The Visual Arts Experience will be expanding to new horizons this year. Playing for Others teens who participate in this experience will have the opportunity to collaborate on an installation art piece (to be mounted at Amelie’s French Bakery & Café), learn about different media and artistic perspectives as well as have the opportunity to meet and discuss art with local working artists.
We are also excited to be hosting a juried art show competition that will be open to local non-PFO teens. This will help not only to raise awareness, but will also act as a fundraiser for PFO.
Over the rehearsal period in February, teens in the Visual Arts Experience will be working collaboratively to express this year’s theme of “Moment by Moment”. We will be working on one sculptural installation from concept to design to execution. Teens will also hear from local artists who will come to share about their work and what it means to be an artist. With each visiting artist we will be able to discuss and experiment with different media and types of visual art.
For the PFO Juried Art Show Opening on March 20th, teens will learn what it is like to hang a professional show and to work with professional gallerists and curators. They will have the opportunity to put up the artwork submitted for the show and to place their own collaborative installation within the space. In addition to this, the PFO teens will learn the business side of facilitating an art show.
The Visual Arts Experience will be a great growing and learning adventure for any teen interested in becoming an artist or who simply loves visual art and would like to know more. It promises to be an incredible opportunity within PFO to use art to inspire change.
