Kuumba Expressions An Arts Workshop

(Washington, DC) - Kuumba Expressions is a workshop series. It is taught by Afrika Abney, a graduate of the Corcoran School of Arts with extensive experience in designing and implementing providing in-school and community-based visual arts instructional programs. Kuumba Expression is designed to serve youth between the ages of 6 through 12, including those with developmental disabilities. Participants are provided instruction in painting, using traditional and non-traditional materials, with the intent of enhancing their own natural artistic talent while expanding their fundamental information about compositional studies, light and shadow, and technique. Further, the workshop augments participants’ overall education, particularly their communication skills.

It takes place on Saturday, June 6, 2015 and July 18, 2015 from 10:30am - 12noon at Culture Coffee DC. $10.00 per child.


Goals

The Kuumba Expressions is expected to directly benefit those students who attend the sessions held on Saturday. But it will also produce a residual affect for the adjacent communities and those in which participants live. Youth enrolled in the course will develop their artistic talents. The fundamental knowledge about the visual arts is expected to be enhanced, as they learn specific details about materials, composition and execution of ideas. They also will meet other practicing artists, helping them to realize that careers in the arts are viable and can be lucrative. Equally important, their reading, communication and overall critical thinking skills are expected to improve.

More specifically, Kuumba Expressions seeks to achieve the following:

• Ensure workshop participants know the primary colors and learn how to blend them together to create secondary wheel of colors.

• Understand basic materials for painting including brushes, papers, and canvases.

• Learn how to manipulate such non traditional materials as sponges, twigs, dies, and sticks.
• Know and understand basic compositional studies.

• Meet select artists, familiarizing themselves with mediums used by their individuals and the genres or schools in which their work fall; and

• Ensure the completion of at least one exhibition quality work of art

If you would like to RSVP and register for Kuumba Expressions ( Art Workshop), please send an email to Ms. Abney at afrika.abney@yahoo.com.