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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.
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