Clinton Middle School students realized a short films with two experts from the field. Saturday March 17th and March 24th, in a beautiful space located in Chelsea, The Pure Space, kindly offered by Rida Chin, seventeen kids focused and enthusiastically learned the basic rules of stop-motion animation. The title of the film was “Another Day
Workshops: Flags & T-shirts Students from Clinton Middle School and seniors from the Fulton House in Chelsea started news workshop with artist Jenny Marketou in Collaboration with Otto Von Busch. The kids and the seniors started by thinking about a flag which represents themselves and then created these flags by cutting out different colors of
Clinton Middle School students tried to imagine scenes suggested by movie soundtracks. The kids spent the entire afternoon listening to famous soundtracks of great movies like Forrest Gump, The Piano, The Blues Brothers, Pirates of the Caribbean, Titanic, and others! In the end they watched short movie clips that corresponded to the scenes. The paintings
Clinton Middle School students painted their impressions in a special atmosphere. Two talented musicians – Phil Faconti and Dino Vasilakos – one a guitar player and the other a piano one, played a variety of genres from jazz to blues to bossa nova, struck the kids. The students were asked to “paint their soul” (a
Last Thursday for the The Armory Show‘s VIP SoHo night we presented Joan Jonas‘ “Lunar Rabbit, 2011”. The storefront multimedia installation was the culmination of a series of workshops led by Jonas during spring 2011 for students from the Clinton School for Writers and Artists. The workshops explored the myth of a selfless rabbit who
