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KITE FLIGHT FITNESS PROGRAMS WORKSHOPS LIC BIKE PARADE SUMMER SOLSTICE MAKERS MARKET OUTDOOR CINEMA HALLOWEEN HARVEST FESTIVAL SPECIAL EVENTS  |
SATURDAY SCULPTURE WORKSHOPS Saturdays, May 9 - September 26, 2009 12 PM - 3 PM (rain or shine) Workshops are offered in the education area at Socrates Sculpture Park on a drop in basis. Participants work with a new artist each week, exploring diverse and innovative art mediums. SUMMER 2009 DATES: May 9: Felt-zilla with Martine Kaczynski Create a form out of felt, sew or glue it, and stuff it with fabric or beans to make a cuddly monster you can take home and call your own. May 16: Giant Root Structure with Free Style Arts Association Using scotch tape and thousands of colored drinking straws; participants create a giant collaborative art installation that mimics the underground root structure of trees. Kids become "underground" animals, weaving strands of straws all around them as they work. May 23: Blue Ribbon Garden with Samara Kupferberg Cultivate a blue ribbon vegetable or flower garden using a multitude of vintage fabrics, ribbons and felt. Make your garden treasure 3 dimensional by sewing and stuffing your creation. May 30: Take a Ride with Samara Kupferberg Design your own carnival ride or make an amazing abstraction by constructing a colorful and imaginative woven sculpture using pipe cleaners, wire, and a variety of fabulous yarns and ribbons. June 6: Decorate Your Bicycle with Socrates Sculpture Park artists Transform your bicycle, tricycle or scooter into a mobile work of art and then flaunt it in the 2nd annual LIC Bike Parade! June 13: Martian Metropolis with Linda Ganjian Earth has colonized Mars, and new cities need to be built! Design and build a model Martian metropolis complete with parks, trees, buildings and whatever you think a futuristic city might need. June 20: Lucha Socrates with Shaun Leonardo Design your very own Lucha Mexican Wrestling mask! Resident luchador (Mexican wrestler), El Conquistador, will help kids choose fabrics and colors to design their very own lucha identity while learning the symbolism behind the masked wrestler. June 27: Branch Ranch with Free Style Arts Association Come on over to Ranch Socrates and build sculptures, giant and small by tying, weaving, and gluing branches together. Using sticks and twigs, participants will make smaller sculptures they can take home; while giant branches will be available to create sculptures so big you can walk underneath them. July 4: Hello Rag Dolly with Paul Duncan Bring your old t-shirts and clothing to make a rag doll stuffed with recycled materials. Embellish your doll with hair and clothing to create the doll of your dreams. July 11: Full Size Self Portraits with Anna Craycroft Using mirrors and imagination, participants paint and collage large self portraits with paint, glitter, and magazine clippings, as well as colored and patterned paper which, when all combined, will represent wild and fantastical images of themselves. July 18: Topographic Maps of Fantasy Lands with Anna Craycroft Students can work alone or in pairs to make topographic maps for fantasy lands of their own invention and use a range of sculptural and painting materials to build mountains and dig lakes, erect a thriving metropolis or excavate the ruins of a lost civilization. July 25: Pop-Up Park with Catarina Leitao Using recycled paper, scissors, paint, and collage materials, kids learn to build pop-up sculptures then integrate the graphics with the three-dimensional shapes to create a pop-up park or garden. August 1: Magical Garden Prints with Lars Fisk Children explore printmaking and the wonders of nature by transposing plants, vegetables, flowers and herbs into ink creations. August 8: Blowing Bubbles with Harriet Salmon Using wire, pipe cleaners and fabric, children make wands of all shapes and sizes then dip them in a soapy mixture to create a sea of bubbles in the sky. August 15: Tin Can Treasures with Paul Duncan Participants recycle cans and bring some objects or trinkets from home, or find new treasures at the Park, to turn their trash into a sculptural masterpiece. August 22: Pon-a-thon with Travis Boyer and Abby Walton Learn the art of Pon-pon making with the experts. Using every color yarn we can find, kids young and old learn the art of Pon-pon making as a 3-d fiber form craft action, and make creatures, wearable art or anything else your heart desires. August 29: Indigo Girls and Boys with Travis Boyer Natural dye guru Travis Boyer offers a natural fermentation indigo dye vat for participants to use. So bring your cotton, silk, wood, leather, yarn or anything you wish to dye blue. September 5: Cell-bots with McKendree Key Kids can recycle those old cell phones and transform them into Cell-bots using wire, recycled cell phone parts, paint, and other treasures to be found at the Park. September 12: Rock, Paper, Scissors with McKendree Key A Socrates classic! Using recycled and natural materials, participants learn the basics of papermaking to create beautiful handmade sheets of paper and then turn them into a book! September 19: Rock Pets with Heather Hart Can't have a dog or cat at home? Make pets that don't require food or clean up by adopting a piece of the park and using craft supplies to give your new pet a personality all its own. Then try to teach it to stay, sit and roll over! September 26: Charm School with Heather Hart Painted pebbles are dated as far back as the 8th century AD and were used as magical charms and wishing rocks. Make your own good luck charms and make a wish or give someone else good luck. Infuse your special pebbles with love, creativity and glitter! SUMMER OUTDOOR ARTMAKING WORKSHOPS Weekdays, July 6 - August 14 10 AM - 12 PM & 1 PM - 3 PM (rain or shine) Note: for groups only and by pre-registration For dates and more information on Summer Outdoor Artmaking Workshops click here. 
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