Iowa City School for the Visual Arts is a new partnership between Iowa City’s United Action for Youth and the University of Iowa’s Art Education Department
The Goal of UAYSFA is
To provide a space and create exciting learning opportunities in a studio atmosphere where teens and pre-service teachers can work side by side as visual artists in small collaborative groups once each week to explore personal, social, and political issues through practices in contemporary art. As a result of these collaborations participants will create well-crafted, conceptually grounded works of meaningful art that will add to their portfolios for entrance into colleges, art institutes, universities, and graduate programs focused on studio art and art education. At the end of each 12 week session The United Action for Youth will sponsor a large exhibition for participants to showcase their efforts.
The primary focus of each group will be based on a big idea such as:
Peace/War/Love/Family/Home/Gender/Acceptance/Nature/Ecology/Political Strife/Consumption/Waste/Mapping/Boundaries/Borders/The Body/Storytelling/Memory/Imagined Worlds/Fiction and Fantasy/Music/Identity/Street Life/Humor/Happiness/Childhood/Memorials/Death, Life, and Aging/Neighborhoods/Revolution/Democracy/Population growth/decline/Virtual life/the electronic dimension of Identity
Media and Processes we might explore include:
Bookmaking/Journaling/Screen printing/Printmaking/Graffiti/Stop motion animation/Puppets/Digital photography/Painting/Drawing/Fibers/embroidery/Knitting/sewing/Batik/Comics/Sculpture/Assemblage/Clay (hand building)/Jewelry/Altered Books/Pen and Ink/Zines/Drawing/Mixed Media/Collage/Murals
Registration starts December 1, 2010
Classes begin:February 24th, 2011 (We will meet every Thursday and also on Tuesday April 19 and Tuesday April 26))
Classes end: April 28th
4-5:30 pm
Location: Basement of North Hall at the North end of Madison Street on the campus of The University of Iowa
Parking is available in the North Hall parking ramp
For more information contact Co Directors Rachel-Williams@uiowa.edu or Mickey.Hampton@unitedactionforyouth.org
or call 319-335-3012
We can’t wait to meet you!
Below is a DOCX. of the registration form.
2011UAY School of the Arts Registration Form Hard Copy
Here is a PDF of the same form.
2011UAY School of the Arts Registration Form Hard Copy
