Tag Archives: Art Education

Afterschool Film Class at the NYC Lab School

Posted on Thursday, December 13th, 2012

More Art’s afterschool art program has begun again! This school year we’re working with middle schoolers from the NYC Lab School, a group of 15 students excited to learn about film. Don Gibson has been leading classes that split our course into two parts. The first focuses on learning and discussing film theory and concepts,

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The Madama Butterfly Collaboration with Chelsea Opera comes to a close

Posted on Monday, June 18th, 2012

The collaboration, promoted by More Art, between Chelsea Opera, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the production of high quality, affordable operas accessible to all members of the community, and students of the Clinton Middle School has ended on a high note with the students attending the dress rehearsal for Chelsea Opera’s latest production, Madama Butterfly,

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Madama Butterfly

Posted on Wednesday, May 16th, 2012

Clinton Middle School started a project in collaboration with Chelsea Opera. For the first session the kids took a look at the events leading to the creation of the opera (John Long’s story, David Belasco’s play); learned the characters – who’s who in the opera, relationships, character profile and synopsis of the opera.

Stop motion animation

Posted on Thursday, March 29th, 2012

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

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Soundtracks and Art workshop

Posted on Thursday, March 22nd, 2012

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

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“The picture has to be as real as possible”: AP TOUR with Mary Giancoli

Posted on Thursday, February 2nd, 2012

Artist Mary Giancoli accompanied Clinton Middle School students to The Associated Press on January 24th. The kids were challenged at first with questions about their views on photography. Here are some of the things they said: “Photography, it’s a way to catch reality…”, “It’s a way to express myself in a different manner…”, “It’s a

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