personal histories.
    CUT IT UP VIDEO COLLAGE
    Joelle Mercedes
    Grade: 6, 7, 8
    Wed
    5 PM - 7:30 PM
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    Do you love 3D video games and animated films? Learn how to be both artist and designer with 3D software Blender. Use your drawing skills to create a concept for a Power Pickup based on your own story.
    RENDER IN BLENDER (IN-PERSON)
    Roosevelt Pittman
    Grade: 9, 10, 11, 12
    Sat
    10 AM - 12:30 PM
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    Learn how to design your own clothes! Sketch, pattern, and construct your own custom garments in this interdisciplinary fashion course as we look at designers who break the norms of the fashion industry.
    SEW MUCH FUN: FASHION DESIGN & CONSTRUCTION (IN-PERSON)
    Rachel Dohner
    Grade: 6, 7, 8
    Sat
    1:30 PM - 4 PM
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    Learn fiber processes and fabric embellishment techniques such as fabric dyeing, hand sewing, beading, embroidery, and punch needling. Create an art piece that will be a part of a collective installation.
    DRAWN TO FIBERS: FIBER ART EXPLORATION (IN-PERSON)
    Faviola M Anaya-Esquivel
    Grade: 6, 7, 8
    Sat
    10 AM - 12:30 PM
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    Explore the magic of analog photographic processes. Learn to photograph with 35mm film cameras, process black-and-white film, and make prints in the darkroom. Deepen your understanding of film photography through class discussions and field trips.
    DARKROOM PHOTOGRAPHY EXPLORATIONS (IN-PERSON)
    Kristie Kahns
    Grade: 9, 10, 11, 12
    Wed
    5 PM - 7:30 PM
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    What is a portfolio, and how do you build one? Learn the fundamentals of putting together a professional artist’s portfolio, including how to structure a portfolio that can be used to apply for schools, job opportunities, and more. Bring your original artwork to document and receive feedback, and begin to curate a portfolio for artistic success!
    Portfolio Development Workshop
    Grade: 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6
    Tue03/21/2023
    5 PM - 6:30 PM
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    Develop and design a SUPER DUPER character with their own signature looks and super powers. Learn the basics of figure drawing techniques, digital illustration, and color theory in mediums ranging from pens and pencils to Procreate.
    SUPER DUPER: CHARACTER ILLUSTRATION (IN-PERSON)
    Olivia Comai
    Grade: 6, 7, 8
    Sat
    1:30 PM - 4 PM
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    Cinematography is the art of photography and visual storytelling for movies and television. Gain experience in storyboarding, screenwriting, directing, and editing while exploring lighting, framing, composition, and color.
    CINEMATOGRAPHY 101: BEHIND THE CAMERA (IN-PERSON)
    Estrella Vargas
    Grade: 9, 10, 11, 12
    Thu
    5 PM - 7:30 PM
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    Explore the art of soft sculpture and learn foundational acrylic painting techniques.Embrace rasquache aesthetics, which is making the most from the least using discarded and recycled materials to create a new aesthetic.
    PAINT AND SCULPT! (IN-PERSON)
    Lauren Flaaen
    Grade: 9, 10, 11, 12
    Sat
    10 AM - 12:30 PM
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    Learn how to use clay as a foundation for light-making objects, such as lamps, candles and light sculptures. Learn handbuilding and wheel throwing techniques to make imaginative sculptures out of clay.
    CERAMICS IS LIT: CLAY LIGHT SCULPTURES (IN-PERSON)
    Liel Dolev
    Grade: 9, 10, 11, 12
    Thu
    5 PM - 7:30 PM
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    Create artist books, posters, and patches through printmaking techniques such as screen printing, block-printing, zine-making and more. Learn how to package and sell your artwork at events in Chicago.
    QUEER STORIES: PRINTS ‘N ZINES (IN-PERSON)
    Sarita Hernandez
    Grade: 9, 10, 11, 12
    Wed
    5 PM - 7:30 PM
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    Learn to photograph, edit, and recycle images and sounds to make mini experimental documentary artworks. Combine found media and your own images to create a unique style of visual storytelling celebrating yourself, culture, and community.
    SELFIES, SHRINES, AND SOUNDS (IN-PERSON)
    Jada-Amina Harvey
    Grade: 9, 10, 11, 12
    Sat
    1:30 PM - 4 PM
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    Curious to learn what it takes to work or showcase work in a museum or gallery? Learn the ins and outs of how exhibitions are organized and assembled; how artwork is collected, curated, and installed; and how exhibitions are advertised.
    Curate the Future: How to Build an Art Exhibition Workshop
    Grade: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
    Tue03/07/2023
    5 PM - 6:30 PM
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    Learn the basics of digital art, digital photography, video, writing, and sound. Experiment with new and unusual ways to create self-portraits with technology. See yourself in a new light, embrace what makes you unique, and be the glitch!
    BE THE GLITCH! DIGITAL SELF PORTRAITS (IN-PERSON)
    Kat Jarvinen
    Grade: 6, 7, 8
    Sat
    10 AM - 12:30 PM
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    Learn graffiti lettering, painting, drawing, and spray painting techniques while learning the importance of creating an identity specific to you. Explore tagging as a language to develop and create while designing a mural.
    MINI MURALISMO: GRAFFITI PAINTING (IN-PERSON)
    Jazmin Dua (Rivera)
    Grade: 6, 7, 8
    Thu
    5 PM - 7:30 PM
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    Develop your own unique characters through drawing and painting! Explore the Chicago street art scene, and learn to scale and transfer drawings to canvas and board, and build your foundational acrylic-painting skills based on messages that are important to you.
    CHICAGO CHARACTERS: PAINTING + DRAWING (IN-PERSON)
    Vanessa Garza
    Grade: 9, 10, 11, 12
    Sat
    1:30 PM - 4 PM
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    Create functional artwork to support your daily rituals. Learn wheel throwing and hand-building techniques to create pieces crafted intentionally to fit your hands, home, and body. All experience levels welcome.
    RITUAL PRACTICES WITH CLAY (IN-PERSON)
    Janani Nathan
    Grade: 9, 10, 11, 12
    Wed
    5 PM - 7:30 PM
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    Sketch, design, and create a story or scene from your memory, imagined or real. Learn essential sewing and quilting techniques to construct and assemble a quilt block of your own portraying a story or scene of your choosing.
    STORY QUILTS (IN-PERSON)
    Isra Rene
    Grade: 9, 10, 11, 12
    Thu
    5 PM - 7:30 PM
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    Create functional ceramic objects that liven up your living space. Explore handbuilding, glazing, and construction techniques that fit your personal aesthetic.
    MAKE IT FUNCTIONAL: CERAMICS (IN-PERSON)
    Janiece Maddox
    Grade: 6, 7, 8
    Sat
    10 AM - 12:30 PM
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    Develop an eye for portrait photography and learn how to capture the personality of a person. Learn software and how to create a photoshoot from the ground up using effective lighting and backdrops to capture decisive moments.
    ADJUST YOUR FOCUS: DIGITAL PHOTO (IN-PERSON)
    Joselyn Corona
    Grade: 9, 10, 11, 12
    Thu
    5 PM - 7:30 PM
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    Learn how to build functional ceramic pieces and sculptures, develop your individual style, and experiment with clay. Come prepared to play games and work in teams as methods for creating clay forms and to explore the limits of your imagination.
    FANTASTIC CLAY: SCULPTURAL CERAMICS (IN-PERSON)
    Emma Lu
    Grade: 6, 7, 8
    Sat
    1:30 PM - 4 PM
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    Looking for a job? Stand out from the crowd with an amazing resume. Learn the fundamentals for writing an outstanding resume and cover letter, pick up some interview skills and tricks, and learn about summer internship opportunities happening here at Marwen.
    You’re Hired! Resume Fundamentals Workshop
    Grade: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
    Tue03/28/2023
    5 PM - 6:30 PM
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