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June - July 2008 Blog Entries

Thursday, July 24, 2008 ~ Zeb's Mural Class

This week new Art Center teacher, Zebedee Rivera, taught class. Students worked on a community mural that will be installed at nearby Arnold Mireles Academy.

He started class by having students ask themselves: Who Do I Want To Be? What Do I Love? What Would I Most Like To See In This World?

This helped students flesh out images for the mural. Once students finished painting on 3 large boards, Zeb cut them out into figurative shapes. Michellay with her piece

Zeb's class

Figurative pieces

This week new Art Center teacher, Zebedee Rivera, taught class. Students worked on a community mural that will be installed at nearby Arnold Mireles Academy. He started class by having students ask themselves: Who Do I Want To Be? What Do I Love? What Would I Most Like To See In This World? This helped students flesh out images for the mural. Once students finished painting on 3 large boards, Zeb cut them out into figurative shapes.

Friday, July 18, 2008 ~ A Field Trip Y'all!

Today was our first field trip of the summer. We went to the Art Institute and received a guided tour. Students learned about portraits, still-lives, and minimalism. Our docents, Alicja & Kyle, did a great job of getting students to talk and think about art.

Afterwards we ordered pizza and ate it in Millennium Park while we listened to the live orchestra. A quick game of frisbee followed before we caught the train back to
South Chicago.

During the guided tour at the Art Institute

group picture at the art institute

What a good looking crew!

Friday, July 11, 2008 ~ A Beautiful Sign for the Garden

This week, Maria Villarreal taught a mosaic workshop. Students came up with the design and worked over 4 days cutting tile and gluing. The mosaic is a sign that will be put in the Artists' Garden. Below are pictures of students grouting the mosaic.

Thursday, July 10, 2008 ~ What's smells good?

In today’s garden class, Allison taught a cooking class. Students picked zucchini from the Garden, chopped it up, and sautéed it.

It was delicious!

Even the kids who were a little leery of the zucchini gave it a try and liked it.
Zuccini from the garden

Preparing the zuccini Getting ready to eat the zuccini

In today’s garden class, Allison taught a cooking class. Students picked zucchini from the Garden, chopped it up, and sautéed it. It was delicious! Even the kids who were a little leery of the zucchini gave it a try and liked it.

Wednesday, July 2, 2008 ~ The interns have started!

Pictured below are 4 of the 14 interns who started working at the Art Center on Monday. They are Latisha, Anthony, Allison (Summerlinks intern from the University of Chicago), and Michellay. An intern blog will begin soon...

Interns pose outside the Art Center

Wednesday, June 25, 2008 ~ And you thought Rodan was good!

Roman Villarreal recently finished a sculpture class with teenagers.
Below are some pictures.

Roman with teens stone piece

sculpture piece

Tuesday, June 10, 2008 ~ Summer !!!

Summer is fast approaching and it's gonna be a busy one!

Our summer schedule is posted.

The picture to the right was taken by Cynamon last summer during a digital photography class.
cynamon's digital image

Friday, June 6, 2008 ~ Wish list added

Click here to view our newly added Wish List.
More items will be added as we think of them, so check back frequently.

Tuesday, June 3, 2008 ~ Did you see Roman in the newspaper?

Art Center teacher, Roman Villarreal, was recently interviewed for an article in the Sun-Times. He talks about art & life and even mentions his wonderful wife, Maria, who is also an Art Center teacher. Way to go Roman!

The beautiful photograph was taken by Scott Stewert.