ArtLab Spring 2007
April 02, 2007
Week Five - Finishing Our Final Sculptures
April 1, 2007
This is the final week of class, and we were hard at work putting the final touches on our sculptures.
March 26, 2007
Week Four - Working on Our Final Sculptures
March 25, 2007
This week we spent the entire class working on our final sculptures. Breck and Piero helped us to refine our ideas and resolve any problems we encountered with construction.
March 19, 2007
Week Three - Visit from Curator Anne Ellegood
March 18, 2007
Hirshhorn curator Anne Ellegood visited the class this week for a more in-depth discussion of the work in the exhibition Refract, Reflect, Project. Anne also took some time to give us feedback on our final pieces, which we began working on today.
March 13, 2007
Week Two - "Refract, Reflect, Project"
March 11, 2007
This week we visited the exhibition Refrect, Refect, Project: Light Works from the Collection at the Hirshhorn Museum and viewed works by artists who use or reference light in their art work. After viewing the exhibition on our own, we came back together and discussed some of our favorite pieces and what we thought about them.
This experience inspired many new ideas for final projects.
Week One - Critical Response Process
March 4, 2007
Piero and Breck started the first class off with a discussion of the words "Refract, Reflect, Project," which is the title of the latest special exhibition at the Hirshhorn Museum. After sharing our thoughts on the meaning of these words, each person had 20 minutes to create three art works - one piece to represent each of the three words.
When we completed our pieces, the class was introduced to the "Critical Response Process" which we used as a guide for discussing each other's work. These quick, sculptural "sketches" got us thinking about how we might approach the design and execution of our final piece, which we will complete at the end of the five-week workshop.
These are two examples of the work students created and discussed in the first class:
March 12, 2007
Application deadline has passed.
Please check back for information on the next session of ArtLab for Teens, coming Summer 2007.
February 05, 2007
The New Season of ArtLab is Here!
The Hirshhorn invites aspiring young artists to transform the Museum's ArtLab into a working studio space. This intensive, five-week program gives talented high school students the opportunity to engage with peers, artists, and curators and to respond to objects from the collection featured in Refract, Reflect, Project by creating original works of art.
Students are invited to apply from local schools, grades 9 through 12. No previous art experience is necessary, and all materials are provided by the Hirshhorn.
