Week 2 • Grades 1-3 • June 25 – 29 • 9am-3pm
Mixed Media Madness: Famous Artists • $375
Instructor: Ascha Kells Drake
Learn about famous artists and make your own portraits, patterns and landscapes. Work with a variety of painting and drawing materials to discover how media selection influences your art. Explore the art world, build confidence and have fun through your own artistic process.
Registration
Please complete and submit the registration form. Should you have any questions, please contact Jamila Dunn, Youth Art Programs Manager, jamila@kala.org or call 510.841.7000 x203. Thank you.
Ascha Kells Drake recently moved to the Bay Area from New York City, where she was a teaching artist with The Guggenheim Museum’s Learning Through Art program, Studio in a School, and The Joan Mitchell Foundation. Ascha is a devoted teaching artist, collaborator, and developer of arts integrated curriculum. While she balances a studio practice as a painter and printmaker in Oakland, she teaches painting and drawing at The Bay School in the Presidio. Ascha also teaches with the deYoung Museum, Young Audiences, and the Contemporary Jewish Museum. She co-authored a book on Joseph Cornell entitled The Joseph Cornell Box: Found Objects, Magical Worlds, and she is in the process of co-authoring another book on the work of Chuck Close. Ascha received her BA in Studio Art and Art Education at Skidmore College in 1995. She then went on to Cranbrook Academy of Art, graduating in 1997 with an MFA in printmaking. www.aschadrake.com