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Through the Artistic Support program, the Issaquah Schools Foundation provides ongoing training and classes for volunteer Art Docents. Volunteer Art Docents throughout the Issaquah School District are invited to sign up for FREE lessons taught by talented local artists. These classes are intended for docents who are active in the classroom. When you leave you will have a lesson plan and your example to take back to school for sharing and teaching.
In addition to these classes, we hold an annual Artistic Support Conference to kick off each new school year. Usually scheduled in the fall, these fun days of interactive classes provide inspiration, instruction and an opportunity for Art Docents throughout the Issaquah School District to connect. Check back for dates and other enriching events.
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January 23, 2020
6:30 - 8:30pm
Location: Issaquah Middle School Art Room
600 2nd Ave. SE, Issaquah, WA 98027
Painted Space Landscape
Naveen Khan, a painter and educator will walk you through creating a space inspired landscape with your students. You bring them the techniques and they infuse their imagination.
Learn how to use watercolors to familiarize your students with warm and cool colors and paint washes. You will also create depth on a flat surface by using color, size and overlapping techniques to create a space landscape.
Teacher: Naveen Khan
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January 31, 2020
12 - 2:30pm
Location: Room #230
ISD Administration Building
5150 220th Ave SE, Issaquah, WA 98027
Drawing the Face
Juliette Ripley-Dunkelberger, your Artistic Support manager and professional artist will teach you how to draw a face with your students using traditional proportions. We will also explore options for changing proportions, art criticism with images and blind contour drawings.
Teacher: Juliette Ripley-Dunkelberger
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February 6, 2020
12 - 2:30pm
Location: Blakely Hall
2550 NE Park Drive, Issaquah, WA 98029
Glass Fusing
Juliette Ripley-Dunkelberger, your Artistic Support manager and professional artist, will teach you how to cut, build with and manage glass for your students. We will talk about safety issues, what glass is, how it works, and we will create a small glass tile. You will be taking your tile back to your home school for firing with other glass projects.
Teacher: Juliette Ripley-Dunkelberger
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February 7, 2020
1:30 - 3:00pm
Location: Room #230
ISD Administration Building
5150 220th Ave SE, Issaquah, WA 98027
Frida Kahlo Portraits
Amaranta Sandys is the Creative Director of Mobile Art School since 2013. She graduated from Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes in MX city in Ceramics, she is now a Mixed Media Artist and a Teaching Artist.
As a Latinx woman living in the US, her recent work is influenced by Social and Racial Justice, Immigration, Global Environment, Freedom of Religion and Gender identity. She sees art as a vehicle to inspire and advocate for the young generation.
Amaranta will walk you through a simple portrait drawing sequence that the students can use to build their own faces with details in the style of Frida Kahlo.
Teacher: Amaranta Sandys
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February 27, 2020
12pm - 2:30pm
Location: Blakely Hall
2550 NE Park Drive, Issaquah, WA 98029
Painting With Wool
Elizabeth will bring one of her favorite fiber lessons and all the tips and tricks for a successful experience needle felting with your students. Use bright brilliant colored wool in a painterly fashion to create 2D low-relief fiber works. Inspired by artist Melanie Mikecz whose illustrations can been seen in popular publications and retail stores like: Papyrus, Minted, Usborne Books, Hallmark, American Greetings, GAP, Land of Nod and many others.
Teacher: Elizabeth Jackson
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February 28, 2020
12 - 2:30pm
Location: Teaching & Learning Storage Room
ISD Headquarters
5150 220th Ave SE
Issaquah WA 98027
Clay 101
Juliette Ripley-Dunkelberger, your Artistic Support manager and a ceramic artist will teach you the basics of working with clay with your students. You will learn to create coils, roll slabs and pinch pots. You will take home the examples that you make to be fired at your home school as well as lesson plans for various projects you could use with your students.
Teacher: Juliette Ripley-Dunkelberger
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More Classes we're working on...
What other kinds of classes would you like to see?
Are you an artist who would like to volunteer to teach our docents?
Please contact Juliette Ripley-Dunkelberger.
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