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Visual Arts Workshops (10-12)

Centre d'arts visuels de l'Alberta
9103 - 95 avenue NW, Edmonton, AB T6C 1Z4
Phone : (780) 461-3427
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Region

Provincial

School year/Age

Grade 10 to 12

Language level

French as a First Language
French immersion

School subject (primary)

Fine Arts

School subjects (secondary)

Social studies
French
Mathematics
Sciences

Links with the curriculum

Workshops can be personalized as much as possible to match the curriculum or the needs and requests of the school.

Availability

Workshops are available during school year.

Number of participants

Up to 25 participants. If more than 25 participants are registered, prices will be adjusted.

Duration

Between 1.5 and 6 hours.

Cost

Prices for in studio workshops:
1.5 hours: $300
3 hours: $400
6 hours: $550

Prices include artist fees and art supplies. Workshops are based on a group of 25 students.

The price of in classroom workshops will vary.

Description

Taught by professional artists, the workshops are offered at the gallery located in Edmonton (9103 - 95 Avenue). These workshops can be taught in your school but additional fees for the artist travelling expenses and material are applicable. The school will also have to provide a computer for the PowerPoint presentation.

- Millefiori: Personalized Gift (art, French, science)
Using this Italian clay, students will create a gift for a special someone.

- Negative to Positive Mould Method
(art, French, science, social studies)
After creating a negative mould out of clay, students will pour plaster to reveal the positive image.

- Gargoyle Masks (art, French, social studies, religion)
After studying various gargoyle forms, students will be given a chance to sculpt a gargoyle head in Styrofoam.

- Abstract Portrait (art, French, social studies, mathematics)
Students will produce a portrait and decide how to divide it with the use of lines and other geometric forms.

- Caricature (art, French, science, social studies)
The students will choose a model and find which trait can be enlarged to give it a funny expression.

- Collage in Mosaic (art, French, science, social studies, mathematics)
Students will draw a picture on a piece of cardboard. Then they will tear small coloured pieces from magazines, using a variety of shades of the same colour to give this portrait a mosaic look.

- Mosaic (art, French, science, mathematics)
Students will learn to cut their own tiles out of opaque, coloured glass, and they will glue these according to their design.

- Sand Mandalas (art, French, religion, science, social studies)
For thousands of years, the monks of Tibet have practiced a stunning art: the making of sand mandalas. Students will learn the traditions behind the art and the technique, the symbolism of impermanence inherent in a work of art made of sand. They will then create their own mandalas.