USDAN Center Announces 2009 USDAN Honors Art Collective
March 25, 2009
(Long Island, N.Y.) Usdan Center For the Creative and Performing Arts, the country’s largest not-for-profit summer arts day camp, announces the 2009 Usdan Honors Art Collective, a selective year-round visual arts program for talented 9th to 11th grade students. The Collective program will open on June 29, continuing each weekday through August 14. Student artists will then meet twice each month during the rest of the school year at Usdan’s 200-acre woodland campus in Wheatley Heights, Long Island.
The Usdan Honors Art Collective is a competitive pre-professional year-round program for Long Island’s most talented visual arts students. Over the four seasons of the year, a group of ten student artists will work collaboratively to create solo and group works that will be exhibited in major New York City and Long Island galleries. Visits to New York’s preeminent museums and galleries will illuminate and contextualize the students’ endeavors, and students will create portfolios that will advance their preparation for college and art school admission.
The Collective will be taught by Craig Mateyunas, an accomplished artist and photographer who teaches at Northport High School, and whose work has been exhibited in Pennsylvania and New York. He will be assisted by Hillary Broder. The Collective is a new program of Usdan’s Visual Arts Department and its Chair, Rochelle Morgan.
Admission to the Collective is based on portfolio review and interview with Usdan’s faculty and staff. Applications are now being accepted, and interested students should contact the Center at (631)-643-7900, or (212) 772-6060.
The work of Usdan students is regularly exhibited in galleries and museums on Long Island, at local business centers, and at Usdan’s campus art galleries.
THE COLLECTIVE’S PROGRAM BY SEASON:
SUMMER:
During the first phase of the Collective, students become acquainted with their Teacher-Mentors during seven weeks of daily class at the Usdan Center. Collective Students will be introduced to the process of curating and installing a thematic exhibit, one that display their summer’s work in a Usdan gallery.
FALL:
In the fall, Usdan’s vibrant 200-acre woodland campus becomes a backdrop for artistic inspiration. During this phase of the Collective, students create two-dimensional drawings, paintings, and/or collages for an exhibit that takes place in New York City. The creative emphasis at this time is focused on each student’s development of critical skills.
WINTER:
The third phase of the year is dedicated to each student’s artistic self-examination and conceptual reflection. Students and mentors visit galleries and museums to inform and complement this work. These visits allow members to develop fluency in the language of art.
SPRING:
The Collective year culminates in the design and creation of a multi-dimensional work to be exhibited at Long Island University’s Tilles Center for the Performing Arts. During this final chapter in our year, students assemble portfolios of their work in preparation for submittal to college and university art schools. The concept of a group inspiring the individual is confronted in artistic terms, and members of the Collective develop works of art to be exhibited in an event that introduces and welcomes the next class of the Collective.
ABOUT THE CENTER
Usdan Center for the Arts is entering its 42nd season in 2009. Usdan was recently cited as a “Best Of” Camp or Family Activity for 2009 by TimeOutNY/Kids, New York Metro Parents, and Long Island Press. Usdan has introduced the arts to more than 60,000 Tri-State Area children since it founding in 1968. The Center is located at 185 Colonial Springs Road in Wheatley Heights (Huntington area), New York 11798, and is open to all young people from age 6 to 18. No audition is needed for most programs – rather, admission is based on an expression of interest in the arts. Each summer, 1,600 students are transported to the Center daily on air-conditioned buses. One-third of Usdan’s students participate in its program with scholarship assistance. Although the mission of the Center is for every child to establish a lifetime relationship with the arts, the Center’s extraordinary program of immersion in the arts has caused many to go on to careers in music, art, dance, theater, film, and letters. Alumni include singers Jane Monheit and Mariah Carey, actresses Natalie Portman and Lisa Gay Hamilton, and members of major music, theater, and dance ensembles and Broadway shows.
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