Youth Spring Art Experience: ReGENERATION (Zoom)

Teaching Artists: Jin An Wong, Kiara Womack, Tamara Moan, Monica Garrett

Program Host: Miho Morinoue

Schedule: Tuesday - Friday, March 16 - 19, 2021  from 9:00 AM 11:00 AM

• 9:00 - 9:45 AM - Natures Tai Chi with Jin An Wong (9:00 - 9:45 AM)

• 9:45 - 10:00 AM - BREAK (time to take a drink, snack and get your art supplies ready for class!)

• 10:00 - 11:00 AM -Art Time with Guest Artists

Location: ZOOM

Ages: 6 - 9

Tuition/Admission: $35 Member / $45 Non-Member

Supply Fee: $0

Shipping Fee: $15

Art Kit Pick Up Date: Friday, March 12, 2021 form 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM

For mailing options:  Art kits can either be picked up at the Donkey Mill on a specific date and time, or have it shipped to you. Please select if you’d like your kit shipped upon checkout.

In celebration of the spring season, we invite three guest teachers to connect with our young artists using the idea of regeneration. In biology, regeneration is the process of renewal and restoration. How might ART reconnect us to the environment, spark our curiosity, and develop nature-loving humans? Our guest artists will explore this concept, building on positive symbiotic relationships between humans and nature through a variety of art techniques and media.

Our Spring 2021 Youth Education Programs are supported by the Atherton Family Foundation, Kukio Community Fund of the Hawaii Community Foundation, and our community of individual donors. We are grateful to be able to offer tuition for these programs at a 75% subsidized rate and free art supplies. It is our intention to provide access to all levels and keep our Youth Programs affordable during these uncertain times.

• Tuesday & Wednesday, March 16 & 17 - Exploring Abstraction in Nature with Kiara Womack: Using reference images of native wildlife, young artists will create abstract watercolor paintings by identifying various shapes, textures and colors found in the images. Students will explore techniques in drawing, watercolor painting and mixing.

• Thursday, March 18 - Kipuka Book with Tamara Moan: We'll explore the ideas of regeneration by looking at reseeding of the land following lava flows that preserve kipuka areas. The resilience of those pioneer plants greening new land echoes the growth and adaptation of all things as they deal with challenges of change (like our earth's changing climate). Our book structure can hold images of pioneer plants interpreted through drawing, word/writing, and texture rubbing techniques.

• Friday, March 19 - Impressions with Nature with Monica Garrett: Harvesting from nature with great care, young artists will explore the natural fauna and objects found outside to create art. Students will explore the diversity of texture and marks found in nature as they roll and press into clay and design a free form sculpture.

Short Bio

Kiara Womack is a teaching artist living in Hawai'i. She received her BFA from the University of Hawai'i at Manoa in 2017, and began teaching art that same year through the Honolulu Museum of Art. While her personal art practice is focused on drawing, printmaking, and watercolor, teaching at HoMA introduced her to ceramics, plaster, and other 3D processes.

Tamara Moan received her art training at the University of Washington, earning a BFA in graphic design in 1985. She currently lives and paints in Kailua, Hawai‘i. During the last twenty years she has exhibited her work in Hawai‘i, Oregon, and Washington. Tamara has taught art at the Honolulu Museum of Art School since 2001, working with both children and adults. 

Monica Garrett is an Oahu based artist who focuses primarily on Sculpture and Printmaking. She looks to the natural world for inspiration through its organic forms and textures and layers these into quilted works of art. Monica received her BFA from the University of South Florida and also briefly attended La Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola in Peru. She is a member of the Honolulu Printmakers and has been a Teaching Artist for the Honolulu Museum of Art and a temporary School and Teachers Programs Associate for the Norton Museum of Art. 

Jin An Wong has over 30 years of experience in martial arts and is a 3rd Generation Tai Chi instructor. As an artist he has worked in the Hollywood Animation Industry for the past 3 decades, and is an expert in drawing & animating the human figure, animals, fictional creatures, and cartoon characters. His work ranged from animating “Tarna” in the first “Heavy Metal” Feature, to designing & directing “Dora, the Explorer” for Nickelodeon Cartoons. He has taught fine arts at the California College of the Arts, Academy of Art University, Expression College of Digital Media and many other art institutions.  He received an Emmy for his animated short film “Bean Sprouts” and a Clio for the TV commercial “Sunkist Orange”. 

Art Kit Includes

• Drawing paper -- one sheet cut to 16x6 and folded as an accordion into 4 panels (fold in half then each half in half again)

• Drawing paper -- 4 sheets each 6x8

• Cardboard / mat board -- 2 pieces 4 1/2 x 6 1/2

• crayons -- choose 3 warm colors and 3 cool colors, peel off paper wrapping (to use for rubbings)

• Glue stick

• Preliminary instructions on what to look for when gathering our natural materials

• 10” x 12” thin chipboard- to be used as a matt surface to work with modeling clay

• Air Dry Clay

• Small square magnets for the students to attach later once clay dries- 4 pieces

• Watercolor Set

• 4 pieces drawing/scratch/copy paper about 8.5"x11"

• 4 sheets 9"x12" watercolor paper

• At least 9 3"x12" watercolor stripes 

Students should prepare at home:

• A compute, tablet or phone in order to use the video conferencing technology

• A Clear and organized area to do movement and to create art

• Something to cover their workspace (like newspaper)

• 1 - 2 water containers

• Paper towels or a rag for watercolor

• Masking tape

• Any other drawing materials the keiki would like to use

• Pencil & Eraser

• Crayon

• Scissors