Our Programs
Artist in Residence Program provides outstanding custom-designed art education programs integrated with curriculum to schools, libraries, hospitals, museums, housing projects, community centers and social service agencies from pre-school through high school. We offer a range of multicultural and environmental themed classes as well as skill- and literacy-based curricula. Our teachers are practicing artists, and our curricula conform to VAPA standards. To design an artist residency for your site or for more information, please call Executive Director, Shelah Lehrer-Graiwer at (323) 363 4629. (more…)
Professional Development workshops foster creativity and competence in arts instruction for educators K-12. Please contact Executive Director Shelah Lehrer-Graiwer at (323) 363 4629 to schedule.
We offer a Staff Development program designed for educators. Teachers will explore art through discussion, exercises and hands-on arts experiences, as well as receive educational art information and curriculum ideas to incorporate into their classrooms. Each staff development workshop is taught by a professional artist-educator at your school site. Workshops can be provided in a variety of different art media designed to meet the needs of your school.
Festival and Special Events Program offers children and family art workshops communitywide.
In the past few years we have participated at: Barnsdall Arts Market, Big Sunday, Brewery Art Walk, Cinco de Mayo, Hollywood Arts Council Festival of Children, LA Sister City Festival, LA Greek Festival, LA Jewish Book Festival, UCLA ARTS DAY LA and various street fairs.
Please call Executive Director Shelah Lehrer-Graiwer to schedule (323) 363 4629.
International Child Art Collection (ICAC) consists of a global collection of over 1,000 artworks originally created by children from fifty countries for UNESCO and now used for exhibitions and as a teaching tool in conjunction with the A.I.R. Program. Last major exhibition LA City Hall Bridge Gallery November “06 to January 2007. Schedule an exhibition, please call Executive Director Shelah Lehrer-Graiwer at (323) 363 4629. (more…)
Ragan Art Academy is a unique two-year sequential program providing students ages 12 and up with a rigorous foundation in the visual arts through a curriculum of life drawing with professional models, design, painting, sculpture and art history. Classes meet one evening per week between October and June at the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena, Barnsdall Art Park in Hollywood, and Hamilton High School in West L.A. For more information, please contact Program Director, Quan Trang at (310) 402 3511. (more…)
The JoAnne Stolaroff Cotsen Memorial Fund was established in 1979 in honor of the late JoAnne Stolaroff Cotsen. A dedicated volunteer and supporter of arts education, JoAnne Stolaroff Cotsen was one of the founding members of Friends of the Junior Arts Center (FOJAC), the nonprofit organization that provides volunteer and financial support to the Junior Arts Center in Barnsdall Art Park, while producing art programs in the community that serve 10,000 children annually.The Cotsen Memorial Fund funds an artist fellowship once every two or three years which enables FOJAC to invite a widely-recognized artist for a residency with local children and youth. The Cotsen Artist Fellowship is committed to providing a working, creative experience with artists of great stature to expand the vision of young people, and to nurture increased understanding and respect for their own artistic expression.
Alexis Smith will lead the workshop “Awesome Blage” this summer.
Alexis Smith Collage Project for Cotsen Fellowship Summer 2008
“Awesome Blage”
Description: Collage Workshop on Compositions and Size Transformations: Collage is a process that replaces traditional art making skills; one doesn’t have to acquire drawing or painting skills to make art. On the other hand, collage is not just about throwing anything together- cliche and boring ideas can end up in any artist’s work. This workshop points to ways of seeing how strong composition and image making can be developed through space and design. The objective of this experience is to create individual art pieces and participate in a collage process that enhances visual sensitivity and give students an understanding of composition and culminates in a Cool Object project based on their individual ideas.
“Awesome Blage” participants create compositions in black and white that change into color, texture, abstraction and naturalism, 2d, 3d and finally space objects. The collage process moves and changes from small to large ending up in the individual Cool Object.
- Two-dimensional compositions begin with black and white papers. They expand with additions of newspapers, textures and grays. Crayon and other media add to the compositions. What is “predictable”?
- Compositions are then made by additions of magazine images and other 2d media such as patterned papers, colored papers, construction papers, etc.
- Addition of weight and the physicality of 2d objects in the collages are engaged. How do things “hang on the wall”?
- Collage/assemblage are created with individual choices of materials. What “intrigues” you? What is “precious”?
- Compositions get bigger with the addition of more interesting images, found materials and throw away stuff. Visual sensitivity and thinking begins to form new ways of building collage/assemblage. What do we “destroy”?
- 3D forms (sculptures) are developed - sometimes on the wall or on the floor. The size, placement, scale are altered as ideas are expanded.
- Abstraction and recognizable images are both created; things get bigger, choices on forms and space make new juxtapositions. What has “power”?
- The focus becomes more individual; choices are made in the search as objects are found, discovered, rejected and borrowed to find fresh use of images and to develop ideas about what works or what should be thrown out in making of assemblage/collage.
- The final project culminates in the COOL THING.
In past decades, Cotsen Fellows Christo, Frank Gehry, David Hockney, Miralda, Red Grooms, Mierle Ukeles, Remy Charlip, and Kim Abeles have worked with and inspired young artists to enlarge their vision and artistic expression. The most recent Cotsen residency in summer of 2005 with Michael Rotondi focused on immersing students in the creative process utilizing architecture and poetry.
For more information, please call Program Director, Quan Trang (310) 402 3511.
Project Silver Lining is a new multi-disciplinary project incorporating yoga, film and visual arts to reach at-risk youth that aims to be a useful tool in boosting graduation rates as well as violence prevention. It is adaptable to elementary, middle and high school classes. To create an individualized Project Silver Lining for your site please contact Executive Director, Shelah Lehrer-Graiwer (323) 363 4629. (more…)
Free family weekend “green” art workshops at the ponies and trains. Saturday 12:00 p.m. -2:00 p.m. from April to October. A collaboration of the greater Griffith Park Neighborhood Council and Barnsdall Arts Sponsored by the GGPNC.
Art Birthday for children.
