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EDUCATION

Gallery talks and panel discussions are offered to enhance understanding and knowledge of Asian and Asian American arts.

Pointed Brush workshops & Asian dance/lectures in public schools. This program helps school children to respect and understand cultural differences.

Saturday Community Children Art Class: AAAC has a strong commitment to improving understanding between the Asian population and the general public. School programs are designed to provide students (both Asian and non-asian) with positive, dynamic contemporary images of Asian cultures. As a multicultural interdisciplinary organization, AAAC focuses on the need to promote Asian cultures and to make information on Asian dance, music, and visual arts accesible to as broad a population as possible. Classes are offered for children of ages between four and a half years to fourteen years old.

Guided gallery tours for children, teachers, and adults: Available to groups by appointment are guided tours of gallery exhibitions. An arts educator will engage the group in a tour concluding in questions and answers. Presentations are tailored to each group's needs. In general, students will learn how to look at art, be introduced to the Asian American community and its history and to the work of the Arts Centre. Tour time duration: 40 minutes. Number of participants: 15-50. Cost: $2 per person. Contact info@artspiral.org.


Stories of Chinatown
The American public has little access to the history, perspective or personal stories of an Asian enclave. If Americans are to get to know each other, as E.B.Du Bois has counseled, these stories, as interpreted by the eyes of youth, can be an important asset in changing the lives of those who see it and particularly those who take part in realizing this project. The Arts Centre is part of the growing cultural infrastructure to ensure the efficacy and authenticity of this process.

The Asian American Arts Centre is the lead organization for "Stories of Chinatown," a long term project in collaboration with Elders Share the Arts. This will be the fifth year of this intergenerational project for 7th and 8th Graders, bringing Chinatown seniors together with high school youth to share their lives and stories, and together creating artwork on hand made clay tiles that they learn to fire and glaze. The goal of imparting a truly educational experience is complemented by infusing the gathered stories through the eyes of youth into a form that will present the unknown stories of New York's Chinatown on a permanent public wall. Ultimately over the years with many elders and youth participating, this accumulative wall art piece, guided and designed by participating teachers, artists, and a Feng Shui master, will become an attractive site for New Yorkers and visitors alike. It will generate local and city-wide interest and pride in the history and stories of Chinatown, and will promote the cultural life and economic growth of the area.



Stories & accompanying artwork:



Various other images:




Saturday Children Art Classes
Fall Term: Starting October 7th, 2006 - Febuary 3rd 2007
Age 4-6 / 11:45 AM - 12:45 PM, Saturday
Age 6-9 / 1:00 PM - 2:15 PM, Saturday
Age 9 and up / 2:30 - 4:00 PM, Saturday

1st Art Class, Ages 4-6: A program designed for those new to the arts to stimulate the student's creativity and capacity to explore their own artistic originality and cultural background.

2nd Art Class, Ages 6-8: This program is designed to further stimulate student's creativity and capacity to explore their own artistic originality and cultural background.

3rd Art Class, 9-14: For children focuses on portfolio-building with an emphasis on advanced techniques with individual personal instruction by the Centre's art educators and specialists.

$195 Tuition, $30 Supplies and Materials
Elaine Chu, School Administrator
Suzy Taekyung Kim, Art Teacher & School Administrator
Ling-Yi Chien Curriculum Consultant (Teachers College, Columbia University)

For information: (212) 233-2154
Tues, Thurs & Fri 1-6pm
Asian American Arts Centre, 26 Bowery, 3rd Fl, New York, NY 10013.

AAAC Step-by-Step Art Education Program
The Step-by-Step method at the AAAC is a creative learning program of art concepts and techniques. It features use of an assortment of media such as pastel, pencil, crayon, watercolor, printmaking, collage, and clay. Classes are kept small and interactive. Basic fundamentals in drawing, watercolor, sumie ink etc. are taught as the children explore shapes, colors, lines, and image-making in specially selected themes.

The program for the older children focuses on portfolio-building with an emphasis on advanced techniques. The lesson plan for this age group is a systematic way to prepare for teenagers interested in entering specialized high schools. To further assist the students, individual personal instruction by the Centre's art educator and curator is available by special request.

For children under the age of ten, the Step-by-Step curriculum aims at providing the creative experience of learning art-making, a specially designed program to stimulate the students' creativity and capacity to explore their own artistic originality as well as understand their cultural background. Various materials and media will be introduced in structured art activities.

AAAC Art School Faculty: Suzy Taekyung Kim (School Administrator & Art Teacher), Angiola Churchill, Curriculum Consultant (Education Professor Emeritus NYU), Robert Lee (Director & Curator), Ling-Yi Chien (Curriculum Consultant; Teachers College, Columbia University)

TAI CHI CLASSES with Eleanor Yung
*Sept. 12 - Oct. 31 Tuesday, 6:30pm - 7:30pm Tai Chi for 8 weeks, the first chapter. ($100 for 8-week session/$20 for a single class)
*Ongoing Advanced Tai Chi Class: Every Saturday 10:15am - 11:15am

The practice of Taichi Chuan is known to be beneficial to health and wellbeing. It is found to lower blood pressure, increase bone density, reduce stress as well as improve balance, co-ordination and body alignment. Learn to move gracefully while improving health and wellness.

Eleanor Yung, acupuncturist, has been teaching the form as taught by the late Master Ham King Koo since 1995. This nei-gung taichi form consists of 81 moves and is divided into three chapters. The form is accompanied by a series of warm-up qi-gung exercises.

Please call (212)233-2154 for information.