What We Do :
Project Create is a community arts organization that provides arts experiences,
free of charge, to children living in poverty in Washington, DC. Working
with local professional artists, Project Create offers classes that engage
and empower students, and expand their horizons.
We offer classes in the visual, literary, and performing arts, based on
the needs and interests of our students and community partner organizations.
All classes are a minimum of twelve weeks long, and meet for one to two
hours each week. Our offerings include, but are not limited to, West African
dance and drumming, fashion and costume design, theater, photography, painting,
book- and paper-arts, creative writing, and mixed-media arts.
Fall 2008 Classes offered :
Mondays
SOME – Barnaby House
Self-Portraits in Sculpture with Toni Lane
Mondays, 6:30 – 8:00
Toni Lane will lead the students on an artistic exploration of their individual identities. Using clay, wire and other materials, the students will discover who they are and who they want to be, and create three dimensional representations of their physical appearance, their personalities and aspirations.
SOME – Thea Bowman House
Hip Hop with teaching arts to be determined
Mondays, 6:00 – 7:30
In this class, students will learn the basics of hip hop and choreograph their own routines, individually and in groups.
Tuesdays
Community of Hope – Girard Street
Photography with Kenny George
Tuesdays, 4:30 – 6:00
In this class, students will learn about the photographic process firsthand. They will make cyanotypes, build their own pinhole cameras using oatmeal canisters, develop their photographs in a darkroom, and take digital photographs.
Community of Hope – Hope Apartments
West African Dance and Drumming with Sylvia Soumah
Tuesdays, 5:30 – 7:30
Sylvia Soumah, founder and director of Coyaba Dance Theatre, a local West African dance company, will lead the children on an exploration of West African culture through dance and drumming. The children will learn traditional West African songs and rhythms, and choreograph their own performance piece
Wednesdays
Community of Hope – Girard Street
Puppetry & Playwriting with Katie Wiles
Wednesdays, 4:30 – 6:00
Students will create and use puppets to tell stories about themselves and the world around them, both real and imaginary. In addition to puppets created out of socks, paper bags, coat hangers, gloves and paper plates, children will write their own plays, build a “stage’’ for their puppet shows as well as “video cameras” out of shoe boxes to “tape” their performances.
SOME – SOME Place for Kids
Acrylic Transfers and Screen Printing with Patrick McDonough
Wednesdays, 4:30 – 6:30
In this class, Patrick will lead students through the process of creating their own designs and crests and transferring them on to fabric, paper and wood using the screen printing process. The final products will be one-of-a-kind t-shirts with using their own designs.
Thursdays
Community of Hope – Hope Apartments
Self-Portraits in Sculpture with Toni Lane
Thursdays, 5:30 – 7:30
Toni Lane will lead the students on an artistic exploration of their individual identities. Using clay, wire and other materials, the students will discover who they are and who they want to be, and create three dimensional representations of their physical appearance, their personalities and aspirations.
SOME – SOME Place for Kids
West African Dance and Drumming with Sylvia Soumah
Thursdays, 4:30 – 6:30
Sylvia Soumah, founder and director of Coyaba Dance Theatre, a local West African dance company, will lead the children on an exploration of West African culture through dance and drumming. Theywill learn traditional West African songs and rhythms, and choreograph their own performance piece.