PlatteForum
News
July 12, 2005
Greetings!
We are in the midst of our summer
workshops – River Rafting Art Adventures, Art Explosions!
and ArtLab summer film intensive. We sold out our summer
and have been able to offer scholarships to 65% of our registrations.
We are working with youth ages 6-15 from a wide variety
of demographics including several groups from Mi Casa, Girls
Inc., Denver Metro Partners, CasaStart and Adams County.
Youth in our workshops spend 3 hours at
PlatteForum and rotate through several art stations including
painting murals on our walls, building the 3-D trash monster
installation, working with polymer clays, creating crafts
(masks, puzzles, rubbings), enameling tiles and print-making…
The ArtLab mentoring program has graduated
8 of its apprentices into the roles of paid instructors
for the summer. They have been working with younger kids,
creating a mandala mural wall, building armatures for the
trash monsters, learning hands-on art skills and also working
with film-maker Scott Slack creating digital films –
shooting with digital still and video cameras and editing
using Final Cut Pro on Mac G4’s loaned to us by The
University of Colorado.
The public is invited to a big, end of
the summer showcase event on July 22, 2005 from 4:30-8:30pm
to see how PlatteForum has transformed over 6 weeks and
to premiere the Artlab films.
August 3-26, 2005 showcases the exhibit
“From the Outside In” by Emily vonSwearingen,
Associate Director. This body of work was completed through
her Artist in Residency at VSAarts Colorado in which she
collaborated with patients at The Children’s Hospital
in the Dialysis, Neuro-Oncology, and Psychiatric Clinics
to create a photo based, text enriched mixed-media exhibition
and DVD film loop. The exhibition was made possible through
a collaboration with PlatteForum and The Children’s
Hospital.
Check back often as we will be undergoing
an overhaul of our website in the near future to bring you
exciting updates and images of programs and events.
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