Click here to see our 2012 Summer offerings…We will be working with the Asheville Design Center’s Design-build lab as well as exploring multiple visual art mediums!!

Asheville Community Design Lab is devoted to programming focused on art and design for community change. The ACDL is a partnership between local artists Ginger Huebner of Roots + Wings School of Art and Brent Skidmore of UNC Asheville.  Thanks to Asheville City Schools for allowing us this great opportunity to be housed at the Randolph School in Montford.  We work with UNC Asheville Arts 310 students and teens as a collaborative team designing solutions to our communities needs. We established the design lab at the Randolph School by working with Asheville Middle School’s irl after school program.  Teams of students worked on our design lab classroom, a new mural in the cafeteria as well as an outdoor landscape project.  Future projects will involve working with the Randolph School students and other teens, along with the Asheville Design Center (ADC) on new mural and playground designs, bus shelter designs, beautification projects, and other REAL community projects leading to change.

What do we do?

• irl (in real life) After-school with Asheville Middle School 3:30 – 5:00 Mondays and Wednesdays

• Monthly Art and Design Sessions 4:00 – 5:30pm Tuesdays

• School day Art, Design and Craft programming for Randolph School students

• Summer programming with the ADC’s design build lab

What can you do?

• Financial support for instructors and materials – helping us offer the lowest cost programs possible

• Material donations for our projects – just ask us for what we might need!

• Spreading of the word about what we are doing – building relationships is key

• Come join us as a volunteer for one of our program sessions – extra hands are always welcome!

What are we dreaming about?

• Growing the program into a rotating program: housed in every local middle and high school throughout each

school year at least once – working on projects on site at that school, or somewhere nearby – creating change

in that specific community

• Sponsors from local business that would help cover our free art and design sessions for teens, building

materials, art supplies, marketing costs, etc…

• Substantial financial support to bring stability to the future plans to truly offer FREE programming to teens

LIST OF PROGRAMS:

irl (in real life) with Asheville Middle School

Work with an amazing group of UNC Asheville Students and artists Ginger Huebner and Brent Skidmore to help establish the Asheville Community Design Lab at Randolph School. This lab will be devoted to working on art and design for community change.  We will work as a collaborative team designing solutions to our communities needs. Get involved in solving some of the Monday +Wednesday city’s biggest design problems and help to create a better Asheville. This class will look at developing new mural and playground designs, bus shelter designs, signage, beautification projects, animal habitat restoration and REAL community projects leading to change. Come work along side college students having fun while making a difference in your community. This class will include actual hands-on creating, fieldtrips to local design projects and artist’s studios, trips to UNCA Asheville and a celebration at the end.

Schedule:  Mondays and Wednesdays from 3:15 – 5:00pm

Location: Randolph School, 90 Montford Avenue, Asheville

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ACDL Monthly Art and Design Sessions

Located at The Randolph School in Montford

Schedule:  Tuesdays 4:00 – 5:30pm

Grades 6 – 8

Session 1:  February 7 – 28 Art and Words:

Ekphrasis!

What is it?  Ekphrasis is a poem inspired by a work of art.  In this class we will learn how to describe art with poetry and also how to make art that can picture a poem.

Session 2:  March 6 – 27:  Flip Book Animations

Join us to learn about the ‘old school’ process of hand drawn flip books.  We will touch on different drawing techniques that can be woven into creating the traditional flip book structure.  Participants will drive the story lines and imagery!

Session 3: April 10 – May 1:  Printmaking Experiments

During this session we will explore a variety of printmaking techniques: colographs, rubber plate carving, scratch foam and more.  Participants will be able to choose their themes and create a small body of work over the four weeks.

$65 per student per session

Location: Randolph School, 90 Montford Avenue, Asheville

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