2011 Summer Program
- Tue, Jul 5 - Jul 8, 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
- Designed for ages 7, 8 and 9
- 216.00 per child
- By Melissa Fitzmaurice, David G. Carter Educator
In collaboration with Site Projects New Haven, design and create anamorphic drawings in chalk to play with perception and illusion—much as artists have done since the Renaissance. Site Projects is a community based non-profit organization that commissions site-specific art projects in the public realm in New Haven by internationally-recognized artists.
Long before computer graphics, Renaissance artists developed 'digital' tools…tools to help their fingers draw and paint precisely. They developed the science of seeing. They used lenses to capture images, mirrors to stretch and bend light, grids to map proportion and perspective.
Construct tools artists still use to help them see. Construct and use a Camera Obscura. Let Leonardo, Raphael, Brunelleschi, and Dürer show you their tools, tricks and techniques. Practice with them as you create your own masterpieces.
Developed jointly with the Yale University Art Gallery Education Project.
