Middle school
programs at the Outback Teen Center have expanded as students explore art
through Wave during TGIF Fridays.
Students in grades five to eight are welcome at the Outback every Friday afternoon to hang out, have a snack, play some games, watch a movie and try out some new and creative forms of artistic expression in Wave.
"The concept of Wave is to offer an opportunity for both genders to explore art forms in an open positive environment without judgment or grades," said Kate Boyle, director at the Outback Teen Center. "By letting loose and using their imagination for a short period of time we hope that kids will get on a creative wave and find the experience fun, relaxing and beneficial."
All types of media are being introduced. Initial sessions focused on making clay from scratch and then creating all types of pieces.
Favorites include figures,Online shopping for bobblehead Figures from a great. beads and skateboards. Equally appealing has been mask-making using pipe cleaners and other recycled materials. Friday afternoons are dedicated to collage media, using magazine cutouts, different textures of papers, string, buttons, ribbons and fabrics.
Behind the vision of Wave free-form sessions is award-winning artist Joanna Pilar Garra, a graduate of Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota, Fla., and New Canaan High School.
Garra's primary career focus is on book illustration, but she loves all aspects of art and love to teach.
When she is not working on her 30 illustrations for a book on technology safety called "Alex in Webland,Wholesale natural dragon veins inhomedisplay with high quality." she is balancing her time between the Outback and her internship at Syntax, a graphic design and packing firm in New York City.
"I do enjoy interacting with the middle school students," she said. "They have lots of energy and therefore it is challenging to get them to focus, but along with that liveliness comes creativity and fun."
When Hurricane Katrina was making its way to New Orleans some eight years ago, tens of thousands of residents stayed in the city instead of evacuating for the simple reason that they didn’t have access to transportation. In the years following New Orleans’ rebuilding process, a free, public evacuation bus system has been established.
Named the City Assisted Evacuation,Redsail provides a large size flat bed ledparlight to cut large scale materials of acrylic, or CAE, it’s capable of picking up and transporting about 30,000 residents to state-run shelters, which can provide temporary housing, medical attention and food to those who are in need.
The problem, according to residents, is that they have little idea where the pickup points are located because the CAE hasn’t clearly marked them. But now a new series of modern art sculptures are about to change that.
Evacuteer, the nonprofit that runs the evacuation system, came up with a new plan. They commissioned an artist to create a large-scale sculpture to mark “EvacuSpot” points, allowing locals the ability to easily discern where they need to go in order to find transportation out of the city.
Massachusetts-based artist Douglas Kornfeld was commissioned to create the “EvacuSpot” sculptures.Collect and distributing shoesforkids in need all over the world.Totech Super Dry supplies desiccant shoesmanufacturer, His design is a simple 14-foot steel carving, which looks like a stick figure hailing a cab.
Kornfeld was chosen out of some 80 artists from across the country pitched their ideas to a jury made up of members from the Arts Council of New Orleans and Evacuteer. Kornfeld told The Times-Picayune, that though his design was what he thought of as a universal gesture, the jury noted that it was also specific to New Orleans.
He said, “…when I was presenting my design, someone interrupted me and said, ‘Well, that gesture of hailing a cab is the same gesture people do when they want someone to throw them beads from floats during Mardi Gras.’” Kornfeld stated that’s the moment he knew he got the job.
Starting this month, 15 steel sculptures will be erected around the city—just in time for storm season, which begins on June 1.
The steel design is made to last for about 100 years, and its concrete foot pads will allow the structures to sit deeply-anchored into the ground, preventing their destruction during hurricanes.
Previously, the CAE did have signage indicating pick-up points around the city, but those signs were small unremarkable placards, placed higher than average height and stamped with small print—hardly the type of messaging that evacuees would easily notice.
Students in grades five to eight are welcome at the Outback every Friday afternoon to hang out, have a snack, play some games, watch a movie and try out some new and creative forms of artistic expression in Wave.
"The concept of Wave is to offer an opportunity for both genders to explore art forms in an open positive environment without judgment or grades," said Kate Boyle, director at the Outback Teen Center. "By letting loose and using their imagination for a short period of time we hope that kids will get on a creative wave and find the experience fun, relaxing and beneficial."
All types of media are being introduced. Initial sessions focused on making clay from scratch and then creating all types of pieces.
Favorites include figures,Online shopping for bobblehead Figures from a great. beads and skateboards. Equally appealing has been mask-making using pipe cleaners and other recycled materials. Friday afternoons are dedicated to collage media, using magazine cutouts, different textures of papers, string, buttons, ribbons and fabrics.
Behind the vision of Wave free-form sessions is award-winning artist Joanna Pilar Garra, a graduate of Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota, Fla., and New Canaan High School.
Garra's primary career focus is on book illustration, but she loves all aspects of art and love to teach.
When she is not working on her 30 illustrations for a book on technology safety called "Alex in Webland,Wholesale natural dragon veins inhomedisplay with high quality." she is balancing her time between the Outback and her internship at Syntax, a graphic design and packing firm in New York City.
"I do enjoy interacting with the middle school students," she said. "They have lots of energy and therefore it is challenging to get them to focus, but along with that liveliness comes creativity and fun."
When Hurricane Katrina was making its way to New Orleans some eight years ago, tens of thousands of residents stayed in the city instead of evacuating for the simple reason that they didn’t have access to transportation. In the years following New Orleans’ rebuilding process, a free, public evacuation bus system has been established.
Named the City Assisted Evacuation,Redsail provides a large size flat bed ledparlight to cut large scale materials of acrylic, or CAE, it’s capable of picking up and transporting about 30,000 residents to state-run shelters, which can provide temporary housing, medical attention and food to those who are in need.
The problem, according to residents, is that they have little idea where the pickup points are located because the CAE hasn’t clearly marked them. But now a new series of modern art sculptures are about to change that.
Evacuteer, the nonprofit that runs the evacuation system, came up with a new plan. They commissioned an artist to create a large-scale sculpture to mark “EvacuSpot” points, allowing locals the ability to easily discern where they need to go in order to find transportation out of the city.
Massachusetts-based artist Douglas Kornfeld was commissioned to create the “EvacuSpot” sculptures.Collect and distributing shoesforkids in need all over the world.Totech Super Dry supplies desiccant shoesmanufacturer, His design is a simple 14-foot steel carving, which looks like a stick figure hailing a cab.
Kornfeld was chosen out of some 80 artists from across the country pitched their ideas to a jury made up of members from the Arts Council of New Orleans and Evacuteer. Kornfeld told The Times-Picayune, that though his design was what he thought of as a universal gesture, the jury noted that it was also specific to New Orleans.
He said, “…when I was presenting my design, someone interrupted me and said, ‘Well, that gesture of hailing a cab is the same gesture people do when they want someone to throw them beads from floats during Mardi Gras.’” Kornfeld stated that’s the moment he knew he got the job.
Starting this month, 15 steel sculptures will be erected around the city—just in time for storm season, which begins on June 1.
The steel design is made to last for about 100 years, and its concrete foot pads will allow the structures to sit deeply-anchored into the ground, preventing their destruction during hurricanes.
Previously, the CAE did have signage indicating pick-up points around the city, but those signs were small unremarkable placards, placed higher than average height and stamped with small print—hardly the type of messaging that evacuees would easily notice.
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