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A sense of your own Art space
by Outspoken on Thu Jul 31, 2008 5:44 pm
A sense of your own Art space
The Yourspace program gives six high school students real-world experience as artists.
By KELLEY BOUCHARD
Staff Writer Portland Press Herald
North-facing windows bathe a studio in the historic Clapp House with a cool, even light that artists love.
Six students, representing Portland's three public high schools, perch on canvas stools and sketch their surroundings on crisp, white paper.
They are in a space, owned by the Portland Museum of Art, that has been a haven for artists for the better part of 94 years. Now, Julia Einstein tells them, it's their space. It's their light.
"It's amazing what windows can do," Einstein says, sketching along with the students.
Einstein, the museum's youth programs coordinator, is the instructor of Yourspace, a new work-study program that gives high school students real-world experience as artists.
Students taking part in the three-week program are Janet Mathieson and Holly Whitney of Portland High School, Emily Cleary and Lauren Lakin of Deering High School and Karamon Davis and Dani Facciolli of Casco Bay High School.
Art teachers at each school nominated students who are motivated to create their own art and are interested in pursuing a career in art.
Karamon, who will be a sophomore in September, is using the work-study program to hone his fledgling interest in anime, a style of animation that originated in Japan.
"If I'm going to be an anime artist," he says, "I need to perfect pen-and-ink techniques and develop skills in drawing landscapes and backgrounds."
During the first week of the Yourspace program, the students team-taught the museum's summer art classes for children. During the second week, they conducted research for museum exhibits and programs.
During this, the third week, the students set up their own studio spaces in the museum's basement and created works of art that will be on display tomorrow during First Friday Art Walk. The public is invited to attend an open studio from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. and talk with the students about their art.
"We wanted to give the students a sense of what it means to have your own studio space and make your own art," says Dana Baldwin, the museum's education director. "We want them to feel that the museum is their space."
http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/story.php?id=202334&ac=PHnws
Photos By Tim Greenway/Staff Photographer
The Yourspace program gives six high school students real-world experience as artists.
By KELLEY BOUCHARD
Staff Writer Portland Press Herald
North-facing windows bathe a studio in the historic Clapp House with a cool, even light that artists love.
Six students, representing Portland's three public high schools, perch on canvas stools and sketch their surroundings on crisp, white paper.
They are in a space, owned by the Portland Museum of Art, that has been a haven for artists for the better part of 94 years. Now, Julia Einstein tells them, it's their space. It's their light.
"It's amazing what windows can do," Einstein says, sketching along with the students.
Einstein, the museum's youth programs coordinator, is the instructor of Yourspace, a new work-study program that gives high school students real-world experience as artists.
Students taking part in the three-week program are Janet Mathieson and Holly Whitney of Portland High School, Emily Cleary and Lauren Lakin of Deering High School and Karamon Davis and Dani Facciolli of Casco Bay High School.
Art teachers at each school nominated students who are motivated to create their own art and are interested in pursuing a career in art.
Karamon, who will be a sophomore in September, is using the work-study program to hone his fledgling interest in anime, a style of animation that originated in Japan.
"If I'm going to be an anime artist," he says, "I need to perfect pen-and-ink techniques and develop skills in drawing landscapes and backgrounds."
During the first week of the Yourspace program, the students team-taught the museum's summer art classes for children. During the second week, they conducted research for museum exhibits and programs.
During this, the third week, the students set up their own studio spaces in the museum's basement and created works of art that will be on display tomorrow during First Friday Art Walk. The public is invited to attend an open studio from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. and talk with the students about their art.
"We wanted to give the students a sense of what it means to have your own studio space and make your own art," says Dana Baldwin, the museum's education director. "We want them to feel that the museum is their space."
http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/story.php?id=202334&ac=PHnws
Photos By Tim Greenway/Staff Photographer
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