Summer Youth Create T-Shirts to Celebrate Community
By Ernest Sanders
Published: August 23, 2010
Ten youth from Auburn Gresham worked with Art Options instructor Hondo Lawrence this summer to create custom T-shirts that connect art-making skills to community issues.
Using software programs such as Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator, students created logos, T-shirt designs, flyers, banners and posters to represent and promote the Auburn Gresham community.
Lawrence, a professional graphic artist, works for GADC’s arts education partner, Urban Gateways, which has provided Art Options (AO) programming in Auburn Gresham for three years. AO provides a summer apprenticeship program for middle- and high-school youth and enables them to focus on in-depth art-making (theatre, visual art, digital media - film/video/graphic design, and poetry, etc).
The program’s curriculum uses skill-building in the arts to motivate students and experience the arts beyond the classroom, offering an authentic studio experience, extended learning time, and compensation for their commitment to achieving program goals.
Keywords:
graphics, software, T-shirts
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