RedLine’s Teen Studio is a multi-layered program that offers three distinct opportunities for local teens to engage with their peer group and adult mentors in a positive way.
Contemporary: happening, existing, living, or coming into being together under one roof.
Contemporary provides up to 30 teens with access to RedLine for a free three hour event held the first Tuesday of every month. One coordinator and three artists run each event which ranges from a hands-on art production, to a film screening and talk back, to a variety of art happenings in various media. Projects have been made using animation, painting, collage, photography, digital media, paper making, printmaking and much more. This program gives teens in the community a chance to access RedLine. It creates a safe environment for teens to learn, work and play. Each event is built on the current RedLine exhibition which always has a social justice theme or socially relevant content. By providing a regular monthly experience, teens not only gain the confidence and understanding needed to access other Milwaukee institutions, but they are inspired to become a new generation of cultural and civic transformers. Interested sponsors for Teen Night, please write us at www.redlinemke@gmail.com.
2011-2012 Program Dates: September 15, October 13, November 10, December 8, January 12, February 9, March 8,April 19, May 10, June 14, July 12, August 9
Time: 5:00-7:00
Reserve your spot today by e-mailing us at redline.education@gmail.com
Here are photo’s from a recent Teen Night event:
Contemporary is supported by the Mary L. Nohl Fund of the Greater Milwaukee Foundation.
Teen Internships
The second program component of Teen Studio is our teen internships. Working in collaboration with the Milwaukee Art Museum, this program allows teens to participate in a forty hour paid internship, during the Fall and Summer. Each cohort, made up of 20 teens, respond to the socially relevant work in RedLine’s Exhibition Hall as well as the permanent collection at the Milwaukee Art Museum. Through guided dialogue and mentoring by local artists, the teen interns create a collaborative work of art with a socially conscious message while concurrently learning soft job skills. In addition, they acquire highly regarded interpersonal skills associated with collaboration and problem solving.
Now taking applications for artXpress http://www.mam.org/learn/teens.php and Milwaukee Public Schools / Milwaukee Art Museum Summer Art Internship http://www.mam.org/learn/details/teens_teenInternship.php
Teen Resident Program
The third component of Teen Studio is our RedLine Teen Resident Program. This program provides six teens the same benefits as RedLine’s emerging artists. Teen residents receive a studio space, mentoring from RedLine’s emerging artists, and college counseling. Interested sponsors please write www.redlinemke@gmail.com.
