| The Mosaic Brain Mobile Arts Unit is a moving art experience. We serve young people who lack the resources to get to places that offer art programming. Many of our participants attend after-school programs or live near a center. Mosaic Brain makes it's programs available for delivery to youth.
All Mosaic Brain Mobile Arts Unit Programs include:
2 dynamic and engaging artist/educators
2 hours of creative learning and fun
Projects and materials to serve 20 young people
Art you can make and take with you the same day!
Use of at least one recycled material
Cost of a Mobile Arts Experience: $400.00
Projects for 2008/2009
Mural to Journal
ages 10 - 15
In two short hours, participants go from working on a small scale work of art to a large scale mural that is ripped and reinterpreted into personal journal covers. Participants finish by binding signatures and gluing their very own journal/sketchbook together. This programs teaches the skills of collaboration, conceptualization, mixed media collage, and bookbinding.
Shoebox Sculpture Gardens
2-Day Workshop
with Wolfgang Bucher
Wolfgang Bucher teaches art through miniature gardens, using recycled shoe boxes. Students will be introduced to the basic elements of a plant's life cycle and the importance of sustainable culture. They will create a one of kind sculpture and plant their very own portable herb garden. Follow up can include a field trip to the St. John's Community Gardens.
Grades: 3–9
Fee: $300 (includes supplies for 20 participants)
Requirements: Tables with workspace for each student; access to water source; all other supplies included in fee.
Book Making—Face Flip Book
2-Day Residency
Artist/Educator: Wolfgang Bucher
Participants will produce a printed flip book of mixed media faces with constructed sentences on the back pages. The faces and sentences can be rearranged. The books can be used a personal literacy tool that is both fun and educational. This is a great peer education project. Older grades can create the books for a younger grade. This workshop can be integrated into Language Arts studies.
Grades: 3 - 6
Fee: $400
Size: 25 students maximum
Requirements: Oil pastels, watercolor, scissors, glue
Printmaking
ages 6 - 12
Using everyday objects, participants create stamps, stencils and presses that can be used to create greeting cards and framable art, all the while learning symbology, conceptualization and basic printmaking.
Bleach/Spray Paint Stencil T-shirts
ages 12 - 15
Learn how to draw and cut a proper stencil that can be used to embellish a plain t-shirt. Participants learn basic screen printing by using everyday household tools.
Mosaic Tile Frames
ages 9 - 15
Have no place to put your school picture? Participants learn the concepts of mosaic tiling and set tile onto their very own recycled wooden 5 x 7" frame.
PinHole Camera
ages 8 - 15
2 day workshop ($600)
On the first day, participants learn to construct a pin-hole camera with an oatmeal container. On the second day, participants will shoot portraits using their own pinhole camera. Developed pictures are returned the following week.
Mosaic Tile Concrete Bench
5 day workshop
Artist/Educators: Wolfgang Bucher & Anna Beddinger
This is a great class project! Participants learn the concepts of tile mosaic, research, design and set tile onto plain concrete bench transforming it into a functional work of art. A core group of 7 - 10 participants This is an ideal project for a school or church group. Participants can bring their own ceramics to personalize the project.
Grades: 3–5, 6–8, 9–12
Fee: $600.00
Requirements: Minimum 5 workshops; work tables, drop cloths
Improvisation
Artist/Educators: Wolfgang Bucher & Ellen Pajor
Actors learn by doing. Improvisational actors learn by playing! Participants learn a variety of games and structured improvisations. Students explore the skill required to spontaneously create characters and perform at least three improv games for an audience of their peers.
Grades: 4-6, 6-18, 9–12
Fee: $100
Size: 20 students maximum
Requirements: large open space, loose clothing, open minds
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Have the Mosaic Brain Mobile Arts Unit save a dreary birthday party with Ordinary to Extraordinary Art Parties! Each art party can accomodate up to 20 young people for as little as $250.00. Kids get to be creative and leave with their own original work of art!
We are in the process of raising funds to purchase a diesel powered van that we can convert to veggie feul. We not only make art out of recycled materials, we want to be powered by them. Our "mobile arts unit" will allow us to take our programs to many different sites throughout the urban community, while showing young people new and creative ways to reinterpret their environment. Teach by example and the lesson will resonate and ripple.
Imagine the mobile arts unit pulling up to your school or neighborhood and inspiring you to create, connect and experience!
For more information or to schedule a program, contact us at info@mosaicbain.org
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