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Video Art Lessons

Here are some free video lessons we’ve created. We’d love to see what you come up with. Email us at team@febrerarts.org


Visit Victoria Febrer’s Studio & Make a Landscape Collage

92Y Center for Arts Learning & Leadership

Victoria invites students from 92Y’s Center for Arts Learning and Leadership residencies in NYC Public Schools to a virtual visit of her studio. In addition to the studio visit (featuring Victoria’s mom!), the video includes an art-making activity based on Victoria’s Strata, series of collages, which have been shown at the 92Y Faculty exhibition, and in Italy at the historic Villa Monastero on the shore of Lake Como.

Create Your Own “Paper Mountains” Landscape with Victoria Febrer

Hispanic Society Museum & Library

Enjoy creating a landscape painting at home by making your own “Paper Mountains” with Victoria and her friend Candela, a middle school student in Madrid. This activity begins by examining Storm in the Mountains, 1892 by Baldomer Galofre Giménez in the Hispanic Society Museum & Library’s excellent collection. Using crayons, watercolors, and crunched up paper, Victoria shows students how to make their own observed landscape paintings at home. The video features examples made by students of all ages from around the world (and some parents too!). Be sure to tag @hispanicsociety and #papermountainschallenge when sharing your artwork, we’re really looking forward to seeing the beautiful landscapes you create!

Draw your own “Animals at Home” with Laura Gauthier

Hispanic Society Museum & Library

Make your own illustration of “Animals at Home” inspired by Francisco de Goya’s Asta su Abuelo, 1797-99 from the Caprichos series in the Hispanic Society Museum & Library’s collection. Join Laura and her friend Audrey, a high school student in Queens, NY for a fun activity creating an ink wash illustration of what animals might do while stuck at home. The video features examples made by students of all ages from around the world. Be sure to tag @hispanicsociety and #animalshavingfunathome when sharing your artwork, we’re really looking forward to seeing all of your drawings of animals!

Make your own “Photographic Still Life” with Bobbie Font

Hispanic Society Museum & Library

Bobbie and her friend Emily, a high school student in Queens, NY analyze the still life painting Fruits of Fraga, 1915-18 by Miguel Viladrich Vilá in the Hispanic Society Museum & Library’s collection. In a fun twist on the traditional still life theme, they show you how to set up and light your own still life to create a dramatic photograph. The video features examples made by students of all ages from around the world. Be sure to tag @hispanicsociety and #stillathomelife when sharing your artwork, we’re really looking forward to seeing all of your photographs!

Meet Artist Erin Treacy & Make "Compost Drawings" with Victoria Febrer

92Y Center for Arts Learning & Leadership

Victoria interviewed her friend artist Erin Treacy for a video lesson created for students from 92Y’s Center for Arts Learning and Leadership residencies in NYC Public Schools. Erin has been working on a series of Compost Drawings that will be exhibited at Boxheart Gallery in Pittsburgh this August. Victoria shows students how to create their own mixed-media drawings of kitchen and garden scraps inspired by Erin’s work.

Victoria Febrer for 92Y CALL: Study of a Bird

92Y Center for Arts Learning & Leadership

Victoria leads students through an art and science activity inspired by Study of a Bird (A.H. 1043/A.D. 1634) by Riza-yi `Abbasi in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection. Students will create their own “study of a bird” by researching a species on the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s website, AllAboutBirds.org.





News


Portfolio Prep in the NY Times

April 23, 2020

Victoria and Andrew’s Portfolio Preparation class at 92Y was featured in the NY Times! Check out Ted Loos’ article “Class is in Session Everywhere Now” to read about distance learning offerings from cultural institutions.

Febrer Arts Remote Learning New York Times


Hispanic Society Museum & Library Coloring Book

May 1, 2020

Victoria created a coloring book for the Hispanic Society Museum & Library featuring paintings from their collection. You can download the pdf and color it digitally or print it out and color it.

Febrer Arts Hispanic Society coloring book


H.S. Audition & Portfolio Strategies

May 8, 2020

Victoria was a panelist in NYC Admissions Solutions’ free webinar “NYC Public HS Admissions - Audition & Portfolio Strategies” discussing the process by which students apply to audition and portfolio programs - particularly visual art and drama auditions, as well as academic portfolios. Hosted by Maurice Frumkin of NYC Admissions Solutions, this webinar also features Dana Berger, Acting Coach for Kids & Adults.

Febrer Arts NYC admissions


Video Art Lessons for 92Y’s Center for Arts Learning and Leadership

May & June, 2020

Victoria created a series of three videos for students from 92Y’s Center for Arts Learning and Leadership residencies in NYC Public Schools. The videos include an art and science lesson where we research and draw birds inspired by a piece in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection, an interview with the artist Erin Treacy about her “Compost Drawings” series followed by a lesson on how we can make our own drawings based on her work, and a virtual visit to Victoria’s NYC studio followed by an activity based on her “Strata” series of collages.

Febrer Arts 92Y video lessons


Video Art Lessons for Hispanic Society Museum & Library Kids

July, 2020

Febrer Arts partnered with the Hispanic Society Museum & Library to create video art lessons based on works in the collection. Each video is co-taught by one of our teaching artists together with a young art student, and includes examples made by students and families from around the world. You can paint “Paper Mountains” with Victoria and her friend Candela, a middle school student in Madrid; draw “Animals at Home” with Laura Gauthier and her friend Audrey, a high school student in Queens, NY; and make a “Photographic Still Life” with Bobbie and her friend Emily, also a high school student in Queens, NY.

Febrer Arts HSML video lessons


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