This is our first real blog post and boy are we excited. We thought we'd inaugurate this thing with a post about our collaborative activity with one of the other local teen programs.
The San Francisco fog was still thick at 8:30 this morning when SF MoMA came to visit, bringing teens from their "Matches" mentoring program with them.
Before coming, they'd chosen paintings from the current Brice Marden Exhibition, written poems based on those paintings and were prepared to take the transformation one step further by making clay interpretations of those poems and learning animation (from us). Art to poetry to art again. Our much missed educator Bernadette organized this event and the educators and zeum masters ran it with expertise and enthusiasm.
Samantha reflects....
Their task was to visually interpret a poem previously written by the group during another activity. Our job was to help out with the creative process and give them access to the tools we have at zeum. We aided in their brainstorming and fed them ideas to help with their animations. They created visuals to go with their poems and we helped them keep in mind that they'd be animating these creations.
It was interesting to see that until the activity actually started these teens barely spoke to their mentors. As the activity progressed, communication increased between the different age groups. It was nice to see them break out of their shells and realize that although their mentors are older than them, they're still people.
Once they were done with the activity one of our awesome educators Matthew, with a little of my help, led the group in an another activity using stop motion animation - this time with bodies instead of clay. They were also each given clippings from a newspaper. The task: cut words out from the clipping and put them together to create a topic for a short animation that they then created with their own bodies.
It was not only a fun experience for the SFMOMA group and for myself, it was also a chance for us to realize what we can actually do with technology. Coming to Zeum helps people realize just how much can be done with the technology that we all posses in our own homes. It's amazing to think that the same thing these people just did with their bodies, a camera, and a computer is actually done in professional hollywood films. It almost makes me want to go home and make my own movie.
Avia...My role today was explaining how to make a clay animation movie. The teens and adults had to interpret a poem that they wrote and visually make what they saw into a clay movie. I really enjoyed working with the teens from SF MOMA and they made really interesting movies. One that i really loved was a set that looked like a highway and the visitors made cacti out of clay and put it on the highway to make it look 3D. It was really cool! I also thought it was interesting how they wrote a poem and kind of brought it to life.
Bernadette sent us a full report, noting that in fact, we were able to talk to a few of MoMA's teens after the project was said and done and they all said it was their favorite event out of all the stuff they've done in the Matches program.
And of course, thank you Bernadette.
The San Francisco fog was still thick at 8:30 this morning when SF MoMA came to visit, bringing teens from their "Matches" mentoring program with them.
Before coming, they'd chosen paintings from the current Brice Marden Exhibition, written poems based on those paintings and were prepared to take the transformation one step further by making clay interpretations of those poems and learning animation (from us). Art to poetry to art again. Our much missed educator Bernadette organized this event and the educators and zeum masters ran it with expertise and enthusiasm.
Samantha reflects....
Their task was to visually interpret a poem previously written by the group during another activity. Our job was to help out with the creative process and give them access to the tools we have at zeum. We aided in their brainstorming and fed them ideas to help with their animations. They created visuals to go with their poems and we helped them keep in mind that they'd be animating these creations.
It was interesting to see that until the activity actually started these teens barely spoke to their mentors. As the activity progressed, communication increased between the different age groups. It was nice to see them break out of their shells and realize that although their mentors are older than them, they're still people.
Once they were done with the activity one of our awesome educators Matthew, with a little of my help, led the group in an another activity using stop motion animation - this time with bodies instead of clay. They were also each given clippings from a newspaper. The task: cut words out from the clipping and put them together to create a topic for a short animation that they then created with their own bodies.
It was not only a fun experience for the SFMOMA group and for myself, it was also a chance for us to realize what we can actually do with technology. Coming to Zeum helps people realize just how much can be done with the technology that we all posses in our own homes. It's amazing to think that the same thing these people just did with their bodies, a camera, and a computer is actually done in professional hollywood films. It almost makes me want to go home and make my own movie.
Avia...My role today was explaining how to make a clay animation movie. The teens and adults had to interpret a poem that they wrote and visually make what they saw into a clay movie. I really enjoyed working with the teens from SF MOMA and they made really interesting movies. One that i really loved was a set that looked like a highway and the visitors made cacti out of clay and put it on the highway to make it look 3D. It was really cool! I also thought it was interesting how they wrote a poem and kind of brought it to life.
Bernadette sent us a full report, noting that in fact, we were able to talk to a few of MoMA's teens after the project was said and done and they all said it was their favorite event out of all the stuff they've done in the Matches program.
"Most of our Matches participants had never been to Zeum before and they were excited to have had this opportunity. I just wanted to thank all of the awesome ZeumMasters and Educators that came very early this Saturday morning to help facilitate this wonderful interaction. So, big shout out to Gaby , Sam, Lilian, Avia, Monique and educators Raquel, Ari, Perry, Matthew and Jordan for helping making this a completely awesome experience!! "
And of course, thank you Bernadette.
