SATURDAY STUDIOS PROGRAM
For more than 75 years the Saturday Studios program at Massachusetts College of Art and Design has served a dual purpose: offering elementary through high school students an affordable opportunity to engage in the process of art making and supporting the development of MassArt students as art educators.
Courses in a variety of disciplines and media are available by grade level, allowing students to explore and strengthen their creativity and creative problem solving. Classes are taught by MassArt students majoring in Art Education and supervised by MassArt Art Education faculty. All classes take place on the MassArt campus, a unique and extraordinary urban college setting devoted exclusively to the visual arts. |
HIGH SCHOOL PAINTING: THE DECISIVE PAINTER
In this set of eight classes we investigated the process and material of painting and the forms it can take. The works the students create will be informed by tradition, but simultaneously challenge our previous notions of what falls under the title of “Painting”.
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1. How can we apply a substance to a surface?Students will begin to understand and appreciate paint as a material and the many ways it can be applied to a surface as well as other materials that can be used to create formal qualities in a painting.
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2. Where do we fit in? How can we negotiate the tradition and future of painting?Students will begin to understand and appreciate where their preconceived notions about the “right” forms and qualities of a painting come from and become aware of contemporary approaches to this medium. Students will take away certain elements from past and current painting and begin to think about where these influences can lead them.
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3. Why is painting the form in which we will execute our ideas?Students will begin to understand and appreciate how material, process, and presentation relate to their personal ideas. In art, your idea is something that is to be communicated and when painting, spreading, covering, revealing, stretching, hanging, ripping, folding, hanging, leaning and sitting can be thought about in relation to that communication, students will make thoughtful choices in their resolved works
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