Virtual Art Classes for Summer

Anthony Heinz May
Miniature Parks

Summertime is a time of year typically reserved to celebrate nature, the outdoors and our parks, especially in Chicago.  Chicago has more parks per capita than any other city in the United States.  Using found natural materials alongside a few other additions of artistic media, this workshop will encourage participants to create models of their own parks.  Twigs, construction paper-cut leaves, water-based clay, and a secret recipe of ingredients will be used to create miniature park replicas to celebrate importance of our natural worlds.  

Kara O. James
Copper Wire Trees

Bend, twist and snip user-friendly gauges of copper wire to create small tree sculptures that can be decorated with beads as leaves. Trees breathe in what we breathe out (CO2) and breathe out what we breathe in (O2). Perhaps the most underrated educational lifeforms on Earth, we can learn so much from trees if we only listened to them more. Copper gives unparalleled conductance in so many of the things we use, allowing for human communication like roots of trees that hold conversations with one another. This symbolism presents and reinforces both old and new ways to look at life. Trees for Peace.