Description

This class has been cancelled.

Join the Audain School of Art & Design’s Professional Development Workshop Series for Teachers and gain hands-on, practical project ideas from some of Arts Umbrella’s leading Art & Design instructors. You’ll also hear from Allison Yasukawa, Associate Professor at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, in a session titled Creative Concepts, where she’ll explore the essential skills students need beyond talent and technical ability. Designed with high school art and design educators in mind, these workshops are open to teachers at all grade levels who want to inspire creativity and support students’ artistic growth. Each day in this professional development series offers a unique focus on a key area of creative practice. Participants can register for individual workshops or attend the full series.Each workshop day runs from 10:00 AM to 3:30 PM with 1 hour for lunch. Cost is $99.00 per person, lunch not included.
Part 1. Creative Concepts WorkshopStudio 30710:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Risk Taking in the ClassroomLed by: Allison Yasukawa
What does it mean to take a creative risk? This workshop will explore how we teach the essential practice of risk-taking in art and design. What does risk look like? Why is it important? How do we create permissions for risk in our classrooms?
Allison Yasukawa is an interdisciplinary maker and deep language nerd. She holds an MFA in Studio Arts and an MA in TESOL/Applied Linguistics from the University of Illinois at Chicago. As both an artist and educator, Allison is invested in what communication scholar Joanne Gilbert calls "heckling the status quo.” She has developed arts-based English language programs and taught at art and design schools including the California Institute of the Arts, the California College of the Arts, the Maryland Institute College of Art, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has presented workshops internationally on art-making and language-making in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Grand-Bassam, Ivory Coast; and Changsha, China and is working on a book about language and/as creative practice. Allison is an Associate Professor in Foundation at Emily Carr University of Art + Design and lives in Vancouver on the unceded, traditional territories of the x?m??k??y??m (Musqueam), S?wx_wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish) and s?l?ilw??ta?? (Tsleil-Waututh) nations.
Part 2. Art & Design Project WorkshopStudio 3071:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Seeing Differently: Still Life and Cubist CollageLed by: Andre Seow
Begin by looking at the tradition of still life in Art History and all the different stylistic representations. Working with a still life of objects set up in the studio and drawing from direct observation with consideration of composition, shapes, shadow and light. Participants will draw the still life from two different perspectives using different drawing material - oil pastels for one and charcoal for the other. Discussion around composition - cropping and framing, or zooming in. They will then cut and collage the two drawings together into a new abstract composition thinking about the Cubist's idea of seeing things from multiple perspectives at the same time. They can use any of the materials to work back into the collage to bring the composition together. Participants will then discuss and debrief the finished work.
Andre Seow is an artist and educator who graduated from Emily Carr College of Art and Design in 1993. He has been teaching Drawing and Painting and Donor-Funded Community Programs at Arts Umbrella for over 35 years. He is also the lead instructor of the Art Exchange program and an educator at the Vancouver Art Gallery.
Part 3. Emily Carr University of Art + Design Short Presentation and Q&AStudio 4023:00 PM – 3:30 PM
Led by: Phil OllenbergAssociate Registrar, Student Recruitment + AdmissionsEmily Carr University of Art + Design
A staff member from the ECU recruitment team will be on hand give a short presentation on a variety of topics including portfolio guidelines, choosing programs, student life, and more.

Discipline Code:

AD.INT

Location

Studio 307 at Granville Island, 1400 Johnston St

Instructor

Guest Artist