Friday, November 1st, 2024
9:30AM - 2:30PM
Registration Deadlines:
- Groups - September 27th
- Individuals - October 11th
SeeArt is a designed creative experience for high school students (juniors and seniors) who are invited to visit our facility and attend workshops held by our internationally esteemed faculty. Attendance is FREE!
There are a variety of studio workshops throughout the day, and students can choose their art medium on a first-come, first-served basis. Workshops will be selected at check-in for the day. Afternoon activities can be selected during registration.
- Morning Workshops
Printmedia Collaborative Zines
Faculty: David WischerIn the Printmedia studio, we will make collaborative zines! What is a zine? A zine is a self-published magazine. Students will learn about the history of zines and be given time to design, draw, write, and collage their thoughts on a given topic. Everyone will leave the studio with a collaborative zine, printed on our Risograph machines and assembled as a group. Drawing, writing, and collage materials are provided.
Comics as Self-Expression
Instructor: J.T. Dockery (graduate student)We’ll begin with a brief show-and-tell of works from the late 19th through 21st century, emphasizing comics as a “serious” fine art form—one that can be seriously funny, bizarre, or both! After a short drawing demonstration focused on cartooning as a means of self-expression, students will make their own images in a cartooning-comics style. No prior drawing experience is required, just a willingness to experiment!
Wheel Throwing (Ceramics)
Faculty: Bobby Scroggins and studentsWatch wheel throwing and mask building demonstrations in our Ceramics studio to see how clay can be transformed by hands, water, and motion. These demonstrations will be led by our outstanding graduate and undergraduate students.
Typeface Design
Faculty: Mia CinelliIn this Digital Media lab, students will learn about different kinds of fonts used in graphic design and create original letterforms to make a bitmap typeface. They will be able to keep (and use!) their work by saving a specific file-type and emailing it to themselves.
Graphic Design: Coffee Mug Studio!
Faculty: Chad EbyStudents will create their own original coffee mug design in Photoshop and produce a photo-realistic product shot of it in Blender. At the end of the workshop, students may email themselves an image of their product shot as well as the .blend 3D file if they wish to develop the scene further.
3D Metals (9:30 and 10:30 sessions only)
Faculty: Garry BibbsStudents will create three-dimensional “relief scratch blocks” in this workshop that will later be filled with liquid aluminum during the afternoon metal pour in the Metal Arts Building. Students who participate are expected to visit the afternoon metal pour (starting at 1:30 pm).
Painting / Mixed-Media Mural
Faculty: Brandon SmithIn this demonstration and participatory activity, students will learn how to use acrylic paint and a variety of mixed-media materials to create a large landscape-based mural.
Duct Tape Art!
Faculty: Paul RodgersStudents will work as a team to create a colorful, large-scale image using duct tape as a collage material. The finished collage with be documented and shared as a jpeg with participating students.
Photography Lighting Studio
Instructors: undergraduate studentsVisit our cutting-edge photography lighting studio and learn to shape light, capture movement, and freeze time with flashes of light and digital technology.
Darkroom Photography
Faculty: Garrett HansenCombine art and science in our black and white darkroom. Create photograms of objects using light-sensitive paper. You can bring in your own translucent or opaque objects from home! Students will take home their gelatin silver print!
Fiber Studio
Faculty: Crystal GregoryStudents will work with a variety of textile materials to build sculpture. Students are invited to experiment with both felt making and indigo dyeing on silk to create samples that they will take home.
Character Design through Collaborative Drawing
Faculty: Fuko ItoYou will collaborate with your peers to create character design drawings. We will design what could be monstrous, strange, and cute creatures using an experimental drawing game called Exquisite Corpse!
Best In Show!
Faculty: Becky AlleyTime to tap into your inner art critic! It's your turn to decide which artworks on display are the most beautiful, provocative, moving, and powerful. We will see pieces from artists working in a range of media—including printmaking, painting, fiber art, and ceramics—and we'll discuss what it means, why it's here, and what you think about it. And in the end, YOU can decide Best in Show!
Art History Jeopardy!
Faculty: Monica Blackmun Visona, Allison Hays, Kate Wheeler, Sophia FarmerTest your art-historical knowledge while finding out what’s fascinating about Art History and Visual Studies with a friendly game of Jeopardy! Winners will receive prizes!
Sparking Creativity: Collaboration and Art Education
Faculty: Allan Richards and Sara BairdSpark your creativity through mini art projects that encourage collaboration and ignite your imagination.
- Optional Afternoon Activities
Metal Pour
Faculty: Garry Bibbs and Jeremy Colbert
Location: Metal Arts Building (a short walk from SA/VS)Watch the aluminum pour in the Metal Arts Building! Experience the excitement as Professor Garry Bibbs and the Sculpture students pour molten aluminum into molds created by students in the morning workshops.
Leave Your Mark! Sketching Large in the Atrium
Faculty: Fuko Ito
Location: SA/VS AtriumA collaborative drawing exercise with your See Art peers using the SA/VS atrium floor as your drawing surface. With all the extra space to draw, you can: leave your mark by drawing an oversized comic sequence to reflect on the activities you participated in throughout the day, make one large collaborative drawing as a group, fill up empty spaces with doodles, or follow your inspiration. The floor is yours!
Campus Tour
Faculty: Mia Cinelli
Location: Meet in the SA/VS AtriumJoin Digital Media Design faculty member Mia Cinelli for a tour of SA/VS and other campus highlights.
Parents are welcome to attend SeeArt Day with their student(s) but should register each student separately using the "individual" option below. Even if multiple students are attending from the same family, each student should be registered separately as an individual. Parents should not attend without their student and do not need to register themselves.
Registration opens soon.