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Summer 2024 @ Marwen
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Summer Term will run July 8-19 (session 1) July 22-August 2 (session 2).
Fall Term will run September 18 - November 23, 2024. PREVIEW COURSES!
New to Marwen? Sign up for New Student Orientation this August. Reach out to us at registrar@marwen.org with any questions.
Learn the basics of digital photography, and make mind-blowing pictures from different angles while exploring our beautiful city and neighborhoods near Marwen. You will learn step-by-step how to use Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom to refine your original works of art.
Focus & Click: Photography
Joselyn Corona
Grade: 6, 7, 8
Session 2 July 22 - August 2
1:30 PM - 4 PM
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Focus on hand-building techniques and create personal and unique fantastical pieces of ceramics that hold a small piece of your fashion. Make custom jewelry for any occasion, from necklaces to earrings and everything!
Fashion Fired Up! Ceramics
Ari Karafiol
Grade: 9, 10, 11, 12, 8
Session 2 July 22 - August 2
10 AM - 12:30 PM
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Explore how to use a photography darkroom. Experience using analog cameras to take black-and-white photographs. You'll work in a wet darkroom using chemicals and red lights and learn developing techniques. Walk away knowing how to get a beautiful print using traditional photographic methods.
Twilight Tales: Darkroom Photo
Jimena Hernandez
Grade: 6, 7, 8
Session 2 July 22 - August 2
1:30 PM - 4 PM
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In this introduction course, learn about the art of character design and animation. Explore the medium's unique qualities using various animation techniques, such as hand-drawn, stop-motion, and digital cutout animation. You will also learn about the history and practice of animation.
Animation Exploration!
Margaret Bialis
Grade: 9, 10, 11, 12, 8
Session 2 July 22 - August 2
10 AM - 12:30 PM
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Step into a miniature world of your creation. Learn how to use sculpting tools and materials to build tiny film sets with small-scaled furniture. Explore elements of set design and forced perspective while learning to take exciting photos of your creations. Let your imagination play with this mini studio class.
Miniature Worlds: Sculpture & Digital Media
Sydney Walters
Grade: 6, 7, 8
Session 2 July 22 - August 2
10 AM - 12:30 PM
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Capture your summer in paintings and drawings! In this portfolio-level course, we will imagine what your Instagram would look like if it were a real-life art gallery. Develop your drawing skills from observation and painting from photographs to create a unique profile of your summer as an artist.
Paint Your Summer: Portfolio
Rafael Huerta
Grade: 9, 10, 11, 12, 8
Session 2 July 22 - August 2
1:30 PM - 4 PM
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Want to make your own card game? Learn about popular games like the famous Mexican Bingo called Loteria! While exploring this beloved traditional game with rich colors and shapes, you will also develop skills in illustrative techniques to create your own card game.
Loteria!: Painting Cards Game
Gabriel Mejia
Grade: 9, 10, 11, 12, 8
Session 2 July 22 - August 2
1:30 PM - 4 PM
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Learn to capture any image and turn it into a print you can put on t-shirts or tote bags. Take your printmaking skills to the next level by learning printmaking using different techniques. Develop your style through individual and collaborative prompts that challenge you to paint from photos in new imaginative ways.
Adventure Printmaking
Jose Casales
Grade: 6, 7, 8
Session 2 July 22 - August 2
10 AM - 12:30 PM
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Through painting techniques, learn the fundamentals of fabric painting, from brush strokes to color blending. Whether it's painting on t-shirts, canvas bags, or fabric panels, you will have the opportunity to unleash your imagination and personalize your fabric creations.
Fabric Painting: Pattern Play
Erica Scott
Grade: 6, 7, 8
Session 2 July 22 - August 2
10 AM - 12:30 PM
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Ready to take your skills to the next level in this advanced rug-making course? After learning the basics of Rugs 101, you will develop new technical skills to enhance your rug projects. This course will help you flesh out your big ideas and make big and small pieces of rugs that can be displayed on the wall.
Tuft N Rugs
Eseosa Edebiri
Grade: 9, 10, 11, 12, 8
Session 2 July 22 - August 2
1:30 PM - 4 PM
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Build a world, and make short videos with stop-motion animation. Use recycled materials to make individual characters, and meet and interact in a group to develop a storytelling project. Through iStopMotion and iMovie software, you will develop character design and storytelling skills and learn the animation and editing processes.
Stop Motion
Eliza Fernand
Grade: 6, 7, 8
Session 2 July 22 - August 2
1:30 PM - 4 PM
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Do you find your sketchbook a little empty? Learn better drawing techniques! Travel around the city to fun places like parks and downtown Chicago, sketch faces and figures in minutes, and practice capturing people’s likenesses. Fill your sketchbook pages with so many exciting new ideas you’ll gain in this speed drawing class.
Speedy Sketching
Melissa Cook
Grade: 6, 7, 8
Session 2 July 22 - August 2
10 AM - 12:30 PM
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Explore the rich history of activism worldwide while learning basic sculpture techniques. Design, construct, paint, and collage a functioning clock! Your clock sculpture will serve not only as a time-tracking device but also as a reminder of inspiring, activist moments from the past that impact our present.
Paper Mache Chronicles: Sculptures
Lesley Jackson
Grade: 9, 10, 11, 12, 8
Session 2 July 22 - August 2
1:30 PM - 4 PM
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Marwen Summer Bash 2024
Saturday, August 3, NOON - 4 PM
Marwen, 833 N Orleans Street
Come celebrate art, community, and fun with us at Marwen Summer Bash, the pARTy of the summer!
