Hosted at BICA in collaboration with BICA School and Civic Arts (a project by teaching artist Robin Lee Jordan), Arts for Something! is an interdisciplinary program for young and emerging artists (ages 14–19) exploring the intersection of art and civic engagement.

Over the course of the series, participants will build creative skills—like screen-printing, zine-making, sewing, literary arts, and specialized visual arts—while learning how these tools can be used to support civic initiatives such as social justice, activism, and local community needs.

Young artists who commit to all eight sessions (with up to two excused absences) will have the opportunity to create and present a civic arts–inspired project in any medium. These projects will be featured in a collaborative zine and shared during a final exhibition and celebration in June.

Workshops take place the first Saturday of every month, October through May (skipping January), from 12–2 PM. 

December Workshop:

Feedback Feedback: Collaboration Across Mediums

Description:

Silas and Natalie's workshop will explore what it meant to collaborate, through conversation and shared visual languages collaboration can mean more than just working together on a piece, Working in parallel to one another we will show how subtle the actual act of collaboration can be. Silas and Natalie will share their collaborative process of painting and digital glitch art, then invite participants to create their own collaborative pieces in any art form drawing on Silas’ projections for inspiration. Finally some pieces will be added to a larger collaboartive piece symbolizing the collective nature of collaboartion and how as you make together you also create a unique style and language to the place and time and people making alongside you.