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MUSIC PROGRAM Director, FreeboTeacher, David Roth
At The Art Ranch, the focus will be giving close personal attention to the individual, as well as working with small groups and teaching them how to collaborate with one another.
Songwriting:
By the end of the session, each student will have at least one individual and/or group performance piece to share. In addition to performing these songs at the final concert, we will have completed recordings of the work done throughout the session. The creation of a piece of music, recording it, and performing it provides all the essential lessons of the musical process. Each step along the way provides a solid foundation for the musician, learning how to integrate the pieces into a whole that becomes much greater than the sum of the parts. Add to that the overall atmosphere of the Art Ranch, the new perspective gained from this amazing environment, we believe we can provide an unforgettable experience as we raise the musical bar for each of the young artists.
1322 S. Cloverdale Ave. L.A. Ca. 90019 Phone - (323) 932-1808
The Art Ranch is a 501 ( 3 ) C educational, nonprofit organization CIRCUS ARTS Director, Amy Christian, Wise Fool New Mexico
Wise Fool New Mexico is a non-profit theatre arts project that creates hands-on workshops in the folk traditions of storytelling, puppetry, circus arts and public spectacle. Their circus arts program at The Art Ranch is a collaboration of crafts – trapeze, stilt walking, and puppetry. These crafts are designed to further students’ expectations of themselves and inspire them to reach new levels in their physical and emotional strength. For the festival weekend at the camp, students create a show from start to finish – they storyboard the show, build their puppets, and exhibit their acquired theater, movement and performance skills.
PUPPETRY As an introduction to puppetry, students learn mass theatrics and basic visual image concepts. They create their elaborate puppets from newspaper and other recycled materials, while practicing movement and improv techniques to express themselves through their constructed characters.
STILT WALKING
TRAPEZE Trapeze begins with exercises using a low bar, to familiarize students with being suspended. They learn the basic knee hang, splits, and whip, before moving up to their first swing and catch on the higher swings. Along the way, they learn strengthening exercises, while also increasing their self-awareness and trust.
1322 S. Cloverdale Ave. L.A. Ca. 90019 Phone - (323) 932-1808
The Art Ranch is a 501 ( 3 ) C educational, nonprofit organization THEATRE PROGRAM Director Robert McDonough “Stepping Into the Unknown” Students explore the art of story telling through acting, music and dance. They perform plays based on various American Indian stories and poems. Through modern and classic plays they will learn all aspects of scene study with an emphasis on character development. We work with the whole person enabling the student to connect to their own truth and express it through their craft. Our focus is to inspire a deep fluid spontaneous actor that is in the moment, takes risks, and is always exploring. The teachers in this course believe the sky is the limit and that anything is possible. We expand through “stepping into the unknown.” It is a highly disciplined course so students have to be willing to be present, work hard and stretch. “Our intention is to keep surprising ourselves.”
Course outline: Circle sharing - each class begins with a circle. This is to keep things in the open and create and maintain intimacy Journaling - each student will have their own private journal for their own personal thoughts and feelings. Scene study - students will learn how to break down a scene, create characters, rehearse with a scene partner, and perform a play. Improvisation - students will learn how to step out of their own way and allow creativity to flow moment to moment through various exercises. They will learn how to create their own situations/scenes on the spot. Improvs will also be used as a tool to help explore and develop characters. Creating characters - students will learn tools and exercises in order to create deep, rich characters and embody them.
1322 S. Cloverdale Ave. L.A. Ca. 90019 Phone - (323) 932-1808
The Art Ranch is a 501 ( 3 ) C educational, nonprofit organization POTTERY Teacher, Bernie Track
This program is a combination hands-on examination of the process of pueblo pottery making, and
an exploration into the artistic traditions of the American Indians who create
pottery as an integral part of their lives. Students create traditional coil
pots from materials collected, literally, from the ground up, using local clay.
The coils are assembled into the shape of the piece and then smoothed together,
to blend and strengthen the pot. Instead of enclosed kilns, American Indians fire
their pots in shallow pits that are dug in the earth, then covered with brush
and wood and lit on fire. These in-earth kilns heat the pottery to 1400
degrees, after which they are removed and rubbed with special stones to become
polished. Students craft and fire their own pieces over the course of the
program, learning pottery techniques that have existed for thousands of years.
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1322 S. Cloverdale Ave. L.A. Ca. 90019 Phone - (323) 932-1808
The Art Ranch is a 501 ( 3 ) C educational, nonprofit organization VISUAL ARTS PROGRAM Sketching, Painting, Sculpture, PotteryDirector, Rudy Calderon; Teacher, William A. Loya ![]() Our Fundamentals of Art classes will teach these principles through drawing and painting from nature, and sculpting with different mediums such as clay, plaster and found objects. We will carve, model clay, and learn about form, shape and texture. The Art Ranch's beautiful natural environment will provide a perfect source of inspiration for our art projects. Our landscape drawings and paintings from nature will teach about line, color, composition and perspective. Each student will carry a sketchbook to fill with drawings, paintings and collage.
Knowledge of the fundamentals of art enables dynamic self-expression and art making, it is also a powerful tool that strengthens and refines visual perception and the understanding of the natural world and our surroundings. What is art? How old is art making? What are the different functions of art? These essential questions will be discussed throughout the course in order to enhance our understanding of art and its perpetual place in the human family.
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1322 S. Cloverdale Ave. L.A. Ca. 90019 Phone - (323) 932-1808
The Art Ranch is a 501 ( 3 ) C educational, nonprofit organization |