EXAMPLES OF RAF PROGRAMS

"No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination."
– Edward Hopper

The Redbrick Arts Foundation has run over 50 programs serving over 1,000 school children since our founding in early 2004. Our goal is to continue to raise private funding so we can expand upon the great need for programs such as these. We aim to provide programs at no cost so that all school children can access contemporary art and learn from living artists. We have a wealth of creative resources and with private support we can truly share this with every child.

A few examples of current and past RAF collaborative relationships include:

North Shore Education Consortium | February - March 2006
RAF and the Consortium are planning a 6-week pilot program for Consortium students to attend during the school day. Students will visit our contemporary art gallery and work with clay on the wheel and with handbuilding techniques. Pieces will be included in The Next Picasso, an integrated gallery exhibit scheduled for May 2006. This pilot program will help to develop programming for future partnerships with The Consortium and agency that serves all special education students North of Boston.

Beverly High School | January – February 2006
RAF will host a 6-week ‘throwing and altering’ pottery program with Beverly High School students. These students will work with professional potter at RAF to learn about wheelthrowing techniques well as personal vision. Students will learn to use the potter’s wheel, to work in a professional art studio. Then they will work with their thrown pieces to explore their personal creative vision through altering. Inspiration will be taken from art historical and contemporary art references. This program expands the art education school children are receiving today and plays an important role in their college preparations.

Peabody Essex Museum and Salem High School | November 2004
RAF was invited to host the entire group of 26 student interns for a team-building exercise. RAF faculty led the group in a vessel project inspired by themes they were studying at the museum. Each student used the instruction as a jumping off point for their own inspiration and unique presentation of the work.

North Shore Teachers Invitational Exhibit | January 2005 and scheduled for May 2006
In January 2005, area art teachers were invited to exhibit their work in the Redbrick Gallery. Teachers from Salem, Beverly, Ipswich, Hamilton-Wenham, and Peabody school districts exhibited, as well as teachers from the Waring School, Landmark School, and Beverly School for the Deaf.

The Next Picasso: Teen Scholastic Exhibit | May 2005 and scheduled for May 2006
Over 80 area teens exhibited work in our gallery in May 2005. Students were honored to be included in this exhibit and over 400 family and friends attended the reception. In 2005 students from Salem High School; Lawrence Academy, Groton; Beverly High School; Pentucket High School, West Newbury; Glen Urquhart School, Beverly; Stoneham High School; Walnut Hill School, Natick; Swampscott High School; Ipswich High School; and Marblehead High School participated.

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