Outside the Frame: Sculpture and Public Art

Anyone can take art and put it in a museum. We're going to put it in trees and under park benches! Part imaginative sculpture design, part urban exploration, this class will let kids brainstorm how to transform public space according to their own visions, and then make their visions real with simple wood and papier-mache construction techniques and materials. Taught by Clay Ward.

When: 8 sessions, Wednesdays 4-6 pm January 12 – March 2

Who: Kids ages 8+.

Cost:   $200 / term ($25 / session), sliding scale

Register at:  http://outsidetheframe.eventbrite.com/   (or visitwww.partsandcrafts.org)

Clay Ward learned about agit prop, dada, and site specificity as a break from Brain and Cog Sci classes at MIT.   He made ephemeral interventions, performances, and political puppetry  while getting an MFA from Parsons School of Design.   From there he traveled, was a photographer, taught art and all levels, and worked in Cambridge developing cooperative art spaces.   He's now using avant garde strategies to bring web technology and life hacking to bear on new paradigms of personal engagement through ProcrasDonate and BuyItLikeYouMeanIt, and teaching kids guerrilla art strategies with Parts and Crafts.