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Fall Term 2018 courses begin Sept 25-29
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Marwen Fall Term 2018:
Tuesday, September 25 - Saturday, December 8, 2018
Each course is 10 consecutive weeks long and meets weekly for 2.5 hours. Workshop dates can be found within each description.
Discover how images can tell a story. Learn to make your drawings and paintings communicate a story through color, mood, and gesture to create visual narratives through genres like comic books, children’s book illustration, and poster design. 9/26-12/5.
DRAWING STORIES: INTRO TO ILLUSTRATION
Jade Rector
Grade: 6, 7, 8
Wed
5 PM - 7:30 PM
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Explore Chicago’s landscape while learning the basics of black and white photography. Gain techniques to photograph buildings, streets, and the city in new and interesting ways. Then develop the images in the darkroom, and share your view of Chicago! 9/29-12/8.
CITYSCAPES: INTRO TO DARKROOM PHOTOGRAPHY
Matthew Crowther
Grade: 6, 7, 8
Sat
10 AM - 12:30 PM
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Pens to Pixels: Character Design and Development
Animation
Street Art: Stencil, Stamp, Spray
Mixed Media
Fashion Lab
Fashion & Fiber
Pens to Pixels: Character Design and Development
Animation
Street Art: Stencil, Stamp, Spray
Mixed Media
Learn how to work with clay through handbuilding and wheel-throwing techniques. Make functional pots for you to use at home, or create beautiful sculptures that explore texture and form. 9/27-12/6.
FINDING CENTER: INTRO TO CERAMICS
Eddie Morfin
Grade: 6, 7, 8
Thu
5 PM - 7:30 PM
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What would happen if you took the Mona Lisa and combined it with a scaly dragon? Mash together creatures and figures of your choice, and experiment with combining existing images and your personal art to create something new and unique. 9/29-12/8.
MONSTER MASH: EXPERIMENTAL DRAWING
Keaton Bell
Grade: 6, 7, 8
Sat
1:30 PM - 4 PM
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Cut and shape glass to fit into lines, shapes, patterns, and text. Or explore design by using stencils and spray paint to create unique tiles. Create tight, clean, and artfully-designed compositions to build your own unique glasswork art. 9/27-12/6.
GLASS MOSAICS & SPRAY PAINT TILES
Kathlene M Powers
Grade: 9, 10, 11, 12
Thu
5 PM - 7:30 PM
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Using a variety of darkroom and digital photo processes, create a series of photo collages that envision an alternate universe of Chicago! Experiment with photograms, transfers, solarization, and cyanotypes to create your ideal version of the city. 9/26-12/5.
CHICAGO REIMAGINED: DARKROOM EXPLORATIONS
Kathryn Rodrigues-Knox
Grade: 9, 10, 11, 12
Wed
5 PM - 7:30 PM
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Learn techniques for hand building clay, then break the rules and create your own techniques! Challenge the ways you are “supposed” to use clay and see how rolling, slopping, and slapping can lead to your own style of art. 9/29-12/8.
MAKE & BREAK: HANDBUILT CERAMICS
Elizabeth McCarthy
Grade: 9, 10, 11, 12
Sat
10 AM - 12:30 PM
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Take the practice SAT for free! Students should arrive on time with No. 2 pencils and a non-graphing calculator for the math section. Exam will include the essay portion of the SAT. We’ll score your test and email you the results! 10/8.
SAT: PRACTICE TEST, 10/8
Sarah Atlas; Lauren Jackson
Grade: 10, 11, 12
Mon
9 AM - 1:30 PM
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Create a community altar that honors your ancestors and celebrates life inspired by indigenous Latin American Día de los Muertos cultural traditions. Food will be served. Open to Marwen students and families. 10/27.
FAMILY ALTAR BUILDING WORKSHOP, 10/27
Grade: N/A
Sat
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
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Photograph your friends and family like a pro! Explore techniques for posing and lighting people while experimenting with black and white photography. Learn to operate a digital camera, create digital negatives, and print in the darkroom. 9/25-12/4.
PORTRAIT STUDIO: INTRO TO DARKROOM PHOTOGRAPHY
Phillip Dembinski
Grade: 6, 7, 8
Tue
5 PM - 7:30 PM
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Explore the environments you live, study, and play in, then redesign them with your own personal twist! Learn the basics of architectural design to illustrate and build models of reimagined spaces in your home or community. 9/26-12/5.
DREAM IT, DRAW IT, BUILD IT: ARCHITECTURE LAB
Paul Dean
Grade: 6, 7, 8
Wed
5 PM - 7:30 PM
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Create ceramic objects and vessels to store your things! Make a bowl for your coins, a tall vessel for your paintbrushes, or a piece that hangs off the wall to hook your jewelry on. Whatever the object, design a vessel for it. 9/28-12/7.
DECORATIVE VESSELS: INTRO TO CERAMICS
Holly Holmes-Burtonwood
Grade: 6, 7, 8
Fri
5 PM - 7:30 PM
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Bring your sketches to life through animation! Start by developing images in your sketchbook, then scan and put them into motion using After Effects. Learn everything from storyboarding to Photoshop to transform your drawings. 9/29-12/8.
DRAWING IN MOTION: INTRO TO 2D ANIMATION
Megan Diddie
Grade: 6, 7, 8
Sat
1:30 PM - 4 PM
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Learn to design and construct your own accessories with leather, vinyl, and metal jewelry materials. Work individually or as a creative design team to come up with a cohesive, wearable, collection of necklaces, bracelets, and earrings. 9/25-12/4.
DIY COLLECTION: ACCESSORY DESIGN
Alexis Ellers
Grade: 9, 10, 11, 12
Tue
5 PM - 7:30 PM
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Learn basic and advanced Adobe Illustrator techniques by creating vector-based portraits. Reclaim your yearbook photos by creating new portraits in the photo studio, then use professional tools to transform them into graphic illustrations. 9/29-12/8.
PORTRAIT DESIGN: INTRO TO DIGITAL ILLUSTRATION
Rosalia M Marzullo
Grade: 9, 10, 11, 12
Sat
10 AM - 12:30 PM
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Explore your life, family, and heritage by creating a photo archive using personal objects and stories. Learn to tell a story using studio lights and digital cameras to document 2D and 3D objects from your home, experiences, and memories. 9/27-12/6.
PHOTO STORIES: DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY
Aidan Fitzpatrick
Grade: 9, 10, 11, 12
Thu
5 PM - 7:30 PM
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Construct your own cameras from scratch using soda cans, cardboard, tape, and other materials. Play and experiment to learn the basics of black and white photography, and become a master of the darkroom! 9/29-12/8.
DIY CAMERAS: DARKROOM PHOTOGRAPHY
Grade: 9, 10, 11, 12
Sat
1:30 PM - 4 PM
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We will go over every step involved in the college process, including researching schools, filling out applications, writing essays, and more! Open to Marwen students and families. 10/25.
COLLEGE RESEARCH & APPLICATIONS, 10/25
Sarah Atlas; Lauren Jackson
Grade: N/A
Thu
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
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Marwen teaching artists and staff on the assessment team learn and experiment with assessment tools and strategies. Based on course outcomes, teaching artists in this peer to peer format- work to focus on their courses using strategies such as vocabulary lists, critique guidelines, and project criteria developed along with their students in order to foster greater student agency, independence and growth. Teaching Artists create tools to collect evidence that their students are making progress towards the course outcome.
Assessment FA18
Grade: N/A
Thu
12 PM - 2 PM
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Have a story to tell? Share it with the world! Blend comics, text, and image to create a unique book through the portable and shareable format of an artist zine. Develop characters and storylines and print multiple copies to share. 9/25-12/4.
COMICS & ZINES
Molly Colleen O’Connell
Grade: 6, 7, 8
Tue
5 PM - 7:30 PM
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Create your own swag! Develop unique logos and images to reproduce onto buttons, totes, patches, and more! Make multiples of your art to give as gifts, or decorate your bookbags and jackets with your personal brand of art. 9/27-12/6.
BUTTONS & TOTES GALORE: DIY SWAG
Katie Romans
Grade: 6, 7, 8
Thu
5 PM - 7:30 PM
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Make larger-than-life versions of your favorite everyday objects, like a gummy bear as big as your head or a giant pencil that you have to hug in order to draw with! Learn how to use paper-maché, plaster, and paint to create realistic 3D sculptures. 9/29-12/8.
LARGER THAN LIFE: 3D SCULPTURE
Lauren Carter
Grade: 6, 7, 8
Sat
10 AM - 12:30 PM
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Create beautiful and complex images and patterns on fabric using the Japanese tie-dye art of Shibori. Learn how to stitch, tie, clamp, wax, dye and more to develop mesmerizing images, color patterns, or narrative designs on fabric. 9/29-12/8.
SHIBORI: JAPANESE PATTERNS & DESIGN
Rachelle Hill
Grade: 6, 7, 8
Sat
1:30 PM - 4 PM
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Explore the world of printmaking by learning to make multiples of your artwork that can be reproduced on paper, totes, patches, and posters. Keep some for yourself, share with friends and families, or sell them during Marwen’s Art Fair! 9/26-12/5.
PRINT IT SHARE IT, SELL IT: PRINTMAKING LAB
Melody Chang Snyder
Grade: 9, 10, 11, 12
Wed
5 PM - 7:30 PM
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Become a master of color! From sketches to photorealism, explore the effects you can achieve through colored pencil. Discover how to layer, blend colors, make marks, and mix different media to express your own style. 9/29-12/8.
LAYER BY LAYER: COLORED PENCIL TECHNIQUES
Lyndsay Murphree
Grade: 9, 10, 11, 12
Sat
10 AM - 12:30 PM
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Design original characters using the techniques and software used by professional comic book, video game, and animation designers! Design a hand-drawn character from scratch, then use Photoshop to refine and enhance your designs. 9/28-12/7.
PENS TO PIXELS: CHARACTER DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT
Nicholas Meier
Grade: 9, 10, 11, 12
Fri
5 PM - 7:30 PM
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Interested in creating a portfolio for college or art scholarships? Get feedback from professional artists and admission counselors. You’ll get tips and recommendations for next steps and how to make your portfolio stand out. 10/12.
PORTFOLIO REVIEW, 10/12
Sarah Atlas; Lauren Jackson
Grade: 9, 10, 11, 12
Fri
4:30 PM - 7:30 PM
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Students will be commissioned (hired and paid) to create digital black and white photography and storytelling projects focused on the youth at the Center on Halsted, Chicago’s LGBTQ center. 9/25-12/4.
MORE THAN A HEADLINE: A DOCUMENTATION COMMISSION PROJECT
Marta M Garcia
Grade: 10, 11, 12
Tue
5 PM - 7:30 PM
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New to Marwen? New to art? Just want to try new things? Explore various ways to make art in one course! Discover what you like through drawing, then learn sculptural techniques, and finish the course creating digital photographs. 9/25-12/4.
EXPLORING MARWEN: DRAWING, SCULPTURE, & PHOTOGRAPHY
Liliana E Alfaro; Andrés Lemus-Spont
Grade: 6, 7, 8
Tue
5 PM - 7:30 PM
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New to Marwen? New to art? Just want to try new things? Explore various ways to make art in one course and discover what you like. Play with color using cut paper, then learn sculpture techniques, and finish the course by creating animations! 9/28-12/7.
EXPLORING MARWEN: SCULPTURE, COLLAGE, & ANIMATION
Chelsea Welch; Tanner Bowman
Grade: 6, 7, 8
Fri
5 PM - 7:30 PM
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Learn how to design your own clothes! Create fabric through dyeing and printing and sew basic garments that can be customized with your own style. After a fun fashion photoshoot, you will leave with an original, ready-to-wear garment. 9/29-12/8.
FASHION LAB
Nora Renick-Rinehart
Grade: 6, 7, 8
Sat
10 AM - 12:30 PM
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Work individually and collectively to develop art that creates dialogue and awareness around an important issue or topic in your life. Experiment with cards, zines, comics, illustration, and community engagement to create activist art.
ACT NOW! ART AS ACTIVISM
Eddie Morfin
Grade: 9, 10, 11, 12
Tue
5 PM - 7:30 PM
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Create one-of-a-kind clothing using a combination of found clothes, draping, altering, and hand- and machine-sewing. Use pre-existing garments, fabric yardage, found objects, and more to make your own fashion statement. 9/26-12/5.
RECONSTRUCTED FASHION: ALTERED GARMENTS
Elise Bergman
Grade: 9, 10, 11, 12
Wed
5 PM - 7:30 PM
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Learn to paint on fabric! Experiment with silk dyes to create watercolor-like designs on scarves and fabrics. Create your own patterns and images – abstract or figurative – to design one-of-a-kind, wearable art. 9/28-12/7.
SILK PAINTING: WEARABLE ART
DJ DeGayner
Grade: 9, 10, 11, 12
Fri
5 PM - 7:30 PM
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Have you ever wondered what you would look like as a computer-generated character? Learn the techniques used in film and game industries, such as Blender’s 3D modeling software and photography to create your own digitally modeled self-portrait. 9/29-12/8.
RENDER IN BLENDER: 3D PORTRAITS
Roosevelt Pittman
Grade: 9, 10, 11, 12
Sat
1:30 PM - 4 PM
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This workshop will focus on all the steps involved in applying for financial aid, researching scholarships, and submitting the FAFSA application for college. Open to Marwen students and families. 10/18.
FINANCIAL AID, 10/18
Sarah Atlas; Lauren Jackson
Grade: N/A
Thu
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
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Marwen Lab is a two-term program for Marwen students who will be in grades 10 - 12 during the 2018-19 school year. Work with a community of artist peers, have access to art making resources and teaching artist mentors, and create a new body of work. 9/28-12/7.
Marwen Lab Fall 2018
Lisa Lindvay; Meredith Leich; Carris S Adams
Grade: 10, 11, 12
Fri
5 PM - 7:30 PM
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Create your own creatures! If you are a Star Wars, Adventure Time, or character and fantasy fan, this class is for you. Draw and paint robots, dragons, or fire breathing unicorns with laser eyes. The only limitation is your own imagination. 9/26-12/5.
FANTASY CHARACTERS: PAINTING EXPLORATIONS
Ennis Martin
Grade: 6, 7, 8
Wed
5 PM - 7:30 PM
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Stop time right in its tracks! Become a master of time and space using a digital camera to freeze motion. Photograph liquids in mid-air or people and objects in motion, paint with lights,then use Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop to enhance them. 9/27-12/6.
RED LIGHT, GREEN LIGHT: PHOTOGRAPHY IN MOTION
Alexis Ellers
Grade: 6, 7, 8
Thu
5 PM - 7:30 PM
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Make animations even if you don’t know how to draw! Learn the fundamentals of 2D digital animation. Starting off with basic shapes, learn to create exciting environments, special effects, and even animated characters. 9/29-12/8.
INTRO TO SPECIAL EFFECTS: DIGITAL ANIMATION
Diana Torres
Grade: 6, 7, 8
Sat
10 AM - 12:30 PM
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Love drawing people? Take your figure drawing skills to the next level by exploring oil paint. Learn to draw the figure in proportion and the basics of color mixing for skin tones to elevate your ability to work with the human form. 9/29-12/8.
COLORFUL FIGURES: PAINTING FOUNDATIONS
Melissa Cook
Grade: 6, 7, 8
Sat
1:30 PM - 4 PM
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Animate your life using the Rotoscope technique! Learn how to operate a video camera, edit video, and use Photoshop to digitally draw, manipulate, and alter each frame, inventing new actions and creating your own fantastical landscapes. 9/25-12/4.
IMPOSSIBLE DREAMS: DIGITAL ANIMATION
Jesse Avina
Grade: 9, 10, 11, 12
Wed
5 PM - 7:30 PM
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Explore the many ways artists create ideas for artwork and develop your own artist practice. Experiment with pencils, pens, markers, and watercolors to explore personal stories, memory, and imagination to create abstract or realistic imagery. 9/27-12/6.
DEVELOP YOUR ARTIST VOICE: DRAWING EXPLORATIONS
Jeffly G Molina
Grade: 9, 10, 11, 12
Thu
5 PM - 7:30 PM
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Learn how to draw, paint, and sketch the figure with confidence by developing new techniques, practicing creative concepts, and making work ready to add to your portfolio. Never drawn the face or body before? No worries! All levels are welcome. 9/29-12/8.
HAND, FACE, & BODY: PORTFOLIO PREP
Carris S Adams
Grade: 9, 10, 11, 12
Sat
10 AM - 12:30 PM
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Curious about high school options in Chicago? Come learn about the CPS high school application process, including selective enrollment schools, charter schools, and high schools with strong art programs. Open to Marwen students and families. 11/1.
HIGH SCHOOL OPTIONS, 11/1
Sarah Atlas; Lauren Jackson
Grade: N/A
Thu
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
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Who needs brushes to paint? Explore non-traditional painting techniques such as pouring, splattering, dripping, wiping, and more. Bring your personal style – abstract, graffiti, figurative – and see how your work transforms when you experiment. 9/29-12/8.
SPLAT, DRIP, POUR: EXPERIMENTAL PAINTING
Michelle Bolinger
Grade: 9, 10, 11, 12
Sat
1:30 PM - 4 PM
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Exhibition Opening Reception | Summer Term 2018
Friday, September 21, 5-7 pm
Marwen, 833 N. Orleans St.
Celebrate new, original student work from Marwen's 2018 Summer Term.
