Summer 2024

K-5 Kids Art Camp

Dates: 6/18-6/21
Days: Tuesday through Friday
Full Time: 10:00 am-4:00 pm
Part Time: 2:00-4:00 pm

Instructor: Dajin Yoon

Dajin Yoon is a multi-disciplinary artist and educator working in performance, drawing, and installation. She holds a BA in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts Education at UCLA.

Led by LA-based visual artist and educator Dajin Yoon, students will be introduced to a variety of visual art mediums and learn about contemporary artists and new vocabularies while absorbing hands-on skills and techniques throughout this engaging 4-day art camp. Students will bind a chapbook at the end of the summer camp to encapsulate their experience and learning throughout the summer.

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Portfolio Development

Dates: 6/11-6/21
Days: Tuesdays through Fridays
Time: 10:00 am-4:00 pm

Instructor: Jenny Eom / Jisoo Chung

Jenny Eom is a curator, educator, and director of Drawwing Cabinet, GOBI, Baik Art LA and Process / Practice. She holds a MFA in Art from CalArts and a BFA in Photography & Imaging from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts with minors in Studio Art and Media, Culture & Communications. Jisoo Chung is an artist and educator working primarily through video, installation and performance. She received her MFA from UCLA in Art (New Genres) and BFA from Seoul National University in the Department of Painting.

This class is intended for students who are serious and committed to pursuing a degree in the arts. In the first week, students will set production goals for summer, solidify a concept that connects their existing works to new ideas, and plan for production. In the second week, students will be guided to produce intentional works that reflect their goals and concept.

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Summer Intensive: Sculpture & Installation

Dates: 6/24-7/4
Days: Mondays through Thursdays
Time: 2:00-6:00 pm

Instructor: Li Zeng

Li Zeng is a multidisciplinary artist working with sculptures, textiles and installations. Zeng holds a BFA from School of Visual Arts in New York and an MFA from ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena.

Learn to express what matters to you through the world of three-dimensional media. In this Summer Intensive session, we will go over different approaches to sculpture-making and installation art and look at a range of artists’ practices. Utilizing clay, paper, wire, and readymade objects, students will gain hands-on knowledge in sculpture modeling and assemblage through various demonstrations.

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Summer Intensive:
Drawing & Painting

Dates: 7/8-7/18
Days: Mondays through Thursdays
Time: 2:00-6:00 pm

Instructor: Michelle Sauer

Michelle Sauer is an artist based in Los Angeles, working primarily in painting. She received her MFA from CalArts in 2020. Prior to CalArts, she taught at Saint Ann’s School in Brooklyn, NY.

Heat, alchemically, is necessary for transformation and movement. The fever dream works to stir, dizzy, purge, remember, excite, warp, symbolize, and merge. This Summer Intensive session will examine surrealist visual techniques used in art and film. Drawing from these techniques, students will create a sequence of paintings, incorporating dreams and memories while experimenting with material application and color.

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Summer Intensive: Photography

Dates: 7/22-8/1
Days: Mondays through Thursdays
Time: 2:00-6:00 pm

Instructor: Rory Hamovit

Rory Hamovit is an artist and educator, working primarily with the medium of photography. He received an MFA in Photography from Yale University and a BA in Photography from Bard College.

This course will explore photographic image making ranging from analog to digital processes with a focus on self-portraiture and its expansive definitions. What is a self-portrait and does the artist even need to be physically present in the image to create a self-portrait? Over the 2 week intensive, students will learn how to frame images, shoot / develop film, and edit / print images digitally while developing photographic works that explore the idea of the self-portraiture through numerous techniques and technologies from the medium’s past and contemporary space.

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Figure Drawing with Live Models

Dates: 7/16-7/31
Days: Tuesdays and Wednesdays
Time: 6:30-9:00 pm
Instructor: Nelli Astvatsatrian

Nelli Astvatsatrian is an Armenian-American artist and educator working with figurative illustration, printmaking, and textile. She received a BA in Fine Art and Rhetoric from the University of California, Berkeley.

Figure Drawing skills are crucial to building a successful portfolio. This 6-session workshop will advance your figure drawing techniques with live model sessions. We will work towards portfolio-ready figure drawing pieces that showcase your skills and technique in your unique visual style. This workshop is highly recommended for students with experience in figure drawing and/or preparing portfolios for college applications.

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Exhibition-Making Class

Dates: 6/28-8/9
Days: Fridays
Time: 10:00 am-1:00 pm
Instructor: Jenny Eom
Jenny Eom is a curator, educator, and director of Drawwing Cabinet, GOBI, Baik Art LA and Process / Practice. She holds a MFA in Art from CalArts and a BFA in Photography & Imaging from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts with minors in Studio Art and Media, Culture & Communications.

Over the course of 8 weeks, students will produce an exhibition of their own from beginning to end. Through this process, students will develop a deeper understanding of the art of exhibition making, gain the practical skills needed to put on a successful exhibition and get a glimpse of what it’s like to pursue a career in the creative field. Students will learn about the various elements that make up an exhibition and execute the roles of a curator, writer, editor, marketer, graphic designer, spatial designer, art handler, documentation photographer, event producer, and of course, artist.

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our team

Jenny Eom is an interdisciplinary artist who creates discursive platforms that hold (and are held by) bodies, inquiries, communities and multiplicity. Prior to earning her MFA degree in Art at CalArts, she had two major career lives: one as a video producer in which she worked with global companies such as Netflix, SM Entertainment, JYP, Samsung, and Hyundai and the other at an art consulting firm where she organized art tours and educational art programs for art enthusiasts, field professionals and VIPs at international art fairs, department stores, and corporate headquarters. She received a full-ride scholarship from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts while pursuing her BFA in Photography & Imaging along with two minors in Studio Art and Media, Culture & Communications.

Jisoo Chung is an LA-Seoul based artist working primarily through video, installation and performance. Influenced by the failure of technology such as linguistic mistranslations and cultural misinterpretations, Chung uses these failures as a blueprint to playfully subvert the occupied systems. Chung received her MFA from UCLA in Art (New Generes) and BFA from Seoul National University in the Department of Painting. In 2017, she was nominated as Artslant Prize Showcase Winner in the New Media category and in 2019, was commissioned by Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation for the New Digital Cips Project.

Monica Kim has been an art educator since the 1980’s, when she was just a high school student. She studied Sculpture in undergrad and Art Education in graduate school, both at Seoul National University. She had a successful career as a young artist in Seoul building monuments for various institutions while running an after school art program that had over 70 students but decided to immigrate to the United States in 1999 to continue her studies in Art Education with Dr. Carol Jeffers at CSULA. She continued to teach art in Los Angeles until she found a new passion for cosmetic dentistry and became a Master Ceramist. After many years of another successful career, she is now retired and in development for her own ceramics brand.

Jinseok Choi is an interdisciplinary artist who activates our time and political surroundings by researching historical and cultural context and weaving seemingly unrelated issues via writing, installation, sculpture, performance and video. He received his BFA in Painting at Hongik University, a degree in Sculpture at Korea National University of Arts, and an MFA in Art at CalArts. He is a recent Emerging Artist Grant nominee of the Rema Hort Mann Foundation and for the past 3 years, he has been working with artist Shirley Tse as the Production Director for her exhibitions at the Venice Biennale and the M+ Museum in Hong Kong. He also runs a custom furniture and spatial design studio called Sawdust Donut.

Woohee Cho is an interdisciplinary artist working with video installation and performance. His identities and living environment merged and clashed with each other, which inspired him and gave him a deeper understanding of self-identification. Cho’s work usually stems from his personal experiences and aims to expose and queer the structural irony of patriarchal, heterosexual norms. His body, functioning as the active agent, material, and medium of his artwork, is put into discomfort and trauma within the work and serves as the playground / battleground for discourse. Cho received a BFA in Graphic Design from Seoul National University, and is an MFA from CalArts.

Ching Ching Cheng is an artist, filmmaker, and art educator who is interested in the relationship between identity and space. More specifically, she explores how the physical environment is juxtaposed with gender, culture, society, economics and politics. She received her MFA from Art Center College of Design and has exhibited at LACMA Rental and Sales Gallery, Chinese American Museum, Craft and Folk Art Museum, 21c Museum, DTLA ArtCenter, and had solo exhibitions in Taiwan and China. She has taught lectures and workshops at universities, museums, non-profit organizations, and private art centers.

Ruoyi Shi is an interdisciplinary artist working with objects, writings, performances, and video installation. Inspired by folklore, oral history, mythology, and personal memory, she combines humor and fiction to construct her own poetic narratives and alternative realities. While pursuing her BFA in Sculpture from the Central Academy of Fine Art in Beijing (CAFA), she gained deep expertise and knowledge in working with a variety of mediums in art. In 2021, she received her MFA in Art from CalArts, where she worked as teaching assistant for the Foundation class and served as a mentor for the Community Arts Partnership program.

Anais Franco is the creator of studio sachi. The two intermingle – creating ideas of looping that manifest into ceramic design objects. For Franco, looping, persistence, and cycles are modes of thinking that help piece ideas together. As a way of introducing image-making and storytelling, Franco uses motifs and patterns to transform symbols into site specific meaning. With her interest in archiving and story telling, Anais likes to bring techniques from lost times, back into the classroom and primarily teaches through different drawing methods. She holds a BFA in Art from CalArts.

Coffee Kang is a conceptual visual artist based in Los Angeles. Working with an expansive range of media, including photography, performance, sculpture, and installation, Kang welcomes the unknown during the process of making and embeds the performative and the temporal to be part of the work. As a queer, a visa holder, an artist of color, and a metaphorically “unhoused” body that is always caught in between identities and cultures, she reflects a sense of loss and longing, and a state of fluctuation in a larger social and cultural context. Kang holds a BA in Creative Media from the City University of Hong Kong (2016), and an MFA in Photo and Media from the California Institute of the Arts (2018).

Michelle Sauer is an artist based in Los Angeles, California. Sauer has exhibited at The Mackey Apartments (Los Angeles, CA), MOTOR (Los Angeles, CA), The Wing (Los Angeles, CA), Other Places art fair (San Pedro, CA), Palm Courts Art Complex (Irvine, CA), and Life on Mars (Brooklyn NY). She received her MFA from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) in 2020. Prior to CalArts, she completed an artist residency at School of the Visual Arts (New York, NY) and taught at Saint Ann’s School (Brooklyn, NY).

AOL, Adam Otto Lutz, is an artist, curator, DJ, producer, and promoter who lives and works in Los Angeles. AO is the co-director of the mobile artist run space MOTOR, airs a monthly radio show on Dublab, and organizes a seasonal underground party called PRANKS! Through the medium(s) of sonic organizing, AOL is currently investigating what it means to build community in an anti-public landscape that is the greater Los Angeles area. He has shown and performed his work locally and internationally.

Herim Park is a multidisciplinary graphic designer, illustrator, and maker based in Los Angeles. She creates unique design solutions that are inspired by different cultures often working with various mediums. Herim is passionate about giving life to things that are overlooked and enjoys working with mission-driven clients. While her professional career is built on graphic design, Herim has taught in various environments including overseas missions, non-profit organizations, local art schools, and private institutes.She is currently working as a freelance graphic designer and holds a BFA in Art, (Graphic Design) from the California Institute of the Arts.