Take your plasticine skills on to the next level to create a portrait and a 3-D scenery with characters of your choice that might be used to tell a fun story or become a short animation.
Term: 2021 Winter
Suggested Ages: 7+
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Join Christine McCarthy, Director of the Yale Library Center for Preservation and Conservation, for an online talk about how individuals can preserve their personal treasures, family heirlooms, historical records, and private collections. Learn ways to adapt professional strategies from libraries and archives to care for and organize your family papers, photographs and most prized objects to minimize the risks for damage and deterioration
Term: 2021 Winter
Suggested Ages: 15+
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Learn portrait drawing techniques through a guided study of drawings by great artists from art history. Portrait drawing techniques of each artist will be highlighted, discussed through live online drawing demonstrations, slide shows, and group critiques. Students will be assigned drawings to copy in the week between classes and student work will be reviewed in class the following week. Artists that will be discussed in this class are Leonardo Da Vinci, Kathe Kollwitz and Paul Cadmus.
Term: 2021 Winter
Suggested Ages: 15+
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Have you made a shelf full of blank books? They don't need to stay that way. In your mind, you may have a number of ideas but no known way to get them into a book format. We can help. Learn about what makes an artist’s book through lively participatory discussions that are not just for artists. What are they? Why make them? How do you get ideas for making them? What is the process of making them? Sessions 1 and 2: talks, discussions, examples from the instructor’s collection, and a slide presentation. We will also welcome guest speakers: Mar Gonzalez Palacios, with her remarkable artist’s books from Yale University’s Art of the Book Collection and book artist Stephanie Wolff. Session 3 and 4: hands-on structure exercises and samplings of techniques that do not involve any special equipment. Guidance will also be offered in any ongoing projects that students would like to present. The goal is to prepare students to go off on their own with the confidence to be more creative
Term: 2021 Winter
Suggested Ages: 18+
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Take a simple plain weave draft, crowd the warp ends together, use both a fine and a heavy weft and create a sturdy, durable fabric called a REP Weave. The alternating color patterns are created entirely through the warp color order. Learn the fundamentals of rep weave, how to set up a rep weave project on the loom, choose your own project, and explore the classic and nontraditional rep weave techniques. This class is online; Eastern Standard Time.
Term: 2021 Winter
Suggested Ages: 18+
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Advance your photography to a higher level. Learn the essential qualities of developing a body of work through critiques of students’ work, assignments, and presentations of skilled photographers. A six to eight image portfolio is required for the final class. This class is online every other week; Eastern Standard Time.
Term: 2021 Winter
Suggested Ages: 18+
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Have you ever wanted to draw your favorite cartoon character but don’t know how? Using an iPad and the Procreate app, learn how to draw characters like Spider-Man, Mulan, and SpongeBob. Students will learn the fundamentals of cartooning, as well as insider tips and tricks to bring a character to life. Originally trained as a cartoonist, iPad and digital arts specialist Raheem Nelson will guide students through the course with demonstrations, group discussion, and individualized feedback. Class is online All times: Eastern Standard Time
Term: 2021 Winter
Suggested Ages: 13+
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Tetrahedron, octahedron, dodecahedron, cuboid - these are not the latest dinosaurs discovered, they are the siblings of the cube, cone, prism, cylinder and other members of the geometric form family. Fold these shapes out of paper to use as columns, blocks, arches and roofs to create castles and cities and then learn how to draw them in perspective. Using a ruler, triangle, and compass, draw unique patterns, optical illusions, and abstract compositions. Working with 3-D versions of these shapes will help one understand spatial relations, scale, symmetry, and 3D construction. This class is online; Eastern Standard Time.
Term: 2021 Winter
Suggested Ages: 7+
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