Camp Kala 2025 Wk5 • Teen Studio: Drawing from Life • Ages 11-17
Join us for a deep dive into drawing! Explore ways that drawing can reflect individual voices, through careful observation and exploration of mark-making. Learn about line quality, form, tone, negative space, and composition while using a variety of drawing media. Projects will include linear perspective study, still life, portraits, the figure (with a live model), landscapes, and personal narrative. We will look at local and contemporary artists and consider how representation can also be a means of expression. Throughout the week, we’ll practice different drawing techniques in a fun studio environment.
All levels welcome; Instruction provided to meet each student’s interests, needs, and strengths.
Ali Vaughan (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist based in the Bay Area who works between sculpture and drawing. Her work investigates the confluence of geology and the body, and the complicated intersections of memory and family history. She has exhibited work at the de Young Museum, the Sebastopol Center for the Arts, the Coulter Gallery, West Magazine, and the Stanford Art Gallery. She was a metal arts resident at the Steel Yard in Providence, RI, and most recently a resident at Radio28 Creative Studios in Mexico City. Ali received a dual major and received her BA in Art Practice (with honors) and Art History at Stanford University. In her teaching, she believes that artmaking can foster resilience, focus, investigation, and self-reflection, and is interested in allowing students to explore various mediums as means of self-expression, including drawing, painting, collage, and sculpture. As an educator and artist, she works with students to understand the different possibilities and challenges of different mediums, and feel that they have the freedom and confidence to move between them to express personally meaningful narratives.