Today, we’re going In the Studio with new CAC Theatre Instructor Adrienne Bergeron. Adrienne graduated Summa Cum Laude from Lees-McRae College with a Bachelor of Arts in Performing Arts Studies with emphases in musical theatre and dance in 2008 and has since been building an extensive resume as a theatre choreographer, director and teaching artist.
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Maryland artist Blandine Broomfield realized she was an artist in 2nd grade when all of her fellow students kept asking her to draw elephants. Raising a family of ten children paused her art education until 2016 when she started taking painting classes from notable artists such as Dorothy Redding and Abigail McBride. Since then, she has been drawing and painting every single day. Here’s Blandine discussing her inspiration, work and dreams for the future:
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MakerSpace Manager, Nick Wilson, takes you through this exciting STEAM project: Scribblebots!
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“My tipping point occurred when I met my high school mentor and art teacher, Mr. Worthington. He presented art, and the value of dedicating oneself to a rigorous discipline, as a portal to understanding and engaging a myriad of intersections that bond, unite, and transcend experience and awareness. In other words, Worthington could routinely present Rembrandt or Cezanne, link one or the other to the athleticism of the Olympics, and bundle it all into a poem by Dylan Thomas. He presented art as this all-inclusive arena of understanding and self actualization. I signed the dotted line and went all in.”
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The Chesapeake Arts Center will be closed until Saturday, October 17, 2020. Last week, a CAC staff member was exposed to COVID and today received a negative result. According to CDC guidelines, that staff member will be quarantining for the next 14 days. While the exposed staff member does not have any direct contact with students and has not been in CAC classrooms or studios in months, CAC is taking every precaution to maintain the health and safety of all who enter our building.
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Dawnyelle Butler is a dancer, model, playwright, author, and choreographer from Baltimore, MD. Her professional resume is lengthy, including both a BFA in Jazz & Theatre Dance and a MA in Leadership & Teaching as well as international dance tours, acting roles and more. Dawnyelle is also the owner of “Welcome To The Dawn Productions,” which helps aspiring artists develop their talent in visual and performing arts. But, to her dance students here at CAC, she’s just Ms. Dawnyelle, who gives it her all to teach and inspire every single one of them!
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Surf’s up! In this tutorial, kids ages 2+ can construct their own cardboard surfboard inspired by artist Jackson Pollock! This project utilizes Action Painting and we suggest doing it outside.
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“Draw all the time. No matter what media you want to work in, constant drawing helps you get things out of your head – most of which can be discarded. Weeding through these images and visualizing ideas will better prepare you for the final works you hope to create. I have a sketchbook in every room of my house, in my car, at work and I carry two in my back pockets…”
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Edward Taylor graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland in 1993. Edward is a versatile artist who works in several mediums and has taught visual arts classes and summer camps at the Chesapeake Arts Center for several years. His latest series of work is called “Behind the Mask”.
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