GLUCK SUMMER CAMP
The Gluck Summer Camp for the Arts will offer eight free workshops during summer 2008 through UCR’s departments of Art, Creative Writing, Dance, History of Art, Music, Theatre, Sweeney Art Gallery, and the UCR/California Museum of Photography. Each workshop will be taught by a graduate fellow in the Gluck Fellows Program of the Arts, a program funded by the Maxwell H. Gluck Foundation.
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The workshops available for Summer 2008 are:
Art
Kate McPeak, Gluck Graduate Fellow in Art
Workshop Title: Experience Experiment
This workshop is all about challenging the usual art-making notions that students may encounter in high school art departments. We will push, play, dive, tear, dig, find, believe and disbelieve. We will not draw still lifes, shoot portraits, design logos, or build cubes. Students must come prepared to feel unfamiliar, uncertain, and unusual and be daring, bold and extraordinary. The primary focus of this workshop will be the production and critique of original artwork by the student. Students must bring a sketchbook and a willingness to be creatively resourceful.
Creative Writing
Cupid Flowers, Gluck Graduate Fellow in Creative Writing
Workshop Title: The Evolution of Hip-Hop from a Poetic Perspective
This course will cover the similarities between hip-hop and poetry, while considering significant forms of expression, such as the storytelling traditions of African Griots, the works arising from the Harlem Renaissance, and spoken word poetry. We will discuss the birth of hip-hop and its heavy hitters. The music and poetry of Tupac will be examined in great detail. Students will learn literary techniques used by poets and rappers and create original poems. They will also spit fire on the mic.
Dance
Melissa Hudson, Gluck Graduate Fellow in Dance
Workshop Title: Introduction to Modern Dance
This workshop utilizes movement, discussion, video and downright fun to introduce dancers to the basic history and principles of modern dance. Each class will begin with a warm-up that combines traditional modern dance techniques with yoga and pilates. Dancers be taught choreography and will perform for each other in class. In addition, dancers will be provided with choreographic tools and will work in groups to create short dance pieces. The workshop will culminate in a final dance performance designed to showcase acquired knowledge and skills. Participants will be required to laugh, get goofy, and have fun.
History of Art
Julianne Johnson, Gluck Graduate Fellow in History of Art
Workshop Title: Art of the High Renaissance and Early Baroque periods in Italy and Spain
This workshop will look at the art of the High Renaissance and Early Baroque periods in Italy and Spain. We will look at such Italian artists as Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and Caravaggio, and Spanish artists including El Greco, Jusepe de Ribera, Diego Velázquez, and Francisco de Zurbarán. It will also present the European influences being produced in Spain’s colonies in the New World. This new artistic style followed the styles previously established in Europe, but developed into something unique in the New World.
Music
Ron Conner, Gluck Graduate Fellow in Music
Workshop Title: Culture and Performance of Afro-Brazilian Music
The class provides students an unusual opportunity to learn about the rich history and culture of Brazil under the guidance of Brazilian music and culture specialist Ron Conner, while gaining the experience of playing in an Afro-Brazilian percussion ensemble directed by Kirk Brundage, a Los Angeles-based drumming master who has worked with world-famous Afro-Brazilian percussion groups such as Olodum, Muzenza and Timbalada. Students will rehearse afoxé, samba-reggae, frevo and other popular Brazilian carnival rhythms and learn performance techniques on several percussion instruments such as the surdo, repique, caiza, agôgô and more. Additionally, students will be exposed to several aspects of traditional and popular Brazilian culture through lectures, screenings, and other activities.
Sweeney Art Gallery
Alison Walker, Gluck Graduate Fellow in Art
Workshop Title: Interdisciplinary Art Workshop – Art is Everywhere!
Looking at the many forms that art takes is both liberating and inspiring. The Art is Everywhere! workshop will investigate three different forms of art making: sculpture, painting, and photography. Learning from successful contemporary artists and art history, students will execute art projects that challenge their understanding of materials and concepts. Art is Everywhere! will curate a Multi-Media Art Show at the end of the class in which each student will exhibit his/her favorite piece of art made in the workshop.
Theatre
Paul Jacques, Gluck Graduate Fellow in Theatre
Workshop Title: Producing a Play
In this workshop students will learn how to put on a play, from the choosing of a script to the curtain call. Two ten-minute plays will be produced with hands-on student participation in the areas of running auditions, casting, directing, acting, stage management, scenic and costume design, technical theatre, and theatre management.
UCR/California Museum of Photography
Evans Wittenberg, Gluck Graduate Fellow in Art
Workshop Title: Introduction to Digital Imaging
Students interested in art, photography and design will benefit from this concentrated course in digital imaging technique. The workshop will give high schools students a leg up on Photoshop, digital camera capture, scanning and advanced inkjet printing. This workshop features the outstanding facilities of the UC Riverside department of Visual arts, where these students will have access to Mac G5 computers, and professional grade Epson printers and scanners. No previous experience is necessary, just bring your creativity and desire to learn.
