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RASA Photography Club
The Farsworth has partnered with RASA (the Rockland After School Alliance) to present a 6-week after school photography program in the Julia’s Gallery digital photography lab. Mentor artist Deanna Witman will lead this program designed both for students who have little to no experience with digital photography and those with intermediate skills.
Letterpress Workshop for Teens
On Thursday, September 29, 3-6 p.m., high school students are invited to learn the art of letterpress printing at the Farnsworth Art Museum. Julia’s Gallery for Young Artists is hosting a short workshop for up to 5 participants. Letterpress printing involves moveable type, a system of printing that uses moveable pieces of type – individual letters, numbers, characters – to reproduce the elements of a document. Invented in China, but popularized by Johannes Gutenberg in 1440, moveable type was like the internet for the 15th century, allowing widespread reproduction of printed materials like books, announcements, and advertising.
 
What Does it Mean? Viewing, Understanding…and Making Photographic Images
This six-week classwill provide middle-school age students with a framework for viewing and understanding photographic images. Through viewing photographs of artists, anthropologists, scientists, and documentarians, we will discuss the common practice of looking. We will view and develop an understanding of subjects including the relation of history, culture, and society to the photographic image within various genres. Each participant will be encouraged to participate in how s/he relates to ever-present imagery surrounding us. In each class, the group will venture out to make their own photographs using the day’s topic and discussion as a spring board. Participants will have access to a media lab and use of iMacs, digital cameras, and software such as Photoshop.
Basic Screen Printing for Teens
In this late-summer workshop, teens will learn how to screen print on t-shirts and other fabrics. Participants will create hand-generated and photomechanical stencils for their own designs on t-shirts, garments, or fabrics they bring to class. Some art homework will be required between classes. This workshop teaches basic techniques that can be applied to at-home projects after the class is completed. Participants will need to bring in sketches of design ideas and t-shirts (all-cotton works best) for the first day of class. All other materials will be provided in class.
 *Please note, this class has been combined with the adult screen printing workshop.
Outside the Frame— Interdisciplinary Ideas: Explorations in New (& Older) Media
Ever wondered what your photographs would look like not as stills, but as installations, projections, on the web, as slide show collaborative projects, or as artists’ book? This 10-week summer workshop for high school age students will focus on not only learning basic skills of making photographs, but also what it means to look outside the view-finder by mining the various media available to artists. We will learn about and experiment with the conceptual side of the artistic process. Discussion, occasional readings, and hands-on creation of new (and older) media will be part of this class. Participants will have access to a media lab and use of iMacs, digital cameras, LCD projector, and software such as Photoshop. 
 
Music Video Premier: Alexis Pastuhov’s The Roaring 20’s
Join us on Thursday, November 4th, at 7:30 p.m., for the film premier of the youth produced music video featuring local singer-songwriter Alexis Pastuhov. This project is a joint collaboration between Julia’s Gallery For Young Artists at the Farnsworth Art Museum and the Strand Theatre. Over a two month period, participants were involved in pre-production, directing, screenwriting, acting, camera work, set photography, sound and post production, working under the guidance of director Nicole Marie Fuller and production designer, Virginia Hastings. The 1920s themed video features fantastical montages and vintage zombies.
 
Photo Treks in the Midcoast
Hop on the bus with Trekkers, Maine Media Workshops and Julia’s Gallery for Young Artists to learn photography skills from teen mentors and local artists while investigating the unique character of the region’s working waterfront. Over an eight-week period, students will travel on the Trekkers bus to coastal sites in towns such as Cushing, Thomaston, St. George, Rockland, Rockport and Camden to investigate the history, stories and current issues related to the lobster, groundfish, clamming and seaweed industries, in addition to the tradition of boatbuilding and schooners in midcoast Maine. Students will document their findings through photographs, sketching and interviews and work at the Maine Media Workshops lab to edit and refine their work. The program will culminate in a celebratory exhibition and reception in 2010.
Fashionably Late Workshops
What makes fashion what it is? Julia’s Gallery is pleased to offer a series of hip fashion workshops this fall. Teens are invited to apply to participate in four consecutive, hands-on sessions to investigate contemporary fashion design in relation to the Farnsworth’s collection of 19th century clothing and accessories. Led by designer Beth Bowley, artists Martha Miller and Alex Rheault, as well as curator Janice Kasper, the four workshops will include drawing and painting teen portraits focusing on contemporary teen clothing, a visit to fourTWELVE on Main Street in Rockland, and sketching Victorian clothing and accessories on site at the Homestead.

Level: grades 7-12
Class size: limited to 10 students
Cost: free
It’s Your Gallery! with museum staff

Julia’s Gallery is delighted to announce the re-opening of the teen arts gallery this spring. The first planning meeting for students ages 16-17 years is Saturday, May 2 from 1-4 p.m. and gallery sessions continue on Saturday afternoons through June, as well as Thursday afternoons from 3-5 p.m. Working in a supportive and self-directed environment, students will have an opportunity to tour the museum, matte and frame art work, create and distribute marketing materials for the summer show and ready the gallery space for installation. Julia’s Gallery is located at the corner of Union and Elm Streets in Rockland. The program is free, but class size is limited to 12 students, ages 16-17 years old. Students 18 years old, but entering their senior year next year, are also invited to join Julia’s.

You Know What I’m Saying? with Tom Weis

Julia's Gallery is excited to announce the launching of a new studio art program for teens entitled "You Know What I'm Saying? An exploration of personal and community identity as a teen living in MidCoast Maine." Local artist and designer Tom Weis will be the mentor teacher and students will work in 2D and 3D media. This free 10-week program, open to students aged 13 to 15 years living in the midcoast area, will take place at the Farnsworth's Gamble Education Center and Julia's Gallery on Saturdays from 1-4 p.m. between April 18 and June 20, as well as on Thursdays for drop-in hours from 3-5 p.m. between April 23 through June 18.