Alt Art in Mo’Vegas
Alt Art is an after school/ weekend class I have been teaching on and off at Peoples Academy in Morrisville VT for going on two years now. Today was the first of a three week, Saturday 10-3 session. When I first started teaching I was nervous as hell, but I got this great group of super talented, art enthusiastic kids and the experience has been amazing. The group has basically stayed the same over the years, with a few kids graduating and moving on and new kids coming onboard.
I always start each class with a few minutes of introducing them to artists/designers that I’m stoked on and that have some relevance to what we will be working on.
Todays favorite was the Morning Breath book, “The Early Bird”. For this class we are focusing on screenprinting individual posters using collage and stencil techniques, so these guys are perfect.
I didn’t take pictures today so here are a few picture from Alt Art classes of the past
Here is a shot from last spring, we where screenprinting on canvas and stretching it over stretcher bars. We also made some pretty sweet tees. We used a small one color press and flash unit to cure the plastisol inks. The setup was a bit ghetto, but it worked really well and the kids didn’t know the difference.
Here Im demontstraing the proper way to pull a screen. I’ll be sure to post pictures of the final results from the current class, I’m pretty stoked on what we have done so far and couldn’t be more proud of the kids.