Youth Programs | Teen Art Studios
Teen Art Studios FREE
Friday & Saturday Nights
Fridays at Gage Academy of Art
on Capitol Hill,
6:30pm-9:30pm/Ages 13-18
1501 10th Ave E.
Saturdays at The 2100 Building
in Rainier Valley,
6:30pm-9:30pm/Ages 13-18
2100 24th Ave S.
All materials provided. All levels welcome.
Space is limited, so be sure to arrive on time.
Make friends and build a killer portfolio!
Or just have fun making art.
Every Friday night the Gage Alhadeff Studio is transformed into a drop-in art center for teen artists. NEW! Now on Saturdays, Teen Art Studios sets up in The 2100 Building in Rainier Valley!
Teen Art Studios (TAS) is a free program that provides a diverse, challenging and productive environment for young artists.
Every month a different professional artist teaches a new art form, including cartooning, figure drawing, mixed media and more. You receive focused instruction and get the chance to explore a range of different mediums and skills. Refreshments provided.
Hey Teens: Do you like Teen Programs at Gage? Then “Like” us on Facebook! Check out the new Gage Teen Artists page on Facebook, Like it, and stay up to date on the latest at Gage for teens. The Virtual Teen Art Studios Group will close at the end of May, but the new page will be chock full of info, pictures and events into the future!
SUMMER/FALL TAS SCHEDULE,
Friday Nights on Capitol Hill
July
Screen Printing
Kerstin Graudins
Design and print your own custom silk-screened t-shirt, prints and stickers. Learn several different techniques for creating images with a silkscreen as well as the basics. Bring personal photos, images from magazines and or drawings you want to incorporate into your imagery. Have fun in this hands-on class!
August
Figurative Casting & Installation
Noah Grusgott
Learn the history of figurative sculpture by looking at artists such as Rodin, George Segal, Juan Muñoz and Kiki Smith. Starting with gestural drawing, learn to cast the body by molding arms, hands, legs and faces with plaster and gauze; culminating in a collaborative group installation in the final week.
September
Introduction to Comics
Randy Wood
Explore the cartoonist’s essential techniques: drawing and storytelling! Bring your own characters and narratives to life using the comic book form. Learn to illustrate your ideas with strong graphics to support your original text, and develop your comics from rough pencil sketches to fully inked panels.
October
3-D Installation, Light & Space
Etsuko Ichawa
Transform familiar everyday objects into site-specific works of art and work with different materials such as yarn, string, cardboard and paper to create 3-D sculpture that you install on-site at Gage. Work on your own or in a group as you learn how to work with light and shadow to create new spaces in unconventional ways.
November
The Painted Sketch
Ryan Finnerty
Enjoy three weeks of painting quick and dirty with acrylics. Learn about materials and how to speed-up painting practices as you complete at least one painting of a complex still-life and create lots of quick, small paintings with various rules for each one. Finally, you learn how to make a scale model to create sketches for grand narrative paintings.
SUMMER/FALL TAS SCHEDULE,
Saturday Nights in Rainier Valley
July
Mixed Media & Assemblage:
The Resourceful Artist
Shannon Anderson
Discover the practice of creating art with reclaimed and recycled materials. Invoke the imagination with bottle caps, cardboard, trinkets, scraps and various found objects. Working with collage, mosaic and sculpture techniques, create your own personal narrative through the process of assemblage.
August
Figurative Casting & Installation
Noah Grusgott
Learn the history of figurative sculpture by looking at artists such as Rodin, George Segal, Juan Muñoz and Kiki Smith. Starting with gestural drawing, learn to cast the body by molding arms, hands, legs and faces with plaster and gauze; culminating in a collaborative group installation in the final week.
September
Painting: Memory & Imagery
Susanna Bluhm
Our memories of an event can be a flood of imagery, whether photographic or symbolic. Choose a specific event from your life and experiment with imagery and painting techniques to represent the event using photographs, your own memories and visual associations.
October
The streets & Fashion Meet: Urban Arts & Graffiti Jewelry
Lauren Holloway
Experiment with various spray paint techniques on wooden boards and on t-shirts. During the final class install your boards (the legal way) outdoors in the Rainier Valley neighborhood. Plus, learn how to design and create your own one-of-a-kind custom metal graffiti nameplate you can wear as a pendant or as earrings.
November
Comics & Cartooning
Greg Stump
Create your own characters, practice different styles of cartooning and drawing, and work on individual and collaborative stories as you explore the comics medium. Work from rough layouts to a finished, inked page, and learn skills from drawing faces to basic 3-D drawing to page layout and composition.
Teens, including Roxanne Glick pictured here, flex their drawing and observation muscles during the Fashion Illustration TAS.
What Teens Say about TAS
Because of TAS, “I have a much better understanding of perspective.”
Elizabeth Vogel, 15 years
"I loved being able to meet new people and work with friends my age. I never get the opportunity to do art, and TAS is an environment in which I felt I could experiment.”
Anya Tudisco, 13 years
“It’s a fun, cool place to learn . . . and there’s pizza!”
Jessica Kavanagh, 17 years
“My favorite thing about TAS is spending time with friends.”
Sophia Yap, 15
“TAS classes provide me with time to focus on my art.”
Megan Smith, 13
“TAS helps me try new things like making depth in pictures.”
Addy Forte, 13
“I want to make a career out of something I like, and I want to be good at it.”
Rebecca VanDen-Ende, 13
“Art is my passion. I see myself becoming a graffiti artist, cartoonist or animator. TAS gives me a place for artistic expression. Because of TAS, I bought paint and canvases and I am now painting on my own – I think TAS is a great art program; it’s certainly the best one I’ve ever experienced.”
Anthony Rosacu