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Jul 29, 2016

Prepping Supplies for Fractal Bleach Activity

This week Frances and I have been prepping supplies and creating a lesson plan for a design challenge at University Settlement. The challenge is to use patterns and fractions to create art. Since this design challenge will be the last one for the…

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Jul 23, 2016

MOCA Camp Remix: Part III

Each afternoon during PAA’s Community Hip-Hop Camp at MOCA, PAA Artist Development Coach Ainsley Buckner and artist-educator Allison Bogard united to share and explore the featured exhibit with you

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Jul 20, 2016

Bringing Designs to Life at Summer Camp at Warrensville Heights Library

As part of PAA’s partnership with the Cuyahoga County Public Library, we presented 2D-3D: Bringing Your Designs to Life camps exploring how to take flat, two-dimensional drawings and ideas and transforming…

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Jul 18, 2016

Do-it-Yourself 3D Printing

On the last day of our 2D/3D camp we introduce our glue gun activity, which is an interpretation of manual 3D printing. Earlier in the week the students learned how to create shapes and objects using Tinkercad. We brought in our Makerbot 3D printer to show the class how the objects…

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Jul 15, 2016

MOCA Camp Remix: Part II

In the first part of our series about PAA’s Community Hip-Hop Camp at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), we learned about how youth participants learned about DJing and writing graffiti. Breaking, MCing, and producing beats were also covered in the two- day intensive workshop.

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Jul 7, 2016

MOCA Camp Remix: Part I

At the end of June, a group of eager kids ages 11–17 leapt into Progressive Arts Alliance’s immersive two-day hip-hop camp at the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA). Centering on the elements of hip-hop, the campers learned the basics of DJing, MCing, breakdancing, and…

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Jul 6, 2016

Why We Use the Makerbot and How It Works

For our week long 2D/3D camp this summer, in the Cuyahoga County Libraries, we wrap up the week by showing the campers how to use Tinkercad. Tinkercad is a free online program where students can learn 3D modeling and build designs for 3D printing. During this…

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Jun 22, 2016

Preparing Materials for the 2D/3D camp at Think[box]

For our 2D/3D camp we have been giving the campers platonic solids to build shapes out of to assist with the understanding of taking something 2D and transforming it to 3D. Diana and I use the laser cutters at the Larry Sears and Sally…

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Jun 15, 2016

Roller Coaster Marble Run

This week we went to University Settlement for their first one hour design challenge. The students at this day camp are middle school aged and are going to be participating in various one hour design challenges provided by us throughout the summer.

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Jun 13, 2016

South Euclid 3D Printing!

We wrapped up the week at the 2D/3D camp by introducing Tinkercad to the campers, working with glue guns to mimic 3D printers, and bringing in a Makerbot 3D printer to the library to show the campers what their Tinkercad creations would be printed on.