Program titled Water in Public Art exposes the students to a wide variety of techniques and materials in context of creating mural. The students will review and utilize facts about water-related issues, develop an artwork and create it during sixteen weeks. During these sixteen weeks they will work with selected chapters from the textbook and will be required to do work outside of the class. Every Friday 9:30am to 11:30am More info…

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January 14, 3:30pm: Mural Workshop #1: Line Drawing
January 28, 3:30pm: Mural Workshop #2: Stencils
February 4, 3:30pm: Mural Workshop #3: Painting

More info on the exhibit and the workshops…

Sponsored and hosted by Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum: To help you discover the beautiful and unexplored world of color around us, artist Peter Krsko of the art and design group Albus Cavus leads a workshop that examines the phenomenon of color. What is it and how do we perceive it? Why is a sunset red and a rainbow always the same? To answer these questions, we will look at color from the perspective of an artist, physicist, neuroscientist, and biologist.

On Sunday, November 20, 2011, 2 – 3:30pm in Anacostia Community Museum, Program Room. Free; for reservations, call 202-633-4844

GRAFFITI WORKSHOP is this Sunday, November 6 from 2pm to 4pm. The workshop is led by artists who participate in the upcoming exhibit in The Fridge titled ABOVE THE RADAR 2: Else, Dread, 4sakn, as well as curator Luna George. They are visiting us from LA. Space is limited, show up on time. In The Fridge DC. Wear paint clothes and bring a respirator if you have one. Suggested donation $20.

The current exhibit in The Fridge Gallery features precisely fabricated interactive mobile sculptures by Jonathan Miller. If you missed your chance to acguire one of the sculptures, the show is completely sold out. However, on Sunday you will get a unique opportunity to meet the artist, learn about his sculptures and even build one of your own.

We will learn how Jonathan casted three-dimensional sculptures, we will try out his own tools and will build our own gear boxes and sculptures from legos and found materials.

The workshop is on Sunday, October 30 from 2pm to 4pm. Arrive early, bring your friends, suggested donation is $20. It is open to all ages. For more information about all our learning programs visit: www.albuscav.us/classrooms

Thank you all for participating in Ben Tolman’s workshop. We all got an inside view on Ben’s creative process, research his unique collection of monster books and spend two hours drawing and creating our own fantasy creatures. The next workshop will be on constructing mobile sculptures. Full schedule of the fall workshops is here.

Fall 2011 classes are here. Spring 2012 schedule starts in February 2012 and will be announced soon!

“You Are Here” – Summer 2011 workshops:

Wheatpasting: Monday, July 11 at 1:00 at Deanwood Library
Graffiti Letters: Thursday, July 14 at 4:30 at Southeast Library
Graffiti Letters: Tuesday, July 19 at 4:30 at Northwest One Library
Stenciling: Thursday, July 21 at 4:30 at Petworth Library
Digital Photography: Wednesday, July 27 at 4:30 at Watha T. Daniel Library

We have new location for outdoor mural workshops. Located on Capitol Hill, Garfield Park features tennis courts, huge playground, area for skateboarding, basketball court and lawns for picnics… More info here

Albus Cavus has partnered with the Perry Center, Inc. to implement our interactive and dynamic art classes! Ms. Chanel and Ms. Alicia take their students on many field trips. Recently,h they visited Hirshhorn in Washington, DC. Check out what our students have been up to on our after-school program blog.