COMMUNITY ARTS PARTNERSHIPS DETROIT

The College for Creative Studies will be CLOSED from 5:00pm Friday, December 21st through 9:00am Wednesday, January 2nd. We hope everyone has a safe and wonderful Holiday Break & Happy New Year!

DNAC at Detroit Community High School

Saturdays from 11am-2pm

classes will resume Saturday, January 5th

DNAC at Detroit Community High School

Saturdays from 11am-2pm

classes will resume Saturday, January 5th

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The SURA Arts Academy from the Arab American National Museum toured Dearborn City Hall to give the students an opportunity to not only see the facility, but interview members of the staff about what their role is in keeping things running smoothly in the city. Some of the students’ photographs are featured in this news program. Officers are sworn in at the Dearborn Police Department.

SURA Arts Academy is a youth photography program run by the Arab American National Museum utilizing Community Arts Partnerships faculty designed to teach middle school students about culture using photography and video as their tool. For more information about SURA - visit http://arabamericanmuseum.org/2012.sura.exhibition

C+PAD (community+public art: DETROIT), Community Art Partnerships’ (CAP) sister program, that also works out of CCS, is looking for help:

Attention Detroit youth!
Tell your friends, neighbors, and family: We need your help to make amazing public art projects in the Northend Detroit, Cody Rouge Community Action Alliance and Osborn Neighborhood Alliance neighborhoods.
Contact us to find out how you can have the best resume in the pile!
313.664.1549 
CPAD@collegeforcreativestudies.edu
C+PAD on Facebook
CCS on Facebook

C+PAD supports long-term, large scale art projects (think DNAC’s Redford Library Mural, but bigger!)

If you need to fulfill service learning hours, etc. this could be a great opportunity for you!

CAP

DNAW-WEST, a set on Flickr.

DNAW West is off to great start, beginning a unit on ANIMATION! This is going to be really exciting to follow, stay tuned for future posts!

CAP

DNAC, a set on Flickr.

This past Saturday, the DNAC welcomed guest Nicole McDonald into the classroom. Nicole is a stencil artist and she demonstrated & shared her techniques and processes. Most of her work incorporates themes that are decorative and political in content.

We learned that Nicole uses unexpected materials in her craft. Most often, she uses watercolor paper to cut the stencils; the paper’s water resistance and weight make it the stencil plate material of choice as it supports repeated prints.

Many thanks to Nicole, Erin, and Adrianne for an informative, creative demonstration.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/capdetroit/

CAP will be archiving all of our photos on Flickr, a photo sharing site that will allow us to organize photos every week by program (DNAW-EAST, DNAC, etc.). This will allow you to easily share images with friends and family, through email, Facebook, Twitter, etc. and you can download the images for yourself as well!

-CAP