CPS THINKTANK with Adia Millet and Cauleen Smith
posted July 23, 2010 in CPS Thinktank, residents | tags: adia millet, cauleen smith, chicago public schools, CPS, residents, thinktank | no comments
This week, our summer residents, Adia Millet and Cauleen Smith, have been busy conducting workshops with Chicago Public Schools teachers. The week involves presentations on the work of resident artists, group discussions, as well as projects and studio time. This ongoing exchange between threewalls and CPS results in an annual exhibition of work inspired by the workshops.
Want to see what went on at these workshops? Adia's posted interactive documentation from her workshop here: http://web.me.com/amillett/CPS/Home.html
The group was just getting started when we stopped by Cauleen's workshop. Check out the pictures below for a sampling of what the teaching artists were working on.
CPS Thinktank Workshop with CamLab
posted July 28, 2009 in CPS Thinktank, residents | tags: CamLab., chicago public schools, CPS, residents | no comments
Continuing with the second week of the Thinktank workshops, CamLab inspired a group of teachers from CPS to create unique pieces that transform and attach to the body. They constructed the costumes using diverse materials: black bags, red and black duct tape, red plastic glasses, cord, leggings, etc.
CPS Thinktank v 3.0
posted July 28, 2009 in CPS Thinktank | tags: Chicago Public Schools, CPS, thinktank | no comments
This years Chicago Public School teaching artists and participants in THINKTANK will blog about their work stemming from this summer's workshops with threewalls summer residents and performance artists CamLab, Susan Lee-Chun, Gitte Bog and Kang-hyun Ahn. Documentation of those workshops can be found tagged "residents," but from here-on the CPS teachers will blog about their process of working in new performative or relational work as they create new projects at large in their community. The blog will act as an ongoing dialog and archive of their process and projects as they work towards a final presentation of documentation in an exhibition or publication format in 2010.
Follow them here under entries tagged CPS Thinktank!
CPS Thinktank Workshop with Kang-Hyun Ahn
posted July 23, 2009 in CPS Thinktank, residents | tags: chicago public schools, CPS, kaleidoscope, Kang-Hyun Ahn., residents | no comments
In the second week of the Thinktank workshops, resident Artist Kang-Hyun Ahn supervised the CPS Teaching Artists in the construction of a Kaleidoscope. After completion, the viewer looks in one end and light enters the other end, reflecting off interior mirrors. The CPS group made their Kaleidoscopes with colorful, patterned cardboards. The Kaleidoscope is related to hyperbolic geometry. It was initially intended as a science tool, but was quickly copied as a toy.
CPS Thinktank Workshop with Gitte Bog
posted July 23, 2009 in CPS Thinktank, residents | tags: chicago public schools, CPS, Gitte Bog, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, residents, vegetables. | no comments
This summer, each resident artist is leading a thinktank workshop with a group of CPS Teaching Artists. The first workshop was lead by Gitte Bog. At the workshop, the Teaching Artists used vegetables to create a portrait inspired by the paintings of Giuseppe Arcimboldo, and then made a tasty soup. Below is slideshow of the process.
CPS Thinktank Workshop with Susan Lee-Chun
posted July 22, 2009 in CPS Thinktank, residents | tags: chicago public schools, CPS, residents, Susan Lee-Chun. | no comments
Susan Lee-Chun led this summer's second CPS Thinktank Workshop at threewalls. After a presentation of her work, Susan and the Teaching Artists discussed performative acts, costume, and identity.
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