MEDIA ARTS

Graphic Design: Logos & Typography

HIGH SCHOOL

Teaching Artist: Ashley Margo

Students developed personal expression through typography and logo explorations! In this graphic design workshop, students explored visual communication design, developed an understanding of the relationship of contemporary to classic graphic production techniques, examined logos of significant LA sports teams, movie studios, and more! Students experimented with handmade and digital techniques.

Typography Explorations

During the first week of class, students focused on typography. They explored multiple mediums designing single glyphs (letters) that reflected their personalities, experimented with collage, used the building blocks of design to create unique typography, and explored how fonts can express emotion.

Logo Explorations

During the second week of class, students explored logos. They learned about logo typologies, collectively researching logos, designing the ‘A’ for ‘LA28’, thinking about colors, and designing pieces that related color & symbolism to emotions.

Logo Designs

During the final few days of class, students designed a logo for a topic of their choice!

Photo 101

HIGH SCHOOL

Teaching Artist: Karina Mata

Students strengthened their relationship with their digital cameras by learning the fundamentals of photography. They learned to set appropriate shutter speeds and aperture values. Students practiced guidelines for strong photo composition, such as following the rule of thirds, incorporating symmetry, and using interesting camera angles and camera shot sizes. Students used shadow photography and reflective photography to differentiate between shape and form. Here you will see students exploration of each art skill objective as well as a share of students favorite work!

Advanced Photography

HIGH SCHOOL

Teaching Artist: Karina Mata

Students used photography to explore their Connections to Roots, Community, and Self. They defined what a Connection is, what it feels like, and what it can look like by incorporating cyanotype photogram printing, traditional and digital collaging, and portraiture.

Photo Explorations

MIDDLE SCHOOL

Teaching Artist: Karina Mata

Students learned the fundamental basics of photography by conducting a series of photography experiments. They explored the differences in a photo's point of view while using a variety of camera angles, camera shot sizes, camera lenses, and light gels. Students noted the distinction between two-dimensional shapes and three-dimensional forms through a series of shadow and reflection assignments. Students followed a photo editing order to further improve their photography skills.

Editing with Adobe Premiere

HIGH SCHOOL

Teaching Artist: Kristy Messer

Students explored the basics of editing on Adobe Premiere, including importing footage, creating bins, cutting footage, and exporting projects. Students also learned more advanced techniques including designing titles, using a variety of video effects, and audio mixing. For our final project, students display their mastery of these skills in "All About Me" short films. A selection of these films can be seen here.

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PERFORMING ARTS

Eamon Cannon Comedy Project Stand-Up and Improv

MIDDLE & HIGH SCHOOL

Teaching Artists: Susanna Spies & Jerami Monreal

This class provided the opportunity to speak, share, and laugh together within improvisational games and individual topics shared within stand-up. The culminating class share shows how improvisation and stand-up comedy are both gateways to connect, express, create, and share our voices around matters that means something to us individually and how to create imaginary circumstances with our peers within improvisational games...each welcoming expression, creativity, and tons of fun along the way!

Livestream Lab

HIGH SCHOOL

Teaching Artists: Kristy Messer & Latrice Postell

Students from both dance and acting tracks came together to create a variety performance pieces around the theme of "transition." As an group, students explored the theme and landed on three phases of life to unpack through acting and dance. Students wrote, rehearsed, choreographed, and filmed on Zoom and sometimes in person to create a short film livestreamed on YouTube on July 31st.

Dance Technique

HIGH SCHOOL

Teaching Artist: Latrice Postell

In this class, students chose two styles that they would like to explore during our two weeks together: Jazz and Hip Hop. Our exploration included the historical significance as well as past and present cultural significance. Students also gained an understanding of each dance style through the lenses of vernacular movement and social dance. They experienced different approaches to develop choreography (shapes, cannons, space, counts, rhythm and style) and how the styles relate to each other. We fused it all together to create our own short pieces.

INTERDISCIPLINARY

Leveraging Our Power: Social Justice in the Arts

HIGH SCHOOL

Teaching Artist: Tiffany Owens

In this workshop-based survey class, students examined the direct and indirect ways that social justice lives in the arts both in the past and today. The objectives of this class were to both lay a foundation for even greater understanding of social justice as well as build a toolkit to use when students want to improve and increase justice in their own day-to-day lives and the larger world. This class was interactive with a lot of discussion. Students looked at social justice through many different art forms, not just one. They did create in visual and performing arts, but the goal was not to get to the end of the two weeks with a bunch of polished, finished products. The goal was to have the experience of thinking through and experimenting with ideas around justice and how the arts have been, and can be, used to further those concepts.

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