Young Artist Studio Teaching Apprentice Blog

Talking to random strangers on the street, what could be more fun than that? It was an amazing experience for me to look at all the beautiful faces Denver has and trying to get them to talk to you and play the super fun games! I can’t wait for next Thursday. OH HECK YEAH! Also how about that street art guys? Denver is so beautiful, I’m obviously still in awe with last night’s rad experience. #SideWaysPictureLifeBecauseMyPhoneWontTurnIt #OhHeckYeahIJustUsedAHashtag

Ian is a film major at Denver School of the Arts. He is very passionate about script writing and documentary work. He worked with the CVA Creative Industries Internship in 2013 and is looking forward to continuing that work this year.

My name is Jewell. Two years ago I realized my true love and passion for visual arts. Art for me is not only a hobby, but a lifestyle. Honestly, art keeps me sane, that, and Lana Del Rey.

Ria is an IB Visual Arts student at Smoky Hill High School. Her love for typography and portraiture play into her passion for experimentation. She is very enthusiastic about this new project.

Mina is a junior in Smoky Hill’s IB Visual Arts program and am excited to get hands-on experience! Aside from my interest in the arts, she performs martial arts, play the piano, volunteer, and participate in Speech and Debate. Her most ambitious art project yet has been painting a mural in my school, so she am ready to engage in something new and expand my horizons.

Hey everyone! My name is Brendan and I am currently a Junior attending the Denver Center for International Studies. I’m excited to work with you all soon!

Taryn is a freshman at William Smith Expeditionary Learning school. I am creative and love to explore different kinds of art and creative outlets like reading and creative writing. I work hard on all my projects and all assignments given to me and will work even harder to impress you for gifting my with this internship.

Kellehanna goes to Denver School of the Arts and is a Visual Arts major. She all so has interest in Fashion design. She has won first place at the Goodwill Fashion show and Clothing Swap of 2014.

Monica is a self-taught artist and an upcoming senior at the Denver School of Science and Technology. She’s been drawing for as long as she can remember, and has not only developed her own unique style, but her own technique. As an individual who favors spirituality, positive energy, and self-expression, art has, is, and will continue to be a major part of her existence.

Thanks Akayla! Your work is so cool! It was awesome to listen to this MSU Denver graduating artist talk about her work. She is inspiring and we left the conversation with a lot of ideas!

My name is Katie. I have attended Denver School of the Arts for six years now and will be a senior in the 2014-2015 school year. I am fascinated in all types of art and have been studying visual arts at school.

Ekaterina (Katya) is a rising senior in the International Baccalaureate (IB) Program at George Washington High School. She is thrilled to be taking both IB Higher Level Visual Arts and Art Classes taught in Russian outside of school with the Russian Science, Art, and Sport Center for Children. When she is not painting, Katya enjoys reading, obsessing about current events, and sampling Belgian chocolate. She is honored to have been selected for this internship.

Eric was born here in Denver, Colorado and is a student at Arrupe Jesuit. Ever since he was little he always loved to draw. He especially like to draw about make believe animals, but he wants to become an architect.

Amanda is a West Career Academy student. We focus on motivation reliability and quality of work, which I withstand in many areas, especially when it comes to art.

Ahmed was born in Sudan and migrated to America when he was 5 years old. He likes to play golf,tennis,soccer,basketball,pool,chess, and loves to draw pictures of people. He volunteers a lot because he feel that its the right thing to do. At South High School, Ahmed, is in National Honor Society, Key Club, Black Student Alliance, Black male initiative, and public achievement with DU. He also loves to cook and create things.

Brian is a very quiet and serious person who likes drawing. He also likes anime and a lot of Japanese stuff. Brian is a student at Kunsmiller Creative Arts Academy.

Sade is a fun loving junior who attends the Denver School of the Arts for visual arts. She’s always considered her self an artist and hopes to always be an artist. She enjoys meeting new people and trying new and exciting things. Everything for her is a learning and building experience and sees life itself as being “art that will always be ‘in progress’ “.

Hannah is a sophomore attending the Denver School of Science and Technology and is excited to continue on into junior year this coming fall. She enjoys learning from new experiences and especially loves anything related to architecture.

Christine, who is soon to be known as Zef Oddity Shepard, is an aspiring tattoo artist with a solid foundation in illustration and painting. Through her “Cute-Macabre” art and (sometimes) slurred speech, she encourages her community to be happy, healthy, and to play more video games, to which she owes her unyielding gratitude for teaching her art appreciation at the age of 4 with Bungie’s Halo: Combat Evolved.

As a sophomore at Kent Denver High School, Jacque is progressing her knowledge of art through school as well as extracurricular activities. She has taken classes centered around graphic design, animation, and illustration in order to strengthen her skills. She enjoys being able to meet people who harbor a similar passion for art.

Adrian is currently a sophomore at Kunsmiller Creative Arts Academy where he celebrates his 5th year as a performance arts major. Along with his 2 best friends, Adrian began the High school Fashion Club at KCAA and hopes to gain knowledge about the Arts through experience and innovation.

Jenae is a sophomore at Denver Center for International Studies. She is Chicana, and Native American,consisting of Southern Ute, Apache, and Navajo tribes. She is excited, and honored to be invited to this internship, and hopes to use this experience to help me progress in her career as an artist.

We are studying the work of Frank Buffalo Hyde, among other artists in the exhibition Cross Currents and learning about the idea of sacred. We made monoprints in response. In these monoprints we used inspiration from places, people, items, happenings that were personal to us that could be likened to something sacred.

Everyday in the Young Artist Studio we warm up our minds and get geared up for the projects by responding to a sketchbook prompt.
The prompts or questions are big idea generators that relate to a project or to the artwork in the gallery. Although, sometimes the prompts are unrelated and have a silly spin to them!

This summer’s Creative Industries Internship was AMAZING! We are all looking forward to next year’s camp. Thank you so much to the CVA for supporting us, to Goodwill for teaching us, to the Biennial for including us and to all the community members who took time out of their lives to work with us. We are all inspired and feel much more ready to jump into careers in the creative industry! Thanks!

Our internship includes working as ambassadors for the Biennial of the Americas. Today we spoke with the public about an installation on the 16th street mall. Two architects, Meyer-Grohbrügge & Chermayeff, installed small net cages for butterflies. It was interesting to hear the perspectives of people passing through the space. Generally, there was a sense of calm in the space containing the butterflies as opposed to hustle and bustle of the city around us.

Getting ready for the opening reception tonight! The work is nearly finished! Come check it out tonight.

Today was an incredible learning opportunity. Gallery owners, philanthropists, art collectors, theater directors and members of city and state government spoke to us about their work in the creative field. It was unbelievably valuable to hear about their lives, goals and career paths. It was also remarkable to hear how integrated city planning is with the local arts.

Thank you to Ivar, Tanya and Lisa and to Su Teatro, Colorado Creative Industries and Plus + Gallery!

Thank you Marilee, Cherie, Daniel and Mark and Urban Land Institute, City Projects and Anderson Mason Dale Architecture! It was invaluable to hear from you about your career paths and work in urban planning in Denver.

We completed our models and shared formal presentations with Amy, Cecily and Talya of the CVA. It was super stressful but they seemed to like our proposals. Next week we will learn about their approval and begin ordering materials. It is going to be amazing to build these in the CVA parking lot!!!

Do you know how much public art there is in Confluence Park?!?! Did you know that as recently as the 1990’s there was nothing but dirt and railroads?
Well, today we explored the park and uncovered the installations that the city approved for the park as well as the process involved in public art installations. The professionals use RFP’s as well! We also learned a bit about our upcoming work with the Biennial.

Shadow Tunnel by Mikael, Alex and Marco

Hammock Platform by Nate and Ian

Towers by Savanna

Relief Mural by Hannah

Bicycle Fountain by Katie

Can Mural by Kellehanna

Here are some of our draft ideas for the parking lot installation! Tomorrow we will be submitting our proposals to the staff of the CVA before proceeding to the design/build part of the project! It is going to be hard to choose from among our designs. They are all so different and intriguing! Maybe we should consider combining elements of each of them in our final design.

After starting the day as a group of inspired and creative…strangers, we found some pretty amazing things about each other!
Today was about meeting each other and understanding what we are going to do during the internship this summer. The RFP for the parking lot intervention will tell us more about the expectations for the installation. Later this week we will be visiting the site of the Biennial!

See you at the CVA!

10 AM

Center for Visual Art
Metropolitan State University of Denver
965 Santa Fe Dr.

Acceptance letters were posted today! A warm welcome to the 2013 Interns!

Now is the time!

Apply now to be part of the first ever Creative Industries Internship in Denver! You can be part of a dynamic group of dreamer!

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We are off! Two of our designs were accepted by the CVA staff. We collected materials and have begun construction of our shadow tunnel and can mural. All the materials are recycled and purchased from Resource Area for Teachers in north Denver.

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