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A course for children aged 10–14 years: Contemporary Artists and What They Can Do

Date

Hours

Sundays

Place

Garage Glass Room

6 sessions

120 min

A course for those who want to learn to articulate ideas through creativity.

The course tutors include Garage Triennial of Russian Contemporary Art participant Ira Butkovskaya and Garage Studios resident and Open Workshops participant Rina Volnyh. They will share ideas with the course participants and inspire them to create contemporary artworks.

The participants of the course will receive creative tasks: to make an artist's book, learn the technique of printing on fabric, and execute sculptural compositions. Each session will also provide the opportunity to learn more about the theory and practice of art and how ideas take physical shape.

Price:

12 000 RUB

Number of lessons and duration:

On Sundays, November 14–December 19

13:00–15:00

6 120-minute classes

THE COURSE TUTORS

Irina Butkovskaya 
 

Irina Butkovskaya is an artist who makes paintings and installations. She is a graduate of the Chto Delat School of Engaged Art (St. Petersburg) and Novosibirsk State Academy of Architecture and Art, and a participant of Garage Triennial of Russian Contemporary Art. Her projects explore the registers of infantility, vulnerability, and care through telling intimate stories from everyday life.

Rina Volnyh
 

Rina Volnyh is an artist, graduate of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Hertfordshire. She took part in the Open Workshops fourth edition and was a Garage Studios resident. Winner of the Museum’s grant program. Her artistic practice addresses the mythology of pop culture.

Schedule

Artist's Book / Personal in Art

By creating their own books or zines, participants will explore how art addresses the intimate and private.

Date
November 14, Sunday
Time
13:00–15:00
Place
Garage Glass Room

Color Spot / A Look at the Everyday

The group will work with the assemblage technique, learn to look at the everyday “like artists”, that is through making sketches, and select the most effective visual statements using viewfinders.

Date
November 21, Sunday
Time
13:00–15:00
Place
Garage Glass Room

Textiles / Cultural Identity

Through learning the printing on stencil fabric techniques, participants will turn to traditional patterns and designs and discuss their role in the perception of their own identity, while also designing new original patterns.

Date
November 28, Sunday
Time
13:00–15:00
Place
Garage Glass Room

Collage / Making an Object

Participants will see how objects with contrasting characteristics can nevertheless be part of a whole. During the session, the kids will make plaster casts and sculptural compositions, mold and reflect on what a combination of different languages ​​can produce.

Date
December 5, Sunday
Time
13:00–15:00
Place
Garage Glass Room

Narrative / Working with Space

The class is dedicated to making space speak—and learning how to enter into a dialogue with it. The course participants will create a model of the room and a total installation inside it.

Date
December 12, Sunday
Time
13:00–15:00
Place
Garage Glass Room

Conceptual Art / Community

Participants will puzzle out the life and work of the art community from within and learn how to create without using physical materials, while also discussing the eternal question of the meaning of art and looking for ways to save the world, or at least make it slightly better.

Date
December 19, Sunday
Time
13:00–15:00
Place
Garage Glass Room

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