Into the deep end example by Molly.

Process of Making

Now that you’ve looked, listened and explored, what will you make? Sometimes we make things that seem to come out of nowhere. Other times, we struggle to simply make the first mark. Both of these cases are part of the art-making process and both are equally valuable. It is through this process we begin to hone our personal style, point of view, and approach to making art.

Like everything, art takes time, practice and patience for growth. Let’s get making!

Your Manifesto

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In our final week of Summer Shake Up, we are bringing everything we've learned this summer together to explore the process of making! Throughout the summer we centered our projects around process, investigating the many ways artists experience the world and bring these experiences to their artmaking. We hope that you all have developed your own processes and a clearer vision of how and why you make art. To honor this learning of who YOU are as an artist, today we are writing artist manifestos! Artists and art movements have crafted manifestos for generations, spelling out the tenets art and people, more broadly, should seek to live by. Today we ask you– what art do you want to make? What do you want your art to mean or address? What does art mean to you? A manifesto can take many forms (scroll through ours to see how each of us interpreted writing a manifesto differently) and can tackle many themes, from what art should look like to art's role in socio-political movements. Manifestos, as documents, can also be challenges in design and we can't wait to see both what your manifesto says as well as what it looks like! Share with us at #chinatiSSU or education@chinati.org. #chinatiedu #chinatifoundation #museumfromhome Artwork by Djuna Partegas

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Return, reflect, remake

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Artists often return to the same idea over and over again, working off of one original artwork for years, developing different iterations, and expanding the original thought into new territories. An artist may begin with a sketch, that they turn into a sculpture, and then perhaps a performance, and then photography and video footage. Responding to your own art through making the piece again in a different medium, on a different scale, or even in a different artistic language, can help you understand and realize the piece on a deeper level. Donald Judd is an excellent example of an artist who explored the same ideas in a variety of mediums, sizes, and installations. Each iteration of Judd's boxes, for example, from the concrete, to the mill aluminum, to the plywood, introduces a unique investigation of space, materiality, and structure, all while maintaining the same foundational shape of a box. Today we encourage you to take joy in your own amazing art and remake a piece in a new material. If you made a manifesto with us, try to incorporate some of the principles you set for yourself in your piece! Lastly, we encourage you to take care in exhibiting your new series (a series is a set of artworks that are meant to go together, often exploring the same theme, material, or idea). Share your work with us at #chinatiSSU or education@chinati.org. #chinatiedu #chinatifoundation #museumfromhome Artwork by Arabella Hippisley Coxe, Kindergarten

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Regresa, reflexiona, re-crea

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Los artistas constantemente regresan a las mismas ideas una y otra vez, trabajando de un proyecto original por años, desarrollando iteraciones distintas, y expandiendo la idea original en nuevos territorios. Un@ artista puede comenzar con un boceto el cual después desarrollan como escultura, y después quizá como un performance, después una fotografía y video. Respondiendo a tu propia arte por medio de crear la pieza de una forma distinta, de tamaño distinto,  o un lenguaje artístico diferente puede ayudarte a entender y realizar la pieza en una forma más profunda. Donald Judd es un excelente ejemplo de un artista el cual explora la mismas ideas en una variedad de diferentes medios, tamaños e instalaciones. Cada iteración de las cajas de Judd por ejemplo, de concreto a aluminio, o madera. Introduce una investigación única del espacio, la materialidad, estructuras, todo mientras mantiene la misma forma fundamental, la caja. Hoy te alentamos a que disfrutes tu brillante arte y re-crees una pieza en un material nuevo. Si tu hiciste un manifiesto con nosotros ¡trata de incorporar algunos de los principios los cuales son parte de tu pieza! Y por último te alentamos a que tome cuidado en exhibir tu nueva serie (una serie es un set de obras de arte que se suponen deben de estar juntas, normalmente explorando el mismo tema, material o idea) Comparte tu trabajo con nosotros usando el hashtag #chinatiSSU o por correo electronico education@chinati.org #chinatiedu #chinatifoundation #museumfromhome

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Returning to a flower drawing

Into the deep end!

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Thank you so much for participating in Summer Shake Up! We are so moved by how much we have learned this summer through conversations with our team, making art ourselves, and, most importantly, seeing the art you've made! To finish out our Summer Shake Up programming, we are making whatever we want! By exploring the many processes used by artists, we are confident you have the tools to envision an artwork, develop it, and share it with the world! So, go draw the future in outer space, respond to current events through painting, sew a statement onto a t-shirt, or mold a fantastical creature out of clay. Whatever you make, we can't wait to see it! Share with us at #chinatiSSU or education@chinati.org. Artwork by: Gavin Vana, fifth grade

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¡En la parte honda!

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¡Muchisimas gracias por participar en este campamento de verano Summer Shake Up! Estamos muy conmovidos por cuanto hemos aprendido este verano, por medio de conversaciones con nuestro equipo, creando arte nosotros mismos, y lo más importante ¡ver el arte que usted han hecho! Para dar por terminado Summer Shake Up ¡haremos lo que queramos! Al explorar los muchos procesos que los artistas usan, estamos confiados que tienes las herramientas para envisionar una obra de arte, desarrollarla, y ¡compartirla con el mundo! Así que dibuja el futuro en el espacio, responde a los eventos actuales pintando, cose una declaración en una camiseta, o moldea una fantástica criatura de arcilla ¡Lo que tu quieras, no podemos esperar a ver! Compartelo usando el hashtag #chinatiSSU o por correo electronico education@chinati.org.

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