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Tutor: Mary Bradley
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Email: Mary.Bradley@CHATclasses.com |
| Length: Full Year | Class Period: Wednesday, period 1 |
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Description: Welcome to a new year of ART EPLORATION! Our focus this year promises to be a lot messier than last year, as we investigate various kinds of sculpture and printing. Both disciplines involve not just creativity but also pre-planning, problem-solving, trial and error, math, engineering, science, design, and time management. At this point in the planning for next year, sculpture projects would include but not limited to plaster, clay, wire, cardboard, paper mâché, and found objects. If the weather and church administration permits, we may also be able to pull off some snow sculpting. This past January’s World’s Snow Sculpting Championship in Stillwater, MN, was quite an inspiration … and free! Maybe next year we could … Along with sculpture we will also experiment with several kinds of printing with an occasion to print on fabric or clothing. Solar printing, carved linoleum printing, type face, printing with “found” and/or objects from nature or food, and creating personal logos, are just a few of our planned projects. You might want to save a blank T-shirt or two or some plain colored fabric for some of these opportunities. With all our projects we will continue to fold in “The Seven Elements of Art,” “The 12 Principles of Design,” and color study to increase the quality of our work. Where there are artists that have spearheaded and excelled in the various disciplines and media, we will examine their work for inspiration. We may get messy, but we’ll grow in
creativity and learn A LOT!
I cannot wait for you to sign up for this class!
Tutor: Mary Bradley received her BS from the University of Minnesota in Elementary Education with minor concentrations in French, Psychology, and Art. She has studied watercolor, pottery, and cartooning at the Edina Art Center and Hennepin County Vo-tech. Besides being an elementary school teacher for seventeen years, Mary has taught a variety of art classes after school and over summers at Chapel Hill Academy in Chanhassen and Minnetonka Summer Community Education. She also created and directed a two-week church art camp, involving many church members and also teaching cartooning and junk sculpture. Mary has experience in faux painting in homes both new and old, including hand painting and murals in mission work with her church’s youth group. Teaching watercolor at women’s retreats has been popular. She has done long and short-term subbing both in elementary classrooms and in ART. She is eager to start her third year at CHAT with a new art curriculum for 7th-12th grades!Mary and her husband Steve of 44 years are proud parents of four children all married with ten grandchildren between them. Steve and Mary currently head up the prayer ministry team at City Hill Church where they have attended for over 50 years. She also teaches Sunday School. Mary is an active tutor in Ortin-Gillingham Phonics and Reading with over ten years of experience. She has completed Level lll of training which qualifies her to be a certified teacher of OG. *Let her know if would like to learn more about the OG method! *She would love to help more students this summer! Cost:
$232, $242, $252 per
semester (depending on registration date) |