Spring 2012 After School Arts
After School Arts is more than somewhere to go and something to do after school, but a unqiue opportunity for 4-6 grade students to learn what they are capable of using the resources they have around them. Students may choose from as many two week sessions as they like from the six offered to work around their other school activities. Students will make individual projects the first week of each session and group projects during the second week. Tuition is free and snacks are provided. The program takes place at the museum on Tuesday – Friday from 3:00-5:30. Classes begin at 3:15 pm.
Download the application here: 2012 spring after school art
To register, parents should call 724.652.2882 between normal business hours of Tuesday & Thursday from 11 am – 8 pm and Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday from 11 am – 4 pm. Full scholarships are available through the generosity of the Caroline Knox Memorial Trust, the Three Rivers Community Foundation and the Lawrence Community Foundation. In other words, tuition is free with a completed application
- Session 1: February 7-February 17
- Session 2: February 21-March 2
- Session 3: March 6-March 16
- Session 4: March 20-March 30
- Session 5: April 3-April 13
- Session 6: April 17-April 27
So You Think you Can Dance? New After School Workshop Nov.8, 10 & 15
The Hoyt is proud to introduce So You Think You can Dance?, a hip new workshop with dancer Krysta White. Over the course of three days students will be introduced the basic techniques of Hip Hop, Modern, Contemporary Jazz and other styles with an emphais on creating your own artistic style. Learn to improvise and innovate to choreography your own unique moves! For ages 12-17. Tuition is $10 and a number of scholarships are available to make the opportunity accessible to anyone interested. An application form is attached: so you think you can dance
Hoyt Institute Announces After School Arts Program for 4th-6th grade Students
The Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts is re-launching its After School Arts program this month for 4th -6th grade students in the greater New Castle area. It is open to all 4th – 6th grade students attending George Washington Intermediate School, New Castle Christian Academy, St. Vitus School and other recognized homeschooled programs from September 27-December 16. Among the numerous improvements to the after-school program is the flexibility to register in two week increments to accommodate the student’s changing interests and extra-curricular schedules. The six sessions offered include:
Environmental Art (9/27-10/7): After learning what environmental art is all about, students will complete an installation on the property of their own design.
Recyclable Architecture (10/11-10/21): Eckles Architecture lends a hand to explore the idea behind recyclable architecture. Students will build their own models then construct a greenhouse out of 2 liter pop bottles.
From Earth to Art (10-25-11/4): Students will discover how naturally occurring materials like clay, charcoal, pigments and plant dies can be used in place of commercial products to stencil, tie dye, batik and more.
Mosaics: Part I/Glass, stone, ceramics (11/8-11/18): Students will learn to pattern bits of broken glass, pottery, and stone into individual designs before working collaboratively on a group project that will become a part of the Hoyt’s public collection.
Mosaics: Part II/plastics, paper, recyclables (11/22-12/2): Students will use the same concepts of color and pattern to transform bottlecaps, magazine pages, computer parts, broken and other discarded items into fanciful works of art.
Recyclable Sculpture (12/6-12/16): The work of Louise Nevelson, Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg and other contemporary artists will demonstrate how everyday objects can be re-positioned with paint, glue and imagination into something entirely new. Week I allows the student to work the idea out in drawings and a table top model. Week II gives them the opportunity to work on the project full scale.
“The idea behind the program is to teach these students to look at what it is they have – even if it’s garbage – and rethink the possibilities,” says Hoyt’s Executive Director, Kimberly Koller-Jones, “ If they can recycle pop bottles into a greenhouse and grow flowers to plant or food to eat, they can also begin to create other solutions in other aspects of their life.”
Classes will run from 3:00 pm – 5:30 pm, Tuesday – Friday, and include all materials and snacks. If the public is interested in contributing recyclables, the following items are needed for projects: 2 liter pop bottles (it takes 1500 to build one greenhouse); damaged plates, bowls, or teacups; old costume jewelry; plastic toys or toy parts; plastic bottles of any shape, color and size; computer parts; kitchen utensils (no knives); buttons or bottle caps; etc.
To register, parents should call 724.652.2882 between normal business hours of Tuesday & Thursday from 11 am – 8 pm and Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday from 11 am – 4 pm. Full scholarships are available through the generosity of the Caroline Knox Memorial Trust, the Three Rivers Community Foundation and the Lawrence Community Foundation. In other words, tuition is free with a completed application.