Week two of Summer Session 2023 - Do Something! Art As Activism encapsulated, plus some other art news.

ART YARD Summer Session 2023 begins as we explore our theme Do Something! Art as Activism at our studio at BWAC and FiveMyles.

Summer Session starts Monday 7/10, invitation to artists reception at FiveMyles & a great open opportunity for artists!

Finishing up the school year, planning Summer Session, a trip to The New York Historical Society, & exhibitions worth seeing.

Inspired by Jean-Michele Basquiat, planning an outdoor mural, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Map at the Whitney & lots of AYB Art to see!

Exhibition opening at PS 6, lots of Basquiat inspiration, clouds, books, register for Summer Session, & ...(drum roll) THE LION KING!

Loving Mother Earth, folded artists' books, LOOK at these masks!!, Pride and Basquait at Obama School, maps & exhibition at PS6, & more!

Memorial artwork, 2-handed Gemini celebration, paintings finished, Lion King almost ready, fantastical maps, a new school, & a book review!

Visualizing data, healing the earth, backdrop installed & masks painted, lots of paintings complete, art to go see, & AYB is on TikTok!

Water, finger-painting dreams, more re-mastering, herds of masks, mer-folk, art books, & announcements

The world is ours, collaborative printmaking, backdrop done!, re-mastering master-artworks, Free Birds & a grant from Con Ed!!!

Trip to FiveMyles, figurative language, using stencils on monotypes, props & sets!, embellishing paintings, flying creatures, and more!

Listening to and drawing from The Sky Woman, inspired by master artists, masks & sets, birds, on location in BK & UK, plus more!

Nests inspired by Sophia Narrett, mono printing, drawing from art history, theater and prop design, planning birds & more art!

Crystal healing, learning Stitchcraft, the beauty of theatrical design, a visit to George Floyd Memorial Square & Barkley Hendricks photos.

Abby reviews the show at FiveMyles, perspectives on city life, back at BWAC for Mutu moss collage, more waves, Lion King designs & more.

Transition and Transformation, in the studio painting, intro to the visual art of the theater, and an invitation!

Spectacular art viewing in person, exploring AfroFuturism with sci-fi inventions, honing techniques, painting in monochrome, and more.

An appreciation of bees as muse and metaphor in contemporary art, foray into theater, a wave of painting, green machines and save the date!

Symbolic color, painting portraits transitions to the next thing, a new partnership, wonderful waves, art in person and in the studio.