Painting
Drip, splatter, and spray large scale art! Painting workshops explore visual art and creative expression through the use of drawing, color, and painting, music and conversation. Starting with pencil and paper, participants are led through a design session where they learn different ways to convert a small image to a large canvas, mix colors and apply different visual techniques. Many of our painting projects revolve around mural residencies.
WATCH: mural production process
Rodrigo Carapia worked with teens in three locations over four days to create this large 3-panel painting now hanging inside the library at Dane County Juvenile Detention Center.
The concept and design were developed by Rodrigo and a group of youth attending weekly Neighborhood Intervention Program (NIP / Youth Justice) workshops at the Bubbler Room at Central Library. The message of "peace" and the uplifting color and imagery were deemed a necessary addition to the detention center by several of the kids who had been brought there in the past. We then followed their plan for other students at the shelter home to get their hands into the project by continuing to paint the design for an afternoon before culminating with the panels being completed and hung on the wall by the students in the detention center at the time.
This project ultimately paved the way for the first semi-permanent installations at the shelter home (Welcome Mural) and the detention center (Sunny Horizons Mural) that were both also done by Rodrigo, and were chosen for the immediate proximity to the respective visitation spaces for families, friends and advocates.
Local mural artist, Rodrigo Carapia orchestrated a 5-day summer bootcamp to help Madison teens give a fresh look to the large 5ft x 4ft art boards that line a wall in the teen area inside Goodman South Madison Library, located at 2222 S. Park St.
Audifax ran a weekly summer series of design workshops focused on the things we noticed while taking walks around the Atwood neighborhood. After putting their designs on canvas, shirts, bags and shoes, students used pieces created throughout the summer to conclude with this 8'x4' mural.
The project’s intention was simple: to be outside, exploring techniques and getting lost in the process of creation while connecting with nature and each other.
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READ: Audifax's in-depth perspective and on the project.
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SEE: currently on display in the main glass stairwell at MyArts on East Mifflin St.
I Belong was previously on display in the Bubbler's "To Be Seen" exhibit at the Overture Center's Rotunda Gallery.
Our friends from ArtWorking hauled over their expertise and equipment to help Madison teens redesign the large 5ft x 4ft art boards that line a wall in the teen area inside Goodman South Madison Library.
A quick look at the progression of a teen painting project at Goodman South Madison Library led by Teen Services Librarian, Jesse Vieau.
The neighborhood teens chose to project, trace and paint their favorite movie covers onto the 5ft x 4ft art boards in the Teen section. They worked on the projects in the library's community room after school for several weeks while also rotating to laptops, video games, craft projects and talking with friends.
Anonymous says:
I realized that I can do more than just draw. I guess I can paint. I had fun. I would do this again.