IAA brings Art to Schools + Schools to Art with esteemed educational partners

Brilliant Art and Artists.

Seasoned Educational Leadership.

IAA’s entry into the education ecosystem of the Bay Area is intensely collaborative. IAA youth outreach includes studio visits and mentorships with accomplished artists, leading to creation and public presentation of student work.

We Lead Ours co-founder and Executive Director Dwayne Aikens (pictured) is one of our Bay Area education partners.

IAA-WELO Immersive Art Education Initiative

We illuminate the “a” in STEAM education, introducing young people to the multidisciplinary approaches used to create immersive art experience. 

Getting to know successful, working artists builds connection to and awareness of a wider variety of career paths.

Did we mention having fun and making friends? Where Immersive Art skills touches the lives of young people there is plenty of fun and fascination.

WE TAKE COVID SERIOUSLY. Make sure your your child has an N95 mask! If of an appropriate age, he or she should be fully vaccinated and have proof-of-vaccination to participate in these programs. Check your child for fever or any sign of illness on the day he or she attends class.

Learn more about the people at Immersive Arts Alliance who launched this program: Director of Partnerships Charmin Roundtree-Baaquee. Executive Director Clark Suprynowicz. Learn more about participating artists Sally Weber and Craig Newswanger. April 23rd (Saturday) is the start of weekly classes.

Program Details: Youth Immersive Art and Career Pathway Experience

 

  • 10 - 12 students

    Age Range: 10 -15 yrs

  • · Registration (see below)

    · Info session on Feb. 22, 7pm (ZOOM) for April 23rd class start

    · Fieldtrip Authorization (we will provide guidance and Covid requirements)

  • ZOOM intro (partnering orgs, families, teaching artists). This call is 7pm on Tuesday. Feb. 22. Once you have registered, wel will provide you a ZOOM link. The call will be 30 min’s in duration.

    Schedule Run Down

    Program Goals and Summary

    Immersive Arts Festival Detail + student work exhibit

  • Artist Studio Visits (weekly) for 6 weeks with associated project goal or students

    Field trip to Immersive Arts Alliance exhibit build (1) with Q & A. Participating artists show fabrication/installation

    Art Walk

    Tech site visits (art related technology co’s)

    Museum visit

    IAA Festival of Immersive Arts Producer’s Tour

    Exhibition of student work at the festival + honorarium (1) to outstanding student and her project

 

Spring 2022 Student Project

Artists Sally Weber and Craig Newswanger are working with middle school children at their studio in East Oakland this semester, teaching them principles of optics, helping them to create a new project for public exhibition based on Thomas Wilfred’s “Lumia.” Wilfred’s influence was an impetus for the development of light art in the second half of the 20th century, most notably that of James Turrell. “Lumia Suite,” or “Opus 158,” was commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art in 1963 and was on almost continuous view from 1964 until 1980.

New Lumia from the IAA-WELO Immersive Art Education Initiative will be on exhibit at the Oakland Festival of Immersive Arts July 15-16-17 // 22-23-24 (Friday - Sunday). About our Educators + CLASS DETAIL

about our educators + CLASS DETAIL