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TAC Studios

Once per month Sundays and Tuesdays, Nov 1, 2020–Jan 24, 2021

ADMISSION: Free for teens; registration required.

Teens, join us for our Teen Art Connect (TAC) Studio Arts program to meet local artists, visit their studios, and make art. Take the opportunity to expand your creativity and artistic awareness, build your portfolio with art projects including collage and miniature sculptures, or simply spend time with peers and professional artists!

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This Zoom program is free and open to all teens ages 13-19. Space is limited, and advanced registration is required. Please complete the registration form by clicking the link below to sign up for the sessions you would like to attend. Join us for one program, or attend them all!

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Accessibility

The CJM strives to provide a welcoming and accessible environment to all who attend our digital programming and online content. To request live captioning or American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation for Zoom programs, please email access@thecjm.org at least two weeks in advance of the program.

Sessions

Virtual art-making workshops and virtual studio visits with local artists will be held once per month on Sundays or Tuesdays, from November 2020–January 2021 (an art toolkit with project materials will be provided and shipped, free of charge, to each participant). Sessions are open to all Bay Area teens, but space is limited; advance registration is required.

Sunday, December 6, 2020 | 1–3pm

Collage with tamara suarez porras

Create a collage—the art of making new images by assembling materials onto a surface—in this immersive workshop with artist tamara suarez porras. porras will guide participants through the process of selecting materials and designing a compelling composition that is meaningful to them. Learn how to experiment with media to build a unique piece of art.

Tuesday, December 8, 2020 | 4–5pm

Studio Visit with Kija Lucas

Get a virtual look inside Kija Lucas’s studio! Lucas is a Bay Area–based artist who uses photography to explore ideas of home, heritage, and inheritance—examining how ideas are passed down, and how seemingly inconsequential moments can create change that lasts generations.

Tuesday, January 12, 2021 | 4–5pm

Studio Visit with Woody De Othello

Meet Woody De Othello—a California-based artist who makes art featuring household objects, bodily features, and the natural world. In his work, everyday artifacts—such as tables, chairs, television remotes, telephone receivers, lamps, air purifiers, and more—are anthropomorphized in glazed ceramic, bronze, wood, and glass. Learn more about his work and artistic practice during this virtual studio visit.

Sunday, January 24, 2021 | 1–3pm

Miniatures with Ava Morton

In this workshop, you’ll create your own tiny sculptures using traditional sculpture techniques. Explore the potential of miniature works using math, observational drawing, plaster, wire work, and more.

About the Artists
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Woody De Othello

Woody De Othello (b. 1991 Miami, FL) completed his Master of Fine Arts at the California College of Arts in San Francisco in 2017. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts  from Florida Atlantic University with a concentration in Ceramics. In 2020, he completed a residency at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, WI. Othello has exhibited widely in group exhibitions, including FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial (2018), the 33rd Ljubljana Biennial in Slovenia (2019), and “Sleight of Hand” at the Center for Craft in Asheville, NC (2020). In 2018, Othello’s work was commissioned by the San Francisco Arts Commission to be permanently installed at The San Francisco International Terminal. Othello opened his first solo museum show at the San Jose Museum of Art in November 2019. He is represented by Jessica Silverman in San Francisco and KARMA in New York. Othello lives and works in Oakland, CA. 

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Kija Lucas

Kija Lucas's work has been exhibited at the Oakland Museum of California, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco Arts Commission Galleries, California Institute of Integral Studies, Palo Alto Arts Center, Intersection for the Arts, Mission Cultural Center, Root Division, and Venice Arts; and internationally at Sala d’Ercole/Hercules Hall in Bologna, Italy, and Casa Escorsa in Guadalajara, Mexico. Lucas has been an Artist in Residence at Montalvo Center for the Arts, Grin City Collective, and The Wassaic Artist Residency. She is a member of 3.9 Art Collective and the Curatorial Council at Southern Exposure. Lucas received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute and her Master of Fine Arts from Mills College.

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Ava Morton

Ava Morton is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and educator based in the Bay Area. Morton holds a dual Master of Fine Arts in studio practice and Master of Arts in Visual and Critical Studies from California College of the Arts (CCA). She is an American Indian Graduate Fellow and the recipient of the Elizabeth Ferber Scholarship for outstanding work in the arts. Morton’s writing and artistic practices are entwined and often focus on archives, linguistics, sound, and the boundaries of the body. Her artistic and writing methods draw from her background in biology and anthropology. Her previous work explored the tactics of drawing in space to build loosely figurative sculptures and videos. Morton has exhibited in various art spaces including Minnesota Street Project, Embark Gallery, Root Division, Pitzer College Art Gallery, Canyon Cinema Salon, PLAySPACE Gallery, and Hubble Street Gallery. She was part of the first experimental cohort of students to present video work on the Salesforce tower when CCA partnered with Jim Campbell in 2019. Her thesis, titled The Unkempt Uh, was recently published in the journal Sightlines and was chosen as the curator’s pick in 2020. In her most recent sound and installation-based work, she teases out the friction between collective and personal memory; she is currently fashioning sound collages spliced together from found audio, her recordings taken in transit, and recordings from family archives.

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tamara suarez porras

tamara suarez porras is an artist, writer, and educator from (south) Brooklyn, NY and currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her photo-conceptual practice examines experiences of knowing, remembering, and forgetting. She has exhibited nationally, including at the Brooklyn Museum, School at the International Center of Photography, En Foco Touring Gallery, and Deitch Projects in New York City, as well as fusedspace, Root Division, The Growlery, and Embark Gallery in San Francisco, CA. Her writing has been published in Art Practical, The Brooklyn Rail, and Contemporary. porras is a graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography and Imaging and Journalism, and of California College of the Arts with a dual Master of Fine Arts/Master of Arts in Fine Arts and Visual and Critical Studies.

supporters

Teen Programs are made possible by major support from The Covenant Foundation and U.S. Bank Foundation. These programs are part of the Jewish Teen Education and Engagement Initiative (Teen Initiative), a project of the Jewish Community Federation and Endowment Fund, with support from the Jim Joseph Foundation and a consortium of local funders. Additional support is provided by the California Arts Council, Miranda Lux Foundation, and Ira A. Roschelle M.D. Family Foundation.