Contact Michelle Fogel, project coordinator
ATTENTION 2009 Mosaic Project students!
Looking back over the past few months, how has the Mosaic Project experience impacted your life? Have you created something new? Tried a new technique that Rudy or Mary taught you? Visited PCA&D for First Friday?
Let me know what the Mosaic Project has meant to you by emailing Michelle Fogel. I will publish appropriate responses on this website, so please include photos of your current work to share!
IMPORTANT REGISTRATION INFORMATION FOR "FREE CLASS"
Please visit the AFTER PROGRAM on this site for vital, helpful information that will make registering for your Mosaic Program "free class" a better experience!
Introducing MOSAIC DAYS Spring 2010
All 2009 Mosaic students and their families as well as SDoL and Pequea Valley educators are invited to participate in any or all of the following Mosaic Days. These free classes will be held at PCA&D on the SECOND SATURDAY of each month, February through May, from 9 to 11:30 am. Each class will have a theme or focus that will be led by an Art Instructor, but there will be several PCA&D students present as well to assist with personal projects, school assignments, or even portfolios for college admission. We will do our best to provide whatever materials are needed for the daily topics. We can't wait to see you there!
March 13 ~ Explore ways to create your own artist stamp with Edgar Rodriguez.
April 10 ~ Student Choice with Natasha Miller! I will accept suggestions via email at mfogel@pcad.edu and during the February 13 and March 13 classes.
May 8 ~ You'll never look at a book the same way again after you discover simple book-binding and book alteration techniques with Natasha Miller. Final Class.
High School Involvement
Both McCaskey and Pequea Valley High Schools select fifteen (15) students to visit Pennsylvania College of Art & Design on Friday, October 1, 2010. Throughout the full day of activities, students tour of the Mosaic Project Gallery exhibit, attend the artist's presentation, visit working studio classrooms, and interact with PCA&D students, staff, and faculty. Lunch was provided.
If you are interested or know someone who would like to be a part of the Mosaic Project in the fall, 2010, please contact Michelle Fogel.
Mosaic Project 2009: Rudy Gutierrez Visits High School Classrooms
On Friday, November 6, 2009, Rudy Gutierrez and his wife, DK Dyson, made special visits to both J.P. McCaskey and Pequea Valley High Schools.
In the morning, Gutierrez and Dyson gave a presentation to about 60 art students, teachers, and administrators at McCaskey (arranged by Kassie Schelling). Dyson mesmerized the group with her voice and instruments, welcoming students to participate in Gutierrez's artistic journey in sounds from around the world. Gutierrez described his path, from his young days struggling to understand the chaos of Brooklyn life, to his teen years when he did not fit in after a move to Teaneck, NJ.
It was at this critical time in his life that he discovered the music and album art of Santana. What intrigued the youth the most was the rich tapestry of sounds, patterns, colors, styles from many places and many faces. Just like his own background, a mix of African, Spanish, and Taino (in Puerto Rico), this unique music was a beautiful blend, honoring and embracing each of the many elements that made up the whole. His dreams were rooted in this music and in this art, and would lead Gutierrez through a life of education (Pratt University, NY), many design jobs, and ultimately the fulfillment of his greatest goal... to design the cover of a Carlos Santana album/CD.
In addition to his personal history, Gutierrez also shared the values and beliefs that have supported his journey. Through art, Gutierrez strives to show people an alternative to living in the boxes that our society often creates. For example, if someone is prejudiced, that person lives in a box of fear. By facing that fear and admitting to that fear, a person sheds his box and begins to walk the path of honesty and light. Violence, gangs, bullying, disrespecting others (especially teachers, parents, elders), and self-destruction are all fear-based boxes that we create to hide inside of. Stepping out of that comfortable zone is what is truly courageous behavior.
In the afternoon, Gutierrez and Dyson visited a Pequea Valley High School painting class instructed by Rachael Gorey. The 16 students had attended the October 2nd trip to PCA&D and used this opportunity to ask questions about his artwork, his process, his techniques. Gutierrez used the example of a recent job for Rolling Stone magazine to map the many steps in such a time-sensitive, professional project. Individual attention was the focus for the remainder of the class, as both Gutierrez and Dyson were able to visit with each student to critique a current piece of artwork that he or she was working on. Once again, Gutierrez encouraged each artist to work from a place of honesty, of walking the path, of freedom from living in a box.