Garage invites kids to plunge into the summer with the help of artists and the Museum’s pedagogues and capture these days using various art techniques!
Participants will create a zine-diary about their summertime. Each session will concentrate on a particular concept or technique, introducing viewers to quick drawing, lettrism, and synesthesia, and encouraging them to conduct practical exercises. No special training is required, and everyone can join the classes at any stage.
Free with advance registration.
Classes are in Russian. Broadcast via Zoom.
Link to the Zoom session will be sent via the email indicated upon registration.
Children aged 8–12 are invited to take part.
Each session will require selected materials.
The first session with the Museum’s pedagogue Masha Piskunova will acquaint the group with the notion of the zine and explain its similarities with differences from a regular magazine. What can zines be? How do you make them? Are there exhibits of zines?
Practical class
Invent your own zine! Think about the best way to capture a memory about summer. Will you write texts? Or make illustrations? Perhaps, using photographs? Collages? Or by gluing dry flowers or something else into the zine?
Materials for the class:
A4 paper (office or colored paper, etc.)
Cardboard
Stapler
Bands and Strings
Old magazines and cutouts
Pens and felt pens
Scissors
Glue
Stickers, sequins and the like for decoration
During the second session delivered by the designer of the Foreign Literature Library Elena Berman, participants will try to create their own logos working with fonts, colors, and composition.
Practical class
Try to think which colors, words, and phrases you associate with summer. Use the acquired knowledge about font, color, and composition to make a logo that will become the symbol of your summer!
Materials for the class:
A4 paper
A graphite pencil
Felt pens
Color pencils
A ruler
A rubber
Garage pedagogue Viktoria Scherbenko will introduce participants to the technique of quick drawing and its role in classic and contemporary art—before they will have the opportunity to make their own sketches using this skill.
Practical class
The quick drawing technique is an excellent tool for capturing the summer’s most vibrant moments. A dragonfly buzzing by, swaying foliage, circles from a stone thrown into the water—every little detail in the summer is worth being sketched.
Materials for the class:
A4 paper
A graphite pencil
A home plant or flower
Felt pens
Color pencils
A rubber
What does red smell like? Do yellow objects have a sound? Together with Garage’s educator and exhibition guide, Zhanna Sevastyanova, participants will learn more about the phenomenon of synesthesia and the correlation of colors and smells, using examples from world art.
Practical class
Do you ever notice that each time has its unique smell and color? What color could the smell of foliage be, in your opinion? And the smell of grass after the rain? Draw a composition of summer smells using color alone.
Materials for the class:
A3 or A4 paper
Paints
Brushes
A water tank
A home plant and water to irrigate it
A coin (any type)
A jar of coffee (instant is okay)
A fresh cucumber
Together with the artist Anna Parkina, participants will find themselves teaming up with the poet Isidore Isou and will learn about the experimentations of lettrists!
Practical class
Try to draw the view from your window using the technique of lettrism. Don’t forget that text can be used as a material for making images. Try to build a bridge using the word “tree” or depict rain using soft signs.
Materials for the class:
A3 paper
Texts and letters of varying formats cut out of magazines
Old magazines and cutouts
Felt pens
Color pencils
A glue stick
Scissors
With the help of the artist Anna Parkina the group will be introduced to the technique of frottage. They will learn how this original artistic method was born and which artists preferred to implement it in their practice.
Practical class
Where do you usually walk in the summer: in the nearby park, or perhaps you go to the river? See what kind of plants and animals can be found along your route—and then assemble a map of your walk using the technique of frottage by adding “summer details,” such as blades of grass, tiny flowers, and twigs, to it.
Materials for the class:
A3 paper
Oil pastels
A graphite pencil
Color pencils
A rubber
Glue
Relief materials of various textures associated with summer (tree leaves, relief sticks, boards, stones, soles of your favorite sandals, etc.)
